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Psorinum (Psor.)

Psorinum (Psor.) appears in 802 rubrics in the repertory. Of these, 64 are single rubrics in which only this remedy appears, and 64 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on the rubrics on Children, Delusions, Anxiety, Restlessness and Fear, plus Despair, Poverty and Riding. Together they yield the picture of a person who feels poor, sick and abandoned to decline, whose despair attaches to the skin, body sensation and night's rest, and who expects want even in prosperity.

Poverty and social decline

The core lies in a want that need not be external. The repertory lists poverty as inner, as concealed and as one driven into despair, plus fear of social decline. Concern about possessions remains untouched by the actual situation: as a single rubric there is "Anxiety – business, about – flourishing business, in spite of." The Delusions carry it further, the person will lose his fortune or have to starve, and the rubrics name pinching and scrimping, the feeling of having to starve, and the tendency to become a vagabond. Even in children, spending pocket money sparingly is listed. This can be read as a feeling of lack that does not diminish with possessions.

Despair of recovery

Despair binds itself to illness. The delusion of being very sick stands as a single rubric, beside it despair regarding one's own recovery and the certainty of one's own death. Strikingly frequent is the connection with the skin: itching, especially suppressed itching, makes sad and despairing; suppressed eruptions trigger sadness and anxiety; restlessness occurs with eruptions and itching, in children as well. In fever, typhus and epistaxis the rubrics give hopelessness and certainty of death, ameliorated after the nosebleed. Suicidal thoughts are linked with foul odor of the body or of the discharges. One can see in this an illness that is experienced as a stain.

Body sensation and delusional images

The Delusions revolve around the person's own body. Listed are the feeling of having no body, a numbed or divided head, arms separated from the trunk, stitches in the heart that would kill the sufferer, the idea of not hearing with his own ears, and the feeling that the clothing is too large. To these belong the delusion of being intoxicated after debauchery and the stupefaction as after a carousal. A single rubric records that the sun oppresses the person and that he must rest in the shade to be able to go on.

Fear and motion

Fear is directed at specific things: corpses, inflammation of the brain, falling into the fire and swimming, but only in deep water. Added to this are anxiety when riding and riding downhill and anxiety about salvation in the morning. Riding is a focus of its own, with desire in the carriage and at the same time aversion to riding. Restlessness increases before thunderstorm and storm and in the warm room. Anxiety accumulates in the early morning hours, at five o'clock.

Children and night

The rubrics on Children (116) form the largest block. They show the child who is good, good-natured and agreeable by day and becomes irritable, sleepless, angry and weeping at night; it screams in sleep, tosses about the whole night and is yet lively in the morning. A single rubric names: "Children, general – Screaming – plays by day, but." Cheerfulness and sadness alternate, and obstinacy irritates and annoys the surroundings. The children are morose with unhealthy appearance and unpleasant odor.

Summary

In the repertory Psorinum draws want and abandonment: the feeling of poverty, of illness and of impending decline continues to act independently of the real condition. Despair remains bound to the skin, body sensation and night, and the child shows the same on a small scale, sustainable by day, without rest at night.

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