Anacardium Orientale anac.

MIND. Nerves: Stomach. Skin. Palms. Muscles. Joints.

MENTAL EXERTION. Emotions: Anger, fright, care, etc. Stepping hard. Motion. Drafts. Open air. Cold. Long after eating.

Eating. Hot bath.

Mental and physical LACK OF POWER. Tremulous; on slight exertion, < knees (Stap.) or arms. Repeated, DULL PRESSURE, as of a plug, or band. Dulled emotions, sense of hearing, sight, touch, etc. Paralysis.

BAD MEMORY; suddenly forgets names, etc. Brain-fag. As in a dream. Illusions, or fixed ideas; of duality, imagines others present, behind her, etc. Cowardly and neurotic. Vascillating; at odds with himself (Bar-c. Cann-i.); contradictory impulses. Ill - natured. Profane. Pressure in temples. Illusory smells. Bad breath and taste. Stiff, swelled tongue. Gastric pain > eating, but < again in 3 hours. Rectum feels plugged; can't evacuate even a soft stool. Breath stops on coughing or drinking. Cough with occipital pain; then yawns and sleeps. Double stitch at heart; passing into lumbar region. As of a heavy load on shoulders (Rhus-t.). Dry hands. Skin, insensible; itching, < scratching; yellow vesicles. Dermatitis. Eczema. Easily chilled, > sunshine (Stro.). Clammy sweat on palms.

Related: Ign. Rhus-t.

Sudden loss of memory ; everything seems to be in a dream; patient is greatly troubles about his forgetfulness; confused, unfit for business. Disposed to be malacious, seems bent on wickedness. Irresistible desire to curse and swear (Lac. c., Lil., Nit. ac. - wants to pray continually, Stram.). Lack of confidence in himself and others. Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding him to do what the other forbids. When walking, is anxious, as if some one were pursuing him; suspects everything around him. Weakness of all the senses. Hypochondriac, with haemorrhoids and constipation. Strange temper, laughs at serious matters and is serious over laughable things. Thinks herself a demon; curses and swears. Sensation as of a hoop or band around a part (Cac., Carb. ac., Sulph.). Headache: relieved entirely when eating (Psor.); when lying down in bed at night, and when about falling asleep; worse during motion and work. Gastric and nervous headaches of sedentary persons (Arg. n., Bry., Nux). Apt to choke when eating and drinking (Can. s., Kava kava, Nit. ac.). Swallows foods and drink hastily; symptoms disappear while eating (Kali p., Psor.). Stomach: sensation of fasting "all gone," comes one only when stomach is empty and is > by eating (Chel., Iod.); > during process of digestion (rev. of Bry., Nux). Warts on palms of hands (Nat. m.). Great desire of stool, but with the effort the desire passes away without evacuation; rectum seems powerless, paralyzed, with sensation as if plugged up (irregular peristaltic or over action, Nux).

Compare: Rhus r., Rhus t., and Rhus v. Symptoms are prone to go from right to left (Lyc.). Anacardium follows well: after Lyc., and Puls. Anacardium follows, and is followed by Platina.

There are but few remedies in the entire materia medica having "impaired memory" as so marked a characteristic. In restoring the memory, it often cures the patient of all other troubles. Hypochondriasis; some forms of insanity.

Forgetfulness and loss of memory very strongly marked; soon forgets everything; consciousness of forgetfulness takes away the appetite. Feels as if blasphemous words were being constantly suggested, with desire to curse and swear. Fixed ideas: that he is double; there is no reality in anything, all appears like a dream; that the mind and body are separated; that a stranger is constantly by his side, one to the right, the other to the left; her husband is not her husband, her child not hers; fondles, then pushes them away. Constantly talking in senseless, stupid phrases. Merriment extreme, laughs where should be sober. Frequently screams loudly, as if to call some one; so furious, has to be restrained. Hypochondriasis. When walking, feels as if some one were pursuing; suspects every one around, and is constantly apprehending trouble from everything, which gives him no peace. Has no confidence in himself that he can do what is required of him. Two different influences seem to be exerted upon him at the same time, one to do murder and the other, to do good. Very easily offended, becomes quarrelsome, abusive, malicious and cruel. Weakness of all the senses.

Sensation as of a plug pressing on the upper border of right orbit, stupefying all that side of the head; sometimes this pressure is felt on left side of the vertex. Digging and throbbing pain along right side of head, relieved when eating or when falling to sleep--worse during motion. Pressing pain in the top or other parts of the head, aggravated by coughing or deep inspirations. Gastric and nervous headaches, with mental symptoms.

A halo appears around the light. Vision weak and very indistinct. Objects appear too far off.

Hardness of hearing. Imagines whispers of blasphemy in his ears.

Imaginary unpleasant smells; loss of smell. Coryza, sneezing and lachrymation.

Looks wild, childish, expressionless; may be red, or pale, or wan-looking, with blue rings about the eyes. Eczema of face and neck, with eruption of small blisters, intensely itching.

Offensive taste in the mouth and also of the food. Bleeding of the gums after slight rubbing. Painful vesicles in the mouth; speaks with much difficulty. Profuse salivation, sometimes it provokes vomiting.

Suppuration of tonsils. Tough mucus forms in the throat, causing retching and gagging to expectorate it. All the symptoms disappear whilst eating, returning afterward.

Nausea in the morning, with empty feeling in the stomach. Vomiting of food after coughing, which affords relief. Painful sensation in cardiac end of the stomach on walking fast.

Sensation as if a plug were being pressed into the intestines. Continual rumbling in the abdomen.

Fruitless efforts to stool, the rectum seems to be plugged up. Both blind and bleeding hæmorrhoids. Fissures of the rectum.

Male: Frequent seminal emissions without amorous dreams. Increased desire to urinate; prostatic fluid with urine. Semen passes during a hard stool. Female: Frequent but scanty menses, sometimes with spasmodic pains in abdomen. Excoriating leucorrhœa, causing soreness and itching. Nausea during pregnancy; relieved whilst eating.

Cough, worse after eating; with loss of smell and taste. Expectoration only during the day. Dull pressure as from a plug in right side of the chest. Piercing pains through the region of the heart, quickly succeeding each other, sometimes they extend to the small of the back.

Stiffness of the neck, sometimes extending down the back, and pain from motion. Dull stitches in the left shoulder-blade. Dull, heavy pressure on the right side of the neck and top of the left shoulder.

Upper: A very painful thumping on the middle of the left upper arm. Hands feel very dry, sometimes cramp-like pain or stitches in them. Lower: Dull pressure as of a plug in the glutei muscles, or in the thigh. Pain in the head of the femur, extending to the groin. Shooting pains from the thigh to foot, coming and going suddenly. Sensation of stiffness in legs as if bandaged. Cramps in the calves when walking or rising from a seat; other cramping pains from toes to instep, and from heel up the calf. The knees feel paralyzed and stiff, can hardly walk.

Covered with blisters, from the size of a pin's head to a pea, often scarlet red, and sometimes sense of burning.

Sensation of a hoop or band around a part. Sensation as of a plug pressing or penetrating in different parts. Joints contracted. Wounded tendons. Old people. Continual chilliness, even in a warm room.

From lying on the side, from rubbing, scratching or talking.

While eating.

Lycop., Pulsat., Platin.

Coffea.

Great weakness of memory. Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding to do what the other forbids Dull pressing, or penetrating pain, as from a plug in different parts.

Marking Nut (ANACARDIUM)

The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions. Intermittency of symptoms. Fear of examination in students. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a plug in various parts-eyes, rectum, bladder, etc; also of a band. Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. This is a sure indication, often verified. Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak.

Fixed ideas. Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language. Brain-fag. Impaired memory. Absent mindedness. Very easily offended. Malicious; seems bent on wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Suspicious (Hyos). Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead. Senile dementia. Absence of all moral restraint.

