Aconite [Acon]
Terror, Anxiety. Agonizing fear:-of death.
Frantic with pain (Chamomilla).
Palpitation with great anxiety.
Inconsolable anxiety and piteous howling.
Complaints sand reproaches about trifles.
Pains are intolerable; drive him crazy (Chamomilla).
Restlessness, agony, internal anxiety: does things in great haste. Must move often.
Screams at slightest touch: screams with the pain (Coloc. Mag phos.). Cannot bear light.
Slightest noise intolerable: music intolerable, goes through every limb.
Excessive tendency to be startled. Extremely cross.
Clairvoyant. Predicts the day of his death.
Bids friends good-bye.
Fear of some misfortune happening to him.
Remote effects of fear, fright; (esp. jaundice): (but jaundice from a fit of anger, Chamomilla).
Ailments from shock; fright: exposure to cold dry winds; operation. (See p.29.).
Arsenicum [Ars]
“Intense Anxiety: Restlessness: Prostration: with Burnings.”
“Anxiety with fear; impulse; suicidal inclinations; with sudden freaks: with mania.”
Weary of life: loathes it: wants to die.
A remedy of suicidal tendencies (Aurum, but Aurum has not the restlessness of Arsenicum).
Fear: alone; things will injure him (Arnica) if alone.
Dread of death when alone, or going to bed.
Worst sufferings from 1 to 2 a.m. and p.m.: after midnight: from midnight on.
Melancholy: dread of death when alone: “going to die and wants someone with him.”
Despair of recovery – after midnight.
“Anxiety as of one who has committed a murder” (Rob., Chelidonium, Thuja). Officers coming to arrest him.”
Fear that something terrible is going to happen.
Very chilly. Very particular: “The gentleman with the gold- headed cane.”
Fastidious: exacting : fault-finding: violent. (See p.31.).
