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Cortisonum (Cortiso.)

Cortisonum (Cortiso.) appears in 58 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 6 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 1 is a small rubric with no more than two other remedies. The main emphasis lies on Slowness, Excitement, and Irritability. The data is scanty, but the single-remedy rubrics are strikingly uniform: they revolve around the feeling that something is going too slowly.

Slowness

Almost all the single-remedy rubrics belong to one scene, the journey. The person has the feeling that the bus is slow ("Slowness – bus is slow, sensation that"), and believes in a delusion that it is driving slowly. Accordingly she becomes irritable when the journey goes too slowly. Slowness has a second side, the connection with irritability. The pace of the environment becomes a source of impatience.

Excitement and Wavering

Excitement and irresolution form a pair and alternate with each other. Added to these are euphoria, cheerfulness, weeping, insanity, sensitivity, and thoughts. A small rubric describes witty, brilliant loquacity ("Loquacity, garrulity – witty, brilliant").

Summary

The Repertory draws a person who is inwardly accelerated, experiences the world as too slow, oscillates between excitement and irresolution, and tends toward talkativeness in euphoria as in irritability.

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