Vertigo. Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion-in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; better during a meal. Itching and little boils on scalp.

Pressure like a plug on upper orbit. Indistinct vision. Objects appear too far off.

Pressing in the ears as from a plug. Hard of hearing.

Frequent sneezing. Sense of smell perverted. Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged.

Blue rings around eyes. Face pale.

Painful vesicles; fetid odor. Tongue feels swollen, impending speech and motion, with saliva in mouth. Burning around lips as from pepper.

Weak digestion, with fullness and distention. Empty feeling in stomach. Eructation, nausea, vomiting. Eating relieves the Anacardium dyspepsia. Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Swallows food and drinks hastily.

Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines. Rumbling, pinching, and griping.

Bowels inactive. Ineffectual desire; rectum seems powerless, as if plugged up; spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty. Itching at anus; moisture from rectum. Hæmorrhage during stool. Painful hæmorrhoids.

Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams. Prostatic discharge during stool.

Leucorrhœa, with soreness and itching. Menses scanty.

Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug. Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air. Cough excited by talking, in children, after fit of temper. Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput.

Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region. Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches.

Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight. Stiffness at nape of neck.

Neuralgia in thumb. Paralytic weakness. Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged. Cramps in calves. Pressure as from a plug in the glutei. Warts on palms of hands. Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption.

Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights. Anxious dreams.

Intense itching, eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; swelling, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison-Oak (Xerophyl; Grindel; Croton). Lichen planus; neurotic eczema. Warts on hands. Ulcer formation on forearm.

Worse, on application of hot water. Better, from eating. When lying on side, from rubbing.

Antidote: Grindeleia; Coffea; Juglans; Rhus; Eucalyptus.

Compare: Anacard occidentale (cashew nut) (erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions), (anæsthetic variety of leprosy; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet). Rhus; Cypriped; Chelidon; Xerophyl.

Platina follows well. Cereus serpentina (swearing).

Sixth to two hundredth potency.

Pain in stomach when it is empty, > by eating.

Frequent ineffectual desire for stool, from insufficiency or paralytic state of rectum; with sense of lump or plug in anus; with the effort the desire vanishes.

Loss of memory; irresistible desire to curse and swear; feels as if he had two wills, one commanding, the other forbidding, to do things.

Pain and sensation as of a blunt plug in different parts.

Suspects every one and everything around him; when walking he felt anxious, as if some one were pursuing him; weakness of all the senses.

Anacardium orientale is a very valuable remedy, but is not, I think, generally appreciated by our school. It ought often to be used in that hydraheaded complaint called dyspepsia, for which Nux vomica is so indiscriminately used. Both are excellent remedies, and it is only necessary to know the difference to make the choice between them easy. Anacardium has a pain in the stomach, which comes on only when the stomach is empty and is relieved by eating, while Nux vomica is relieved after the process of digestion is over. The pain of Nux vomica is worst two or three hours after meals, but lasts only until digestion is accomplished, and then comes relief, whereas, with Anacardium, this is the time when the suffering is worst. I have cured many cases (some of them of quite long standing) of this description with Anacardium, and find almost as many of them as I do Nux vomica cases. I have found the 200th here more efficacious than the lower potencies. The potency here as well as elsewhere and with all remedies has more to do with success in curing than some imagine.

Case. In the fall of 1899 I was called to a lady, married, 35 years of age, mother of three children.

She was quite emaciated, with a yellowish cachectic look of the face. A couple of years before I treated her when she had an attack of vomiting, in which she vomited coffee-ground substances.

She was relieved at that time by a dose of Arsenicum alb., 40m., but had more or less trouble with her digestion up to this time. This last attack was more persistent and did not yield to Arsenicum and some other remedies.

After awhile it appeared that the pain (which was very severe) and vomiting came on when the stomach was empty. She had to eat once or twice in the night for relief. The substance vomited was always black or brown looking like coffee grounds. Her sister had been operated for cancer of the breast, and of course she was very nervous and fearful of cancer of the stomach. Anacardium relieved promptly, and she has had no return of the trouble since then. Whether the cure is complete remains to be seen, but the benefit from the remedy was unquestionable.

Both these remedies have frequent ineffectual urging to stool, but Nux vomica is the result of irregular peristaltic action as observed by Carroll Dunham, while Anacardium has an insufficiency or paralytic state of the rectum which does not appear under Nux vomica. In other words, Nux vomica has desire, but with irregular or over-action. Anacardium has the desire, but with not sufficient action to carry it out. Then Anaca r dium has a sense of a lump or plug in the anus which ought to come away, which does not appear under Nux vomica.

Anacardium is also one of our leading remedies for loss of memory, especially in old people of broken down constitutions.

Of course, if the characteristic stomach or bowel symptoms were present, or had been suffered from, during former years as a concomitant, or the exciting cause of the mental trouble, the indication would be strengthened.

There are many remedies having loss of memory as a leading symptom, but none stronger than this one. Of course, the whole case must be taken into the account. This remedy has two other peculiar mind symptoms. First: "Irresistible desire to curse and swear." This symptom, queer as it may seem, is no more so than the other symptom found under Stramonium, and often verified, "patient wants to pray continually." Some of the most remarkable and convincing cures have been made on just such symptoms. Another symptom is, "the patient feels as if he had two wills," each commanding or moving him to do opposite things, or one commanding him to do a thing and the other commanding him not to do it. Such symptoms are often found in dementia, and are valuable guides to the curative remedy. See my case reported under Platina. Then, again, Anacardium has two other peculiar symptoms. One as of a hoop around parts, and the other as of a plug in inner parts. This may be found in head, chest, abdomen or anus. The sensation of a hoop around parts may be found in spinal troubles and Anacardium will be the remedy. Other remedies have a general characteristic sensation, as Anacardium has the sensation of a plug; for instance, the feeling of fullness as if too full of blood of Æsculus hippocastanum. and the sensation of constriction of Cactus grandiflorus. Anacardium is also said to be a good antidote for Rhus poisoning. I have never used it for this.

Want of moral feeling. Contradiction between reason and will ; he feels as if he had two wills, one commanding him to do what the other tells him not to do. Wickedness and cruelty. Irresistible desire to curse and swear. Loss of memory.

Pressing pain in the temple, as from a nail ; worse after eating, in the cold air, and from exertions of the mind. Congestion of blood to the head with pain in the cerebellum. Stitches in the head.

Pressure in the eyes, as from a plug. Dimness of sight. Contraction of the pupils.

Pressing in the ears, as from a plug. Itching in the ear. Hardness of bearing.

Diminution of the sense of smell. The sense of smell is too acute or illusory ; smell like pigeon-dung or burning tinder. Fluent coryza. Frequent sneezing, and frequent inclination to sneeze.

Paleness of the face, with sunken eyes, surrounded by blue ridges.

Fetid odor from the mouth, without his perceiving it. Heaviness and swelling of the tongue, which impedes speech. White, rough tongue. Taste lost. Roughness and scraping in the throat.

Weak digestion, with fulness and distention of the abdomen and hypochondriacal humor. Great thirst, with arrest of breathing when drinking. 1. Morning, nausea. 2. Vomiting of the ingesta, when gives relief. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, when awaking in the morning.

Hardness of the abdomen. Pressure in the liver. Pain, as if a blunt plug were pressed into the intestines.

Ineffectual desire to go to stool. The soft stool is passed with difficulty, on account of the inactivity of the bowels. During stool he passes blood. Painful hæmorrhoidal tumors at the anus. Itching at the anus. Moisture from the rectum.

Frequent discharge of pale urine, in small quantities, with burning.

Men. Involuntary erections during the day. Discharge of prostatic fluid during hard and soft stool, and micturition. Women. Leucorrhœa, with itching and soreness.

