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Anhalonium lewinii (Anh.)

Anhalonium lewinii (Anh.) appears in the repertory in 384 rubrics. Of these, 28 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 33 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Delusions, which with 96 entries stand far ahead in the total number of rubrics, as well as on Thoughts, Thinking, Light, Music, Time, and the feeling of being in a dream. The picture is that of a perception detaching from reality: colors, forms, and time change, and the person leaves the accustomed world for a sublime, dreamlike one.

Transformed Perception

Seeing stands at the center. The rubrics list lights in great number and an excess of light, colorful and colored visions, and sounds that are like colors. Things lose their shape: three-dimensional objects appear two-dimensional, everything looks transparent, objects are distorted, small ones move, letters seem enlarged. Even space disintegrates, and there is a feeling of dissolution of space. Hearing too is transformed, for tones seem split, and drumming produces euphoria. The senses do not work more weakly but differently, and the order they otherwise create dissolves.

Loss of Time and Measure

With space, time goes. The repertory records loss of the sense of time, imminent events that appear far away, and a single-remedy rubric describing a mistake with regard to time: "Mistakes, makes – time, in regard to – present is mixed with eternity". The delusions fit: that one has lived an eternity or is in eternity, likewise immortality, which is assigned to this remedy alone. Things done today seem to lie a week back. The person loses orientation in everything and falls into confusion about situations.

Thoughts and Abstraction

Thinking loses its leverage. Only in this remedy are the inability to think abstractly and to think in concepts recorded, while conversely abstract concepts become pictures. The thoughts are monotonous and persistent; they appear separated from the will, and mind and body seem detached from each other. Overwhelming visual impressions take away the ability to carry out and the energy. At the same time carefulness increases, and the sense of orientation is heightened when the person is oversensitive to surroundings.

Rapture

From the abundance of impressions follows a rapture. The repertory records the feeling of being in heaven, ecstasy, sublime, being carried by music, and the idea that the body is immaterial. The person sees himself, stands beside himself, hears lovely bells ringing countlessly, and experiences something supernatural with vitality and vivid awareness of processes otherwise unnoticed; he has creative power. A single-remedy rubric at the same time describes renunciation with regard to the outer world.

Flight and Splitting

The rapture has its reverse side. Recorded are flight from reality, flight into a dream world, and dissociation from the environment. The person answers every delusive figure, sees mask-like and cunning faces, and finally a torn state of the person, the splitting of personality. A waiting loop fits this: a single-remedy rubric records that the person has the feeling he must wait. In children there are stereotyped, constantly repeated questions.

Summary

The remedy appears as a picture of dissolution of boundaries. The senses multiply, space and time dissolve, thinking loses concepts and gains images. What begins sublime harbors the danger of fragmentation: the person flees from reality and has difficulty maintaining himself in it.

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