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Achyranthes calea (Achy.)

Achyranthes calea (Achy.) appears in 33 rubrics in the repertory. Of these, 2 are single-remedy rubrics listing only this remedy, and 5 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Fear, Company, Religious affections, and Unconsciousness and Stupor. The picture is narrow but self-contained: a person who remains restless at night and in half-sleep, and who both seeks and avoids contact with others.

Ambivalence in Dealing with Others

The relationship to company is marked by a contradiction. A single-remedy rubric records: "Company – desire for company – to be spoken to, but aversion". The person thus seeks the nearness of others and yet does not want to be addressed. This can be read as a need for presence without demand, a wish to be there without having to answer. The sensitiveness and the aversion to light, which stand among the small rubrics, also fit into this attitude of shielding oneself.

Religion

The second single-remedy rubric concerns religion: "Religious affections – occupied too much with religion – obsession". Preoccupation with faith is here not consolation but compulsion, a thought that holds fast.

Night and Waking

The small rubrics gather around sleep and darkness. Recorded is fear that appears suddenly at night, also on waking. Unconsciousness and Stupor each appear in the form that the person wakes often, but only for a short time. The alternation between waking and drifting off remains incomplete; the person does not come fully to himself and sinks back again.

Summary

Achyranthes calea draws in the repertory a person who wishes for closeness and shuns being addressed, who clings to a religious thought, and whose nights are disturbed by sudden fear and fleeting waking. The data are limited, with few specific rubrics; the lines are therefore suggested rather than drawn out.

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