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A comparative look at remedies for symptoms as a result of fright. Use for an October study group session.
acon., gels., lyc., op., ph-ac., phos., puls., sil.
apis, arg-n., art-v., aur., bell., bufo, caust., coff., cupr., glon., graph., hyos., hyper., ign., kali-br., lach., nat-m., nux-v., petr., plat., rhus-t., sep., stram.
act-sp., agar., anac., androc., arg-met., arn., ars., aster., aur-m., bry., calc., calc-sil., camph., carbn-s., carb-v., carc., cham., cimic., cina, cocc., coloc., crot-h., iod., kali-c., laur., lyss., mag-c., merc., morph., nat-c., nit-ac., nux-m., ran-b., sabad., samb., sec., stann., sulph., verat., visc., zinc., zinc-p.
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Comparisons |
Acon |
Anxious, restless, irritable, increased sensitivity. Cannot get rid of persistent ideas. Great sadness. Likes to be spoken to. Complaints following fright or vexation with fear, vehemence, rage or anger. Ailments following the fright at a later time. Worse in cold weather. Memory weaker. Better in wet weather. |
Gels |
Supersensitive, languid. Cannot follow an idea for any length of time or focus on a thought. Great irritability. Doesn’t like to be spoken to. Complaints after hearing bad news especially diarrhea, chilliness. Aliments follow immediately after the fright. |
Lyc |
Sensitive, gentleness, seriousness. Sad or cheerful. Distrust, malice, haughtiness, amorousness, insanity. Consequences of mortification or of vexation with reserved displeasure. Weak memory and mental dullness up to almost a complete idiot. Anxious dreams. Worse in wet weather, warmth and wrapping up. Horses: swelling of the hind legs. Better when stretched out in bed not lying on painful side. |
Op |
Predominantly no pain, want of bodily irritability. Joy, indifference, gentleness. Better in cold weather. |
Ph-ac |
Pleasant dreams. Insensitive. Mood rarely irritable. Ailments from (grief, mortification), shame, disappointed love, or jealousy. Better in wet weather |
Phos |
Either sensitive or insensitive. Changeable mood, joyful or despondent, indifferent, haughty. Memory active. Mental excitement and ecstasies. Better in dry weather. Hypochondric. with peevish irritability. Complaints from vexation with fright. |
Puls |
Sad, quiet, gentle, rarely irritable, indifferent, boldness. Aliments from excessive joy and from vexation with fright. Horses: swelling of the front legs. Better when curled up in bed on painful side. |
Sil |
Dejection, no delirium, no insanity. Better in wet weather, warmth, and wrapping up. |
Match up the remedies with the case excerpt.
1. This headache is driving me crazy with the way it throbs in my temples. I think I might be drinking too much coffee. I try to take four or five vitamins a day and eat vegetarian if I can. It’s not all that easy at work. And when I’m out dancing, I really blow my diet with all that drinking but I make sure to take my vitamins the next day to make up for it.
2. I’m doing fairly well thank you. It’s just a headache. I put my hands over my eyes and it seems to relieve the pain. I have some multi-vitamins that a friend recommended and I had never taken them before but I thought it might help. One of my other friends said I should take Metabolife because she thought I wasn’t energetic enough so I got some of that but haven’t taken it yet.
3. I’ve been on an eating barge lately and I can’t get rid of this headache either. Did I say barge? Sorry, I meant binge. I don’t feel well in the morning and sit and pray for hours. I find that I think of the worries of the world more that I used to. I’ll putter around in my houserobe in the kitchen and make all sorts of baked goods for almost half a day. I don’t like the stuff in the grocery store and if I have extra I take it to church so they won’t have to deal with all that chemical junk in the food.
4. Well, I’m all right I think. I’ve always been a little confused. Just a little dizzy. Not really much to say I guess. My wife said I should talk to you. But I can’t really help you out much.
5. I’ve been getting these headaches at night lately. But it’s the radio that keeps me awake from next door. The neighbors don’t like to be friendly and I try to stay away from them. And it’s because of that that I have to eat regularly. Sometimes when my husband is gone I find an extra candy bar I stashed in the fridge and I like that but I wish he would just stay around for awhile.
6. OK. You want me to tell you what symptoms I have? Is that it? Uhhh. OK. Uhhh. Well, a little roaring in my ears besides the headache. That’s it. What can you give me?
7. I’ve want to make sure you understand that this headache is really bad. I can’t help but think it’s because I’ve burst a blood vessel after dealing with my kids in the last few weeks. They’ve been really getting on my nerves. If it isn’t one thing, it’s another with them. There’s so many things that I can’t deal with and I lose control. I used to be better at remembering what they were doing at school but with this headache I’ve started to lose it. Could I tell if a blood vessel burst in my head?
8. I really have a bad headache right now so if I am restless you’ll know why. I had to take off last Friday just to deal with it. I just sat in my room and read my romance novels curled up in a big blanket. I was sleepy all day.
