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INSOMNIA, SLEEPLESSNESS

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Aconite Acon

Sleeplessness, restlessness, feverish heat; continual tossing about, from fear, fright or anxiety.

Ambra Ambr

Child cannot compose itself to sleep, talks constantly, is nervous and when asleep awakes weak and unrefreshed; body cold.

Apis mel Apis

Child is so nervous, cannot sleep, screams in sleep, utters piercing cries.

Belladonna Bell

Insomnia after weaning, with constant crying for days and weeks; starts during sleep as if fright; body icy cold all night, head burning hot; wetting the bed.

Calcarea carb Calc

Wide awake; cannot sleep. On CLOSING EYES SEES FIGURES. Sleeps only when rocked hard.

Chamomilla Cham

Sleeplessness, with colic and screams, restless sleep or moaning, starting up, crying out and tossing about during sleep, hot sweat about scalp; muscles of face and hands twitch, wants to be carried about, must have motion.

Chloral Chlol

Nightmare, especially in teething children; wakes from disturbed rest, cries out and screams till fully exhausted and in danger of general convulsions.

Cina Cina

Nightmare, children wake up in the evening or before midnight with fear and fright, jump up, see sights (hallucination), scream, tremble and talk about it with much anxiety.

Coffea Coff

The child is so playful that it is hard for him to fall asleep; excitable and weakly children; no sleep, full of ideas.

Cypripedium Cypr

Child is excitable, laughs and plays at unwanted hours, is very wakeful and laughs even in sleep. (Angels talk when the child.)

Gelsemium Gels

Insomnia, a wide awake feeling during dentition, with violent itching of face, head and shoulders; child nervous, excitable, with profuse flow of clear urine, alternating with drowsiness; (>) after midnight.

Hepar Hep

Sleepless after midnight; violent starts when falling asleep, with fear of suffocation.

Hyoscyamus Hyos

Child sobs and cries in sleep; sleeplessness from nervous excitation; excessive wakefulness alternating with drowsiness; single groups of muscles in convulsive action; strabismus.

Jalapa Jal

Insomnia from colic with screams, at night; the child is quiet enough during the day.

Kali brom Kali-br

Night terrors of children; he shrieks out in his sleep, or, if old enough, complaints of terrific visions.

Kreosotum Kreos

Comfortable during the day, but the whole night the child wants to the petted, rubbed and tossed about, worries about his teeth and only a few short naps are obtained.

Lycopodium Lyc

Child sleeps all night and cries all day (reverse of Jal.).

Opium Op

Sleeplessness from acuteness of hearing which prevents sleep, or to antidote the coffee-drinking of the nurse.

Podophyllum Podo

Moaning in sleep with half-closed eyes, rolling head, in summer complaint.

Psorinum Psor

Sick babies will not sleep, day or night, but worry, fret cry.

Sticta pulm Stict

Sleeplessness from nervousness or from dry cough.

Staphisagria Staph

Child wakes from sleep, pushes everything away and wants everybody to go away; restlessness from frightful dreams, wants its mamma.

Stramonium Stram

Vivid hallucinations, child will not to sleep in dark, but will soon fall asleep with her nurse and gaslight in room.

Sulphur Sulph

Wakes easily and frequently and is often then side wake; on dropping off to sleep, legs jerk violently, with muttering, lamenting and whining.

Teucrium Teucr

Sleeplessness and irritations from pinworms.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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