KEY TO THE RUBRICS

OF MIND
"Mind is the key to the man."
-Hahnemann

DR. M. L AGRAWAL

Foreword By
DR. JUGAL KISHORE
President, Central Council of Homoeopathy,
ex-Physician to the President of India
and Honorary Adviser to the Govt. of India

PANKAJ PUBLICATION
Publishers of rare literature on Homoeopathy
Delhi-110051
KEY TO THE RUBRICS
OF MIND
"Mind is the key to the man."
—Hahnemann

By
DR. M.L. AGRAWAL

Foreword By
DR. JUGAL KISHORE
President, Central Council of Homoeopathy,
ex-Physician to the President of India
and Honorary Adviser to the Govt. of India.

PANKAJ PUBLICATIONS
Publishers of rare literature on Homoeopathy
Delhi-110051.
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 FOREWORD
Dr. M.L.Agrawal published a book on Materia Mcdica
of Human Mind in 1985 and I happened to write a foreword
for that. In continuation he has written another book
explaining and illustrating various shades and nuances
on mental expressions and symptoms as listed in our
repertory, but specifically in Kent's repertory. Although
it has been accepted since Hahnemann's time that mental
symptoms play a very important or pivotal role in unfolding
the true image of sickness but in practical experience they
are not only rather difficult to obtain from sick persons
but are also very difficult to understand correctly or
interpret them to obtain the real essence, so that we could
match them with the symptoms (mental) given in our
repertory. But before we make an attempt, we must have
a very clear concept of what do thc given terms or expressions
really mean. The author has tried to give short explanations
of each of the mental symptoms given by Kent in his chapter
of Mind. In the elucidation of the mental or the emotional
expressions, he has utilised the Webster's International
Dictionary. This collection of detailed meaning and
explanation at one place itself is an important contribution
specially for the new entrants to the profession. He has
also appended to each expression or rubric an explanatory
note giving an illustration of hypothetical situation in
personal lives, which could put life into the dictionary
meanings of the word. It may be mentioned here that mental
rubrics are difficult to understand by dictionary meanings
alone.
This type of work requires a lot of concentration and
study. I am glad that somebody has at least made an
attempt to bring it before the profession and thus tried
to meet one of the important needs of the profession. In
a work like that, merely listing of even the exhaustive
dictionary meanings would not have been meaningful, but
I feel that the author should have spent more time and
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space for the illustrative examples and even cited short

cases from actual practice or experience. That would have
made the work much more interesting. It seems that the
work has been rather hurriedly assembled. In a work of
this kind some errors have crept in. I am sure, as professed
by the author, he will bring out another improved edition.
The author is an active worker for the propagation and
development of the homoeopathic practice of medicine and
has tried to choose areas of literary activity and authorship
which have not been so far written about.
This book should be useful for both the students and
the practitioners of Homoeopathic medicine.
18.1.1988 —DR. JUGAL KISHORE
86, Golf Links
New Delhi
 PREFACE
After going through the literature of Homoeopathy
and hearing many eminent homoeopaths of the globe, it
was obvious to understand that the symptoms of the mind
are very important and decisive for any physical ailment
or emotional disturbance of a human being or any other
living creature of the universe. I wondered how a homoeopathic student could m

Repertory if he did not understand the correct meaning

assigned to a particular rubric. The question of understanding, and practical utilisat

a problem for me for more than a decade. During this period,

I had been consulting many a famous homoeopath and
many educationists: how could we possess a better
knowledge about these symptoms; but the answers were
not much encouraging.
I decided to make efforts to solve this problem in two
phases: (1) collecting all the mental symptoms of a drug
at one place, so that a complete mental picture of an
individual could be properly assessed, and (2) having
explanations of the rubrics of Mind chapter in Kent's
Repertory for a better and proper application. The first work
was simple as it involved only a compilation of the Mind
chapter and it was published in the form of a book, entitled
"Materia Medica of the Human Mind" in March, 1985. The
second phase was promised to be published soon in the
preface of that book, but could be possible only now.
The Mind chapter of Kent's Repertory is spread over
in 95 pages with 529 rubrics, characterised by many
sub-rubrics and further modifications. The problem first
arose about the exact meaning of these rubrics in the context
of homoeopathy, which could not be solved even after
consulting a variety of dictionaries. Lastly, the maximum
explanations could be found from Webster International
Dictionary. Unauthentically, I gathered that Dr. Kent had
utilised this dictionary. After obtaining the maximum
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explanations in this way and then verifying the Materia

Medica, whatever best examples I could give, I have given
in this book. 1 know that 'to err is human'. I might have
committed mistakes in explaining these rubrics. I
welcome any suggestions from whatever quarter it may
be, so that this work can be improved upon.
I hope this work will provide invaluable guidance to
any person in the homoeopathic profession.
Delhi — Dr. M. L. AGRAWAL
7th January, 1988.
 PREFACE TO THE SECOND
EDITION
Through this book, I tried to bring before the profession
an easy understanding of the rubrics used in the Mind
Chapter of Kent's Repertory. This was the first step to start
the work of under standing the symptoms of the Mind. Since
the first edition was liked very much by the readers, I was
encouraged to make some improvements in the explanations either on the basis

or suggestions from learned homoeopathic physicians.

However, I consider that this is a continuous process by
which we can go on improving this work in the interest
of the homoeopathic profession.
I hope the new edition will provide better help to the
homoeopathic physicians in their practice.
Delhi-110051 Dr. M. L. AGRAWAL
5th March, 1991

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 1. ABANDONED:
Feeling as if one has been given up by all his near and dear.
(Sadness born of grief.) (See Forsaken feeling; Deserted; Delusion, deserted, fors

Isolation, sensation of; Loneliness.)

Example; The patient is found in a sad state with grief and
he himself explains, during the course of telling his symptoms, that
nobody from his family or relations cares for him or all have given
h i m up.
Note; The remedies for this rubric can be seen under
Forsaken feeling. The sense of corresponding rubrics given above
may also be taken into consideration, so that the correct feeling of
the patient can be recorded for prescription.

2. ABRUPT:
Characterized by or producing the effect of a sharp break or
sudden ending, unexpected, unceremoniously curt in manner,
lacking transition. Rising or dropping sharply as if broken. Rough
in nature.
Example: This person is very rough in his attitude. If he
enters the clinic of a doctor, he will enter the chamber of the doctor

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without caring for his turn. He will reply questions very roughly or
will ask the doctor how this question is relevant to his disease.

3. ABSENT-MINDED:
Pre-occupied to the point of failure to respond to the ordinary
demands on the attention without having any thoughts. In-
attention of the mind. A person who is not doing anything and still
he does not respond to the ordinary calls although he has no other
thoughts in his mind.
(See Forgetful.)
Note: If he has some thoughts in his mind, he will be
considered "Absorbed"
Example: This patient even if sitting before the doctor, when
asked any question, does not respond at the first call, looks as if
4. ABSORBED, buried in thought:
Looking obviously engaged or occupied in thoughts (The mere
sight of that engrossed look). A person who by look itself seems to
be buried in thoughts. The type of thoughts is yet to be ascertained:
whether the thoughts are religious, the person is worshipping or
thinking anything else, so that the appropriate rubric may be
applied.
Example: When the patient is roused up, he acts as if he were
attempting to think or attempting to answer or move but simply
stares even before the doctor. It looks from his face that he is
thinking something which is a fact.

5. ABSTRACTION of mind:
Literally it means inattention of the mind. Such a person
when asked anything will give imaginative replies. For example, if
he is asked to explain the type of leaves of a mango tree, he will say
they are round.
Homoeopathically, such a person appears to be dazed with
complete loss of memory doing all his duties but forgets everything
when he is interrupted. In such a condition, he has no recollection
of any past event.
Example: When a patient is asked any questions, he gives
imaginative answers, i.e., "Do you have thirst during fever?" He
says, "Yes, may be."

6. ABUSIVE:
Persons in the habit of employing harsh, insulting language
characterised by or serving for abuse what is not aimed at any
particular person or persons.
(Also see Cursing and Swearing.)
Example: a patient while telling the symptoms uses words
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generally used for abusing. These words are used by him as a

routine as he is in the habit of using such words. He may be
abusing the physicians who treated him earlier.

7. ACTIVITY, desires:
A person doing nothing but desirous of doing some activity.
(See Industrious.)
Example: During the course of sickness, a person though
lying on the bed and is unable to do anything yet says "I have to
attend this or that job." A desire to do something despite physical
incapacity.

8. ACUTENESS:
The quality or state of being acute - of intellect. A person when
disturbed in his mind either feels that his memory is very sharp or
very weak.
(See Memory.)
Example: A person while explaining his conditions says that
his memory is very weak (in general or in some particular aspects)
or his memory is so active that he can recollect many things. These
observations are to be made carefully as these may appear during
the course of any type of sickness.

9. ADMONITION agg.:
(1) Aggravation from gentle or friendly reproof, warning or
reminder. Expression of authoritative advice or warning especially
an ecclesiastical censure, aggravates.
(ii) A person who feels excited/agitated or is averse to any
friendly advice, warning or reminder by a competent elderly
person.
Example: While interrogating a patient his relatives disclose
that this person becomes excited/agitated if he is given any
warning or reminder for the consequences of his actions.
His complaints arc generally aggravated from any such warning
or reminder.
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10. AFFECTATION:
An undue attachment to the position, prestige or dignity of a
person which a normal person will not have. In Hering Guiding
Symptoms, it has been mentioned as "affectation of position"
under Stramonium.
Example: A person while giving his symptoms shows that he
is excessively worried about his position or prestige rather than his
disease.

11. AFFECTIONATE:
Mentally or emotionally affected. A person having affection or
warm regards beyond the normal limits which may become a cause
of concern.
(Also see Love, Indifference.)
Example: Some children (male or female) are having so much
affection that they tempt anybody towards them. They start
weeping and become sad when ignored.

12. AGITATION:
Mental excitement or perturbation. A tremulous and
disturbed state of the mind.
(See Excitement.)
Example: A person feels that his circumstances are not in
accordance with his thoughts due to some cause or provocation or
he feels disturbed when things are moving in the opposite direction
of what he wants. Due to such a condition he may have some
ailment as he feels agitated in his mind which may be a cause of
his sickness.

13. AIR castles:

Always making air-castles. Making theories or thinking in
such a way which may not be practicable. Imaginative plans
without any head or tail which keep the mind busy.
(See Theorizing.)
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Example: A person having various complaints, generally

with sleeplessness, when asked, says that his mind is always busy
thinking this or that which does not really have a head or tail.

14. AMBITION, loss of:

Ambition means desire for honour or power. Aspiration. An
ardent desire for rank, fame or power. Whenever such desires are
not fulfilled and the person feels that he has lost the game, he is
having this type of feeling.
(See Indolence.)
Example: A person has a keen desire to become a judge; he
works hard for the same. But ultimately he does not succeed. Due
to this failure, his ambition remains unfulfilled and he becomes
lazy avoiding everything like an indolent person. His present
ailments may be due to this condition.

15. AMOROUS:
Strongly moved by love especially sexual. Greatly attracted
towards sexual matters, even in thoughts or dreams.
(Also see Lasciviousness, Lewdness, Shameless.)
Example: A person is sick, when asked he is found that his
energy or thoughts are mostly diverted towards the sexual ones.
During discussion also, he is observed to be involved in sexual
thoughts only.
Note: (1) In such cases, the practical indulgence is not
important but it is the diversion of mental energy towards that side.
(2) The remedies for this rubric may be seen under
"Lasciviousness or Lewdness" as per the character of thoughts of
the patient.
(3) The difference in the explanation of these rubrics may be
read under "LASCIVIOUSNESS".

16. AMUSEMENT:
To derive mental pleasure by doing some act like playing
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piano, etc.
(Also see Diversion, Entertainment, Occupation.)
Example: During the course of sickness, a person feels
mentally better by doing an act like playing piano, etc. He, however,
feels amused only by the particular type of voice, etc. which he
likes.
Note: (1) 'Diversion, Entertainment or Occupation' means
devoting mental or physical energy towards something by which
one may feel mentally or physically relaxed but in amusement it is
only a pleasure which he derives from doing an act like playing
piano, etc.
(2) Aversion to or amelioration from a particular type of
amusement is relevant if the patient had an attachment or hatred
with such things earlier.

17. ANGER, irascibility:

An outburst of passion or expression due to some
provocation, e.g. hearing tireless piano from the next door, hurt
and vexed by social snub at an open insult. A strong feeling of
displeasure and usually of antagonism.
(See Irritability, quarrelsome. Also Rage, Fury and Frantic,
frenzy.)
Example: Generally when the feelings of a person are
injured, he gets angry but this is something very common. When
a person gets angry under certain conditions like from
contradiction, interruption, consolation and many other
conditions, it becomes a point of reference. Anger suppressed or
various ailments or conditions arising as a result of anger also fall
within its range.

18. ANGUISH:
To distress oneself; suffer intense pain or sorrow within
himself. A feeling of intense displeasure within a person due to
some provocation which is not expressed but can be observed.
(Also see Sadness and Sorrowful.)
Example: A person went to attend a marriage where one of
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his elders said something to him which he felt too much but could
not say anything as he had much regards for him. Due to this he
developed some physical ailments.
(a) A person does not pass his stools satisfactorily which
causes annoyance to him before stool.
(b) A lady has some mensutrual problem and so she becomes
anguish before menses.
Note: In Sadness, there is no element of anger, irritability or
annoyance.

19. ANSWERS, abruptly, shortly, curtly:

(a) abruptly. To answer in an abrupt manner.
(b) Shortly. In a short manner; every answer is very short
which may or may not cover the point.
(c) Curtly. In a curt manner, i.e., the reply is a type of annoying
one.
(d) Aversion to. Does not want to answer or one feels averse
to answer any question.

20. ANTAGONISM with herself:

Actively expressed oppositions, hostility and antipathy within
a person himself. Opposition in physiological actions.
Example: (1) A person has contradiction in his will, he is
irresolute, cannot decide this way or that way. One holds himself
responsible for this or that wrong. Like a patient of Anacardium.
(2) A person quarrels with his family and with his bread and
butter like Kali carbonicum.

21. ANTHROPOPHOBIA:
Fear of men.
(See under Fear.)
Example: There can be various types of men to fear, i.e., male
(men), people, robbers, physicians, strangers, women. A lady fears
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any male person.

22. ANTICIPATION, complaints from:

Ailments or complaints arising as a result of thinking an event
to take place or the completion of a particular job assigned to a
particular person. There is some element of anxiety or excitement
which brings on the ailment or complaints.
Example: A person has diarrhoea, when he is preparing to
go for a marriage, theatre, battle. Another person may have
palpitation before going to the station.

23. ANTICS, plays:

To make various types of figures or armament, the act of
playing a fantastic action or trick.
Example: During the disturbed state of mind a patient
appears in various fantastic forms and displaying his actions in
tricky ways. This all happens under changed conditions of the
mind of a person. If somebody does these things knowingly, it can
be called an act of stage playing or a drama.

24. ANXIETY:
A state of being anxious or of experiencing a strong or
dominating blend of uncertainty, agitation or dread, and brooding
fear about some contingency; uneasiness.
A strong concern about some imminent development or
strong desire, mixed with doubt and fear, for some event or issue.
An abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and of
fear often marked by such physical symptoms as tension, tremor,
sweating, palpitation and increased pulse rate.
A state of mind that is deeply troubled or distressed especially
one that results from appraently being confronted with
nothingness (as in a situation involving the need or the
responsibility to make evaluations and decisions and to take
action without the guidance of tradition or society).
Example: A clear understanding of the explanation of
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anxiety makes it easy to understand the usage of it. Anxiety can

be felt under different circumstances. It can be at a particular time,
under various conditions which can be seen under this rubric in
Kent's repertory.

25. APATHY:
Want of feeling, passion, emotion or interest.
(See Indifference.)
Example: A person who has been attached to somebody or
something but later on he becomes averse to the same. In other
words, a sense of aversion to certain matters to which he should
be normally attached. Such an aversion may be under certain
conditions or to certain matters given under the rubric
"Indifference, apathy, etc."

26. APHASIA:
Loss of the power of speech or the understanding of speech
caused by damage or disorder to the parts situated in the brain
concerned with these functions.
(See Speech, Mistakes, Forgetful.)
Example: After an acute illness, accident, head injury or
some natural disorder, a person may have total difficulty in talking.
Note: A person who can talk in a modified speech may be seen
under speech and for related defects the other concerned rubrics.

27. APPREHENSIONS:
Fear with an element of doubt and expectation of something
unpleasant to happen.
(See Fear, Anxiety.)
Example: A person feels he may not fail in the examination
or in business.
Note; The apprehension which a person may have or present
before the physician should be weighed properly; whether it can be
covered under Anxiety or Fear and accordingly those
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corresponding rubrics may be studied.

28.ARDENT:
Extremely eager, particular, devoted, faithful or zealous
person for any purpose or akin. Very sensitive, easily offended,
cannot bear the least noise.
Example: A person who is observed to be very particular in
whatever work is entrusted to him and works with his full zeal but
is very sensitive to the most trifling ailments. Persons inclined to
weep at the least opposition or during perspiration. Longs for
repose and tranquility. Cannot tolerate the least Injustice.

29. ARROGANCE:
A genuine or assumed feeling of superiority that shows itself
in an overbearing manner of attitude or in excessive claims of
position, dignity or power than unduly exalts one's own worth or
importance.
(See Haughty.)
Example: A lady patient says that she could use only high
quality medicines. Otherwise also she poses herself to be great.
Note: Whenever a person is having a feeling of superiority, ill
has also to be judged whether it is of a proudy nature or due to
some altered states of the mind. In the first category, caust, ferr,
lach, lyc, nux-v, plat, etc. are proudy by nature whereas cann-i,
hyos, sabad, stram, sulph, etc. are in the second category.

30. ASKS for nothing:

During the course of sickness a person lies down quietly and,
does not indicate his desire for anything.
Example: Such stages can be presented by the relatives of
the patient saying that this patient has been lying for such a long
duration and has asked for anything.

31. ATTENTION:
The act or state of attending. The application of mind to any
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object of sense or thought.
(See Concentration.)
Example: A person's mental participation to hear something
or understanding something depends upon his devotion to that
particular aspect. The attention of a person can be diverted in
various manners or conditions which may be read under the rubric
"Concentration".

32. ATTITUDES, assumes strange:

A persistent disposition to adopt strange postures which can
be judged by the face reading of a person positively or negatively
towards a person, group, object, situation or value.
example: A person's mental attitude changes gradually or
suddenly and he starts feeling that somebody will murder him and
consequently he adopts such attitudes which are felt strange to his
family members and others.

33. AUDACITY:
Daring boldness with assurance, presumption or open
disdain for any restraint.
Example: The person is generally or originally not as bold as
he appears during the course of sickness during which he assumes
boldness mentally and physically both, which is an altered state of
his mind.

34. AUTOMATIC:
A complete lack of coordination between the will and the
muscles. Whatever acts are continuing in the body of a person are
automatic like the acts of deglutition, respiration, etc.
(See Unconsciousness.)
Example: A person falls sick does not indicate anything
although he eats, breaths but no desires or expressions.
Note: Whenever the above condition is observed in a patient
it can be taken for granted that the person is virtually unconscious
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and as such various modified conditions of such cases can be

studied under the rubric "Unconsciousness".

35. AVARICE:
An insatiable desire for wealth or gain. By all means he is
always in search of increasing his wealth and possessions.
(Also see Covetous and Miserly.)
Example: While examining the history of a patient it comes
to notice that this person has always been very active and not
feeling tired for increasing his wealth and possessions. The height
is that he may have enough or sufficient for his and his family's
needs yet he is desirous to acquire more and more i.e. more than
what he needs.

36. AVERSION:
A firmly settled and vehement dislike. It is precisely the polar
condition in which one realises the significance of the object which
is present before him and he recognises it on the basis of
experience that the realization of it will be disagreeable.
Consequently, he draws back from it and strives to shun it.
Example: It can be in various conditions. A person knows his
family members, relatives, friends etc. but when he feels aversion
to anyone of them, he does not like or care even to talk with such
a person.
(Also see Hatred.)
Example: There can be various conditions or types of
persons with whom one can have aversion, aversion to friends,
husband, members of family, to certain persons, to those around,
etc.

37. BAD news, ailments from:

The senses of a person are/so acute or sensitive that he
acquires some ailment from listening any bad (distressing) news.
(Also see Excitement, emotional, ailments from.)
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Example: A person gets a fit after hearing the news of death
of one of his relatives; similarly another person may have a heart
attack. One can have some physical ailments also from a news of
this type.

38. BARKING:
During an altered state of mind a person may start barking
like a dog.
Example: Barking without hydrophobia in a patient i.e. an
altered condition of the mind.
Note: It has been mentioned in the proving of cantharis that
a person may start barking like a dog from the constant use of
cantharis. Such a condition is generally observed otherwise in the
cases of hydrophobia.

39. BASHFUL:
Inclined to shrink from public attention due to shyness. This
shyness is so great that the person escapes the attention of other
people.
(See Timidity.)
Example: When a person is so shy that he cannot
appear before public or escapes the notice of others he is
regarded as a timid person. The remedies for this rubric have,
therefore, been given under "Timidity" under the heading
"Timidity, bashful".

40. BATTLES, talks about:

During the course of sickness or due to an altered condition
of the mind, a person mostly talks about battles.
Example: In most of the cases a person talks about battles
in an altered state of mind like delirium.
Note: A person who has been working in the Army and if he
talks about the battles or war will not be having any importance
as a symptom.
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41. BED, aversion to (shuns), desires to remain in,

etc.
No explanation required as they are quite clear. However,
such rubrics are helpful when the symptom is much well marked
and voluntary.

42. BEGGING, entreating:

By virtue of the nature of a person whenever he asks
somebody to give him something it appears as if he is begging.
Example: Apart from the nature of person if somebody
during the course of sickness or during the sub-conscious state
like in sleep may be observed to be begging or this fact can be
brought to the notice of the physician by relatives of the patient
that he is many times observed as if begging.

43. BELLOWING:
To speak or shout in deep voice and in an unrestrained
manner.
Example; This mostly happens when a person is not in a
sound health. During the course of a fit or temporarily disturbed
condition of mind, one can speak or shout like this. This symptom,
however, can be applied only when it is frequently or generally
observed.

44. BEMOANING:
A mental condition wherein a person expresses himself to be
in great sorrow or wants to be pitied but in fact that condition is
not even 50 per cent true as lie describes.
(Sec Lamenting.)
Example: Some people are in the habit of posing and
presenting their suffering in such a manner that they are very sick
and they request the physician time and again to have pity on them
but in fact they are not so sick.
Note: This can be compared with tlic rubric "Feigning sick"
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but the person of that category is not sick at all and he is simply
posing to be sick.

45. BENEVOLENCE:
A mental disposition to do good and promote the welfare of
others. Such a person is always ready to help others even at the
cost of his health.
Example: A person who has always been very much helpful
to others, while sick, if he feels somebody is in need of his help, he
will make all efforts, or at least he will try, to help him who seeks
his help.

46. BENUMBED:
A mental condition wherein a person becomes inactive in his
mental faculties like perception, understanding, etc.
Example: During the course of the deranged state of mind a
person may be mentally inactive in perception, i.e., he may not be
attentive in hearing or understanding or to what others are saying.
It may be with cerebral congestion, cerebrospinal meningitis or
inflammation of the brain, etc.

47. BEWILDERED:
A state of mental confusion, lack of certainty, orderly thought
or power to distinguish to choose or act decisively. A state of
perplexity or going astray.
(See Confusion).
Example: A person who loses his mental equilibirium in
deciding this or that in general or during the course of sickness,
he appears to be confused.
Note; This type of symptoms are helpful only when they are
very much marked and being represented voluntarily.

48. BITING:
An altered mental state of a person who desires to bite things
or articles. One can also have this type of desire during
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convulsions or some other similar ailment.

Example: The relatives of a patient advise the physician that
he is in the habit of biting some particular things like pillows,
spoons, tumblers or his own fingers, hands, himself.

49. BLACK and sombre, everything that is, aversion

to:
A settled and vehement dislike for everything which is black,
dark and gloomy.
Example: A person can be so averse to black, dark and
gloomy things that whenever he come across any such article,
cloth or picture which is of black and dark colour, he will not
choose it or accept it or like to see that thing. He will immediately
say, "I do not like this colour." Before the physician also he can
represent if he sees any thing black in his clinic.

