Profound disturbance of intellectual faculties, mania, delirium tremens, most painful spasms; excessive excitement, she talked to herself, swore and blasphemed while at the same time time she was seized with convulsive laughter; extreme restlessness; confusion of intellect, even stupor and coma; convulsions of the mouth, face and extremities with unconsciousness, restlessness, exhaustion and debility after the fit; cold sweats.
Oleander [Olnd]
Absent-minded and slowness of perception; utter indolence and aversion to do anything; cannot bear the slightest handling and gets enraged if touched by any one; breathing oppressed and heavy; head hanging down constantly; itching of scalp, with constant desire to scratch it; rumbling and flatulency of bowels; hard difficult stool; urine brown.
Opium [Op]
Fantastical insanity, with frightful visions congregating around his bed and tormenting him; talks in a confused manner; commits indecent actions; cheerfulness and feeling of great strength; vivid hallucinations of sight; contempt of death; rioting hilarity, with buffoonery and subsequent angry savageness or tearful sorrowfulness; instability and imbecility of will; indifference to joy and suffering; complete dementia, does not recognize his own relatives; excessive debility, stupor, frequent sweats and eruptions on skin; diminished secretion of urine. Suitable to old bummers, to old people inclined to apoplexy and paralysis; heavy, unrefreshing sleep or sleepless but stupid (Gelsemium)
Palladium [Pall]
Mental exhaustion, everything is too much exertion; time seems long to him inclination to weep; WOUNDED PRIDE, easily out of humor and uses then strong expression; fond of good opinion of others; (<) from any mental exertion or excitement, as on the day following an evening entertainment.
Petroleum [Petr]
Thinks that another persons lies besides him or that one limb is double; sadness and despondency; excessive irresoluteness; weakness of memory; violent starting from trivial causes; head feels numb, as if made from wood and bruised; vertigo and nausea when stooping or when rising from a recumbent position; twitching of limbs; weak unto faintness.
Phosphorus [Phos]
SOFTENING OF BRAIN, with persistent headache; slow in replies irritable weakness and somnambulism; great fear and anxiety, especially towards evening, with frightful delusions and hallucinations, (<) especially hearing and smell, followed by prostration, disgust of life and repugnance to the world; great irritability of mind and tendency to be easily startled; changeable humor, spasmodic laughter and weeping; SATYRIASIS AND NYMPHOMANIA IN OLD PEOPLE, WITH INSANE SHAMELESSNESS, expose themselves and want to go naked; delirious fancies about his own person (SECOND AND THIRD STAGES OF DEMENTIA PARALYTICA) with mania de grandeur; tuberculosis.
Picric-acid [Pic-ac]
NEURASTHENIA WITH ANAEMIA; dementia; imbecility with total abolition of memory and reason; great indifference; lack of will- power to undertake anything; desire to sit still without taking any interest in anything mental prostration after the least intellectual work; anaesthesia and weakness of lower extremities; (>) in recumbent position ( Picrate of Ammonia ).
Piper-meth [Pip-m]
(Kava Kava). Nervous prostration, constant fear of something happening; hallucinations and dulness after headache; dizziness and black spots before eyes; ringing in ears; fantastic ideas and a strong desire to skip about.
Platina [Plat]
Nymphomania; puerperal melancholia and mania; indifference, does not care for anybody; low-spirited, reserved fearful; inconsolable violent weeping; praecordial anguish, with palpitation and fear of death and of imaginary forms ghosts; nervous excitement. PRIDE, ARROGANCE, considers everybody below her; vacillation; attacks of cheerfulness, increased feelings of strength; inclination to embrace everybody; slight vexation affects the patient for a long time; anxious WHEN IN COMPANY; dulness or absence of mind; ill-humor in the morning (Pallad., evening); everything seems too narrow and strange; the thought of death horrifies the patient, any serious thought is displeasing; mental symptoms associated with gastric symptoms, both originating in sexual sphere, worse afternoon and evening; alternate appearance of the symptoms of body and mind, as soon as one group predominates, the other ceases.
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.