Coffea. Great sensitiveness with general excitability; she is in a state of ecstasy. Headache as if a nail were driven into the brain, or as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces.
Conium will be particularly indicated where much vertigo is developed, especially when in a recumbent position; she cannot turn in bed without occasioning distressing vertigo. During micturition, her urine alternately flows and stops. The breasts swell, become hard and painful before the menses, when her hysterical symptoms increase very much; the vertigo often becomes very severe at these times; and she may also have constipation, with constant and ineffectual urging to stool. Globus hystericus.
Euphrasia. In cases where there is dimness of vision as a result of the hysterical condition, with great suffering from profuse lachrymation. Tears acrid.
Hyoscyamus. There is some resemblance to epilepsy in the remarkable jerking and twitching of her spasms; still they are less regular in their form. She is disposed to uncover herself and to be naked; she indulges in much silly laughter and many foolish actions.
Ignatia. When a state of anguish is developed in which she shrieks for help, with suffocation constriction of the throat; difficult deglutition, and she finally comes out of the spasm with deep sighing. She frequently complains of an emptiness at the pit of the stomach, with frequent sighing, and much despondency simulating grief. Mental symptoms change very often, cheerfulness with great despondence. Silent grief. Inclination to start.
Ipecac. Every fresh development of the hysterical symptoms brings on a sensation of continual nausea; there are many other symptoms, but the nausea is constant, she feels it every moment.
Jodium. There is a remarkable and unaccountable sense of weakness and loss of breath in going up-stairs. Leucorrhoea corroding the linen.
Lachesis. Sensation as if a lump were rising in the throat which does not particularly incommode her, but merely feels unpleasant. But she cannot bear the least pressure externally about her throat, she would suffocate or even about the chest, stomach or abdomen. She is almost constantly relieving herself of the pressure. She awakes from sleep distressed and unhappy, as if from loss of breath.
Lycopodium. She has a constant sensation of satiety; she takes no food; and if asked why, replies she wants nothing because she is so full and that the least morsel causes a sensation of fulness up to the throat. Cutting pains across the abdomen, from right to left. Much borborygmus, particularly in the left hypochondrium. She becomes worse at four in the afternoon. Red sand in the urine. Frequent and abundant micturition; urine pale especially during the night.
Magnes mur. This is one of the most important remedies in hysterical conditions. She has many spasms, day and night, with great sleeplessness. Constipation of large, difficult stools, crumbling as they pass the verge of the anus. Fainting fits at the table, nausea and trembling by eructations.
Mercurius Sol. She has profuse flow or saliva; and her breath has a mercurial odor. The gums bleed and are inclined to ulcerate about the teeth. She is disposed to perspire much: the perspiration does not relieve; it is cold and clammy, particularly about the lower extremities. She is very sensitive about the epigastrium or pit of the stomach.
Moschus. Violent, long-continued, inveterate, scolding, until she falls down in a swoon. Great anguish, as if she had to die; she talks of nothing else except that she will die. She exclaims it is my death, and then falls down in a swoon. Frequent swooning. Great desire for beer, or brandy. Constriction of the chest.
Nat. Mur. This remedy is indicated in all females whose menses delay and decrease more and more. She awakens in the morning with a bad headache. Vivid, painful dreams, during a light sleep. Dreams at night of robbers being in the house, so vividly, that she will not be satisfied till the house has been searched. Somnambulistic rising and sitting about in the room. A constant desire for salt. Great aversion to bread. All her symptoms are relieved as soon as she gets into a perspiration. Great debility, excessive thirst, great inclination to weep.
Nux mosch. Sudden change form grave to gay; from lively to serene; excessive tendency to laughter. Enormous distention after meals. Vicarious leucorrhoea, in place of the menses. Excessive dryness of the tongue and mouth after sleeping.
Nux vomica She seldom sleeps after three A.M., but after A.M., and late in the morning; she feels worse in the morning. Constipation of large difficult stools. Very dyspeptic. She is much excited by coffee, spirituous liquors, or highly seasoned food. She feels much better on plain and simple food. Menses irregular, never at the right time.
Palladium. She imagines herself neglected; wounded pride.
Phosphorus. Particularly indicated in tall slender females. The stools are long, arrow, dry, hard and voided with much difficulty. She feels a great sense of weakness in the abdomen; this distresses and aggravates all her other symptoms. She eructates vast quantities of wind after eating. She is sleepy, particularly after dinner. Sexual desire very much increased.
Platina. Self-exaltation, and contempt for others. Violent crampy pain at the root of the nose. A strange titillating sensation extending from the genital organs upwards, into the abdomen. Stools difficult, adhering like soft clay to the rectum and anus. Spasms with wild shrieks. Menses in excess, dark and thick. Chilliness predominates. Thirstlessness. Amelioration in the open air.
Pulsatilla. The forms of her symptoms are very changeable. She is easily moved to laughter, or to tears. She is very well one hour or half hour, and very miserable the next. She is timid and fearful, and yet extremely mild, gentle and yielding. She is sometimes silent and melancholy. She has a bad taste in her mouth, especially in the morning. Nothing tastes good to her; or she has no taste.
Sabina. She is very nervous and hysterical; and is she becomes pregnant, she is almost sure to abort the third month. Now if Sabina is administered, she will not abort any more; and if kept a long time under the influence of this remedy, she will eventually and entirely recover.
Sepia. Paroxysms of something twisting about in her stomach and rising towards the throat; her tongue becomes stiff, she becomes speechless and rigid like a statue. Painful sensation of emptiness in the pit of the stomach. Urine putrid; it deposits a clay-like sediment which adheres with great tenacity to the vessel. Icy cold hands and feet. Sudden fainting with profuse sweats and undisturbed consciousness, without being able to speak or stir. Involuntary fits of weeping and laughter. Sensation of coldness between the shoulders, followed by general coldness and convulsive twitchings of the right side and difficulty of breathing.
Stannum. Great sensation of faintness after going down stairs; although she could go up stairs well enough. She can hardly sit down; she must drop down suddenly; she can get very well. Very much exhausted from talking or reading aloud. All her pains increase gradually to highest point and then as gradually disappear.
Staphysagria. She is very sensitive to the least impression; the least word that seems wrong hurts her very. She throws every thing given her in her hands away indignantly, pushed things away from her. The sound teeth, as well as those decayed, are very painful to the touch of food or drink.
Stramonium. She is full of strange and absurd fancies. She is fearful, so that she starts back and stares wildly at the first sight even of familiar objects. Very great loquacity. She desires light and society. Her face is puffed up with blood.
Sulphur. She comes out of her spasms feeling very happy, and every thing seems very beautiful to her. She discharges large quantities of colorless urine, at the termination of the spasms. Her attendants have learned to recognize this, as a sign that he spasms are at an end. She has flushes of heat; coldness of the feet; heat on the top of her head; and cannot wait for her dinner as usual, she is so faint and hungry.
Valeriana. A sensation as if something warm were rising from her stomach, arresting her breathing, with tickling deep in the throat and cough. She feels a sensation as if a thread were hanging down the oesophagus from the pharynx. Fearfulness; tremulousness; and palpitation of the heart. The intellect predominates over the mind.
Veratrum. In addition to other symptoms, she has cold sweat on the forehead. Cold sweat all over her; and a very weak pulse, so weak that it can scarcely be counted.
Viola odor. Much weeping without knowing why; distress in the chest; difficulty in breathing; anxiety and palpitation of the heart.
Zincum met. Incessant and powerful fidgety feeling in the feet, or lower extremities. She must move them constantly.
