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Tabacum (Tab.)

Tabacum (Tab.) appears in 408 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 25 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 19 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Fear and Anxiety, Delusions, Speech, Sadness and Unconsciousness. The overall picture is that of a person in expectation of a catastrophe, who links nausea and weakness with the mind and whose consciousness clouds.

Catastrophe and Persecution

The fear aims at the inevitable. A single-remedy rubric says it most clearly: "Fear, phobia - catastrophe, of a - approaching catastrophe, of a rapidly." A peak in the afternoon at four o'clock, with fear of misfortune and anxiety, completes the picture. The delusions express it bodily: the world would weigh upon the person ("Delusions - world - weighing, the world would weigh upon him/her"), someone would come to murder him ("Delusions - murdered - he/she would be murdered"), and snakes are seen. The person feels unable to hold himself upright ("Delusions - upright - cannot hold himself upright"), everything moves in all directions, the steps seem too high, and there is a second self outside the patient ("Delusions - double - being double - outside of the patient, there is a second self").

Stomach and Mind

The mind is attached to the stomach. Loathing arises with stomach complaints, Confusion of mind is ameliorated by vomiting ("Confusion of mind - vomiting amel."), as are Unconsciousness and nausea; the anxiety comes with cold sweat and fainting. The unconsciousness is trance-like and is ameliorated when cold water is poured over the head. Also belonging here are the sensitiveness to the smell of wine and the aversion to riding. The Restlessness is anxious and drives from one place to another.

Speech and Sadness

Speech is drawling, affected, muffled and rapid ("Speech - muffled and rapid"), silly in boys, irrational in loss of consciousness. The sadness seeks expression: Lamenting ameliorates it ("Sadness - lamenting, complaining amel."), and the person is inconsolable even in dreaming. After epileptic fits appear silly and childish behavior. A tendency to involuntary grasping movements of the hands, also at one's own genitals, is listed in several rubrics; likewise the desire to spit at the complaints of others.

Summary

In the Repertory, Tabacum shows fear of approaching calamity that settles in body and consciousness. The person feels persecuted, crushed by the world and doubled, becomes nauseated, loses composure and longs to lament; his mind seems hardly separable from his stomach.

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