MELANCHOLIA

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 to 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 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 (Acon.); 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 (Lith.); dull stupefying headache in different parts of head, but especially above and behind ears; desire for wine and liquors.

Calcarea carb Calc

Malnutrition and mal-assimilation; 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 (Lyc.) 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.

Chelidonium Chel

Anxiety, allowing no rest at any employment as if she had committed a crime; fear of getting crazy, with restlessness and heat; distaste for mental exertion or conversation; forgets what she wants to do or has done.

China Chin

Mental depression as a reflex of general lowered vitality; low- spirited, despondent and tired of life, with suicidal tendencies; great sensitiveness; easily moved to tears by the least contradiction; indifference and apathy with obstinate taciturnity; weakness and exhaustion after the least exertion, (>) in the evening and at night; nocturnal DREAD OF DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS; desire for solitude.

Cicuta Cic

Anxious thoughts about the future, feels sad; excessively affected by sad stories; weeping, moaning and howling; fondness for solitude; great dislike to society; indifferent and apathy; disposition to be frightened; MISTRUST AND SHUNNING OF THE MALE SEX ( Bar.)

Cimicifuga Cimic

Deep melancholy with sleeplessness, a heavy black cloud has settled over her, so that all is darkness and confusion, while at the same time it weights like lead upon her heart; perfect indifference; taciturnity; takes no interest in household affairs; sighs and moans and is suspicious of everybody; brain feels too large for the cranium, a pressing from within outward, sensation of enlargement of the eyeballs, which feels as if they would be pressed out of the orbits; foul breath; faintness and goneness in the epigastrium; prolapsus uteri; nervous exhaustion from the least exertion; CHOREA, PUERPERAL MELANCHOLIA.

Coca Coca

Melancholy from nervous exhaustion; bashful, timid ill in society; peevish; delight in solitude and obscurity.

Cocculus Cocc

Great sorrowfulness, with constant inclination to sit in a corner buried in thought and to take no notice of anything about him; discontented with himself and still easily offended; great anxiousness as if he had committed a crime; confused feeling in the head, especially after eating and drinking vertigo with flushed hot head and face; seasickness, uterine spasms and dysmenorrhoea; excessive prostration, as if were impossible to make any exertion.

Colchicum Colch

Arthritic melancholia with suicidal thoughts; peevish and dissatisfied; want of memory.

Colocynthis Coloc

ABSENCE OF RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS; apathy with lassitude cannot bear the society of persons he is intimate with; laconic mode of expression; no disposition to talk; dissatisfied with everything; consequences from indignation and internal gnawing grief over his imaginary or real troubles.

Conium Con

THE GREAT INHIBITORY REMEDY OF THE SEXUAL PASSIONS; excessive nervous prostration, with vertigo when lying down and when turning over in bed; great concern about little things, and becomes easily excited; dreads being alone and still avoids society; praecordial anguish; superstitious and full of fear, with frequent thoughts of death; loss of memory; alternate fits of silent depression and quarrelsome liveliness; mood serious; unsympathizing from indolence and what of proper will-power; cannot endure any kind of excitement, it brings on mental and physical depression, with weakness, confused feeling in head, often sits lost in thought.

Crocus Croc

Fearful, apprehensive sorrowfulness even of a religious kind; is not fit to live; alternations of excessive happiness, affections tenderness and rage; takes everything in anger and suddenly repents having injured others; restless, anxious timid; gay extravagance and liveliness alternate with sorrowful dejection.

Crotalus cascavella Crot-c

Insomnia, great sadness; her thoughts dwell on death continually, especially when alone; DREAMS ABOUT THE DEAD, when she falls asleep.

Crotalus horridus Crot-h

Timidity fear anxiety weeping or snappish temper, cross; irritable, infuriated by the least annoyance, sadness; her thoughts dwell on death continually; twitching and nervous agitation; lethargy, loss of coordination; incipient stage of senile dementia.

Croton tigl Croto-t

MELANCHOLIA ATTONITA; feeling as of one cannot think outside of

himself; feels all pen up inside and no chance for the thoughts to flow outside; feeling of anxiety as if some misfortune would befall him; morose, dissatisfied.

