MERCURIUS



1065. The night sleep is only a sort of dazedness; he tosses about as if the bed-clothes were a burden to him, and constantly wakes up.

He cannot sleep on the right side, for his bowels are painful as if pressed.

Sleep interrupted by starting up in fright, palpitation of the heart and terrified fancies (e.g. as if he dreaded an epileptic attach).

Nocturnal sleep with open mouth, without snoring, but frequent tossing about in bed, as if he could get no rest (aft. 23 h.). [Lr.]

Too great disposition to sleep, sleeps too long and too soundly.[Fr. H-n.]

1070. Great sleepiness by day. [Fr. H-n. ]

He sleeps very much too long, for twelve hours, and would sleep longer, if some one did not wake him. [Htn.]

Day and night he falls asleep every instant, and wakes up again every minute, so that he was neither properly asleep nor properly awake. [Fr. H-n.]

Too long and too sound sleep. [Fr. H-n. ]

Too much sleep by day and night. [Fr. H-n. ]

1075. She can never get enough sleep; even in the afternoon about 3 o’clock her eyes close forcibly, so that she must sleep two or three hours in spite of herself [Fr. H-n.]

After midnight she cannot sleep soundly, and in the night she feels violent tensive pain in the left leg. [Fr. H-n.]

Much sleep by day, and at night sleeplessness. [Fr. H-n.]

Sleeplessness with extreme restlessness, anxiety and ill-feeling.

Along with extreme loss of strength and constant drowsiness he is unable to sleep.

1080. Sleeplessness and wakefulness at night until 3 a.m., and before getting to sleep perspiration (from 2 to 3 a.m.).

He cannot get to sleep before midnight and wakes quite earnly while it is still dark, with some perspiration.

He cannot get to sleep before 1 a..m. on account of wakefulnees.

He can only fall asleep late and with difficulty.

In the evening it is long before he can go to sleep.

1085. He cannot sleep before the lapse of two hours in the evening.

He wakes up every night from 2 to 4 a.m.

He cannot fall asleep, tosses about without knowing why, and in the morning he cannot get up for lassitude.

Tosses about in bed and cannot sleep till 1 a.m.

As soon as he goes to bed in the evening the pain returns prevents sleep.

1090. Just as he is about to fall asleep the pain becomes more severe, and he wakes up again.

He wakes up every night about 4 a.m. and must pass water.

He is late of falling asleep. [Fr. H-n.]

He can only go to sleep towards morning. [Fr. H-n. ]

He wakes up uncommonly easily at night. [Fr. H-n. ]

1095. In the night he wakes up and perspires only on the legs, from the knee to the foot, not on the thighs and feet; on uncovering the legs the perspiration goes off immediately. [Gss.]

(After two hours.) She wakes up from sleep about 11 o’clock, as from a fright, and howls aloud with tears for same minutes before she can come to herself and again become quiet. [Fr. H-n. ]

Frequent waking up from sleep as from fright. [Lr.]

Frequent waking as from noise. [Lr.]

Frequent waking from sleep, as from watchfulness (aft. 22 h.). [Lr.]

1100. He wakes up at night every quarter of an hour and does not dream.

At night, during his frequent awakings, stretching out the limbs.

He wakes very early and cannot go to sleep again, though he feels nothing the matter with him.

On going to sleep she starts up in a great fright, accompanied by a pain darting into her teeth and a severe stitch through the knee, with shivering.

Frequent waking from sleep, as if he had already slept enough, with much tossing about in bed. [Lr.]

1105. She often starts up in sleep and throws her arms up. [Fr. H-n.]

Restless sleep. [Fr. H-n.]

Very restless sleep, broken by frequent waking up. [Lr.]

Many dreams. [Fr. H-n. ]

Much delirious talking in sleep. [Fr. H-n.]

1110. Could not sleep in the evening owing to frightful visions.[Hbg.]

In sleep groaning, whining, talking, with very rapid breathing and coldness of hands (but not of feet) (aft. 2 h.).

Much anxiety and ebullition in the blood at night, and shooting in the blood-vessels.

Restless night with heat; half awake, he imagines he hears thieves breaking in.

Has almost no sleep, is afraid to go to sleep.

1115. Sleep; but when he wakes all goes round in his head; sleep is more disagreeable than pleasant to him.

Before midnight, soon after going-to sleep, anxiety in sleep, he started up in a fright, and was anxious until he woke completely up.

He passes the greater part of the night in waking and dreaming.

Agreeable dreams, after midnight.( Probably curative effect, after a previous opposite state.)

A number of historical dreams at night.

1120. Anxious dreams with palpitation of the heart, and yet he cannot awake.

Frightful dreams at night, as if he fell from a height.

