Anxiety — Comparative Materia Medica
Points | Ailments From | Manifestations | Modalities |
Arsenicum Album |
Grief; Fright;
Fits of passion
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Anxiety about health; Fastidious and fussy; Panic attacks; Dependence; Careful; Fear of death; Fear of cancer and heart diseases; Despair of recovery; Fear when alone |
< mid-day and mid-night
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Calcarea
Carbonica
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Mental strain;
Fright
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Needs security (will stay at home, which is more familiar than hospital); Overwhelmed; Seeks protection; Night terrors; Philosophise life after death; Needs support; Anxiety about health; Fear of disease; Despair of recovery; Overburdened; Duty and responsibility; Confused; Fear of cancer, infections and Tb; Despair of recovery; Anxiety about after life; Easily frightened |
< after midnight, early morning, new and full moon, mental exertion
> rubbing
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Carcinosinum |
Prolonged history of suppression of:
Anger; Apprehension; Irritability; Fear; Fright; Unhappiness
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Guilt feeling (anxiety of conscience); Skip God (blame God); Refuses to be controlled; Delusions self sacrifice; Sentimental; Sympathetic; Romantic; Domination aggravates; Desire to travel; Loves dancing; Loves animals; Destructive |
< domination, while thinking of complaints, when alone and from consolation
> sea side, company and while occupied
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Phosphorus | Anger; Fear; Grief; Worry; Mental exertion; Strong emotions | Loquacious; Amative; Apathetic; Unpleasant impressions quickly prostrates; Impressionable; Physician dependent; Re-assurable; Gullible; Disgust of life; Fears disease; Fears death; Fears something bad will happen; Fears calamity; Fears alone; Spacey; Apathetic |
< physical or mental exertion, music
> rubbing and in the dark
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Pulsatilla |
Grief; Mortification;
Sorrow; Suppressed menses
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Wants to please; Cannot refuse anything, but gives to receive; Places responsibility on others; Can be manipulative to get attention; Forsaken; Craves consolation; Fanatic; Rigid, religious ideas; Excessive praying; Calm but changeable; Demanding (can be manipulative to get attention); Timid; Malleable; Consolation ameliorates; Needs reassurance; Emotional; Tearful |
< Evening and night, crying = sulky
> Consolation
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Psorinum |
Mental labour; Suppression of skin diseases; Anticipation; Emotional excitement; Mental etiologies; Loss of wealth, property and relationship
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Anxious while riding in a carriage; Nature: Anxious, lachrymal, fearful, suicidal; Disposition: Anxious, hopeless, restless; Religioius melancholy; Hopelesslness; Fears he will die or fail in his business; Take sorriest view of every thing; Despair of salvation and recovery; Depression: Likes to be alone; Fears poverty; Fears not being loved; Fears failure; Fears cancer; Fears health; Lack of will power; Lack of positive thoughts (pessimistic); Lack of energy; Lack of life impulse; Lack of ambition; Lack of hope |
< Emotions, before thunderstorm, during full moon, periodically
> Lying down
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Apathy — Lesser Known Comparative Materia Medica
Points | Ailments From | Manifestations | Modalities | Associated Symptoms |
Potency of
Choice
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Anacardium | Overexertion of mind; Involvement in stress; Work for examination | Nerve exhaustion from over-study and sexual excesses; Imparied emory; Depression; Diminution of senses; Lacks self-confidence; Aversion to work; Brain fag; Loss of memory |
< Morning, 4 p.m.
Headache > by lying down (Ref. Clarke), eating and rubbing
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Heart-shaped nut ->courage imparting properties -> examination funk; Paralytic weakness; Swollen fingers; Cramps | 30C and 200C |
Avena
Sativa
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Workaholics; Overexertion of body and mind; Involvement in business; Studies | Exhaustion and debility; Nervous palpitations; Masturbation; Impotency; Sexual debility with mental restlessness; Physical debility after exhaustive diseases; Emotional; Memory weakness; Absent minded; Neurasthenic -> Nerve tremors -> Strength of hands diminished; Tired and exhausted, but cannot sleep; Sleeplessness especially of alcoholics; Neurasthenia of workaholics; Nerve weakness (+++) -> Nervous exhaustion Absent mindedness |
< Concentration
> Rest
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Exhaustion and debility: Inability to keep mind calm -> nervous headache; Nervous tremors -> neurasthenia; Chorea; Numbness of extremities | 30C and 200C |
Kali Phosphoricum | Excitement; Worry; Overwork; Sexual excitement (suppressed); Mechanical injuries | Emotional debility; Forgetful; Absent minded; Depression; Neurasthenia; Lethargy -> indisposition to meet people; Numbness and tingling; Disinclined to converse |
< Excitement, worry, mental and physical exertion, 3–5 A.M., noise
> Nourishment, rest, day light (nervousness >), lying down; warmth, eating (occipital headache >)
