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Physostigma venenosum (Phys.)

Physostigma venenosum (Phys.) appears in 170 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 18 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy appears, and 16 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Fear, Delusions, Loquacity, Restlessness, Sighing and Will. The picture emerges of a person who forms intentions and does not carry them out and who is overcome at night by the fear of causing mischief.

Will without execution

The core is formed by two single-remedy rubrics: great willpower but difficulty in carrying out the intention, and, in the area of obstinacy, carrying out intentions but difficulty in doing so. The will is there, but it does not take hold. A further single-remedy rubric records that exertion of the will ameliorates. The will thus appears as that which the person expects to carry her, and at which she fails.

At night

Night is the time of fear. Single-remedy and small rubrics record the fear on waking of doing mischief or causing harm, terrible thoughts on waking, and restlessness from unrest at the heart. The fear concerns one's own acting: not that something happens, but that one does something oneself. Fitting with this is a single-remedy rubric on fear of insanity with vertigo.

Delusions and perception

The delusions are shifts of perception: too many objects in the room, a swaying brain when walking, the impression that the frame is reduced, and a state as after a night of carousing. Small rubrics show dullness as after a night of carousing and in the morning at eight o'clock.

Talkativeness and alternation

A single-remedy rubric records loquacity during the climacteric and during menopause; forgetfulness occurs in the same years. The mood alternates: cheerfulness in the morning, sadness in the evening. In addition come an aversion to cold water and discomfort after bathing, a map tongue during excitement and a torpor after bathing.

Summary

Physostigma venenosum shows a person whose strong will fails in execution, who fears at night that he will cause mischief, and whose perception easily slips. The rubrics let the connection between willing and the inability to act be recognized as the core.

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