Abrotanum [Abrot]
Great anxiety and depression, gloomy and desponding (abdominal); ill-natured, irritable and peevish, FEELS AS IF SHE WOULD DO SOMETHING CRUEL; NO HUMANITY; easily tired out by conversation or mental effort; indolence and aversion to physical exercised; head weak, can hardly hold it up; face wrinkled old, pale.
Agnus-castus [Agn]
Sexual melancholia; ATONIC CONDITION OF SEXUAL ORGANS; hopelessness; patient thinks there is no use to do anything, as death is sure top come soon.
Ailanthus [Ail]
Low spirited, continued sighing, restlessness, confusion of ideas; electrical thrill, starting from the brain running to the extremities; PERFECT INDIFFERENCE TO WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
Alumina [Alum]
Intolerable ennui, timer passes too slowly; depressed and lachrymose; sad thoughts in the morning, feels joyless and comfortless in the morning on waking; trifling things appear insurmountable;dread of death, with thoughts of suicide; SEEING BLOOD ON A KNIFE, SHE HAS IDEAS OF KILLING HERSELF, THOUGH SHE ABHORS THE THOUGHT; no desire to do anything, especially something serious.
Ambra-grisea [Ambr]
Melancholy, sits for a days weeping, with great weakness, loss of muscular power and pain in small of back; constipation, sadness; sleeplessness after business; embarrassment, the presence of the other people makes her feel worse.
Anacardium-orient [Anac]
Everything appears as in a dream; excessive forgetfulness, even of recent; fixed idea that mind and body are separated that strange forms accompany him;a slight offense makes him very angry, curses and swears, breaks out into personal violence; WANT OF MORAL FEELING; depravity; ungodliness; inhumanity; FEELS AS IF HAD TWO WILLS, ONE COMMANDING TO DO WHAT THE OTHER FORBIDS; he is separated from the whole world; and having lost all confidence in himself he despairs of accomplishing anything. MELANCHOLIA AFTER CHILDBED.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
LOATHING OF FILE; sorrowful and irritable, anxious in relations to present and future condition; ecstasy and exalted love, with great anxiety about his fate and inclination to shoot himself; (<) when walking in moonlight; sexual desire and erections when getting warm in bed.
Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]
Apathy and indifference; even death would be welcomed; hopeless and despondent, inclined to violence; children get angry, weep and cry.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Loss of memory; lies with closed eyes, shunning light and conversation; he cannot find the right word, hence falters in speech; feels that all his undertaking must fail, is lost beyond hope for this world, is neglected and despised by his own family; all desire for labor lost; objects to whatever is proposed, HE SEEMS UTTERLY BEREFT OF ALL POWER OF WILL; agoraphobia and hypochondriasis.
Arsenicum [Ars]
PROFOUND EXHAUSTION AFTER WASTING DISEASE; physical disease and consequent exhaustion lead to self-mutilation and suicidal ideas; gloomy disposition of mind with religious apprehensions; attacks of anxiousness, especially at night, or in the evening in bed, obliging one to rise, with oppression and difficulty of breathing; anxiousness at the heart, with fainting and trembling; conscientious scruples, as if having offended everybody and could not be happy; dread of being alone; great dread of death and still inclination to commit suicide; sensation as if warm air were coursing up the spine into the head; burning neuralgia with agony and great restlessness, and his anxiety drives him from one place to another.
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Anxious sadness and apprehension of dying, is afraid to be alone; unsteady and fickle, cannot persevere in anything, wants one thing and then another; walks from one place to another; physical and mental oversensitiveness; globus hystericus, nymphomania.
Aurum-met [Aur]
Woefulness and dejection, with longing for solitude; solicitude in regard to the loss of love and respect of others, with deep grief and weeping; religious solicitude with weeping and praying, has no confidence in himself; great longing for death, as he thinks himself unsuited in this world, weeps in the evening and wishes to die; feels hateful and quarrelsome, without hope;staring dreary look; wavering, uncertain gait; insomnia, when he fails asleep, erotic dreams, erections and emissions; in the morning offensive breath, reddish tongue and copious salivation; loss of taste, diarrhoea and constipation alternate; rush of blood to head, roaring in ears; motes and sparks before eyes; all symptoms (>) in fresh air. HEPATIC AND TESTICULAR (ATROPHY) DISORDERS, syphilo-mercurialism; spasmodic asthma; CLIMAXIS; PUERPERAL MELANCHOLIA.