Cuprum Cupr

Mental and bodily prostration after overexertion of mind and loss of sleep; anxiety fear or persecution, is in despair, with VERY DIFFICULT BREATHING AND FAINT FEELING; skin cool, covered with cold sweat; unconquerable sadness and restlessness, as if some misfortune were approaching; weeps often, shuns the sight of people, seeks and loves solitude, anxious concerning death, which she believes near and inevitable.

Digitalis Dig

Great anxiety, depression and dread of the future, with sadness and weeping, (<) about 6 P. M. and by music; morose, irritable and gloomy; weakness of memory, mind dull and confused; sleep unrefreshing, with frequent waking; anguish, which seems to proceed from epigastrium; weakness and exhaustion; slow pulse; RELIEF OF STUPOR BY WEEPING.

Elaps coral Elaps

EXCESSIVE HORROR OF RAIN; dread of being alone as if something would happen; violent headache when the desire for food is not immediately satisfied, (<) from fruits or cold drinks; irregular menses weight in vagina with itching; weakness and trembling.

Eugenia jambos Eug

Desire for solitude, mental depression loss of memory; his mind seems to brighten up after urinating, feels depressed before and shivering urination.

Ferrum Ferr

Mind exceedingly oppressed, great solicitude about those belonging to him, with constant thoughts of death; anxiety as after committing a crime; from slightest cause anxiety, with throbbing in pit of stomach; excited by slightest opposition, everything irritates and oppresses her; anaemia and debility with congestion to head and chest.

Graphites Graph

HERPETIC CONSTITUTION; gloomy and low-spirited; great inclination to grief, even to despair, propensity to feel himself unhappy, with thoughts of deep grief and weeping; timid restless, (<) morning; oppression about heart, with uneasiness in stomach, great anxiousness as if after the commission of a crime or as if a misfortune impended, with hot face and cold extremities; anxiety when seated at work; repugnance to labor; venous persons, with disposition to obesity.

Helonias Helon

Mind exceeding dull and inactive; desire solitude; irritable faultfinding cannot bear the least contradiction, all conversation is unpleasant; pressure from within upward to the vertex, aggravated by looking steadily at any point; ATONIC CONDITION OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS.

Helleborus Hell

Quite, placid melancholy, with sighing, moaning and dread of dying; feels unhappy in presence of cheerful faces; anxiousness about the heart, which prevents him from resting anywhere; ameliorated by vomiting; slow comprehension, obstinate silence; homesickness. REPERCUSSION OF EXANTHEMATA.

Hepar Hep

The patient is impelled by unaccountable attacks of internal anguish, which sometimes come on quite suddenly, to attempt suicide (Alum); chronic abdominal affections; excessive nervousness from abuse of mercury; dejected, sad fearful; repulsive mood and desire to be left alone; dementia, with stupidity, sits silent and speechless in a corner; VIOLENT OUTBURSTS OF PASSION, so that he does not wish to see the members of his own family; hasty speech and hasty drinking.

Hyoscyamus Hyos

Nervous irritability without hyperaemia; melancholy with despair and propensity to drown himself (Bell) and total indifference to food and drink; reproaches of conscience; dread of being sold, poisoned, bitten by animals; SYPHILOPHOBIA; jealousy with attempt to murder, aversion to mankind, mistrust and indolence; hyperaesthesia cutanea, wants to go naked, with loss of all shame; constant absurd talking or muttering to himself.

Ignatia Ign

TEARS WEPT INWARDLY; suicidal desire to be released from what seems to be perpetual burden of sorrow;desire for solitude so that he may still more nourish his inward grief; great anxiousness at night or when awakening in the morning, with taciturnity; fear of thieves on waking after midnight; timidity and fear of contracting disease, aversion to any amusement; vacant gaze sits quietly; face distorted, earthy, pale and sunken; no desire to eat or drink; weak memory; heaviness of weakness; cold feet, mostly evening; sexual desire with impotence; menses scanty, black, of a putrid odor; increased stool and urine, RECENT CASES.

Indigo Indg

Patient feels very gloomy, taciturn, timid, is tired of life, spends his nights crying, epileptic convulsions; FLUSHES OF HEAT FROM ABDOMEN TO HEAD; sensation as if the head were tightly bandaged around forehead; the epileptic fit always commencing with dizziness, undulating sensation through the whole head from behind forward.

Iris vers Iris

Biliousness, despondency low-spirited, easily vexed; confusion of mind with mental depression; habitual headaches from gastric or abdominal causes.