Restless nights, dreams of highwaymen.

Vivid dreams of the days’s occupations; he does not dream at all when well. [Htn. ]

Anxious dreams (e.g. of having swallowed a needle), from which she does not wake up completely. [Fr. H-n.]

1125. Anxious dreams: of being bitten by a dog, of getting up a revolution, after midnight. [Gn.]

Vivid, agreeable and disagreeable dreams. [Lr.]

She dreams that people are before the window, and on being woke up thereby cannot be persuaded, that they were not there. [Fr. H-n.]

Dreams of danger from water.

Frightful dreams about shooting.

1130. Frightful dreams, in which he started up; he imagined he was not in his own house, sat up in bed and spoke about a distant village.[Hbg]

Vivid dreams, but which he cannot remember. [Gn.]

Vivid, unremembered dreams. [Lr.]

Amorous dreams and erection of penis, without seminal emission, the second night. [Gn.]

Yawning. [Fr. H-n.]

1135. Much yawning. [Fr. H-n.]

Frequent yawning, as if he had not slept enough. [Lr.]

Much thirst. [Fr. H-n]

He wants to drink constantly. [Fr. H-n.]

He wants to drink constantly. [Fr. H-n.]

Thirst for water (towards evening). [Fr. H-n.]

1140. Much thirst day and night. [Fr. H-n.]

Excessive thirst for ice-cold water. [Fr. H-n.]

Violent thirst for cold drinks, particularly for fresh water.[Lr.]

Extraordinarily intense thirst. [Fr. H-n.]

Rigor over the whole body, without heat and thirst, in every positton. [Lr.]

1145. He feels chilly when walking out in the open air.[Fr. H-n.]

She is more chilly in the open air than in the room, although the temperature was the same. [Fr. H-n.]

In the morning and evening chilliness all over the body; he shivers. [St f. ]

Constantly cold hands and feet. [Hbg.]

Coldness and cold feeling, and chilliness and shaking with blueness of the body, all day; at the same time she must cower forwards. [Fr. H-n. ]

1150. He is chilly, and cold runs over him, but chiefly over the hands; behind the ears there is dry heat. [Htn.]

Cold feet in the evening in bed after lying down.

Chilliness in the back with heat of both ear lobes. [ Rl. ]

In the morning on awaking chillness in bed.

Shivering in the morning in bed.

  1. Internal chilliness, also in the morning in bed.

In the morning, immediately on rising chilliness and shivering.

In the forenoon internal chilliness of the whole body.

In the morning chilliness, and towards noon heat.

After the midday sleep chilliness.

1160. Chilliness towards evening; the more he seeks to warm himself at the stove the more chilly he felt.

In the morning in bed, and in the evening in bed, chilliness.

Shivering in bed in the evening, for half an hour, not followed by heat.

Chilliness in the evening after lying down in bed.

In the evening in bed, for half an hour, chilliness in the whole body under the skin.

1165.Chilliness in the evening in bed until midnight, than heat with violent thirst.

In the evening severe rigor; he is thrown tip by it high in bed (at the same time subsultus of the tendo Achilles and of the common flexor tendons of the toes).

At the beginning of the night, chiefly chilliness, then alternate chill and heat.

Febrile attacks, particularly at night.

Icy cold hands.

1170. Chilliness all over, with icy cold hands.

Chilliness, as if splashed over with cold water.

He feels chilly in all his limbs, like severe catarrhal fever; he must lie down.

After the chill trembling of all the limbs.

Thirst by day.

1175.Shivering, intermingled with frequent flying heat.

Shivering from above downwards, on the slightest movement; in the intervals attacks of heat.

Severe chilliness from the nose and eyes to the occiput, with external tearing pain before midnight when lying in bed.[Fr. H-n.]

At 9 p.m. chilliness all over and all night, at the same time urinating every hour, and whilst lying in slumber involuntary twitching, jerking and tossing about of head, arms and legs. [Fr. H-n.]

In the evening in bed violent shivering front cold; she cannot get warm. [Hbg.]

1180.Slow weak pulse.

Quick strong beating of all the pulses.

Pulse of double quickness.

Along with heat in the face chilliness of the whole body.

He is chilly internally, with heat of face and burning sensation in the cheeks.

1185. Sometimes heat in the face, sometimes shivering.

Chill alternating with heat in head and face.

Fever: at first heat and redness in the face and hot feeling in the whole body, especially in the interior of the hands, without externally perceptible warmth alternating with internal chilliness, which compels him to lie down, a rigor even into the night, and along with, this rigor hot feeling in the palms of the hands, with icy cold finger tips.

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.