Fear Of Death



Fear of going crazy: of evil spirits: of being taken by the devil.

Dreams of ghosts, of apparitions.

(Aversion to work: bashful: timid.)

Thought vanishes: forgets from minute to minute what she wishes to do.

A case. She had a terror of insanity; if heard of a case, nearly went crazy with fear. Set apart: neglected her duties:: said nothing. Lost appetite, flesh and colour. No interest in anything– only consumed with her fear.

Pulsatilla and Ignatia were useless. Then for the strong mental, Mancinella was given and quickly cured. Later, on the first slight sign of recurrence (two or three times only in some twenty years), Mancinella put her right promptly.

Onosmodium [Onos]

      Something terrible going to happen, and powerless to prevent it.

Fear to look down, lest she fall downstairs (Gelsemium).

Fear that he might fall into the fire when walking by it, and spite of his will power, he did stagger into the fire.

Wants to think, and thinks till she forgets everything and where she is.

Stramonium [Stram]

      Fears: he will loses his senses: that his lips will grow together: of suffocation: of falling: of everything falling on her (comp. Argentum nit.).

Frightful fancies: face expresses fright and terror (Aconite, Opium, Lac caninum).

Sees more horrifying images at his side than in front of him, and they all occasion terror.

Sees frightful figures, cats, rats, mice, dogs (Belladonna, Abs.). Springs away with signs of terror.

Delirium of fear as though a dog were attacking him (Veratrum, comp. Belladonna).

Asked her mother not to leave her, as something was going to hurt her (Valer., comp. Arnica).

Mania for light and company: cannot be alone.

Hydrophobia (Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Lyssin, Agave).

Child wakes terrified, knows to one, screams with fright, clings to those near (Calcarea).

Imagines he is alone all the time: tries to escape (Belladonna). Is afraid. (See p.14.).

Lyssin [Lyss]

      Fear of becoming mad.

Fear that he cannot physically endure his fears much longer.

Something terrible going to happen to him.

Fear of being alone.

Restlessness and anxiety at precordia (Medorrhinum, Rhus), frequent change of position and sighing.

Frightened at a bird: thought it was a mouse.

When he hears water (Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Stramonium, etc.). poured out, or hears it run, or sees it, becomes irritable and nervous: it causes desire for stool and other ailments.

Thinking of fluids, even of blood, brings on convulsions.

Symptoms brought on by dread and fear.

Dreams. Of influential persons to whom he is a servant or subordinate.

Of a Latin debate with law students: astonished at the facility and fluency with which he has spoken Latin: far greater than was possible to him when awake (comp. Ignatia, Nux).

Of dogs all the time (Belladonna, Stramonium).

Of fighting: of high places: of insane asylum: of churches.

Exciting dreams: frightful dreams. (See p. 10.).

Cannabis indica [Cann-i]

      Constant fear of becoming insane (Manc., etc.).

Horror of darkness: of approaching death (Arnica).

Dread of congestion: of apoplexy, haemorrhage, and a multiplicity of deaths.

Dare not use his voice, lest he should knock down the walls, or burst himself like a bomb.

Dreams: delightful: delicious: prophetic:

Or, of danger and dead bodies. (See p.28.).

Lilium tigrinum [Lil-t]

      Tormented about her salvation (Lachesis).

Fear: disease incurable : that symptoms denote an internal organic disease that nobody understands.

Fear insanity: heart disease: incurable.

Frightful, laborious dreams (Rhus).

Frantic hurry–walks fast (Argentum nit.). (See p.23.).

Argentum nitricum [Arg-n]

      Apprehension of some serious disease.

Apprehension; when ready to go to church or opera, diarrhoea sets in (Gelsemium, comp. Pulsatilla).

Examination funk (Aethusa).

Fear, or thinking, brings on diarrhoea.

Fears to be alone, as he thinks he will die.

Fear in passing a certain corner or building that he will drop down and create a sensation: is relieved by going in another direction.

Tormented with anxiety: faint with anxiety when walking, which makes him walk faster.

Nervous when walking: will have a fit, or die suddenly.

Dizzy and staggers at sight of high houses: seems as if the houses both sides of the road would approach and crush him.

Often wakes his wife or child to have someone to talk to.

“Lost beyond hope for this world.”

Horrible Dreams: sees departed friends, ghosts: dreams of putrid water: of serpents, which fill him with horror (Lac caninum, Bell, etc.).

Dreams: hungry: wakes with violent spasm, hunger, nausea and flatulence. Typically, loves salt; sweats, which disagree. (See p. 23.).

Digitalis [Dig]

      Great anxiety; as from a troubled conscience.