Oppression of the chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into the open air. Pressure in the chest, (right side), as from a dull plug. Rawness and scraping in the chest. Violent convulsive cough, (hooping-cough), caused by tickling in the pharynx ; worse at night, and after eating ; after the attacks, yawning and sleepiness. Stitches in the region of the heart, extending to the small of the back.

Dull stitches in the left shoulder-blade. Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight.

Sensation of weakness in the arms, with trembling. Trembling (of the right hand).

Sensation of weakness in the knees, with trembling. The legs feel stiff, as if bandaged, with painful restlessness in them.

Diminution of the senses, (smell, sight, hearing). Trembling, debility, and paralytic weakness. Pain in different parts, as if a plug had entered. Sensation, as of a hoop or band around the parts. Cramp-like pains in the muscles. Contraction of the joints.

Goes to sleep late. Sleep disturbed by dreams of fire and corpses. Heavy sleep till 9 A.M.

Pulse, accelerated, with beating in the veins. Chilliness, especially in the open air, relieved in the sunshine. Heat. External heat, with internal chill. Heat of the upper art of the body, with cold feet ; internal chilliness and hot breath. Perspiration, in the evening, on the head, abdomen and back, even when sitting still. Clammy perspiration in the palms of the hands, (especially the left). Night-sweats on the abdomen and back.

Burning, itching, worse from scratching. Voluptuous itching, extending farther by scratching. Itching of the skin, worse from scratching. Often suitable for eruptions caused by poisoning with rhus tox.

Liability to take cold, and sensitiveness to a draught of air. Symptoms appearing periodically. Many symptoms appear after eating, while most of them disappear during dinner. Aggravation. When lying on the side ; from rubbing, and from taking hold of any thing.

Semecarpus anacardium. Marking Nut. N. O. Anacardiaceæ. (East Indies.) Preparation: layer of nut between shell and kernel triturated.

Alcoholism. Apoplexy. Brain-fag . Constipation. Cough. Debility . Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia . Eczema. Elephantiasis . Examination funk. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Insanity. Memory, loss of. Mental weakness . Nervous ailments. Palpitation. Paralysis. Pemphigus. Rheumatism. Self-abuse . Skin, diseases of. Smell, illusions of. Spine, affections of. Stiff-neck. Vomiting of pregnancy. Whooping-cough. Warts. Writer's cramp.

Anacardium has many features in common with its botanical relatives, the different species of Rhus , especially in its action on the skin, muscles, and joints, but it has also very distinct features of its own. A very characteristic sensation is a pressing or penetrating pain as from a plug , which may occur in any locality in connection with neuralgias and ear affection, piles, &c., and whenever present Anacardium will probably be the remedy. Sensation of a hoop or band around the body or about any part is a leading symptom. It has been used with success in diseases of the spinal cord with this sensation and the feeling of a plug in the spine, < by any motion which causes a pain as if the plug were sticking still further in. Paralysed feeling in knees. Sensation as if knees were bandaged.

The nut is heart-shaped (hence its name), and perhaps this may be taken as the "sign" of its courage-imparting properties. It has at any rate won for itself a reputation in "examination funk" and allied conditions. Brain-fag. Loss of memory is very marked. Deafness with loss of memory. Headache < by mental exertion; > by eating. The Anacard . patient has many mental aberrations; is clairaudient, hearing voices of persons far away, or dead; voices behind her. Seems to have two wills. Is as if in a dream. A curious symptom is a great propensity to swear and blaspheme in persons not usually addicted thereto. Irritability. There is also a tendency to suicide by shooting ( Ant. crud .). Fixed ideas of various kinds: that mind and body are separated; that he is double; that a demon sits on his neck telling him most offensive things; that he sees everybody's face in a glass except his own. The senses are either too weak or too acute, and there ire sense illusions: a light has a halo; optical illusions in dark colours; illusions of hearing; illusions of smell: burning tinder, pigeon's dung. I cured with it a man who had a smell of burning wood in his nose, remaining after influenza. There is a headache proceeding from before backward. Stiffness in nape of neck. Stiff-neck < beginning to move. Whooping-cough with gaping and drowsiness after the cough. Morning sickness of pregnancy > by eating, but returns soon after. The Anacard . indigestion contrasts with that of Nux in a striking way. With Nux the pain is worst for two or three hours after a meal, during stomach-digestion, and is > when that is over; whereas with Anac . it is just then (when digestion is complete) that the pain is worst, and it lasts until the next meal, which again > for a time.

E. S. Breyfogle narrates a striking case (an involuntary proving illustrating the nerve and skin effects of the remedy. Acting on Bayes' indications, "funk before examination," "nerve-exhaustion from over-study," "nervous prostration from seminal emissions," or sexual excess, Breyfogle had used the remedy with much success. To a patient, for excessive nervousness, he gave the 1st dilution in discs. He took two discs every four hours till eight were taken. Then a sore mouth suddenly developed, mucous membrane inflamed, burning, and acutely sensitive. Vesicles appeared on roof of mouth, and a dirty membrane peeled off easily. Gums were next affected. Mouth dry, taste offensive: at the same time a papular eruption on wrists and ankles, later on inside-arms and legs, chest, neck, back, especially defined in bends of knees and elbows, and worst of all about anus. Scratching < but was compelled to scratch all the same. Water as hot as could be borne > instantly. Simultaneously the nervousness disappeared. "I haven't had a nerve since. It has made a profound impression on my nervous system." Later came a sudden sense of complete prostration: knees gave way; had to keep a flask of whisky by him to relieve it. Later: cold chills ran over body at least exposure, even putting arms out of bed; feared he was going to be ill, slept with hot bottles on chest all night. As eruption in mouth disappeared salivary flow increased; it ran from his mouth on pillow during sleep. "Feels as if a particle of food were in œsophagus; swallows constantly to get rid of it."

There is not the same < by rest and > by motion as with Rhus , but many symptoms are < by commencing motion (stiff-neck). Headache is > lying down. Piano-playing caused heaviness and fulness of the whole body. Like Rhus, Anac . has chilliness, liability to take cold, sensitiveness to draughts, and > from warmth. The symptoms are < morning, and again evening to midnight. 4 p.m.: heat daily. The cough of Anac . is > by eating. Symptoms generally > by eating; recur two hours after.

There is intermittence in the symptoms of Anac . "The attacks ceased for one or two days, and then continued again for a couple of days." Guided by this indication alone, Custis cured with Anac . 200 a case of sleeplessness in a pregnant woman: "Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights." Anac . is suited to affections of the palms of the hands. There are warts even on the palms.

