Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Suffering from loss of sleep night after night; effects of long- continued strain on mind, requiring mental and bodily attention; consequences of grief for loss or threatened loss of that which is most dear.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Sleeplessness caused by excessive study late at night and no exercise in daytime, hence DYSPEPTIC INSOMNIA, awakes tired and unrefreshed after a short morning sleep with headache, bitter taste, coated tongue, etc. Insomnia from a recent drunk or a surfeit of a late and rich supper, causing flatulence and constipation, functional palpitations; gastric and abdominal ailments; loud breathing during sleep (China.).
Opium [Op]
Insomnia from sudden shock caused by bad news, with dulness and dazed depression (Aconite, agonizing restlessness); in old persons or children; in drunkards; stupid sleeplessness, with frightful visions before midnight; sleepy, but cannot go to sleep; insomnia with acuteness of hearing; slight or distant noises keep her awake.
Passiflora-incar [Passi]
Sleeplessness from nervous exhaustion, as from severe acute diseases, from mental overwork with headache.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Cannot fall asleep before midnight, must get up; after lying down he falls asleep, but awakes often, feels so hot; insomnia of the aged; memory feeble, giddiness, trembling gait; sleeplessness following intense mental overwork and anxiety, with headache, confusion and distressing vertigo; sleeplessness form physical nervous exhaustion, caused by excessive sexual indulgence or onanism; from spinal troubles and hepatic affections.
Physostigma [Phys]
Awaking at night in fear from horrible visions; sleepy, but unable to sleep from fear of the awakening.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Restless at night, pain drives him out of bed; feels wretched on awaking.
Piper-meth [Pip-m]
Sleeplessness and restlessness, compelling change of position (Arsenicum, Rhus); occipital congestion, sore inside and tender outside.
Plantago [Plan]
Insomnia from abdominal troubles, cannot sleep after 4 A.M., tosses about or falls into a dreamy sleep, full of gloom and fright, which rouses him up.
Platina [Plat]
Insomnia from extreme nervous excitability; intense nervous wakefulness, especially from hysteria and ovarian irritation, wakes in the morning feverish and unrefreshed, has difficulty in collecting his senses, with disposition to uncover legs before waking.
Plumbum [Plb]
Sleep prevented at night by colicky pains; great sleepiness during day; shooting, darting pains in tracks of larger nerves alternating with colic.
Psorinum [Psor]
Sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret and cry; sleepy by day, sleepless at night from intolerable itching; dyspnoea; vivid dreams continue after waking or CANNOT GET RID OF THE ONE PERSISTENT IDEA.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Sleepless after late supper, or eating too much; from ideas crowding on mind forepart of night, sleeps late in morning; wide awake in the evening, does not want to go to bed; first sleep restless, sound sleep when it is time to get up; wakes languid and unrefreshed; insomnia of neurasthenic young women suffering from menstrual irregularities.
Raphanus-sat [Raph]
Insomnia from immoderate sexual desire.
Rhododendron [Rhod]
Cannot go to sleep or remain asleep UNLESS HER LEGS ARE CROSSED; deep, heavy sleep before midnight, but sleepless after midnight; morning sleep disturbed by pain and restless in body.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Insomnia in typhoid and other zymotic diseases; dreams of great exertion, as rowing, swimming; restlessness and tossing about, cannot find ease in any position; after a short sleep he is suddenly awakened by a noise in one ear like the crack of pistol and cannot go to sleep any more; incessant yawning; yet he cannot get asleep before midnight, from wakefulness, heat, but no thirst; tired-out feeling after a long walk; fidgety legs.
Sambucus [Samb]
STARTING FORM SLEEP WITH SUFFOCATION; head and hands bluish, puffy; as soon as he wakes up begins to sweat, while during sleep he has hot face, but sweat has dried up.
Scutellaria [Scut]
Sleeplessness from neurasthenia without any other apparent cause sudden waking up from disagreeable dreams, from nightmare, from exciting emotions, or against PLEASANT THOUGHTS crowd upon the mind, preventing sleep.
Secale-corn [Sec]
Sensation in cutaneous nerves as if ants were crawling over skin, tending to excite and worry the patient, with a feeling of anxiety and apprehension, which prevents sleep; or sleep disturbed by frightful dreams.
Selenium [Sel]
Patient sleeps in cat-naps; awakes often during night or is easily aroused by slightest disturbance; awakes at precisely same hour every morning, before this usual rising time, when all his complaints are worse; hungry during night.
Sepia [Sep]
Sleeplessness during pregnancy or childbed or form uterine disease and menstrual irregularities; awakes early in the morning thinking she has been called; awakes too early and cannot go to sleep again; sad and depressed; irritable and indifferent; sleep restless and unrefreshing; awakes in a fright and screaming; cold feet.
Silicea [Sil]
Utter mental and physical inanition with abject despair and loss of all hope; total Sleeplessness from ebullitions; sleepy, but cannot sleep; fidgety, starts at least noise; sense of great debility; wants to lie down.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Sleeplessness from sexual neurasthenia, from spermatorrhoea; restless sleep; anxious dreams with emissions.
Sticta-pulm [Stict]
Sleeplessness from nervousness, from cough, after surgical operations.
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.