Understanding Natrum muriaticum

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

Following the methodological steps: what were his first impressions, at the very moment when he became aware of what was happening around him and within himself?

Child: refuses breast, has flabby scrotum, chills; constant fever, nursing sore mouth.

Great irritability; child irritable and cross when spoken to; crying from slightest cause. 


Want of memory, so that he thought his mother (who was present every hour) had died, because he did not remember seeing her. 

Why nursing was so painful to the child? His mouth become sore, he is screaming and crying and later on he will develop a difficulty to speak, something that will be a Nat-m. characteristic, a symptom throughout all of his life.

Child is slow in learning to talk on account of imperfect development of muscles of tongue and larynx.

Easily makes mistakes in talking, [1]. 

Absent-minded or distracted while talking; does not know what he ought to say; awkward in talking; easily makes mistakes. 


What had happened his first experiences, what will become his first memories?

Loss of memory; he remembers nothing of yesterday; thinks he has lost his reason 

Very weak memory; everything remains in his mind like a dream, [1]. 

Remarkable forgetfulness during the last part of the proving

Natrum mur. cannot keep in his memories what he saw, what he felt, what he had lived. He had lost all the very first impressions of early life. And our first impressions are our first contact with the world, through our relation with relatives.

And then comes his lost:

If she only thinks of a want long since past, tears come into her eyes. 

Always in his thoughts he seemed to seek for past unpleasant occurrences, in order to think them over, making himself morbid. 

Full of grief; he tormented himself; he seemed to prefer disagreeable thoughts, which prostrated him very much.

Natrum mur. does not have all of his memories lost: he have lost the good ones, the happy ones. He kept the sad memories, his losses and his difficult moments. Or he built them out of his good memories: he forgot all about his mother, even having had with her many good moments. Only the sad new ones will remain:

Tries to recollect past disagreeable occurrences for the purpose of thinking on them and indulging the grief, which it causes. 


Gloomy thoughts, recalls insults long since suffered; likes to dwell upon past unpleasant occurrences. 


Unpleasant occurrences are recalled that she may grieve over them. 

If she only thinks of a want long since past, tears come into her eyes. 

Always in his thoughts he seemed to seek for past unpleasant occurrences, in order to think them over, making himself morbid. 

Full of grief; he tormented himself; he seemed to prefer disagreeable thoughts, which prostrated him very much. 

Natrum mur. is comparing himself (after his own memories) with the persons around him how he had become so unfortunate. But his brothers, friends and acquaintances were so happy, blessed by fortune.

Affronts that he had given and received were constantly in his mind, and he could not free himself from them; this put him still more out of humor, and he had no real interest in anything. 

Now, filled with sad recollections of his early life, how does he feel about himself?

She often looks into the mirror, and imagines that she looks wretched, [1]. 

(Obs: Wretched: Miserável, infeliz, desgraçado, lamentável, desventurado, desditoso, infortunado).

When alone, she becomes uneasy about her, and must weep. 

Despondent. 

Attacks of complete hopelessness and internal despair, that deprived him of all power. 

He concluded, from the look of every one, that he was pitied on account of his misfortune, and he wept, 

If one only looked at him, he was obliged to weep. 

She weeps all night, after a slight vexation, and coughs very much, with ineffectual efforts to vomit.

Natrum muriaticum concluded that life had been unfair with him. He gave more than he had received and all his past memories are the living proof of his misfortune.

He is vexed, humiliated and everyone should be blamed: his parents, friends, old schoolmates, his wife, husband and children. He avoids society because he knows that he could not be able to restrain himself from being rude and aggressive towards the others. All his humiliation is pouring out of him.

Ill-humored; does not want to go into society for fear of vexing others; feels that he could easily give offense.

Hateful and vindictive natures. 


When trying to comfort him he gets into a violent rage. 


Anthropophobia.

Averse to talking, and fretful when questioned. 

Offended by a joke.

Scornful, ill natured, excited. 

Frigidity of manner. 

Easily vexed, pettish (rabujento); he will not bear opposition, for several evenings.

