MERCURIUS  SOL

                                         Hipótese de entendimento

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

 

 

Poderíamos nos perguntar: como Merc. se sentiu ao despertar para essa realidade? O que viu a sua volta?

Mercurius tem a ilusão de seu corpo é feito de doces. Essa palavra está associada, no Dicionário de Símbolos, as palavras açucarado, suave, agradável e amorável, impressões que nos falam de como Mercurius provavelmente percebe a si mesmo. Podemos então nos perguntar: Qual seria sua função nesse mundo, o que os pacientes Mercurius trazem de contribuição pessoal para nosso meio, nossa civilização?

Se seguirmos com esse raciocínio, os pacientes Mercurius devem ser pessoas doces, suaves e meigas. Pessoas que vieram com o intuito de apaziguar, de trazer suavidade e delicadeza. São pessoas que devem, com sua presença, procurar reconfortar os que sofrem, os doentes, os desgarrados, os perdidos. Devem trazer consolo, paz, conforto. Tal qual um doce que compramos pra nos reconfortar de um dia difícil e estressante…

A doçura está associada a suavidade, a concórdia, a harmonia. “Ser harmonioso é soar bem no ouvido, comover, arrebatar”.

O que é harmônico estará associado ao que é melodioso, encantador, belo, delicioso, doce, suave, meigo, causador de prazeres, cristalino, melódico… 

O paciente Mercurius deve nos aparecer como uma pessoa fina, delicada, um amante da música, das coisas boas da vida, refinado, educado. Sua preocupação deve ser a de levar à todos a idéia de harmonia, de equilíbrio, de refinamento, dos prazeres sutis e educados da vida. Provavelmente não será aquela pessoa ligada as baixezas sexuais, aos prazeres mais promíscuos. Ele precisa de suavidade e delicadeza em tudo o que está ao seu alcance e precisa também levar isso as pessoas que estão a sua volta: aos filhos, a sua família, aos amigos que o cercam, aos colegas de trabalho, etc.

E, inversamente, ele não deve suportar nada que seja disarmônico: sujeira, bagunça, gritos, violência, grosserias, barulho, enfim, tudo que vá contra sua natureza meiga, suave e delicada.

E é importante que seja ressaltada a sua necessidade de ser para os outros uma coisa boa, ser alguém que sempre vai levar uma palavra de conforto, um presente, lembrando-se do aniversário do outro, preocupando-se sempre em fazer o que o outro gosta. E que vai estar justamente nessa atitude seu maior prazer e sua maior função: a dona de casa que prepara sua casa e os doces para as visitas, que sabe escolher o presente certo para a pessoa certa.

Os sintomas que estão na MM nos falam de um Mercurius que já desistiu de ser aquela pessoa que um dia ele tentou ser: amável, delicada, amorosa. Com uma natureza assim, nessa nossa cultura tão violenta, cheia de guerras, fome, miséria, Mercurius pode chegar a conclusão de que está num lugar diferente, estranho, que não aguenta mais ser violentado na sua natureza. E decide se ausentar, partir, fugir dessa sociedade que tanto o agride. Os sintomas que nos apontam para a impressão de que está no inferno podem bem ser decorrência da sua decepção com tudo e com todos, ferido na sua natureza amável e delicada. Concluir que ele só está nessacondição porque cometeu algo muito grave é uma característica interessante em Mercurius: ele não culpa os outros, mas passa a entender que é por sua culpa tudo o que está acontecendo com ele, por alguma falta cometida ele foi colocado naquele meio tão estranho e por isso sofre tanto.  Está num mundo onde sua natureza não pode ser compreendida, aceita. E tudo por responsabilidade sua, não daqueles que estão a sua volta.

Por ter sido tão agredido nessa sua natureza, Mercurius passa, aos poucos, a considerar inimigos todos aqueles a sua volta. Ele não se identifica mais com as pessoas, as considera suas inimigas e quer de qualquer forma deixar o lugar onde vive. Daí seu desejo constante de viajar, de ir embora dali nem que seja através do suicídio, que está presente constantemente nos seus pensamentos.

Diferente de Stramonium, que se volta para uma vida de prazeres como uma compensação da sua sensação de estar num lugar horrível, cheio de cobras e vermes, Mercurius decide partir dali de qualquer jeito: pode ser através de um jejum doentio (a anorexia, a bulimia), pode ser se atirando de uma janela, cortando os pulsos, etc. Esse seu desejo quase incontrolável de ir embora desse mundo vai tornando-se uma obscessão em direção ao suicídio.

