Understanding Chamomilla

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

 

After reading so many times the Chamomilla proving symptoms, one should ask: Why is she so much angered? Why there’s no peace in her life?

There’s no such a moment of happiness, of joy, “nothing pleases” her.

Kent says that the Chamomilla patient is very rude, “she forgets all about her prudence and diplomacy”.

Not only she is angered and peevish, but she is also looking for a fight or for a quarrel, “she seeks a cause for being peevish at everything; can't return a civil answer”.

She is never satisfied, nothing pleases, even people. She is always spiting out her criticism towards the others, “everything that another does is wrong”.

Again, nothing pleases her.

Most of the symptoms are following the same track: “Great impatience, everything seems to go too slowly’.

The child slaps his nanny’s face when displeased.

Critical, impatient, angered, displeased, always quarrelling with the others, that’s our Chamomilla patient.

 

He cannot endure being spoken to, or interrupted, especially after rising from sleep, with sluggish pupils, difficult to dilate and to contract (after ten hours), [1]. [The disease, sometimes dangerous, similar to an acute bilious fever, which is caused by violent vexations anger, with heat of the face, unquenchable thirst, bilious taste, anxiety, uneasiness, etc., has so much homœopathic similarity to the symptoms of Chamomilla that it cannot be otherwise than that Chamomilla should relieve the whole trouble speedily and specifically; one drop of the diluted juice, as above mentioned, removes this condition as by magic. -Hahnemann

She becomes almost furious about the pain; she cannot bear her clothes to touch the part affected. 

Over sensitiveness to pain, which seems unbearable and drives to despair. 

Milk fever, after anger. 

Metritis, after violent anger, 

Puerperal convulsions, after anger

 

 

About her world, what Chamomilla sees? The prover had become indifferent and usual things are making any impression on him. Worse, he abhors music and shudders at sight of food, so repugnant it is. 

But - once again - why is she so angered? Why she became someone like this?

Why is she so frustrated, sad, quarrelsome?

 

He cannot stop talking about old vexations circumstances,. 

Moaning on account of a very trifling offense, which had happened a long time ago. 

Bad effects of having felling wounded. 

Thoughts of dying. 

 

Chamomilla, instead of bottle things up, sputters and shouts. Instead of weep, he will strike and hit the nearest person. But she had been hurt long before.

Strikes the nurse in the face for presuming to, get something or other that the little one did not want, yet had asked for. Capriciousness. It seems that the pains and sufferings are sometimes ameliorated by passive motion, this very particularly in children.

He doesn’t like company, comfort and friendship. He doesn’t like to stay with people and the proving says that he doesn’t recognize his friends and relatives. Far from that, Kent says that Chamomilla loss of generosity: she has no consideration for the feelings of others. She will simply enter into a quarrel or dispute regardless of the feelings of anybody.

 

Chamomilla, on the other way, can be someone scrupulous and conscientious. Could his anger, criticism and strong irritability of the senses be only a result of offences, disappointment and quarrels, due to his excessive conscientiousness?

And if anyone around her isn’t doing the right thing? If nothing is correct, nothing lies in its proper place? And if nothing offered to her is what she expected? But it seems that this is not the point.

 

She makes conscientious scruples about everything 

 

Where does it start? 

What were Chamomilla’s first sensations?

Chamomilla is in a state of confusion and miscomprehension of reality.

 

 He understands and comprehends nothing aright, as if a kind of deafness prevented him, or as if he were in a waking dream (after one hour and a half),. 

 

And this waking dream is a nightmare. And he is desperate, anxious and frightened. He runs from one side to the other, hoping to get relieved from that beast the chases him out of the room. He is fighting for his life, looking for help that never comes. And he wants protection, care, support and help.

 

Dreams: anxious; she sees horrible apparitions and starts; about fatal accidents. 

Utters sudden, startling and piercing cries on waking out of sleep, vows there is some dreadful beast under his bed or in the room and will not be appeased until the gas is lit and the room is searched; a boy, æt. 4. θ Nightmare. 