50. BLINDNESS, pretended:

A deliberate and knowing attempt to pose oneself as blind.
Example: A person feels pleasure in his mind to pose himself
to be blind when it is not a fact.

51. BLOOD, cannot look at, or a knife:

A mental sensitivity wherein a person cannot look at blood or
a knife as the mere sight of it creates sensation like fainting or
suicidal thoughts in his mind.
Example: A person sees a sharp instrument or blood. Just
by seeing blood he may faint on seeing a knife or sharp cutting
instrument, impulses may arise in his mind to kill himself. Such
impulses come to his mind imagining that these things can be used
for the murder of a person.

52. BOLDNESS:
A mental condition wherein a person although weak or unable
to sustain anything but still he resolves to face any dangerous,
alarming and difficult situation with boldness. In other words.
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homoeopathically a patient does not feel the pain when he should

feel it under those circumstances.
(See Courageous.)
Example: A patient is suffering from a sore throat, which is
red, inflammed, painful and obviously looks that it will be painful
to touch but in fact when the patient is asked he says he feels
better by pressure.

53. BREAK things, desire to:

A tendency wherein a person is Inclined to break things,
customs or traditions.
Example: By virtue of the nature of a person, he desires to
break things (although he does not do so), customs or traditions
seeking some welfare in it or to satisfy his own mind.

54. BROODING:
A state of mental gloom or depression over something with
constant thinking. A continued distressed feeling in the mind
created by disturbance of the emotional level.
(Also see Anxiety, Sadness.)
Example: A person who has felt offended due to some
provocation and his emotional level feels much disturbed mentally,
does not disclose it to anybody. Since that feeling is not removed,
the person goes on brooding.

55. BUFFOONERY:
An irrational behaviour lacking in judgement, consideration
or intelligence. An uncalled for behaviour.
(See Foolish behaviour.)
Example: The behaviour of a person is so strange that he can
be judged to be in a state of delirium and while talking or posing
his postures, he has no regard to the position or status of a person
he is talking with. He may go on talking by which his actions may
be assumed to be foolish.
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56. BUSINESS:
The routine of life as it should be in the natural order, e.g. a
student's business is to study, a teacher's business is to teach and
so on.
Example: Business, averse to - a person who has no
Inclination to attend to his business, i.e., a shop keeper does not
want to go to his shop, a student does not want to study.
(2) Business, incapacity for - A person quite fit for attending
to his job feels that he is unable to carry on his business.
(3) Business, talks of - a person although sick says, "I have to
attend this or that business."

57. BUSY:
By the look Itself we find a person engaged or occupied
physically or in attention. Unlike "Absorbed" or "Absent-minded"
this person's attention is diverted when called for.
(Also see Occupied, Delirium.)
Example: The honey bees are busy in their business and
without disturbing them their attention is not diverted. In the same
way, there are people who are very busy in their work and they are
not diverted unless disturbed.

58. CALMNESS:
A mental state of being calm, marked by quiet i.e., free from
agitation, excitement, hurry, disturbance, passion, etc.
(See Tranquility.)
Example: A person lying quietly noticing nothing whatsoever
noise or excitement. Such a person is not unconscious. He places
himself in such a position that he does not wish to notice anything
although in full senses.

59. CALUMNIATE, desire to:

Desires to utter false statements, charges or imputations in
order to impair the public reputation of persons, like leaders of
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opposition.
(See Slander, disposition to.)
Example: A person who by nature itself is in the habit of
making false allegations against those who are in opposition
especially in the political field. This is very common in the
politicians to make false allegations against the leader of the
opposition party.

60. CAPRICIOUSNESS:
A mental state of irritability wherein a person refuses a thing
asked for by himself when it is offered to him. Sometimes the
person has a desire for something which he knows not what.
(Also see Longing for things which are rejected when offered,
Refuses things asked for. Wants something he knows not what.)
Example: It is generally found in children that they ask for
something but refuse when offered, e.g., a child desired to have
toffees but when toffees are offered, he does not take them.

61. CAREFULNESS:
The quality of being careful; close or steady attention.
Exercising thoughtful supervision or making solicitous provisions.
Example: A person is so careful that he cannot tolerate the
least imperfection in the things arranged by him. He will check up
things again and again so that they are perfect. He will make such
provisions that whatever he has planned should not have lacunae
for disturbance or breakage.

62. CARELESS:
Free from care, anxiety or responsibility, having concern or
interest like neglectful or inattentive. Such a person does not pay
any attention to what others say or think about him.
(See Heedless).
Example: A person is so dull in his nature that despite
repeated warnings and advices does not change his attitude or
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behaviour in regard to the various wrongs noticed in him. In other

words, he has no reaction to whatever is said to him. An attitude
of carelessness.

63. CARES, full of:

Full of serious attention accompanied by caution, pains,
weariness, personal interest or responsibility. A person who is
careful to the extent of anxiety.
(Also see Anxiety.)
Example: A person may be so much full of cares that he may
have ailments or anxiety from his cares. A person is in the habit
of taking too many precautions in his business and yet he is not
happy; he is continuously having an anxiety; "My business is not
well, it is going to fall." etc.

64. CARPHOLOGIA:
An aimless (semi-conscious state of mind) condition of
plucking at the bed clothes. This is generally observed in the
condition of exhaustion, stupor, delirium, etc. in high fevers.
(See Gestures.)
Example: During high fever a person is found plucking
something from the bed-clothes for .which there would be no
intention but this is done under a semiconscious state of mind and
this is an involuntary action of the person.

65. CARRIED, desires to be:

A mental condition in which the patient wants to be lapped
and carried from one place to another. This condition is generally
observed in children.
Example: A child is weeping and does not keep quiet unless
it is carried from one place to another. Since the child stops
weeping by being carried it becomes an important symptom. There
may be different conditions of being carried like - in croup, fast,
slowly, etc.
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66. CAUTIOUS:
Circumspect, marked by caution, by careful prudence in
reducing risk or damage and by reluctance or proceed or advance
rashly in all his movements - always acting as if surrounded by
invisible spies and too conservative to seek any revolutionary end.
Example: A patient when examined is found to be so
cautious that in all his acts with a thoughtful mind he is not easily
prepared to follow any other alternative placed before him. This is
applicable to him not only in the course of sickness but in other
affairs of his life also.
Note: A cautious person shall not have anxiety.

67. CENSORIOUS, critical:

Generally in the habit of censuring or having an inclination
to criticise or to discover faults and condemn others on social,
moral or other grounds.
(Also see Critical, Fault finding and compare: Caluminate,
desire to and Slander, disposition to.)
Example: Even during the course of sickness a person is
found criticising others on one pretext or the other. He may
criticise even his dearest friends for the misbehaviour with him
although he might have been treated nicely. This is a general habit
of such personalities.
Note: A person who desires to calumniate or having a
disposition to slander others is a deliberate thinking for those who
differ with him in ideology and not as a matter of habit or routine.
A censorious person has the nature to criticise others.

68. CHAGRIN:
Disturbance of mind resulting from care, anxiety, worry,
depression of spirits, melancholy, vexation, disquiet or distress of
mind brought on by humiliation, hurt, pride, disappointment or
consciousness of failures or errors.
(See Mortification, ailments after)
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Example: A lady who is being tortured in her mind by her in-

laws is unable to express herself before anybody and this is a
constant programme.

69. CHANGEABLE:
A person who is so changeable in his mind that one moment
he is found very angry and the other moment, he seems to be very
pleasant. A changeable mental disposition.
(See Mood, changeable, variable etc.)
Example: A person gets a news that his son has met with an
accident and he becomes gloomy but within a few seconds he
reconciles within himself and says, "No matter we will face the
consequences."

70. CHAOTIC:
A state of chaos where a person is utterly confused in his
mind, he feels the urgency of doing something in the matter but he
is unable to choose the course of action.
Example: A person is taking a particular type of treatment
where he feels he is deteriorating and, therefore, he changes the
type of treatment. But under the new treatment. Ills condition
remains as it is. At this stage, he feels chaotic.

71. CHASES imaginery objects:

A mental condition under which a person chases some
imaginery objects which do not exist but just on the basis of
imagination or internal will he chases them.
Example: A person is generally noticed chasing something
but when he is asked to tell what he was chasing he is unable to
indicate. This can generally happen during the course of sickness
of a person when he starts chasing something.

72. CHEERFUL, gay, happy:

Even during the course of sickness, a person is cheerful with
a good mood and spirit arising from a carefree sanguine attitude
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and a hearty bright lively disposition.

(Also see Contended, Gaiety, Happy, Hilarity, Joyous,
Liveliness, Mirth, Vivacious.)
Example: During sickness generally a person cannot be
happy but it becomes a special feature of that individual when he
feels happy or delighted even during sickness. A person may feel
happy when he is constipated or when he thinks of death or a lady
during menses.

73. CHILDISH behaviour:

A mental condition when a matured person behaves like a
child. Since the behaviour of a matured person is like a child, it can
be in general due to improper development of brain of that person
or during the course of sickness.
(Also see Foolish behaviour.)
Example: A matured person during the course of sickness
becomes childish and he wants to play with the toys, or his actions
or desires are just like the ones found in children.

74. CHILDREN, aversion to:

A disposition or thoughts of a person where he or she is averse
to children or various conditions about children. This may be due
to some agitation in the mind.
Example: Although there shall be rare examples yet we do
get some cases where people are averse to children; there is a desire
to beat the children; disliking her own children; a woman dislikes
little girls or somebody flies from his own children.

75. CIRCUMSPECTION, lack of:

A condition wherein a person does not take any precaution or
attention to any possible consequences of some event which is
going to take place despite the fact that it is within his notice.
(See Indiscretion.)
Example: A patient of diabetes knows well that any amount
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of consuming sugar will be detrimental to his health but whenever

he intends to take sugar he ignores the consequences of having a
greater suffering. One can have this attitude in other affairs also.

76. CLAIRVOYANCE:
A natural gift or ability to perceive matters beyond the range
of ordinary perception. Such persons generally tell the events
which are to take place shortly or in the near future which others
cannot even anticipate.
Example: A person feels some electrolytic changes in
his body and mind before thunderstorm comes. He can foretell
that thunderstorm or rain is likely to come. Sometimes such a
person can tell many other happenings also which have yet to
take place.

77. CLINGING to persons or furniture:

To adhere closely or firmly as if glued or to have a strong
emotional attachment or dependence.
Example: A child while sleeping suddenly awakes terrified
and clings to the person or furniture found nearby without
knowing as to who is that person.
Note: This can be utilised when it is a general feature of the
child and not if it happens very rarely.

78. CLOSING eyes amel.:

Feeling a sort of mental relief by closing the eye;, during the
course of sickness or otherwise.
Example: A patient while explaining about his sickness or
mental inquietude voluntarily and emphatically says that he feels
ameliorated by closing the eyes.
Example: A patient talks with the physician and keeps his
eyes closed. On enquiry he says that he feels better by closing his
eyes.
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79. CLOUDINESS, confusion:

A condition of mental loneliness where a person is in the
clouds of confusion.
(See Confusion; also Stupefaction.)
Example: A person is deceived by his friend and as a result
of it he is placed in a condition of cloudiness (hazy ideas) as on
whom his confidence can be bestowed. Due to such a condition if
a person gets sick and he narrates all this he will be presumed to
be in a state of cloudiness.
Note: Since cloudiness of the mind is tantamount to
confusion of mind, the remedies for this may be seen under
Confusion.

80. COLOR, aversion to red. yellow, green and black:

A firmly settled dislike for red, yellow, green and black
colours.
Example: A person having a dislike for red, yellow, green and
black colours must be a very unique personality as these are very
important colours. The reference of this is possible to be observed
while the patient is advised to have a daily walk in some garden but
he says that he cannot do so because he does not like those colours
which are in plenty in the garden.

81. COMPANY, aversion to:

A mental choice wherein a person by nature is averse to have
companionship which may be altered under different
circumstances.
Example: A lady while explaining about her sickness tells
that during menses she desires that somebody should be with her
or another lady is averse to have a company during menses rather
she wants to be left alone.
Note: The various conditions like company, desire for, and
others may be studied under this rubric.
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82. COMPLAINING:
Expressing protest or resentment over something caused by
somebody or over some dissatisfaction usually without a threat
but expecting some sympathy or redressal. In the homoeopathic;
usage such complaints of the patient are not valid ones, i.e., the
person is making complaints without sufficient grounds or is in the
habit of complaining for this or that. This is proved by its sub-
rubrics wherein a person may be complaining about offences long
past, in sleep, of supposed injury or waking.
(Also see Lamenting).
Example: A person is brought to a physician and apart from
the other complaints the relatives of the patient tell the physician
that he is making too many complaints on one pretext or the other.

83. COMPREHENSION difficult:

The act or action of grasping power of the mind (intellect).
Lack of capacity or power to understand or comprehend.
(See Dullness, Sluggishness, Difficulty of thinking and
Comprehending.)
Example: A patient's relations disclose to the physician that
whenever they teach this person despite repeated explanations he
is unable to apply his mind in solving a given sum which others
can do even if taught once only.

84. CONCENTRATION, active (or difficult):

Directing of the attention or the mental faculties towards a
single task or job entrusted to a person or whatever work is done
by him it is with full concentration. There are two conditions of
concentration, i.e. active or difficult. Active means it is too active
or in other words, the attention of such persons is diverted very
quickly which may not be possible under normal circumstances
with other persons. Whenever the concentration is difficult it can
be under various circumstances as given in the sub-rubrics.
Example: A person's mental faculties are not devoted in any
assigned job. Whenever he is asked to perform some other job, he
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is unable to concentrate his mind. This is a general condition

which may be brought to the notice of a physician. Whenever any
specified condition is presented the sub-rubrics can be consulted
under this heading.

85. CONFIDENCE, want of self:

Lack of feeling or consciousness of reliance on oneself to
perform an act under a particular condition or circumstances
necessitating his attention.
Example: A person is asked to perform an act by doing a job
but when he intends to do it, he has a dual train of thought in his
mind: whether he should do it in this or that way, like Anacardium
orientale. An other person may not have the confidence to perform
the job entrusted to him.

86. CONFIDING:
Sharing or imparting secrets or intimate matters. Telling
something confidentially.
Example: A person out of some provocation in his mind
considers it necessary that the secret of his disease or the
circumstances faced by him may be conveyed to someone in
confidence.
Note: Persons in the habit of doing so are generally having a
fear in their minds.

87. CONFOUNDING objects and ideas:

T Making confusion in objects and ideas. Those persons who

are in their own world of thinking may understand or make
mistakes in supposing an object as a person or idea of doing
something good which may be correct.
Example: A person's thinking is in such a philosophical
manner that he imagines, "he is giving wrong things to people
causing their death", like sulphur.
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88. CONFUSION of mind:

A state of mental confusion. Lack of certainty, orderly thought
or power to distinguish, choose decisively.
(Also see Concentration difficult, Cloudiness, Chaos.)
Example: A person is generally alright but whenever he sits
for doing some calculation work gets confused and is unable to
carry on that work like Nux vomica.
Note: (1) There may be different times, circumstances and
various modifications given under the sub-rubrics for confusion.
(2) For the other rubrics like 'Concentration difficult' and
'Chaos,' the definitions against those rubrics may be studied before
applying.

89. CONSCIENTIOUS about trifles: |

Governed by or made in accordance with the dictates of
conscience meticulously. A person whose all actions are governed
by the dictates of his own conscience and he is very meticulous in
following the same even in petty affairs.
Example: A person carries out even the pettiest thing of his
business or any other work according to the dictates of his
conscience even though it may not be soothing to others or even
if he is criticised by others for his actions.

90. CONSOLATION agg.:

Consolation means alleviation of distress or misery by
sympathetic care or attention or by the soothing or mitigating
effects natural or psychological phenomena.
Example: A person is distressed due to some cause be it by
hurting the sentiments or as a result of some emotional
disturbance and feels sick but is much aggravated if somebody
consoles or takes due care of such a person in a manner which
should be very much soothing.
Note: Some people feel better by consolation which can be
dealt with under the sub-rubric.
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91. CONTEMPTUOUS:
Expression or behaviour of a contempt or open disdain
despite the opposition of even a large crowd.
(Also see Scorn, ailments from.)
Example: A person met with an accident on the road while
driving a car. A large crowd gathered on the spot and started
talking that it was due to the mistake of the car driver but he does
not care for the whole crowd and pleads in such a way that he had
not committed any mistake. Even if the whole crowd was against
him, he did not seem to bother for the opinion of the whole crowd.

92. CONTENTED:
Easy in mind. Despite various sufferings or hurdles, a person
is determined for his routine or context against his difficulties and
yet feels satisfied.
(See Cheerful, and also Gaiety, Happy.)
Example: A person is suffering from cancer and he is lying
in the bed with Inability to do anything yet on asking about his
feelings he says that he feels satisfied in the present situation and
asserts to follow all his routine work with an assurance in his mind
that his disease will not be a cause of disturbance to him. In other
words, he is cheerful and happy with all his sufferings and has an
active interest in life.

93. CONTENTIONS:
An act or instance of contending; violent effort or struggle,
resist or compete to achieve something.
(See Quarrelsome.)
Example: A person wishes to enter into a theatre which has
attracted a large crowd and there is a queue but this person tries
to reach the window without caring for the persons already waiting.
On objecting by others, he picks up quarrel and yet has a
determination in his mind to go inside. One can be observed
likewise during sickness.
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94. CONTRADICT, disposition to:

A tendency to oppose or contradict the speech, action or
version of anybody with argument and by using his intellect. Such
persons have no questioning of their own opinions but they are
used to contradict others.
Example; A patient while talking to the physician does not
accept the version or diagnosis of his disease by the physician and
advances certain arguments as it is his nature to contradict.

95. CONTRADICTION, is intolerant of:

Persons who cannot tolerate any contradiction to what they
have said or in whatever action they have taken. This intolerance
is not supported by.
Example: While talking to a patient the physician asks him
various questions but some patients do not tolerate any
contradiction in their speech or whatever they have said. If the
physician has asked any question for the second time he will not
tolerate it and will say. "I have already replied to this question."

96. CONTRARY:
A person who is contrary will oppose whatever is said before
him by somebody without applying his intellect due to his
obstinacy and nature to oppose. An obstinate person is hcadbound
to one of his own opinions, purposes or anything, whereas the
contrary has to oppose whatsoever has been said by somebody else
without thinking.
(Also see Obstinate, Irritability.)
Example; A person opposes whatever is proposed or said
before him as a consequence of his nature without having an
understanding of the same.
Note: The difference between Contradict, disposition to, and
Contrary is that the first one applies the intellect with arguments
and the latter opposes without applying the intellect.
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97. CONVERSATION agg.:

A mental condition wherein a person is worse by oral
exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions and ideas.
(Also see Talking.)
Example: A person is generally alright but whenever he
exchanges views with somebody on any subject he is mentally
upset or his mental symptoms are aggravated.

98. COSMOPOLITAN:
Having marked interest in familiarity with or acquiring
Knowledge and appreciation of many facts of the world.
(See Travel, desire to.)
Example: A person having a marked interest in acquiring
knowledge or familiarity with many places of the world or in other
words, he wishes to travel many places to have appreciation of facts
regarding various places.

99. COUNTING continually:

A mental condition in which a person is always observed to be
counting something.
Example: A physician observes while examing a patient that
he is counting something. When he asks about it from his relatives,
they say that he is always doing so.

100. COURAGEOUS:
Having or characterised by courage; marked by bold
resolution in withstanding the dangerous, alarming or difficult
situations.
(Also see Boldness.)
Example: A patient despite having many sufferings is'not
prepared to change his course of action as he has the courage to
withstand it. He is not afraid of any dangerous consequences of the
situation in which he is placed.
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101. COVETOUS:
Marked by deep desire to own wealth or possession.
(See Avarice and Miserly.)
Example; A person who wishes to acquire more and more
wealth or possessions. If this is the general nature of the person
it should be applied to work out his individuality.

102. COWARDICE:
The quality of a coward; lack of resolution in the face of hostile
sentiments of others. Cannot face situations where expected.
Example: A person is so much weak in his mind that he
cannot face a situation where others can easily succeed. The mere
thought of facing- a situation makes him desperate.

103. CRAWLING on the floor:

A mental condition wherein a person starts moving like
insects, known as crawling, on the floor.
Example: A person is observed to be crawling on the floor
which may be due to his general nature or during the course of a
disease he starts crawling on the floor.

104. CRAZY:
Passionately preoccupied or intensely eager to achieve or
acquire something to such an extent that he can be compared to
a person who may be an insane or driving in his own world of
delusions.
(See Insanity, Delusions.)
Example: A person who longs to achieve something and he
is so much after it that he seems to be mad for the same. This
happens when a person has wished for something which may be
beyond his reach or docs not make proper efforts but mentally very
much attached to the same.
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105. CRITICAL:
Inclined to criticise severely and unfavourably by finding
faults and imperfections.
(See Censorious.)
Example: A person by nature may be in the habit of
criticising or finding faults in the works done by others by way of
pointing out mistakes or imperfections.

106. CROAKING:
Protesting in a sorrowful and melancholic manner in a sound
like the frog or raven.
Example: A person who is distressed in his mind due to some
provocation grumbles in a low hoarse voice like a frog or a raven.

107. CRUELTY:
Inhuman behaviour or treatment; disposed to inflict pain or
deliberately causing sufferings to others; void of pity; merciless.
(Also see Moral feeling and Malicious.)
Example: A person by nature is so cruel that he makes
deliberate attempts in inflicting pain or sufferings on others, his
behaviour is merciless and he is away from having any moral
obligations.
Note: Such rubrics are helpful when it is brought to the
notice of the physician that the patient is a person of this type or
when during interrogation his behaviour is assessed as such by
the physician.

108. CURSING:
A solemn pronouncement or invoking doom or great evil on
one: an implication for harm; any utterance marked by malafide
intention for someone.
(Also see Abusing.)
Example: Whenever there is some provocation or
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provocating ideas come to the mind of a person against somebody

he starts pronouncing dooms or evils to fall upon him.
Note: Abusing may be by nature of a person or it can be a
changed mental state without the involvement of any other faculty
but cursing is due to some provocation by somebody or some
provocative ideas.

109. CUT others, desires to:

A tendency or desire to separate, remove or keep aside others.
Example: A person is in the habit of managing his affairs
himself only. Whenever he finds that somebody is taking interest
in a matter wherein he is involved he would like to cut off or side
track that person from the scene by his management and planning.

110. DANCING:
Rhythmic artistic movement of the body in various poses, i.e.,
the art of dancing.
Example: A person who is very much fond of dancing.
Whenever he listens to a soothing song his feet start moving ,
automatically.

111. DARKNESS agg.:

Aggravation of complaints or sufferings when there is no light.
(Also see Fear, Dark.)
Example: A person who may or may not be sick but his
feelings, complaints or sufferings are all aggravated during
darkness.
Note: If a person specifically states that he is having fear in ;
darkness, the rubric Fear, dark may be referred to.

112. DEAFNESS, pretended:

A condition wherein a person deliberately tries to pose himself
deaf though he is not.
Example: A person is in the habit of posing him self to be deaf
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knowingly although it is not a fact. Perhaps, such a person feels

pleasure in doing so.

113. DEATH, desires:

Desires to end life. When a person feels fed up with his life due
to any reason he desires death. During the course of sickness there
are many patients who wish to die instead of facing the trouble.
(Also see Loathing, life..)
Example: A lady is so fed up with her menstrual problems
that whenever they appear she likes to die which can be set right
by Berberis vulgaris.
Note: Such persons desire a natural death or by committing
suicide. The various conditions of death have been given in the
sub-rubrics under this heading which may be understood
appropriately.

114. DECEITFUL:
A tendency or disposition to deceive others either by
dishonesty, bluffing or misrepresenting facts.
Example: A person who is disposed to deceive everyone as
a routine of his life, tries to deceive the physician also by
misrepresenting the facts.

115. DEEDS, feels as if he could do great:

A tendency to have a repeated feeling in the mind of a person
that he could do great deeds which could be appreciated by all.
Example: A patient while telling symptoms of his sufferings
repeats before the physician that he could do many great deeds but
for his suffering.

116. DEFIANT:
Boldness to such an extent that one can do something despite
any amount of opposition or challenge.
(Also see Contemptuous.)
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Example: A person who is defiant will do whatever he has

decided in his mind despite repeated warnings or advice tendered
to him.
Note: The difference between Defiant and Contemptuous is
that the first one will not come in direct conflict whereas the latter
one shall openly come for contempt.

