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Sumbulus moschatus (Sumb.)

Sumbulus moschatus (Sumb.) appears in 173 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 10 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 7 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Delusions, on Laughing and Mirth, on Chorea, Music and Voice, and further on Restlessness and Irritability. The picture is that of a person whose cheerfulness and weeping change rapidly and who reacts oversensitively to sounds and states.

Chorea and Cheerfulness

Several single-remedy rubrics carry the addition chorea: cheerful with continuous grinning and weeping in chorea, smiling in happy mood in chorea, fear of insanity in chorea. A small rubric lists Eccentricity in chorea. Together this yields a cheerfulness that is not free but accompanied by involuntary twitching and linked with fear for one's reason.

Laughing and Weeping

Laughing, with eight rubrics, is as frequent as Children; a small rubric describes convulsive laughing alternating with weeping. The mood tips from one to the other. To it belongs the delusion that the slightest cause would put one into raving, with hilarity ("Delusions - rage, raving, slightest cause would put him/her into - hilarity, with").

Sounds

Irritability is directed at shrill, glaring music, in a single-remedy rubric; a small rubric lists Fainting on hearing music, another Unconsciousness from music. The Voice appears as nasal in the evening. Sound strikes this person directly.

Melting Away

Two single-remedy rubrics list the delusion of melting away or dissolving, worse from change of position and better lying still. Alongside stands the notion of being badly treated by everyone. This can be read as the feeling of dissolving as soon as movement and attention are lacking.

Summary

In the Repertory, Sumbulus moschatus shows an irritable temperament close to laughing and weeping, which feels assailed by chorea, music and change of position and experiences itself in melting away and in fear of insanity. The single-remedy rubrics lie closely around these themes.

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