The child lies senseless, completely without consciousness; frequent changes in the face, distortion of the eyes, contraction of the facial muscles, rattling in the chest, with much cough; it yawns and stretches very much,

Convulsions of children now one leg, now another, is alternately moved up and down; the child grasps and reaches for something with the hands, and draws the mouth back and forth, with staring eyes.

 

One of my late remembrances from my childhood happened with my father. We were returning from the beach in a lovely sunny afternoon and, as we walked in the sidewalk, I suddenly started to feel my feet burning and painful due to the heat. I remember my father bending down and taking me in his lap and so protecting me and releasing me from that burning ground. Reading the Chamomilla symptoms I couldn’t avoid remember the sensation of being take in my father’s lap, a mixture of release, protection, care and love. Everything will be fine, when we are carried in our parent’s lap…

 

The child can only be quiet when carried on the arm.

Kent: Children must be carried. The nurse is compelled to carry the child all the time.

The child goes two or three times up and down the room with the nurse, and then reaches out for its mother; goes two or three times up and down the room with her and then wants to go to its father. And so it is changing about. Never satisfied. It seems to have no peace.

 

The release from fear and pain doesn’t happen to Chamomilla, as his nightmare continues, on and on. In due time, Chamomilla will be disappointed with his family and friends. Sensitive, distant, indifferent, hurt, angered and unable to trust anyone, pursued by his fears. How can he trust his doctor, as he is part of the human group on which Chamomilla could never rely upon?

 

Fear of Wind:

It seems that Fear of Wind can be connected to something that is bound to happen at anytime. As a punishment, as the “four winds” that are described in the Bible’s Exodus, bringing the plague to Egypt. So, fear of wind is the thread, the menace that continuously pursues our patient, this time in a form of God’s punishment.

 

Isaiah 32:2

‪Each will be like a refuge from the wind 

And a shelter from the storm, 

Like streams of water in a dry country, 

Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land.

 

Psalms 11:6

‪Upon the wicked He will rain snares; 

Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.

Jeremiah 10:13 ‪When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,  And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;  He makes lightning for the rain,  And brings out the wind from His storehouses.

 

His fears from childhood had become, some years later, a criticism towards the others. 

In the beginning, Cham could see the Evil. Could hear the message from above.

Something very heavy is coming due to the sin of men.

He was not protected during his childhood from the evil things. His family failed in protecting him from evil. They don’t deserve any trust, confidence. How can he trust his doctor?

The evil is now inside; the mistakes, wrongs and sins of everybody else. And there is no protection against God’s punishment. Men have done wrong, they didn’t listen and now they will all pay for it. That’s the message in the wind, the words from God. No one should be trusted. We will all pay for men’s mistakes. They didn’t listened to what Cham. had seen.

Could we suppose that Cham can see the evil around and inside us? A lovely and delicate flower, opened up to the sun and to the wind, in fact has eyes to see what is evil around us?

 

Obs.

Dr. Masi Elisalde hypothesis on Chamomilla is that he had rebelled against his human condition – that is to suffer all his physiological necessities, things like bearing a child, to digest the food, to go to stool, to pass water, or even to feel any sort of pain. This is because all of his physiological functions represent to him only suffering and pain and his anger and many of his symptoms are related to that. 

 

Chamomilla Groups

Hahnemann, Hering, Allen & Kent

 

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

 

Humor

 

Anxiety

 

Attacks of anxiety. 

Full of anxiety, with great uneasiness. 

Anxiety with ineffectual urging to urinate, without much urine in bladder. 

Anxiety, as if he was obliged to go to stool and ease himself, [1]. 

Anxiety, with ineffectual urging to urinate, without much urine in the bladder, [1]. 

Anxiety while urinating without any mechanical hindrance, [1]. 

Repeated attacks of anxiety during the day, [1]. 

