Anxiety during thunderstorm (Phosphorus, Sepia): worse from music. (See p.4.).
Sepia [Sep]
Filled with concern about health: thinks she will have consumption and die (comp. Calcarea).
Fearfulness: dare not be alone for a moment.
Very fearful and frightened.
Fear of real and imaginary evils: evening.
Afraid to speak, or to be spoken to.
Fearful when riding in carriage (comp. Cocc.).
Fear of starvation (Arsenicum): full of evil forebodings. Total loss of courage.
Anxious Dreams as if body were disfigured. As if threatened with rape: voluptuous dreams.
As if chased and had to run backwards
Frightful dreams of murder: falling from high mountain (Thuja). Dreams full of dispute.
Of urinating into chamber, but was wetting the bed (Sulphur, comp. Psorinum, Lac caninum).
Of mice, rats, snakes (Belladonna, Lac caninum).
Of spectres outside the window.
Awakes screaming: imagines she has swallowed something; feels it lodged in her throat. (P. 8.).
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Dread of men (Aurum, Natrum carb., Platina, Pulsatilla); of solitude (Arsenicum, etc.).
Easily frightened, starts up. Feels frightened at everything, even ringing of the door bell.
Fear lest something should happen: lest he should forget something.
Very fearful all day: fear of going to bed: on entering a room as if he saw someone: seized with fear if a door opens with difficulty.
Of frightful imaginary images in the evening.
Increasing dread of appearing in public, yet a horror at times of solitude.
Fear of appearing in public, lest he stumble and make mistakes: yet gets through with ease.
Anticipation (Argentum nit., Gelsemium, Arsenicum, Silicea, Thuja).
Dreams anxious: vivid: frightful: horrid. Of sickness: people drowning; boats capsizing.
Wakes cross: or terrified.
Children scream out suddenly in sleep: stare about and cannot be pacified (Calcarea). (See p. 2.).
Kali carb. [Kali-c]
Fears about her disease: that she cannot recover.
Frightened if anything touches the body lightly.
Shocks are felt in epigastrium. (See p.17.).
Phosphorus [Phos]
Anxious: filled with gloomy forebodings :–
“About to die”: about the future: during a thunderstorm. Fear of the dark.
Fear and dread: in the evening (Calcarea, Camph., Pulsatilla): of death (pp. 29, 30): something were creeping out of every corner: a horrible face looking out of every corner.
Uncommon fearfulness with great fatigue.
Fear; anguish when alone, or stormy weather.
After excitement at theatre: sleepless; then full of fear, especially at piano.
Dreams, vivid: of restless work and business (Bryonia, Psorinum, Rhus) which he could not finish.
Of fire (Stramonium, etc.): of biting animals (Mercurius, Stramonium, Pulsatilla, etc.); lascivious.
After a great fright 2 years before, involuntary stool and urine, especially at night; was always wet and dirty.
When threatened with a whipping would immediately soil himself from fright.
(One of the curious symptoms of Phosphorus, anus stands open, i.e., incontinence of faeces.)
(N.B.–Hyoscyamus has involuntary stool from jealousy; verified in a cured case.) (See p.4.).
Pulsatilla [Puls]
When evening comes he begins to dread ghosts.
Sleeplessness on account of great fear. Fear and rage in spells. Despairs of salvation.
Forebodings: anxiety from epigastrium.
Hides in a corner to escape from a little grey man who wanted to pull out her leg.
Abhors and hates women (Raph.). He looks upon them as evil beings and is afraid…
Sees the devil coming to take her (Manc.): the world on fire during the night (Rhus).
Afraid of everybody…. Cannot sleep on account of fear and dread. Dread of people.
Fright followed by diarrhoea (Argentum nit., Gelsemium).
Anxiety worse during rest– sitting, lying; better by motion.
Dreams. Confused. Full of fright and disgust.
All her dreams are about men: a naked man wrapped in her bed clothes under her bed, while she has only a sheet to cover her. (See p.7.).
Iodum [Iod]
Peculiar anxiety; with a thrill that goes through body, unless he removes it by motion and change of position. The more he tries to keep still, the worse the anxious state (comp. Pulsatilla).
While attempting to keep still is overwhelmed with impulses–to tear things–to kill himself–to commit murder.
Attacks come on at most unexpected times.
Violent palpitation drives him out of bed.
Worse by quiet and meditation: must be in action, in some laborious occupation.
Feels some dreadful thing is coming on (Lycopodium).
A doctor described his experiences after taking Iodine:–his unbearable apprehension;–how he awaited in terror an expected telephone ring:–his indescribable restlessness and apprehension; for no cause.
And numbers of persons are taking “iodized salt”– and other iodized preparations–with the idea,” Iodine is good for you” A doctor wrote recently to the British Medical Journal protesting against the universal use of iodine–for wounds, etc. He had seen the harm it can do.
One patient, afraid of goitre, are iodized salt– till she produced one.
Aurum [Aur]
Apprehensiveness: full of fear: a mere noise at the door makes him anxious (comp. Lycopodium).
Fearfulness: a longing for death.
Dread of men (Lycopodium, etc.): anxiety and dread.
Characteristically, Aurum is suicidal.
Feels that he is not fit for this world: that he can never succeed: that he is irretrievably lost: thought of death gives him intense joy.
Dreamed a great deal of death.
Dreaming of the dead and corpses (Thuja, Elaps, etc.). Anxious dreams, full of disputes.
Frightful dreams about thieves (Arsenicum, Nat. mur.), falling from a height (Thuja). (See p. 9.).
Drosera. [Dros]
Anxiety at 7-8 p.m., as if impelled to take his life by drowning (Belladonna, Helleborus, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, etc.).
Anxiety as if his companions allowed him no rest, but persecuted and pursued him.
Dreams frightful: of being maltreated: of thirst, and drinking. (See p. 9.).