117. DEJECTION:
A mental condition in which one is having low spirits which
come generally after being unsuccessful in something.
(See Sadness.)
Example: A person had been trying to pass in a test for three
times but he was not successful since then he has become dejected
and not recovering from petty ailments. He will not appear at the
examination also after this.

118. DELIRIUM:
A transient mental disturbance that is characterised by
confusion, disorientation, disordered speech, restlessness,
excitement during the course of a mental illness, high fever,
toxaemia or injury.
Example: A person has high fever during which he is crying
for help which can be immediately set right by a dose of Cantharis.
Note: There are various conditions given in the sub-rubrics
under Delirium which may be applied appropriately.

119. DELUSIONS, imaginations, hallucinations.

illusions:
(1) Delusion: An idea or thought which a patient thinks it is
true but cannot be reasoned.
(ii) Imagination: Whatever the patient supposes in his mind,
e.g. a person imagines himself to be a girrafe.
(iii) Hallucination: Appearance in the vision or mind which
appears to be true to the patient.
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(iv) Illusion: An appearance in the vision or mind which the

patient knows is not true.
Whenever an erroneous idea or appearance comes to the mind
of a person which cannot be substantiated by reason is a delusion;
when it appeals wrong to him it is an illusion; and when it appears
to be true it is a hallucination.
Example (i) A person says that his family members do not
care for him which is not corroborated by facts.
(ii) A person feels that his chin is too long or he is a girrafe.
(iii) A person sees people around him with malafide intentions
but in fact there is no person yet he insists that he has seen people.
(iv) A person complains that while sitting in the room some
robbers come and threat him but on the other hand he knows that
this is wrong yet he feels so.

120. DESERTED:
A condition where one feels much attached mentally but he/
she has left him uncared or unattended; a feeling of being deserted
arises.
(See Forsaken feeling.)
Example: When a person finds himself in a situation where
the person to whom he had been much attached does not care for
him, he feels disappointed and therefore he feels deserted. While
talking to the physician he may not say but it has to be observed
carefully.

121. DESIRES:
An intense mental condition in which a person feels necessity
of something.
(See Things desired and Longing.)
Example: The complete rubric here is: "Desires, more than
she needs" which is quite clear from its explanation. Mentally such
a person is always avarice and therefore she needs more than what
is required. Physically a person has thirst for small quantities, yet
he desires to drink too much.
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122. DESPAIR:
A condition when the patient gives up all expectations, loses
hopes, loses faith due to his sufferings. The various conditions are
given in the sub-rubrics which may be studied carefully.
Example: A person has so much itching in his body that he
gives up all hopes of recovery.
Note: This is one condition. There may be many other such
conditions.

123. DESPISES:
To disrespect, to look down, aversion or disgust towards
something. Disdain. To regard something as negligible, worthless,
distasteful, a nuisance, a disgrace, etc.
(See Contemptuous.)
Example: A person is so disrespectful that even during the
presence of many guests in the house disobeyes the order of his
father.

124. DESPONDENCY:
A condition in which a person is in sorrow which comes after
some discouragement in anything.
(See Sadness.)
Example A person started a new venture of making an
equipment but instead of being patronised, he was discouraged
and had despondency.

125. DESTRUCTTVENESS:
A condition in which a person during the course of his
sickness, becomes destructive or assumes destructive attitude.
Example: While making complaints about the fever or other
ailments of the patient his relatives also complain that he destroys
the furniture, clothes or other things of the house.
Note: Such conditions are sometimes visible in some persons
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without any physical ailments also.

126. DICTATORIAL:
A person enjoying complete autocratic control or leadership.
He acts like a dictator, i.e. whatever he wants will dictate/order like
a very superior person. Even a child who does not have something
within his control, still he will ask for it in dictating terms or in a
dictatorial manner. He does not submit or ask for something in a
submissive manner.
(Also see Domineering, Dogmatic.)
Example: A physician goes to visit a patient. The patient calls
the servant and asks him in a dictatorial tone "Why have you not
cleaned the chair?" Second time, he calls his mother and asks,
"Why have you not served water to the doctor?"

127. DIPSOMANIA:
A mental condition wherein a person has uncontrollable or
periodic craving for alcoholic drinks.
Example: A patient is suffering from some liver trouble but
despite repeated advice by the physician and others he does not
leave the consumption of alcoholic drinks because he is having so
much craving for them.

128. DISAGREEABLE:
A mental condition which is produced, developed or caused
due to discomfort, displeasure or repugnance and is marked by ill
temper.
(See Irritability.)
Example: A person is subjected to displeasure on various
scores frequently by his family members or others as a result of
which he becomes disagreeable and feels irritated again and again
over small matters also.

129. DISCONCERTED:
Inquietude of mind, confused, upset, frustrated due to
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grievances or thwarted aspirations or desires.

Example: A person had wished that his mother will offer him
an outing for a hill station but when he is refused for it he feels
disconcerted. In other affairs also, he is found to be placed in the
same situation if his wishes are not fulfilled.

130. DISCONTENTED, displeased, dissatisfied, etc.

Lack of contentment, pleasure or satisfaction in the mind of
a person.
(Also see Displeased, Dissatisfied.)
Example: A person is not getting satisfactory response from
his juniors, family members, or during particular circumstances
and he feels dissatisfied which may result in certain ailments.
Note: The various conditions may be applied appropriately by
studying the sub-rubrics.

131. DISCOURAGED:
A feeling of being disheartened for any boldness, zeal or some
action which a person intends to undertake.
Example: A person gets up in the morning and desires to
undertake a job but he feels discouraged in his heart due to some
provocation by somebody and keeps himself away from taking any
action on his plan. This may happen with a person under various
circumstances and may bring on certain ailments.

132. DISGUST:
To experience intense dislike for something; to lose an interest
or intention through exciting distaste.
(Also see Loathing.)
Example: A person meets with failures again and again, feels
disgusted and stops further efforts.

133. DISOBEDIENCE:
Refuses to obey or negligence in obeying a command; violation
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or disregard of a rule or prohibition.

Example: While examining a patient, it is noticed that he is
in the habit of disobeying his elders or has no care for the rules or
any prohibitions. All this is as a matter of routine for such a person.

134. DISPLEASED:
Feeling distressed, disturbed or uneasy due to lack of
satisfaction or gratification. Feeling unhappy.
(See Discontented.)
Example: A person goes to visit his friend where he is not
given a welcome and he feels unhappy.

135. DISSATISFIED:
Unsatisfied due to lack of contentment. The performance
shown to him by others is not satisfactory to him.
(See Discontentment.)
Example: A person feels that his family members are not
maintaining their performance in regard to their own affairs to the
level of his satisfaction.

136. DISTANCE, inaccurate judge of:

Inaccurate in judging the distance of two events, time, two
points, surfaces, lines, objects, spaces, etc.
Example: A patient while telling about his sickness cannot
clearly indicate the correct sequence of two spells of sickness or
other things as given above, i

137. DISTRACTION:
A condition of mental derangement in which a person is
agitated from violent, usually conflicting, emotions. A state of
perturbation.
(See Confusion, Concentration difficult.)
Example: A person gets disappointed in his work as he was
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deceived by somebody. He gets agitated and excited to such an'

extent that his mental state reaches to the level of distraction. He
feels perturbed and is unable to concentrate his mind. He is so
much confused it seems that his mind is distracted

138. DISTRUSTFUL:
A mental state when a person is so much suspicious that he
doubts everyone. Even if somebody is very closed to him he has no
faith in him.
(See Suspicious.)
Example: A person is suspicious to such an extent that he
is unable to rely upon his nearest relatives like brother, uncle, etc.
for shouldering any responsibility on his behalf. If he is to deposit
money in a bank he will go himself as he has no faith in anyone.

139. DISTURBED, averse to being:

A mental condition where a person is very much averse to the
least disturbance in his normal routine as it huris him mentally or
emotionally.
Example: A person is suffering from headache, fever or any
other ailment and he is lying quietly but as soon as he is asked any
question or the physician tries to examine him he feels emotionally
upset as he does not want to be disturbed. The situation may arise
in other cases where there is no sickness but the individual is so
sensitive that he cannot tolerate any disturbance in his normal
routine. Any sort of interruption causes mental or emotional
disturbance and, therefore, he does not want to be disturbed.

140. DIVERSION amel.:

A mental condition or nature wherein a person having some
ailment or during sickness feels relaxed or ameliorated by diverting
his mind to some other subject. By deviation of mind, one assumes
relaxation even from serious problems which are not otherwise
possible.
(See Thinking, Occupation amel.)
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Example: a person is suffering from headache or pain In his

abdomen, he is crying or complaining about his pains but when he
hears a soothing music he feels diverted and listens to the music
with great intent and does not feel the pain during that spell.

141. DOGMATIC:
Excessively attached to certain dogmas, manners or
utterances. Generally, this type of persons are attached to such
dogmas quietly without having any differences with anyone.
Fanatics may be quarrelsome when their ideas are contradicted.
(See Dictatorial.)
Example: a person is so positive in his manner that he will
not change the manner adopted by him under any circumstances
or compulsion. He follows a tradition which may be out of date but
he is not prepared to change it.

142. DOMINEERING:
Disposed to exercise or to flaunt dominating authority in a
way to override any protestation. A dominating personality who
can impose his authority amongst the group or society he is living.
(See Dictatorial.)
Example; A person by virtue of his natural dominating
personality is able to dominate amongst his friends, society, class
of people. He makes them agree on his proposals as he is having
such a dominating power to prevail on or influence them.

143. DOUBTFUL, recovery, of:

Giving rise to doubt about recovery or giving rise to
apprehension about recovery. This condition is generally found
when a patient persistently poses a question whether he can be
cured.
Example: A person is sick for a long time. He has consulted
many doctors but he has not been cured so far. Under these
circumstances, it is but natural that he thinks whether he can be
cured or not. From the homoeopathic point of view a person even
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during a trivial ailment feels doubtful whether he can be cured.

This becomes his nature whether he is suffering from cold or some
diarrhoea. He is always in doubt about his recovery.

144. DREAD:
A mental state in which a person is full of fears or is in great
terror. He is afraid of doing anything.
(See Fear.)
Example: A person by nature itself is so much afraid that
whenever he is asked to do anything, he does not wish to do it for
fear.
Note: Fear may be of various kinds in the mind of a particular
individual, whose case we are going to consider, for which the sub-
rubrics under Fear may be studied.

145. DREAM, as if in a:
A mental condition wherein a person while talking seems as
if he is in a dream. He may also have ideas or images in his mind
of having seen something although he is awake.
Example: A person while talking or behaving appears to be
in dreams by the actions he is demonstrating or when he talks like
having seen certain images or charming things which are not true.

146. DRINKING, after:

Mental conditions aggravated or arising in those who are
addicted to or marked by immoderate consumption of alcoholic
beverages.
Example: A person is habitual of taking alcoholic beverages
and after drinking he starts abusing people, talking too much,
singing songs or any such various acts which arise in him after
drinking.
The mental state arising as a result of drinking is more
relevant here.
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147. DRUNKEN, seems as if:

The very outlook of a person seems as if Intoxicated, appears
to be drunken as if after taking alcohol.
Example: The physician observes a patient while entering
his clinic that he appears to be drunken but when enquired from
the relatives it has revealed that he is not drunk but his condition
Is like that for the last few days.

148. DULLNESS, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking

and comprehending:
This is a condition in which a person is lacking luster,
vividness or brightness on his face. Marked by sluggishness,
difficulty in thinking and comprehending.
Example: A person was looking very dull by the face reading.
He had no luster or brightness on his face. When he was asked
"what was he thinking," he said, "Nothing." On further
questioning, it was observed that he had no problems but he used
to feel much better after copious urination. A dose of Gels. 30
restored him to the normal life.

149. DUPLICITY:
A mental condition in which a person is having doubleness of
heart, thought, speech or action with a malafide intention.
Deceition by pretending to entertain one set of feeling and acting
under the influence of another.
(See Deceitful.)
Example: A person was in the habit of talking in a very sweet
language to all but by actions he always tried to catch hold of the
weakness of others and then tried to harm them. During sickness
he used to pretend as if he was in a serious condition whereas it
was found wrong. The facts and actual poses of such persons are
always different.

150. DWELLS on past disagreeable occurrences:

A person who is always talking or complaining about his past
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sufferings or complaints about somebody.

Example: A lady when brought to the clinic of a physician
was asked to explain about her sickness. Soon after giving a brief
description of her present ailment, she started talking that "so and
so harmed me at that time, I suffered this loss before 10 years and
so and so had always been a cause of trouble for me or God has
not favoured me at such and such time due to which I suffered like
this".

151. EARNESTNESS:
Intent and serious state or quality of mind, i.e., working with
great devotion. Seriously involved in any type of job one is
entrusted to.
(See Serious.)
Example: A person is so much attached to his profession or
any work entrusted to him that he looks to be wholly involved in
his work having no smiling or concern with anything else. Such a
person looks sad although it is not so.

152. EAT, refuses to:

A disturbed state of mind when a person does not wish to eat
even if he is feeling the appetite.
Example: A person is facing some problem in his mind which
may not be connected with his physical desires to eat, i.e., appetite,
but when he is asked to eat, he refuses and says, "I have no desire
to cat." That means although hungry yet his mind does not allow
him to eat. Sometimes, a patient says. "I do not want to eat." That
means although hungry yet his mind docs not allow him to eat.
Sometimes, a patient says, "I do not want to eat."

153. ECCENTRICITY:
Odd and whimsical behaviour. A behaviour out of the usual
course. l.e., not conforming to the common rules, type or pattern.
Example: A person behaves in such a peculiar manner that
It cannot be expected from a person of normal character. This type
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of person can pretend to be blind, to be deaf; will never speak the

truth and likewise his behaviour in any other respect which can be
singularly judged.

154. ECSTASY:
A state of being beyond reason and self control through
intense emotional excitement, pain or other sensation. A state of
excessive joy or happiness manifested either demonstratively or in
a profound calm or abstraction of mind. A trance state in which,
there is intense absorption in divine matters accompained by loss
of perception and voluntary control.
(Also see Exhilaration.)
Example: A person is generally in the habit of demonstrating
his happiness whenever he feels that he had achieved some
success in his endeavours which may not have any significance for
others. (Since the thoughts or ideas of this person are independent
and imaginative without any reasoning, it is not significant for
others.)
Note: The difference between exhilaration and ecstasy is that
a person who is in the former state can be understood to reason
his happiness or sadness, whereas in the latter state, one cannot
satisfy himself by way of reasoning.)

155. EGOTISM:
The practice of speaking or writing of oneself in excess. A
sense of superiority often accompanied by contempt towards
others. A complete indifference to what the rest of the world thinks
of him.
Example: A person is a writer and educationist in his normal
life but whatever he writes or teaches contemplates a theory which
may be full of his own thoughts and philosophy and he stresses so
much on that that whatever he says is the only correct version
although it may have many contradictions with other learned
teachers or educationists. Such a person is so much determined
that he will not listen to anything whatever reasonability it may
have.
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156. EMBARRASSED:
Experiencing a state of distress to the conscience. Difficulty
or feeling perplexity arising from lack of support to the thoughts,
Ideas or proposals of a person despite their worth.
(Also see Timidity.)
Example: A son goes to his father with a proposal that he
wants to start business with a small investment, which can yield
very good profits but his father rejects the proposal even without
going into the details of the proposal.

157. EMBRACES companions:

A close encircling with the arms and pressure of one's
companions especially as a mark of affection or passion.
Example: This is a mental state in which the emotional level
of a person is so disturbed that he feels some sense of satisfaction
by embracing his companions.
Note: If this condition is prevailing in a mental disorder, then,
this symptom may not be helpful but if it is accompanied by some
physical ailments, then it is useful.

158. EMOTIONAL:
Prone to arousal of emotions. By talking, looking at something
or hearing something, somebody becomes emotional and starts
weeping or gets excited.
(Sec Excitement.)
Example: A lady while talking with another lady tells about
the circumstances she has faced in her life and while remembering
her sufferings starts weeping or becomes sad or she starts crying.
Note: The word sentimental is also close to Emotional, but
the difference between the two is in the degree of sensitivity. A
person who is sentimental is more sensitive and will not be excited
like an Emotional person.
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159. ENNUI:
A feeling of worry and dissatisfaction, languor or emptiness of
spirit. A type of boredom from life.
(Also see Loathing of life.)
Example: A person is sick since long and is not getting well
despite various types of medication or treatment and he becomes
bored. He says, "What is my life, despite so many treatments, I have.
no recovery?" He considers his life as a burden.

160. ENTERTAINMENT:
The act of diverting, amusing or causing someone's attention
to pass his time agreeably; such a person may have a feeling of
excitement or diversion which may provide him some relief to divert
his mind from feeling the suffering.
(See Excitement, Occupation, amel.)
Example: A person, during the course of his sickness, feels
diverted or ameliorated by some type of entertainment like
listening music, talking to someone etc.

161. ENVY:
Covetousness of the prosperity or possessions of others. A
desire to have the same prosperity or possession which others are
having and the feeling and efforts to achieve it is the act of envy.
Example: A lady is generally sick on one or the other score
because she is so watchful to her neighbour that whatever she sees
with her, she also wants to acquire the same and is always thinking
to possess it even though her sources may be limited.

162. ESCAPE, attempts to:

A desire to run away from the present situation, condition,
association or environment. This may be due to some
dissatisfaction or detachment of love and affection with them.
Example: A lady has lost affection with her children due to
some obvious reasons prevailing in her family and she wants to run
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away from that atmosphere as she does not get well in the present
circumstances.

163. ESTRANGED, family, from her:

Due to certain dissatisfaction one keeps himself at a distance
from his family, environment, society or association. This is just for
diverting one's inaffection or personal attachment of his family.
Example: A person is so much dissatisfied that he leaves his
family and starts residing at a place other than his family. The
feelings which he may have under the circumstances are obvious
and can direct towards his mental condition.

164. EXALTATION:
A marked or excessive intensification of a mental state or of
the activity of a bodily part or function. An abnormal sense of
personal well-being, power or importance. A state of extreme
spiritual elevation usually marked by a more or less transitory
sense of unity in the deity or with all things natural to divine.
(See Exhilaration.)
Example: A lady has been sick for a long time but suddenly
she turns into a state of exaltation by showing or posing as if she
is very well in health which is not a fact.

165. EXCITEMENT, excitable:

The act of exciting or state of being excited. Any stimulus that
gives rise to an agitation which may be emotional or inducing
action as a motive or incitement.
Example: A person feels excited whenever he is hungry or
swallows continually while talking.

166. EXCLAMATION:
The act of exclaiming; a sharp or sudden utterance expressive
of strong feeling with an element of surprise or something
unexpected.
(See Shrieking.)
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Example: A person is so sensitive that he will exclaim on a

sudden news like, "So and so is again having a pain in his kidney".
Note: A normal human being may not feel excited on such a
news but due to his sensitivity this type of person takes it seriously
and feels exclaimed.

167. EXERCISE, mental symptoms amel., by

physical:
Certain persons are with such an individuality that they feel
mentally ameliorated by a physical exercise.
Example: A person is suffering from depression but
whenever he starts doing some physical exercises, he forgets his
depression or it is not felt to that extent.

168. EXERTION, from mental:

A feeling of aggravation or amelioration from doing any work
which may be involving the mind of a person.
Example: A person is physically sick and is unable to move
or walk but when he starts thinking, calculating or making some
plans, he feels ameliorated.

169. EXHILARATION:
A condition when a person feels very happy; an exaggerated
feeling of pleasure which can be judged from the actions of that
person.
(Also see Exaltation.)
Example: A person is suffering from some disease since long
but during the course of his suffering he gets perspiration which
makes him very much cheerful. There may be various other
conditions in which a person feels cheerful which can be easily
judged by his action.
Note: Exaltation is in respect of the feelings a person is
already having and Exhilaration is in general.
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170. EXTRAVAGANCE:
Wandering away from the normal or set course which may be
out of proportion to bear. A great desire to spend money which may
be unaffordable in the normal course.
Example: A person wants to buy a coat but the coat he likes
is so costly that it may be beyond his reach to purchase, yet he will
buy that very coat. Similarly he is in the habit of telling about his
sickness as if it was so great that nobody else could tolerate it.

171. FACETIOUSNESS:
The quality or state of jesting characterised by pleasantry or
levity. The act of cracking excitement or laughter.
(See Jesting.)
Example: A person is in the habit of telling jokes to his
friends which creates excitement and laughter in them. This habit
continues in that person even during the course of his sickness
and whenever he is asked something by the doctor he will answer
in a jesting manner.

172. FACES, sees.

Appearance of some images like faces in the vision of a
person whereas he is quite awake and those faces are not visible
to others.
(See Delusions, faces, sees.)
Example: A patient says that he is seeing some faces but in
fact they are not there. In fact, something which cannot be verified
by facts is a delusion and as such the sub-rubric; faces, sees,
under Delusions, has to be referred to.

173. FANATICISM:
Exhibiting excessive enthusiasm, unreasonable zeal or wild
and extravagant notions on one subject.
Example: A patient while talking to the physician shows so
much attachment with his views on a particular subject that he
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has no care whether there is a cure or not but he is adamant on

that particular point. Such a subject or point may be that a patient
suffering from a duodenal ulcer is not prepared to leave his habit
of taking spicy food despite the aggravation he is suffering from. He
will not accept any advice of the physician on this subject.

174. FANCIES, absorbed in:

A liking formed by caprice rather than reason; inclination to
be absorbed in one particular type of thoughts or likings for
something as an internal desire without any reasoning.
Example: A person is fond of collecting some antiques and
is always busy in arranging, displaying or talking about them.
Since everybody may not be interested in his collections and he
may not change his habit even during sickness it becomes a special
feature of that individual.

175. FASTIDIOUS:
Very difficult to please. Marked by very delicate in taste,
likings. Meticulous, sensitive or demanding attitude.
Example: A person is so hard in his nature that nothing
pleases him in regard to any work or taste either in the home or his
office. This is generally disclosed to the physician by the relatives
or attending persons of the patient. Even while talking to the
physician, he will not smile on matters over which others can
laugh.

176. FAULTFINDING:
A tendency to remitting petty especially unjustified criticisms
or the act of persistantly finding petty laws and inadequacies in
others. Unreasonably or preversely noticing and stressing faults.
(See Censorious, critical.)
Example: A person is so critical in his nature that while
consulting the physician he will start criticising many things in his
clinic which may be concerning his own life, others or even the
arrangements made by the physician in his clinic.
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177. FEAR:
An unpleasant emotional state characterised by something
involving the nervous system creating an anxious excitement as to
what may happen.
(Also see Anxiety.)
Example: A person is suffering from fever, and during the
course of fever, he feels that he may not get well and may die. This
is a fear of death.
There may be various modifications of fear given under this
rubric which may be utilised by carefully ascertaining the
modification as explained by the patient.
Note: The difference between anxiety and fear has to be
understood clearly. In anxiety, there may not be any apprehension
of something untoward to happen which is definitely felt under fear
with excited feeling.

178. FECES passed on the floor:

Bodily waste discharged through the anus in the shape of
stool passed on the floor which is not a normal practice.
Example: A mental state in which a person likes to pass or
passes his feces on the floor instead of the proper place where it
should be passed. This may not be applied to small children who
do not have so much maturity or sense to pass it at the proper
place.
In the sub-rubric a strange situation is given where a person
swallows his own feces.

179. FEIGNING sick:

An artificial posing to be sick. A person who is in the habit of
posing himself to be sick which is not a fact.
Example: A person, by nature, is generally posing himself to
be sick which is in fact wrong. These things are verified while
talking to the patient. The problem posed by him is not
corroborated by facts but tries to pretend himself sick for his own
personal thoughts or reservations.
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180. FICKLE:
Marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, stability,
unpredictable variability.
(See Inconstancy, Irresolute, Capriciousness, etc.)
Example: A person is so changeable in his mind that he will
suddenly change his decision and starts moving on the other track
for which nobody may expect.

181. FIDGETY:
Exhibiting nervous or jumpy movements of his body or limbs.
These movements are not involuntary but they are as a matter of
habit.
(See Restlessness.)
Example: A person is in the habit of shaking his feet while
sitting anywhere. Even if he is asked to stop it, he will start it after
some time as it is his habit.
Note: The movement of body parts is also governed by the
mind as it is not the body parts which can start moving by
themselves, but they are a nervous phenomenon of the mind and,
therefore, this condition has been included in this chapter.
Moreover, for finding remedies for this condition, we have yet to
refer another rubric in this chapter, i.e., Restlessness, which is
definitely related to the mind.