Iodum Iod

Melancholy, MUST KEEP IN MOTION DAY AND NIGHT; brain feels as if it were stirred up, feels as if going crazy; shunning and fear when any one comes near, particularly the physician, excessive excitability and sensitiveness, expects an accident from every trifle.

Kali-ars Kali-ar

Scolding, morose, retired, quarrelsome and discontented; jealous indifferent to everything, scarcely answers questions or replies in a peevish tone; eyes have a fixed look; face frightened and anxious.

Kali-bichrom Kali-bi

ANTHROPOPHOBIA; weakness, aversion to business, indifference, fretfulness, irritability, anxiety arising from chest; distress in stomach; averse to motion, inclination to lie down.

Kali brom Kali-br

Imagines he is especially singled out as an object of Divine vengeance, thinks all her friends have deserted her, is full of religious delusions and a feeling of moral deficiency; nervous restlessness, cannot sit still must move about or otherwise occupy himself; insomnia; frequent shedding of tears; low- spirited, childish, giving way to her feelings; indifference and almost tired of life; profound anaemia.

Kali carb Kali-c

Alternating mood, at one time good and quite at another excited and angry at trifles; constantly in antagonism with herself, frequently despondent; frets about everything, peevish, impatient, contented with nothing great aversion to being alone.

Kali hydr Kali-i

Very great irritability and unwanted harshness of demeanor; his children, to whom he is devotedly attached, become burdensome to him; very passionate and spiteful temper; inclined to sadness and weeping with constant apprehension of impending evil.

Kali phos Kali-p

Religious melancholia with fear of hell; refuses food and drink and tears everything; hyperaesthesia of senses with anaemic weakness and failure of strength as after mental overstrain, depressing emotions, or from exhausting drainings affecting nerve-centres of cord; hysteria with globus.

Lac caninum Lac-c

Thinks she is looked down upon by everybody, that she is of no importance (Pallad.) doubts her own ability and success, weeps easily, exceedingly nervous and irritable.

Lac defloratum Lac-d

Depression of spirits, does not want to live and does not want to see or to talk to anyone; no fear of death, but is sure to die.

Lachesis Lach

Quite sorrowful lowness of spirits relieved by sighing; repugnance to society and dislike to talk; solicitude about the future, with disgust of life; INCLINATION TO DOUBT EVERYTHING; mistrusts and misconstrues everything in the worst way; indolence, with aversion to every kind of labor and motion; INSANE JEALOUSY.

Laurocerasus Laur

Indolence and indisposition to either physical or intellectual labor, so that patient becomes disgusted and tired of his life; fear and anxiety about imaginary evils; disposition to sleep; titillation in face, as if flies and spiders were crawling over face; want of energy of vital powers, no reaction, a paralytic weakness.

Leptandra Lept

HEPATIC DERANGEMENT.- Languid tired feeling with great prostration, gloomy; desponding drowsy; physically and mentally depressed.

Lilium tigr Lil-t

Indecision of character, and depends entirely upon others; dislikes being alone, but has no dread of being so; OPPOSITE MENTAL STATES, feels nervous, irritable, scolding and still in a pleasant humor; constant inclination to weep; has to keep very busy to repress sexual desires; great bearing down in pelvic regions, as if everything from the chest down would fall out; the heart feels as if it were full of blood; with depression of spirits and apprehension of impending evil; blurred vision.

Lithium carb Lith-c

Disposition to weep about his lonesome condition; difficulty in remembering names; sensation of entire helplessness, especially at night.

Lobelia infl Lob

Fear of death from difficulty of respiration; restless sleep, with anxious and sad dreams; excessive weakness of the stomach, extending into the chest, with oppression of chest; sudden shocks through the head.

Lycopodium Lyc

WANT OF SELF-CONFIDENCE; fear of phantoms in the evening, with anguish ,pusillanimous, nervous. irritable and peevish; seeks disputes, which is followed by supreme indifference; hypochondriasis; confusion of thoughts and forgetfulness, using wrong words, supposing himself to be at two places at once; fear of going to bed in the evening , is sure to heart somebody in the room; satiety of life, particularly mornings in bed, dread of men, wants to be alone or dread of solitude with irritability; MISANTHROPY WITH MISERLY DISPOSITION, flies even from his own children; abdominal and mental torpor.

