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MEDICAL ASTROLOGY

EMOTIONS.

Bad effects from fright.

Aconite.—Patient has palpitation of the heart and imagines they will die; fear remains after fright, anxiety, restless.

Belladonna.—If fright has caused convulsions, especially in children; patient screams; twitching of the limbs, feverish.

Coffee.—Great excitement, trembling, fainting, cannot sleep; fright from sudden pleasant surprises; very nervous.

Opium.—Fright followed by twitching of the limbs; convulsions: unnatural sleep, delirium; involuntary evacuations.

Gelseminum.—Diarrhoea from fright.

GRIEF.

Ignatia.—Patient is full of suppressed grief; weak, empty feeling in the stomach; spasmodic fits caused by grief.

Phos. acid.—Great indifference to the affairs of life; dislikes to talk.

Cocculus.—Sadness, tendency to start, especially at night; headache from grief; watching over sick friends.

Lachesis.—Talks much, changing the subject often; tight pressure around the neck is unbearable; worse after sleep.

Pulsatilla.—Melancholy, with weeping

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