Full of anxiety, with great uneasiness (forty-five minutes after 10 drops), [11]. 

He is beside himself on account of anxiety; weeps and sweats profusely, [1]. 

Very anxious; everything that she undertakes is very unsatisfactory; she is irresolute, with flushes of heat in the face, and cool sweat in the palms, [1].

He is excessively anxious in bed, about not out of it, with rapidly changing pupils, [Hypochondriac anxiety, [1].

Trembling anxiety, with palpitation (after one hour), [1]. 

 

Peevishness, Fretfulness, Irritability

 

Peevish disposition, nothing pleases. 

Peevish about everything, with dyspnœa. 

Quarrelsome.

Peevishness; she seeks a cause for being peevish at everything; can't return a civil answer.

Fretful and easily irritated. 

Fretful, out of humor and obstinate, even to quarreling, on appearance of menses. 

He frets internally about every trifle. 

Very irritable and fretful; child must be carried. 

Very irritable; moaning and groaning. 

Irritable, impatient mood. 

Great impatience, everything seems to go too slowly. 

She is sleepless and cross. 

Kent: The irritability is so great that it manifests itself sometimes in a very singular way. The patient seems to be driven to frenzy by the pains, and she forgets all about her prudence and her diplomacy. Loss of generosity: she has no consideration for the feelings of others. She will simply enter into a quarrel or dispute regardless of the feelings of anybody.

So, when you go into practice, do not be surprised when you go to the bedside of a patient in labor, who is full of pains and sufferings, if she says:

"Doctor, I don't want you, get out." just such an one will pass under other circumstances as a lady. The awful pains that she is having drive her to frenzy, and this frenzy, this over sensitiveness to pain, is coupled with the mental state.

Inability to control her temper, and the temper is aroused to white heat. 

Ill-humored and irritable, the whole day. 

She is always out of humor, particularly at her menstrual periods, when she is headstrong even unto quarreling. 

In all her sufferings there is a vein of ill humor; she can hardly speak pleasantly; feels like scolding about everything; she often gives vent to her ill humor in spite of all restraint. 

Easily chagrined or excited to anger. 

Insulting, cross and uncivil in temper. 

Great tendency to quarrel, to speak in an obstreperous manner. 

The disposition, which was formerly very much affected by every depressing or exciting circumstance, was soothed by Chamomilla at the beginning of every proving, so that he became equable and insensible to every provocation; after awhile, however, a certain exhaustion, indolence, and inactivity of mind appeared, which ceased on stopping the remedy, and the former irritability returned, [10]. 

All bad effects following anger. θ Convulsions. θ Chill. θ Fever. θ Bilious complaints. 

Excited, irritable temper, [22]. 

Irritable mood, [1]. 

Mood irritable; easily becomes impatient (third day after 5 drops), [11]. 

Disposition irritable and impatient, [11]. 

Since taking this drug, the great irritability of disposition has very much diminished even to the point of being blunted, [9]. 

Ill-humored and irritable, the whole day (third day), [14].

Ill-humor; he suspects that he has been imposed upon, [1]. 

Peevish disposition (22 and 24 grains), [21]. 

The disposition was quiet during the whole day, though *the pains sometimes made him very peevish, especially those which involved the joints, and extended along the bones as paralytic and drawing pains; the wrist-pains sometimes seemed intolerable, although they were not very severe, and were transient, [11]. [It seems remarkable that Herr H. should characterize these pains as intolerable, and as making him so uncomfortable and fretful, especially as he did not know what he was taking. -Prof. Hoppe.] 

Peevishness; she seeks a cause for being peevish at everything (after thee hours), [1]. Peevish about everything, with dyspnœa, [1]. 

Fretful, and easily irritated (third and fourth days), [17]. 

His hypochondriac whims and his peevishness about the most trifling circumstances seem to him to depend upon stupidity and heaviness of the head and constipation, [1].

He is constantly fretful and inclined to be peevish, [1]. 