Lyssin Lyss

(Hydrophobinum). - Cannot rid himself of the tormenting idea that something terrible was going to happen to him; fits of abstraction, he takes hold of wrong things; does not know what he wanted; uses words which have but a remote similarity of sound; two distinct trains of thoughts seem to be operating at the same time; imagines to be abused by others and tries to defend himself.

Melilotus Meli

Religious melancholia with weeping and indolence; reluctant to rise in morning, sits and does nothing; FACE ALWAYS HOT AND FLUSHED, throbbing of carotids; constipation; (>) by nosebleed or any other haemorrhage.

Mercurius Merc

Inexpressible pain of soul and body, anxious restlessness, as if some evil impended ,worse at night, with praecordial anguish; sweat of the hands and heat of the face; disgusted with himself, has no enough courage to live; constant suspicion, considering everybody his enemy.

Murex Murx

Great depression of spirit, she considers herself hopelessly ill; goes to bed and remains there; great debility of the muscles; sinking of stomach; sensation of dryness of constriction of uterus.

Mygale Mygal

Constant talk about business, restless at night; despondent with anxious features; tremulousness of whole body in the evening; nausea, with strong palpitation of heart; dimness of sight; general weakness and fear of death.

Naja tripudians Naja

Suicidal insanity, broods constantly over imaginary troubles; sleep full of frightful dreams, and wakes with dull pain in the head, and fluttering of the heart, uneasy dryness of the fauces; grasping of throat, with sensation of choking, and lividity of the face.

Natrum carb Nat-c

AVERSION TO MAIN AND SOCIETY; sadness, depression of spirits, head feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself; avarice (Lyc., Calc. fluor.); restless, with attacks of anxiety, especially during a thunderstorm, playing piano for a short time painful anxiety in chest, trembling of body and weariness; must lie down; phlegmatic indolent disposition, with repugnance to speaking to work or any occupation.

Natrum mur Nat-m

Crowding of gloomy thoughts which recall insults long since suffered with want of self-reliance and palpitation of heart; great inclination to weep, and consoling only makes things worse; timid inquietude about the future, with inclination to remain for hours buried in thought; indifference from hopelessness and mental languor, wishes only to remain quiet and to sleep; sallow complexion; excessive sadness during menses, with palpitation and morning headache; he loses flesh though living well.

Natrum sulph Nat-s

MUSIC UNBEARABLE, MAKES HIM MELANCHOLIC, even of a lively kind makes him weep; suicidal tendency, must exercise restraint, attended with wildness and irritability, due to gastric, bilious conditions, (<) in wet weather and damp dwelling, and (>) in warm, dry weather.

Nitric-acid Nit-ac

Dread of contentions, quarrels and lawsuits; frequent sorrowful though of past events; fearful and easily frightened; disgust of life, with longing for death, which however, is dreaded; reserved and does not wish to talk.

Nux vomica Nux-v

Mental recklessness, desperation and jot ,irritable temper; wants to kill those she loves best; nervous excitement and mental worry; inability for mental work; taciturn. desire for solitude; afraid he might not have enough to live on and great propensity to end his existence; abdominal plethora and constipation.

Oleander Olnd

Absentmindedness and slowness of perception; UTTER INDOLENCE AND AVERSION TO DO ANYTHING, will not dress or eat; cannot bear the slightest handling and becomes greatly enraged if touched by any one; breathing oppressed and heavy; head hanging down; itching of scalp with constant tendency to scratch the head; rumbling and flatulence of bowels, with hard difficult stool; urine brown, normal in quality.

Opium Op

Hallucinations of specters and animals with great fear; imagines parts of body very large; imbecility of will, as if annihilated.

Palladium Pall

MORTIFICATION AFTER WOUNDED PRIDE, not getting the praise of others which she expected, great inclination to weep and to be sulky; mental exhaustion, everything is too much exertion.

Petroleum Petr

Fear of death; great irresoluteness, no desire for work and dissatisfied with everything; SENSATION AS IF THERE WERE A COLD STONE IN THE HEART; emaciation; profuse night- sweats; mucous diarrhoea.

Phosphoric acid Ph-ac

Chronic and long-lasting effects of grief, with night-sweats from sheer exhaustion, heavy pressure on top of head, as if a great load lay there; indifference and unwillingness to speak; HOMESICKNESS, with inclination to weep; hysteria during climaxis.

