Fear



Fear of Feathers, or anything which flutters and flaps may be met with. It may be associated with a fear of cats or dogs, which would suggest Tuberculinum.

Fear of Someone Behind, like the snake lurking in the grass, impels the victim to seek the back seat on the bus or get back to the wall at a party. The remedy is Lachesis.

Fear of Knives. This fortunately is not often encountered. It is a horrible fear lest seeing a knife or other weapon lying handy it be picked up to inflict hurt on someone, perhaps even one’s child.

Remedies suggested to counter this fear are Arsenicum Album, the “worried to distraction” remedy and Nux Vomica, capable of outbreaks of sudden violence when exasperated beyond measure. In one case, however, the remedy proved to be Coffea, chosen because aggravation occurred quite irrationally when she was amongst others and everybody seemed gay and happy.

Fear which Persists. When fear initiated by some terrifying experience continues to haunt and cause distress the remedy of choice is Opium.

It is, of course, essential to track down and uncover the cause of the fear in each individual case. If the threat is real then it must be faced with courage and common sense.

If, as is often the case, the threat is imaginary, lacking substance and actuality, it must be hauled into the daylight and seen for what it is or, rather, for what it is not. The indicated remedy will give invaluable help.

Douglas M Gibson
Douglas Medlicott Gibson 1888 – 1977 FRCS Edin. 1930, MB ChB 1913, MRCS Engl, LRCP London, 1912 St Thomas’s.
Douglas Medlicott Gibson converted to homeopathy after a meeting with John Weir.
After many years as a medical missionary in China he came to study homeopathy at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, where he became first a Member and then a Fellow of the Faculty of Homoeopathy.
Douglas Medlicott Gibson wrote Studies of Homeopathic Remedies, First Aid Homeopathy, Some Observations on Homeopathy in Relations to Psychoneurosis, Bone Tuberculosis Among Women and Children in Manchuria, Tuberculosis Prevention, Fear And Homeopathy.