NEURASTHENIA

(Nervous prostration, brain fag or exhaustion)
(See also "BRAIN FAG"and "SADNESS")

Kali Phos

An excellent remedy for neurasthenia. It is especially useful for the young who were born weak or deficient in nerve power. Shyness and nocturnal emissions, utter prostration after coition and sexual power diminished are the main symptoms.

Strychnia Phos

This remedy is thought to be the one next to Kali Phos. It is indicated in irregularity of nerve-power, at times too much, at other times too little; a lack of control of both mind and muscles. It is also given in general anaemia.

Picric Acid

This comes next to Strychnia Phos. Weakness both mental and physical is its ranking symptom and aggravation from exertion is its leading modality. Tired feeling on least exertion; no desire to talk or to do anything; wants to lie down; poor appetite; general sense of torpidity.

Ambra Grisea

Compelled to dwell upon most disagreeable things that force themselves upon him and he cannot get rid of them. Fleeting inquisitiveness. Dwells upon' most disagreeable things that force themselves upon him and cannot get rid of them—Nervous wreck and mental prostration due to  shocks such as deaths in fan: ily, business failure etc.

Natrum Mur

Delights to dwell upon past unpleasant occurrences and lies awake at night brooding over them. It is chronic of Ignatia and therefore complementary to it.

Argentum Nit

When Kali Phos fails, try this remedy, in particular when there is loss of co-ordination, loss of nerve and muscle control, with limbs trembling. When about to meet an engagement, he is anxious, breaks into a sweat with anxiety; when going to a wedding or opera or to a church, the anxiety is attended with fear, even with diarrhoea. Craving for sweets which disagree. Nervous melancholia, headache with coldness and trembling, brain fag, vertigo. Pains better by light bandages and pressure. Feeling of stangulation in throat, belching and vomiting of thick mucus, gastritis which is worse by warmth and at night.

Zincum Phos

Exhaustion of brain and nerves when it is due to epilepsy or its maltreatment. It is also useful for the result of worry in businessmen and of close application of mind in students. Memory weak; inability to think; frequent attacks of vertigo which are better by lying down; patient is listless, apathetic. Impotency due to sexual excesses. The remedy should be continued for a long time with changed potency.

Hypericum

Nervousness of any kind that may be due to shock either on account of change of place or accident with a car etc. The speech becomes jerky and hesitating. The patient may keep quite and take no interest in life.

Anacardium

Nerve exhaustion due to overstudy or seminal emissions. Memory weak, feels that he is double, there are strangers on his either side; her husband is not her husband and her child is not her child; mind and body separated. Different influences exerted on him at the same time — ore to do harm and the other to do good. All seems dream and nothing real in this world.

Argentum Met

Distufbance of memory and intellectual part of man. Inability to reason. Inability to think. Labouring with intellectual faculties in businessmen, students, readers and thinkers.

Auram Met

Ailments from grief, disappointed love, fright, anger, contradiction, mortification. He broods silently over his state and his hatred of the world. He tells no-body about h's state of mind and then commits suicide.

Conium

Unable to sustain any mental effort. Want of concentration. Cannot fix attention on anything. Perception slow.

Digitalis

Horrible anxiety, wants to be alone, sadness, melancholy, despondency and restlessness. Indecisive. Irregular, weak, slow pulse. Inability to apply himself.

Cypripedium

Nerves shattered by long illness, excessive indulgence in tea or coffee; mental excitement following influenza.

Magnesia Carb

Exhausted nerves of worn out people by excesses of the cares and worries of life. Give 200 dilution.

Zincum Met

Sensitive to noise, to crumpling of paper, to talking or listening even to his dearest friends.

Mephites

Given in low potency tones up the nervous system and removes exhaustion.

Apis M

Nervous girl with restlessness and excitability, ill-timed laughter together with  fickleness at work. Awkward, dropping things and then laughing.

Carbo Veg

Inability to perceive or to feel things irrespective of the fact whether they are pleasant or unpleasant. Horrible things, when told, do not seem to affect him much, nor pleasant things give him pleasure. School boys and girls who are slow to learn and suffer from night terrors. They will not sleep alone, or go into a dark room without some one with them.