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Everything appears as in a dream. θ Melancholia.
Feeling as if spirit was separated from body.
Stupor.
Did not know those around her. θ Palsy.
Memory and senses are affected.
In afternoon his memory is > than in forenoon, although his recollections only come to him after the time when he is in need of them ; however, he easily remembers what he reads.
Weak memory.
Loss of memory. θ Meningitis.
Loss of memory after general paralysis. θ Apoplexy.
Forgetfulness. θ Hysteria.
Forgets everything she has seen. θ Mania.
Her forgetfulness troubles her so much that she loses her appetite. θ Melancholy.
After having caressed her husband or child she pushes them away from her, as if they were not what she supposed. θ Melancholy.
After having caressed her husband or child she pushes them away from her, as if they were not what she supposed. θ Melancholy.
He remembers with difficulty ; he retains nothing in his memory ; he is deficient in ideas and he soon loses his subject without being aware of it.
Cannot remember anything about his previous state. θ Imbecility.
A very intelligent man, æt. 60, after having been a few hours in his grapery, where powdered sulphur had been sprinkled, suddenly lost all power of recollection so completely, that even what had happened a few minutes or a few hours ago was gone from his memory and he was quite
imbecile. One dose Anac., 2ø, restored him very soon and permanently.
Memory quite useless, particularly for single names, mornings.
Weakness of mind.
Dulness of mind and inability to think.
Imbecility. θ After apoplexy.
Idiocy. θ After poisoning with stramonium seed.
Intellect remains weak or impaired after having passed through severe fevers, smallpox, etc.
From 9 to 10 P. M., first extreme excitement of fancy and projective ideas ; later, by degrees, becomes dull and does not think at all.
Imagines he hears voice of mother or sister, who are far away.
Has a devil in his ear whispering blasphemous words.
Idea as if everything perceived had no reality, all things appear as in a dream. θ Melancholy. θ Mania.
Thinks he is double.
Fixed ideas : that mind and body are separated ; about redemption of soul and about the devil ; that a stranger is constantly by his side ; that strange forms accompany him, one to his right and one to his left.
Has the fixed idea that her husband is not her husband, her child not her child ; now she fondles them and again pushes them away. θ Mania.
Hallucination ; a demon sits on his neck and tells him most offensive things.
(OBS :) Delirious mania.
Disposed to malice, seems bent on wickedness.
Irresistible desire to curse and swear.
Talks constantly in senseless, stupid phrases.
Extreme merriment, laughs when he should be serious.
Continual talking of senseless twaddle. θ After a grievance.
Strange temper, she laughs at serious and is grave over ludicrous occurrences.
Screaming and crying of infants. θ Fever.
Every five minutes he screams loudly, as if he would call someone. θ Rage.
Uses profane language, swears, thinks himself a demon.
Furious, has to be kept in a straight jacket.
Dull and stupid, fixed gaze. θ Imbecility.
Every motion extremely awkward and sluggish.
It is difficult to get an answer from him, it takes a long while ; his answers are short and incomplete, but correct. θ Imbecility.
Disinclined to talk. θ Headache.
Estrangement from individuals and society, with fear of future.
Cannot be persuaded to do anything. θ Imbecility.
Aversion to work.
Sadness : looks on dark side of everything.
Low-spirited, disheartened. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Melancholy. θ Amenorrhœa. θ After parturition.
Hypochondriac mood in forenoon, dejected and desponding, with foolish, clumsy actions.
Hypochondriasis. θ Hemorrhoids and constipation.
Anxiety : with wabbling sensation in epigastrium ; with stupidity ; with fidgety legs.
Anxious and hypochondriac, shuns people.
When walking he felt anxious, as if some one were pursuing him ; he suspected everything around him.
Apprehensive of death being close at hand.
Fearfulness.
Fear of paralysis.
Inward anxiety and heat. θ Angina.
Anxiety and feeling of impending misfortune.
Internal anxiety, which did not leave him any peace ; he felt solicitous on account of every trifle, as if it would lead to some great trouble ; with apprehension of future.
Despondency and fear of approaching death. θ Pertussis.
Anxiousness ; despairs of getting well. θ Apoplexy.
He is very indifferent and unfeeling ; neither agreeable nor disagreeable objects excite his interest.
He is separated from whole world and has so little confidence in himself that he despairs of being able to do that which is required of him.
Contradiction between reason and will. θ Headache. θ Pertussis.
Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding to do what the other forbids.
In one ear a devil, in the other an angel, prompts him to do murder or acts of benevolence.
Loss of will power. θ After apoplexy.
Cowardice.
Morose and restless.
His great forgetfulness makes him very morose. θ Melancholy after typhus.
Hypochondriac sullen mood.
Excessively peevish and ill-humored. θ Headache.
Extreme irritability.
Irritable, passionate and contradictory.
He takes everything in bad part and becomes violent.
Unsocial, complains of weak memory. θ Coryza.
A slight offense makes him excessively angry, breaking out in personal violence.
Want of moral feeling ; depravity, ungodliness, inhumanity, and hardness of heart.
Malicious, wicked and cruel.
Excited mood.
Dull insusceptibility.
Bad effect of mental exertion.
Exertion of mind brings on tearing pressing headache in forehead, temples and occiput.
Weeping relieves oppression of chest.
Melancholy after quarreling with her husband.
Consequences of fright or mortification. θ Loss of memory.

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This remedy is full of strange notions and ideas.

The mind appears to be feeble; almost, if not complete imbecility; seems as if in a dream; everything is strange; slow to comprehend. Marked irritability; disturbed by everything; cursing.

Weak memory. Forgetful of things in his mind but a moment ago. All his senses seem to vanish and he gropes around as if in a dream.

Change of states; after states. Dullness and sluggishness of the mind prevail. He is in a continuous controversy with himself. Irresolution marks his character. He cannot settle between doing this and that, he hesitates and often does nothing. He cannot decide, especially in an action of good or evil.

He hears voices commanding him to do this or that, and seems to be between a good and an evil will. He is persuaded by his evil will to do acts of violence and injustice, but is withheld and restrained by a good will. So there is a controversy between two wills, between two impulses. When this is really analyzed by one who knows something of the nature of man it will be seen that the man is disturbed in his external will, but the internal will cannot be affected by medicine.

His external voluntary is continuously excited by external influences, but his real will, in which is his conscience, restrains that and keeps him from carrying the impulses into effect. This can only be observed when its action is on a really good man. He has a controversy when his external will is aroused, but in an evil man there is no restraint and be will not have this symptom.

Hallucinations: a demon sits on one shoulder and an angel on the other.

He is disposed to malice and has an irresistible desire to curse and swear. Laughs when he should be serious. So it is carried on until all things in the external will are inverted. Internal anxiety, i. e., the internal will is in a turmoil. over this external disturbance.

"Contradiction between will and reason" is an attempt to express what the individual knew nothing about.

"Feels as though he had two wills."

That is better. It finally destroys or paralyzes the external will, and when a man is naturally evil and is under the paralyzing influence of Anacardium he will do acts of violence.

A wicked man is restrained, not by his conscience, but by fear of the law. Anacardium paralyzes the external will arid places him in a position of imbecility, and he does acts of violence from his own natural perverted self It has so acted on a portion of the mind that it teaches a great deal.

I have learned much from Anac., Aurum and Argentum of the strange action of medicines on the human mind.

Psychology must be figured out by the action of drugs on the human mind. By this means we get at facts and can lay aside many hypotheses.

Ideas as if nothing were real, all seems to be a dream. Fixed ideas. He thinks he is double. This comes from a vague consciousness that there is a difference between the external and internal will, a consciousness that one will is the body and another is the mind.

Dwells on thoughts about salvation. That a stranger is by his side, is another recognition of the two wills. That strange forms accompany him, one to his right side and one to his left. This mental state drives him to madness.

Alternation of his moods and understanding. One moment he sees a thing and another moment he does not understand it. One moment she sees it is her child and another that it is not. One moment it is a delusion and next moment it is an illusion.

One moment thinks it is so and next moment has enough reason left that it is not so .

Delusion is an advanced stage of illusion.

In the Repertory we have the same remedies often in illusion and delusion, it is a matter of grade.

When the intellect is slightly affected it is an illusion, and what he sees he knows is not so.

He sees demons, and at first he knows from his intelligence that a demon is not there, but later, he wants you to drive him out.

It does not matter which, they are similar symptoms, and it is a matter of degree, and so, in the Repertory, delusions and illusions are not given separate places.

Anac., Hyos., Stram, and Bell., are important in bringing out the quality of the perverted human mind as to the intelligence and affections.

Whenever a medicine makes a man desire to do something it affects his will, and when it affects his intelligence it is acting on his understanding. Medicines act on both.

Low-spirited, disheartened, fears be is pursued, looks for thieves, expects enemies, fears everything and everybody.

Full of internal anxiety. No peace. He is separated from the whole world, and he despairs to do that which is required of him. Cowardly in the extreme.

Fears some dreadful thing will happen. Morose, sulky, sullen.

Unsocial; complains of weak memory. Slight causes make him excessively angry. A strong feature is that all moral feeling is taken out of him. He feels cruel. Can do bodily injury without feeling.

Cruel, malicious, wicked.