Morning, on rising, fretful and disinclined to mental labor; during the day better (second day), [17]. 

Fretful, out of humor, and obstinate, even to quarrelling, on the appearance of the menses, [1]. 

Fretfulness, for two hours, [1].

Fretfulness, after eating dinner, [1]. 

Morose fretfulness; everything that another does is wrong; no one does anything to please him, [1]. 

He frets internally about every trifle, [1]. 

Disposed to anger, scorn, and quarrelsomeness (after two hours), [1]. 

 Morose, inclined to scorn (after twelve hours), [1]. 

Talks with aversion, in a short, abrupt way, [2]. 

"Great impatience," everything seems to go too slowly (fifteen minutes after 5 drops), [11]. 

Involuntary moaning, with heat of face. 

Gastralgia; in highly irritable persons, or following vexation; pressure as from a stone in scrobiculum and under short ribs, left side, and short breathing, anxiety, fear, restlessness, tossing about, sometimes throbbing headache on vertex, driving patient out of bed; < after a meal or at night.

Aversion to talk

 

Averse to talking, short and snappish. 

Disinclined to talk, is angry if anyone speaks to her. 

Introversion, she cannot be induced to say a word. 

Cannot endure being spoken to, or interrupted while speaking, especially after rising from sleep. 

He cannot endure being spoken to, or interrupted, especially after rising from sleep, with sluggish pupils, difficult to dilate and to contract (after ten hours), [1]. [The disease, sometimes dangerous, similar to an acute bilious fever, which is caused by violent vexations anger, with heat of the face, unquenchable thirst, bilious taste, anxiety, uneasiness, etc., has so much homœopathic similarity to the symptoms of Chamomilla that it cannot be otherwise than that Chamomilla should relieve the whole trouble speedily and specifically; one drop of the diluted juice, as above mentioned, removes this condition as by magic. -H.]

 

Sensitive to pain

 

She becomes almost furious about the pain; she cannot bear her clothes to touch the part affected. 

Over sensitiveness to pain, which seems unbearable and drives to despair. 

Not applicable to persons patient under influence of pain. 

The pains are very distressing, she feels that she can hardly bear them; she wishes to get away from herself. θ Labor. 

 

Restlessness

 

Great restlessness and anxiety. 

Restless and impatient, with fever. 

Excessive uneasiness, anxiety, agonizing tossing about, with tearing pains in abdomen. 

Great restlessness and inward chilliness. 

 

Earnest and taciturn mood; reconciled to his fate, about which he is deeply affected (later action), [1]. 

 

Weeping mood

 

Weeping and wailing, [1]. 

Weeping mood and despondency; she complains of loss of sleep on account of general bruised feeling in the limbs, [2]. 

Cries piteously (after four hours), [1]. [10.] 

Moaning on account of a very trifling offence, which had happened a long time ago, [1].

Moaning and groaning on account of ill-humor (after five hours), [1]. 

Involuntary moaning, with heat of the face, [1]. 

 

Sadness, depression

 

Mood depressed and uneasy (eight days after 60 drops), [11]. 

Very depressed mood, with anxiety and oppression, as of impending evil (twenty minutes after 5 drops), [11].

Reflective; one cannot get a word out of her, [2]. 

Sadness.

Melancholia, with constant moaning and muttering to herself, walks all the time with downcast eyes. 

 

Exitement

 

Disposition again much more excited than usual (seventh day after 60 drops), [11]. 

Mood somewhat excited, uneasy (fifth day), [7]. 

During sleep: moaning; weeping and wailing; snoring inspirations with open mouth; starting up, crying out, tossing about and talking; headache and other pain are felt; hot, sticky sweat on forehead; twitching of muscles. 

 

 

With Himself/Herself

 

Hopelessness.

Thoughts of dying. 

 

Obstinacy.

Bad effects of having felling wounded. 

He cannot stop talking about old vexations circumstances, [1]. 