She takes everything in bad part, and weeps and cries much. 

Hatred of people who had insulted him. 

Taciturnity; offended at every word; avoids company; hates persons because they have offended him; spleen. 


Every trifle provokes him to anger.

Natrum muriaticum has these dreams:

Restless sleep, full of dreams; she dreamed that she herself had pulled out a very fine tooth (twenty-seventh day). 

In a dream he reproached himself for past mistakes, full of restlessness and anxiety.


Dreams: anxious; vivid, like a living reality; frightful; of robbers in the house and will not believe the contrary until search is made; about which she is busy for a long time after waking; 


Anxious dream, as if she would be beaten, so anxious that she perspired all over, and even remained anxious all day. 

He dreamed at night that he had been poisoned. 

Woke at 2 A.M. in perspiration, and with a distressing anxiety, as though he were shut up in a dark cellar; this sensation only disappeared on perceiving light through a window. 

Everything was taken away from him: his life (after being poisoned), his body integrity (after being beaten), his belongings (a robber hiding at his house) his capacity of survival (his tooth, pulled out by himself) and he is locked in a dark cellar.

The patient's mind was much weakened by disease and poison; her moral perceptions, her once keen sense of honor, and of right and wrong, seemed blunted; she was in turns vehement and passionate, and moody and silent. 

This will be followed by tearfulness, great sadness, and joylessness. No matter how cheering the circumstances are she cannot bring herself into the state of being joyful. She is benumbed to impressions, easily takes on grief, grieve over nothing.

Melancholic depression, and sad apprehension, and disheartened, all day, without definite cause, with constant palpitation, without physical infirmity. 

Weeping in a dream. 

Natrum muriaticum has become a prisoner of his own way of perceiving reality, himself and his fellow men.

Groups in Natrum muriaticum

Hahnemann, Hering, Kent & Allen

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

Humor

Cheerfulnes

Attacks of great cheerfulness and merry disposition, with great inclination to laugh, sing and dance. 
 Good-humored all day (twenty-first day), [25].  

 Joyful mood (twenty-eighth day), [24]. 

Joyous, good-humored (fourth day), [5a]. 

Internal contentment, hope, gentleness (curative effect), (fifth day), [2]. 

He rejoiced over something, but his joy very speedily passed off (fifth day), [5]. 

He is happy, though only very transiently, [1]. 

Mood more quiet and less solicitous than usual (curative effect), [1]. 

Lively, good-humored, cheerful (second day), [1]. 

Sadness and Depressed

Depression of spirits. 


Prevailing depression of mind, with spells of irritableness and crossness. 

θ Addison's disease. 


Melancholic depression and sad apprehension disheartened all day without definite cause; palpitation. 


Lachrymose depression, < from being spoken to; concern about the future. 


Headache comes on with this melancholy. She walks the floor in rage. (Kent)

Sad and depressed, [1]. [Following the eruption of urticaria. -Hahnemann.]

Depressed mood, [1].

Depression of spirits.

Depressed mind, with the hunger, [47]. 

Depressed and full of grief.

Sad mood (eighteenth day). 

Sad and weeping mood, without cause

Sad, as if sick, in the afternoon (twenty-third day)

Great sadness, during the menses, [4]. 

Joylessness, [1]. 

Melancholy mood (second day), [5]. 

Melancholy mood, she has preferred to be alone for several days past (twelfth day), [25]. [40.]

Very melancholy, [1]. 

Sudden, though very short, attacks of melancholy, [1].

 Melancholic depression, and sad apprehension, and disheartened, all day, without definite cause, with constant palpitation, without physical infirmity (ninth day), [1]. 

Taciturn, [1].

 Joyless, indifferent, taciturn. 


Sad dreams; he had the same dreams after waking, and also another of the same kind on again falling asleep, [1].

Sad anxious dream, mostly with weeping; sleep only after midnight, [1]. 

Sad and weeping mood without cause. 


Sad and weeping ; consolation aggravates, a fluttering of heart follows; intermittent pulse. 