Bad effects of mental excitement. Weak-minded. Consequences of fright and mortification. Suitable in religious mania when the conflict between the external and internal will is kept up. It is analogous to Hyos.

Many complaints are ameliorated by eating.

Sensation here and there of pressure, described as if a plug, all through the body, in the head, eyes, in the navel and down the spine.

Objects appear too far off. Things have a strange look, sometimes uncanny. Illusions of smell, burning timber, pigeon's dung.

Chronic dry coryza.

The whole body has been well covered by symptoms; but it seems that the mind represents the principal aspect, and A will seldom be used excepting for such mind symptoms.

Usually when the mental symptoms are strong the physical are also covered by the remedy.

Full of trembling and paralytic weakness. Tetanus; epilepsy. Sensations as of a hoop or band around the body, limbs or head; pressing as of a plug.

The eruptions are like Rhus in many respects; erysipelatous eruptions dark, dusky and of malignant types.

It is an antidote to Rhus poisoning.

Eruptions all over. Yellow vesicles are common. Intense itching of eruptions. Warts on the palms like Natrum mur. Skin burns much. It seems closely related in its symptoms to all the Rhus family.

Adapted to ill-natured, nervous, hysterical persons, in whose diseases mental symptoms predominate.

Sudden loss of memory; everything appears as in a dream; patient much troubled about his forgetfulness. Hypochondriasis.

Disposed to be malicious, seems bent on wickedness; irresistible desire to curse and swear (Lac c., Lil., Nit. ac.—wants to pray, Stram.).

Suspects every one and everything around him; when walking he felt anxious as if some one were pursuing him; lack of confidence in himself and others; weakness of all the senses.

Strange temper; laughs at serious matters, and is serious over laughable things; thinks herself a demon; swears.

Sensation as of a hoop or band about the part (Cac., Carb. ac., Sul.).

Headache; relieved entirely when eating (Psor.), when lying down in bed at night, and when about falling asleep; worse during motion and work (Arg. n., Bry.).

Swallows food and drink hastily; symptoms disappear while eating (Kali p., Psor.).

Stomach: sensation of fasting "all gone," comes on only when stomach is empty, and is $>$ by eating (Chel., Iod.); $>$ during process of digestion (rev. of Bry., Nux).

Great desire for stool, but with the effort the desire passes away without evacuation; rectum seems powerless, paralyzed, with sensation as if plugged up (irregular, peristaltic or overaction, Nux).

By eating (Psor.).

Quotidian; tertian; quartan.

4 A. M. Afternoon. Every P. M., at four o'clock, fever without chill (Lyc.).

Especially in the open air, relieved in the sunshine (Con., Sec.). Shivering over the back and whole body, as from cold water being thrown upon the person, with heat of face (Rhus, Ant. t., Arn.). Repeated icy cold creeping; feeling of chilliness of limbs, hands and feet, which causes trembling; internal chill even in a warm room; worse in open air. Shaking chill, with ill-humor and restlessness. Forehead cold and cheeks red. External heat with internal chill. Internal heat with cold sweat. Heat of left side only.

From 4 P. M. till evening, daily $>$ by eating; heat of upper part of the body; with hot breath, cold feet with internal shiverings; external heat, especially of face and palms; abdomen and knees weak; heat over whole body, but complains of being cold. If any thirst, between heat and sweat (Cinch.—between cold and hot stage, Sabad.).

Night-sweats; frequently waking up from sleep with general sweat. At night he sweats on the chest and abdomen. Clammy sweat in the palms, especially the left. Sweat $>$ by eating. Sweats when sitting. Dyspnœa and distressing shortness of breath (during chill, Apis).

Is white and rough; taste, like herring brine; bitter taste after smoking. Flat, offensive taste in the mouth. Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Eats and drinks hastily.

In fevers of nursing children, which return every afternoon at four o'clock, Anacardium vies with Lycopodium; but the fever is not so severe in character, all stages being of a milder grade. Child is very irritable, a slight offence or contradiction makes him excessively angry (Bry. Cham.).

The mental symptoms predominate. The patient is irritable, nervous, hysterical, malicious, profane. The paroxysm occurs at 4 P. M.; and all stages are relieved by eating.

Great weakness and loss of memory.
Memory quite useless, particularly single names, mornings.
Difficult recollection.
From 9 to 1 P.M. first extreme excitement of fancy and projective ideas; later, by degrees, becomes dull and does not think at all.
Imagines he hears voice of mother or sister, who are far away.
Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding to do what the other forbids.
Extreme merriness; laughs when he should be earnest.
Every motion extremely awkward and sluggish.
Unsociability.
Aversion to work.
Sadness; looks on the anxious side of everything.
Hypochondriasis. θ Hemorrhoids and constipation.
Hypochondriac mood in forenoon, dejected and desponding, with foolish, clumsy actions.
He feels separated from the whole world and has so little confidence in himself that he despairs of being able to do that which is required of him.
Anxiety and feeling of impending misfortune.
Very indifferent and insensible to pleasant or unpleasant circumstances.
Extremely irritable; passionate and contradictory.
Irresistible desire to curse and swear.
Exertion of mind brings an tearing, pressing headache.

Vertigo: getting black before the eyes; when walking; when stooping; as if surroundings, or self were tottering; rising from stooping, feels as if turning to the left.
Weakness of all the senses.

Pressure: in the forehead, mornings when awaking, and in the evening; in the right side of occiput.
Violent pressure in the right or left temple.
Dull pressure, like from a plug, on the left side of vertex.
Constrictive headache in the forehead, with very irritable mood, pains increase hourly; momentarily relieved by strong pressure; finally whole head affected.
Headache worse during mental work, with sensation of heat in the head; better during a meal, worse after.
Tearing pain in the occiput.
Stitches: over the right eye; in the left side of the head.
Throbbing headache.
Heat in the head.
Headache, worse during motion and work.
Gastric and nervous headache.

Violent itching of the scalp; also on forehead.
Many lentil-sized boils on the scalp, with sore pain when touched or scratched.

Great sensitiveness to light.
The light seems to have a halo around it.
Optical illusions dark colors; flickering before eyes.
Short-sightedness.
Pupils first contracted, later dilated.
Vision indistinct.
Pressure, like from a plug, on the upper margin of orbit.
Pressure on eyeball from before backwards.

Humming in the ears; roaring before the ears.
Hearing at times very weak, at others very acute.
Tearing or stitching pains in left ear; worse swallowing.

Illusory smell as of burning tinder, morning, rising.
Constant smell before nose like pigeon or chicken dung, especially when smelling his clothes or his body.
Smell seems quite lost, though the nose is not obstructed.
Red pustule in right nostril on the septum, with sore pain when touched.
Sneezing, followed by fluent coryza and lachrymation.

Pale, wan looking; blue rings around the eyes.
White, scaly herpes on right cheek, near the upper lip.

Rough, scaly skin around the mouth, with crawling-itching.
Burning dryness of outer border of lips, almost like from pepper.

Toothache on taking something warm in the mouth.
Toothache in one lower incisor, worse by contact with tongue and the open air; tearing in the teeth.
Teeth of lower jaw seem most affected.
Swelling of gums; bleeding of gums upon slight rubbing.

Bitter taste in mouth after smoking tobacco.
Everything tastes like herring-brine.
Flat, offensive taste in the mouth and of food.
Heaviness of tongue and sensation as if swollen; impedes speech; speech firmer and surer in afternoon than forenoon.
Tongue is white, and rough like a grater.

Fetid odor from mouth, without his perceiving it.
Painful vesicles in the mouth.

Roughness in throat; sensation as of scraping in throat.
Sensation of rawness in throat during cough, after eating.
Firm, tough mucus comes in pharynx and lodges over posterior nares.

Constant thirst; yet drinking takes the breath, must stop frequently during a draught.
Thirst during the heat.
At times violent hunger, at others no appetite.