(She makes conscientious scruples about everything), [1]. 

Morose fretfulness; everything that another does is wrong; no one does anything to please him. 

 

 

Fear

 

Apprehensiveness (tenth day), [14]. 

Apprehensive feeling and depressed mood (soon after 60 drops), [11]. 

Scarcely sleeps, and on falling asleep is tormented by vivid, fanciful, anxious and frightening dreams. 

Great dread of wind, [1]. 

Kent: At times the Chamomilla patient becomes so full of visions and so much excited during the forepart of the night in his efforts to go to sleep that when be does go to sleep he jerks and twitches and has horrid dreams, and is full of sufferings.

Dreams: anxious; she sees horrible apparitions and starts; about fatal accidents. 

 

 

With the Others

 

Imagines he hears voices of absent persons, at nights, cannot compose himself to sleep. 

At night, it seems as though he hears the voices of absent persons, [1]. 

Illusions of hearing, at night, as though voices of absent persons where heard. 

 

Tries to get away from her friends if they seek to comfort her. 

Patient cannot bear any one near him, and answers snappishly. 

Mistrust.

When waking, while yet overpowered with sleep, he mistakes familiar persons for quite different ones (larger ones), [1]. 

 

Kent: Loss of generosity: she has no consideration for the feelings of others. She will simply enter into a quarrel or dispute regardless of the feelings of anybody.

So, when you go into practice, do not be surprised when you go to the bedside of a patient in labor, who is full of pains and sufferings, if she says:

"Doctor, I don't want you, get out." just such an one will pass under other circumstances as a lady. The awful pains that she is having drive her to frenzy, and this frenzy, this over sensitiveness to pain, is coupled with the mental state.

Inability to control her temper, and the temper is aroused to white heat*. 

    *the temperature or state of something that is so hot that it emits white light.

 

With the Environment

 

Want of attention, careless; external objects make no impression upon him; he is indifferent to everything (after two hours), [1].

Indifference.

 

Cannot bear music. 

Great sensitiveness to noise, especially to music. θ Otalgia. 

She cannot endure music.

Extremely sensitive to all odors. 

 

When food is set before him, it makes him shudder, it is so repugnant.

 

 

Work

 

Dread of every work, [1]. [20.] 

Disinclination for mental work (soon), [8]. 

Great disinclination for mental work, [9]. 

Exhaustion of mind (fourth day after 60 drops), [11]. 

Complete mental exhaustion, in the evening, [9]. 

He is easily exhausted by reflecting, [1]. 

 

 

Male Sexuality

 

Erections, in the morning in bed, [1].

Violent erections (soon after taking), [11]. 

Violent erections, soon after taking, but they disappear in thirty-five minutes, with a general flush of heat over the whole body, followed by slight sweat, with which all the former symptoms were relieved, and only a slight nausea remained, [11].

Violent erections (twenty minutes after 20 drops; forty-five minutes after 5 drops; fourth day after 5 drops), [11]. 

Frequent violent erections, during the whole afternoon (fourth hour after 20 drops), [11].

Violent erections, and excited sexual desire; also nightly emissions.

 

 

Female Sexuality

 

Toothache during pregnancy, pains render her frenzied. 

 

Threatened abortion, with discharge of dark blood; frequent urination, urine profuse and pale; great restlessness and agony; irritability; heaviness of whole abdomen; frequent yawning, chills and shuddering. 

Labor pain press upward; she is hot and thirsty, cross and inclined to scold. 

Labor pains spasmodic and distressing; tearing pains down legs; she is oversensitive to the pain, wishes to get away from herself; is irritable and snappish, desires fresh air; says she must and will get up. 

Spasmodic distressing labor pains during pregnancy, preventing sleep; irritability. 

Violent labor pains and tearing in veins of legs, with discharge of dark, coagulated blood. 

Hour glass contraction; irritable; thirsty; desire for fresh air; restless. 

