Oxytropis Lamberti [Oxyt]
Some men, like Hawkes, Gee and others, contend that the loco weed Oxytropis Lamberti is a remedy for idiocy. It is the weed that has given rise to the term, familiar among cattle men in the west, of locoed, as cattle, horses, mules, etc., eating it, get in that condition. Dosage, 1x, or, possibly higher or lower.
Warm water It is claimed that all cases of insanity or of mild mental derangement are greatly improved by reasonably prolonged baths in comfortably warm water.
Cimicifuga [Cimic]
This was picked up from Dr. Carl Williams. In effect: When after child-birth you have a mother who has gone off into mania put 20 drops of Cimicifuga race. 0 into a partly filled tumbler of water and give her a teaspoonful dose every two hours. It will generally right things, though there are occasional cases where you will have to give, intercurrently, Hyoscyamus.
Phosphorus [Phos]
When the patient sees faces looking out of the corner of the room, or other places, in the dusk, Phosphorus 30 may help.
This field is too vast for a superficial book like this. Also, insanity is too little known. Start out to find out what sanity is! The insane man once said in answer to a question, Why are you here? Replied that the world was too many for him. He was sane in his own notion of things. So are we. The African tribes, they say, think the insane know more than the rest of the tribe and the let them alone. It is a murky subject.