Centaura Tagaana

Stupidity and confusion of mind. The patient dashes here, there and everywhere. Starts doing one thing and leaves it incomplete, and starts another and so on; thus keeping everything incomplete. Slow and unable to concentrate.

Ignatia

Nervous breaK-down with headache; trembling sleeplessness after the loss of child or husband. She weeps and is sleepless; unable to control herself; is ashamed of herself.

Tuberculinum Bov

Loss of love. Does not love her husband or children. Mental disability. All these symptoms with tubercular history.

Calcarea Carb

Irresolute, timid, restless and nervous; fears he is unwanted, fear of failure, confusion and inability to think. Internal tension, depressed, anxious; ill at ease with women. Worse cold wet weather.

Naja

Forgetful, absent-minded, suicidal tendency, brooding over imaginary things. Moved to tears by slightest emotion. Anxiety about his sexual inability even though the desire is there. As if everything were done wrong and could not be rectified. Increased perception of what he ought to do and an uncontrollable inclination not to do it. Stupid, confused.

Sanicula

Wandering of mind; cannot keep to anything, starts a thing and  drops it to pick up another. No appetite, tongue coated, mouth dry. Worse in warm and close room. Give in IM potency.

Cocculus

Thoughts are fixed on a single disagreeable subject; absorbed in thoughts and sees nothing about her. Appearance of imbecility. Mind seems blank. Looks into space and slowly turning the eyes towards the questioner answering with difficulty. Neurasthenia due to nursing the sick with anxiety, worry and loss of sleep. This does not apply to professional nurses. His mind works slowly, forgets what he has just read. Confusion of mind.

Lac Can

Despondent, hopeless, nothing worth living for; her disease is hopeless; has not a friend in the world; weeping mood; cross and irritable. Child cries and screams all the time.

Staphisagria

When a person is dissatisfied with the treat­ment of his superiors, although he has done his best and strained himself to the utmost to earn appreciation. He suffers in health as a result thereof and this remedy will improve instantly.

Nitric Acid

Vexed at least trifle. No disposition to work, to perform any serious business. Mind weak and wandering. Weakness of memory. Great anguish of mind from loss of dearest friend. Over exertion of mind and body from nursing the sick.

Drosera

Full of mistrust as if he has to deal with false people. Uneasy. Sad disposition. Imagines to be deceived by spiteful envious people. Fears of listening something disagreeable.

Sepia

Nervous and jumpy. She wants to go away from everybody and everything, and lie down alone in the dark and close her eyes. If she can get ten minutes sleep she would be a changed woman. Dull indifferent, tired, irritable. She has a stupid and dull look. Dullness of intellect, thinks slowly and is forgetful.

Platinum

Physical symptoms disappear when mental symptoms appear, and vice versa. The body suffers when mind is cheerful and the body is in comfort when the mind is affected.

Silicea

Wakes in tne morning crying that his hands have gone to sleep. Thinks only of pins, fears them, searches them and counts them carefully. Has been looking everywhere for pins.

Tuberculinum

Constant desire to change, to travel, to go somewhere and do something different. Persons on the border-line of insanity.

Theridion

fcvery sound seems to penetrate through the whole body, causing nausea and vertigo. Every shrill sound penetrates the teeth.

Sterculia

It regulates the circulation, is a tonic and anti-diarrhoeic, regulates cardiac system and acts diuretically. Weak heart.

Alumina Phos

Aversion to answering questions and to company. Very excitable and forgetful. Chronic effects of grief and thus it follows Ignatia. Mental prostration. Useful after sexual excesses and prolonged mental efforts. Mental breakdown at the end of college life. Wants to lie down all the time as slightest exertion or walking brings all the symptoms. Absent-minded. Nervous debility. Indifference, irresolution, deficiency of ideas. Brain-fag after prolonged mental exertion.

Cannabis Sat

Hears hissing whisper to kill himself. This is an order from the Most High Command.