E fica claro porque considera a todos seus inimigos. Ele está num lugar terrível, cheio de pessoas as quais não considera mais amigas ou mesmo afins a ele. E se ele supõe que essas pessoas sentem por ele a mesma coisa, elas vão com certeza atacá-lo, tentar matá-lo, envenená-lo. E Mercurius precisa se defender delas, até encontrar uma forma de sair desse mundo.

Acredito que ser autoritário ou dogmático em Mercurius fala também de sua necessidade de controlar essa grande ameaça que está a sua volta: as pessoas, sua família, seus pretensos amigos, todos aqueles que lhe fazem mal. A mulher que pede ao marido que esconda a navalha, por medo de que ela possa vir a matá-lo para depois matar a si mesma, nos fala de um desespero em Mercurius. Não é um desejo psicopata de matar, mas um desespero, uma tentativa de se defender daqueles seres que habitam essa sua realidade e depois encontrar uma forma de fugir, mesmo que tenha que se matar para isso.

O desejo de matar em Mercurius é somente uma reação a sua impressão de que vai se morto, atacado ou agredido, a qualquer instante. E no seu desespero de se ver obrigado a cometer algo que considera um crime, ele tanto mata quanto se suicida.

E seu estado consciente, autocrítico, o faz lembrar de que é somente por sua responsabilidade que ele está aqui, nesse plano da existência que ele considera tão estranho, tão maligno. E isso o enche de culpa, de remorso, sendo mais um motivo para ele se punir, se flagelar física e mentalmente.

 

As consequências dessa impressão contínua, desse sofrimento constante bem podem ser as origens do seu processo de embotamento e degeneração mental. Sua negação de participar dessa nossa realidade que lhe é tão estranha pode lhe custar todas as doenças neurológicas, doenças essas que tem como consequência final um desligamento completo dessa sua realidade.

 

Como poderia um paciente Mercurius se relacionar com a vida comum? Deve ser praticamente impossível para Mercurius estabelecer uma vida dita normal, dentro das regras do nosso cotidiano. Ou seja, deveremos encontrar nossos pacientes em situações geralmente diferentes da vida do dia a dia: vai estar nas instituições religiosas, nas comunidades alternativas, nos grupos de ativistas políticos, ou mesmo entre os alcoólatras e os usuários de drogas. Alguém que precise fumar maconha diariamente para poder suportar sua existência bem que poderia ser um Mercurius, acompanhado de todo esse cortejo de impressões da realidade: quer morar no campo, fugir da cidade, trabalhar numa comunidade religiosa, entrar para o Hare-Khishna, acordar as 4 da manhã e tomar um banho gelado para eximir-se de sua culpa, na esperança de que possa algum dia ser levado embora para um lugar melhor.

 

Provavelmente Mercurius nos falará da sensação de estranheza que sente pelo mundo que o cerca. De quanto foi difícil (ou está sendo) conviver com a loucura do mundo, a agressividade da sociedade moderna, como se sente a parte disso tudo. De como está ferido na sua sensibilidade, o quanto foi mal compreendido por todos desde a sua infância. O quanto quis ser meigo e carinhoso com todos e o tanto que ficou ferido em seus sentimentos, magoado demais a ponto de ter que se refugiar em algum tipo de associação, comunidade, ou mesmo um grupo religioso. 

 

Ou então passa a frequentar um grupo político que tem idéias revolucionárias para mudar isso tudo e fazer desse um mundo melhor. Esse lado em Mercurius pode nos fazer acreditar que ele é assim desde o início, que ser um revolucionário, um autoritário é da sua própria natureza. Mas acredito que esse seu movimento é somente uma outra forma de reação devido a sua enorme frustração de não ter podido ser para o mundo e para as pessoas aquilo que ele poderia ter sido: amável, gentil e amoroso. É necessário então mudar o mundo, reconstruir a sociedade, abraçar uma causa maior.

Ser agradável para os outros está associado ao deleite, que por sua vez está associado ao que prende, ao que subjuga, ao que é agradável ao coração. Associado a aquele que cativa, que atrai as simpatias, que granjeia o afeto. Mercurius, com sua forma de ser, vai ser sempre simpático, sedutor, insinuante, galanteador. Não que faça isso com intuito de seduzir simplesmente por seduzir, mas somente por ter essa natureza agradável, sedutora, suave. Mercurius é agradável por natureza e isso implicaria numa sedução indireta com relação a todos os que estão a sua volta.