Excessive sadness during menses, with palpitation and morning headache. 
Alternately sad and excessively merry ; hysteria. 


Laugh and Singing

 Not at all lively, yet is easily made to laugh. 

Remarkable inclination to laugh, in the evening, [1]. 

Though out of humor all day, she was constantly obliged to sing and hum to herself; she had scarcely stopped, when she had to begin again (usually she never sings), (thirteenth day), [25]. 

There is a long chain of mental symptoms; hysterical condition of the mind and body; weeping alternating with laughing; irresistible laughing at unsuitable times; prolonged, spasmodic laughter.

Constant laughing; everything in the room looked so ridiculous (sixteenth night), [49]. 

She laughed so immoderately at something not ludicrous, that she could not be quieted, and tears came into her eyes, so that she looked as though she had been weeping (twenty-third day).

Very lively towards evening; she wished only to dance and sing (fifth day)

Weeping

Very much inclined to weep and to be excited, [1]. 

Anxious impulse to weep, [1]. 

She was involuntarily obliged to weep, [1]. 

If one only looked at him, he was obliged to weep, [1]. 

Weeping in a dream, [1]. 

Sobbing in sleep, [1]. 

Whenever alone she wished to cry, she did not know why. 


Very much inclined to weep and to be excited. 


She weeps all night, after a slight vexation, and coughs very much, with ineffectual efforts to vomit, [1].

Very much inclined to weep, with disinclination to work, [1]. 

This will be followed by tearfulness, great sadness, joylessness. No matter how cheering the circumstances are she cannot bring herself into the state of being joyful. She is benumbed to impressions, easily takes on grief, grieve over nothing.

Ill humor, Irritability and Peevish

Irritable, peevish, ill-humored, and quarrelsome, [1]. 

Great irritability (immediately), [1]. 

Impatient scratching of his head, [1]. 

Extremely sensitive and peevish all day (twenty-eighth day), [25]. 

Fretful mood (first and following days), [9]. 

Fretful humor, [31]. 

Whatever she sees frets her (sixteenth day), [25]. 

Fretful all day, especially in the evening; taciturn, sensitive, and sleepy (seventeenth day), [25]. 

Fretful and morose, especially if spoken to (sixteenth day), [25]. 

Fretful, despondent (twenty-third day), [25]. 

Fretful, restless, and uncomfortable; could not stay long in any place, [24a]. 

Very fretful, and inclined to weep, [21].

 Ill-humor, [9]; (twenty-fifth day), [25]. 

Woke in the morning in a very bad humor, which gave place to a quarrelsome irritability, lasting till he began his visits (third day), [31a]. 

Ill-humor in the forenoon (twenty-second day), [25].

 Ill-humor and crying from the slightest cause, [21]. 

Unusual ill-humor, [30c]. 

Very ill-humored in the morning, usually, [37]. 

Extremely ill-humored, peevish, and taciturn, [1]. 

Out of humor all day, and unwilling to work (eighth day), [5]. 

Irritable mood, [26]. 

Temper irritable and peevish, not preventing her, however, from occasionally taking a part in the games and occupations belonging to her age, [48]. 

Remarkable alternation of fretfulness, peevishness, and extreme exhaustion, with cheerfulness and a feeling of lightness in the limbs, [1]. 

Very ill humored in morning. 


Quarrelsome fretfulness, gets into a passion about trifles; passionate vehemence. 

Bad effects from anger. 

Hastiness and impatience. θ Chlorosis. 


Passionate, angry, hatred

After violent fits of passion, paralysis.

Passionate temper (first day); towards evening (second day)

Very passionate mood (second day), [1]. 

Becomes vehement, without special cause.

When with any one, she was inclined to quarrel (seventeenth day)

He was very easily made angry, [1]. 

(Soon after taking a dose, he became exceedingly angry, but suppressed his wrath; after this he had no symptoms during the whole forenoon, though after a former and also after a subsequent dose symptoms appeared within a short time), (fourth day), [5]. 

