Aloe [Aloe]
Hypochondriasis, (<) in cloudy weather; hates and repels every one, life is a burden; dissatisfied and angry when he is constipated; diarrhoea and constipation alternating; haemorrhoids from suppressed chronic eruptions.
Alumina [Alum]
Low-spirited and inclined to weep, (<) on awaking; full of apprehension and fear that he will go crazy; suicidal tendency when he sees blood, or a knife or something of that kind; lassitude and indifference to labor or work, an hour seems to them half a day; pain in back as if a hot iron were thrust into the spine.
Anacardium [Anac]
Mental depression, he is silly and clumsy in his behaviour, desires to be alone; fear of the future; irresistible desire to be alone; fear of the future; irresistible desire to curse and swear; feels always hungry, (>) while eating, (<) after eating and in forenoon; constipation; piles.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
GENERAL APPEARANCE IMBECILE, talk very childish; does not work, as he thinks it will do him harm and that he is not able to stand it; thoughts of having an incurable disease drive him almost to despair; thinks himself neglected and despised by his family, wakes them up at night in order to talk to them, and sets the time when he will die; frequent turns of anxiety, is nervous, impulsive, must walk very fast, but has to stop, as he tires easily; ALWAYS HURRIED IN EVERYTHING.
Aurum [Aur]
Great restlessness, dread of death, whining mood; painful, anxious state of mind, inability to reflect, with headache after making the least mental exertion, as if the brain were dashed to pieces; quarrelsome disposition; SUICIDAL TENDENCY; poor digestion, (<) after eating, after wine; HYPOCHONDRIASIS IN PINING, LOW-SPIRITED BOYS, whose testicles are mere pendent shreds, on the verge of atrophy, or from hepatic or syphilitic disorders.
Bryonia [Bry]
Peevish and fretful, apprehensive in the room, (>) in fresh air; fear of death, which he thinks is near; vertigo and confusion of head on slightest motion, (<) after a meal, when stooping; offensive breath; desire for unusual things; slow digestion, constipation.
Calcarea [Calc]
Lowness of spirits, with disposition to weep; paroxysms of anguish, with orgasmus sanguinis, palpitation of the heart; shocks in the region of the heart; despair about one’s health; apprehensions of illness, misfortune, infectious diseases, insanity, etc.; dread of death; excessive sensitiveness of all the organs of sense; malaise, aversion to work, inability to think or to perform any mental labor, etc. Compare Sulph.
China [Chin]
Languor; mental dulness, or excessive sensitiveness of all the organs of sense; mental distress, discouragement, FIXED IDEA THAT HE IS UNHAPPY and persecuted by enemies; headache, or boring pain in the vertex; WEAK digestion, with distention of the abdomen, ill-humor, indolence after eating; sleeplessness on account of ideas crowding upon his mind, or restless, unrefreshing sleep, WITH ANXIOUS DREAMS, TORMENTING THE PATIENT EVEN AFTER HE WAKES, etc.
Conium [Con]
HYPOCHONDRIASIS STARTING FROM SEXUAL ORGANS, often in connection with enforced abstinence from sexual intercourse; weakness with great sexual erethism, amatory thoughts occurring and even emissions by the mere presence of women; spermatorrhoea from long-lasting abuse of genital organs, face pale and sunken, with blue rings around eyes; dread of company, yet does not want to be alone.
Gratiola [Grat]
Fretful, angry outbreaks, misanthropic, with solicitude about his own health, no desire to talk or move; wants to be alone; dulness in head while standing or walking, (>) when lying down; offensive breath in the morning when awaking; aversion to eat and to smoke; feeling of flatulency; watery diarrhoea more than constipation.
Kali-iod [Kali-i]
Great anxiety about their PRESENT state of health, a kind of sinking and faintness with mental depression.
Lachesis [Lach]
Uneasy about state of his health; idea that he is disliked by his family; inability to perform any mental or physical labor; suicidal mood, tired of life; foul breath; dyspepsia, (<) at soon as he eats; liver complaints, constipation.
