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Chlorum (Chlor.)

Chlorum (Chlor.) appears in 120 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 12 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 16 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Delusions, Raving and Anger, plus Aphonia, Stupefaction, Coma and Irritability. The picture is that of a person whose excitement turns into rage and whose consciousness swings between tumult and stupefaction.

Rage and Irritability

Raving, anger and irritability are closely tied to consumption. Single-remedy rubrics list raving while eating and after eating, and small rubrics add that coffee and wine provoke anger and that irritability increases while eating. Fever, more precisely typhus, also intensifies the rage. The trigger is thus less insults than food, drink and fever.

Delirium and Stupefaction

Delirium changes its form: one single-remedy rubric describes how it passes from wild excitement into busyness, another how restlessness alternates with quiet delirium. The counterpart is stupefaction in typhus and typhoid, leading to coma, at the end with dyspnea and held breath. A single-remedy rubric records that the will itself remains excited even in stupefaction. This can be read as an excitement that does not fall silent even where consciousness fades.

Delusions and Breathing

The delusions are few and distinct. One must direct attention to the breathing; one sees figures and hurls a bottle at them, and one believes oneself to be in distress. Fitting these are the rubrics on the voice: aphonia is aggravated in damp air and wet weather, according to a single-remedy rubric. Breath and voice thus appear as the vulnerable spot.

Elation, Noise, Flight

On the opposite side stand exuberance and elation in mania, plus noisy insanity that makes much noise, and the desire to play the piano. A single-remedy rubric describes the flight from the watchful eyes of friends: "Escape, attempts to – watchful eyes of friends, avoids the".

Summary

In the Repertory Chlorum is pictured as a remedy of exuberant, poorly controlled excitement. It discharges itself in anger, in wild or quiet delirium and in exuberance, and it meets a body whose breath and voice appear particularly threatened.

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