INSANITY (Melancholia)

(See also "MANIA")

Hyoscyamus

The patient js talkative, quarrelsome, restless and wants to uncover. He is spiteful and hypochondriacal. Foolish laughter. Makes ridiculous gestures. Rushes at people with knives. Strikes and tries to murder those he meets. Fancies men are swines. Peculiar fear of being bitten by beasts. In despair wishes to end his life by drowning. Thinks he is in the wrong place, foolish laughter, almost always jolly; talks in a hurried and cheerful manner; intensely jealous; inclined to uncover the body and expose the sexual organs; sings amorous and obscene songs.

Belladonna

When there is a congestion in the head, bloodshot eyes and the patient is furious. Tears clothes, bites, strikes, kicks, howls and shrieks.

Acid Fluor

The stage of insanity when the patient will sit in the cornej- and say nothing all day, never uttering one single word and hardly answering when spoken to. (Pulsatilla).

Stramonium

Acute mania without the head symptoms as in Belladonna. Sees and hears imaginary persons and things, melancholy, terrified, loquacious ; desires light; avoids food and drink, saying they are poisoned ; restless, trembles, has involuntary stools and urine. Insanity during'pregnancy.

Agaricus M

Fearless, threatening, destructive frenzy ; turns against himself and injures. Prophesying; making verses. Cheerful and careless mood. Says foolish and silly things. Sings and whistles at an inopportune time.

Aurum Met

Perverted mind. No love for living, wants to commit suicide. Depressed, dejected, hopelessness, low spirited. Considers himself unfit for this world. Broods all the time. Better in hot weather and aggrava­ted by cold.

Argentum Nit

Progressive paralysis of the insane.

Silicea

Post-influenzal insanity.

Tarentula His

Insanity with sudden changes of mood in which she will strike herself and others; tear, rend and destroy. Sudden violent and destructive movement. She will be sorry and apologize after the paroxysm. Fears of some thing going to happen ; fears of a thing does not  exist;  sees terrible things that are not there. Sings and dances with complete loss of control. Strikes head and   pulls  hair;    restlessness;   eyes  wide open and staring.

Lachesis

Religious mania. Self-conceit, envy, hatred and cruelty. An improper love for self. Jealousy, suspicion. When she sees someone in whispering conversation, she thinks they are talking about her.

Cann. Ind

Mania with exalted ideas, time passes slowly. Space seems infinite.

Enphorbium

Insists on saying his prayers at the tail of a horse.

Ars. Alb. and Veratrum Album

In alternation every two hours for a week. When the insanity is accompanied with intermittent fever, double rise. Patient lived in a damp climate.

Natrum Sulph

Insanity and mental troubl? from injuries
to head.

Lyssin 200

Insanity with mental symptom of dislike for water or bathing, not even desire to, drink water. Wants to jump from the roof of his house.

Kali Brom

Violent on hearing some particular name and seeing any particular object.

Causticum

Insanity with violent delirium, mental exhaustion, hoplessness, despair after suppression of eruptions with outer application.

Baryta Mur

Any form of mania with increased and strong sexual desire. Increasing muscular weakness and enlarged glands.

Cyclamen

When mensturation brings relief of melancholy.

Sulphur

Scattered ideas. Unable to collect his thoughts. Hasty. Walks briskly. Would spit on his food. Puerperal mania or insanity. Lost all interest in family after childbirth. Does not even feed the baby. Wants to remain quiet. Give in 1000 potency.

Crocus

Violent outburst of rage to kill his dearest friend or relative and immediately thereafter he would repent. Alernating mood. Laughter followed by tears.

Thuja

Patient feels as if he is made of glass and therefore tries to protect himself by wrapping papers or other material next to skin. Hates touching anything for fear
of its breaking into two.

Melilotus

This remedy is indicated in the following combination of symptoms :—

1. The patient wants to run away, wants to kill himself, vicious, threatens to kill those approaching him, thinks there is a devil in his stomach contradicting all he says.
2. Wants to hide, as she thinks that other people are looking at her, nervous, timid and does not want to talk alotid as she is afraid. Insomnia.
3. Mania to escape and kill herself.
4. Religious melancholy.

Veratrum Alb

Wants to destroy things, tears up his clothes, marked violence and destructiveness, wants to be busy praying for hours on his knees ; believes he is the risen Christ. Puerperal mania and convulsions with coldness and cold sweat. It is claimed to cure one third cases of insanity. Religious mania. Inconsolable. Runs about in the room. Looking upon the ground, or sits brooding in a corner. Wailing and weeping.

Sepia

Climacteric mania with dyspepsia and constipation. Hot patient. Give in 200 dilution.

Staphisagria

Insanity due to masturbation. Wants to curse and abuse everybody approaching him.

Phosphorus

Insanity due to mastrubation or excessive sexual indulgence ; insanity resulting from phthisis ; cerebral and spinal softening or other wasting disease.

Iodium

Later stages of insanity when anxiety reaches the brain at a terrific speed. He forgets what he just thought and becomes anxious. Brain seems to get no rest and the speed of thoughts coming into the brain make him mad. Overcrowding of ideas during meals while eating. Talkativeness ; ideas come so rapidly to the brain that he can talk for hours with enthusiasm and over-confidence. Clairvoyance.

Anacardium

Insanity With great weakening of memory, difficulty of concentration, apathy, hypochondria, melancholia etc.

Aurum Ars

Insanity of fanatics ; of drunkards ; of religious persons. Lamenting loquacity and laughter. Loathing of life. Extreme irritability. Obstinate and easily offended. Reproaches himself for having done wrong. Reproaches others for imaginary injury.

Bufo

Inclination to bite.