Anacardium orientale
Keywords
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Discontented, coward, with two wills, who becomes suspicious, abusive, cruel,
and inhuman even to relatives.
Synopsis
(identifying features)
- 1. Sudden
loss of memory.
- Suddenly
forgets names, etc., in students before examinations (hence anticipatory fear
of examination); in old age.
- Brain fag ( difficult concentration and retaining information ).
- 2. Want of
moral sentiment
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characterised by cruelty, malice, hatred.
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Unsympathetic; unfeeling, hard hearted. Want of moral feeling.
- 3. Anger
from contradiction; violent anger.
- 4.
Discontented; dissatisfied; want of self-confidence.
- 5.
Delusions, fixed ideas - of being double, as if he has two wills each bidding him
to do what the other forbids.
- 6.
Delusion that he was pursued by enemies.
- 7.
Irresistible desire to curse and swear; abuse.
- 8.
Symptoms relieved entirely when eating (Psor.).
- Headache;
dyspepsia ( indigestion ) (all-gone sensation in
stomach).
- 9. Manners
awkward - laughs at serious matters and is serious over laughable things (Bar.
c).
- 10. Great
desire for stool, but with the effort the desire passes away without
evacuation.
- Rectum
seems powerless with the sensation as if plugged up.
Mind
- Great,
sudden weakness of memory.
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Hypochondriasis.
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Discontented, dissatisfied.
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Contradiction of will, cannot accept.
- Cruel,
inhuman.
- Want of
moral feeling.
- Malicious.
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Suspicious.
- Delusion
he is pursued by enemies.
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Irresolution.
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Contradiction between reason and will, one commanding to do what the other
forbids.
- Takes
everything in bad part and becomes violent.
- Everything
perceived has no reality.
- Her
husband is not her husband; her child is not hers.
- Morose and
cowardly, yet quarrelsome and cruel.
- Does not
even recognise his relatives.
Objective
- Sudden
loss of memory.
- Patient
greatly troubled by this forgetfulness.
- He curses
and swears, as he has an irresistible desire to do.
- Strange
temper; laughs at serious matters, and is serious over laughable things.
- Hasty in
swallowing food and drink.
- Happy when
eating (as symptoms disappear then).
- Warts on
palms of hands.
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- Breath
stops on coughing or drinking.
- Clammy
sweat on palms.
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Contradictory impulses - conflict between will and reason.
Causation (a.f. )
- Deep
discontent with intolerance of contradiction of his will, makes him highly
contrary in dealings.
- This
combined with irresolution (two wills) and suspicious nature makes him
Malicious, Hateful, Abusive and
Violent in
anger.
Modalities
- Agg.
- Chilly,
sensitive to cold air; worse morning and again evening to midnight.
- Headache
worse from mental exertion.
- Amel.
- After
eating, but recurs after two or three hours. (dyspepsia,
cough, morning sickness, headache).
Food &
drinks
- Appetite,
thirst
- Empty
feeling in stomach relieved by eating.
- Apt to
choke when eating or drinking.
- Swallows
food and drinks hastily. Aversion to food.
- Desires
- Milk.
Female
- Menses
scanty.
- Leucorrhoea
with soreness and itching.
Peculiar,
uncommon, grand characteristics
- 1. Mind
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Clairaudient, hears voices far away, or of the dead.
- 2. Mind
- Sensation
as of a hoop or band around a part, or as of a dull, blunt instrument, or a
plug in inner parts.
- 3. Gen.
Male
- Flow of
prostatic fluid while at stool; semen passes after a hard stool.
- 4. Cough
- Abdomen
feels as if it would burst when coughing.
- 5. Chest
- Dull
pressure as from a plug in right side of chest.
- 6. Heart
- Two
quickly succeeding stitches pierce through and through the heart at night.
- 7. Sleep
- Spells of
sleeplessness last for several nights.
- 8. Skin
- Warts on
palms of hands (Nat-m).
- 9. General
- Found to be
efficacious in wounded tendon, that is in injuries of tendons. (Bhanja).
- 10.
General
- Any part
which he leaves unmoved, immediately goes to sleep.
- 11.
General
- Symptoms
are prone to go from right to left (Lyc.).
- 12.
General
- Weakness
of all senses - vision weak, indistinct.
- Objects
appear far off.
- Hearing : hard of hearing.
- Taste -
lost.
- 13. Rectum
- Bowels
inactive.
- Rectum
powerless, as if plugged up.
- 14. Nose
- Smell : Sense of smell perverted, esp. in the aged.
- 15. Dreams
- Anxious;
of business; dead bodies; fire; disease; difficulties.
Cases
- 3. Anacardium:
- 10x. -
Irresistible desire to curse and swear (Allen).
- Dermatitis, eczema (BSK).
Dipsomania (craving for alcohol ) (SR-1).
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(D.C. McLaren - H.H. 7/84).