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Hura brasiliensis (Hura)

Hura brasiliensis (Hura) appears in 161 rubrics in the repertory. Of these, 12 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 8 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on delusions, fear, starting, weeping, laughing and the desire to bite. The picture emerges of a person who feels forsaken, expects misfortune, and whose mood tips at every occasion.

Fear and misfortune

Fear is directed at what is coming, and it has its hour. Several single-remedy rubrics fix it in the afternoon, at 2 p.m., among them fear of misfortune: "Fear – misfortune, of – afternoon – 2 p.m." Other single-remedy rubrics link fear with fever and chill when the person goes to bed. Starting, too, is frequent, with eight rubrics.

Forsakenness and loss

The delusions revolve around relationships. The person believes she will soon lose a friend ("Delusions – friend – lose, she/he will soon"), that nobody will care for her, that friends have lost all confidence in her. From the body a single-remedy rubric says something special: on falling asleep the person feels she is hanging three feet above the ground. The picture of loss and floating fits with admiration of others and with the warm, busy affection that the repertory records alongside.

Laughing, weeping and biting

The emotional expressions are uncontrolled and follow their own rules. Laughing comes in the morning between seven and eight o'clock, and it precedes a chill; it appears as nervous laughter triggered by every attack of pain ("Laughing – pain – nervous laughter, every attack of pain causes"). Weeping begins while singing ("Weeping – singing, while"). And a whole group of rubrics concerns the desire to bite, in one's own hands, for example. This can be read as dammed-up affect seeking its way through the body.

Summary

In the repertory, Hura brasiliensis shows a state of mind that combines fear of misfortune and loneliness with rapidly changing expressions. Time and occasion play a fixed role: the afternoon for fear, the morning for laughing, singing for tears.

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