Hypochondriasis


Homeopathy treatment for Hypochondriasis from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Hypochondriasis…


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.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.