Psorinum – Medicine



Arsenicum, Rhus, X-ray, Tub causes: mental emotions, or mental labor; overlifting; suppressed eruptions; weather changes; electric storms; traumatism; sprains and dislocations.

Mind

      Thoughts vanish after overlifting.

Memory weak, cannot remember, does not even know his room.

Thoughts which he cannot get rid of constantly reappear in his dreams.

Dull all forenoon, disinclined to work.

Dull, stupid, foggy, as after a debauch, on awaking in night; dizziness, he falls down.

As if stupid in left half of head, morning.

Mental labor causes: fullness in head; intense headache; throbbing in brain; pain in left temple.

Very disagreeable mood; impatient; extremely ill-humored.

Irritable, peevish, passionate, noisy; nervous, easily startled; restless, hands tremble.

Intolerably self-willed, annoys those about him; a boy, suffering from an eruptions.

She is very irritable, easily angered; always thinks of dying.

Vacillating, fearful; mania.

Anxiety, with oppression of chest.

Anxious, full of fear, melancholic; evil forebodings.

Great fear of death; anxiety about the heart and dyspnoea, with attacks of pain in chest.

Believe the stitches in heart will kill him if they do not cease.

Restlessness: with eruption, in a child; with oppression of chest.

Sentimental: full of spleen, very low-spirited.

Discouragement.

His ideas are sad and joyless.

Very depressed, sad, suicidal thoughts.

Depressed in spirits and hopeless.

Melancholy, sorrowful, despairing.

Despairing mood; fears he will fail in business.

Much depression on account of an eruption on dorsum of hand which appears over night.

Greatest despondency, making his own life and that of those about him intolerable; dry cough, evening fever.

Is so downhearted she could commit suicide, then is so full of phantasms.

Great depression of mind during climaris, with chronic abdominal disorders.

Hypochondriasis, with hemorrhage from rectum.

Religious melancholy. (Melilotus).

Despairs of recovery; thinks he will die; hopeless; especially after typhus amel. from nosebleed.

Melancholy after suppressed itch emaciated, pale, earthy complexion, weakness of limbs; flushes of heat and palpitation prevent sleep; sleep comes toward morning; would like to stay in bed until midday; aversion to work, indifference, weeping; seeks solitude, despairs of recovery; she is irritable and forgetful.

Feels the greatest anguish in head, with a whirling before eyes every day, from 5 A.M. until 5 P.M., since two years; walks up and down his room wringing his hands and moaning continually, “Oh, such anguish! Oh, such anguish!” only when he takes his meals he ceases moaning; appetite is good.

Has been nervous about nine months; was obliged to abandon all business; has taken much quinine and other drugs; a very disagreeable feeling about head; mental depression; thinks he will not recover; has lost all hope; cannot apply his mind to business; confusion of senses, he cannot reckon; attacks of numbness of legs and arms, left side agg.; agg. on going to bed; formication and crawling, with pricking and smarting on scalp, and some on extremities; tongue white.

Driven to despair with excessive itching.

Every moral emotion causes trembling.

Severe ailments from even slight emotions.

Disturbances of the mind and spirit of all kinds.

Melancholy by itself, or with insanity, also at times alternating with frenzy and hours of rationality.

Anxious oppression, early on awaking.

Anxious oppression in the evening after going to bed.

Anxiety, several times a day (with and without pains), or at certain hours of the day or of the night; usually the patient then finds no rest, but has to run hither and thither, and often falls into perspiration.

Melancholy, palpitation and anxiousness cause her at night to wake up from sleep (mostly just before the beginning of the menses).

Mania of self-destruction (spleen).

A weeping mood; then often weep for hours without knowing a cause for it.

Attacks of fear; e.g., fear of fire, of being alone, of apoplexy, of becoming insane, etc.

Attacks of passion, resembling frenzy.

Fright caused by the merest trifles, this often causes perspiration and trembling.

Disinclination to work, in persons who else are most industrious; no impulse to occupy himself; but rather the most decided repugnance thereto.

Excessive sensitiveness.

Irritability from weakness.

Quick change of moods; often very merry and exuberantly so, often again and, indeed, very suddenly, dejection; e.g., on account of his disease, or from other trifling causes. Sudden transition from cheerfulness to sadness, or vexation without a cause.

