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Azadirachta indica (Aza.)

Azadirachta indica (Aza.) appears in 21 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, none are single-remedy rubrics and none are small rubrics with at most two other remedies; all entries stand in larger rubrics in which many remedies are listed. The emphasis lies on Memory and on the Mistakes made in writing, speaking, and spelling. The picture is uniform and narrow: it concerns declining retention and reliable expression.

Memory

Eight of the 21 rubrics concern Memory. The weakness is directed at recent events and recently past facts, and likewise at names and proper names. What has just happened does not stick; old things are apparently not named. Alongside stands general loss of memory, and the series runs out into the rubrics on Dementia, Senile dementia, and Alzheimer's disease. This can be read as a line from everyday forgetfulness to progressive decline.

Mistakes in Expression

Six rubrics describe Mistakes. They concern spelling, writing, and speaking, and in writing as in speaking spelling appears as a separate source of error. The difficulty lies therefore less in thinking than in exact reproduction: the word is there, but the letters do not fit together correctly.

Mood

Absent-mindedness and distraction, forgetfulness, sadness, and hypochondriasis each occur once more. They frame the picture with a depressed mood, concerned about oneself, which suits a person who sees her/his performance fading.

Summary

Azadirachta indica draws in the Repertory not a personality but a state: the decline of retentiveness and expression, accompanied by absent-mindedness and depression. Specific rubrics are lacking; the picture rests solely on larger rubrics and is accordingly general.

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