The patient's mind was much weakened by disease and poison; her moral perceptions, her once keen sense of honor, and of right and wrong, seemed blunted; she was in turns vehement and passionate, and moody and silent, [56]. 

Every trifle provokes him to anger, [1]. 

Became violent and passionate at every trifle (eleventh day), [5]. 

He became thoroughly aroused and angry from a slight occurrence, [1]. 

Anxiety

Anxiety and restlessness, alternating with indifference, [1]. 

Before the appearance of the delayed menses, she is anxious and qualmish for some hours in the morning; something sweetish comes into the mouth, after which some blood is expectorated with the saliva, [1]. 

Anxious and faint during the menses, with cold cheeks and internal heat, [1]. [Original, backen, not becken. -Hering.] 

Anxiety, with heat, at night; she was obliged to uncover herself; vivid dreams on falling asleep (with profuse flow of menses), (fifth day), [1]. 

Feeling on anxiety, with heat over the whole body and perspiration, lasting an hour and a half (eighteenth day), [28c]. 

Sudden anxiety and palpitation, three forenoons, [1]. 

Very anxious, as if he would fall, while walking, [1]. 

Woke at 2 A.M. in perspiration, and with a distressing anxiety, as though he were shut up in a dark cellar; this sensation only disappeared on perceiving light through a window (sixth day), [31a]. 

Very anxious dreams, with weeping in sleep. 

Anxious dreams at night, so that he cried out, with frequent waking, [33]. 

Many anxious dreams, at night, [1]. 

He rose from an anxious dream at night, and walked about the room in a somnambulistic state, [1]. 

Many, even anxious, dreams during the afternoon sleep, [1]. 

Very anxious dreams, [1]. 

Very anxious dreams, with weeping in sleep, [1]. 

Frightful, anxious dreams, waking in profuse perspiration, and with a sense of great exhaustion, at night (after 10 grains), [12]. 

On his relationship with the others

Tries to recollect past disagreeable occurrences for the purpose of thinking on them and indulging the grief which it causes. 


He concluded from the look of everyone, that he was pitied on account of his misfortune, and he wept. 


Gloomy thoughts, recalls insults long since suffered; likes to dwell upon past unpleasant occurrences. 


Very sad, gloomy and foreboding. θ Dysmenorrhœa. 


Hateful and vindictive natures. 


When trying to comfort him he gets into a violent rage. 


Anthropophobia. 

Unrequited affection brings on complaints. She is unable to control her affections and falls in love with a married man. She knows that it is foolish but lies awake with love for him. She falls in love with a coachman. She knows that she is unwise but cannot help it. In cases of this kind Natr. mur. will turn her mind into order, and she will look back and wonder why she was so silly. This remedy belongs to hysterical girls.

Averse to talking, and fretful when questioned (fourteenth day), [5]. 

His mind is very much affected by a conversation, [1]. 

Affronts that he had given and received were constantly in his mind, and he could not free himself from them; this put him still more out of humor, and he had no real interest in anything (second day), [5]. 

Offended by a joke, [1].

Scornful, ill-natured, excited, [1]. 

Frigidity of manner, [1]. 

Indifferent and sad, [1]. 

Indifferent or sad mood, [28]. 

Indifferent and anxious, [1]. 

Unnatural indifference, [1]. 

Lack of circumspection, [1]. 

Anthropophobia, [24a]. 

Anxious dream, as if she would be beaten, so anxious that she perspired all over, and even remained anxious all day, [1]. 

He dreamed at night that he had been poisoned (fourth day), [2]. 


Dreams: anxious; vivid, like a living reality; frightful; of robbers in the house and will not believe the contrary until search is made; about which she is busy for a long time after waking; of burning thirst; during siesta. 


Vexations dreams, and frequent waking, at night, [33]. 

Easily vexed, pettish (rabujento); he will not bear opposition, for several evenings, [1].

Ill-humored; does not want to go into society for fear of vexing others; feels that he could easily give offense (second day), [5].

