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Rhododendron chrysanthum (Rhod.)

Rhododendron chrysanthum (Rhod.) appears in 227 rubrics in the repertory. Nine of them are single-remedy rubrics, listing only this remedy, and eight are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphases lie in restlessness, delusions, and excitement, as well as fear, confusion, and mistakes made. From these emerges the picture of a person whose mind responds to the weather and who falls into restlessness and confusion during thunderstorms and storms.

Thunderstorm and Storm

The core lies in the weather. Listed are fear of thunderstorm, for this remedy alone especially of thunder ("Fear, phobia – Thunderstorm, of – Thunder, especially of"), irritability and restlessness before the thunderstorm, and restlessness before the storm. Windy and stormy weather excites, and before windy and stormy weather confusion of mind appears, as a single-remedy rubric. The person anticipates the change: the mind is a barometer.

Restlessness and Confusion

Restlessness also appears while weeping, as a single-remedy rubric. The excitement can be feverish, during menses. Added to this are confusion of mind with fourteen rubrics and the tendency to make mistakes. This can be read as thinking and acting losing their precision under inner tension.

Delusions and Guilt

Among the delusions are a fog in the brain and the conviction that the vertigo comes from tobacco, as well as the notion of having taken part in a carousal all night. Self-reproach is directed at one's own mother in a single-remedy rubric. Also recorded as a single-remedy rubric is that the death of the father brings on complaints. Family ties and guilt therefore play a role.

Withdrawal

Toward company there is indifference. Two small rubrics describe fear of being touched and anxiety on entering the house. Excitement and fear are thus linked with a need for distance.

Summary

In the repertory, Rhododendron chrysanthum shows a person who responds to thunderstorm and storm with fear, restlessness, and confusion, who is troubled by fog in the head and mistakes in action, and who withdraws after family losses and self-reproach.

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