Insanity


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


MENTAL DERANGEMENT

Abrotanum [Abrot]

DEMENTIA; feebleness and dulness of mind; no capacity for thinking, as if all mental and bodily power were gone; good- humored, happy or gloomy and desponding; easily tired out by conversation or mental effort.

Aconite [Acon]

Great mental anxiety and physical tension; ailments from fright, anger, chagrin; gloomy, taciturn; afraid of a crowd or of crossing a busy street; fear of ghosts; apprehensive of the future and approaching death; restless, agonizing tossing about; MENTAL AND BODILY OVERSENSITIVENESS; mood peevish, irritable, malicious; delirium, patient weeping and laughing alternately; music unbearable, makes her quite mad.

AEthusa-cyn [Aeth]

IDIOCY, in some cases alternating with furor; cannot retain any idea; hallucinations; GOOD-NATURED FORENOON, ILL-HUMORED AND SAD AFTERNOON.

Agaricus [Agar]

DEMENTIA from mental palsy; cryptomania; fancy excited, makes verses, signs, talks, but does not answer questions; constant talking and laughing, considers himself immensely wealthy and happy ( second stage of dementia paralytica); mischievous melancholy, trying to do injury or damage from inward restlessness and anxiety; confusion of head, cannot find the right words and wants to be alone; frequently caused by mental overexcitement and worry; epilepsy.

Agnus-castus [Agn]

PUERPERAL INSANITY with suicidal tendencies, aversion to husband, babe and to all sexual intercourse, dissatisfied with herself and incapable of any mental or bodily exertion; absent- minded, cannot recollect things; anxious, fear and weakness.

Alcohol [Alco]

DEMENTIA PARALYTICA; INSANITY OF DRUNKARDS, weak and loitering gait, limp and uncertain movements of the whole body; tremulousness of lips and tongue, thickness and hesitancy of speech; uncertain expression of eyes; transcendent notions of wealth and power; tremors and muscular twitching; hemi- anaesthesia, amaurosis, epilepsy.

Alumina [Alum]

Consciousness of his personal identity confused apprehensive of losing his reason; EVEN IDEAS FORCE THEMSELVES ON HIM AGAINST HIS WILL; low spirits, trifling things appear insurmountable, desire to cut his throat, but fears death; time passes too slowly; variable mood, at one time confident at another timid; peevish and whining, with heat in the earlobes, cannot retain his urine; MENTAL SYMPTOMS (<) MORNINGS when awaking; HYPOCHONDRIASIS.

Ambra [Ambr]

MELANCHOLY; sits for days weeping, with weakness, loss of muscular power, pain in small of back and constipation, (<) in presence of other people; slow comprehension of old people, feel stupid.

Ammonium-carb [Am-c]

GREAT ANGUISH AS IF HE HAD COMMITTED A CRIME; loathing of life; makes frequent mistakes in speaking and writing; ill-humored during wet stormy weather; GREATER AVERSION TO WATER, CANNOT BEAR TO TOUCH IT; hearing others talk or talking himself affects him; gloomy, depressed, with sensation of coldness.

Ammonium-mur [Am-m]

Despondency; grief or irritable peevishness of fat, bloated and lax persons who are indolent and sluggish; BODY OFTEN LARGE AND FAT, WHILE LEGS ARE TOO THIN; consequence of grief.

Anacardium-occid [Anac-oc]

PARALYSIS WITH IMBECILITY; loss of will, cannot control the voluntary muscles; does not know his surroundings; weak memory; head falls forward, difficult to keep it up; utters only unintelligible words; drinks run out of his mouth; respiration free, pulse slow, moderately full; body cool.

Anacardium [Anac]

Fearfulness about the future with presentiment of approaching misfortune and supposition that he is surrounded by enemies; despair, with a silly, helpless state of mind and extremely sluggish, awkward movements; inaptitude for work; tendency towards suicide by shooting. (Antim crud.) imagines he HEARS VOICES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE FAR AWAY; irresistible desire to curse and swear; fixed ideas and hallucinations; FEELS AS IF HE HAD TWO WILLS, one commanding to do what the other forbids; laughs at serious things and is serious in the presence of ludicrous things; WANT OF MORAL AND RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT; cowardice and loss of will power, a slight offense makes him vehement, angry, malicious, wicked, cruel. Anthropophobia. DEMENTIA OF OLD PEOPLE, with rapid loss of memory and mental vigor; mental fatigue and brain-fag from overexertion; syphilitic mental debility.

Anantherum-mur [Anan]

IDIOTIC MONOMANIA FOR DOING THE SAME THING AND FREQUENTING THE SAME PLACES; laughs and sings, and sheds tears just as easily; ungovernable jealousy (Hyosc., Lachesis); blunted intellect and loss of memory.

Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]

Loathing of life, suicide by shooting; great sadness and weeping, anxious reflection in relation to the present of future; MOONSTRUCK AND ECSTATIC LOVE, sentimental and distrustful; gastricismus.

Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]

Gayety and fury; senseless frenzy, with inclination to suicide; mental lassitude and weakness of mind; timid restlessness; walks constantly about; contradiction between mind and will.

Apis-mell [Apis]

Irresistible desire to run and jump, has delusion that he cannot walk (Helleb.); FULL OF JEALOUSY, iNSANITY FROM SEXUAL CAUSES in women with great irritability of temper (the widow’s remedy); nymphomania eccentric cheerfulness or despondency; fickle and inconsistent behaviour; great desire for milk, which relieves; pain, tenderness and dropsy of the ovaries, especially right one; scanty micturition; fear of death.

Argentum-nit [Arg-n]

Sycosis; incompetent to undertake either mental or bodily exertion, feels himself utterly bereft of all power of will fail; hypochondriasis with fixed delusions and illusions, fixes day of his death, when walking fears he will have fit and die; agoraphobia; awakens wife so that he can talk to somebody; ALWAYS HURRIED, MUST WALK VERY FAST, AFRAID OF BEING TOO LATE; suicidal sadness, but lacks courage; fear and excitement bring on diarrhoea (Gelsemium)

Arnica [Arn]

Traumatic insanity as after concussions of the brain; forgetful, absent-minded, thoughts wander from their objects and dwell on images and fancies; does not speak a word, SPITEFUL AND ILL- TEMPERED; indifferent and hopeless; great heat in head, body cool; awakes from heat and fears to sleep again.

Arsenicum [Ars]

INSANITY DUE TO PHYSICAL DISEASE AND CONSEQUENT EXHAUSTION: excessive anguish and irresoluteness; fear of ghosts, thieves, vermin and solitude, with desire to hide; hallucinations of smell of pitch and sulphur everywhere and anticipate consignment to School, and suicidal tendency especially by hanging; RELIGIOUS MELANCHOLIA, HOPELESSNESS AND DESPAIR; attacks of anxiety, driving him out of bed at night; restlessness, moves from place to place wants to go from one bed to another; rage to mutilate himself or others.

Aurum [Aur]

SUICIDAL IDEAS AND INSANITY FROM DEPRESSING EMOTIONAL TROUBLES; religious mania from hepatic disorders; syphilitic or syphilomercurial hypochondriasis; with quite demeanor he is in a sly way persistent on suicide; hallucinations of sight; ailments from grief, disappointed love; from mortification and vexation, with dread fear reserved displeasure or vehemence;religious anguish and longing for death, being unfit for this and the other world, though he prays all the time; has no confidence in himself and thinks others have none, and still disposed to grumble and to be quarrelsome, cannot bear sympathy or contradiction; restless sleep, broken by frightful dreams; OFTEN ASKS QUESTIONS, jUMPING FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHER, without waiting for a reply. Rush of blood to head, palpitations, pollutions, otherwise patient in fair physical health, and (>) in fresh air and out-door exercise.

Baptisia [Bapt]

MELANCHOLIA ATTONITA, mental fag; stupor with profound and rapid physical degeneration, often delusion that their bodies are scattered and that they cannot hold them together; uneasy, gloomy, cast down, head feels very heavy; PERFECT INDIFFERENCE, DOES NOT CARE TO DO ANYTHING, inability to fix the mind to anything, weak mind, want of power to think.

Baryta-carb [Bar-c]

SENILE DEMENTIA, mental and physical debility; mental weakness and TIMIDITY OF DWARFISH WITH UNDEVELOPED BRAIN, who learn with difficulty because they cannot remember; forgetful, in the midst of a speech the most familiar words fail him; loss of memory, especially for recent events, groaning and murmuring,

pusillanimous; peculiar dread of men, imagines she is laughed at, which frightens her, full of anxiety and evil forebodings about the most trivial affairs; no self-confidence, fears to undertake anything; full of delusions, thinks his legs are cut off, and that he walks on his knees; aversion to strangers, FEAR OF AND IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS.

Baryta-mur [Bar-m]

MANIA WITH INCREASED SEXUAL DESIRE, dejection and dread of men; nymphomania from uterine and ovarian disorders, even in idiotic women.

Belladonna [Bell]

Patient wishes others to destroy him, will beg physicians and attendants to do so, hence SUICIDE BY DROWNING; he will sit quietly and break pins, paper, etc., between his fingers into very short pieces, disinclination to talk or very fast talking; mania, at one time merry, again would spit and bite at those around him; forth and foam at the mouth; burning thirst, bur aversion to drink on account of difficult deglutition (Lyssa); sees ghosts, animals, insects and hideous faces; is afraid of imagining things and tries to hide himself; memory lively remembers things long gone by; foolish gesticulations, wild eyes, with fixed furious look, starting and twitching; very excitable mood; drinks hastily; tears his breast to work off his over- excitement nervous state; worse at night, and at 3 P.M.

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.