 

Mas assim como o deleite é a fonte de prazer, seu oposto é o dolorimento, a causa do sofrimento. Será então que ele pode vir a se tornar a fonte de sofrimento para os outros? Ou para si mesmo? Pode vir a se tornar desagradável, rude, violento? Trazer o inferno no coração? Pagar caro, amargar sofrimentos, receber grandes danos, ter o purgatório em vida? Sangrar de dor, padecer de morte e paixão, esgotar o cálice da amargura, comer o pão que o diabo amassou? Pedir a morte como um descanso, como a terminação das dores acerbas, pagar bem caro, queixar-se, atormentar-se, cortar o coração, infligir sofrimento, ter o coração inquieto a sangrar aberto numa ferida sem remédio?

 

A última palavra, amorável, está dentro de amor, simpatia, afeição, dedicação, que são os aspectos que já nos referimos anteriormente. Ternura, benevolência, galanteio…

Mercurius pode lançar mão de sua natureza galanteadora e ser um namorador, um cavaliere, ter amores platônicos, ser um admirador apaixonado.

Mas o inverso do amor é o ódio, a desafeição, a ira, o rancor. A fúria, o ressentimento, a raiva, provavelmente contra aqueles a quem um dia ele amou ou desejou. Odiar mortalmente (a ponto de querer matar ao ver uma navalha?) sentir inimizade, nutrir veementemente o desejo de vingança, levar seu ódio a ponto de não querer ver alguém, odiento, vingativo.

 

O que o levaria a inverter essa polaridade afetiva, de deixar de ser o galante sedutor amoroso para se tornar um ser odiento e vingativo?

O que não deu certo e que o obriga a deixar de ser suave e amoroso?

 

“Temos que nos endurecer, mas sem jamais perder a ternura”. Essa frase, atribuída a Ernesto “Che” Guevara, nos faz pensar: por que Mercurius deve endurecer? Guevara nos aparece como um grande exemplo de Mercurius, mas o que nos ficou dele é somente o revolucionário, o transformador, provavelmente a mídia o transformou até mesmo num guerreiro. Mas se olharmos por um outro ângulo e simplesmente supormos que o Che em que Ernesto se transformou foi por não ter outra saída, frente ao que ele estava vendo da realidade? O filme “Diários de uma motocicleta” nos trás um Ernesto no início do seu contato com uma realidade dura, violenta, escravagista. Nos mostra um homem sensível, delicado, charmoso, um médico dedicado, que vai preferir estar do lado dos leprosos, dos excluídos, que decide entregar sua própria vida aos pobres, aos humildes, dos misáveis. Que renuncia a sua carreira como médico em Buenos Aires para se colocar lado a lado com aqueles seres humanos que são desprezados por todos. “Temos que nos endurecer” talvez tenha sido dito por ele para si mesmo, numa tentativa desesperada de mudar sua própria natureza, mesmo sabendo que ele jamais perderia sua ternura. Talvez aí encontremos o turning point em Mercurius: porque alguns pacientes Mercurius poderão buscar abandonar essa natureza amorosa, suave, delicada e então perseguir uma rigidez, um endurecimento dos sentimentos. Deve ser praticamente impossível para um Mercurius caminhar nessa vida sem ser abalado constantemente, em sua natureza amorosa, por todas as injustiças, todas as diversas formas de violência as quais estamos submetidos no nosso dia a dia. O que fazer com a doçura, com a suavidade? Melhor endurecer, a saída é contrair, se fechar, lutar para sobreviver. Mas sem jamais poder mudar sua real natureza, Mercurius segue no fundo carregando sua sensibilidade, sua ternura. Os inimigos agora estão claros, definidos, apontados: são os opressores, os violentos, os ditadores, aqueles que transformam o mundo num lugar onde a delicadeza e a suavidade não podem existir, não podem coexistir com Mercurius, que estará sempre em luta contra eles.