182. FIGHT, wants to:

Marked by a nature and attitude of fighting. If the nature or
attitude of the person is to fight on petty matters, he does not
believe in reasonability but is excited very easily and starts
fighting.
(Also see Quarrelsome.)
Example: A person comes to a physician and enters the
chamber of the doctor even if others are waiting but while doing so,
if he is objected to by other patients, he starts fighting with them.
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183. FIRE, wants to set things on:

During the course of excitement one is so violent that he
desires to put things on fire.
Example: A person is mentally disturbed on one pretext or
the other and in every span of excitement, he becomes so violent
that he wishes to put the things on fire.

184. FITFUL:
Having spasmodic, irregular or intermittent character;
changeable or uncertain mood; occurring in fits of spurts.
(See Capriciousness.)
Example: A person's mood is so much changeable with
suddenness that at one moment he wants to buy a pen and at the
other moment he wants to throw it away. All this happens in a
sudden fit of change in the mood of such a person.

185. FIXED notions:

Fixed or peculiar type of habits, ideas, customs or usages
without having a proper reasoning and care even if others laugh at
him.
(See Delusions, strange, notions.)
Example: A person is in the habit of wiping his clothes many
times in a day, people laugh at him but he has no care for it.
Note: Since this type of thoughts are covered by delusions,
the remedies under that rubric or modifications under that rubric
may have to .be referred.

186. FLATTERY, desires:

Flattery means the act of pleasing somebody by artful
commendation or praising etc. One who desires to be pleased by
such artful commendation.
Example: a person is always desirous of being appreciated
for his noble deeds which may not be so in the eyes of others. He
has a constant feeling that he is not appreciated despite his best
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deeds. He may make such a reference while telling his sickness to

the physician that nobody appreciates his sufferings.

187. FOOLISH behaviour:

Behaviour lacking in judgement, consideration or
intelligence. A type of behaviour which can be judged to be
unintelligent or lacking consideration according to the occasion.
(Also see Childish behaviour.)
Example: There has been a death in a family and a person
of that family is laughing while others have gathered there for
condolence.
Note: The difference between childish behaviour and foolish
behaviour has to be understood properly. In childish behaviour, a
person of grown up age behaves like a child and in foolish
behaviour a person behaves in a foolish manner irrespective of the
age.

188. FOREBODINGS:
A prediction or presentiment especially of some coming event
with a sensation of anxiety or fear. Prior knowledge or warning of
something yet to take place.
(See Anxiety, Fear and Sadness, also see clairvoyance.)
Example: A person says that during the last plague there had
been many deaths and since it is going to break out again, there
shall be many deaths. He is in the habit of uttering such
prophesies many times.
Notes: This type of feeling has to be considered according to
the subject. The above feeling shall be considered under Fear.
Likewise, they may be considered under Anxiety or Sadness as per
the subject.

189. FORGETFUL:
Characterised by or indulging in heedless or negligent failure
to remember or pay attention.
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(Also see Memory, weakness of.)

Example: a person is so forgetful that he constantly misses
appointments or forgets his purchases on the way.
Note: There are many such conditions which may be studied
under the appropriate sub-rubrics.

190. FORGOTTEN something, feels constantly as if

he had:
A recurrent feeling in the mind of a person that he has
forgotten something. He tries to remember things constantly.
Example: A person is constantly in the habit of thinking as
If he had forgotten something. This condition is sometimes judged
by the physician while talking to the patient or the relatives of the
patient disclose it as he tries to recollect his ideas again and again.

191. FORSAKEN feeling:

A constant feeling of being neglected. It may be by friend,
relative, kith and kin, etc.
Example: A person is constantly having a feeling that he has
been or is being neglected by his children and nobody cares for
him. This he cannot hide even from the physician while telling
about his sickness.

192. FORSAKES his own children:

A mental condition when a person feels so much disturbed in
his mind that he leaves his own children and does not want to join
them.
Example: A person is so much disturbed and dissatisfied
with the behaviour of his own children due to certain reasons that
he leaves the house and resides elsewhere, which becomes a cause
of his sickness.

193. FRANTIC, frenzy:

Almost mentally deranged to the point of madness in anger.
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Emotionally out of control; overwhelmed with feeling to the point

of wildness.
(See Rage, fury.)
Example: Due to some mental dissatisfaction, emotional or
nervous disorder a person becomes wild and loses his mental
balance to the extent of wildness.

194. FRETFUL:
Showing agitation, mentally troubled; a type of irritability
with agitation.
(See Irritability.)
Example: A child has been refused something which he
wanted to possess; after the refusal he becomes Irritable and shows
his feeling by irritating postures.
Note: Irritability does not involve agitation which is in fretful
only but for finding the remedies, the rubric irritability has to be
referred with or without modifications as the case may be.

195. FRIGHT, complaints from:

Fright means terror excited by danger; sudden and violent
fear usually of short duration.
Example: A person had seen an accident of a bus in which
he was also travelling. Some passengers died and some of them
were injured. Since then, this person is ill and not having a
recovery in his complaints.

196. FRIGHTENED easily:

Marked by disturbed with fear; thrown into a state of alarm
easily..
Example: A person is so sensitive to fright that even if he is
touched by a friend, he feels frightened and thinks of some
impending danger.
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197. FRIVOLOUS:
Of little weight or importance; having no basis or laws in act.
Example: A person has got such a nature that he does not
attach any importance to many things or events. He considers even
important matters of little importance.

198. FROWN, disposed to:

To contract the brows (as in displeasure, sternness or
concentration) to show displeasure with or disapproval of by facial
expression.
Example: A person is, by nature, in the habit of contracting
his brows on the least provocation or matters which are not liked
by him. The manner of talking of such a person is such that he can
express his disapproval or something by a facial expression
furnishing an indication towards his Identity.

199. FUR, wraps up, in summer:

Generally it happens in a mentally deranged person who likes
to wrap up fur even in summer when others cannot wear such
clothings.
Example: A person is so crazy that he wraps up fur in
summer. Since this is unexpected of a normal human being to wear
fur in summer, he is identified for his character.

200. FURY:
A passionate fit of anger; extreme impetuosity or violence with
unrestricted force.
(See Rage, fury. Frantic.)
Example: A person is such in nature that whenever he is
angry he is in such a furious condition that he looks as if he will
do some harm or destruction.
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201. GAIETY:
The quality or state of being gay. Marked liveliness or cheer-
fulness. From the very look one can be judged cheerful.
(See Cheerful, Vivacious.)
Example: A person looks to be very happy and cheerful
whenever observed by others but when he is interrogated by the
physician, it is revealed that he is suffering from serious troubles
in his body.

202. GENTLENESS:
The quality or state of being mild by nature. The sobre nature
or behaviour of a person by which he is judged to be gentle.
(See Mildness.)
Example: A person is so gentle by his nature that he will try
to please everybody with his behaviour and he is moved so easily
that whosoever talks with him will praise his behaviour as a
gentleman.

203. GESTURES, makes:

The use of motions (a notable or expressive action) of the
limbs or body as a means of intentional expression- Such action is
mostly involuntary.
Example: A person is sick and is lying unconscious for the
last 15 days; his hand is placed upon the genitals; a physician
comes and removes his hand from there but again he gradually
takes his hand at the same place. Similarly, in a conscious state
also one can move his limbs constantly in a particular manner
which is an Involuntary action of that person.

204. GIGGLING:
Laughing with continued short convulsive catching of the
voice or breath caused usually by efforts at restraint; laughing in
a silly manner.
(Also see Laughing.)
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Example: A person is in the habit of laughing at petty

matters and the manner of his laughing is such that there is a
continued voice of the same kind. (Hee.... for some minutes.)

205. GLOOMY:
Having an appearance of gloom (depressed); devoid of brightness, color a

(See Sadness, mental depression.)

Examples A person comes to the physician for some physical
ailment but from the face itself he seems to be depressed; after a
long questioning about his depressed state, he says that he is
generally in this state after any emissions. In such a case, this is
more important than the physical symptom.

206. GODLESS, want of religious feeling:

Lacking reverence for God; refusing to obey God's laws; full of
Godless thoughts and void of natural affection.
Example: A person is going to the temple daily and poses
himself to be a great devotee of God but, in fact, he is not caring
for the natural laws or customs and will not hesitate in taking some
immoral actions.

207. GOING out, aversion to:

A settled and vehement desire not to go out. This may be
applied in various spheres of the life of a human being. It is not only
going out of one's house but going out of any set principle or
pattern of a person.
Example: A person is so rigid in observing his routine that
he will not be agreeable to leave his habit of routine which he has
been following since long despite any sort of advice.

208. GOOD humor:

A cheerful looking or expression on face which could be easily
read by anybody.
(See Cheerful, also see Gaiety, Happy, Lively.)
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Example: A person despite being sick looks cheerful or

satisfied in his present state. He does not express any discontentment about the tem

all the sickness he remains in a good and happy mood.

209. GOSSIPING:
A meeting of friendly talks for the entertainment of each other
without a specific purpose. Such talks may include rumours,
beauty of somebody, information behind the scenes, about doings
of others and exaggeration of bravery or other matters.
Example: While talking about the sickness of a patient, his
friends or relatives inform that this person is always busy in having
gossips with his friends or the patient may start telling the physician a story which

210. GRAVITY:
Sobriety or seriousness of character. A nature of grave disposition even upon ma

(See Serious.)
Example: A patient comes to the physician and explains
about his problems. When he is told that he is suffering from a
minor ailment like bronchitis, he becomes grave despite telling that
it is not a fatal disease.

211. GRIEF:
An aggrieved state of mind. Emotional suffering as caused by
bereavement, affliction, panic or despair. Here is a continued
emotional disturbance with resentment from an untoward behaviour by somebo

Example: A lady has been married before 3 years. At the time

of marriage, she used to be very cheerful and had no physical complaints but after 3

without a desired response from treatment. On enquiry it is revealed that due to

a grief which she used to bear in her mind only.

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212. GRIMACES:
Distorting one's face in various manners. Making various
kinds of expressions on the face by the use of facial muscles as a
voluntary and desired action.
Example: A person is in the habit of making distorted faces
with an intentional motive to please or displease others. This habit
is continued even during the course of a sickness.

213. GROANING:
To experience pain or grief enough to represent it by way of
expression with some sound that he has some suffering.
(See Moaning.)
Example: During the course of suffering which may or may
not be serious a patient is uttering some sort of voice. If this type
of voice is not as a result of suffering it may be as a result of some
resentment which that person has in his mind.

214. GROPING as if in the dark:

As if searching something in the dark. Despite all the light or
in the day, a person is searching something as if in the dark.
Example: A person is in such a mental state that despite all
the lights he is making a search of things as if he had no lights. It
may or may not be during the course of a sickness.

215. GROWLING like a dog:

An utterance made in a harsh, rasping or angry tone which
may be resembling or suggesting the growl of a dog.
Example: A person's behaviour is generally of such a kind as
If he is growling like a dog. It also happens as a result of some bad
effect of a drug or some other substance which may produce in a
man the act of growling like a dog, e.g. the excessive or constant
use of cantharis may produce growling like a dog even in a healthy
person.
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216. GRUMBLING:
Expressing or representing discontentment especially by way
of muttering.
(See Complaining.)
Example: A person feels offended in certain aspects which
may be contrary to his feelings but in response to that he starts
talking or saying something.against the person offended him in a
low voice in a complaining manner which the other person may not
clearly understand.

217. GRUNTING:
Uttering a deep short sound characteristic of a hog (a type of
animal who is a lover of filth.)
Example: A person is in the habit of uttering a low sound like
that of a hog which is not as a result of some resentment but seems
to be an involuntary action of that person without any sort of discontentment or co

218. HAPPY:
Having a feeling of well-being arising from the consciousness.
Looking cheerful.
(See Cheerful.)
Example: A person despite various problems with him or
during sickness seems happy. It is not judged outwardly that he
is facing a problem or is sick.

219. HARD-HEARTED:
An unsympathetic, callous and cruel behaviour. As may be
observed from the word itself, a heart which is hard, i.e., even when
it is required to exercise some sympathy, it does not.
(See Cruelty.)
Example: A patient comes to the clinic of a physician and
while taking down his history it is revealed that he is not moved
on matters which need sympathy and it is confirmed by his
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relatives that he has a very callous attitude.

220. HASTINESS:
The quality or state of being hasty. An attitude which is full
of hastiness in every aspect or affair of life.
(See Hurry.)
Example: A person is so much in haste that he may commit
mistakes in carrying out his job; while talking to the physician also
he will say "doctor, please cure me in a day or two." He wants others
also to carry out everything hastily.

221. HATRED:
An attitude of prejudiced hostility. A settled dislike with
prejudiced feeling for a particular person or aspect.
(Also see Malicious and Misanthropy.)
Example: A person is offended by some of his relatives, since
then, he does not like even to hear their names and in case they
try to apologise with him, he may or may not be moved at all and
may continue his prejudiced attitude.

222. HAUGHTY:
Proudy; arrogant; exalted in nature, disdainfully over-bearing. Thinking on

claim over something in comparison to others.

(Also see Arrogance.)
Example: A person is sick with cold and shivering. The
physician advises him not to take a bath today but he says that he
cannot postpone it as he is a brahmin (a holy person).

223. HEADSTRONG:
Not possible to be easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate;
directed by ungovernable will.
(See Obstinate. Also see Stubborn.)
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Example: A person has decided to purchase a piece of land

but he is advised that this land belongs to somebody and he may
have to face consequences if he purchased it. Despite that he goes
for it and does not care for anybody's advice. These qualities are
generally brought to the notice of the physician by the relatives of
the patient.

224. HEEDLESS:
Not taking heed; inattentive; unmindful. Unaffected by any
sort of advice or warning but without understanding any consequences thereof.

(Also see Careless.)

Example: A person is suffering from cough and occasionally
there is blood in the expectoration; he has been advised by the
physician to have an X-ray done but he pays no heed to this as he
is so careless and does not understand its consequences.
Note: The nearest rubric similar to this is "Indifference to suffering" but in tha

225. HELPLESSNESS, feeling of:

A feeling of ineffectiveness in strength or vigour in a particular
situation from which one should come out. Feeling compelled for
not doing anything.
Example: A person is residing in a damp and dilapidated
house since long where he remains sick. The physician advised
him to shift in a good hygienic place but he shows his helplessness
due to his poor financial condition.

226. HIDE, desires to:

A tendency to hide in appearing. An intention/effort to keep
away.
Example: A child is so much afraid or shy of the strangers
coming in his house that he will never go before them and if called
he will go and hide himself behind the furniture.
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227. HIDES things:

Characterised by the nature of hiding things. To keep things
at a place which may be unknown to others.
Example: A child is in the habit of keeping things at such
unknown places that others in the house are searching for them
and ultimately it is revealed that he had kept it at an unknown
place.

228. HIGH places agg.:

Complaints arising when reaching at some high places like
mountains and removal of all complaints after coming down.
Example: Certain persons are so sensitive that they feel
various kinds of mental or physical complaints while at high places
like mountains or multistoreyed buildings.

229. HIGH-SPIRITED:
Characterised by a bold, energetic feeling despite being placed
in a tense situation.
Example: A person is so energetic that he is suffering from
cancer and while meeting another friend suffering from T.B.
pacifies him by saying that he will be alright very soon. In some
other case, it happens that the physician tells the patient to be
regular in taking the treatment as it may be harmful to be irregular
but the patient says that nothing is going to happen to him and he
takes all the advice in a jolly way.

230. HILARITY:
Merriment. A state of internal feeling of pleasure with laugh-
ter. A lively feeling.
(See Mirth.)
Example: A person is so happy and hilarious that despite
any suffering he keeps himself laughing.
Note: This difference between cheerful and hilarity is that the
former is satisfied and happy but the latter is not only cheerful but
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is laughing with happiness.

231. HOME, desires to go:

A constant mental inclination to go home wherever one may
be. A dislike for any place other than one's home.
Example: A person is having such a nature that wherever he
goes he feels uncomfortable or restless and desires to go home.
Even during the course of a sickness he would prefer to go home
rather than having a treatment required for his health.

232. HOME-SICKNESS:
Longing for home and family while absent from them. A
vehement desire to return to one's country.
A person has been posted in a country where he feels that he
had nobody with him and developes certain troubles but the real
cause of sickness is his longing to go back to his family. Whenever
there is a tendency of homesickness in a particular person, he may
get bored while abroad although he has been there for a few days
only.

233. HONOR, effects of wounded:

Results followed by an insult to the honour or prestige of a
person in any way causing embarrassment and various other
effects.
Example: A person went to attend a function at his relatives
house where he was ill-treated and insulted. This affected him so
much that he developed one or more physical ailments and did not
respond to any ordinary treatment. He is so sensitive that the least
word, uttered against his prestige are felt by him as an insult.

234. HOPEFUL:
To aspire hopefully or expectantly to become or achieve
something. An inspiration for the fulfilment of some desire.
Example: a person has been sick for many years and is not
getting well despite best medical treatment. He goes to a ho-
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moeopathic physician where he says that he could not be well

despite so much treatment. On asking, he says that he is confident
of being cured by homoeopathy.

235. HOPELESS:
Devoid of hope; having no expectation of good; no expectation
of remedy or cure.
(See Sadness, Despair.)
Example: Whenever a disease is prolonged a person being
very sensitive in his mind thinks that he will not be cured and he
leaves all hopes about his cure or getting well although his ailments are not to severe.

Note: In such cases, there shall be two aspects; either the

person shall be sad or he will be constantly thinking that he cannot
recover from this illness. In the former case, sadness will dominate
but in the latter case, his thoughts will be stronger and predominating.

236. HORRIBLE things, sad stories, affect her pro-

foundly:
Certain individuals are so sensitive that they are much disturbed mentally in th

etc. An amount of fear or anxiety is aroused in such persons and

they have some reactions in their mind and body, both.
Example: A person is so sensitive that whenever he hears a
horrible story or sees some scene of that type, he has one or the
other ailment which does not get well easily.

237. HORROR:
A painful emotion of intense fear, dread or dismay. A type of
fear which may rouse the emotion of a person to the extent of
affecting one's heart and brain, both.
(See Anxiety, Fear, Fright, Frightened, etc.)
Example: A person is so much terrified by hearing a story of
ghosts that he is unable to sleep. Whenever he hears any such
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story he is so much terrified that he needs somebody to pacify his

feelings.

238. HOWLING:
A prolonged cry in distress; to cry out or exclaim with lack of
restraint and prolonged loudness through strong impulse, feeling
or emotion.
(See Lamenting.)
Example: A person has been injured in an accident and is
crying so much with a howling voice that he needs some proper
care at the earliest to save him from the distress. Such a condition
may also exile due to some push also which may be a general
feature in the particular individual.

239. HUMOR:
Constitutional or habitual disposition; character or temperament. Type of beha

person.
(See Mood.)
Example: A person is generally changing his attitude and
one is not sure whether he will be in a good or bad humor. For this
reason, we have to understand his mood from time to time and
under various circumstances.

240. HUMOROUS:
Full of or characterised by pleasant, funny or jocular state of
mind. One who is generally known for his jolly nature.
(See Jesting, Mirth.)
Example: A person is so jolly by his nature itself that under
tense circumstances also he does not seem to be disturbed in his
mind; as in such a state also, he may cut jokes or may be looking
cheerful.

241. HURRY:
Excessive haste; disturbance of mind with a turmoil to hurry
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up; a state of eagerness or urgency.

Example: A person is always in hurry and wants to do things
at once; he is so nervous that till he completes a job he is restless,
so much so, that if he has to reach somewhere at an appointment
he will be constantly thinking and hurrying so that he is not late
and in this process he will always reach his appointment earlier
than the scheduled time.
Note: There may be various modifications of hurry which may
be utilised as per the version of the patient subject to verification.

242. HUSBAND, aversion to:

A settled and vehement desire to be away from husband. Does
not wish to talk to or have any contact with the husband.
(See under Aversion.)
Example: This is a mental condition wherein a lady has
become so indifferent to her husband that she does not even like
to talk about him. She does not like to talk or come before him
besides her other physical sufferings.

243. HYDROPHOBIA:
a morbid dread of water. A mental condition wherein a person
feels afraid while looking at water.
Example: A person is so much dread of seeing water that
whenever he passes through a river, drain or canal, he does not
look at it. This condition is generally found in case of rabbles but
may occur otherwise also.

244. HYPOCHONDRIACAL:
One who feels extreme depression of mind or spirits often
centred on imaginery physical ailments.
(See Sadness, mental depression.)
Example: a person is generally suffering from minor physical
ailments but he becomes so sad having exaggerated imaginery
feelings that he goes into depression. His physical ailments are
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often his own thoughts only.

245. HYPOCRISY:
The act or practice of pretending to be what one is not or to
have principles or beliefs that one does not have.
Example: A person is generally posing himself to be very
eventful and severe but in practice he is quite different. Posing to
many principles of life but not following any principles which such
a person should follow.

246. HYSTERIA:
A condition of psycho-neurosis that is marked by emotional
excitability involving disturbance of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor and visceral functi

Example: A lady is so sensitive that even if she is given an

advice for not involving herself so much in exercises of dances as
she cannot bear much exertion, she feels excited and nervous
resulting in having a fit or fainting.

247. IDEAS abundant, clearness of mind:

Idea means object of mind existing in apprehension, conception or thought. A pro

formulated thought or opinion.

This rubric is to be utilised in both the conditions either the
person has excessive ideas which have clear meanings or there
may be deficiency of ideas.
Example: A person's brain is so fertile that he has got ready
made plans for any business, education or any other aspect with
a clear understanding which may be on an excessive side causing
the person to be sick.
In the case of deficiency of ideas whatever proposals one may
have will be full of defects or follies rendering the person to the
extent of some sickness as his presentation will prove that the
ideas are not worthy of implementation and sometimes they may
be ridiculous also.
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248. IDIOCY:
Extreme mental deficiency commonly due to incomplete or
abnormal development of the brain usually congenial or due to
arrest of development following disease or injury in early childhood. Something

Example: A person is so deficient that his reaction to many

advices is not in accordance with a normal human being, e.g.,
when he is advised to clean his nose or wash his face he may not
care which he should have done without any advice. This is
because he does not understand the normal way of life due to the
lack of his understanding.
Note: The difference between idocy and foolish behaviour has
to be understood carefully. The former is due to deficiency or
under-developed brain while the latter has no deficiency of brain.

249. IMBECILITY:
Weak mindedness; complete nonsense; utter foolishness. One
who does not have any sense of humanity or way of life.
Example: A person is in such a state of mind that he has no
consideration what is good or bad; he may be busy in talking with
the animals or busy in kissing the old clothes.

250. IMPATIENCE:
Restless or eager desire or longing to achieve his goal at the
earliest. Devotion of all the mental faculties to one's goal in the
shortest possible time with utter eagerness.
Example: A person is so much impatient that whenever he
is hungry he should be served food immediately and will be restless
till he gets the food. Another person is having pain and he is so
restless with the pain that he cannot wait for the reaction of the
drug which relieves his pain. He will repeatedly ask the physician
to do something to relieve his pains.

251. IMPERIOUS:
Overbearing; proudy. A mental disposition of thinking in
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terms of some royal ideas and behaviour which is otherwise not a

fact.
(See Haughty.)
Example: A person belongs to a medium class of family
having limited means to earn and support his family yet his
manner of talking and behaviour is like persons belonging to some
royal families.

252. IMPERTINENCE:
Lack of relevance or appropriateness. Irrelevance. A disposition which proves

channels of behaviour or actions which are expected.

(Also see Insolent, Rudeness.)
Example: A person comes to a physician for treatment. He
has asked to tell about the injury he sustained but when .he
answers he starts a story that he was going to see his sister in a
neighbouring village, he met so and so on the way, so on and so
forth. The physician had to ask him again as to how he sustained
the injury.

253. IMPETUOUS:
Marked by force and violence of movement or action, impulsively vehement

(Also see Hurry, Impatience.)

Example: A person by disposition is behaving or acting in
such a way that he is extraordinarily in a hurry or impatient to get
his work done. He will be using much force in all his routine affairs.
Note: In hurry a person wants to do things in a haste and
there is no excitement. In impatience the person is mentally
restless. In impetuous he is violent in achieving his goal.

