Phosphorous [Phos]
SADNESS REQUIRING REGULARLY AT TWILIGHT, anxiety and irritability; melancholy, only (>) by vehement weeping; depression with foreboding of calamity; fearfulness and restlessness, which seem to arise from left chest and attended by palpitations from, least unpleasant impression; alternation of weeping and boisterous mirth; indifference to others, but anxious about herself, ill- humour, dizziness, she dare not move her eyes (<) in daytime, with palpitation of heart and internal and external coldness except the face,(>) in open air, mental symptoms associated with hysteria and disorders of sexual organs.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
RELIGIOUS MELANCHOLIA WHICH FINDS CONSOLATION IN PRAYERS; grief and sorrowful timidity on account of his worldly and eternal affairs; anxious and weary of life, sad and gloomy, easily bursting into tears; dissatisfied; very easy frightened; frequent profuse epistaxis; mild, yielding disposition, clinging to others and seeking consolation earthy, dark ring about ring eyes, dislike to bread and meat; nausea and bitter, slimy vomiting, flushes of heat, pale face and cold hands.
Senecio [Senec]
Inability to fix the mind on any one object for any length of time; depression of spirits, alternating with very cheerful mood; meditative but don’t know of what he thinks, especially in the evening; hysteria; great sleeplessness, or sleep with vivid unpleasant dreams.
Sepia [Sep]
Organic disease of female genital organs (Lil, functional); full of despair,. down- hearted with suicidal ideas;great disinclination to work and motion; sadness, worrying about her health and the future, with frequent attacks of weeping and indifferent about the health of affairs of her own family; (<)evenings and in open air; fits of involuntary laughter and weeping; dread of being alone, very irritable, inclined to be vehement, weak memory, difficulty in expressing her thoughts and dislike to mental labor; relief by violent exercise, as walking; indifference to her household affairs, to which she was formerly attentive.
Silicea [Sil]
Want of vital warmth, even when taking exercise; secret disgust for life; faint-heated, anxious mood; stings of conscious, as if he had committed a crime, worse during growing moon.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Inwardly gnawing grief and anger, he looks at everything from the darkest side, with desire to die; disinclination to work and to think; dread of the future and dread of being constantly pursued by others; a sorrowfulness ending in paralysis of the intellect; constant chilliness, even in summer, vertigo and sensation of seasickness; scurvy.
Stramonium [Stram]
Melancholy, with desire for society and sunshine; fear and trembling when alone or in darkness; welcomes the thought of death when alone; indomitable rage; with great desire to bite and tear everything to pieces.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Religious melancholy; reproaches of conscience, despair of salvation, much weeping; ABDOMINAL VENOUS PLETHORA, VENOUS LETHARGY; inclination to consume hours in doing nothing; dose not take any interest in anything; pusillanimity and disgust for life, being too lazy to rouse himself up, and too unhappy to live, wishes to be alone, as soon as he sees anybody, he feels a weakness all over, but worse in stomach, followed by sweat on head and flushed face.
Tabacum [Tab]
Despondency, gloom, apprehension of sudden death; fear of death, yet attempting suicide; great timidity, fear to undertake what he has frequently done; difficulty in concentrating his mind for any length of time on one subject.
Tarentula-hisp [Tarent]
Consciousness of unnatural state of mind, hence despondency, sadness, moral depression and relaxation with complete loss of memory; fear of contracting disease(Hyos); mental chorea; hyperaemia and hyperaesthesia of female sexual organs.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Religious melancholy, with reproaches of conscience; talks a great deal about religious things; suicidal melancholy; this condition ends in a raving mania, with cursing and scolding, endeavors to escape, bites everybody, and tears everything that offers opposition; foolish imaginings; placid sadness, with weeping, discouragement and despair; apprehension of misfortune; conscious about his worthiness; despairs about his position in society; very taciturn; sudden paroxysms of sinking of cerebral innervation, characterized by sudden loss of power to control his movements; MELANCHOLIA CUM STUPOR, mind dull and stupid, with obstinate taciturnity.
Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]
Great depression of spirit;;mental confusion and stupefaction; will not see her physician fears of being poisoned; sleepless can hardly be kept in her bedrooms; cerebral hyperaemia with coldness of whole body.
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.