A forma de luta em Mercurius pode assumir diversas faces e devemos estar prontos para reconhecer essa luta em qualquer uma delas: pode estar num padre, no Green Peace, num professor, num político, num monge budista ou num médico. Acredito que dificilmente encontraremos Mercurius nas pessoas mais pacatas e resignadas, a não ser que seja uma aparente resignação após um processo de desistência, um estado depressivo talvez. Mas estará presente uma  delicadeza anteriormente violentada, impossível de estar lado-a-lado com o mundo. Seja num âmbito maior de ação, como seria num político, seja num homem aparentemente simples, como um pedreiro que reune os colegas para discutir com o patrão os salários, ou mesmo numa mulher que tem como objetivo de vida levar sua delicadeza ao mundo através de seus livros de culinária, de beleza ou de estética, poderemos reconhecer um paciente Mercurius baseados nesses dois aspectos mais importantes: a doçura associada a delicadeza em sua natureza básica e a forma como essa pessoa, com essa natureza, vai tentar sobreviver ao mundo violento que nos cerca.

Grupos em Mercurius solubilis/vivus

Sintomas presents nas MMs de Hahnemann, Hering, Allen and Kent

 

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

 

 

Humor

 

Indifference

 

Taciturn and indifferent

Rather indifferent mood, [2]. 

Extremely indifferent, [1]. 

Cared for nothing, and was indifferent to everything, [1].

He was indifferent to everything in the world; had no desire to eat, and yet, when he ate, relished his food and took as took as much as usual, [1].

 

Anxiety and sadness

 

She was constantly anxious and apprehensive; then a sudden affection of the pit of the stomach; her hands began to perspire and her face became hot, [1].

Much anxiety, and orgasm of blood, at night, with sticking in the bloodvessels, [1]. [20.] 

As soon as she eats, she is attacked with great anxiety, with perspiration on the heat and forehead, which seem to her icy cold; she is obliged to go into the open air before the perspiration ceased, with want of breath, and sticking in the right side just below the ribs, [4]. 

Bad effects from fright, leaving one in a state of great anxiety, < at night.

During menstruation, anxiety so that she does not know what to do, [

 

During menses, great anxiety, great sadness.

Anxious and restless as if some evil impended, worse at night, with sweat.

and restless change of place; ebullitions, sweat; apprehensive, imaginary fears; fears he will lose his mind; < evening and night.

Much wretchedness and dejection of spirits, with diarrhœa, [12]. 

 

Uneasiness, he has no rest

 

A universal uneasiness of body, so that he could not remain one moment in the same posture. [merc. v] 

Towards evening, an uneasiness that did not permit him to remain in any place; could not remain sitting two minutes; was forced to change. s. 

Hurried and rapid talking. s. 

Excited, lively; everything is done hastily. [merc. v] 

Uneasiness; he had no rest in any place; could neither stand nor lie, and seemed delirious, or as though he had committed a great crime, [1]. 

No rest in any place, constantly anxious. s. 

 He had no rest; was obliged to go hither and thither, and could nowhere remain quiet, [4]. 

*No rest in any place, constantly anxious, [6]. 

*Towards evening, an uneasiness that did not permit him to remain in any place; he could not remain sitting two minutes; he was forced to change; also he was unable to remain lying on account of the jerking in the limbs, they became heavy, and he was obliged to rise; also at night he kept constantly rising; with jerking of the head and throwing about of the arms during sleep, [1]. 

 

Great restlessness, must constantly change her place; fear, with desire to escape, as if she had committed some crime. θ Hysteria. 


Extreme restlessness all night, beginning about 8 P. M., and lasting till morning. s.

 Extreme restlessness all night, beginning about 8 P.M., and lasting till morning; at one time he stood up because he had no rest while lying, then he lay down became walking was intolerable, and so he had no rest, [9]. 

Extreme restlessness all night, beginning about 8 P. M., and lasting till morning. s. 

Restless, despondent mood; anxiety without particular thoughts, [1]. 

Kent: A marked feature running all through is hastiness; a hurried, restless, anxious, impulsive disposition.

Excessive restlessness and malaise, with sleeplessness. 

 

                                                                         Weeping                                              

 

Almost involuntary weeping, followed by relief, [1].

While indulging his foolish fancy, he was, however, inclined to weep, and when this paroxysm passed over he was very much exhausted, [1].

Continuous moaning and groaning. 

 

Irritability and fretfulness

 

 Irritability and ill-humor, [12]. 

Irritable, vexatious, active mood, [1]. 

 Ill-humor, associated with anxiety, all day; he constantly thought something disagreeable would happen, [7].

Fretful and peevish all day; he imagined that all his efforts would at last miscarry, [7]. 

