Melancholia



Chelidonium [Chel]

Anxiety, allowing no rest at any employment as if she had committed a crime; fear of getting crazy, with restlessness and heat; distaste for mental exertion or conversation; forgets what she wants to do or has done.

China [Chin]

Mental depression as a reflex of general lowered vitality; low- spirited, despondent and tired of life, with suicidal tendencies; great sensitiveness; easily moved to tears by the least contradiction; indifference and apathy with obstinate taciturnity; weakness and exhaustion after the least exertion, (>) in the evening and at night; nocturnal DREAD OF DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS; desire for solitude.

Cicuta [Cic]

Anxious thoughts about the future, feels sad; excessively affected by sad stories; weeping, moaning and howling; fondness for solitude; great dislike to society; indifferent and apathy; disposition to be frightened; MISTRUST AND SHUNNING OF THE MALE SEX ( Baryta)

Cimicifuga [Cimic]

Deep melancholy with sleeplessness, a heavy black cloud has settled over her, so that all is darkness and confusion, while at the same time it weights like lead upon her heart; perfect indifference; taciturnity; takes no interest in household affairs; sighs and moans and is suspicious of everybody; brain feels too large for the cranium, a pressing from within outward, sensation of enlargement of the eyeballs, which feels as if they would be pressed out of the orbits; foul breath; faintness and goneness in the epigastrium; prolapsus uteri; nervous exhaustion from the least exertion; CHOREA, PUERPERAL MELANCHOLIA.

Coca [Coca]

Melancholy from nervous exhaustion; bashful, timid ill in society; peevish; delight in solitude and obscurity.

Cocculus [Cocc]

Great sorrowfulness, with constant inclination to sit in a corner buried in thought and to take no notice of anything about him; discontented with himself and still easily offended; great anxiousness as if he had committed a crime; confused feeling in the head, especially after eating and drinking vertigo with flushed hot head and face; seasickness, uterine spasms and dysmenorrhoea;excessive prostration, as if were impossible to make any exertion.

Colchicum [Colch]

Arthritic melancholia with suicidal thoughts; peevish and dissatisfied; want of memory.

Colocynthis [Coloc]

ABSENCE OF RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS; apathy with lassitude cannot bear the society of persons he is intimate with; laconic mode of expression; no disposition to talk; dissatisfied with everything; consequences from indignation and internal gnawing grief over his imaginary or real troubles.

Conium [Con]

THE GREAT INHIBITORY REMEDY OF THE SEXUAL PASSIONS; excessive nervous prostration, with vertigo when lying down and when turning over in bed; great concern about little things, and becomes easily excited; dreads being alone and still avoids society;praecordial anguish; superstitious and full of fear, with frequent thoughts of death; loss of memory; alternate fits of silent depression and quarrelsome liveliness; mood serious; unsympathizing from indolence and what of proper will-power; cannot endure any kind of excitement, it brings on mental and physical depression, with weakness, confused feeling in head, often sits lost in thought.

Crocus [Croc]

Fearful, apprehensive sorrowfulness even of a religious kind; is not fit to live; alternations of excessive happiness, affections tenderness and rage; takes everything in anger and suddenly repents having injured others; restless, anxious timid; gay extravagance and liveliness alternate with sorrowful dejection.

Crot.-cascavella [Crot-c]

Insomnia, great sadness; her thoughts dwell on death continually, especially when alone; DREAMS ABOUT THE DEAD, when she falls asleep.

Crot.-horridus [Crot-h]

Timidity fear anxiety weeping or snappish temper, cross; irritable, infuriated by the least annoyance, sadness; her thoughts dwell on death continually; twitching and nervous agitation; lethargy, loss of coordination; incipient stage of senile dementia.

Croton-tigl [Croto-t]

MELANCHOLIA ATTONITA; feeling as of one cannot think outside of

himself; feels all pen up inside and no chance for the thoughts to flow outside; feeling of anxiety as if some misfortune would befall him; morose, dissatisfied.

Cuprum [Cupr]

Mental and bodily prostration after overexertion of mind and loss of sleep; anxiety fear or persecution, is in despair, with VERY DIFFICULT BREATHING AND FAINT FEELING; skin cool, covered with cold sweat; unconquerable sadness and restlessness, as if some misfortune were approaching; weeps often, shuns the sight of people, seeks and loves solitude, anxious concerning death, which she believes near and inevitable.

