1.Stramonium:

High energy and intensity are striking in this remedy. Violence or fear of violence is a keynote. Night is a good time to look for Stramonium symptoms because they are afraid of the dark, they are worse at night and may need all the lights on in the room; a hall light or night light may not be sufficient. Night Terrors-shrieking in sleep, tossing and turning, sitting up and not knowing anyone, terrified, and not remembering the event the next morning, especially in children, is characteristic. A high fever, a suppressed fever, a stroke, meningitis, a recent fright or a fright they’ve never got over, sunstroke, a dog bite, a head injury, rabies, and alcoholism, are all possible causes.

Other Stramonium symptoms include-ceaseless talking, fear of tunnels, desire to escape, eyes staring wide, eyes half open during sleep. Face expression of terror-believes he is possessed by the devil or has other issues with the devil or devils. There may be an absence of pain where pain would be normal. Raving mania, super-human strength, dilated pupils, red face, violent rages, manic-depression, biting, striking, strangling.

Other symptoms

Fear of water, including the sight of running water, the sound of water, getting the head wet in the shower or the swimming pool, fear of shining objects, reflecting objects, glittering objects, mirrors, fear of animals, dogs, disease, ghosts, suffocation, claustrophobia, death, anything like death, such as the colour black or cemeteries, etc. Conversely, they may dress all in black or seek out cemeteries and the like. Fear of being alone, better with company, especially at night. Stammering-makes explosive efforts to get the first syllable out grimacing, twitches. Hallucinations-sees animals coming at him, sees ghosts, talks to spirits, hears voices.
(All the insanity remedies seem to have religious affections-praying, talking to God, believing he is some great religious figure, etc. So, we can’t rely on this feature to differentiate among them.)

Lachesis:

Intense people, egotistical, arrogant. This remedy is especially associated with an excessive use of alcohol. Locquacious, jumping from one subject to another. The patient talks a lot and talks loud! Lachesis knows how to strike at the weak points of others and devastate them; sarcastic wit. Think of the sharp fangs of the snake and how they will suddenly strike when least expected. Jealous and envious, very possessive and suspicious that the partner is cheating.

The Lachesis husband will listen in on the wife’s phone conversations, go through her personal papers, have her followed, watch her carefully when she’s with other men, and finally will make an outrageous statement, like, “I know you’re seeing Melvin Flurg !” The wife will say, “I do not even like Melvin Flurg !” But eventually it becomes a self- fulfilling prophesy because the wife gets fed up and leaves, but not without a restraining order ! Lachesis is suspicious in general of everyone’s intentions, which can escalate into paranoia. Suspicious of you, the homoeopath, the remedy, and probably will refuse to take it, and will suspect you of trying to poison him.

Other symptoms

As Lachesis is venom, look for them to have a big issue with poisoning. Snake venom causes the victim to haemorrhage, so, think of bleeding problems in Lach. Patients, such as nosebleeds or history of nosebleeds. In fact, think of disturbances of the blood-the vascular system, the cardio vascular system, high blood pressure, heart disease, hot flushes of menopause

. Discharges ameliorate–that means that the headache will improve with a nasal discharge, or PMS will get better when the menstrual flow begins. Any discharge may make the person feel better-you can even think of talking as a discharge, a flow of words, which is why they will talk and talk and talk; conversely, stopping or suppressing normal discharges will aggravate a Lachesis person.

Think of how a snake can be completely controlled by being grabbed around the throat; therefore, Lachesis people cannot bear tight collars or tight clothes in general. Find out what the person wears when he can wear anything he wants. Similarly, the Lachesis person cannot tolerate any “tight” or “restricting” situation! For example, working under authority, having to adhere to a schedule, having to answer to someone they may be angry, aggressive, sarcastic, hate-filled and vengeful. Sleep is not their friend ! Sleep is a very bad time for Lachesis ! They may have insomnia, or they may wake worse than they were before they went to sleep.