Symptoms disappear during dinner; begin anew after two hours.
Worse after eating; head, stomach and bowel symptoms.

Hiccough.
Eructations: empty, frequent fluid, causing choking; with spasmodic pain in stomach.
Heartburn after eating soup; burning, rising from stomach to throat.
Nausea, in morning, with empty feeling in stomach.
Nausea, with retching, returning soon after drinking cold water, with vomiting of the water, accompanied by pain, as if the œsophagus were distended by a large ball.
Vomiting of ingesta, which gives relief, after the cough.

First, sensation of fasting in pit of stomach, then pressure in stomach.
Stitch in pit of stomach during inspiration.
Rumbling and fermentation in pit of stomach.
Week digestion, with fulness and distention of abdomen.

Stitches in hypochondria.

Pain around the navel, as if a dull plug were pressed into the intestines.
Continual rumbling in abdomen, especially in umbilical region.
Pinching and griping in the abdomen.

Moisture from the rectum.
Great and urgent desire for stool, but with the effort the desire passes away, without an evacuation; the rectum seems powerless, with sensation as if plugged up.
Inactivity of rectum, even soft stool passed with difficulty.
Stools of very pale color.
Frequent profuse hemorrhage when at stool.
Itching at the anus.

Constant desire to urinate.
Frequent urging with but small discharge.
Urine: clear as water; turbid when passed, deposits a dirty sediment; when shaken looks clay-colored.

Violent sexual desire.
Erections during the day.
Seminal emissions at night, without amorous dreams.
Cutting pain along the penis.
Voluptuous itching of scrotum, exciting sexual desire.

Leucorrhœa, with soreness, also causing itching.

Nausea during pregnancy, worse before and after, better while eating.

Voice hoarse and deep.
Talking excites cough.

Shortness of breath, oppression in region of the sternum.
Anxiety in region of sternum, without pain, feels as if he must go into the open air and be busy.

Excited by: talking; tickling in trachea. Cough after eating, with vomiting of food; with pain in occiput.
Coughing excited by fits of vexation; dyspnœa during and after spells; in children who have an uncontrollable temper.
Expectoration: of sweetish, flat tasting mucus; tenacious, greyish-yellow, purulent.

Dull pressure, as from a plug in right side of chest.
Sharp stitches in the precordial region, extending thence to small of back.

Stitch in the region of the heart; during inspiration, at night.
Stitches piercing through and through at the heart; each time two quickly succeeding each other.
Pulse generally accelerated.
Beating in the blood-vessels.

Itching on chest.

Stiffness of nape of neck.
Dull, intermittent pressure, like from a heavy load on right side of neck and on left acromion.
Painful tearing between the scapulæ.

Dull stitches in left scapula, return slowly and radiate on all sides.
Left arm "goes to sleep" also the fingers.
Sensation of weakness in the arms, with trembling.
Very painful strokes, like from a heavy body at the middle of the left upper arm.
Short, painful inward pressure here and there on forearms.
Cramp like pain at metacarpo-phalangeal articulations.
Great feeling of dryness of the hands.
Hands, even the palms, covered with warts.
Numbness of the fingers.

Dull pressure, like from a plug, in the left glutei muscles.
Painful, dull, pointed pressure in the thigh, at times in rhythmical intermission.
Painful uneasiness about the knees, with sensation of stiffness, as if bandaged or made tense, when sitting.
Wave like stitches, here and there, in the legs.
Knees feel paralyzed, with stiffness and great lassitude, is scarcely able to walk.
Painful drawing in the tibia.
Cramp in the calves when walking, or rising from a seat; better lying down.
Cramp-like pressure in the calves, externally.
Cram-like, intermittent drawing, from heel up into calves.
Pain in ankle, as if sprained, when stepping on left foot.
Stitches in dorsum of foot.
Cramp-like, drawing and tearing pains, from toes to dorsum of foot.
Burning in soles of feet while sitting.
Coldness of feet in the morning.

Tired feeling in the limbs.
Repeated tearings in paroxysms, through upper and lower limbs at the same time.

Restlessness of body, cannot keep still.
Must lie on the back.
Very faint on going up stairs.
Circulation excited while sitting.
Motion: 1, 3, 43. Walking: 2, 33, 43. Lying or sitting: 43. Stooping: 2.
Beginning to walk is toilsome, by continuing to walk he feels better.

Paralysis of single parts.
Trembling: from every motion; from going up stairs.

Sleeplessness from restlessness.
Could not sleep well on account of itching.
Sound sleep until 9 A.M.
Vivid dreams at night, which recurred to him during the day, as if the things dreamed of had readily happened.
Dreams: of fire; of dead bodies.

Most prominent times of aggravation, morning, and evening until midnight.
Remission after midnight and during the day.
Morning: 1, 3, 7, 16, 33. Forenoon: 1, 11. Afternoon: 11. Evening: 1, 3, 40. Night: 22, 29, 37, 40. Day: 22, 37.

Sensitive to draught; liable to take cold.
Open air: 10, 26, 46. Warm room: 40.
Prefers sunny places, feels cold.

Shivering over the back, as if cold water were poured over it, with heat of the face.
Internal chill, even in warm room.
Heat of upper body, with cold feet, internal shiverings and hot breath.
Heat from 4 P.M. till evening, daily; passing off after supper.
Heat of left side.
Evening, sweat on head, abdomen and back, even when sitting quiet.
Night-sweat on abdomen and back.
Clammy sweat in palms, particularly the left.
Cool sweat with internal heat.
Sweat lessened while eating.

The attacks cease for one or two days and then continue again for a couple of days.
Tertian and quartan intermittents.

Left side, or first left, then right.
Right: 3, 7, 8, 28, 31. Left: 3, 6, 31, 32, 33, 40.
Pains pressing from without inwards.
Before backwards: 5, 28. Below upwards: 33.

Heaviness and fulness of whole body from playing the piano.
Wants to lie or sit continually; can scarcely move a hand.
Drawing and pains in every part of body.
Pressing or penetrating pain as from plug, in different parts.
Sensation as of a hoop or band around the part.

Cramp-like pains in muscles.
Contraction of joints.
Complaints of external parts.
Emaciation.

Touch: 4, 7, 10. Pressure: 3.
Itching generally aggravated, but sometimes improved or changed in location by scratching.
Rubbing: 11.

White herpetic spots.
Burning and stinging herpes.
Excessively itching eruptions.
Blisters discharging yellowish transparent liquid, hardening to a crust in the open air.
Warts even on palms of hands.

Frequently indicated in nervous and hysterical females.
Old people.
Women during pregnancy, gastric and nervous disorders.

Similar to: Ant. tart. (cough in high-tempered children; gaping, drowsy after cough); Apis (skin); Coriaria ruscifolia (loss of memory, etc.); Ferrum (occiput pains in cough); Iodium; Juglans; Lycop.; Nitr. ac. (cursing). Nux vom.; Phos. ac. (brain); Platin.; Pulsat.; Urt. ur. (skin); Zincum (brain); Pulsat.; Natr. mur. (dry coryza); Caustic. (in writers, spasm).
Relatives: Anac. occid., Comoc., Rhus glab., Rhus rad., Rhus tox., Rhus ven.
Antidotes: Coffea and Juglans.
Anac. antidotes: Rhus tox., especially if there are gastric symptoms, or the symptoms go from right to left.
It follows well after Lycop., Pulsat. and Platin.
After Anac.: Platin. follows well.
Belongs to the same family as the Rhus, and there is a similarity with the Terebinthina.
Neither Camphor. nor Spir. nitr. dulcis. antidotes its effects, but for the anger and violence of mind, the smelling of raw coffee is a very effectual antidote.

The marking nut, Semacarpus Anacardium, a native of the East Indies, is a small tree belonging to the Anacardiaceæ. A tincture is prepared from the crushed seeds.