► Fretful all day; very much out of sorts and discontented with himself; he has not desire to talk or joke, [7]. 

Very peevish and intolerant, easily vexed, very suspicious, [1]. 

Morose all day; extremely taciturn and serious, [7]. 

Fighting, quarrelsome mood, [1]. 

Quarrels with everything; would above all have everything right; quarrelsome, [1]. 

 

 

With himself/herself

 

 

Loss of will power. [merc. v] 

 

Quarrels with everything; would above all have everything right; quarrelsome, [1]. 

 

Fear/Fright

 

On falling asleep she started up as from great fright, which caused a shooting in the teeth, and a hard stitch through the knee, with shivering, [1]. 

Anxiety in sleep soon after falling asleep before midnight; started up in the fright and was anxious until he was awake, [1].

Fear of being alone. 

 A feeling as though he had done wrong, with loss of ideas, [1]. 

Very fearful, even to starting up, in the evening, [4]. 

Extreme fright from slight cause; the whole body trembled; she seemed paralyzed; an excessive glowing heat mounted into the right cheek, which immediately became swollen and bluish-red and so remained for two hours; she was so affected that she could not again get quiet; all the limbs seemed bruised; violent shaking chills, tottering of the knees, so that she was obliged to lie down, 

He had no courage to live, [4]. 

Wakes with nervous trembling, thumping of heart (batendo forte) and agitation, as if he had been frightened.

Very fearful, even to starting up , in the evening, [4].

On falling asleep she started up as from great fright, which caused a shooting in the teeth, and a hard stitch through the knee, with shivering, [1]. 

She frequently started up in sleep, for she tossed the arms around, [4]. 

Anxiety in sleep soon after falling asleep before midnight; started up in the fright and was anxious until he was awake, [1].

Sleepless at night: on account of anxiety, ebullitions and congestions; from itching; from seeing frightful faces; frequent waking. 

Extreme fright from slight cause; the whole body trembled; she seemed paralyzed;swollen and bluish-red and so remained for two hours; she was so affected that she could not again get quiet; all the limbs seemed bruised; violent shaking chills, toan excessive glowing heat mounted into the right cheek, which immediately became ttering of the knees, so that she was obliged to lie down, [1]

 

Suicide

 

After suppression of foot sweat, whenever he sees an open window or a cutting instrument breaks into a sweat, with great heat of head, and is seized with an almost uncontrollable desire to commit suicide. 

Anxiety driving her to suicide; thoughts of suicide; during menses great anxiety from which she cannot free herself; desire for death; great indifference even to those she formerly loved; crying almost involuntary, with relief; hysteria; hypochondriasis.

Disgust of life.

He had no courage to live, [4]. 

Was much discontented with himself and his condition, without cause, [3]. 

He wished to die, was averse to everything; indifferent even to the dearest objects, [6]. 

Much wretchedness and dejection of spirits, with diarrhœa. s. 


 

Delirium; she uncovers herself at night, pulls the straw about, and scolds; during the day she jumps up high both in the open air and in the house (like a wanton, unrestrained person); she talks and scolds a great deal to herself, does not recognize her nearest relatives, spits a great deal and rubs it over the floor with her feet, then partly licks it up; she also frequently licks up cow dung and mud; she puts small stones into her mouth without swallowing them, and complains that they cut her intestines; she passes many clots of blood with the stool; she does violence to no one, but violently resists any one who attempts to touch her; she abbeys no one, does not come to her meals, though she usually takes her food and drink irregularly through the day; she looks very pale and haggard, and seems much weaker then before, [4].

 

Crime

 

Anxiety and apprehension; did not know what to do; it seemed as though he had committed a crime; without heat; also with a feeling that he had not control over his senses. s.

Anxiety, with seems as though it would drive him far away, as though he had committed a crime, or as though a misfortune were impending, [1]. 

Great restlessness, must constantly change her place; fear, with desire to escape, as if she had committed some crime. θ Hysteria.

*Anxiety and apprehension in the blood; did not know what to do; it seemed as though he had committed a crime; without heat; also with a feeling as though he had not control over his senses, all day, [1]. 

Anxiety, as if he had committed a crime, [6]. 

A feeling as though he had done wrong, with loss of ideas, [1]. 

Uneasiness; he had no rest in any place; could neither stand nor lie, and seemeddelirious, or as though he had committed a great crime, [1]. 

