MANIA PUERPERALIS
Aconite [Acon]
Ailments from fright or anger; great fear of death, of strangers, of getting up; inconsolable anxiety, reproaching others for mere trifles.
Ambra [Ambr]
Excessive nervousness; cannot attempt to defaecate or urinate in the presence of other people, not even the nurse; abdomen puffed, causing much anxiety; obstinate constipation and tenesmus; puerperal eclampsia; nymphomania.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Afraid to be left alone, full of gloomy forebodings, fixed ideas of starvation with suicidal tendency.
Aurum-met [Aur]
Religious melancholia, prays all the time, imagines she is unfit for this world; weary of life, especially in the evening, with longing for death, strong inclination to commit suicide, frequent anxiety and despair, life is a burden to her, with periodical anguish, weakness of memory and intellect; mental labor fatigues, headache from the least mental exertion.
Belladonna [Bell]
Mania, either merry or quarrelsome, would spit and bite at every one, or paroxysms of rage and fury; starts in affright at the approach of others, therefore desires to escape or to hide herself; fear of ghosts; sleepless nights with moaning; desires other people to kill her that she be out of her misery or drown herself.
Bryonia [Bry]
Anxiety about the future, she fears not to have wherewith to live, compelling her to do something constantly, but wherever she goes she finds no rest; very irritable, inclined to be angry; after getting angry chilly or a red face and heat in head; contradiction provokes anger.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Sleeplessness, visions as soon as she closes her eyes; starts and twitches at every little noise, and is beside herself with anguish; constant aching in vagina; profuse menstruation during lactation; cold damp feet, head perspiring freely; she is just on the borderland of insanity.
Camphora [Camph]
Violent rage; scratches, spits and bites; tears her clothes, foams at mouth; raves and scolds in most indecent language; talks incessantly; hasty in all her actions.
Cantharis [Canth]
Amorous frenzy, great amativeness; unbounded frantic sexual desire; great restlessness, obliging her to move constantly; paroxysms of rage, with crying, barking and biting, cold sweat on hands and feet, renewed by the sight of dazzling bright objects; exceedingly sensitive to all impressions; irritable and blasphemous; despondent and lowspirited, says she must die.
China [Chin]
Nervous irritability and excitability from loss of blood; delirium, with illusions and hallucinations; inconsolable anxiety; longing for death, or indifference and apathy.
Cicuta-vir [Cic]
Mistrust of men, whom she shuns; weeping, moaning and howling; childish and plays with toys; QUIET AND CONTENTED DISPOSITION, or shouting and dancing in most queer manner.
Cimicifuga [Cimic]
Declares she will go crazy; mental depression, with suicidal tendency; suspicious, indifferent, TACITURN; takes no interest in household matters; irritable; the least thing makes her ANGRY AND DESTRUCTIVE; knows that she talks nonsense and says she cannot help it; visions of rats and other hallucinations.
Cuprum [Cupr]
Full of anxious ideas, one following quickly the other; afraid of everybody, and tries to escape, acuteness of senses.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Indomitable rage and horrid anguish; does not know her relatives; complains of having been poisoned; complete loss of sense; DESIRES TO BE NAKED (hyperaesthesia of the cutaneous nerves); entire loss of modesty; throws off bedcovers and clothes; retention of urine; patient weak, pulse lacks volume, (<) from eating.
Ignatia [Ign]
Melancholia from suppressed mental sufferings, with much sighing; desire to be alone so as to give way to her real or imaginary grief; TEARS; WEEPS BITTERLY.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Great sadness; weeps much and is afraid she is going to die; great absence of mind; seems at a loss of know how to begin to say or do what she wishes to do, and finally is obliged to give it up; easily frightened and trembling; tympanitic abdomen, thirst, restlessness and tossing.
Lachesis [Lach]
Fear of death; dreads to go to bed; fears of being poisoned or pursued by her enemies; TALKATIVE AND QUARRELSOME; awakens from sleep in great terror; proud; jealous; suspicious.
Lilium-tigr [Lil-t]
Subinvolution of uterus; fear of becoming insane; disposed to curse, to strike, to think of obscene things; hurried manner, desire to do something, and yet feels no ambition; low-spirited, can hardly keep from crying; tormented about her salvation; irritable and impatient.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Dread of men, wants to be alone; THINKS HERSELF IN TWO PLACES AT THE SAME TIME; makes preparations for her death and is tired of life, particularly mornings, in bed; loss of all self-confidence.
Petroleum [Petr]
Full of strange delusions; thinks she has another baby with her in bed, requiring her attention, or that she has a third arm or foot; anxious and irresolute; sharp pains shooting up the dorsal spine into the occiput.
Platina [Plat]
Voluptuous crawling up and about the genitals; very haughty; looks down disdainfully upon her attendants; black, tarry discharges from the vagina.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Sad, weeping mood; taciturn; when closing her eyes sees all sorts of strange sights and hears all kinds of operatic airs; after slight emotions; difficult breathing.
Stramonium [Stram]
Nymphomania, with obscene gestures and language; desires light and company, being afraid to be alone; very loquacious, in a prayerful, beseeching, imploring language; face often red and bloated.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Religious melancholy, with despair of salvation; forgets the names and words she wants to use; INDIFFERENCE ABOUT THE LOT OF OTHERS; great obstinacy; dislikes to have anyone near her; flushes of heat; weak faintish spells and cold feet; light sleep.
Thuja [Thuj]
Constant anguish, does not care for children or relatives; refuses food; fixed idea that a stranger is always at her side, does not want anybody to come near her or touch her; considers herself under the influence of a stronger power, feels as if she cannot exist any longer; music causes weeping and trembling of feet.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Religious melancholy or nymphomania, with desire to embrace everybody even inanimate objects; mania, with desire to tear her clothes, with lasciviousness; constant desire for cool and refreshing things.
Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]
Puerperal melancholia; silent, suspicious; will not see her physician, he seems to terrify her; fears being poisoned; sleepless, can hardly be kept in her bedroom; arterial excitement with cold, clammy sweat.
Zincum [Zinc]
Melancholia with fear of thieves, demons and other frightful figures, stares as if frightened, especially on waking, and rolls from side to side; great mental weakness, repeats all questions before replying (Aurum); it is impossible for her to keep her feet quiet (Stict.), they are in almost constant motion.