Waking with a feeling of suffocation is a common complaint in Lachesis. Left-sided complaints, or complaints that start on the left and move to the right. Lachesis people are hot and better from cool/cold open air also cold drinks. Fear of heart attacks, suffocating, or snakes, or they may really like snakes and think they’re interesting. Lastly, They may have a fear that they’re being followed, delusion, someone is behind them.

3. Hyoscyamus:

Loquacious, suspicious and jealous. The etiology for this state may dis- appointed love or rejection.

Mania, rage, aggression, increased strength, delusion he will poison, delusion he is pursued by the police, delusion he sees ghosts and spirits, fear of poison, dogs, animals, water. Ability or desire to kill.

Mania and rage, desire to break things. Attempts to escape.

What Hyoscyamus well known for is-lewdness, loud laughter, nudity, undressing in public, shamelessness, cursing, wild talking, dancing, silly and foolish behaviour, jesting, making strange gestures, restless fingers, “Picking”-picking anything, like imaginary things in the air.. picking the bedspread, the clothing, and so on. Fear of being alone, desires company. Restlessness. Sleepless from mental agitation, nightmares. Suspicious and fear of being poisoned. Talks rapidly, changes subjects of- ten, laughs immoderately; rolls on the ground, dances, gesticulates, and in general behaves wildly and shamelessly. In the Repertory, “Mind: insanity, chaotic person, behaves like a”Hyoscyamus is the only “3” in this rubric (which means the only remedy highly indicated.for this behaviour).

4. Anacardium:

The idea in this remedy is a divided self, or the idea of being separate; separate from the family or group, separate from society-doesn’t fit in; and in general, two selves divided. He might described as a devil by some and an angel by others. They might believe that he possessed by the devil. They may say that he hears voices and the voices tell him what to do. He may sense the presence of “others” or another, where no one is there.

The remedy itself in its physical form is a nut (no pun intended) that is very sweet on the inside and hard and caustic on the outside, which very aptly explains this remedy-hard, as in no feeling for the suffering of others or the suffering that he may cause. These are the people who can very cruel to animals. The Anacardium person may someone who pressured by domineering parents to become something the parents could . be proud of. Unable to achieve this, he has both anger and low self esteem. His most often repeated phrase might be “I hate … !” ( “I hate my life, I hate school, and I hate everyone!”).

There is a lot of cursing, shouting, acting in cruel and malicious ways, especially if he’s a child or adolescent who’s been beaten and abused in childhood, which is frequently the etiology for this remedy. Some important characteristic symptoms of this remedy are indecision. Consistent with his divided self, he finds deciding between one thing and another next to impossible and exasperating, poor memory.

5. Nux vomica:

The key ideas for this remedy arc over-sensitive, over-achieving and need for stimulation. When you think about it, everything that’s wrong with Nux Vomica springs from here. Let’s start with over-achieving. This is not your remedy for timidity and low self-esteem! Nux Vomica sees what it wants, has a goal, and goes after it; nothing can stop Nux Vomica ! These people are focused! Just try and stop them! These are football players who plow their way ·into the end zone; they do not care if they get hurt or who’s in their way ! They want power, they do riot shrink from confrontation, and in fact they welcome it-just itching for a fight! Bring on the competition! This is because of their need for stimulation (which may explain their desire for spicy food-in fact, their lives are anything but bland!)

They crave stimulation, challenges. Their idea of relaxing is to take on more work! (“occupation ameliorates”) But this constant need for stimulation can be problematic. The Nux Vomica “family man” simply can’t.be content in a tranquil, peaceful home. Such bland surroundings would irritate him immensely. So Mr. Nux Vomica finds fault with everything and everyone in his home: Dinner wasn’t served on time! Someone’s sitting in his chair! And if Mr. Nux Vomica has a drinking problem (and he probably does) look out! They have a fiery temper-so angry they could kill! Explosions! outbursts!