 

Inexpressible sensation of internal, intolerable sickness, wherewith he was taciturn, and would not leave the bed, [1]. 

 

 

With the others

 

Kent: He becomes foolish. Delirium in acute complaints. From his feelings he thinks he must be losing his reason. Desire to kill persons contradicting her. Impulse to kill or commit suicide; sudden anger with impulse to do violence. She has the impulse to commit suicide or violent things, and she is fearful that she will lose her reason and carry the impulses out. Impulsive insanity, then, is a feature, but imbecility is more common than insanity.

These impulses are leading features. The patient will not tell you about his impulses, but they relate to deep evils of the will, they fairly drive him to do something. Given a Merc. patient, and he has impulses that he tries to control, no matter what, Merc. will do something for him.

 

Hysterical melancholia, with inclination to murder. 

Inexpressible pain of soul and body, anxious restlessness, as if some evil impended, < at night, with precordial anguish; sweat of hands and heat of face; disgusted with himself, has not courage to live; constant suspicion, considering everybody his enemy. θ Melancholia. 

Grief, with fear at night; disposition to quarrel; complaining of relations and surroundings. 

Great restlessness as if he had committed a great crime; has no desire for food, although he relishes it when commencing to eat; considers everybody his enemy; ideas constantly crowd upon his mind, one constantly chasing the other away; great inclination when walking to take people by the nose; weakness of memory and intellect; dull and stupid feeling in head; complains that his head will burst. θ Mania.

Desire to kill the person contradicting her. 

Great desire to murder or commit suicide, particularly during menstrual period; despondency; involuntary crying; great indifference; is fearful that she may commit some wrong and kill herself; something urges her to kill her husband, of whom she is very fond, and she implores him to hide his razor. 

Morose and mistrustful; treated his associates almost insultingly, looked upon every one as his worst enemy. s.

He talked senselessly; for example, "See, you have killed a fly on your hand, and just now you forbade me to do it" (which was not so), [1]. 

*Morose and mistrustful all day; he treated his associates almost insultingly, and looked upon everybody as his worst enemy, [7]. 

 

Ailments from mortification; from insults; from egotism. 

 

While taking a walk, he has a strong inclination to pinch the noses of the strangers he meets, [1].

She dreamed of people standing before the window, and thereupon woke; she could not persuade herself that they were not there, [4]. 

Fighting, quarrelsome mood, [1]. 

 

 

With the environment

 

Travel

 

An almost irresistible desire to take a distant journey, [3]. 

Almost uncontrollable desire to travel far away. 

Desire to flee, with nightly anxiety and apprehension.

Homesickness, or desire to travel; wants to go abroad; nightly anxiety and perspiration. 

 

Believes he is losing his reason, thinks he is dying, with illusions of fantasy; sees water running where there is none. s. 

He believes that he is losing his reason, thinks that he is dying, with illusions of fantasy; for example, sees water running where there is none (in the morning), [1]. 

 

He was foolish, played tricks, and made a fool of himself with senseless stuff; in the evening he made a fire in the stove (during the hot summer), laid swords across each other, placed lights in one corner of the room, boots in another, and all the time was fully in earnest; wherewith he was completely indifferent to warmth and cold; but his head was confused and heavy, [1]. 

 

He believed that he was enduring infernal torments, without being able to explain himself, [1]. 

 

Longing for home, [3]. 

 

Was extremely averse to everything, even to music, [1]. 

 He was indifferent to everything in the world; had no desire to eat, and yet, when he ate, relished his food and took as took as much as usual, [1]. 

As soon as she sits down, all parts of the body immediately fall asleep, the thighs and legs, the upper and forearms, together with the hands; also though in less degree, the abdomen, back, and chest, so that she was scarcely sensible of anything; everything seems numb and dead; on motion there is crawling in the part moved, like that noticed on falling asleep of any part, [4]. 

 

All covering, the clothes and bedcovers, seem too heavy, [4]. 

Dreams: of water; thieves; animals; shooting; misfortunes.

 Many fantasies in sleep, [4]. 

Many dreams, [4]. 

Vivid dreams, which he cannot recollect, [3], [7]. 

Vivid agreeable and disagreeable dreams, [7]. 

Numerous historic dreams at night, [1]. 

Anxious dreams (for example, of swallowing a needle), which, however, did not quite wake her, [4]. 

Anxious dreams, with palpitation, from which he could not wake, [1]. 

