Anacardium orientale
anac-oriMarking Nut 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
Anacardium orientale — Materia Medica
Anacardium orientale — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Anacardium orientale — mind · James Tyler Kent
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.
Anacardium orientale — general · H.C. Allen
Weakness of all the senses.
Anacardium orientale — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Great weakness of memory. Loss of memory. Irresistible desire to curse and swear. Hypochondriasis. When walking he felt anxious, as if someone were pursuing him : he suspected everything around him. He is separated from the whole world : has no confidence in him self ; despairs of being able to do that which is required of him. Weakness of all the senses. Pain head, relieved entirely when eating : worse during motion and work. Gastric and nervous headaches. Dull pressure as from a plug, left vertex. Vision indistinct. Dull pressure as from a plug, upper border right orbit. Flat, offensive taste in mouth. Symptoms disappear during dinner, but begin anew after two hours. Pain about navel as if a blunt plug were squeezed into intestines. Great and urgent desire for stool, passes without evacuation. Rectum powerless, with sensation as if plugged up. Dull pressure as from a plug in right side chest. Cramp calves when walking. Sensation as of a hoop or band round the part. AN AC A RDI UM ORIENTALE Some cu rio u s o r ita lic symptoms o f Anacardium Recollections only come after the time he is in need of them. Has a devil in his ear, whispering blasphemous words. Everything perceived has no reality. Thinks he is double : that mind and body are separated : that a stranger is at his side : that strange forms accompany him. Her husband is not her husband : her child not her child. Screams loudly : swears : thinks himself a demon. Contradiction between reason and will : has 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. Cowardice. Takes everything in bad part and becomes violent. Sensation of obstruction as from a plug in ear. Abdomen feels as if it would burst when coughing. Dull pressure like a plug in right chest. Two quickly succeeding stitches, pierce through and through the heart at…
Anacardium orientale — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
{Marking Nut) The indications for Anacardium are so striking and so definite that it seems hardly necessary to Drug picture it. But, a word of warning. We once complained to a very wise and learned homoeopathic chemist that Anacardium, in some digestive troubles, had failed to work. Of course there may have been one of two reasons for this : the drug may have been wrongly prescribed, or it may not have been a good preparation. The old man was too polite to suggest any but the second alternative, and he proceeded to explain. He said, the dark juice from which it derives its name is not in the nut but in the husk. Whereas ignorant persons put tinctures on the market made fçom the nut itself ; useless for medirinal purposes. A successor of that same chemist with whom we were discussing the point the other day, sent us two samples of Anacardium 0 which he before us as we write : the potent preparation nearly black : the reputed Anacardium, a pale brown. So once again we reiterate, the warning :—Get your homoeopathic remedies from homoeopathic chemists who know what they are selling, and do not pick up cheap, ill-prepared, perhaps vitiated drugs, just anywhere. To get results, remedies must be made from the medicinal parts of a plant, grown in its own habitat, culled at its best, and prepared and preserved without contamination. We are absolutely at the mercy of our chemists ; and we are very grateful to them. Anacardium is best known for its peculiar and extreme mental symptoms : its loss of memory : its senses of duality and unreality (the latter makes one think of Medorrhinum) ; its perversions, blasphemous and cruel : its illusions, delusions, and fears : its peculiar sensations—bursting, binding, plugging.
Anacardium orientale — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
MENTAL EXERTION. Emotions: Anger, fright, care, etc. Stepping hard. Motion. Drafts. Open air. Cold. Long after eating.
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