Lobelia-infl [Lob]
Apprehension of death and difficult breathing; desponding and sobbing like a child; vertigo, with deathly nausea; scratching and burning, with dryness in throat; muscular relaxation with great prostration; sensation as if heart would stop beating, etc.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Satiety of life, particularly mornings, in bed; low spirited, taciturn, irritable and nervous; hates company and still dreads to be alone.
Moschus [Mosch]
Great and constant anxiety, with thoughts of death; headache as if a weight were lying upon it; everything tastes bad, aversion to all food; tension in abdomen; profuse diarrhoea with retraction of abdomen; fainting.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
Depressed and exceedingly irritable, ESPECIALLY AFTER A MEAL; (<) a vegetable diet, especially starchy food; the degree of hypochondriasis can be measured by the stage of digestion; averse to society, even to that of his own family; dyspepsia, with sour belching, waterbrash, retching in the morning; groping colic just after a meal.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Despairing, hopeless feeling about the future, with dryness of mouth, irritable mucous membranes, sore and slightly ulcerated tongue, chronic constipation with hard stools; foul breath; hypochondriasis (<) by dyspepsia and constipation, (>) when bowels move freely.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Ill-humor, despondency, AVERSION TO LIFE, DISPOSITION TO VEHEMENCE; indisposition to work or to perform any mental labor; fatigue of the mind after the least mental exertion; unrefreshing sleep, AGGRAVATION OF THE DISTRESS IN THE MORNING; dulness of the head, with aching pains, or sensation as if a pin were sticking in the brain; aversion to the open air, CONSTANT DESIRE TO LIE DOWN, with great exhaustion after walking; painfulness and distension in the region of the hypochondria, epigastrium and the pit of the stomach; constipation, slow action of the bowels, haemorrhoidal disposition, feels better when bowels move, etc. (Sulphur is frequently used after Nux.)
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Dread of the future, brooding over one’s condition, taciturn, talking is irksome; confusion of head, weakness of mind, distension of abdomen, (<) by emission of flatus; pressure in several places of lower abdomen; painless diarrhoea or constipation.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Apathy and sluggishness, alternating with mirth and laughter;;uneasy about his health; anguish when alone, especially at twilight or in stormy weather, with timorous disposition. Hepatic or renal affections.
Pothos-foetida [Ictod]
HYSTERO-EPILEPSY; inflation and tension in abdomen; temporary blindness; sudden feeling of anguish, with oppression of breathing and sweat, (>) after stool.
Sabadilla [Sabad]
ILLUSIONS ABOUT STATE OF INTERNAL ORGANS, that stomach is disorganized, ulcerated, etc., with features expressive of great
anxiety; not disposed to work; heaviness and dulness of head; great anguish about heart.
Sepia [Sep]
Aversion to society and indifference to business and to one’s own family; desponding, weary of life, often ushered in by an attack of indigestion; extremely irritable and peevish; sour eructations and formation of gas in abdomen; gone, sinking feeling in epigastrium, which food does not fill up, except, perhaps, at supper.
Stannum [Stann]
HYPOCHONDRIASIS ABDOMINALIS. Gastric pains which compel patient to walk for relief, though so weak that he is soon tired out; nausea and vomiting in the morning; goneness in stomach; inactivity of rectum; helminthiasis; odor of cooking causes nausea and vomiting.
Staphisagria [Staph]
LISTLESS, SAD DREAMING OF THE COMING EVILS; fears about his state of health, of incurable diseases; aversion to mental and physical labor; inability to think; oversensitive to the least word.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Lowness of spirits, painful anxiety of mind; solicitude on account of one’s affairs, health, salvation; fixed ideas paroxysms of anxiety, with impatience, restlessness, vehement disposition; BODILY AND MENTAL inability to perform any mental labor; exhaustion after the least mental exertion; headache, especially on the vertex; fulness and pressure in the pit of the stomach; CONSTIPATION, haemorrhoidal; disposition; disposition to feel very happy, etc. (Calcarea ins frequently suitable after Sulph).
Zincum [Zinc]
SEXUAL HYPOCHONDRIASIS from spermatorrhoea following long- lasting abuse of sexual organs; testes drawn firmly up against external ring; excessive irritability.