Essentially similar to Rhus tox. ▶ The mental symptoms are very pronounced and characteristic: the characteristic sensation is that of a "plug."

Anacardium occidentale (the cashew nut), Rhus., Ailanthus, Comocladia, Nit. acid, Merc.

Emaciation. ▶ Startings when awake in evening in bed. ▶ Trembling from weakness at every motion. ▶ Motions more energetic and persevering, muscles contract more vigorously, but on motion the fibres seem stretched too much or as if there were not sufficient fluid in the joints. ▶ Indolence; after siesta, so that he can scarcely move his limbs, and loathes speaking.

Stitches externally at several places, pectoral muscles, forehead, wrist, etc. ▶ Aching internally in whole body; in all tendons, so that he cannot walk and sinks down; like a boil in affected parts, so that he dare not touch them; burning in affected parts. ▶ Bruised sensation in all bones, morning in bed, with stiffness of nape of neck and small of back, and headache in forehead and temples, all amel. rising (Rhus t.). ▶ Drawing and pressive pain in almost all parts. ▶ Drawing in abdomen and thighs, with subsequent burning, then pain in bones on touch, so that she cannot fall asleep.

Uneasiness every other night, so that he could scarcely sleep; feverish, in afternoon, as during a cold, with faintness and tremor of limbs. ▶ Weakness after eating; W. during a short walk; after a short walk; so that he wants to sit or lie all the time. ▶ Faintness on ascending stairs; when walking, amel. continued walking, with heaviness of feet. ▶ Dullness of senses, with confusion of head and prostration. ▶ Heaviness in morning, with disinclination to rise; H. and fulness of body from playing on piano. ▶ (Any part which he does not move immediately goes to sleep). ▶ Paralysis of some parts. ▶ Panting, languishing condition, like paralysis, in afternoon after a short walk. ▶ Disappearance of most symptoms during dinner but reappearance of them two hours afterwards. ▶ Periodicity in appearance of symptoms, the attacks ceasing for one or two days and then continuing again for a couple of days. ▶ Open air is unpleasant to him and feels too rough.

Alcoholism, restlessness, sleeplessness, twitching of muscles, he hears voices saying that he is going to die. ▶ It has been found useful in injuries of tendons and in chronic rheumatic troubles.

▶ Labor is difficult, like absent-mindedness. ▶ Stupidity; after waking. ▶ Vanishing of thought. ▶ Deficiency of ideas and loss of his subject without knowing it. ▶ Weakness of understanding. ▶ Loss of comprehension in morning, with confusion and emptiness of head. ▶ Confusion of the present with the future; C. as if a cold were coming on. ▶ Dreamy state day and night without sleeping, with anxiety about his business. ▶ Memory weak (Merc., Nit. ac., Rhus t.); in morning, especially as regards single names; agg. forenoon; in afternoon, with diminution of imagination; confused; lost, with impaired speech; vivid. ▶ Animation and liking for acute analysis, but every effort of this kind causes tearing pressive headache in forehead, temples and occiput.

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The chief characteristics of this drug are found in the mental and skin symptoms.
The prevailing sensation is that of "a plug." Botanically, chemically and symptomatically allied to Rhus tox. and Ailanthus.

Weakness or faintness with restlessness.
Paralyses.
Pain as from a plug in various parts.
"Symptoms disappear during the mid-day meal."

Memory feeble or lost.
Mental work is extremely difficult; can scarcely comprehend ordinary conversation.
Suspicious.
Seems to be pursued.
> Melancholia.
Hypochondria.
Hysteria.
Seems isolated from the whole world.
Mental dullness and gloom after sexual indulgence.
Extraordinary desire to swear.

Violent pain, as from a plug in left side, near vertex.
Pressure in temples.
Pain in the occiput from a false step or noises.
Headaches, often ameliorated by eating, but always aggravated by mental effort.

Dull pressure, as with a plug on the eye-ball.
Vision dim, as if looking through mist.

Dull pressure on the tympanum.
Canal seems plugged up, aggravated by biting teeth together.
Deafness, especially with defective memory.

The posterior nares seem plugged up.
Soreness in the nostrils.
Illusions of smell or loss of smell.
Smells (illusion) burning tinder or dung.

Pale, with sunken eyes.
Tetter around the mouth.

Foul odor, not noticed by the patient.
Gums bleed very easily.
Vesicles in the mouth.
Speech difficult, on account of stiffness and swelling of the tongue.
Taste lost.

Tough mucus, obstructing the posterior nares.
Catarrh of the Eustachian tubes, with a feeling of blunt plugs.

Feeble digestion; melancholy after eating.
A shattering sensation in the pit of the stomach on every step after eating.

Flatulence.
Thrusts.
As if a blunt plug were squeezed into the intestines.

Urging, with inability to expel the feces; "the rectum seems plugged up".
Painful internal piles.

Discharge of prostatic (or seminal fluid) at stool, or after urinating.

Cough at night, shattering, spasmodic, arresting the breath.

Pressing pain as from a plug in the chest.
Stitches in the region of the heart, extending to the small of the back.

Feeling of a heavy weight on sides of neck and back.
Nape stiff.
Feeling of a plug in the spine.
Lumbago with painful stiffness.

Dull pressing inward pains.
Cramp-like pains in wrist and finger joints.
Legs stiff as if bandaged, restless.
Trembling.
Paralytic weakness.
Ankles feel sprained.

Eczema with intense itching, mental depression, etc.

Chilliness, even in a warm room; chilliness internal with external heat.
"Night sweats".

ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE. (MALACCA-NUT.)

The lofty tree (Avicennia tomentosa, semecarpus Anacardium) which yields this fruit, grew in the time of the Arabs, on Mt. Ætna, in Sicily ; now it is found in dry forests in East India. Between the outer, shining black, heart-shaped and hard shell and the sweet kernel within, which is covered with a thin, brownish-red skin, this fruit contains in a tissue of cells a thickish, blackish juice, with which the Hindoos indelibly mark their linen, and of such acridity, that even moles can be cauterized with it. It is only rarely that we get this fruit so fresh that this juice is still somewhat fluid, of the consistence of honey ; usually it is quite dry. We take of this, for homœopathic use, one grain, and like other dry vegetable substances, it is brought by three hours' trituration with thrice one hundred grains of sugar of milk to the millionth powder-attenuation, and then through solution, dilution and shaking, its medicinal power is developed and potentized. This fruit, as well as the tree which bears it, is to be carefully distinguished from another which bears a similar name, Anacardium occidentale ; the fruit of this tree is of kidney-shape and was unknown to the Arabs, who first called attention to the medicinal powers of the heart-shaped fruit, which they called Balador. - During the last one thousand years this powerful and sanative remedy had fallen into total oblivion, as well as several other remedies which the more observant ancients had made good use of. Serapio in his book, De Simplicibus, C. 346 (contained in Practica Seraponis, Venet. fol. 1550), quotes most of the writers among the Arabians who have written about the use of the juice of Anacardium. Aben Mesuai says : It is good when sensation and memory have been marred ; Alchalahamen : its property is to encounter the relaxation of the nerves (paralysis) ; Bedigoras : it removes forgetfulness and sharpens sensation ; Abugerig : it is good for paralytics and those who fear its coming. This last writer also advises carefulness in its use ; it produces -bards (heaviness ?) and leprosy and abscesses, and perhaps it kills- it is hurtful to youths and to the choleric. If on choosing Anacardium, according to its peculiar symptoms, also one or another of the following states is found, this would only make more sure the correctness of its choice. Hypochondriac, troubled mood ; depression ; unsociableness ; anxiety ; fear of approach of death ; lack of moral sense (flagitiousness, impiety, inhumanity, hardheartedness) ; a condition as if he had two wills, of which the one annuls what the other impels him to do ; sensation as if his spirit were unconnected with the body ; feeling of the head as after a debauch ; pressive headache from the temple toward the eye ; headache in the occiput, from a misstep or loud noise ; weakness and dimness of the eyes ; nets and dark spots before the eyes ; painful swelling of the external ears ; rushing sound in the ears ; deafness ; bleeding of the nose ; fetid smell from the mouth, without his being aware of it ; waterbrash ; fetid taste of the mouth ; severe thirst ; lack of appetite ; morning sickness ; weakness of the stomach ; indigestion ; pressure in the scrobiculus cordis, early on awaking ; pressure on the liver ; hardness of the abdomen ; blood with the stool ; varices of the anus, also painful ones ; itching of the anus ; humor from the rectum ; burning of the glans during and after micturition ; involuntary erections during the day ; lack of enjoyment of coitus ; leucorrhœa, with itching and soreness ; sensation of dryness in the nose ; stoppage of the nose ; long-continued catarrh and flow of mucus from the nose ; cough, with expectoration ; rattling in the bronchia, while lying on the side ; shooting and heaviness in the forearm ; tensive pain and weakness in the arm ; trembling of the right hand ; burning in the soles of the feet ; weight in the limbs, especially in the knees ; tremulous weariness ; want of irritability of the skin, so that it can not be excited by resins to itching and to become moist ; sensitiveness to colds and draughts ; inclination to colds ; late in falling asleep ; anxious dreams ; chilliness ; perspiration in sitting. Camphor and ethereal spirits of nitre are but weak antidotes ; but smelling of raw coffee is efficacious against the anger and violence caused by Anacardium. Those physicians who, besides me, contributed their observations to the pure effects of Anacardium are : Br., Dr. Becher ; Fz., Dr. Franz ; Gr., Dr. Gross ; Htn., Dr. Hartmann ; Hrm., Dr. Herrmann ; Lgh., Dr. Langhammer ; St., Dr. Stapf. [*].