She takes everything in bad part, and weeps and cries much, [1]. 

Hatred of people who had insulted him (second day), [5]. 

Taciturnity; offended at every word; avoids company; hates persons because they have offended him; spleen. 


Likes to be alone. 

After becoming thoroughly wet, severe headache with maniacal paroxysms, during which he uttered the most atrocious blasphemies, swore against God and the elements, and after raging for awhile became exhausted, and had to keep his bed from great debility; dryness of tongue; unquenchable thirst; pulse irregular and intermittent. 


With himself

Apprehension feels as if something was going to happen. 


Despairing, hopeless feeling about the future. 


Hurriedness, with anxiety and fluttering at heart. 


Extremely solicitous about the future, [1]. 

Lost for hours in thought as to what would become of him, [1].

Haunted with thoughts that something unpleasant will happen. 


Very easily startled, [1].

In the evening, it seemed as though he became paralyzed from a fright; afterwards he seemed horrified, and apprehended some misfortune, [1]. 

Anxious fear of dying, [1]. 

A kind of nightmare, as if the abdomen were constricted, with anxiety; she tried to cry out, but could neither open the eyes nor move a limb; when able to cry out everything disappeared (seventh night), [1].

Fearfulness; very easily startled. 



Consequences of fright, anger, vexation, mortification or reserved displeasure. 
After a fright, chorea. 


Feeling of apprehension in the chest (second day), [5]. 

Apprehensiveness, anxiety in the chest, with pressure in the pit of the stomach; worse after deep expiration. (seventh day) [5].

Fear of loss of reason. 

Weak will. 


Fear of insanity, [1]. 

Lack of independence, [1].

Despondent (sixteenth day), [25]. 

Attacks of complete hopelessness and internal despair, that deprived him of all power, [1]. 

She often looks into the mirror, and imagines that she looks wretched, [1]. 

When alone, she becomes uneasy about herself, and must weep, [1]. 

Hypochondriacal*  mood, with constipation.

Hypochondriacal; tired of life. 


Hypochondriac, even to loathing life (second day), [1]. 


*Hypochondriasis or hypochondria (sometimes referred to as health phobia or health anxiety) refers to excessive preoccupancy or worry about having a serious illness. This debilitating condition is the result of an inaccurate perception of the body’s condition despite the absence of an actual medical condition.[1] An individual suffering from hypochondriasis is known as a hypochondriac. Hypochondriacs become unduly alarmed about any physical symptoms they detect, no matter how minor the symptom may be. They are convinced that they have or are about to be diagnosed with a serious illness.[2] Even sounds produced by organs in the body, such as those made by the intestines, seem like symptoms of a very serious illness to patients dealing with hypochondriasis.[3] Often, hypochondria persists even after a physician has evaluated a person and reassured them that their concerns about symptoms do not have an underlying medical basis or, if there is a medical illness, their concerns are far in excess of what is appropriate for the level of disease. Many hypochondriacs focus on a particular symptom as the catalyst of their worrying, such as gastro-intestinal problems, palpitations, or muscle fatigue. The duration of these symptoms and preoccupation is 6 months or longer.

Unusually lively; a consciousness of physical and mental power, in the afternoon (eighth day), [31a]. 

Overexcited, in the morning, after waking unusually early (after 20th dil.), [22]. 

Great excitement, followed by falling asleep and deadness of the limbs, [1]. 

She talked more than usual, but did not like so much to be talked to; when she had nothing to say, she became depressed and melancholy (fourteenth day), [25].

The more he was consoled, the more he was affected, [1]. 

Unpleasant occurrences are recalled that she may grieve over them. 

Consolation aggravated the state of the mind - the melancholy, the tearfulness, sometimes brings on anger. 

She appears to bid for sympathy and is mad when it is given.

If she only thinks of a want long since past, tears come into her eyes, [1]. 

Always in his thoughts he seemed to seek for past unpleasant occurrences, in order to think them over, making himself morbid, [1]. 

Full of grief; he tormented himself; he seemed to prefer disagreeable thoughts, which prostrated him very much, [1]. 

