Coffea [Coff]
Sleeplessness form overexcitement of mind and body, from joy or agreeable surprise, from long watching, from excessive use of coffee; all the senses are more acute; persistent insomnia of children, without cause.
Colchicum [Colch]
Debility following loss of sleep, awakes unrefreshed and tired in the morning, with loss of appetite, bad taste and nausea; insomnia because he cannot lie on left side, on which he is accustomed to go to sleep.
Colocynthis [Coloc]
Sleeplessness and restlessness after anger; sleeps badly, often wakes tired.
Conium [Con]
Sleep interrupted or PREVENTED BY DRY, TEASING COUGH; restless sleep at night from heat of body and twitching of arms and hands; much depression with weeping; bad dreams; disposition to sleep in the early morning and by day; cold and torpid legs.
Crot.-cas [Crot-c]
Insomnia, dreams about the dead when she falls asleep; great sadness; her thoughts dwell on death continually, especially when alone.
Crot.-hor [Crot-h]
Insomnia as soon as he dozes off he DREAMS OF DEAD PERSONS; sleeplessness from nervous and mental distress, connected with bodily suffering, but out of all proportion to the suffering; CHRONIC INSOMNIA.
Cuprum [Cupr]
Nervous excitability, with great prostration of body; constant restlessness; driving one out of bed, with groaning and desire to escape; child awakes cross and irritable, kicking the clothes off and striking every one about it (Belladonna).
Cypripedium [Cypr]
CHILDREN AWAKE AT NIGHT FROM SLEEP UNNATURALLY BRIGHT AND PLAYFUL, and evidence no desire to go to sleep again (Coffea); insomnia from nervous exhaustion, especially where the system has been weakened by long sickness, as from chronic uterine or ovarian complaints.
Digitalis [Dig]
Sleep uncomfortable and restless from the irregular distribution of the blood; many dreams; starts up from sleep dreaming that he is falling from a great height; awakes with anxious and distressed feeling proceeding from cardiac region; GLOOMY FOREBODINGS INCIDENT TO HEART DISEASE: deep sighing, slow breathing; constant desire to urinate.
Dioscorea [Dios]
Cannot compose himself to sleep, restless all night, full of dreams; when falling asleep, perspires freely and wakes unrefreshed and languid; sleep full of lascivious dreams; insomnia from too intent thinking, awakes with bitter mouth and pains in bowels.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
Sleep restless after midnight, (<) after 3 A.M.; gets up at night and walks about the room, a sinking sensation all over, feels dizzy in the morning, with trembling and weakness.
Elaps-coral [Elaps]
SLEEPLESSNESS FROM LANCINATING HEADACHE: dreams of dead persons, of business.
Ferrum [Ferr]
Insomnia from excessive use of tea; in pneumonia and chlorosis; anxious tossing in bed after midnight; can lie only on back at night; remitting pains; (<) at night, driving one out of bed, (>) by motio
Fluoric-acid [Fl-ac]
Sleeplessness, NO INCLINATION TO SLEEP AND A SHORT NAP SUFFICES TO REFRESH HIM (Meph.)
Gelsemium [Gels]
Insomnia from nervous irritation arising from bad or exciting
news; from fright, from the anticipation of an unusual ordeal, from ovarian disease, from asthenic fevers, from chronic spinal trouble; during pregnancy or after labor; sleeplessness from mental overwork or debauch exhausting the vital force, patient is quiet, dull and stupid; he is on the verge of dropping to sleep and then becomes again wide awake or lies in an half-waking state, with incoherent talking; chronic cerebral irritation and pulsation in head and body; excessive use of tobacco; hypertrophy of heart.
Grindelia [Grin]
Respiration is stopped entirely on falling asleep, and is not resumed until awakened by the suffocation resulting (Carb. v.); PARESIS OF PNEUMOGASTRIC.
Guaiacum [Guai]
Frequent awaking from sleep as if falling (Phosphorus ac.); awakes unrefreshed, everything seems too tight, clothes feel damp.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Sleep too full of dreams from cerebral excitement or feverishness, arising from jealousy, unhappy love, fight or during progress of febrile diseases or convulsions; insomnia of children when they twitch in sleep, cry out and tremble, and awaken frightened; CHILD WAKES UP HUNGRY FROM SLEEP, the face of purplish color; suitable to irritable and excitable persons, especially pregnant and parturient women.
Hypericum [Hyper]
Brain has been strained by intense and continuous exertion after injuries to nerves, and insomnia follows.
