Hepar sulphur groups

From Hahnemann, Allen, Hering and Kent MM

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo, M.D., F.F.Hom. (Lon.)

 

With one´s surroundings

Kent: Ghostly image of one who was dead, in the morning, in bed, after waking and while conscious, which frightened him; it also seemed as though he saw his neighbor's house burning, which also frightened him, [1]. 

Frightful visions of fire and of dead persons. 
Frightful imaginings. 

Everything of which she only thought was disagreeable and not right, [1]. 

She remembers everything that has been unpleasant during her life, [1]. 

Depressed, sad, apprehensive, [1]. 

Anxious dreams of conflagrations, of falling from a precipice, etc, [1]. 

Dreams of danger, fright and anxiety, [1]. [670.] 

Dreams of flying from danger, [1]. 

Heavy dreams, after waking from which he still remains frightened, [1]. 

Dreams of hearing shooting, [1]. 

Dreams : anxious ; of fire. 

Dreams of broken windows two nights in succession, [5].

Heavy dreams, after waking from which he remains frightened, [1]. 

Peevish dreams, [1]. 

Dreams full of strife, [1]. 

Dream of the expectoration of blood and pus, [1]. 

Starts from sleep, feeling as if about to suffocate. 
Violent starts, Loss of sleep after midnight. 

With the others 

Violence

The slightest cause irritates him and makes him extremely vehement. 
Violent, passionate fretfulness; she spoke with such volubility that one could not always get a chance to reason with her, and she would not listen to the most just remarks. θ Affection of mind. 

Kent: Every little thing that disturbs the patient makes him intensely angry, abusive and impulsive. The impulses will overwhelm him and make him wish to kill his best friend in an instant. Impulses also that are without cause sometimes crop out in Hepar.

A man may have a sudden impulse to stab his friend. A barber has an impulse to cut the throat of his patron while in the chair. Mothers may have an impulse to throw the child into the fire or an impulse to set herself on fire; an impulse to do violence and to destroy. These symptoms increase to insanity and then the impulses are often carried out. It becomes a mania to set fire to things.

The patient is quarrelsome, hard to get along with; nothing pleases; everybody disturbs oversensitiveness to persons, to people and to places.

He desires a constant change of persons and things and surroundings and each new surrounding or person or thing again displeases and makes him irritated. 

Temper obstinate and cross, a ferocious spleen which would lead to cold blooded murder even among those habitually gay and benevolent. 
Wrathful irritability, even to most extreme violence, threatening to end in murder and arson. 
Extreme discontent, indisposition to everything. 
Peevish ; angry at least trifle.

The slightest thing made him break out into the greatest violence; he could have killed someone without hesitation, [1]. 

Violent, fretful, passionate; spoke with great volubility, would not listen to any remarks offered. θ Mind affection. 
On awaking, rushed home with frightful gestures, threatened to murder wife and children, attempted to set house on fire, and was with difficulty controlled; after being received in an asylum, sat in corner of room silent and motionless; urine and feces passed involuntarily; whole surface of body covered with scabious eruption; restless at night. θ Scabies. 
Malicious mood: feels as if he could murder someone with pleasure.

Fearful concerning sickness in the family, especially when walking alone in the open air, [1]. 

Contrary mood, he does not wish to see the members of his own family, [1]. [20.] 

Out of humor in the morning after rising, he will not speak; but he was happy in bed, [1]. 

Repulsive mood, with desire to be left alone. 
Child does not incline to play or to amuse itself in any way; does not laugh. 

With Oneself

He became completely depressed from stretching out upon the sofa, [1]. 

Discontented with himself, [1]. 

Extremely discontented and fretful about his pains, and discouraged, [1]. 

Desire for nothing, [1]. 

Depressed or irritable mood. 
Sad mood for hours; must cry vehemently. 
Low spirited, even to thoughts of suicide. 
Melancholy humor, cries bitterly ; unreasonably anxious. 
Impelled by unaccountable attacks of internal anguish, which sometimes come on quite 

suddenly, to attempt suicide. 
Violent fright on slumbering. 

Anxiety

Great anxiety and uneasiness in the whole body, with painful jerking up of the lower limbs, so that she was obliged to move them back and forth for several hours, after lying down, at 10 P.M.; two evenings in succession, [1]. 

Frightful anxiety for two hours in the evening; he believed that he would die, and was sad, even to suicide, [1]. [10.] 

Violent fright on slumbering, even after eating, [1]. 

Fretful and impatient, [1]. 

Extremely fretful and obstinate, [1]. 

Great anxiety in the evening. 

Irritable mood

Irritable mood; everything that she undertook was wrong; she desired to be alone (first day), [1]. 

Very irritable, every trifle fretted her, [1]. 

Peevish about trifles, [1]. 

Intelectual

She made mistakes easily when talking and writing, [1]. 

He was quite stupid, he could neither understand nor remember anything, [1]. 

The thoughts vanish suddenly while at his work, [1]. 

Great weakness of memory while peevish; he was obliged to think a long time about anything, [1]. 

Great weakness of memory with the irritability. 
 

Unconsciousness, with irrational talking, on being aroused during the chill, [10]. 

Frequent short attacks of unconsciousness when walking in the open air, [1]. 

After some time the patient lost consciousness perceptible pulse, sunken pale face, 

extremely cold skin and extremities, vomiting and diarrhœa, [11]. [30.] 

Dementia, with complete stupidity, sits silent and speechless in a corner. 
Delirious mutterings, with burning heat of body. 

So sleepy and fatigued, in evening, that he falls asleep while sitting. 
Great, irresistible inclination to sleep in evening; must lie down immediately after supper and sleeps till morning. 
Sleepiness during day, < toward evening, with frequent, almost spasmodic yawning. 
Restless, saporous slumber, with head bent backwards. 
Side on which he lies at night becomes painfully sore, must change his position. 
Fright during sleep. 
Starts from sleep, feeling as if about to suffocate. 
Violent starts, when falling asleep. 
Loss of sleep after midnight. 
Excess of thoughts prevent sleep, after midnight. 

Hypochondriasis.

Many dreams immediately on falling asleep and anxious the whole night, without waking, [1]. 

Anxious dreams, with sweat on the back, on waking, [1].