Digitalis [Dig]

Great anxiety, depression and dread of the future, with sadness and weeping, (<) about 6 P. M. and by music; morose, irritable and gloomy;weakness of memory, mind dull and confused; sleep unrefreshing, with frequent waking; anguish, which seems to proceed from epigastrium; weakness and exhaustion; slow pulse; RELIEF OF STUPOR BY WEEPING.

Elaps-coral [Elaps]

EXCESSIVE HORROR OF RAIN; dread of being alone as if something would happen; violent headache when the desire for food is not immediately satisfied, (<) from fruits or cold drinks; irregular menses weight in vagina with itching; weakness and trembling.

Eugenia-jambos [Eug]

Desire for solitude, mental depression loss of memory; his mind seems to brighten up after urinating, feels depressed before and shivering urination.

Ferrum [Ferr]

Mind exceedingly oppressed, great solicitude about those belonging to him, with constant thoughts of death; anxiety as after committing a crime; from slightest cause anxiety, with throbbing in pit of stomach; excited by slightest opposition, everything irritates and oppresses her; anaemia and debility with congestion to head and chest.

Graphites [Graph]

HERPETIC CONSTITUTION; gloomy and low-spirited; great inclination to grief, even to despair, propensity to feel himself unhappy, with thoughts of deep grief and weeping; timid restless, (<) morning; oppression about heart, with uneasiness in stomach, great anxiousness as if after the commission of a crime or as if a misfortune impended, with hot face and cold extremities; anxiety when seated at work; repugnance to labor; venous persons, with disposition to obesity.

Helonias [Helon]

Mind exceeding dull and inactive; desire solitude; irritable faultfinding cannot bear the least contradiction, all conversation is unpleasant; pressure from within upward to the vertex, aggravated by looking steadily at any point; ATONIC CONDITION OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS.

Helleborus [Hell]

 

Quite, placid melancholy, with sighing, moaning and dread of dying; feels unhappy in presence of cheerful faces; anxiousness about the heart, which prevents him from resting anywhere; ameliorated by vomiting; slow comprehension, obstinate silence; homesickness. REPERCUSSION OF EXANTHEMATA.

Hepar [Hep]

The patient is impelled by unaccountable attacks of internal anguish, which sometimes come on quite suddenly, to attempt suicide (Alum); chronic abdominal affections;excessive nervousness from abuse of mercury; dejected, sad fearful; repulsive mood and desire to be left alone; dementia, with stupidity, sits silent and speechless in a corner; VIOLENT OUTBURSTS OF PASSION, so that he does not wish to see the members of his own family;hasty speech and hasty drinking.

Hyoscyamus [Hyos]

Nervous irritability without hyperaemia; melancholy with despair and propensity to drown himself (Bell) and total indifference to food and drink; reproaches of conscience; dread of being sold, poisoned, bitten by animals; SYPHILOPHOBIA; jealousy with attempt to murder, aversion to mankind, mistrust and indolence; hyperaesthesia cutanea, wants to go naked, with loss of all shame; constant absurd talking or muttering to himself.

Ignatia [Ign]

TEARS WEPT INWARDLY; suicidal desire to be released from what seems to be perpetual burden of sorrow;desire for solitude so that he may still more nourish his inward grief; great anxiousness at night or when awakening in the morning, with taciturnity; fear of thieves on waking after midnight; timidity and fear of contracting disease, aversion to any amusement; vacant gaze sits quietly; face distorted, earthy, pale and sunken; no desire to eat or drink; weak memory; heaviness of weakness; cold feet, mostly evening; sexual desire with impotence; menses scanty, black, of a putrid odor; increased stool and urine, RECENT CASES.

Ind. [Indg]

Patient feels very gloomy, taciturn, timid, is tired of life, spends his nights crying, epileptic convulsions; FLUSHES OF HEAT FROM ABDOMEN TO HEAD; sensation as if the head were tightly bandaged around forehead; the epileptic fit always commencing with dizziness, undulating sensation through the whole head from behind forward.

Iris-vers [Iris]

Biliousness, despondency low-spirited, easily vexed; confusion

of mind with mental depression; habitual headaches from gastric or abdominal causes.

Iodum [Iod]

Melancholy, MUST KEEP IN MOTION DAY AND NIGHT; brain feels as if it were stirred up, feels as if going crazy; shunning and fear when any one comes near, particularly the physician, excessive excitability and sensitiveness, expects an accident from every trifle.

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.