He concluded, from the look of every one, that he was pitied on account of his misfortune, and he wept, [1]. 

Anxiety, as if she had done something wrong, with heat and night sweat. [1].

In a dream he reproached himself for past mistakes, full of restlessness and anxiety, [1]. 

Restless sleep, full of dreams; she dreamed that she herself had pulled out a very fine tooth (twenty-seventh day). 

Hastiness, [1].

Ailments from grief

Sleeplessness: from nervous restlessness, with desire to sleep; restlessness especially marked in legs; awakes agitated; unrefreshed; with great nervous irritability and coldness in extremities; coldness is subjective; a kind of struggle between sleep and wakefulness; tormenting; after gnawing grief; from depressing events. 


With the environment

The Natr. mur. patient is greatly disturbed by excitement, is extremely emotional. The whole nervous economy is in a state of fret and irritation, < from noise, the slamming of a door, the ringing of a bell, the firing of a pistol, < music.

She was much more anxious than usual during a storm at night; anxious sweat at last compelled her to rise from bed (second day), [5a]. 

Frequent visionary dreams during the first ten nights; he frequently woke, tossed about the bed, and was so weary the next day that he could not work, 

After eating a little more supper than usual, many confused dreams of crimes, for which he is held to answer, [1]. 

Dreams of conflagrations, [1]. 

Anxious dreams at night of fights and battles; on waking, she was in an anxious heat and sweat (second day), [5a]. 

Anxious dream of death and battles; on waking, heat and anxious perspiration, [1]. 

Frightful dream of death, fire, etc, [1]. 

Frightful dreams of scenes of murder, etc. (after 30th dil.), [22].

Vivid dreams of long journeys (fifteenth day), [5]. 

Childhood

Great irritability; child irritable and cross when spoken to; crying from slightest cause. 


Child is slow in learning to talk, on account of imperfect development of muscles of tongue and larynx.

Child: refuses breast, has flabby scrotum, chills; constant fever, nursing sore mouth.

Intellectual

Irresolute at work; he could not see his way clearly (fifth day), [5]. 

He could not fix his thoughts; however much he attempted to reflect upon anything, his thoughts wandered to many other subjects (first day), [5]. 

Thought is difficult (sixteenth day), [25]. 

Thought difficult; she was obliged to think a long time before clearly comprehending anything (second day), [5a]. 

Sluggish; slow in collecting his ideas and making up his mind, [1]. 

Weakness of thought, dullness of mind, discouragement, [1]. 

Mind confused, with pressive pain in the forehead, all day (after 20th dil.), [12]. 

Although evidently a well-educated and intelligent woman, her mind seemed hopeless and confused, [56]. 

Distraction of mind, [26]. 

Distraction of mind, dull, loss of ideas, in the evening (first day), [22b]. 

Distraction of mind while talking, [24a]. 

Distraction of mind; he does not know what he ought to say, [1]. 

Distraction of mind; he goes twice to a place to find something, [1]. 

Great distraction of mind (after 1st trit.), [22]. 

Absence of thought, [1]. 

Absence of thought; she says what she does not intend, [1].

 Easily makes mistakes in talking, [1]. 

Thoughtlessness; he went out of a door without intending it, and only recollected himself when asked where he was going, [1].

He had no control over his thoughts, in the evening (fourteenth day), [1]. 

Easily makes mistakes in writing, [1]. 

Loss of ideas, stupid (fifth day), [22c]. 

Loss of ideas, with mental dullness (sixth day), [22c]. 

Dullness and loss of thought, with sleepiness; worse from 3 to 7 P.M., [1]. 

If he follows an ideas, thought suddenly leaves him, and only fragments of ideas remains, [1]. 

Immediately inability to think after physical exertion, with apathy, [1]. 

She felt almost, as if losing her reason (tenth night), [49]. 

Anxious sensation in the head, in the evening, after lying down, as if it were all over with him, and he should lose his reason, [1]. 

Forgetfulness all day, [33].