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Debility: Muscles and Nerves ->paralytic weakness; Craves ice cold water; Craves vinegar; Craves sweets; Sensitiveness (+++) to all impressions; Nervous and restless; Startles easily; Anxiety; Weak memory (brain fag); Suspiciousness; Home-sickness; Tearful; Fearful; Suited to pale sensitive and irritable persons | 6x tablets (4 tablets in ½ cup of luke warm water -> 8 hourly ->S.O.S. ->as and when required -> stop as soon as the improvement ensues) |
Phosphoric Acid | Loss of vital fluids; Ravages of acute diseases; Long succession of moral emotions; Disappointed affection; Grief; Sorrow; Sexual excesses; Over indulgence; Over study; Over lifting; Bad nerve; Chagrin; Separation from home; Shock |
Mental debility followed by physical debility; Trembling -> stumbles easily; Chest weak; Delirium -> stupor; Sexual debility ->lack of erection; Pale sickly complexion
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< Music (Ref. Clarke), evening, mental affections, warm room, mental and physical
exertion, from being talked to, sexual excess
> Short sleep, from keeping warm
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Though every discharge debilitate, but one drain that does not: non-debilitating diarrhoea; Sexual emission: most desire; Profound weakness, but short sleep > after; Haemorrhagic (passive, dark blood); Tall, slim and slender
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1x liquid (8 drops in ½ cup of luke warm water ->8 hourly -> S.O.S. -> as and when required -> stop as soon as the improvement ensues) |
Picric Acid | Fatigue; Study; Mental exertion; Overstudy; Concentration | Prostration: Mental: Lack of will power; Listless; Indifferent; Sits still without taking interest in anything; Mental exertion <; Least study = burning along spine and occipital headache; Brain fag; Muscular debility -> paralytic weariness (in ultimate stage); Prostration — Physical: Heavy tired feeling; Neurasthenia: Nerve -> Brain fag; Neurasthenia: Muscular Heavy limbs |
< Motion, walking, from study, mental exertion, after sleep, wet weather
All complaints
< in summer
> Binding head tightly (headache >), open air, cold room
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Sexual ->hard erection (morbid excitement) ->as if the penis would burst -> profuse emission -> exhaustion and backache; Mental, muscular and sexual weakness; Backache; Headache | 30 C |
Zinc
Valeriana
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Grief; Anger; Fright; Night watching; Suppression of eruptions and discharges
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Features of Zincum:
Fag; Fidgety; Nervousness; Nerve affections
Features of Valeriana:
Hysteric manifestation; Hyperaesthesia; Spasms and cramps; Sleeplessness
|
< Rest, evening, night, warm room (of Zincum)
< Before midnight (cannot sleep before midnight) [of Valeriana]
> Emissions (of Zincum)
> Rubbing (of Valeriana)
> After sleep (of Valeriana)
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Spasm ->sleep -> insomnia; Sleepless and restless; fidgety; nerve -> neuralgia | 6x triturations (¼ tea-spoon in ½ cup of luke warm water -> 8 hourly -> S.O.S. -> as and when required -> stop as soon as the improvement ensues) |
Depression — Comparative Materia Medica
Points | Ailments from | Manifestations | Modalities |
Aurum Met | Disappointed love; Reserved displeasure; Grief; Anger; Drug and alcohol abuse; Business humiliations | Suicidal: constantly dwells (+++) -> brooding; Speeding; Jumping from height; Quarrelsome; Depressed; Hasty (cannot do things fast enough); Sets high standards when fails devastated; Fears: height, heart would stop beating | < Winter, music, silence, when plans or thinks or suicide |
Carcinosin |
Prolonged history of suppression of:
(a) Anger,
(b) Apprehension,
(c) Irritability,
(d) Fear and fright,
(e) Unhappiness
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Sensitive and soft; Unfulfilled; Reckless; Rebellious; Destructive; Loves traveling and excitement |
< Domination, while thinking of complaints, when alone, consolation
> Sea side, company and while occupied.
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Natrum Mur | Disappointed love; Grief; Rejection; Humiliation; Betrayal | Closed and withdrawn; Defensive and resentful (on the guard); Difficult to forgive; Loneliness and introverted; Sensitive | < From consolation |
Acid Phos. | Grief; Sorrow; Disappointment of love; Embarrassment and humiliation; Home sickness | Mental debility: Indifference, listless, apathetic; Stupefied with grief; Difficult comprehension; Withdrawn socially — dislike to talk | < From mental affections |
Psorinum | Emotional excitement and anticipation; Loss of wealth and relationship | Anxious and quarrelsome; Pessimistic; Suicidal; Depressed: Hopeless; Introvert; Takes sorriest view of everything; Forgetful | < Full moon, periodic, before a storm |
Pulsatilla | Grief; Mortification; Sorrow; Suppressed menses |
Changeability; Weepy; Closed; Emotional; Demanding; Tender; Stubborn; Forsaken; Emotional and tearful; Demanding;
Bashful; Taciturn
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< Evening and night, from crying = sulky
> Consolation
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About the Author
Dr Subrata Kumar Banerjea graduated in Homeopathy with five gold medals to his name, setting himself on a path to become an internationally acclaimed homeopathic clinician, lecturer and author. He is now acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on miasmatic prescribing. He is an Honored Fellow of several academies; Director of Bengal Allen Medical Institute and Principal and Chief Lecturer of Materia Medica and Clinical Therapeutics at the Allen College of Homoeopathy, Essex, England.