Tortured by fear of death, or loss of reason.

Fear of the future: with desire to escape (Belladonna).

Dreams: frequent waking at night by dreams of falling down from a height (Thuja) or into water.

Chelidonium [Chel]

      Imagines she cannot think, and will lose her reason (Calcarea, etc.): that she must die (Aconite, etc.)

That he has committed the unpardonable sin, and will be eternally lost (Medorrhinum, etc.). (P. Ii.)

As if she had committed a crime (Opium, Rob., Chelidonium); fear of going crazy with restlessness and heat.

Dreams: corpses: funerals (Calcarea, Thuja, etc.).

Vivid dreams of business matters (Bryonia, Psorinum).

Dreams of great ice (Nux) on her shoulders.

Dreams: pneumonia, falling, bloody wounds, being killed, being buried alive (Arnica, Ignatia).

Unreality: Agonies Of Fear.

Medorrhinum [Med]

      Everything startles her: news coming seems to touch her heart before she hears it (compare Rhus, Psorinum).

Woke with frightened sensation, as if something dreadful had happened.

Fear of the dark. Sensation of unreality (Valer., Cicuta, Alumina, Cann. ind., Lac caninum, Lilium tigr., Staphysagria).

Had committed the unpardonable sin and was going to hell (Chelidonium).

Dreadful Dreams of ghosts, dead people. (See p. Ii.).

Thuja [Thuj]

      Fearful anxiety, like death agony: a nameless internal ache, as if the soul were escaping from the body, with most terrible uneasiness.

Constantly tormented by groundless anxiety.

Constant anxiety as if he had committed great crime (Arsenicum, Rob., Ignatia). Fear of misfortune.

Frightful anxiety at night (Aconite, Arsenicum, etc.).

Fear of apoplexy: with anxious perspiration.

Terrible Dreams of the dead.

When asleep, dead persons appear to her; distinctly sees them, feels them (Elaps): thinks she is talking with them.

Constant dreams of the features of a corpse. Especially useful after vaccinations, or inoculations.

Voluptuous dreams. Dreams of danger and death. Of falling from a height. (See p.27.).

Valeriana [Valer]

      Fearfulness in the evening when sitting in the dark, imagining that someone might hurt him (Stramonium, Arnica).

Anxiety as if objects round him had been estranged from him: rooms seem to him desolate: does not feel at home, is impelled to leave it (Medorrhinum, comp. Cicuta). (See p. 25.).

Cicuta [Cic]

      Everything appears strange: almost terrible.

Feels in a strange place (Valer.) which causes fear. Sensation of unreality (see Medorrhinum).

Old men fear long spell of sickness before dying.

Afraid of society: wants to be alone.

Thinks himself a young child: likes childish toys.

Disposition to be frightened. (See p. 22.).

Calcarea carb. [Calc]

      “Calcarea has every kind of fear.”

Concern about imaginary things that might happen to her.

Anxiety, as he he had done evil, or ought to apprehend reproaches. (See. Cocc., p. 39.)

Great anxiety with palpitation.

Uneasiness of mind. Fearful and uneasy, as if some accident or misfortune were to happen to himself, or someone else (Arsenicum, Phosphorus, Sulphur). As if expecting sad news. Dread and anxiety for the future.

Fear of consumption.

Fears to lose her reason. (See pp. 34, 35.)

Fears lest people should observe her confusion of mind. That they look at her suspiciously.

Fear of disease and misery, with foreboding.

Despairs of life; imagines she must die (Aconite, etc.); despairs of salvation (Lachesis, etc.): wants to stab himself.

Fear about health: of an organic heart disease: that something terrible with happen.

Fear of death: consumption: that she has some fatal disease (Lilium tigrinum); misfortune; being alone.

Child afraid of everything it sees.

Fear excited by report of cruelties.

Easily frightened: tendency to start.

Night-terrors in children (has cured many cases).

When closing eyes, horrid visions.

Dreams. Horrible, frightful: of sickness, death and corpses; smell of corpses (comp. Thuja).

Fear of fantastic dreams during sleep.

Voluptuous dreams.

Mercurius sol.[Merc]

      Anxiety and apprehension in the blood.

As if he had committed a crime; done wrong. (Rob.).

As though he had no control over his senses.

Fearful Dreams: of falling from a height (Thuja): of robbers (Arsenicum, Nat. mur., etc.) of shooting : of a flood.

Excessive sweating; at night. (See p. 17.).

Ruta [Ruta]

      Anxious as if he had done something wrong.

If anyone opened the door, feared someone had come to arrest him (Arsenicum).

Cocculus indica Overpowered with the most frightful fearfulness.

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