Dreams causing anxiety, of being bitten by a dog, of rebellion, after midnight, [4]. [1170.]

Frightful dreams at night, as if he were falling from a height, [1]. 

Frightful dreams of shooting, [1]. 

A frightful dream, in which in he started up and thought he was not in his own house, sat up in bed and talked about a far-distant village, [6]. 

Restless nights, dreams of robbers, [1]. 

Dream of a flood, [1]. 

 

 

Work

 

Vivid dreams of the business of the day (when well he never dreamed), [5]. 

No desire for earnest work, [3]. 

Feels sick all over, without any pain; is weak, disinclined to every thing, and fretful, [1]. 

 

 

Male Sexuality

 

Amativeness; amorousness. 

Amorous dream, with erections, without and emission (second night), [3]. 

Lascivious excitement, with painful nightly erections. 

Pollutions; sperm mixed with blood (gonorrhœa); chilliness; sallow face; constipation. 

After emission burning pain in back and icy cold hands. θ Spermatorrhœa. 

Emission, without a voluptuous dream, [7]. 

Emission during the midday nap, followed by burning pain in the orifice of the urethra while urinating, [1]. 

 Nightly emission, [1]. 

Nightly emission mixed with blood, [1]. 

 

Painful erections, [1]. 

Falling asleep (deadness) of the penis, lasting a quarter of an hour, [4]. 

Total loss of sexual power. [merc. v] 

The glans penis is very cold and shrivelled (after three hours), [1]. 

 Incomplete erections, with tension of the pubic region, seeming to be caused by much flatulence, 

 

 

Female Sexuality

 

Coition unusually easy, with certain receptivity and conception, [4]. 

 

Intellect and memory

 

Memory weak; forgets everything. 

 

Hurried and rapid talking, [4].  

 

 

Slow in answering questions. [merc. v] 

Intellect very weak; shows every mark of imbecility. [merc. v] 

Absentmindedness.

Time seems to pass more slowly. 

Embarrassment.

Obtuseness of mental operations, with great inclination to sleep; heaviness and muddledness of head. θ Typhoid. 

Imbecility: foolish, mischievous, disgusting actions. 

Talking was irksome; could not read; the head was confused; could work at nothing, and fell asleep while sitting, [1]. 

Dull and sleepy during the day, [1]. 

 It affects acuteness of thought, makes him dizzy; he does not hear what is spoken, does not comprehend what he is reading, and easily makes mistakes in talking, [1]. 

Thought is very weak; it is extremely difficult to collect his thoughts, and he makes wrong answers to questions (that he himself notices), [1]. 

He is unable to calculate; cannot put his mind on anything, [4]. 

Thoughts entirely vanish, [4].

At times, thought disappears for several minutes, [4]. 

Distraction of mind; while he was at work at anything, something else constantly came into his mind; thoughts constantly thronged upon each other, from time to time (for several days), [3]. 

Coming in spells, in cold cloudy weather, or damp weather, the mind will not work, it is slow and sluggish and he is forgetful. This is noticed in persons who are tending toward imbecility. He cannot answer questions right off, looks and thinks, and finally grasps it. Imbecility and softening of the brain are strong features.

 

Neurological

 

 

Unconsciousness.

Loss of consciousness and speech; she seems to sleep, but is pulseless, with the usual warmth of the body and with the perfect look of a corpse; after an hour consciousness and some sound of the voice returned; she tried to speak but could not; only after twelve hours did speech return, [4]. 

Sopor: coma. [merc. v] 

Mania, with liver complaint. 

 

Fancies; rarely delirium. 

Delirium and mental derangement of drunkards. [merc. v] 

Muttering delirium. [merc. V] 

 

Fainting after sweetish rising in throat, followed by sleep. 

Dull and stupid feeling, with dizziness. 

Weakness in head like a dullness, and as if there was a vibration in forehead and a turning about in a circle. s. 

Prophylactic in apoplexy, in lymphatic, or leuco-phlegmatic, ill nourished subjects.

 

Involuntary motions, which can be momentarily suppressed by volition, or involuntary tremors. [merc. v]

Involuntary motions of head and hands. [merc. v] 

 

Convulsions: with cries; rigidity, bloated abdomen, itching of nose and thirst; < at night; much salivation; child takes cold and salivation is arrested; mostly in extremities; epileptic, at night. 


 

 

NERVES.

 

Great irritability of all the organs. θ Yellow fever. 

