Natrum mur. [Nat-m]
Easily weeps: grieves for no cause. Consolation aggravates- angers her. The remedy of unrequited affected, misplaced affections. (Cimic.: Natrum mur. is the chronic of Ignatia). See p. 41.).
Psorinum [Psor]
Sad: hopeless. All dark.
Business a failure: going to the poor-house.
Sinned away his day of grace (Stramonium, Lachesis).
No joy: despair of recovery. (See p.40.).
Sepia [Sepia]
Propensity to suicide from despair about his miserable existence. Resigned despair.
Aversion to ones occupation and family, great indifference to those they love best (Phosphorus).
Sad about health and domestic affairs; discontented with everything.
Did not care what happened: no desire to work: inattentive, absent-minded, indolent.
Causeless weepings (Nat. mur., Apis, Pulsatilla, Sul., etc.). Passionate. Irritable.
“Sepia seems to abolish the ability to feel natural love” (i.e. can restore it).
“Absence of all joy: things seem strange; no affection for the delightful things of life.”
Face shows no sharp lines of intellect.
Symptom-complex, “gnawing hunger, `dragging down,’ constipation and in difference.” (See p.44.).
Natrum sulph [Nat-s]
Depressed : tearful: music makes her sad.
Irritable in a.m., hates to speak or be spoken to.
Satiety of life: must use self-control to prevent shooting himself.
After injuries to head. With chronic lung affections, with green discharges. Hypersensitive to warm and Wet Cold.
N.B.- “Aurum, wants to kill himself: Nat. sul. wants not to.” Nat. sulph., lungs affected: Aurum, heart.
Nitric acid [Nit-ac]
Satiety of life with fear of death.
Anxious about his illness: thinks of his past troubles: mind weak and wandering.
Nervous: excitable: discontented with himself. Fits of rage, despair, cursing, maledictions. Typical Acid nitricum craves fats and salt.
