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Viola tricolor (Viol-t.)

Viola tricolor (Viol-t.) appears in 160 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 1 is a single-remedy rubric in which only this remedy is listed, and 11 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Irritability, Cheerfulness and Hypochondriasis, as well as Thoughts, Children and Imaginations. The data on specific rubrics are scant, but those present all point in one direction.

The change over the day

Almost all small rubrics describe the same rhythm. During the day Irritability, Hypochondriasis and ill humor prevail; in the evening, often in bed, the mood turns to cheerfulness, gaiety and mirth. The remedy thus appears as the picture of a person whose day passes in irritability and whose evening gives back the lightness lacking by day.

Gestures in sleep

The only single-remedy rubric concerns the hands: in sleep the thumbs clench and curl together involuntarily. The tension that determines the day seems to continue into sleep.

Summary

From the data a mind with a marked daily periodicity cautiously emerges: morose and irritable by day, brightened in the evening.

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