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Ana. / Ana.

Anacardium, To thee,
We accord insanity;
An obsession as it were,
with propensity to swear,
With opposing will imbued,
And a sense as if pursued.
with sensation anywhere,
Like a plug impacted there;
Or, as if a part were bound
With a hoop or band around.
With desire for stool, in vain,
Urgent efforts nothing gain.
Good for old folks,- nervous, daft,-
Very sensitive to draught.

Vain Calls to Stool: Ana., Apis, Sil., Ambr., Lyc., Nux v., Thuj. (Stool slips back, Sil., Thuj.)

Ana,- Has propensity to swear.

Ana Vera has a dark India lily.

This Ana,- Who is subject to vain calls to stool,- Is at Api Sil's with her amber lantern.

Propensity to swear: Ana., Verat. a., Nit. a., Cani., Lil. t.

Indicated chiefly in neurasthenia, hypochondriasis, neurotic conditions. Marked impairment of memory, disturbed mental condition, and special expressions of the neurotic state elsewhere, as in the digestion, with sensory disturbances, call for its use.

Impaired memory; forgets everything quickly; is greatly troubled by the loss of memory.

Tendency to use profane and vulgar language on every occasion.

Distrust of everybody; hypochondriasis; mental irresponsibility and fickleness of purpose.

Sensation as of a hoop or band around a part.

Sensation as though a plug were pressing in different parts of the body (head, eyes, ears, chest, abdomen, etc.).

Eats and drinks as though in a great hurry.

Headache, promptly, but only for a time, relieved by eating; better when lying down to go to sleep; worse from effort and motion.

Constipation; feets as though a plug in the rectum were preventing the expulsion of the stool.

Intense itching of the skin, eruption resembling that of poison oak.

Worse from lying on the side; from talking; from hot water; from rubbing and scratching.

Better from eating.

Imagines himself double, or that someone lies beside him. Feels possessed of two wills, one of which hinders him from doing that to which the other impels him. His reason and will are at variance. Great Weakness of comprehension and memory. Imbecility. Awkward, foolish conduct Anxiety. Despondency and fear of approaching death. Cruelty and inhumanity. Want of moral feeling. Inclination to swear. Irascible and ill natured. Inclination to laugh about serious matters. Anthropophobia. Hysteria and hypochondriasis after excessive sexual indulgence.

Congestion to. Pressive ache like a painful inward pressure in temples with decreased vision and bearing, some hours after eating. Pressure as of a nail, mostly in temples (eyes and ears). Tearing headache. Stitches in brain. Pain in occiput from making a misstep and from noise. Worse: Mental exertion, stepping hard, after eating, in cold. Better: While eating.

Pressure on balls. Dim vision. Halo about light in evening.

Painful swelling of external. Earache with tearing and sticking. Deafness.

Absence of sense of smell. Illusions of smell: Like pigeon dung or shouldering tinder. Violent coryza with fever. Much sneezing and long - continued excitation thereto.

Pale, with hollow eyes encircled by blue rings. Herpetic skin about mouth.

Fetid odor from, of which he is not conscious, Difficult speech, from swelling and stiffness of tongue.

Pressure in, after eating. Weak digestion with hypochondriacal humor after eating. Shattering in pit at every step, after eating.

Appetite: Violent thirst with arrested breathing when drinking.

Taste: Loss of.

Vomiting: Of food, which.

Bursting pain in.

Flatulence: Rumblings abdomen with pinching and urging to stool.

Ineffectual urging to. Passed with difficulty from inactivity of rectum, although soft.

Painful hemorrhoids in.

Frequent passage of scanty, watery urine, with burning.

Discharges of prostatic fluid during stool and after urination.

Tightness of chest and oppression, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air. Suffocative attacks.

Attacks of shattering cough every 3 or 4 hours, excited by crawling in trachea, dry at night, during day with a mucous expectoration, mostly of a flat, sweetish taste, often bloody, then again yellow purulent, sometimes also gray and acrid. With arrested breaking. With stitches in head and vomiting of ingesta. Continued yawning and sleepiness after.

Pressive pain as from a plug in. Stitches extending from cardiac into lumbar region, Scratching and soreness in.

Tearing and sticking between scapulae. Pressure as of a load upon shoulders.

Cramp - like pain in wrist and finger joints. Numbness of fingers. Weakness of arms and knees. Clammy sweat on palms.

Restlessness and stiffness in legs, as if knees were bandaged. Twitching and trembling about knee with paralytic weakness. Intermittent, cramp - like pressure in thighs and calves. Cold feet.

Pressive pain like the inward pressure of a plug, in many parts, Trembling limbs. Sensitive in drafts and easily takes cold. Paralyses from apoplexy. Symptoms generally appear periodically. During dinner most symptoms vanish, but reappear afterward. Diminution of sight, hearing, taste and smell. Almost exclusively adapted to ill natured persons.

Want of both sensibility and irritability of.

Pulse: Accelerated, with throbbing in blood vessels. Chill: And chilliness with trembling, especially in open air, disappearing in sunshine. Shuddering over back, as if cold water were poured over it, with heat of face. Internal, even in a warm room. Heat: External with internal chill. Of upper part of body, with cold feet, internal shuddering and hot breath. Daily from four PM until evening, disappearing at supper time. Sweat: In evening, on head, abdomen and back, even when sitting still. On abdomen and back at night. Sticky, on palms of hands, especially on left. Cool, with internal heat.

Allied Remedies: Calc-c. Coff., Con., Nat-m.

Maliciousness.

Swearing.

Loss of memory.

Crampish pains in the muscles.

Contraction of the joints.

Sensation of a band or hoop around the parts.

Pain in different parts, as if a plug and entered.

Trembling debility and paralytic weakness.

Diminution of the senses (smell, sight and hearing).

Liability to catch cold, and sensitiveness to the draft of air.

Periodicity of the symptoms.

Itching of the skin, worse from scratching.

Many symptoms appear after eating, while more of them appear during dinner.

Aggravation when lying on the side, from rubbing, and from taking hold of anything.