Phosphorous Phos

SADNESS REQUIRING REGULARLY AT TWILIGHT, anxiety and irritability; melancholy, only (>) by vehement weeping; depression with foreboding of calamity; fearfulness and restlessness, which seem to arise from left chest and attended by palpitations from ,least unpleasant impression; alternation of weeping and boisterous mirth; indifference to others, but anxious about herself, ill- humour, dizziness, she dare not move her eyes (<) in daytime, with palpitation of heart and internal and external coldness except the face,(>) in open air, mental symptoms associated with hysteria and disorders of sexual organs.

Pulsatilla Puls

RELIGIOUS MELANCHOLIA WHICH FINDS CONSOLATION IN PRAYERS; grief and sorrowful timidity on account of his worldly and eternal affairs; anxious and weary of life, sad and gloomy, easily bursting into tears; dissatisfied; very easy frightened; frequent profuse epistaxis; mild, yielding disposition, clinging to others and seeking consolation earthy, dark ring about ring eyes, dislike to bread and meat; nausea and bitter, slimy vomiting, flushes of heat, pale face and cold hands.

Senecio Senec

Inability to fix the mind on any one object for any length of time; depression of spirits, alternating with very cheerful mood; meditative but don't know of what he thinks, especially in the evening; hysteria; great sleeplessness, or sleep with vivid unpleasant dreams.

Sepia Sep

Organic disease of female genital organs (Lil, functional); full of despair,. down- hearted with suicidal ideas; great disinclination to work and motion; sadness, worrying about her health and the future , with frequent attacks of weeping and indifferent about the health of affairs of her own family; (<)evenings and in open air; fits of involuntary laughter and weeping; dread of being alone, very irritable, inclined to be vehement, weak memory, difficulty in expressing her thoughts and dislike to mental labor; relief by violent exercise, as walking; indifference to her household affairs, to which she was formerly attentive.

Silicea Sil

Want of vital warmth, even when taking exercise; secret disgust for life; faint-heated, anxious mood; stings of conscious ,as if he had committed a crime, worse during growing moon.

Staphisagria Staph

Inwardly gnawing grief and anger, he looks at everything from the darkest side, with desire to die; disinclination to work and to think; dread of the future and dread of being constantly pursued by others; a sorrowfulness ending in paralysis of the intellect; constant chilliness, even in summer, vertigo and sensation of seasickness; scurvy.

Stramonium Stram

Melancholy, with desire for society and sunshine; fear and trembling when alone or in darkness; welcomes the thought of death when alone; indomitable rage; with great desire to bite and tear everything to pieces.

Sulphur Sulph

Religious melancholy; reproaches of conscience, despair of salvation, much weeping; ABDOMINAL VENOUS PLETHORA, VENOUS LETHARGY; inclination to consume hours in doing nothing; dose not take any interest in anything; pusillanimity and disgust for life, being too lazy to rouse himself up, and too unhappy to live, wishes to be alone,as soon as he sees anybody, he feels a weakness all over, but worse in stomach, followed by sweat on head and flushed face.

Tabacum Tab

Despondency, gloom, apprehension of sudden death; fear of death, yet attempting suicide; great timidity, fear to undertake what he has frequently done; difficulty in concentrating his mind for any length of time on one subject.

Tarentula hisp Tarent

Consciousness of unnatural state of mind, hence despondency, sadness, moral depression and relaxation with complete loss of memory; fear of contracting disease(Hyos); mental chorea; hyperaemia and hyperaesthesia of female sexual organs.

Veratrum alb Verat

Religious melancholy, with reproaches of conscience; talks a great deal about religious things; suicidal melancholy; this condition ends in a raving mania, with cursing and scolding, endeavors to escape , bites everybody, and tears everything that offers opposition; foolish imaginings; placid sadness, with weeping, discouragement and despair; apprehension of misfortune; conscious about his worthiness; despairs about his position in society; very taciturn; sudden paroxysms of sinking of cerebral innervation, characterized by sudden loss of power to control his movements; MELANCHOLIA CUM STUPOR, mind dull and stupid, with obstinate taciturnity.

Veratrum vir Verat-v

Great depression of spirit;;mental confusion and stupefaction; will not see her physician fears of being poisoned; sleepless can hardly be kept in her bedrooms; cerebral hyperaemia with coldness of whole body.