Ignatia [Ign]
Sleeplessness form grief, fright, from suppressed mental suffering; in children after punishment, during dentition, they waken from sleep with piercing cries and tremble all over; from hysteria; dreams of one subject the whole night through.
Iodum [Iod]
Sleepless after midnight or restless sleep, with vivid, anxious dreams and inclination to move about.
Kali-brom [Kali-br]
Insomnia from anaemia, especially during or after acute and painful diseases; NIGHT-TERRORS, patient wakes up frightened from terrific visions in his dreams; patient is nervous, and feels better when engaged at some work or walking about, awakes form a profound sleep and does not know where he is.
Kreosotum [Kreos]
Sleeplessness, (<) before midnight, child moans constantly or dozes with half-open eyes; tosses about all night without any apparent cause; starts when scarcely fallen asleep; dentition.
Lac-caninum [Lac-c]
Restlessness when attempting to sleep; rolling and tossing about all night; frequent sighing; urinates often during the night, with some vesical tenesmus (Lac defl.); excessive nervous debility.
Lachesis [Lach]
Insomnia from cerebral irritation, with mental excitement, caused by blood-poisoning; during climaxis or in the course of female complaints; persistent sleeplessness; sleepless in the evening, with talkativeness; awakes at night and cannot go to sleep again; sleep prevented by starting and jumping; children toss about, moaning, during sleep; PATIENT (<) FROM SLEEP, HE SLEEPS INTO AN AGGRAVATION.
Lachnanthes [Lachn]
Sleepless, peevish, with circumscribed red cheeks and increasing dryness of throat; wakeful at night, without feeling weak.
Lactuca [Lact]
Sleeplessness, night very restless, with many vivid dreams; voluptuous dreams, with emission, during the morning sleep.
Lilium-tigr [Lil-t]
Insomnia from ovarian or uterine irritation, especially from subinvolution and displacements; restless sleep, with wild feeling in head and frightful, laborious dreams; everything seems too hot; tries hard to go to sleep quickly but cannot fall asleep.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Sleepy during day; wakeful at night, mind too active; sleep restless, at ease in no position; child sleeps with half-open eyes and throws its head form side to side, with moaning; wakes often; quite awake at 4 A.M., awakes terrified, kicks and scolds, feels unrefreshed; hungry when awaking at night; sleepless first part of night from flatulence and functional palpitations.
Magnesia-mur [Mag-m]
Insomnia and constipation, stool like sheep’s dung; sleepless on account of nightly heat, with thirst; body restless as soon as he closes eyes; shocks through body at night, while walking; unrefreshing sleep; tired in the morning.
Magnesia-phos [Mag-p]
Insomnia from nervousness, emotions and brain-fag.
Mephitis [Meph]
Sleeplessness from fidgets in left side, both legs and arms; a short sleep seems to refresh (Acidum fluoricum).
Mercurius [Merc]
Sleeplessness during bilious or irritative fevers and from hepatic affections; from ebullition of blood and anxiety, with beating at the pit of stomach, sometimes accompanied by profuse sweats or with extreme depression of spirit and other nervous symptoms; cannot lie on right side.
Mercurius-cor [Merc-c]
Sleeplessness on account of vertigo and anxiety, in law states and phagedenic conditions from syphilitic blood-poison.
Mercurius-sol [Merc]
DREADS TO FALL ASLEEP, tosses about without knowing why, (<) after midnight and feels unrefreshed in the morning; on falling asleep, she starts up as from a great fright and is anxious till fully awake.
Moschus [Mosch]
Sleepless from nervous excitement, without any other ailments; nights restless, full of dreams of strife and effort; cannot lie long on one spot, for the part on which he lay becomes painful as if sprained or broken; sleep uneasy, wakes every half hour and throws off covering; feels too hot, yet does not perspire; after exhausting fevers.
Murex [Murx]
Awakes early, but with a headache; SLEEP PREVENTED BY COLD EXTREMITIES; crowding of ideas or nervousness.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Tormenting sleeplessness after gnawing boisterous grief; constantly chilly sensations, wants to be wrapped up, subjectively cold feet; on falling asleep, twitching in limbs and electric shocks through whole body; sleep often interrupted by thirst and urging to urinate; complete insomnia at night, from simple wakefulness, without feeling sick, but feels melancholy and despondent, very weak after passing a restless night, looks worn and sad.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Constant waking, with unpleasant fantastic dreams; after a few hours’ SLEEP HE IS AWAKENED BY A FIT OF ASTHMA.
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.