Numbness and giddiness of the head, the patient can neither think, nor accomplish any mental labor.

She cannot control her thoughts.

At times she seems to be deprived of thought; she sits there as if she were absent.

The head feels benumbed and drowsy in the open air.

Sensorium

      Vertigo; mornings, objects seem to go around with him; with headache; eyes feel pressed outward; with confusion and drawing in forehead, with roaring in ears.

Great dulness of head; he fears inflammation of brain; nosebleed relieves.

Fullness and heaviness in head.

Vertigo; the patient reels in walking.

Vertigo, on closing the eyes, everything around him seems to turn, he is then attacked with nausea.

Vertigo; on turning briskly he almost falls over.

Vertigo attacking him with a jerk in the head; he loses his senses for a moment.

Vertigo, accompanied with frequent eructations.

Vertigo, on looking down upon the floor, or on looking up.

Vertigo, in walking along a road in a plain, which is not enclosed on either side.

Vertigo, she appears to herself either too large or too small; other objects, like wise appear either too large or too small.

Vertigo resembling a swoon.

Vertigo, causing a loss of consciousness.

Inner Head

      Frontal headache, with sensation of weakness in forehead.

Headache by sweat at night.

Pain as if brain had not room enough in forehead, when rising in morning, a forcing outward; agg. after washing and eating.

Pressing headache in small spots in forehead and temples, agg. left side; feels intoxicated, stupid.

Morning headache, with pressing in forehead; stupefaction, staggering; eyes feels sore.

Sensation as from a heavy blow received on forehead awakens him; 1 A.M.

Surging, drawing and digging in forehead with vertigo.

Pain beginning over left eye and goes to right; agg. from hour to hour, then diarrhoea and nausea, finally bloody vomiting; dizziness, obliges her to lie down; blur, and blue stars before eyes; veins of temples much distended; day before headache inordinate appetite; also during first hours of pain; agg. and brought on by change of weather, so that even in middle of night she is awakened by pain and always knows there has been a change; soreness of stomach, sensitive to touch and pressure of clothes; catamenia regular.

Headache preceded by: flickering before eyes; dimness of sight or spots; spectres; objects dancing before eyes, black spots or rings.

Headache from repelled eruption.

Pressing headache, especially unilateral.

Cramp like contractive headache.

Like hammers striking head from within outward; all through head as from a hammer. Fullness of head during mental labor.

Fullness in vertex as if brain would burst, with formication in head, followed by heavy sleep.

Pain in back of head as if sprained; pressure in right side of occiput as if luxated.

Pain from right to left as if a piece of wood was laid on back of head.

Is always very hungry during headaches.

Congestion of blood to head immediately after dinner.

Great congestion of brain, relieved nosebleed.

Congestion to head, heat, awakened at night stupefied; could not recollect; after sitting still awhile had to rise to collect his senses.

Congestion to head, cheeks and nose red and hot; eruption on face reddens; great anxiety every afternoon after dinner. Fifth month of pregnancy.

Vertigo: reeling while walking.

Vertigo: when closing the eyes, everything seems to turn around with him; he is at the same time seized with nausea.

Vertigo: on turning around briskly, he almost falls over.

Vertigo, as if there was a jerk in the head, which causes a momentary loss of consciousness.

Vertigo with frequent eructations.

Vertigo even when only looking down on the level ground, or when looking upward.

Vertigo while walking on a road not enclosed on either side; in an open plain.

Vertigo: she seems to herself now too large, now too small, or other objects have this appearance to her.

Vertigo: resembling a swoon.

Vertigo, passing over into unconsciousness.

Dizziness; inability to think or to perform mental labor.

Her thoughts are not under her control.

She is at times quite without thought (sits lost in thought).

The open air causes dizziness and drowsiness in the head.

Everything at times seems dark and black before his eyes, while walking or stooping, or when raising himself from a stooping posture.

Rush of blood to the head.

Heat in the head (and in the face).

A cold pressure on the top of the head.

Headache, a dull pain in the morning immediately on waking up, or in the afternoon when walking rapidly or speaking loudly.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.