Schizophrenia
|
Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Lachesis | Sensation of tension in
various parts
Cannot bear anything tight anywhere Great loquacity Amative Sad in the morning; no desire to mix with the world Restless and uneasy; does not wish to attend to business; wants to be off somewhere all the time Jealous Mental labor best performed at night Suspicious; nightly delusion of fire Religious insanity Derangement of the time sense Craving for alcohol, oysters Any food causes distress Hungry, cannot wait for food Constipated, offensive stool Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow Intense excitement of sexual organs Patient sleeps into an aggravation Sudden starting when falling asleep Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep Wide-awake in evening |
After
sleep, sleeps into aggravation
Left side In the spring Warm bath Pressure or constriction Hot drinks Closing eyes |
Appearance
of discharges
Warm applications |
| Belladonna | Furious excitement, perverted
special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain
Hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of all senses Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water Heat, redness, throbbing and burning Great children's remedy No thirst, anxiety or fear Violence of attack and suddenness of onset Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by specters and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within Is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic illusions Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces Frightful images; furious; rages, bites, strikes; desire to escape Disinclined to talk Perversity, with tears Acuteness of all senses Changeableness Loss of appetite Averse to meat and milk Great thirst for cold water Abhorrence of liquids Dread of drinking Sexual desire diminished Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse; very offensive and hot Sleep restless, crying out, gritting of teeth Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels Screams out in sleep Sleeplessness, with drowsiness Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep Sleeps with hands under head |
Touch
Jar Noise Draught After noon Lying down |
Semi-erect |
| Hyoscyamus | As
if some diabolical force took possession of the brain and prevented its
functions
Mania of a quarrelsome and obscene character Inclined to be unseemly and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions Very talkative, and persists in stripping herself, or uncovering genitals Is jealous, afraid of being poisoned, etc Very suspicious Talkative, obscene, lascivious mania, uncovers body; jealous, foolish Great hilarity; inclined to laugh at everything Low, muttering speech Impotence Excited sexual desire During menses, convulsive movements, urinary flux and sweat Intense sleeplessness Sopor, with convulsions Starts up frightened |
At
night
During menses After eating When lying down |
Stooping |
| Cannabis Indica | A condition of intense
exaltation, in which all perceptions and conceptions, all sensations
and all emotions are exaggerated to the utmost degree.
Subconscious or dual nature state; apparently under the control of the second self, but, the original self, prevents the performance of acts which are under the domination of the second self; apparently the two natures cannot act independently, one acting as a check, upon the other Feels ever and anon that he is distinct from the subject of the hashish dream and can think rationally. Most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations, exaggeration of the duration of time and extent of space Conception of time, space and place is gone Extremely happy and contented, nothing troubles Ideas crowd upon each other Excessive loquacity; exuberance of spiritsTime seems too long; seconds seem ages; a few rods an immense distance Constantly theorizing Anxious depression; constant fear of becoming insane Very forgetful; cannot finish sentence Is lost in delicious thought Uncontrollable laughter Clairvoyance Emotional excitement; rapid change of mood Cannot realize her identity, chronic vertigo as of floating off Increased appetite Urine loaded with slimy mucus; must strain; dribbling; has to wait some time before the urine flows Menses profuse, dark, painful, without clots Very sleepy, but unable to do so Dreams of dead bodies; prophetic |
Morning
From coffee Liquor and tobacco Lying on right side |
From
fresh air
Cold water Rest |
| Phosphorus | Tall, slender persons, narrow
chested, with thin, transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids,
with great nervous debility, emaciation, amative tendencies
Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc Great lowness of spirits Easily vexed Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner Clairvoyant state Great tendency to start Over-sensitive to external impressions Loss of memory Ecstasy Dread of death when alone Brain feels tired Excitable, produces heat all over Restless, fidgety Hypo-sensitive, indifferent Hunger soon after eating Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal Belching large quantities of wind, after eating Very fetid stools and flatus; long, narrow, hard, like a dog's; difficult to expel Urine turbid, brown, with red sediment Lack of power; irresistible desire; involuntary emissions, with lascivious dreams Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long; weeps before menses Leucorrha profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses Great drowsiness, especially after meals Vivid dreams of fire; of hæmorrhage; lascivious dreams Goes to sleep late and awakens weak Short naps and frequent wakings |
Touch
Physical or mental exertion Twilight Warm food or drink Change of weather From getting wet in hot weather Evening Lying on left or painful side During a thunder-storm Ascending stairs |
In dark
Lying on right side Cold food Cold Open air Washing with cold water Sleep |
| Rhus Tox | Motion always "limbers
up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a
change of position
Listless, sad Thoughts of suicide Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position Sensorium becomes cloudy Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed. Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst Bitter taste Desire for milk Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat Drowsy after eating Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid Dreams of great exertion Heavy sleep, as from stupor Sleepless before midnight |
During
sleep
Cold, wet rainy weather and after rain At night During rest Drenching When lying on back or right side |
Warm, dry weather
Motion Walking Change of position Rubbing Warm applications From stretching out limbs |
| Sulphur | Ebullitions of heat
Dislike of water Dry and hard hair and skin Red orifices Sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am Dirty, filthy; prone to skin affections Aversion to being washed When carefully-selected remedies fail to act, especially in acute diseases Complaints that relapse General offensive character of discharge and exhalations. Often great use in beginning the treatment of chronic cases and in finishing acute ones Very forgetful Difficult thinking Delusions; thinks rags beautiful things-that he is immensely wealthy Busy all the time Childish peevishness in grown people Irritable Affections vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others Religious melancholy Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse himself Imagining giving wrong things to people, causing their death Complete loss of, or excessive appetite Putrid eructation Food tastes too salty Drinks much, eats little Milk disagrees Great desire for sweets Great acidity, sour eructation Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat Water fills the patient up Frequent micturition, especially at night Mucus and pus in urine; parts sore over which it passes Must hurry, sudden call to urinate Great quantities of colorless urine Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore Menses preceded by headache or suddenly stopped Leucorrha, burning, excoriating Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep Vivid dreams Wakes up singing; wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly Catnaps; slightest noise awakens Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am |
At rest
When standing Warmth in bed Washing Bathing In morning 11 am Night From alcoholic stimulants Periodically |
Dry, warm weather
Lying on right side From drawing up affected limbs |
| Anacardium | Impaired memory,
depression, and irritability
Diminution of senses Intermittency of symptoms Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse Sensation of a plug in various parts-eyes, rectum, bladder, etc; also of a band Fixed ideas Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills Anxiety when walking, as if pursued Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language Absent mindedness Very easily offended Malicious; seems bent on wickedness Lack of confidence in himself or others Suspicious Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead Absence of all moral restraint Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams Leucorrha, with soreness and itching Menses scanty Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights Anxious dreams |
On application of hot water | From eating
When lying on side From rubbing |
| Kali Phos | Prostration
Weak and tired Especially adapted to the young Conditions arising from want of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy Indisposition to meet people Extreme lassitude and depression Very nervous, starts easily, irritable Night terrors Loss of memory Slightest labor seems a heavy task Great despondency about business Shyness; disinclined to converse Menstruation too late or too scanty in pale, irritable, sensitive, lachrymose females; too profuse discharge, deep-red or blackish-red, thin and not coagulating; sometimes with offensive odor Incontinence of urine |
Excitement
Worry Mental and physical exertion Eating Cold Early morning |
Warmth
Rest Nourishment |