Rigidity of os; scarcely able to endure the pains. 

After pains very acute and distressing. 

Constant violent after pains on second day after delivery of fourth child; become unbearable when child nurses, so that she screams out. 

Too long continued after pains. 

Milk fever, after anger. 

Metritis, after violent anger, especially after parturition, and lochia generally increased. 

Puerperal fever, with great restlessness, excitement, sore breasts, absence of milk; mucous, greenish, watery, milky diarrhœa, profuse lochia, with labor-like pains, going through from back to front. 

Puerperal convulsions, after anger; or has one red cheek, the other being pale. 

Suppression of lochia, followed by irritability, diarrhœa, colic and toothache. 

 

Milk runs out in nursing women. 

Suppression of milk from a fit of anger. 

Distress after nursing. 

Mamma hard and tender to touch, with drawing pains; is fretful, sleepless and cross. 

 

 

Childhood

 

Kent: Children must be carried. The nurse is compelled to carry the child all the time. And then there is the restlessness and capriciousness about the members of the family. The child goes two or three times up and down the room with the nurse, and then reaches out for its mother; goes two or three times up and down the room with her and then wants to go to its father. And so it is changing about. Never satisfied. It seems to have no peace.

When it has earache the sharp shooting pains cause the child to screech out. Carries the hand to the ear. The pains often cause that sharp, piercing tone of the voice. 

Now, in the child, the child whines and cries and sputters about everything. It wants something new every minute. It refuses everything that it has asked for. If it is for something to eat, for something to play with, for its toys, when these are handed to the child it throws them away; slings them clear across the room.

Strikes the nurse in the face for presuming to, get something or other that the little one did not want, yet had asked for. Capriciousness. It seems that the pains and sufferings are sometimes ameliorated by passive motion, this very particularly in children.

 

Child lies senseless, completely without consciousness; frequent changes in face, distortion of eyes, contraction of facial muscles, rattling in chest, with much cough; it yawns and stretches very much. 

Child cries; quiet only when carried. 

Utters sudden, startling and piercing cries on waking out of sleep, vows there is some dreadful beast under his bed or in the room, and will not be appeased until the gas is lit and the room is searched; a boy, æt. 4. θ Nightmare. 

Piteous moaning of child because he cannot have what he wants. 

Moaning on account of a very trifling offense, which had happened a long time ago. 

Whining restlessness; the child wants this and that, which, when offered, is refused or pushed away. 

Child becomes stiff and bends itself backwards, kicks with its feet when carried, screams immoderately, and throws everything off. 

Child does not wish to be touched. 

The child can only be quieted by carrying it on the arm. 

Jerking and twitching in its sleep, or the nurse may have had a fit of anger, which causes the convulsions in the child. 

Croup of children; spasm of chest, with suffocative attacks after anger; child wants to be carried.

The child becomes angry and then coughs.

Child gets relief from being carried.

The child can only be quiet when carried on the arm, [1].

Piteous moaning of a child because he cannot have what he wants (after three hours), [1]. 

 

Child draws mouth back and forth, or from side to side. θ Teething. θ Convulsions.

Teething children: with watery, greenish and also chopped diarrhœa, smelling like rotten eggs; jerking of limbs or starting; convulsions; child bends double and draws legs upon abdomen; moaning; want to be carried; dry cough; restless at night; want to drink; quick rattling breathing.

Infants: screaming day and night, often without cause; incipient hydrocephalus; stoppage of nose, or watery moisture running from nose; inflammation of intestines, when stools are thin, watery, accompanied by much pain, < at night; the little sleep at night disturbed by frequent starting; incipient marasmus, frequent diarrheic stools, occasionally swelling of glands, abdomen tense and hard; hernia; scream with colic; frequent diarrheic stool corroding anus; screaming with great restlessness, tossing about, colic, drawing up of legs; troublesome, dry cough; pneumonia; catarrhal irritation, loose cough, rattling breathing; cardiac anguish; induration of mammary glands, tender to touch; erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of breasts; convulsive twitching of limbs, when falling asleep; incipient spasms; epileptic attacks; feverish condition with irritated nerves, anxiety and restlessness, easily startled; abrasions and chafing; rash. 