 

Involuntary motions which can be momentarily suppressed by volition, or involuntary tremors. [merc. v] 

Involuntary motions of head and hands. [merc. v] 

Nervousness and trembling of hands. 

Paroxysmal trembling. 

General tremors, with stammering of speech. [merc. v] 

Tremors always commencing in fingers. [merc. v] 

Trembling of hands and tongue. [merc. v] 

Tremor of hands so that he could not lift anything, eat or write; marked tremor of neck and lower extremities. [merc. v] 

Jerkings. s. 

 

Convulsions: with cries; rigidity, bloated abdomen, itching of nose and thirst; < at night; much salivation; child takes cold and salivation is arrested; mostly in extremities; epileptic, at night. 

Rheumatic patients with night sweats, tearing, lancinating pains, sensation of cold in affected parts, < at night; great weakness; hot flashes from least exertion; pale face and evanescent redness on cheeks. θ Neuralgia. 

Paralysis agitans. 

Paralysis of lower extremities. θ Spinal meningitis. 

Limbs stiff but can be moved by others. θ Paralysis. 

Occasional jerks in paralyzed parts. θ Meningitis.

 

 

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

 

Weakness/weariness

     

 

Great debility. θ Rheumatism. θ Typhoid.   

Rheumatic patients with night sweats, tearing, lancinating pains, sensation of cold in affected parts, < at night; great weakness; hot flashes from least exertion; pale face and evanescent redness on cheeks. θ Neuralgia. 

Lassitude, and a feeling as though lead were in the veins, more while sitting, [1]. 

*Weary, especially while sitting, as if all his limbs would fall from him, [1]. 

*Great weariness, [1]. 

 While sitting, was not at all weak, but very much so on walking in the least, so that the upper and lower extremities ached very much, as if he had walked a long distance, [1]. 

Weakness, less while walking than while standing, [1].

Weakness, with depression of spirits, [1]. 

He became quite weak, tremulous, and dizzy, while washing his feet, [8].  Is attacked with great weakness every afternoon about 5 or 6 o'clock, [1]. 

Great weakness, in the evening, [1]. 

Very weak from slight motion, [1]. 

After slight effort, great exhaustion, weakness, trembling, sensation of heat (ninth day), [8]. 

He was very much exhausted after a stool, accompanied by much griping, [1]. 

Prostration, with an inexpressible sick feeling of body and mind, obliging him to lie down, [1]. 

Paroxysms as if internally prostrated in mind and body, [1]

Great debility. θ Rheumatism. θ Typhoid. 

Great weakness, ebullitions and trembling from exertion. 

Lassitude; weakness, approaching palsy. [merc. v] 

Weary, especially while sitting, as if all his limbs would fall from him. s. 

Weakness, with depression of spirits. s.  

Lassitude, and a feeling as though lead were in the veins, more while sitting, [1].

 Weary, especially while sitting, as if all his limbs would fall from him, [1]. 

While sitting, was not at all weak, but very much so on walking in the least, so that the upper and lower extremities ached very much, as if he had walked a long distance, 

[Weakness, less while walking than while standing, [1].

Weakness, with depression of spirits, [1]. 

He became quite weak, tremulous, and dizzy, while washing his feet, [8]. 

Great weakness; he could scarcely proceed, [6]. 

Is attacked with great weakness every afternoon about 5 or 6 o'clock, [1]. 

Great weakness, in the evening, [1]. 

Very weak from slight motion, [1]. 

After slight effort, great exhaustion, weakness, trembling, sensation of heat (ninth day), [8]. 

Prostration, with an inexpressible sick feeling of body and mind, obliging him to lie down, [1]. 

 

Faintness

 

                                                                                   

Frequent fainting. θ Metrorrhagia.

 

Numbness

 

As soon as she sits down, all parts of the body immediately fall asleep, the thighs and legs, the upper and forearms, together with the hands; also though in less degree, the abdomen, back, and chest, so that she was scarcely sensible of anything; everything seems numb and dead; on motion there is crawling in the part moved, like that noticed on falling asleep of any part, [4]. 

Falling asleep of the head, both arms, and both thighs, while lying down, [4]. 

 

Feels sick all over, without any pain; is weak, disinclined to every thing, and fretful, [1]. 

 Inexpressible sensation of internal, intolerable sickness, wherewith he was taciturn, and would not leave the bed, [1]. 

All covering, the clothes and bedcovers, seem too heavy