254. IMPRUDENCE:
Lack of caution, circumspection or due regard to consequences. An inconsiderat
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(See Indiscretion.)
Example: A person is lacking in his will power to assess the
importance of the works he has to undertake. If he has to go
somewhere he will get ready and then he will think of the venue
and means of transport which he should have thought earlier. It
may also happen that he will start from his house and on reaching
the bus stand he is thinking or searching his way.

255. IMPULSE to destroy himself:

The effect of an impelling force rising in the mind of a person
to destroy himself. A sudden and momentary thought which comes
with a force to destroy life.
Example: A boy was reprimanded by his parents for coming
late from the school. He did not take it lightly and started trying
to commit a suicide. This very often follows when some children are
tailed in their examinations they try to commit suicide. This,
however, should be a sensual feature of the person.

256. IMPULSIVE:
An inner driving or impelling force to carry out some action.
A person guided by sudden internal force compelling to take an
action.
Example: A person is so much guided by his inner mental
faculties that his manner of action is with a sudden force which is
not expected of a normal person. At times the same person may be
calm enough but whenever there is a sudden impelling order of his
mind to do something, he will do so with a sudden speed or force.

257. INCITING others:

A mental disposition to incite or excite others to take some
action. Efforts to move others to adoption of a certain course of
action.
Example: A person is in the habit of playing one or the other
mischief but instead of taking an action himself be is always
exciting others to follow the course of action suggested by him.
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258. INCONSOLABLE:
Incapable of being consoled; aggrieved beyond comfort; utterly disconsolate.

Example: A person is in the habit of feeling something to

such an extent that no amount of consolation brings him any
comfort or amelioration.

259. INCONSTANCY:
Changeableness; lack of constancy. One who cannot stick to
one place or in one occupation. A type of mental Inquietude with
physical movement.
Example: A person is of such a nature that he cannot sit at
one place for some time, he cannot stay in one profession for long.
In all, he is so much changeable that he can be observed easily by
anyone.

260. INDIFFERENCE, apathy, etc.:

Marked by a total or negligible importance or value for some-
thing. Generally a person should have enough affection with his
family members but whenever there is a change of circumstances,
he has no desire to talk to them or he does not wish to hear about
them. One may be .indifferent to so many aspects as per the
modifications given under this rubric.
Example: A lady has been much attached to her daughter
which is a normal behaviour or natural phenomenon but once the
daughter asked her mother to provide her a house which she did.
Now the daughter had stopped talking or going to her mother. The
mother became so indifferent to the daughter that she did not like
even to talk about her daughter besides her physical ailments.

261. INDIGNATION:
Typically intense deep-felt resentment or anger aroused by
annoyance at or displeasure with or scorn over something that
actually is or is felt to be unjust or unworthy or mean or wrong they
had suffered.
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Example: A person has felt embarrassed for the act of one of

his family member which is very deeply felt by him and has a great
resentment for it with constant thinking in his mind but it has not
come out. After long questioning and taking into confidence this is
revealed by such a person.

262. INDISCRETION:
Something marked by lack of discretion. An act at variance
with the accepted morality of a society.
Example: Some guests have come to the residence of a
person who has been and is busy in his own affairs. Instead of
attending the guests he continues his own work and asks his wife
to attend them. The normal practice would have been to attend the
guests by the person to whom they had come. In many other affairs
also such persons are not following the normal practice of the
society.

263. INDOLENCE, aversion to work:

Laziness or inactivity arising from a tone of ease or aversion
to work; Indisposition to labour. This may be in general or under
certain conditions or circumstances as given under this rubric.
Example: A person has been under the employment of a big
industrial concern where he has been working hard but when his
turn for promotion comes he is not considered suitable for some
personal reasons; thereafter this person has no interest in his job
and is indolent.

264. INDUSTRIOUS:
A disposition to be constantly, regularly or habitually occu-
pied; conducive to purposeful work or enterprise.
Example: A person is sick for the last two weeks; he is unable
to do any physical work due to weakness but still he has a desire
to do so many pending jobs.

265. INHUMANITY:
The quality or state of being cruel or barbarious. Unsympa-
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thetic and inhuman act or attitude.

Example: Whenever a person is found in distress the normal
behaviour of other fellow beings should be to sympathise with and
help him if this is not done or none of the fellow being is moved at
all with the suffering of that man (in distress) it is an act of
inhumanity.

266. INJURE, fears to be left alone, lest he should,

himself:
Doubt about a particular person that if he is left alone, he may
injure himself. There may be reasons for doing so, e.g. frustration,
disappointment, etc.
Example: A person has been engaged in his business but
suddenly there has been some setback to him and therefore he is
frustrated to the extent of breaking his head or injure himself in
any way if left alone.

267. INQUISITIVE:
Disposed to ask too many questions out of curiosity. Inordinately or improper

Example: A child is asking too many questions when he goes

out of the house with his parents. If he has asked about some
animal, he will ask questions of minute details like his eating, his
nature, his place of living, then why like this, etc.

268. INSANITY:
Unsound ness or derangement of brain or lack of understanding that preven

law.
Example: An insane person can be judged by a mere look at
him. He does not respond to any calls or his actions and gestures
are always of foolish type. He has no care for his dress. He is unconcerned with lo

comprehension in his mind as it is already deranged. Any of his

action is also not void under the law if he has already been declared
insane.
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269. INSENSIBILITY:
An unconscious or compose state. Lack of physical feeling or
sensibility. An unresponsive or unreactive condition.
(See Unconsciousness.)
Example: A person has been suffering from fever which rises
to 107°F and the person becomes insensible, i.e., he does not
respond to calls although breathing well. Such a condition may
arise under various circumstances.

270. INSOLENT:
Lacking usual or proper respect for rank or position; presumptuously disre

Example: A person is of such a disposition that he behaves

with his superiors or elders as if they are equals. Whenever he has
to call a superior he will call him by name and it can be judged from
his manner as if he has no regard or respect for an elder or
superior.

271. INSTABILITY:
Lack of determination or uniformity. A fluctuating mind
which keeps on changing from time to time.
(Sec Mood, changeable.)
Example: A person is so unstable in his mental disposition
that at one moment he is found laughing and the other, he is found
weeping. Likewise, in many walks of life, he is unstable and is
found in changed moods and conditions.

272. INTOXICATION:
The quality or state of being drunk; a strong excitement of
mind or feelings (as from joy or pleasure) and looking as if he is
drunk.
(See Stupefaction. Also sec Confusion of mind.)
Example: A person has been declared fit for the post of a
health inspector. When he got this news he is so happy that the
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persons meeting him feel as if he was drunk. In cases of sickness

also, it happens that the patient may be looking intoxicated but it
is not a fact.

273. INTROSPECTION:
The examination of one's own thoughts and feelings; self-examination. A d

is responsible for everything wrong.

Example: A person is placed under such difficult situation
that he is blamed for every mistake or wrong that happens.
Whereas, in fact, he may not be responsible for those things. Under
such circumstances, a stage comes when a person starts thinking
about his own follies or to what extent he is responsible to the
present state and is mostly thinking and examining himself.

274. IRASCIBILITY:
Anger; marked by hot temper and resentment; proneness to
anger.
(See Anger, Quarrelsome.)
Example: A person has got such a disposition that he gets
angry for petty things, e.g., his books have been disturbed by
placing them at some different place he will become angry.

275. IRKSOME, everything is:

Irritating, tedious. One feels as if everything is irritating for
him. A sudden feeling of discomfort.
Example: A person is so irritating and tedious that. he feels
upset on petty things as he has a fear in his mind that even petty
things are going to be harmful for him. Even before talking to
persons, he will say that so and so is dangerous.

276. IRRESOLUTION:
The quality or state of being uncertain; not decided upon; lack
of resolution, a fluctuation of mind (as in doubt or between hope
and fear).
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Example: A person is so much undecided in his mind that

whenever he has undertaken any work he will think whether he
should do that or not as he is not sure of the consequences if he
undertakes a job. He may also change his decisions frequently.

277. IRRITABILITY:
A quick excitability to annoyance, impatience or anger. To feel
something disagreeable to one's mind. Something which causes
irritation in one's mind.
Example: A person is such by nature that he feels sore when
something happens which is not agreeable to his mind, e.g. he
becomes irritated when he is suffering from headache.
Many children become irritable during their dentition period.
Note: The various circumstances of modifications of Irritability may be studied

278. ISOLATION, sensation of:

A feeling of segregation; one feels as if he has been separated
or ignored by his relatives, friends or in any other manner.
(See Forsaken, feeling.)
Example: A person has a constant feeling that his family
members have no attachment with him he remains alone and
uncared for. In many of his ailments, this may be a reason of his
not getting well. Despite living in a family he thinks himself to be
alone.

279. JEALOUSY:
a feeling of covetousness of the possession by others with
malignity if somebody is in possession of. something or the prosperity of others is not

Example: A person is such by his disposition that he will

have a malignant feeling if his neighbour has purchased a motor
cycle even if he is having it. In so many other aspects also his
feelings are of this type.
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280. JESTING:
A disposition of cutting jokes: talking in such a manner that
the persons who may be nearby cannot control their laughing.
Example: A person is in the habit of cutting jokes. He does
not, at times, care for not doing so where a proper opportunity may
not be there. Even when attended by a physician, he will start
jesting with the doctor.
Note: In facetiousness a person transforms the material for
laughter but in Jesting the feeling automatically comes from
within.

281. JOY. ailments from excessive:

Ailments developing after having an excessive happiness.
Ailments developing mostly when a person feels happy.
Example: A person had been facing a criminal suit in a court
of law and he had been awaiting a decision by the court. When he
gets the news that he has been exonerated in that case, he feels so
much pleased that he has a heart attack.

282. JOYLESS:
Not having a feeling of happiness even if there are occasions
when one should feel happy.
(See Indifference.)
Example: A person is such by nature that he does not feel
pleasure even when there are such events. He may be under some
tension of mind sometimes but generally he does not feel happy
despite such occasions.

283. JOYOUS:
Looking happy or pleased despite any circumstances which
may be adverse.
(See Cheerful.)
Example; A person by disposition is in the habit of remaining
pleased despite any ailments he may be suffering from. Outwardly
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he will not pose any type of problem he may have; rather he will
pose as if he is happy. He derives joy from inside by the natural gift
to be happy.

284. JUMPING:
The act of jumping; rising in a sudden manner with force for
coming down at the same or a distant place.
Example: A person is getting impulses in his mind to jump;
he may jump from the bed, out of window or in any other manner.

285. KICKS:
A thrust out by the foot or feet with force. A tendency to kick
something.
Example: A child is so cross that as soon as he awakes he
will kick and scold.

286. KILL, desire to:

A mental disposition to think about killing someone or
specifically as given under this rubric under various sub-rubrics.
Example: A barber may desire to kill his customer by the
knife he is holding or a lady may desire to kill her husband of whom
she is very fond of.
Note: The feelings are not intentional but involuntary.

287. KILLED, desires to be:

A mental condition when a person feels fed up with his life he
wishes that he should be killed.
Example: A person is so much frustrated with his ailments
that he urges the physician to give him such a medicine by which
he may die. There may be such other circumstances also where one
desires himself to be killed.

288. KISSES everyone:

To touch or press with the lips (as in affection, greeting,
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reverence, etc.) The act of kissing or expression of affection or love.

Example: A person despite being fully sound in his mind has
a disposition to kiss everyone meaning thereby that he is having
too much affection for everybody.

289. KLEPTOMANIA:
A persistent pneumatic impulse to steal especially without
any economic motive but the object stolen is usually believed to
have symbolic significance to the kleptomaniac.
Example: A person is so charmed by seeing an ink-stand at
the clinic of a physician that he could not resist his desire to leave
it there and as soon as he got the opportunity he lifted it and went
home.

290. KNEELING and praying:

The act of kneeling by bowing and placing the knees on the
earth and then asking or desiring for something (as in a temple).
Example: A person by disposition is bowing down with his
knees on the earth and praying for something which he wishes to
acquire. He will not only do so in a church or temple but even
before a physician he will do this act to convince him that he is so
much in distress that he should be helped very urgently.

291. LAMENTING. Bemoaning, wailing, etc.

An earnest request in grief, an expression of suffering by
request or in a manner suggesting as if in great need of help which
may not be so urgent.
Example: A person has been suffering from fever for about
a week. He has been requesting in a most respectful manner to all
his family members to make some better arrangements for his
treatment. Before the physician also he is requesting with folded
hands to save him from the distress although his suffering is not
so severe.

292. LASCIVIOUSNESS. lustful:

Excessive desire for lachery. A tendency to have too much
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desire for sex or always devoting his energy towards this type of
lustful desire.
Example: A person is so much lustful for sex that he has no
care for other limitations. He may be sick and still he is asking the
physician whether he has to observe any restriction on sex.
Note: In Lasciviousness a person is much more attracted
towards sexual thoughts and act but in Lewdness or shameless the
sexual thoughts may not be predominating but the person desires
to expose his/her person. In Lewdness the exposure of parts of
body is involuntary and in Shameless it is voluntary.

293. LAUGHING:
An excessive expression of gaiety or pleasure by producing a
sound and showing the teeth representing the happiness.
Example: Excessive laughing under various circumstances
may become a cause of concern or illness and may be a guiding
factor for a homoeopathic prescription, e.g. a person starts laugh-
ing over serious matters, another person may be laughing during
sleep. These are abnormal circumstances where a normal person
would not laugh.

294. LEWDNESS:
The quality or state of being lewd. A mental tendency of being
lewd or remaining without clothes or exposition of the body or body
parts.
(Also see Shameless.)
Example: A lady has a tendency to expose her parts of body
as she will leave them uncovered or in such a manner that they
remain exposed. This is an involuntary act.

295. LIBERTINISM:
Licentiousness in conduct; marked disregard of conventional
and moral restraints; free thinking in religious matters especially
excessive or blameworthy free thinking of this kind.
Example: A person was born in a Brahmin family of India
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who have their set customs for marriage and other rituals but this
person has forgone all such restrictions and is doing everything in
his own manner which may not be liked by so many.

296. LIE, never speaks the truth, does not know

what she is Saying:
A mental condition when a person does not speak the truth
although he/she does not know what he/she is saying.
Example: A lady has a tendency to tell a lie to such an extent
that while talking to others she forgets what she has been saying.

297. LIGHT, desire for:

A disposition to have light as one is afraid of the dark or
sometimes even if the fear of dark is not there yet he desires lights
to be on. One feels uncomfortable without light.
(Also see Dark.)
Example: A person is in the habit of having the lights on. He
may not get a sleep without light. Such conditions are mostly
helpful in the cases of sickness when the patient desires the light
to be on.

298. LISTLESS:
Characterised by lack of inclination or impetus to exertion;
spiritless. A condition of disappointment to the extent that despite
having the desire to do something one does not wish to attend to
"anything.
(See Indifference.)
Example: A sportsman has been trying to rise himself in his
career but suddenly he felt some disappointment and he stops his
practice and has no desire to do any more exercises. He seems to
be worried.

299. LIVELY:
Full of life, movement or incident. A pleasurable love
and affection to life visible from the expressions or movements
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of a person.
(See Mirth.)
Example: A person has been in a suffering or distress for a
long time yet he is so lively that from all his talks or movements
it is judged that he is not much disturbed in his mind regarding
his physical sufferings. He wishes to undertake new projects of
work and looks happy.

300. LOATHING, general:

A feeling of aversion, abhorrence or detestation; extreme
disgust. This may be in general or under various conditions given
under this rubric.
Example: A person feels so much fed up with his life due to
his long sickness or some other reasons that he feels his life as a
burden.

301. LOCALITY, errors of:

Making mistakes in recognising the localities to which one
has been quite familiar since long.
(See Mistakes.)
Example: A person has been residing at Calcutta for the last
10 years but now he does not recognise even those localities which
have been very popular for him. Sometimes he does not recognise
even those well-known streets where his house is situated.

302. LONELINESS:
The fact or condition of being alone; isolation; a remoteness
from human habitation; a state of dejection or grief caused by the
conditions of being alone.
(See Forsaken feeling.)
Example: A person is living with his family but his thoughts
and ideas are not resembling with all others in the family. His
thinking is quite different from others since he cannot make any
adjustment with his family members particularly in respect of his
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thoughts he feels himself to be lonely despite being in the family.

303. LONGING for things which are rejected when

offered:
A mental state of desiring for various or particular things but
rejecting them as soon as they are offered.
(See Capriciousness.)
Example: It is generally found in the children who are
irritable with a capricious nature. They desire for various things
but as soon as it is offered they reject it.

304. LOOKED at, cannot bear to be:

A mental state of being averse to being looked at. Irritation felt
if somebody is looking at.
Example: It is generally noticed in some children when they
are brought to the clinic of the physician that they cannot bear to
be looked at them. As soon as the physician looks at such a child
either they will start crying or they will divert their attention either
by hiding face in the lap of the mother or turning their head to the
other side.

305. LOQUACITY:
Garrulity, excessive talking. An unrestricted talking or
speech. Talking or speaking to such an extent which may be
termed as loquacity.
(Also see Speech.)
Example: This is a mental state which is mostly found in
some insane or imbecile persons that they go on talking without
any gap and may be uncalled for, but this type of talking or speech
will not be counted within the purview of this rubric. Only excessive talking or spea

in mind may be termed as loquacious, e.g. a person is so loquacious that whenever h

will start speaking and will not stop for long times.
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306. LOVE, ailments, from disappointed:

Warm affection; sweetheart or a person with whom there may
be too much of affection may be termed as love. There may be some
ailments which a person may suffer mentally or physically if he/
she is deprived of the beloved person.
Example: A lady has been in love with one of her boy friends
but he was transferred from that city to another city and from there
also he had no communication. As a result of this break of love,
this lady developed certain troubles which compelled her some
medical treatment.

307. LOW-MINDED:
Relates to the level of thinking of a person for reaction in
relation to the behaviour of other persons which is generally at a
lower level.
(See Repulsive, Cowardice.)
Example: A person does not command a good respect in his
circle of society but despite his efforts he cannot improve his own
behaviour and expression. The opinion of others is always low
about him.

308. LOW-SPIRITS:
Lacking in ardour or in courage. Dejected; depressed. Having
a feeling of dejection and low-spirit due to certain reasons.
(See Sadness.)
Example: A person is so mild-hearted that whenever he finds
himself disheartened in any job or office he seems to be in a very
sad or dejected mood having no interest in anything with certain
physical ailments.

309. LUDICROUS, things seem:

Amusing or laughable through absurdity, incongruity, exaggerations or ec

absurdity, incept, false or foolish.

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(See Foolish behaviour.)

Example: A mental state in which a person thinks the right
things to be strange or a subject for laughing, i.e., things which are
not a subject of laughing for others are considered to be laughable.

310. MAGNETISED, desires to be:

Magnetised means to attract like a magnet; exert a powerful
influence upon. A desire for excitement to be put in by somebody
before undertaking anything.
Example: A person is so lazy that he himself will not be
undertaking any job or will not forward to take an initiative in
anything Unless he is excited by somebody. His fellow workers or
colleagues have to exite her to undertake any job.

311. MALICIOUS:
A tendency to have an intention or desire to harm another
usually seriously through doing something unlawful or otherwise
unjustified; wilfully involved in the commission of a wrong.
Example: A person is generally in the habit of having a
malicious feeling by harming others or making plans to harm
somebody with a malafide intention. In such cases there may not
be a direct action but even involvement in plans which are formed
for the ruin or harm of others will come within the purview of this
rubric.

312. MANIA, madness:

Excitement of psycotic proportions manifested by mental and
physical hyperactivity, disorganization of behaviour and elevation
of mood especially the maniac phase of magic depressive psycosis.
Excessive or unreasonable enthusiasm; a violent desire, passion or
partiality, craze, something that is the object of a mania; mania
implies insanity.
(Also see Delirium, Insanity, Rage etc.)
Example: A person's present behaviour proves that he is a
maniac when he is brought before a physician. On examining the
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history of the patient it is revealed that he had eruptions all over

the body for which too much of drugs were used and they subsided
suddenly at some stage but after sometime of that his behaviour
changed and now was declared as a maniac.

313. MANIA-A-POTU:
A delirious disorder of the brain produced by over absorption
of alcohol, often marked by convulsive or trembling symptoms.
Example: A person is generally in the habit of drinking (alcoholism) but s

hardly reply a question. A condition that arises like delirium due

to alcoholism.

314. MANUAL WORK, fine work:

Engagement in an activity or education requiring or involving
physical skill or energy; work involving hands, eyes, etc.
Example: A person used to have mental aggravations when-
ever he has been engaged in any physical work or work involving
reading fine prints by straining the eyes. The mental aggravations
may be of different types but it is arising out of involvement in
manual or fine work only.

315. MARRIAGE, the idea of, seemed unendurable:

A mental feeling that it would not be possible to bear a married
life or to sustain marriage without having sufficient reasons or
reasons which may not be valid.
Example: A person is so averse to ladles that he does not like
to participate in any talks with the ladies. If he is asked to marry
he will put forward false problems and will not agree to any
proposal of marriage. He feels that it would not be possible to
sustain a married life.

316. MEDDLESOME:
One who enters without right or propriety. Officiously entering into som

without the permission or request of these who are concerned.

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Example: Some people are working under a State Govern-

ment contract for the benefit of the citizens of an area and they are
highly paid for the work. One person goes and asks them to do his
personal work which Is not within the purview of their duty.

317. MEDITATION:
The act of meditating; steady or close consecutive reflection;
continued application of the mind. A private devotion or spiritual
exercise consisting in deep continued reflection on a religious
theme.
(Also see Absorbed.)
Example: A person is generally looking as if he is devoting
his energies or mental faculties towards some worshipping or
spiritual discourse but in fact it is only a feeling or look. He is not
actually involved in any meditation but is posing to do so.

318. MELANCHOLY:
Depressed in spirits. Seriously thoughtful or meditative.
Dejection, gloom, dismal, mournful.
(See Despair, Grief and Sadness.)
Example: A person had been leading a normal life but due
to some domestic problems the affairs became a subject of the
people which was felt too much by him. Since then he became
melancholic and used to be serious.

319. MEMORY active:

Memory means the process of reproducing or recalling what
has been learned as manifested in some special way or as associ-
ated with some bodily process. Memory applies both to the faculty
of remembering and to what is remembered. Sometimes remem-
bered clearly or cherished.
It is divided here into two main headings, i.e., Memory active
or Memory, weakness of. The former one applies to cases where it
is exceedingly active and the latter one applies to those where there
is a real weakness of memory under different conditions/modifica-
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tions given thereunder.

Example : i. A person is very weak in all his activities or
behaviour. He seems to be underdeveloped but his memory is so
sharp that normal persons cannot remember many things which he
can remember and reproduce.
ii. A person is so weak in his memory that he decides to do
something. While preparing himself for the job to be undertaken he
forgets what he was going to do.

320. MEN, dread of:

A terror from men. A sensation of some disastrous happening
seeing a man with a feeling of great and sudden fear. Some people
especially children are averse to strangers who can be men also and
they are afraid of them but this will not come within the purview of
this rubric.
(Also see Fear of men.)
Example: A lady hears a call bell from the door she goes to open
the door but seeing a man outside she feels terrified and comes back.
It is observed that otherwise also whenever any man comes In the
house she feels frightened.

321. MENTAL effort, inability to sustain:

A mental weakness which creates further difficulty or Inability
to do any mental work. The least straining of the mind aggravates
suffering.
(Also see Prostration of mind.)
Example: A person is generally found mentally alert but
whenever he is asked to do some mental work, he is unable to tolerate
that as he feels tired or prostrated.

322. MESMERISED, seems as if:

Looking as If hypnotised especially by Mesmer's method.
Seems to be under influence of some unknown force.
Example : A person by the look itself can be judged as if he
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is under some Influence. He looks to be in his own world not easily

possible to divert his attention. Signs of fear and anxiety can be
judged from his face.

323. MILDNESS:
Gentleness in nature or behaviour not harsh or vehement, not
giving offence. Characterised by kindness or soothing behaviour
with everyone.
Example: A person's behaviour of his general observation is
that he is quite gentle and mild. Others are generally making a
reference that he is a very mild person and is helpful to all.

324. MIRTH:
Gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter. An excessive fee

other normal persons.

Example: A person is suffering from fever but he is found to
be so happy that he was like that when he had no fever. This is a
deviation from normal happiness.

325. MISANTHROPY:
A hatred of mankind; distrust of human beings. Hatred is
applied generally to some particular individual or affair, etc. but
misanthropy is a type of hatred from the total mankind.
(Also see Hatred.)
Example: A person has got such a barbarious nature that he
can ruin thousands of human beings for what he wants to achieve.
He does not have the least feeling for any number of human deaths
as he hates mankind.