Forgetfulness; it was difficult to think of anything, in the evening (second day), [5]. 

Remarkable forgetfulness during the last part of the proving (thirty-sixth day), [25]. 

Very forgetful, so that he did not recall what he was just about to write (second day), [5]. 

Weakness of memory (after 1st trit.), [22]. 

Very weak memory; everything remains in his mind like a dream, [1]. 

Want of memory, so that he thought his mother (who was present every hour) had died, because he did not remember seeing her, [1]. 

Loss of memory; he remembers nothing of yesterday; thinks he has lost his reason (fifth day), [1].

Head dull and befogged, causing a very peculiar feeling of irresolution, even in respect to indifferent things (third day), [22b].

Weakness or loss of memory; remembers nothing of yesterday. 


Absent minded or distracted while talking; does not know what he ought to say; awkward in talking; easily makes mistakes. 


Awkward; hasty; drops things from nervous weakness. 


Dullness; difficulty of thinking. 


Mania, especially when accompanied by paralytic debility. 


No desire to work, mental or physical. 


Brain fag, with sleeplessness, gloomy forebodings, exhaustion after talking, embarrassment of brain. 



Weariness in head. 


Empty feeling in head, with anguish. 


Weak, faint feeling in head and chest walking in sun. 


Dullness: of head, as if too heavy; in morning or forenoon; after thinking. 


She is extremely forgetful; cannot cast up accounts; is unable to meditate; forges what she was going to say; loses the thread of what she is hearing or reading. There is a great prostration of the mind.

Work

Disinclined to work, though disposed to think acutely, [1]. 

Disinclined to work, especially study (after the crude), [17]. 

Disinclination for mental work, [33]; (second day), [31b]; in evening, [9]. 

Mental indolence in the evening (first day), [30b]. 

No desire to work (ninth day), [5]. 

No desire to work; he only dawdles over everything, and can scarcely apply himself in earnest (tenth day), [5]. 

No disposed to do anything; he only wanted to fold his hands in his lap, or to sleep, in the afternoon (second day), [5]. 

Dread of work, [1]. 

He began work eagerly, and with great desire, but this soon passed off; his work vexed him (fifth day), [5]. 

Inability to perform mental labor (fifth day), [22c].

MALE SEXUALITY

Lascivious dreams (twenty-second night), [1]. 

Sexual desire, with frequent erections and pollutions. 


Seminal emissions: every night; soon after coition; followed by chilliness and lassitude, with increased sexual desire. 


Embrace weakens; coldness of joints. 


Feeling of weakness in sexual organs; sexual instinct dormant, 

After sexual excesses, physical weakness, even paralysis; emission of prostatic fluid without erection when thinking of sexual things. 


Impotence; spermatorrhœa; poor digestion; spinal irritation.

Lack of erections (first day), [1]. 

No erections, and no emission for five weeks, [1]. 

Feeling of weakness of the genitals, [1]. 

Very much diminished sexual desire, [11]. 

Sexual desire dormant, very unexcitable, [1]. [1700.] 

The sexual desire was unusually weak during the whole proving, [22]. 

Slight sexual desire, and delayed emission during coition (after thirteen days), 

Absence of sexual desire during the whole proving, [18]. 

Remarkable loss of sexual desire during the whole proving, [17]. 

Indifference, almost aversion, to women (second day), [5]. 

Aversion to coition (twenty-third day), [24]. 

Coition weak; emission speedy, and rather cold (seventh day), [1]. 

The first twelve days it causes sexual desire, erections, and an unusual voluptuous sensation during coition; but afterwards a corresponding degree of depression, [1]. 

Erection in morning without sexual excitement. 


Erections in the morning (tenth and fourteenth days), [5]; before taking (seventh day), [5]. 

Erections and dreams at night, [32c]. 

Frequent erections at night, with discharge of glutinous moisture, [9]. 

Painful erections disturbing rest at night, [33]. 

Increased sexual desire, [37]. 

Unusual sexual desire (first to ninth day), [33b]. 

