NERVOUSNESS

Caladinm

Extreme nervousness, afaid of his own shadow. Awakes all night with lascivious thoughts, apprehen-sions, especially before going to sleep. Afraid of the future. Foolish boldness. Startled by the slamming of a door or the rattling of a newspaper.

Iodium

Extreme nervousness. Throws away articles and breaks them. Wants to beat persons without reason. Forgetfulness, weakness and irritability.

Acid Phos

Nervous debility due to continued grief, over-exertion of the brain, sexual excesses or any nervous strain on the body or mind.

Castoreum

Nervousness and irritability after typhoid fever, nervous attacks preceding undeveloped hysteria. Twichings of muscles with extreme exhaustion.

Apis M

Nervousness in girls with restlessness, excitability, ill-timed laughter together with fickleness at work. Awkward, dropping things and then laughing.

Kali Phos

Is an excellent and head remedy for nervousness.

Lac Can

Oversensitive. For example a patient lies in bed for days with the fingers separated would go wild if they touched each other.

Natrum Carb

Perturbed from least noise, the slam of door; nervous excitement and palpitation with great prostration. The rattling of paper causes palpitation, irritability. Music causes tendency to suicide.

Coffea

Nervous excitement, sleeplessness, weeping delirium, neuralgia, twitching of muscles, toothache, faceache, red face and hot head, specially due to joy or pleasant surprise or when the patient has been labouring for some great cause.

Colocynthis

Irritation and nervous exhaustion due to business affairs having gone wrong or in a woman watching her husband day and night to keep him away from other women.

Conium

Nervousness in widows and widowers who have suddenly been deprived of their sexual relations. Weakness of body and mind, cannot concentrate. Trembling, jerking and twitching of the muscles. Nervous, broken down condition, tired of life.

Kali Iod

Nervousness and mental exhaustion; worse when resting and by constant movement and walking. Harsh, cruel and irritable.

Crotalus Hor

Nervousness, trembling, tremulous, weakness. Sudden and great prostration of vital forces. Talka­tiveness

Aurum Met

Dejected and full of grief. Dissatisfied with everything. Melancholy, imagines he is not fit for this world; longs for death which gives him joy. Quarrelsome, peevish, vehement, cannot stand the least con­tradiction.

Camphor

A medicine of extremes. At first extreme violence, excitement and frenzy and later irritability disappears and there is loss of sensation with uncon­sciousness and coldness. Prostration and exhaustion.

Nux Vomica

Quarrelsome. Disposed to scolding even to violence. Cannot bear strong odours, bright light, any noise or speaking. Irresolute.

Cocculus

Brightened Io6k. Little concern for his own health; Very anxious about others' sickness. Extreme irritability of the nervous system. The least noise or jar is unbearable, limbs straightened out and held there for a while are painful when flexed. Activities of the mind and body slow producing paralytic weakness.

Theridion

Highly sensitive nervous condition with weakness, trembling, coldness, anxiety, faintness and easily excited, cold sweat. Extreme sensitiveness and morose, worse closing eyes.

Gelsemium

Complaints from fear, shock and embarrassment. A soldier going into battle gets involuntary stools. Involuntary discharge from fright and surprises accompanying fright.

Argentum Nit

Sudden attack of diarrhoea when preparing for meeting a friend or a stranger or when dressing for an opera; all this is due to nervous excitement.

Kreosote

Mentally very irritable, wants numerous things but refuses when offered. There is nothing that will suit him and nothing satisfies him.