Pulsatilla [Puls]
Mild, gentle, tearful: yet remarkably irritable.
Bursts into tears when spoken to, or giving symptoms (Sepia)
Changeable, mentally and physically.
Pleasure in nothing. Vexed about “nothing”.
May have aversion to marriage; thinks company of opposite sex dangerous: Abhors women (Raph.).
Lachrymose. Peevishness. Slow, phlegmatic.
Worse warm room: better cool open air; walking slowly out of doors. (See p.45.).
Raphanus [Raph]
Aversion to all women: weariness, disgust and rage at approach of women (Pulsatilla, Lachesis).
Aversion to children: especially to little girls.
Attracted to all men without distinction.
Moral feeling completely extinct (Absinth.).
Extreme anxiety and fear of death. (See p.30.).
Cimicifuga /Actea rac. [Cimic]
Thinks she is going crazy. Fear of death (Aconite).
Sensation of a heavy could settling over her.
All dark and confused, with weight on head.
Loquacity: goes from subject to subject (Lachesis).
Grieved, troubled: sighing (Ignatia): next day joy.
Mind disturbed by disappointed love (Nat. mur., etc.): business failures.
Ignatia [Ign]
“The sighing remedy.” Remedy of silent grief. Sobbing: Utterly absorbed in grief.
Unable to control emotions and excitement.
Effects from long-continued grief; bad news.
Unhappy love; misplaced affections (Nat. mur.).
The remedy of Moods, of changeable moods.
Delights to bring on her fits and make a scene.
You cannot depend on her being reasonable or rational: what you say will be distorted.
Does unaccountable and unexpected things.
Thinks she has neglected some duty.
The remedy of contradictions: of the unnatural: the unexpected.
Can’t stand contradiction or fault-finding.
Over-sensitive to pain (Chamomilla, Aconite).
N.B.- Ignatia cannot stand past worries and grief; Staphysagria past annoyances. (See p. 39.).