Baptisia [Bapt]
MELANCHOLIA CUM STUPOR; mentally results but too lifeless to move, indisposed to give vent to his thoughts, want of power and perfect indifference to do anything, inability to fix the mind on any work; mind wanders as soon as his eyes are closed; marked changes of the vital fluids; degeneration of tissues; high temperature; anxious, frightened look; foul breath; dry parched tongue; head heavy as if he could not sit up.
Belladonna [Bell]
Dejected and discouraged; disgust of life, (<) in open air, with inclination to drown himself, continual moaning and sighing, even during sleep, and restlessness drives him out of bed; anxiety and great anxiousness, (<) evening, headache, red face, bitter taste, sweat and longing for death; dread and tendency to start easily, with mistrust and tearfulness; solicitude about sudden death, of putrefying while yet alive, of being poisoned and everlastingly damned; suicidal tendencies in patients suffering from acute violent alcoholism;persistent insomnia, leaving the mind extremely dull, stupid, slow to act; indifferent and pathetic;nothing produce an impression.
Bismuth [Bism]
Anguish, at times he sits, then walks, then lies down, never long in one place, he is morose and discontented with his condition and complains about it; SOLITUDE IS UNBEARABLE; pressure like a load in the stomach; great debility, languor, prostration; restless, unrefreshing sleep.
Bromium [Brom]
GREAT DESPONDENCY, LOOKS CONSTANTLY IN ONE DIRECTION WITHOUT SEEING ANYTHING; she does not feel as she generally does, and does not know why; fulness in head and chest; much pain in left hypogastric and iliac regions, especially before menses; carcinoma mammae; swelling of testicles.
Bryonia [Bry]
Great depression and anxiety, with fright fear and apprehension of future trouble and misfortune, irritability, weeping and moroseness; mental exhaustion and confusion of mind; sticking, jerking, throbbing headache; marked inactivity of liver or rheumatic diathesis.
Cactus-grand [Cact]
Melancholia, particularly in women, with sensation of stricture around heart; unconquerable sadness fear of death (Aconite); cries without cause, but (<) from sympathy; often awakes in fright, but cannot tell the cause of alarm.
Calcarea-arsen [Calc-ar]
Mind much depressed with great anxiety about still greater evils in the future; the slightest emotion causes palpitation of heart (Lithium carb.); dull stupefying headache in different parts of head, but especially above and behind ears; desire for wine and liquors.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Malnutrition and malassimilation; fears she will lose her reason and people will observe her mental confusion; feeling of oppression, with heaviness of legs, trembling of body and frequent weeping, (<) evening and when admonished; grief and complaining about old offenses, dread of solitude which is unbearable; dread of being seized by misfortune, on account of her ruined health; loathing of work, with irritability; great tendency to be frightened, the least noise, the most trifling unexpected occurrence fatigues and causes trouble; does not like to talk.
Calcarea-fluor [Calc-f]
Unusual tendency to look at the dark side of everything feeling of unnecessary anxiety about everything; disposition to set a higher value on money than natural to him; AVARICE (Lycopodium) thinks he will come to want or would soon be running financially behind hand.
Cannabis-ind [Cann-i]
OVERESTIMATION OF THE SPACE; nervous depression and distressing fear of an imaginary character, amounting nearly to hallucinations and illusions from overworking a delicate nervous organization; constant fear he would become insane; horror of darkness, moaning and crying anguish, with great oppression, (>) in fresh air.
Carbo-an [Carb-an]
Sorrowful feeling of dereliction, faint heartedness, desire for solitude, sad thoughts and great tearfulness; despair day and night; timidity and tendency to start.
Caulophyllum [Caul]
Melancholia following long-continued menstrual regularities and uterine disorders; weakness of mind and memory; fretful and irritable; insomnia and restlessness during menses; tremulous weakness felt over entire body.
Causticum [Caust]
MENTAL AILMENTS FROM LONG-LASTING GRIEF AND SORROW; excessive sympathy for others, ALWAYS AFRAID OTHERS MIGHT TAKE HARM, no desire for life on account of that constant dread and anxiety; timidity about the future or as if he had committed crime; great sadness, with weeping on the slightest provocation;looks at the dark side of everything, especially before and during MENSTRUATION WHICH FLOWS ONLY IN DAYTIME, none at night; deep yellow complexion, sour sweat.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.