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Bromium (Brom.)

Bromium (Brom.) appears in the repertory in 268 rubrics. Of these, 10 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 23 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Delusions, Children, Fear and the Voice. The picture is that of a person who feels watched and threatened from behind, who is afraid in the dark and on the way home, and whose voice fails easily.

The gaze at the back

The dominant theme of the delusions is being behind one. The person believes someone is behind her, and in such a way that he looks over her shoulder. Strangers look over her shoulder ("Delusions – strangers – look over her shoulder"), and she thinks she would see something if she only turned around. Alongside stand the idea of seeing an apparition and, in the evening, the ghost that will appear. Things also move: objects dance before her on the floor ("Delusions – dancing – objects would dance before her/him on the floor") or jump up from him. With the fear of ghosts in the dark and the anxiety about going home in the dark, this circle closes.

Children and being looked at

In the child, too, it is about being seen. The child screams when looked at ("Children, general – screaming – looked at, when"), as already stands in the general rubric on screaming, in tabes mesenterica as well. It wants to be carried during croupy cough, is easily upset, with hot redness, and shuns going home in the dark. Aversion to household duties in children is a single-remedy rubric.

Voice, body and mind

The voice fails in the evening and from overheating, and sounds hoarse in moaning ("Moaning – hoarse"). A single-remedy rubric describes malaise without a cause: "Well, being – does not feel well, but does not know why". Hysteria is twice traced to suppressed sexuality ("Hysteria – sexual – excitement, from suppression of sexual"). The menses bring mental symptoms in six rubrics. From the tangle of small rubrics there further stand out a constant gaze in one direction, aversion to company and inconsolability in scirrhus of the mammae.

Summary

In the repertory, Bromium shows a mind that feels unprotected. The person is watched from behind, whether as delusion or as the gaze of the child who screams when looked at. Fear belongs to the dark and the way home, and the body, in voice and hysteria, carries the tension outward.

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