Great inclination to coition (fifth day), [24b]. 

Amorous thoughts, in the evening in bed (thirteenth day), [5]. 

The sexual desire is rather physical (after eight days), [1]. 

Emission, [42]; at times, [37]; in a married man (first and tenth nights), [1]. 

Emission, with biting on the glans penis, [1]. [1710.] 

Emission every night, [1]. 

Emission towards morning, [33]. 

Emission soon after coition, and again the third night afterwards, [3]. 

Emission five hours after coition (eighteenth day), [1]. 

Inefficient coition, and yet some emission towards morning (first night), [1]. 

Emission during sleep, without erection or voluptuous sensation (after 10th dil.), [22]. 

Emission with the usual morning stool (sixth day), [5]. 

Frequent emissions, even in addition to the usual coition, [1]. [1720.] 

Fiery coition, though with speedy emission (twenty-sixth day), [1]. 

Profuse emission in one impotent, with much sexual desire, followed the whole night by excessive erections that were almost painful (after six days), [1]. 

He became very much affected by coition, to which he had not been accustomed for a long time; followed by an exhausting emission in deep sleep at night (after fifty-six days), [1]. 

Lack of emission on abstinence from coition for five weeks, [1]. 

Sleep at night disturbed by voluptuous dreams, emissions, and long-continued erections, [1]. 

FEMALE SEXUALITY

Diminished sexual desire. 


Averse to coitus; painful, from dryness of vagina; burning, smarting during coitus; anemic women with dry mouth and dry skin. 


After embrace feels easy and light hearted at first, later ill humored.

Immediately after coition she felt very light and happy, but soon became irritable and peevish, [1]. 

After the menses, female impotency, aversion to coition, with dry painful vagina on coition (twelfth day), [1]. 

Dryness of the vagina, and painful coition (secondary effects?), [1]. 

Aversion to coition and to men, during the latter part of the proving.

Pregnancy

A pregnant woman saw a man who had a disfiguring nasal cancer; this haunted her, and she was sure her child would be marked; she was melancholy, avoided society, wept continually. 

Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy; morning sickness, with vomiting of frothy, watery phlegm. 


Frequent and severe attacks of vomiting, first of food, then mucus, and finally blood; < in morning; during latter half of pregnancy. 


During pregnancy: dysuria; albuminuria, faint, gone feeling at pit of stomach; hunger without appetite; fond of salt and salted food; congestion to chest, palpitation; hemorrhoids; cough; escape of urine. 


Labor progresses slowly, pains feeble, seemingly from sad feelings and forebodings. 


Puerperal convulsions. 


Losing hair in childbed or during period of lactation. 


Dreams


Much too vivid dreams; visions in sleep.

Night disturbed by vivid dreams and frequent waking, [33b].

(there are too many repetitions of this symptom, meaning all the same thing)

Dreams, about which she was busy for a long time after waking, [1]. 

Pleasant dreams, so vivid that he could remember them completely after waking (after tenth day), [28]. 

Confused, vivid dreams, at night (second day), [31b]. 

Sleep disturbed by vivid unpleasant dreams and frequent waking, [33]. 

Many exciting dreams, [41]. 

Heavy dreams, at night (fifteenth day), [25]. 

Sleep, with many bad dreams (twentieth day), [25]. 

Troubled dreams, especially after midnight, with interrupted sleep (first day)

Frequent frightful dreams, at night (third day), [32]. 

Terrible dreams, which seemed to be real even after waking, [1].

Peevish dreams, [1]. 

Peevish and anxious dreams, [1]. 

Anxious dream, at night (twelfth day), [5]. 

Vivid dreams of people dear to him, two nights in succession (fourteenth day)

Very vivid dream of burning thirst, which was not quenched by large quantities of beer; on waking the tongue was dry (eleventh day), [31a]. 

Horrible, disgusting dreams, [1]. 

When falling asleep, after closing the eyes, vivid images, with inclination to compose verses, which on waking seemed ludicrous, [1]. 

Sleep full of visions, [1].