326. MISCHIEVOUS:
Capable of causing or tending to cause annoyance, trouble or
minor injury or damage to others. An act which is wilfully done to
displease or harm somebody.
Example: A person is always playing mischiefs in one way or
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the other to harm or injure the feelings of others, e.g. putting

drums across the road to disturb the traffic. Such actions are
deliberate and are done to derive pleasure.

327. MISERLY:
Men who hoard money out of avarice and a man who saves
money out of prudence. A great desire to save money even from
occasions where it is considered necessary to spend.
(See Avarice.)
Example: A person is so miserly that he does not want to
spend money even on the death ceremony of his mother. He thinks
that his brothers are there to incur all the expenditure and as such
he should not spend anything.

328. MISTAKES:
An act of error committed by a person without having an
awareness that the consequence of this type of act will have some
repercussions. In this rubric we are concerned with certain types
of mistakes which we commit under various conditions.
(Also see Memory.)
Example: A person makes too many mistakes in doing any
work where calculations are involved. Another man makes mis-
takes in using wrong words as he is writing opposite words like hot
for cold, etc.

329. MOANING, groaning:

Uttering wailingly or with lamentation a sound which diverts
the attention of others. Making a low prolonged sound due to grief
or pain; to groan softly.
(Also see Lamenting.)
Example: A person is suffering from fever during which he
is moaning, i.e., producing a low voice expressing thereby that he
is having some suffering or pain. His sickness is demonstrated by
this type of voice.
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330. MOCKING:
To treat with scorn or contempt or ridicule. A type of maltreatment which is in

treat in such a manner so that the other person may feel offended.
Example: A person has invited some guests in his house on
a dinner. But while talking to them he says that he had to go out
of the country for an assignment but because of this dinner and
invitation, he had to cancel his programme.

331. MONOMANIA:
A mental derangement restricted to one idea or group of ideas.
Such concentration of a single object or idea as to suggest a mental
derangement.
Example: A person is so much attached to his dress that he
has no care for other things; he may not be liked by people for this
habit that he has no manners but whenever he wants to come out
of the house and wishes to appear in the society he will come well
dressed and in a grotesque manner.

332. MOOD:
A conscious subjective state of mind. A prevailing attitude;
general spirit or disposition. A representation of feelings which
may be good, bad or changeable, etc.
Example: A person's mental state is difficult to be determined because on the o

the other he seems to be morose. In the same way, there may be

many other events which cannot be assessed properly about him.
Note: Cases may be dealt with according to the sub-rubrics.

333. MOONLIGHT:
Mental conditions arising as a result of coming in contact with,
moonlight or during moon days. It is an established fact that
certain human beings do feel some changes in their life with
changing of moon phases.
Example: A lady is generally happy or pleasant but during
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full moon she feels headache and by change of the moon phase she
becomes alright. Likewise, various persons are having some ailments during

334. MORAL, feeling, want of:

Characterised by the lack of moral feeling or behaviour; the
behaviour appears to be lacking in morale and humanitarian
treatment, yet there may be a desire to do something good.
Example: A person is talking to some strangers in the street
who are religious persons and have gathered there for preaching
some religious slogans. Since this man has been away from this
type of talks, now wishes to hear them.

335. MOROSE:
Having a sullen and gloomy disposition; not friendly or so-
ciable. Marked by or expressive of gloom. A bitter unsociable
person.
Example: A person by his nature Itself Is such that he does
not like to come in contact with the people rather he avoids talking
to his neighbours or colleagues. He does not like to attend various
social functions also.
This condition may also be found on a limited scale, i.e., under
certain conditions as given in the sub-rubrics.

336. MORTIFICATION, ailments after:

Something that mortifies; a cause of humiliation or chagrin.
A sense of humiliation and shame caused by something that
wounds one's pride or self-respect.
Example: It is commonly observed that certain ladies are not
behaving properly with their brides or brides with their mother-in-
laws resulting into a constant amount of humiliation being felt by
the aggrieved lady. Certain ailments do not get well due to these
exciting factors which are a continuous source of problem. Certain
ailments start only after this type of exciting cause prevailing in
any family.
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full moon she feels headache and by change of the moon phase she
becomes alright. Likewise, various persons are having some ailments during Mo

334. MORAL, feeling, want of:

Characterised by the lack of moral feeling or behaviour; the
behaviour appears to be lacking in morale and humanitarian
treatment, yet there may be a desire to do something good.
Example: A person is talking to some strangers in the street
who are religious persons and have gathered there for preaching
some religious slogans. Since this man has been away from this
type of talks, now wishes to hear them.

335. MOROSE:
Having a sullen and gloomy disposition; not friendly or sociable. Marked by or

person.
Example: A person by his nature Itself is such that he does
not like to come in contact with the people rather he avoids talking
to his neighbours or colleagues. He does not like to attend various
social functions also.
This condition may also be found on a limited scale, i.e., under
certain conditions as given in the sub-rubrics.

336. MORTIFICATION, ailments after:

Something that mortifies; a cause of humiliation or chagrin.
A sense of humiliation and shame caused by something that
wounds one's pride or self-respect.
Example: It is commonly observed that certain ladies are not
behaving properly with their brides or brides with their mother-in-
laws resulting into a constant amount of humiliation being felt by
the aggrieved lady. Certain ailments do not get well due to these
exciting factors which are a continuous source of problem. Certain
ailments start only after this type of exciting cause prevailing in
any family.
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337. MOTIONS:
To move in such a way as to suggest an intended action. To
signal by a movement or gesture.
(See Gestures).
Example: A person is in the habit of indicating his desires or
intending to get things by motions of his hands in particular
directions or manners. Sometimes this type of motions have no
particular aim but just the gestures coming Involuntarily from the
mind of a person.
Note: This condition generally appears in a diseased condition.

338. MURDER, desire to :

A mental disposition or thought wishing to kill. There may be
various circumstances under which such desires come in the mind
of a person.
(See kill, desire to).
Example: A person is so sensitive that he does not wish to
tolerate least contradiction and desires to kill anybody who tries to
contradict him.

339. MUSIC, aversion to:

A settled and vehement desire not to listen to music. A feeling
of unsoothing sensation In the mind of a person on listening to
music.
(See Sensitive to music).
Example: A person is so sensitive to music that as he enters the
house he will switch off the radio or tape recorder if somebody has
played it for music. Even if he goes to attend a function somewhere
he will try to avoid it by going here and there.

340. MUTILATING his body:

A type of destructive feeling wherein a person wishes to cut up
or alter radically his body so as to make it imperfect.
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Example: A person is so fed up or disappointed with himself
that he tries to cut up or disfigure his body In such a way so that
it becomes Imperfect.

341. MUTTERING:
To utter indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed;
a manner of representing his complaints in an angry way.
(Also see Delirium, muttering.)
Example: Sometimes a person feels angry on some issue but
does not have the courage to represent it directly. He starts speaking something in su

in a low voice so that his full text is not properly understood by

everyone.

342. NAKED, wants to be:

Desires to expose his body or organs. Generally a person
wants to take off his clothes due to heat but here it is a mental
condition wherein he wants to be naked.
Example: A person is generally in the habit of remaining
naked despite many advices that it does not look good in a society
to be naked. It means he may cover some parts of the body still
exposing some organs to be uncovered without having any care for
the society. This is equally applicable to ladies also.

343. NARRATING her symptoms agg.:

A feeling of exaggerated suffering for which treatment is
sought while narrating her symptoms before a physician or some-
body who comes to her and asks her well-being. The complaints are
felt more when she is asked to narrate her story of suffering due
to the revival of her internal feelings.
Example: A lady has been suffering from headache for about
15 days. When she is brought to a physician, she starts telling
about her sickness but in between she is feeling more pains which
she describes. On questioning the relatives, it is revealed that even
in the house if some relatives come and ask her the complaints are
felt more by her.
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344. NEW, all objects seem:

A mental state when all the objects despite very old are
looking new. Whether it is furniture, house, clothes, or anything
else very old but are looking new.
Example: A person is so overwhelmed in his mind that a
chair which is more than 50 years old is looking new to him. The
old rejected clothes appear as if they have been newly stitched.
This type of feeling can be observed in patients when they are
sick and have deviated to this extent in their mind or having such
a feeling in a condition of sickness.

345. NOISE, averse to:

A settled and vehement desire to be away from noise; sensi-
tivity to noise; a feeling of mental disturbance from noise.
(See Sensitive to noise.)
Example: A person is so averse to noise that if he hears the
noise of children he will stop them from doing so; if the radios are
on he will switch them off and if it is beyond his control, he will go
somewhere from that place as he cannot tolerate noise.

346. NYMPHOMANIA:
Excessive desire by a female for sexual activity, usually based
on feeling of personal inadequacy; utaromania.
Example: A lady belonged to a royal family but she had so
much desire for sexual activity that she could enjoy even with the
gardener or any other low paid employee also which is considered
to be a great insult to such a family. This has been observed even
in married ladies, they do not feel satisfied with their husbands
and also have sexual relations with one or many others.
Here the question of respect or prestige is not involved but is
an internal desire of the lady which is to be considered as a part
of the disease only.

347. OBSCENE:
Stressing or revealing in a lewd or lustful manner specifically
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inciting or designed to incite to lust.

(See Lewdness.)
Example: A lady is in the habit of inciting others by posing
or dressing in such a manner so that others are also incited to lust.
Even during a course of sickness such patients will not be able to
control themselves and will expose their organs in such a manner
that even the physician may be incited to lust.

348. OBSTINATE:
Persistently adhering to an opinion, purpose or course; not
yielding to reason, argument or other means.
Example: A person is so adament in his nature that if he
decided to cross the road he cannot be forbidden by any advice that
he may meet with an accident while crossing a road if the signal
is red but he will not listen to any advice without caring for its
consequences. In all other spheres also, he behaves like this.

349. OCCUPATION amel.:

An activity, business or profession provided amelioration in
complaints. Any feeling of pain or inconvenience is relieved when
one engages himself in an occupation.
Example: A person generally complains that he is having
pain in his knees or head but it has been observed that he does his
job well and it has never been observed that he made a complaint
to his suffering while doing the job meaning thereby that he is
better when occupied.

350. OFFENDED, easily;

Easily feeling ill or offended by the least provocation or cause.
A sense of dislike, anger or vexation on the least disliking act or
happening.
(Also see Sensitive.)
Example: A person is so sensitive that even while talking
with somebody else if his name comes and there is the least
complaint and he comes to know he will feel offended. Sometimes
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a person is such that even a mild reproof will upset him as to why
he was said so.

351. OVER-SENSITIVE:
Unduly or extremely susceptible to feel something. Excessive
or exaggerated feeling of any act or happening to a sensitive individual.

(See Sensitive.)
Example: A person got injured by a prick of nail. He got
restless explaining that there may be serious repercussions of this
nail. "I am feeling too much pain and I should be taken to the
hospital or some specialist may be consulted."

352. PERSISTS in nothing:

To remain changing or jumping from one thing or another
without any purpose.
(Also see Mood, Inconstancy.)
Example; A child is playing with the toys and breaking them;
at the next moment he is flying a kite and after sometime he will
start something else. His attention is frequently diverting.
Note: Here the child has no definite purpose or aim rather he
is of a fickle mind changing frequently from one thing to the other.

353. PERTINACITY:
Marked by an unyieldingly persistent fixedness (as of opinion,
purpose or action) that is often annoyingly perverse in fact or in
appearance; stubbornly inflexible. Hard to get rid of; dogged by
tenacious.
Example: A person has formed an idea in his mind that the
Electricity Department is controlled by the Central Government.
When he is advised that it is a department of the Municipal
Corporation, he does not agree to it despite the fact that a common
man also can understand that this cannot be a subject of the
Central Government. But this man will go on persisting on his own
presumption.
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354. PETULANT:
Characterised by temporary or capricious ill-humour. Out of
temper; touchy.
(See Irritability.)
Example: A person is so touchy that the least talking against
him or his family members he is placed in deep ill-humour and
feels irritable in his mind.

355. PHLEGMATIC:
Having or showing the character or temperament formerly associated with p

slowness and stolidity. A person of phlegmatic constitution or

temperament.
(See Indifference.)
Example: A person is so much affected by the sense of
humour that his old phlegmatic complaints may be revived.
The circumstances or modifications given under Indifference
may be considered under which such a revival takes place.

356. PICKING:
Plucking something from any part of the body, surface or anywhere. Most

nose but it can be like picking bed clothes also.

(See Gestures.)
Example: A person during the course of his sickness starts
picking at the bed clothes. The mere looking of this becomes a
symptom for a homoeopath.

357. PIETY, nocturnal:

The quality or state of being pious at night. The moral or
spiritual resources of an individual or a group arise at night.
Example: A person is a businessman by profession and will
take part in all sorts of activities in the daytime. He may tell lies
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or do an act which may be beyond the limits of a good moral

character but when he sleeps at night he will have many religious
thoughts and pious things. He will think to be a pious person in
all his activities and actions, he will maintain all sorts of cleanli-
ness and neatness at night.

358. PITIES herself:

Sympathetic, heartfelt sorrow for herself while suffering
mentally or physically.
Example: A lady is very kind hearted. She is very much
careful of her actions and will always try to do the best for all but
whenever she thinks about herself she feels that she is always
deceived and is not provided the position deserved by her. Under
such circumstances, she pities herself.

359. PLANS, making many:

Mental formulation of a method, order or form of graphic rep-
resentation of one sometimes applying to an already achieved
order.
(Also see Theorizing.)
Example: A person is desirous of expanding his present
business for which he will make many statements, charts, graphs
or other things although he may not implement them.
Note: The rubric Theorizing is close to this. The difference
between these two is that in Theorizing the person has no definite
plans, statements, graphs, etc., but he makes castles in the air
only.

360. PLAYFUL:
Indulging oneself in a sportive activity or fancy. Playing
games, sports or by any other means used for the purpose of
deriving amusement.
Example: A child has always been very much Involved in
playing or activities connected with the games but for his sickness
he has stopped all such activities and now just has a desire to play
but cannot do so due to his compelling circumstances.
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361. PLEASURE:
The feeling of satisfaction or gratification, often suggesting an
excitement or exaltation of the senses of mind.
Example: A person feels pleased or happy while he is waking
at night. Generally, a person feels happy after enjoying a good sleep
but this person feels happy while awake despite any sickness.

362. POSITIVENESS:
The quality or state of being positive in all his affairs. A type
of dogmatic assertiveness.
(Also see Obstinate.)
Example: A person has got such a nature or attitude of mind
that he would like every result to be positive. Whatever action he
is taking or whatever he expects from others must be positive, he
cannot listen "no" whether he is right or wrong he wants 'yes".

363. POWER, love of:

Great desire and ability to compel obedience or control. Indicates possession

authority or substantial influence.

Example: A person is very much eager to command power.
He has the capability of influencing people to be their spokesman
or leader, yet he is unable to do so. Due to his love for power he
can manage to have false respect and regard and as such cannot
Implement it.

364. PRAYING:
Implies that the request is made to one in authority or power.
Making prayer or discourse.
Example:. A person is dejected in the affairs of his life, he may
be maintaining a bad health or difficult circumstances in the family
and he feels that there is no alternative for him and as such he
prays to God for his success or getting rid of the problem he is
facing. He devotes his maximum time in prayers.
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365. PRECOCITY:
Early development of the mental faculties, forwardness of the
brain. Attainment of maturity at an early age.
Example: A child of 10 years has got such a maturity of brain
that he talks like a very experienced person who has faced life for
many decades. Even matured persons may feel that this child is too
matured for talking like this.

366. PRE-OCCUPIED:
Lost in thought, engrossed, absorbed; already occupied
(mentally). By the look itself one seems to be mentally occupied.
(See Absent-Minded.)
Example: A person is so thoughtful that whenever somebody
wants to approach him he seems to be occupied in his thoughts
and it is felt that he should not be disturbed. Such a person is not
easily responding to the calls also.

367. PRESUMPTUOUS:
Assuming a prerogative, permission without warrant; taking
liberties; manifesting presumption; over-weening.
Example: A person while taking any action where somebody's permission is r

that he will definitely get his permission for this work even if it is
not possible to get such a permission; e.g. a contractor presumes
that whatever proportion of mixture he has adopted in completing
a building shall be approved by the engineers of the department
whose building they are constructing. Later on, if such a mixture
is not approved he may be in trouble but in future also he assumes
like this.

368. PRIDE:
The quality or state of being proud as inordinate self esteem;
an unreasonable conceit of superiority.
Example: A person is employed as a peon with an I.A.S.
officer but disregarding his position which has no powers but he
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assumes himself to be a very big boss. His poses may be a subject

of criticism by others that so and so thinks himself to be a first
class officer of the Government.

369. PROPHESYING:
To utter or pronounce by or as if by divine inspiration. To
speak for God or a deity. Predicting.
Example: A person has been sick for about a month. Although his sickness

curable but he feels that he is going to die very soon. He may put
forward his thoughts or calculations that by his divine power or
worship his time of death is fixed which he will declare.

370. PROSTRATION of mind:

Complete mental exhaustion. Collapse of mind. The condition
of being powerless in mind.
Example: A person, by profession, is a newspaper correspon-
dent and is writing reports about various affairs. A condition
develops that after writing a single report, he feels that he is
completely exhausted in his mind and cannot write any more.
Such a condition may persist afterwards also.
Note: There may be many other circumstances wherein a
person may have this type of mental exhaustion as given under
this rubric

371. PULL, desires to pull one's hair:

A mental condition or state in which one desires to draw out
one's hair.
Example: A person feels by his mental insticts that he wants
to pull one's hair although he may not do so practically. This con-
dition may not be associated with any annoyance but can be an
impulse of one's mind.

372. QUARRELSOME:
Apt or disposed to quarrel. Tendency to pick up quarrels.
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Example: A person is so quarrelsome that for petty matters
he may pick up quarrels with anybody.
Note: This may be in general as a tendency of a person or in
particular under various conditions given under this rubric.

373. QUESTIONS, speaks continually in:

A disposition of tendency to ask many questions even while
having plain talks which are full of questions despite being in the
form of a long speech.
Example: A person is so inquiisitive that he is always talking
in questions mostly with a negative approach. He talks like this -
"If I do not survive what will happen to this business; if nobody
takes up this business my whole labour of acquiring it will go
waste; if nobody comes forward to rescue who will save me; if
nobody bothers for the business the whole money in credit will be
lost and who is going to be responsible for all that?" etc. etc.

374. QUICK to act:

A great coordination of ideas and actions in the mind of a
person. Quick reactions to the whims and fancies coming into
one's mind.
(Also see Thoughts, rapid.)
Example: A person is having too many ideas in his mind but
generally everybody is not quick enough to implement upon the
ideas. This man is so quick that whatever idea comes to his mind
he will immediately take action to implement it.

375. QUIET disposition:

A tendency to remain calm and peaceful. Disinclined to feel
disturbed.
Example: A person has got a tendency to remain quiet. He
does not feel disturbed even if somebody tries to do so. Small
provocations have no meaning for him to feel disturbed. If a
physician examines him physically he feels disturbed which can be
judged from his face.
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Note: There may be various circumstances under which one

is quiet but 'wants to be quiet' or he feels better or worse while
being quiet according to the subrubrics given under this rubric can
be dealt with accordingly.

376. RAGE. fury:

To be furious; to become stirred up violently; be in tumult; to
move wildly or turbulently; to be intensive or overwhelming to
prevail uncontrollably; spread with destructive effect.
(Also see Insanity, Mania, Delirium.)
Example: A person is so furiously or violently excited in
anger that he seems to be insane or a maniac because a normal
person cannot be so violent in anger. His attitude under this
condition seems to be destructive which may cause any harm.
Note: The violence, if not in anger, may be viewed according
to the various modifications given under this rubric.

377. RASHNESS:
Characterised by or proceeding from lack of deliberation or
caution; actions done or expressed with undue haste or disregard
for consequences, imprudently involving or incurring risk.
Example: A person is so rash in his actions that without
caring for the consequences he goes on taking his actions in every
field of life e.g. if he drives a scooter he will not care whether he can
cross the bus or will meet with an accident; if he is writing an
article, he will not care whether it is going to exceed his limitations
under the prevalent laws during sickness will not allow any restric-
tions.

378. READING, averse to:

A settled and vehement desire not to read. A preverted feeling
ill the mind of a person forbidding him to read anything.
Example: A person is so much averse to reading anything
that he may accept any type of failure of criticism but he will not
read. Sometimes his juniors may get something signed by him
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which may be quite undue.

379. RECOGNISE, does not, his relatives:

Failure of memory to identify one's relatives. A mental condi-
tion or state when one ceases to identify his own relatives.
Example: A person had been sick for some time. After his
recovery from that sickness stops recognising his own relatives
which can be in few cases but such a condition mostly arises
during the course of a sickness when one ceases to recognise his
relatives as his mental condition has been either in a coma,
delirium or loss of senses.

380. REFUSES things asked for:

A mental condition or state when one rejects something when
offered although he himset desired it.
(See Capriciousness.)
Example: A child is weeping. When asked he wants to have
a chocolate but when the chocolate is offered to him, he throws it
away and does not wish to accept it.

381. REFUSES to take the medicine:

A mental condition when one becomes averse to taking
medicine.
Example: A person has been sick for a long time and has
consumed various types of drugs, after some time he becomes
frustrated or averse and feels there is no use of taking any medicine
as he is not getting well and as such he refuses to take any
medicine, he may also have a doubtful attitude towards medicine.

382. RELIGIOUS Affections:

Committed, dedicated or consecrated to the service of the
divine; set apart to religion.
(See also Anxiety, Despair, Fear, Moral feeling.)
Example: A person is so much committed or dedicated to his
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religion or his feelings that he will be guided in all matters of his

life according to the religion he is attached to and he will not try
to go an inch beyond the limits of his religion.
Note: Religion does not necessarily mean a Hindu, Muslim,
Sikh or Christian as religion but the feelings or sect with which one
is attached to.

383. REMORSE:
A gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past
wrongs. Repenting upon any past wrong.
Example: A person forgets to observe certain formalities
required to be observed as per social customs at a particular event
but as soon as he remembers that he forgot to observe some
formality he starts repenting for it as if he did a crime. It is his
general habit to be repenting on any such events.

384. REPROACHES, ailments after:

Ailments or sufferings arising from a feeling of disappointment and disappr

Example: A person had made a painting which was really

good but not approved by his colleagues. This was felt so much by
him that he had a great feeling of condemning himself because he
could not get the approval his colleagues despite his best performance he feels tha

385. REPULSIVE mood:

Tending to repel or reject, rcpellant to the mind; arousing
aversion or disgust.
Example: A person has got a tendency to reject anything irrespective o

preparing something for him.

386. RESENTMENT:
A feeling of indignant displeasure because of something re-
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garded as a wrong, insult or other injury. A sense of agitation in

the mind against some happening, cause or object.
Example: A person is in the habit of feeling too much
humiliated after attending some functions at the places of relatives
because people criticise him on this or that and this creates a sense
in him to have an indignant feeling of displeasure in his mind.

387. RESERVED:
Marked by a disposition to be restrained in words and actions.
Example: A person is so reserved in his nature that even if
many relatives are in the house, he will be busy in his own affairs.
If he is asked a question he will furnish a brief reply and whenever
he is required to write anything he will try to write the minimum
words.

388. RESOLUTE:
Having or characterised by a decided purpose. Determined.
Sticking to a purpose, action or decision.
(See Courageous.)
Example: A person is so determined in his mind that once
he takes a decision to do something, nothing is going to stop or
change his decision. He holds firm views on any aspect and is bold
enough to face any circumstances.

389. REST, cannot, when things are not in proper

order:
Rest means to feel a sense of essement in the mind; a relaxed
state but unrest and restlessness of things are not in proper order.
Example: A lady wants everything so perfect that the least
dirt, uncleanliness or things lying unarranged are intolerable to
her. She is so restless that she cannot tolerate a picture hanging
on the wall which is not in a proper position. Even if she is unable
to do something, she cannot have rest unless things are arranged
in a proper order.
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390. RESTLESSNESS, nervousness:

The state of being deprived of rest; finding no rest; uneasy;
unrest of mind. A feeling of inquietude in mind.
Example: A child is so restless that it cannot be peaceful
under any circumstances. If he is in the lap of his mother, he wants
to come down and from the floor he wants to go into the lap of the
mother; if he is laid in the bed, he starts going from one bed to
another.
Note: There are various modifications and conditions given
under this rubric which can be utilised according to suitable modifications.

