Anger, irascibility. Morose, quarrelsome, angry at trifles. Desire to scold and quarrel, alternating with internal anxiety and fear.
Aversion to answers. Indisposed to talk, desires to be silent. Aversion to company. Feels as if in a dream.
Sudden fear of death, with nervous excitement and formication all over body. Apprehension after his internal restlessness, soon amounting to anxiety. Fear of her condition being observed.
Deficiency of ideas. Weakness of memory for what is about to say. Mistakes in localities, and in time. Internal restlessness.
Shrieking. Sighing.
Frequent stuttering, especially at words difficult to pronounce; articulation indistinct, rapid, and chattering.
Unintelligible speech in sleep. Starting during sleep.
Sadness; with anxiety, restlessness and fear of misfortune.
Intellectual confusion.
Generalities and keynotes:
This remedy acts mostly on the cerebro-spinal nervous system.
Torpor and paralytic trembling. The limbs, especially the lower ones, gradually become weak, and the gait unsteady. With the loss of consciousness the motions become entirely automatic. Clonic spasms of biceps flexor cubiti and of muscles of jaw, worse by disturbing the patient.
Cramps in face and limbs. It will be indicated in conditions that have the following symptomatology: twitching in head and arms, with vomiting, face red, then pale, head thrown from side to side, fingers closed, arms flexed, convulsions of upper limbs, looking as if deeply drunk.
Jerkings; especially in legs, arms and face; when attempting to drink the arm contracted suddenly and the water was spilled, and when walking one or both legs contracted, throwing one to the ground. Muscular spasms in different parts of body. Unpleasant dryness of mouth, lips, tongue, palate, and throat. Startings at any sudden noise; at night when nearly asleep. Ovarian neuralgia, with headache, or epilepsy. Puerperal convulsions.