Children have spasms in consequence of nursing milk vitiated by a fit of anger.

Child suddenly stiffens body and bends backwards, kicks when carried, screams immoderately and throws everything off. θ Dentition. 

 

Convulsions of children: child becomes stiff, rolls its eyes, distorts face, twitches, throws its limbs about, clenches thumbs, bends body backward or sideways, has rattling breathing, with foam at mouth; moves legs up and down alternately, grasps and reaches with hands, mouth drawn from side to side, eyes staring, or eyes and face distorted; stupor. θ Dentition. 

Convulsive condition of little children, with distended abdomen, greenish, whitish, chopped, frequent stools; vomiting of sour smelling fluid. 

Tetanic convulsions following measles. 

 

Horrid nightmare; child awakes three or four times nightly with fearful fright, uttering sudden startling and piercing cries, and vows there is some dreadful beast under the bed or in his room; nervous, peevish and fretful. 

Child is very feverish and cross. θ Dentition.

The child lies senseless, completely without consciousness; frequent changes in the face, distortion of the eyes, contraction of the facial muscles, rattling in the chest, with much cough; it yawns and stretches very much, [1].

Convulsions of children now one leg, now another, is alternately moved up and down; the child grasps and reaches for something with the hands, and draws the mouth back and forth, with staring eyes, [1].

Whining restlessness; the child wants this and that, and when it is given he will not have it, or pushes it from him (after four hours), [1]. 

 

 

Intellectual

 

Absence of mind. 

When writing or speaking, he omits whole words. 

Dullness.

A joyless dullness of senses, with sleepiness, without, however, being able to sleep. 

Dullness of senses, diminished power of comprehension. 

Confusion of head, with transient painful pressure on eyes, in afternoon. 

Great mental excitement (ten minutes after 5 drops), [11]. 

At night while awake and sitting up in bed, he talks strangely, [1]. 

 

Confused, excited mind, [18]. 

He stammers, uses wrong expressions, and corrects himself (after four hours), [1].

He understood a question wrongly and answered incorrectly, with subdued voice, as if he were delirious (after six hours), [1]. 

When writing or speaking, he omits whole words, [1]. 

Thoughts vanish, [1]. 

Absence of mind; he sits lost in thought, [1]. 

Great distraction of mind, even amounting to loss of ideas and inability to reflect earnestly for any length of time, in the afternoon, [11]. 

Dullness of the sense, diminished comprehension (after four, five, and six hours), [1].

 A joyless dullness of the senses, with sleepiness, without, however, being able to sleep, 

He understands and comprehends nothing aright, as if a kind of deafness prevented him, or as if he were in a waking dream (after one hour and a half), [1]. 

 

 

Neurological

 

Insensibility.

Imbecility.

Ecstasies and delirium. 

He tosses about the bed, with febrile heat and redness of cheeks, and talks confusedly, with open eyes. 

Tosses anxiously about bed at night, full of fancies. 

 

Slight stupefaction, with some vertigo, [11].

Slight sensation of stupefaction, with a compressive feeling of the brain, [11]. 

Coma vigil, or rather an inability to open the eyes; slumbering without sleep, quick expiration, and tearing headache in the forehead, with nausea (after one hour and a half), 

 

Dreams

 

Sleep at night full of dreams, not unpleasant, [11]. 

Very clear vivid dreams, as of a connected story, [1]. 

Sleep full of fantastic dreams, [1]. 

He fell asleep easily in the evening, but during the night he had uneasy dreams, in which he was very anxious and oppressed (first night), [6]. 

Quarrelsome vexatious dreams, [1]. 

He talks in his dream, with vivid memory and reflection, [1].