Crot. horridus [Crot-h]
Loquacity with desire to escape (Bell, etc.) from bed.
Stupid: cannot express herself. Makes ridiculous mistakes.
Torpid: sluggish: incoherent:hesitating.
Snappish temper.
Sticta pulmonaria (Lung wort) [Stict]
Great desire to talk about anything and everything–whether anyone listens or not: feels cannot keep her tongue still (Lachesis)
Felt light and airy: legs as if floating in air (Valer., Phosphorus ac.).
(Ancient remedy for larynx, chest, rheumatism.).
Veratrum viride [Verat-v]
Loquacity (Lachesis, Sticta, Crot. h., etc.), with exaltation of ideas (comp. Lachesis).
Exalted opinion of her ideas and powers (Platina).
Everything seems clear: clearly understands formerly mysterious things.
Wants no medicine, as that may restore her former condition.
Talks: laughs: pays no attention to what is said to her. Will not answer questions: nothing must be said that she cannot hear.
Characteristic tongue, white or yellow, with red streak down middle, or no coating sides.
Platina [Plat]
“Represents the woman’s perverted mind.”
Arrogant proud, contemptuous, haughty.
Over-estimates herself. Contemptuous.
Feels Tall: other people and things small, and persons physically and mentally inferior.
“The prim old maid gone insane.”
Any disturbance to pride brings on symptoms.
Fears death and loathes life.
Amativeness: madness: hysteria.
Characteristic, Numbness with pain (Chamomilla). (See p. 43.).
Atropinum [Atro]
Rambling speech: fits of idiotic laughter.
Spectral illusions. Speaks with imaginary beings. In talking, has to stop and ask what she is talking about.
Says her blood does not circulate.
“Feet must be in hot water or she will die.”.