391. REVEALS secrets:

Makes known secrets by self or under some super-natural or
inspired process. Making known the facts which are supposed to
be maintained as confidential.
Example: A person faces a condition of his mind that despite
being known to him that some facts are such that they should not
be brought to the notice of everybody, he brings out the secrets due
to some super-natural power or inspired process of his mind.

392. REVENGEFUL:
Full of or prone to revenge; desirous of vengeance. A tendency
to take revenge by harming somebody who has harmed earlier or
is suspected to have harmed in any way.
(See Malicious.)
Example: A child is of such a disposition that if he is harmed
by somebody or he suspects that he was harmed by so and so, he
will be on the look out to find an opportunity when he can harm
him so that he may complete his revenge.

393. REVERENCE for those around him:

Honour or respect felt or manifested upon those around him;
profound respect mingled with love and awe (as for a holy or
exalted being or place or thing).
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Example: A person has too much and heart-felt honour and

respect for everyone around him in the same way as everybody
respects a holy person, pilgrim place or sacred thing like Gita,
Ramayana, Quran, Granth Sahib, etc.
Note: Since too much attachment with this type of feelings
or behaviour is not generally expected of a normal human being,
this becomes relevant for consideration in homoeopathy.

394. REVERIES:
An extravagent or fanciful product of the mind; a theory or
notion marked by strangeness or impracticability; a purely visionary theoretical conc

(See Absorbed.)
Example: A person is lost in his fanciful thoughts and
strange theories which may be purely based on theoretical concept
like air castles. While in this condition, he looks to be mentally
occupied and does not easily respond to the call on attention.

395. RIDICULE, mania to:

An excessive tendency as in mania to make objects or matters
as a subject of laughter.
Example: A person is so funny that he will turn many things
into matters of laughter. He takes a vessel from the house and
starts using it as an instrument of music which becomes a matter
of laughter to all around him. This is used for teasing somebody
also.

396. RIDICULOUS actions:

Action unworthy of serious consideration; absurd, comical or
funny actions.
(See Gestures.)
Example: A person is in the habit of making funny motion
by any part of his body inviting the attention of others but without
having a very good and sensible aspect in it.
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Note: Gestures are Involuntary movement of the organs of a

person but the condition in this rubric is not such as the actions
presented may be deliberate yet this is to be considered In that very
rubric.

397. RIDING in a carriage, averse to:

A settled and vehement mental condition not to ride in a
carriage or vehicle of any kind.
Example: A person is so averse to ride in a carriage or vehicle
that he can prefer to travel on foot for miles together but despite
many advices to him, he would not like to travel by any type of
vehicle or carriage.

398. ROCKING amel:

Having a swaying, rolling or back and forth movement which
ameliorates.
Example: a child is weeping or whenever he is unhappy or
dull, he feels amelioration If somebody is rocking him.

399. ROLLING on the floor:

Rotating; moving from side to side or up and down on the
floor.
Example: a person is in such a mental state that very off and
on he is rolling on the floor for no valid or known reason. Even if
he is asked to explain the reason for it he is unable to furnish a
suitable reply.
Note: This may or may not be a deliberate action.

400. ROVING about naked:

An act or Instance of roaming in a lewd condition. Inclined to
travel or stray-naked; roaming about naked.
Example: A person is so averse to wear clothes that he starts
from his house in a naked condition without caring for anybody's
criticism or laughter.
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401. RUDENESS:
The quality or state of being rude. Rude implies general and
habitual deficiency in manners, grace or polish or coarse intensibility to another's feeli

(Also see Insolent.)

Example: A person is such by nature in behaviour and
manners that irrespective of any regard to his elders or youngers
he is talking very harshly with a maid servant. When he was
stopped by his uncle he started behaving rudely with him also.

402. RUNS about:

A condition or mental state when one desires to run away to
a definite place or tries to run here and there.
(Also see Escape, attempts to.)
Example: A person is in such a habit that he starts running
about here and there. Sometimes it also happens that without
having any sufficient reasons one is running about or wishing to
run about.

403. SADNESS, mental depression:

The quality or state of being sad; sorrowfulness, gloominess;
sadness is a general term usually without implications about
cause or intensity or unhappy feeling.
Example: A person who is generally talking and behaving
nicely becomes quiet and it can be very well read from his face that
there is some cause of his silence or mental depression. On asking
he may reveal the cause of his sadness.
Note: Sadness can be under various'circumstances of modifications as given u

404. SCOLDING:
To find fault usually noisily; use harsh language. Rebuke or
reprove with severity; censure severely or angrily.
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Scold suggests the censure of a disobedient child by a mother

or implies irritation or ill-temper.
Example: The mother of a chold admonished him for some
mistake but Instead of realising his mistake he was scolding his
mother as per his habit.

405. SCORN, ailments from:

Ailments arising from a feeling of scorn.
Scorn means an emotion involving both emotion and disgust;
passionate contempt; an expression of extreme contempt.
(Also see Contemptuous.)
Example: A servant was abused by his master, while doing
so, he abused his parents who are not alive now. The servant feels
it so emotionally and turns against his masters that without saying
something he wants to face them and during this period he becomes sick due to his a

say anything for fear of losing his service but has been suffering in
silence.

406. SCRATCHES with hands:

To scrape, rub, tear or mark the surface with hands.
Example: A person is generally found scratching with hands
the floor, bed or bed clothes, sometimes the walls for no purpose
but just as his mental instinct.

407. SCREAM:
To voice a sudden sharp loud cry, shriek, expressing anger,
terror, pain or sometimes histerical merriment.
(See Shrieking.)
Example: A child has been sleeping at night but suddenly he
starts screaming. On enquiry he says that somebody appeared
before him in a dream and was threatening to kill him and he
started screaming. This may be happening with the child very
often.
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408. SCRUPULOUS:
Characterised by having a moral integrity open to questions
on moral grounds. Excessively careful.
(See Conscientious.)
Example: A person is so vigilant and careful about his moral
integrity that he is always ready to face any type of open enquiries
or anything.

409. SEARCHING on floor:

To make a search for something on the floor as if lost which
may draw the attention of others also.
Example: A lady has been so doubtful in her mind that she
has seen some thieves or robbers in her house or she has seen in
a dream that robbers have entered her house. Now, until and
unless she makes a thorough search in the house, she cannot keep
quiet. She will be found making a search on the floor again and
again. Sometimes this condition may arise without any provocative
cause.

410. SECRETIVE:
Disposed to secrecy; given to concealment of one's activities
or purposes prefering privacy. A tendency to maintain privacy in all
affairs of life.
Example: A person is so secretive in his nature that whatever
he has faced in life or whatever events have taken place in his life
could not like to share them with anyone. Likewise, when he goes
to a physician he does not tell him about his previous, illness or the
real problems faced by her mentally.

411. SECRETS, divulges:

Revealing secrets. Making known the matters which are of
confidential nature and should have been maintained as secrets.
(See Reveals secrets.)
Example: A state of mind when one starts revealing the
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secrets about anything which should have been maintained as

confidential.

412. SELFISHNESS:
A concern for one's own welfare or advantage at the expense
of or in disregard of others.
Example: A child plays with the children of his own age
group. Generally, other children come to his house and play with
his toys. Now this child will allow other children to play with his
toys but will not allow any child to take away his toys anywhere
else.

413. SENSES, acute:

Acuteness of the faculty of receiving mental impressions
through the senses of the body. Acuteness of the power means the
sense of perception.
Example: A person's senses are so acute that by the smell
Itself he will be able to say as to what has been cooked in the house.
Similarly, there can be acuteness of the other sense organs also.
Note: The senses may be confused, dull or vanishing, which
may be studied under the sub-rubrics given thereunder.

414. SENSITIVE, oversensitive:

Having quick and acute sensibility either to action of external
objects or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly
susceptible. Easily and acutely affected.
(Also see Offended, easily.)
Example: A person is so sensitive that the most trifling
ailment will upset him and he will feel it to such an extent that it
cannot be tolerated. Another person is so sensitive that he cannot
tolerate the least noise.

415. SENTIMENTAL:
Having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging
in feeling to an unwarranted extent. Affectively or mawkishly
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emotional.
Example: A lady is so sentimental that the least talking or
discussion about her mother (who is no more) brings tears in her
eyes.

416. SERENE:
Calm, peacefulness. A mind at ease with itself and kindly
disposed towards everyone.
(See Tranquility.)
Example: A person is sick but he is lying so quietly and
peacefully that he does not seem to be sick. From his face readings,
he seems to be quite at peace although he might be suffering from
a serious problem.

417. SERIOUS:
Grave in disposition, appearance or manner. Not in gay,
happy mood.
(See Sadness, mental depression.)
Example: A person is so serious by the look itself that he
seems to be serious or sad. On asking him the reasons, etc., we
may prescribe for him a remedy according to the conditions or
modifications responsible for his seriousness.

418. SEXUAL excesses, mental symptoms from:

Mental symptoms arising after excessive indulgence in sex,
e.g., restlessness of mind, sadness, etc.
Example: A person had been indulging too much in sex. After
a few days, he was looking sad, when he was asked he confirmed
it but he had to be taken to a physician who diagnosed that this
condition has arisen from his too much indulgence in sex.

419. SHAMELESS:
Devoid of shame; insensible to disgrace, implies a lack of
modesty, decency, respect for others, etc.
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Example: A lady is generally in such a habit that she always

seems to be half naked or talks in a shameless manner which is
noticed by all but she does not pay any attention to her dress or
talks which can be a voluntary action by that lady.

420. SHINING objects agg.:

Objects having glittering or sparkling shine makes a person
restless or arousing any aggravation in a person.
Example: A person, by his nature, is so sensitive to see a
shining or sparkling object that he gets vertigo, headache or other
ailments.

421. SHRIEKING:
To utter a sharp shrill sound generally in pain, fear or dream.
Example: A lady comes to the clinic of a physician with her
child, saying that the child is frightened or that she does not know
what happens at night the child starts crying sharply. On asking
the child the reason is not very clear whether he is frightened in
a dream or what other reason causes him to shriek like that.

422. SHY:
Avoiding observation by others; a tendency to be elusive or
keeping away.
(See Timidity.)
Example: A man is so shy that he is unable to come even
before his relatives. Whenever somebody comes to his house, he
will try to avoid seeing them.

423. SIGHING: .
To let out slowly and audibly a deeply drawn breath especially
as the involuntary expression of weariness, objection, grief, regret,
longing, etc.
(Also see Respiration.)
Example: The condition of sighing generally appears with
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some type of ailment or trouble with a person and seldom without

any other accompanying problem. It may be during heat, menses,
perspiration, etc.

424. SILENT:
Making no utterence. A mental state of keeping quiet.
(See Talk, indisposed to, desires to be silent, taciturn.)
Example: Under certain conditions, modifications or without
a reason, a person is not inclined to talk or make any utterence.
In other words, desires to be silent.

425. SILLY:
Weak in intellect, destitude of ordinary strength of mind.
Lacking in manners due to undeveloped or damaged mind.
(See Foolish behaviour.)
Example: A person has invited some guests at his residence
for a dinner. His brother is a person who lacks very much in
manners as he is having a weak or undeveloped mind. He goes to
receive the guests at the door hearing a call bell but he says "Here
is no function." The first action is so usual that even a foolish
person can hear the call bell and takes action but the second action
needs intellect.

426. SINGING:
The act of producing sound in a poetic manner to please the
listeners. The art of singing.
Example: A person is excessively involved in the art of
singing. He may not care for the routine affairs of life to fulfil his
desire of singing. A person may be singing even during fever.

427. SIT, inclination to:

A mental condition or state when a person is always desirous
of sitting. Whenever or wherever he may be he would like to sit.
Example: A person goes in a queue for purchasing a railway
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ticket. There he wants to sit but cannot as there is no such

arrangement.

428. SITS quite stiff:

Sitting in a posture that gives to understand that the person
is sitting very attentively or in a tense mood.
Example: By virtue of the nature of a person It is observed
that a person always sits in a stiff position. If he goes to the doctor
there also he sits in the same pose. There may be other conditions
of sitting as given under this rubric.

429. SITTING, aversion to:

A firm and settled dislike for not to sit.
Example: A person goes to his relatives where they offer him
a chair as a mark of respect to sit down but he does not sit as per
his habit. If he goes to a physician, there also he can stand and wait
for long time but will not sit.

430. SIZE, incorrect judge of:

An incorrect assessment of the size of objects, gravity of
situation or problem.
Example: A person by nature is not having a correct assessment of the size

large or the table seems to be too small although not. Likewise, he

may not be able to assess a situation as to how grave it can be.

431. SLANDER, disposition to:

A false tale or report maliciously uttered orally, tending to
injure the reputation of another, and constituting a legal tort; a
malicious oral utterance of false fefamatory reports.
Example: A person has a tendency to formulate false stories
about anyone with a malafide intention to spoil somebody's reputation or image

others.
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432. SLOWNESS:
Not in readiness. The act of being slow. Inability to perform
any work or action with a fast or normal speed.
Example: A child when brought to be clinic of a physician is
observed that he is very slow. If he is asked to sit, he will take time
in sitting and when he is asked to stand up he will rise slowly.
When the parents are asked it is revealed that he could learn
talking by the age of 5 years and in studies also he is very slow.

433. SLUGGISHNESS:
Disinclination to activity; mental dullness. Incapability to do
something. A poor understanding.
(See Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and com-
prehending. )
Example: A person is so sluggish that whenever he is asked
to do anything, he would start slowly as if he is unable to do
something. The physician asks him to take the medicine thrice a
day, but he will forget and asks 3 to 4 times as to how he should
take the medicine.

434. SMALLER, things appear:

A mental state or phenomenon when a person could assess
things or objects smaller than they actually are.
(Also see Distance, Size, Delusions.)
Example: A person goes to purchase a scooter tyre. When he
is shown the required tyre he says this is too small although it is
the standard size for the scooter he wants. Likewise, other objects
also appear smaller to him.

435. SMILING, foolish:

To look smiling in a foolish manner. Insensible type of smiling
not appreciated by others.
Example: A person's style of smiling is such that on every
little matter he wants to smile but when he smiles it looks as if a
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silly person is smiling.

436. SNEERS at everyone:

The facial contortions that express scorn or contemptuous to
everyone.
(See Contemptuous.)
Example: A person is so habitual that whenever somebody
approaches him he will be looking with a contemptuous intention
as if having no regard or respect. The other person feels as if he is
sneering at him.

437. SOBBING:
To catch the breath audibly in a spasmodic contraction of the
throat resulting from an intense emotional excitement; to cry or
'weep with such covulsive catching of the breath. To make a sound
like that of a sob- the rapid painful regular intake of sobbing
breath.
(See Sighing, Weeping.)
Example: A child was admonished by his mother as he did
not complete the school work. Since this child is so sensitive that
on the least admonition he starts weeping and sobbing as his
general habit.

438. SOCIETY:
Companionship or association.
(See Company.)
Example: Some people are inclined or disinclined to have
companionship, i.e., attending the society or associations. Sometimes this type

circumstances and as such the various modifications under the

rubric: Company, aversion to or desire for, may be referred to.

439. SOLEMN:
Conforming to all legal requirements. A pronouncement about
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the sincerity.
(See Serious.)
Example: A person is so thorough in his behaviour and
dealings that he will agree to do something which is essentially
called for either legally or morally. He does not like to deviate from
the norms.

440. SOLITUDE:
The quality or state of being alone or remote from society. A
desire for loneliness.
(See Company, aversion to.)
Example: A young boy does not like to sit with his family
members most of the times and prefers solitude to indulge in his
fancy like a patient of lache*sis.

441. SOMNAMBULISM:
The action of walking or the performance of the other
smoother acts while asleep and especially when the actions are not
recalled after working. An action performed while asleep.
Example: A patient is brought to the clinic of a physician
when his relatives say that this boy gets up in sleep and starts
walking and it has been observed that he can go on walking like
this for miles together.

442. SORROWFUL:
Expressive of or inducing sorrow. Sadness.
(See Sadness, mental depression.)
Example: A person seems to be depressed as he lost his
friend in an accident before 2 days. His sorrowful attitude was
judged when he came to a physician for headache.

443. SPEECH:
The act of talking. The process by which a person Is speaking
or making any utterances.
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Various types of speech and its modifications have been used in

the sub-rubrics which may be used accordingly with careful observation.

(Also see speech in Mouth).

Example: A person's speech is babbling, i.e., speaks in such a
manner which appears to be meaningless and resembles the utterances of an u

444. SPITEFUL:
A petty annoyance. To treat maliciously. To fill with spite;
annoy, offend.
(See Malicious).
Example: A person's behaviour is such that while talking to or
meeting with somebody, he talks in such a manner that the other
person feels offended. Since most of the people know that this is the
normal manner of his behaviour, they do not complain.

445. SPITS in faces of people :

A tendency or Impulse that a person spits in faces of people.
Example: A person has a tendency that he will spit in faces of
people. This is generally not as a result of some annoyance but is his
involuntary action.

446. SPOKEN to, averse to being:

A mental state when one is averse to being spoken to, he desires
to be busy in his own thinking or working.
Example: A person goes on doing his work well but whenever
he is spoken to about his working or anything else, he feels disturbed
and offended. He asserts that he can work only if nobody speaks to
him.

447. SQUANDERS money:

A wasteful manner of spending money like uncalled for pur-
chases, etc.
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Example: A person is so extravagant In spending money that

he may make unnecessary or unwanted purchases or make worth-
less investment without having a care for anybody in the family.

448. STARTING, startled:

To run about widely. To awake suddenly from sleep, to excite or
rouse by sudden alarm, surprise, fear or shock.
Example : A person is so sensitive that he may feel frightened
to run away even from a touch by his colleagues.
Note: There are various conditions mentioned in the subrubrics which may

449. STORIES, exciting, agg. :

A feeling of intoleration or aggravation in the mind by hearing
any exciting stories.
(See Horrible things..)
Example: A person is suffering from headache and some
relations come there to console him or to enquire about his welfare.
They start talking to each other and mention about a story which had
some exciting senses. The patient felt much disturbed In his mind
by hearing that story and his headache Increased.

450. STRANGE things, impulse to do:

An impulse of the mind exciting or provoking a person to do
strange things.
Example: A person generally gets strange Impulses in his mind
like "I should cut this tree" or "I should measure this field", etc.

451. STRANGER, sensation as if one were a:

Feeling of oneself to be a stranger in his own house, between his
own colleagues or within his known field.
example : A person is sick for two or three days and gener-
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ally he is sleeping. Whenever he awakes he will ask where he is,
whose house it is, etc.

452. STRIKING:
To touch something with a speed and force like an accident
which may draw the attention of others nearby.
Example: A child feels uneasy in his mind and starts striking his head in the

like this whenever he feels like doing so.

453. STUBBORN:
Obstinate, who refuses or does not care to submit to the
lawful commands. One who is adament to his own thoughts or
actions.
(See Obstinate.)
A person is so stubborn from the beginning of his life that
whatever he wants to do he cannot be forbidden by any advice, law
or custom.

454. STUDY:
Acquiring of information or knowledge especially from books.
Making efforts or devotion of mind to have knowledge of a particular branch, etc

(See Work, mental.)

Example: Sometimes a person is having aversion to mental
work although his profession needs it. At other times, one may
have a desire or he thinks it is impossible to do any mental work.
Note: This is to be utilised only when a person voluntarily
makes a reference in this regard.

455. STUNNED:
To cause, to lose consciousness due to a sudden event or
news.
(See Stupefaction.)
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Example: A person gets a news that his father met with an

accident while coining back from his office. Hearing the news, he
became stunned.

456. STUPEFACTION:
The quality or state of being stupefied. To make mentally
stupid, dull or Insensible. To blunt or deaden the faculties of
perception and understanding.
Example: A lady comes to the clinic of a physician and
complains that whenever her menses appear, she becomes lifeless
and is unable to perform any job.
Note: There may be various conditions or circumstances
when one feels to be stupefied as given under the sub-rubrics.

457. STUPIDITY:
An unintelligent behaviour or action which can be easily
judged by somebody.
(See Dullness, sluggishness.)
Example: A person has been watering the plants and in the
meantime, some guests come to see his brother, the path was
narrow but that person did not stop the pipe in his hand which
resulted in wetting the clothes of the guest who called him a stupid.
Note: This type of persons are dull from the intellectual side
and they are not doing such acts deliberately

458. STUPOR:
A physical or mental condition characterized by great diminution or suspensi

state of apathy or torpor resulting often from stress, shock, fever

etc.
(See Unconsciousness.)
Example: A person has been suffering from fever for 3 days,
instead of getting some relief, he entered into a state of stupor - a
state where he could respond to some calls and again going back
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to the same state.

459. SUCCEEDS, never:

To succeed means to achieve some desired or expected result
or remuneration for which one has made the efforts.
Example: A person is very hard-working and devotes his
heart and soul but whenever he expects a result it is always in the
negative. Since he has met with many failures in life now he feels
that he will never succeed.

460. SUGGESTIONS, will not receive:

An aversion or vehement dislike to receive any suggestion
from anybody irrespective of rank or position.
Example: A person by his nature does not like to be interfered with in his worki

on his work, he would not like to have any suggestion from

anybody. If a person is in business and somebody suggests that his
business could be better if he had a computer but he asked him
as to who invited his suggestion.

461. SUICIDAL disposition:

Characterised by an impulse to commit suicide, destructive of
one's own interest and has a tendency to search for the ways and
means to end his life.
Example: A person is so much disturbed with himself that
he wants to put his life to an end. This may be due to some disease,
unfavourable circumstances, embarrassment, etc. He tries to
choose various manners to commit suicide as given in the sub-
rubrics.

462. SULKY:
Silent, inactive or unsociable from resentment or ill-temper.
Example: A person has a nature that he does not try to mix
up with the people or have any exchange of ideas. He remains in
his own world. If he goes somewhere, he will talk only to the extent
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his purpose is served. The persons knowing him call sulky.

463. SULLEN:
Ill-humouredly unsociable, gloomy, resentfully silent or repressed.

(See Morose.)
Example: A person looks sad, he is unsociable and from the
look itself he looks as if he has been offended by somebody. As a
result of resentment, he does not wish to talk or mix up with
anybody.

464. SUPERSTITIOUS:
Characterised by a manifestation of feelings in a human being
to believe in superstitions. A type of feelings with false beliefs in
unnatural things.
Example: A person goes to the physician for treatment of his
fever which he has been suffering for ten days. When he is given
the medicine it is in an envelope of blue colour. Seeing the envelope
the patient says that he cannot be cured now. The physician asked
him as to what happened. The patient says that blue colour is not
suitable to him; it has always been destructive for him. The
physician changed the envelope and changed the medicine also on
this basis. The patient was cured.

465. SURPRISES, pleasant, affections, after:

Prone to be affected by sudden pleasant news or events which
affect greatly on the emotional level of a person causing some
mental or physical ailment.
Example: A person gets a news that his brother has been
blessed with a son after 20 years of the marriage of that brother.
This pleasant surprise caused him a breakdown and he became
unconscious.

466. SUSPICIOUS:
Suspecting or inclined to suspect. Manifesting, expressing or
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indicative of suspicion. Having doubts in the integrity of a person

or in any event.
Example: A person is so suspicious in nature that he always
suspects the actions of other persons. Even if he is suffering from
some chronic ailment, he has various types of doubts about himself because if this i

they will have discussions about him.

467. SWEARING:
To solemnly declare or assert an oath for a doom of somebody.
Binding by a formal oath to the proper performance of a duty,
function or office especially in law.
(See Cursing.)
Example: A lady after having a heated exchange of talks with
another lady makes a solemn pronouncement with oath to inflict
a doom or misfortune on the other lady who was in confrontation
with her.

468. SYMPATHETIC:
Marked by kindly or pleased appreciation; given to marked by
or arising from sympathy, compassion, friendly fellow feeling and
sensitivity to others' emotions; favourably inclined. Showing
sympathy.
Example: A person was passing through a street where he
saw that a child is weeping bitterly. Seeing the cliild he stopped
and asked him the reason of his weeping. When the child told him
that he had no parents and he was hungry, he took him to a
restaurant and fed him to satiety and then arranged for his further
livelihood. It is revealed that this person's nature is as such.

469. TALK, desires to. to someone:

An intense desire or Inclination from the inner conscience of
a person to talk with someone to express his feelings for a self-
satisfaction.
Example: A person feels so much bored from his loneliness
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or finding nobody around to express his feelings.

The sub-rubric. i.e., Talk, indisposed to, desire to be silent,
taciturn, has many modifications to be applied as per the feelings
of a person. This is just the opposite of the main rubric, i.e., "no
inclination to talk, rather prefers to be silent" for reasons to be
understood from the modifications given thereunder.

470. TALKATIVE:
Readiness to engage in talks. A disposition to enjoy conversation to an unlimited

(See Loquacity.)
Example: A person is so talkative that once he is asked to say
something on any subject, he will start giving all the details of any
aspect of a matter without any break. The listener may become
bored from his excessive talking. It can be noticed in many patients
that once a question is asked he starts stories.

471. TALKING, complaints all agg.:

A feeling of aggravation in many ways while talking the least.
Example: Due to various problems a person becomes so
much incapacitated that he feels headache or many other complaints if he talks the leas

The various other modifications of talking under this rubric

may be understood according to the presentation by a patient or
his relatives.

472. TALKS to himself:

A conversation with oneself which in itself is a strange phenomenon but there ar

Example: A person is having such a state of mind that he is

observed to be talking with people who are no more in the world.
He feels that those persons are before him but in fact there is
nobody even around him.
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473. TEARS things:

A destructive tendency to destroy things by tearing them.
Example: A person is so violent in nature that he may not
only tear the clothes but may also try to tear his genitals, hair or
himself in his fit of violence.

474. THEORIZING:
To formulate a theory, form opinion or imagine just by talking and imagini

authority. Making air-castles.

(Also see Plans, making many.)
Example: A person is always having so many imaginations
and thoughts in his mind that he himself thinks that his thinking
is excessive. He makes many plans without any details, head or tail
of it despite his own business. His friends say that he is always
making castles in the air.

475. THINKING, aversion to:

A settled and vehement dislike or disgust to think on any
aspect.
Example: A person is so fed up and disgusted after having
too much of thinking about so many problems that now he has
decided not to think as he feels perturbed by the least thinking.

476. THOUGHTS of death:

The ideas or formulations taking place in the mind of a person
about death.
(Also see Death, desires.)
Example: A person feels so fed up or frustrated that he
always has ideas or thoughts of his death in one or the other way
but a natural death.
Note: There are many types and modifications of death
referred to under this rubric which may be studied and applied
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appropriately with their further modifications given thereunder.

477. THREATENING:
To utter threats against somebody; to promise punishment or
distress.
Example: A person has the disposition to utter threats even on
petty matters to everyone whosoever comes into conflict with him,
e.g., a boy was refused by his father to drive a scooter, the boy
threatened his father that he will destroy the scooter. This boy is
always giving such threats even on petty matters.

478. THROWS things away:

A tendency to throw things be it In anger or due to any other
reasons.
Example: A child has a tendency to throw things away mostly
without having a sufficient ground to do so. Sometimes he throws
things In anger. This Is so much that while seeking his treatment for
fever his mother makes a complaint to the physician about his habit
of throwing things away.

479. THUNDERSTORM before:

Feelings or sensations arising before there Is a sound of thun-
derstorm in the sky. Feelings developing prior to the thunderstorm.
Example: A person is having such a sensitivity that he will have
some sensation in his mind that a thunderstorm has to take place.
By virtue of that sense he is able to tell others that a thunderstorm
has to come.

480. TIME, fritters away his:

Wasting time without having any purpose or utilisation. Passing
away time in vain.
Example: A person is occupied in the business of making
furniture but for a few days he has a change. Of late he has developed
a tendency of wasting his time in unnecessary talks or in an
unproductive manner.
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481. TIMIDITY:
Lack of courage and venturesomeness and a tendency to the
safe, accustomed, unobstructive way. Keeping away for fear of
facing a person or situation.
Example: A child is very much sensitive in meeting strangers. Whenever a n

escape his notice and sometimes he will go and hide in the other
room.

482. TORMENTS everyone with his complaints:

To cause or inflict severe anguish, worry, vexation or pain on
everyone with one's complaints.
Example: A person is so distressing for everyone that whenever he is having

cry and will torment every servant or member of his family to do

something for him.

483. TORPOR:
A state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total
insensibility; suspended animation; sluggishness or stagnation of
function. Mental or spiritual sluggishness.
Example: A person was hospitalised for high fever before 15
days. By treatment his fever had subsided but the person remains
in a state of torpor, i.e., if he is asked a question sometimes he will
answer at the other he may remain quiet. He looks half-conscious
and remains with closed eyes.

484. TOUCH things, impelled to:

A mental impulse, urge, drive or force inciting one to touch
things; great desire to touch things.
Example: A child is brought to the clinic of a physician. By
the time his turn comes he has a round in the whole clinic and
looks everything with great desire to touch but is afraid of the
doctor.
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485. TOUCHED, aversion to being:

A vehement dislike for touch by anyone. An aggravation of
feelings by the mere touch by someone.
Example: A child is so cross and irritable that he remains in
the lap of the mother and if somebody touches him or tries to touch
he will start crying.

486. TRANQUILITY:
The quality or state of being tranquil, i.e., free from disturbance or turmoil. A sta

Example: A person is so fed up with his day to day affairs that

he feels much disturbed in his mind and desires to have a peaceful
and undisturbed rest, e.g., a nux-vomica patient desires repose
and tranquility.

487. TRAVEL, desire to:

A great desire to travel various cities and countries of the
world to have a knowledge of all parts of the globe. A feeling of
satisfaction by travelling.
(Also see Cosmopolitan.)
Example: A person is so much desirous of travelling that he
is always in readiness for travelling despite any adverse circumstances he may have to

488. TRIFLES seem Important:

A conscious feeling with great care to anything of very little
value to be regarded as very important. A great care for petty
things.
Example: A person while sick and in the bed is asked to take
some bread and butter but he says that due to fever he should not
take either of the things as they will not be suitable for him. When
he is asked to take milk, he says that this can also aggravate if it
is without a little tea, likewise, in every matter he will be careful in
petty affairs.
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489. UNATTRACTIVE, things seem:

A mental state of things looking unattractive, i.e., lacking in
beauty, interest or charm despite the fact that everything is normal and beautifu

Example: A person is generally having a feeling that nothing

is charming and attractive despite the fact that they are attractive
for others.

490. UNCONSCIOUSNESS:
Not knowing or perceiving, not aware. Free from self-awareness. A conditio

who is lying unconscious having no knowledge of the rest of the

world.
Example: A person meets with an accident on the road and
becomes unconscious. During this state of mind he knows noth-
ing or he cannot notice as to what is happening in the rest of the
world. There may be many other conditions under which a person
can be unconscious as given in the sub-rubrics.

491. UNDERTAKES, lacks will-power to undertake

anything:
Undertake means to take charge of or take in hand something,
to accept an assignment, job or work. Lacking courage or will
power to start a job.
Example: A person has lost confidence in himself. Now if any
work or job is entrusted to him he may accept it but he lacks willpower to start it

492. UNFEELING:
Devoid of kindness or sympathy. Hard-hearted; cruel. Lack of
humanitarian feeling.
(Also see Cruelty and Moral feeling, want of.)
Example: A person while going to the market for making
some purchases sees a road accident. Many people gathered there
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and picked up the injured person and requested this man who was
on a scooter to take the injured to the hospital but he refused to
take him.

493. UNFORTUNATE, feels:

Not favoured by fortune; devoid of having a blessing from God
or nature.
Example: A person has been facing many problems in his life
apart from some illness which he has been having for the last few
years. Since he does not get well he is having a continuous feeling
that he is very unfortunate.

494. UNFRIENDLY humor:

Not showing or marked by the disposition or attitude of one
that he is or wishes to be a friend; not friendly.
Example: A person goes to meet his friend with the hope that
he will help him in solving his problems but his friend's attitude/
humor was not favourable. On enquiry, it is revealed that he is
always like that.

495. UNOBSERVING:
Lack of observing power; failure to comply or to notice.
Example: A person is so weak in his power of observation
that whenever there is an occasion to take some action or something is to be watched h

496. UNREAL, everything seems:

Unreal means lacking in truth; failing to correspond to acknowledged facts, stan

Example: A person feels that whatever is visible to him or

whatever he feels is not real or according to the standards it should
have been e.g. he thinks the medicine given to him by the physician
is not a genuine one or the affection of his wife or children is only
an outward show only.
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497. UNSYMPATHETIC:
Unresponsive; not having a regard for what has been done for
him by others.
(Also see Indifference, apathy, etc.)
Example: A person has been given the best treatment by his
friends and neighbours but whenever an occasion comes for him
to do something for others he will keep quiet or show his inability
to do something. He avoids such occasions.

498. UNTRUTHFUL:
Inacurrate, dishonest. Tendency to be unfaithful and insincere.

Example: A person is so unreliable that whatever work is entrusted to him he

It something is enquired from him he cannot be relied upon as he

is always telling lies.

499. UNWORTHY, objects seem:

Unworthy means not meritorious, undeserving; unfit for a
particular requirement or occasion; not conforming to the standards.

Example: A person is of the disposition that whenever he is

required to select an object, e.g., purchase of a gift, he will not
approve the objects shown to him, although good, as he thinks
everything to be unworthy according to his angle.

500. VACILLATION:
Inability to take a stand; a wavering condition of the mind.
(See Mood.)
Example: A person's mental state remains wavering or
changeable. Whenever he is required to take a decision or select a
course of action, he will be placed in a wavering condition and his
decision shall be depending upon his mood at that particular
moment.
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501. VENERATION:
A feeling of respect mingled with awe excited by the dignity,
wisdom or superiority of a person by sacredness of character by
consecrated state or by hollowed association. The act of admiring
humbly and respectfully.
Example: A person has got an excessive respect for those
who are in high positions like the king, holy saints or other such
personalities. If any such personality is passing through any way
where he may be present he will show a great respect which others,
generally do not show to that extent.

502. VERSES, makes:

Makes metrical writing that is distinguished from poetry
especially by its level of intensity and its lack of essential convictions and commitme

Example: A person has been in the habit of presenting or

representing his thoughts and desires in a poetical manner. Such
a patient when comes to the physician will make his assertions in
verses.

503. VEXATION:
The quality or state of being vexed. Irritation; a cause of
trouble or disquiet mind.
(See Irritability and Anger.)
Example: A person very often gets offended for one or the
other reason due to the arousal of his emotional feelings but
whenever he is unable to come out of that situation he is either
angry or irritable.

504. VINDICTIVE:
Having a bitterly vengeful character with a desire to see
another person in a dull condition or a disposition to revenge
oneself for real or implacable malevolence, sometimes with spiteful malice.
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(See Malicious.)
Example: After having some differences a person's handsome
aquiline features were covulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred,
which had set his face in a terribly fiendish expression.

505. VIOLENT, vehement etc.:

Characterised by extreme force, marked by abnormally sudden
physical activity and intensity. Furious or vehement to the point of
being Improper, unjust, or illegal. Extremely excited.
(Also see Anger, Rage, Wildness).
Example; A child has been playing In his house, suddenly he hits
the ball which struck the window and the glass was broken. When his
father came to know of this he lost his temper in a violent way and beat
the child mercilessly as per his general habit.

506. VISIONS:
A feeling of having seen something which is not corroborated by
facts. A type of day-dreaming.
(See Delusions.)
Example: a patient tells his physician that whenever he goes to
sleep at night he sees some faces appearing before him but when he
calls somebody from the house to see them they are not visible.

507. VIVACIOUS:
Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long lived. Lively
In temper or conduct.
Example: A Person is found so enthusiastic about life that he
always remains in a happy mood and if he finds anybody in a
distressing condition he will console him that nothing wrong will
happen as he has also faced many difficulties in life and yet he is very
happy.

508. WAILING:
A usual prolonged cry or sound expressing grief or pain. A
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garrulous expression of grievance; complaining.

(See Lamenting.)
Example: A child has been reprimanded by his parents for
making a noise but when he did not stop his father slapped him then
he started walling in a complaining manner as if he has been beaten
wrongly.

509. WALKING rapidly from anxiety:

A condition of turmoil in the mind compelling one to walk
rapidly; walking to and fro rapidly in a condition of anticipating some
coming serious problem or condition.
Example: A person while anticipating some result or
outcome of something is so restless in his mind that till he gets
a result known or gets the Information he continues walking
rapidly from one place to another.

510. WANDER, desires to:

A condition or state wherein a person is too much desirous of
wandering whether there is a purpose or not but he is in the habit
of wandering. In case he does not get opportunities for it he will try
to create occasions so that he can go somewhere.

511. WANTS something he knows not what:

An Irritable or capricious condition of the mind wherein a person
desires something but he himself is not aware as to what can remove
his restlessness and he may be satisfied.
(See Capriciousness).
Example: A student is preparing for his examinations and is
sitting for studies but suddenly he feels that he wants something but
he is asking himself as to what he wants. He is unable to express his
desire as he himself is not aware of his own desire.

512. WASHING always her hands:

A constant feeling that her hands are dirty and as such she Is
washing the hands frequently. Despite washing the hands many
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times she is not satisfied and will wash again and again.
Example: This condition has been observed mostly in the
syphilitic patients that they want the maximum cleanliness and as
such they feel that their hands are dirty. They may also have a
feeling that everything is dirty they will clean those things also e.g.
floor, taps etc.

513. WEAKNESS:
A frequent feeling of the weakness of the mind. Feeling of
dullness, inability to think and decide something and not able to
concentrate on the ideas properly.
(See Prostration of mind.)
Example: A person feels that he is not able to perform that
mental work which he used to do earlier as he feels tired and wants
to stop his work despite having a desire to do enough work.

514. WEARISOME:
Feeling weariness; tiresome; to become exhausted in pa-
tience, tolerance or liking. To wait wearily; long or pine in expec-
tation. To become monotonous or boring. To reduce or exhaust the
physical strength or endurance of. To make mentally or spiritually
weary.
Example: A person is so wearisome that in least tense
circumstances he will lose patience or will become intolerant of
adverse circumstances. He loses strength easily.

515. WEARY of life:

Mentally or spiritually fed up with one's own life. No desire to
survive as life is felt a burden. Life seems to be charmless.
(See Ennui, Loathing, Life.)
Example: A person has suffered many setbacks in his life like
losing his son and wife besides loss in his business and has lost
any charm in his life. He says, "I have no love for life". Another
person may be fed up with his illness and may lose interest in life.
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516. WEEPING, tearful mood. etc.:

An easy arousal of sentimentsand shedding tears. The least
provocation touching the emotional level brings on tears in the
eyes or the mood becomes tearful.
Example: A lady is normally working and attending to her
usual household work but as soon as another lady comes and asks
her as to what had happened to her father who passed away before
one month she starts telling the story and at the same time there
were tears in her eyes.
Note; There may be various conditions or modifications when
a person starts weeping as given in the sub-rubrics.

517. WELL. says he is. when very sick:

Declaring oneself to be well or quite fit despite too much of
pain, trouble or sickness.
Example: A person is very sick with serious pathology for the
last two weeks and is lying in the bed with various inconveniences
but whenever a relative or somebody comes and asks as to how he
is? He says, "Well".

518. WHIMSICAL:
Full of, actuated by or exhibiting whims; capricious, notional
or fanciful. Notions which indicate that reason is out of touch with
the real subject. An erratic behaviour or unpredictable changes.
(See Mood.)
Example: A person is so whimsical that whatever ideas or
thoughts he has in his mind based on his own thinking he will not
listen to anyone and will not budge an inch from his thoughts.

519. WHINING:
To utter a complaint or lament with or as if with a whine. A
prolonged high pitched cry usually expressive of distress or pain.
(See Moaning.)
Example: A person Is having one or the other complaint in
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his mind for which he is speaking In a prolonged high pitched

crying manner as if in great distress. His speech is not understand-
able.

520. WHISTLING:
An act of or instance of emitting whistles. A disposition to
produce sounds like whistling.
Example: A boy is having a character to produce whistling
sounds and whenever he is out of the house he may call his friends
through his whistling sounds. He Is very popularly known to all his
relatives etc. for this whistling.

521. WICKED disposition:

Evil character, behaviour, tendency or influence; being or acting
contrary to moral or divine law. Sinful. Having bad disposition.
Example: A person has got such a character that he is always
playing with some nonsense tricks, creating nuisance for others or
doing this or that wrong.

522. WILD feeling in head:

A turmoil, heat or wild type of Impulses rendering a person not
amenable to human habitation.
Example: A person is having some wild type of feeling in him
head which makes him a subject for the talk of the people although
he does not wish to be like that. If he is asked he would answer that
he had no control over this condition.

523. WILDNESS:
The quality or state of being wild. Wildness In character,
manifestation or actions.
Example: A person is so wild from his nature that anything
which is contrary to his liking he becomes wild and in that wildness
his actions are also of the same type, e.g., a dog entered his house
whom he could not tolerate and beat him to death.
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524. WILL, contradiction of:

A lack of co-ordination in the desires and execution of those
desires by the body parts.
Example: A person desires to say something to his son but
his tongue is not working and he becomes unable to say whatever
he wanted to say, sometimes he wants to go to meet his friends but
he is unable to move as his legs are not working.

525 WITTY:
Skilfully contrived for an evil purpose, ingeniously and cranningly devised. Sm

Example: A person is so cunning that he is always on the

look for one or the other mischief by which he can serve his
personal benefit or purpose.

526. WOMEN, aversion to:

A settled and vehement dislike for women.
Example: A person is so averse to women that he does not
like even to talk to women. He did not marry due to this aversion
and is determined not to have any dialoues about women.

527. WORK, aversion to mental:

A settled dislike or distaste for any sort of mental work.
Aversion to any work involving reading, writing or where any
thinking is required.
Example: A person has been engaged in a profession which
involved a lot of mental work which he had been doing nicely but
lately he has developed a tendency not to attend to any work
Involving application of the mind.
Note: There may be other conditions pertaining to mental
work which may be studied under the sub-rubrics under this
rubric.
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528. WRITING, aversion to:

A settled dislike for doing any writing work.
Example: A person has many ideas in his mind which can
yield very good results if implemented and he is having an inclina-
tion also to write his thoughts but whenever he tries to write
anything his mind is diverted in such a way that it becomes
difficult for him to write.

529. WRONG, everything seems:

A false sort of feeling wherein the mind of a person declares
everything wrong or it appears wrong to him.
Example: A person is having this peculiar tendency that he
thinks whatever has been presented before him is wrong. Even the
natural things which have been created by nature seem wrong to
him and he argues that God has committed a mistake in making
such things.
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List of cases which did not respond to the treatment given o

cured on the basis of mental symptoms.

1. Lady aged 20 years, unmarried, had diarrhoea; could not

digest milk; heavy food aggravates; flatulence; desires more salt.

The case was started with sulphur 200. There was no response. When she was qu

gets loose motions whenever she has to go out of the house. She
was prescribed argentum nitricum. She was cured. Later on, it was
observed that for any other ailment she did not respond to any
other remedy except argentum nitricum. Whether it was fever, or
anything else, she responded promptly to the same remedy.

2. Lady aged 35 years, married. Had itching all over the

body. She used to feel heated and yet she was bathing with warm
water even in summer when the temperature was 42°C. On questioning, she revealed

gone out, whom she loved very much. Her nature was secretive.
She was prescribed Ignatia 1m, 3 doese every 10 minutes, followed
by placebo for one month. The assumption in this case was silent
grief. She was cured.

3. Lady, aged 37 years, married. Used to have diarrhoea

while going out of the house for any purpose. She did not respond
to argentum nitricum or gelsemium. Then her following symptoms
were analysed.
(a) Anticipation, complaints from.
(b) Desire for sweets.
(c) Desire for warm food and drinks.

She was prescribed lycopodium in various potencies at intervals and was cured.

4. Mr S aged 45 years. Having a problem of sinusitis and

various other complaints. Did not respond to any treatment. After
having five or six meetings, when it was revealed that he becomes
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excited when hungry and could not wait when hungry, he was
given kali carb 30, later 200. He was cured of all his complaints.

5. Mr B aged 60 years. Had been suffering from burning in

chest left side, worse from eating, respiration difficult, one year,
cannot tolerate fat food, likes to take more salt. In this case, the
most peculiar symptom which was observed was that he had
complaints from anticipating events. He always liked to reach early
whenever there is any fixed time of arrival. He is always in a hurry.
He was prescribed argentum nitricum followed by placebo for 3
months and was cured.
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HUMAN MIND, PSYCHOLOGY AND

HOMOEOPATHY

Most of the homoeopaths consider the symptoms of the

human mind to be the most important ones while treating any
case. The background for this importance starts right from the
master, i.e. Samuel Hahnemann who introduced Homoeopathy. He
says that the symptoms of the mind are most important in any
given totality of a person. Dr. Kent, who has elaborated the Organon
to a greater extent being a staunch follower of Dr Hahnemann, has
gone to the extent of calling the human body to be a government.
He has stated that the human mind is the Central Government
which is situated in the triad of a person, i.e., the cerebrum,
cerebellum, spinal chord, and the limbs and other parts of the
human body are the States. There is a quick communication
between the human mind and the body through the nerve fibres.
For example, whenever we hear a call bell in our house, we hear
the sound through our ears and our brain advises us to go and
attend to the caller. This proves that our senses are the tools with
which our mind works.

It is however, worth mentioning that the symptoms of the

mind are not useful in every case of sickness. These symptoms are
important only if a person is suffering from some physical ailments.
In case a person is suffering in his mind itself, i.e., a case of
insanity, imbecility, etc., the symptoms of the mind will lose all
their importance, the reason being that during physical sickness,
the symptoms of the mind become uncommon and they denote the
individuality of that person. On the other hand, during mental
sickness, the symptoms of the mind remain common to the disease
and, therefore, they lose their Importance. In such cases, physical
symptoms or general symptoms have to be taken into consideration and then only

for the purpose of homoeopathic prescription.

Despite all the importance expressed for the symptoms of the

mind we still lack proper education in this field. Although the
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Centred Council of Homoeopathy has included psychology as a

subject in the syllabus for the students of homoeopathy, still it is
being taught only in one college of India. It is very essential that
all the colleges of the country should be pressed to implement it
as early as possible. However, mere introduction of psychology in
the homoeopathic colleges will not serve the requirements, real
purpose, as we need psychology in our education according to our
needs, i.e., it should be related to the symptoms of the human
mind.

Till date, the most authentic homoeopathic repertory is the

Kent's 'Repertory' although it has been very old, i.e., more than 70
years. We have not been able to find out a better replacement of this
repertory during such a long time. In this repertory, the first
chapter is Mind. This chapter contains 529 rubrics with many sub-
rubrics and modifications. Many rubrics have been shown in this
repertory just to present before a homoeopath different shades of
versions expressed by patients. Out of the 529 rubrics, there are
about 178 rubrics against which no remedy has been shown. That
means they are there just to refer to a corresponding rubric which
may explain the exact shade and remedies. For example, the first
rubric in this chapter: "Abandoned", against which has been
indicated: See 'forsaken feeling'. That means to find out any remedy
for a person feeling abandoned, the rubric: 'forsaken feeling', will
have to be consulted. There are other rubrics, namely Isolation,
sensation of: Loneliness: Deserted — all these rubrics refer us to
the forsaken feeling. What we need is that our educational parts
should contain study of psychology on the basis of these rubrics
plus any other ones which may have been given in other repertories, so that it ca

It is also an anomaly for the homoeopathic students or physicians that they do

rubrics of the Mind chapter of Kent's Repertory in the absence of

these explanations, unless somebody is well conversant with such
rubrics, their application becomes very difficult. So much so that
a homoeopathic physician even if he is given a symptom of the
mind by a patient, is unable to perceive the case because of his lack
of knowledge in this field. He ignores such symptoms unintention-
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ally and the case may be a failure. Homoeopathic profession is yet

to find a publication which may explain all these rubrics so that
this chapter of the Kent's 'Repertory' can be correctly utilised.

— Dr. M L Agrawal
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HOMOEOPATHY TREATS THE

INDIVIDUAL AND NOT THE DISEASE
It is a strange phenomenon of our people that they have a
curiosity to know the disease a person is suffering from. Even if
they know the name of the disease, it is not understood, in what
way it is going to help them, except that they can disclose it to
relatives and friends. The solution of the problem or cure of the
disease is really far.
Generally, people have a false belief that if the diognosis is
correct or known, the treatment is easy, but this is not a fact. I can
cite many examples of diagnosed diseases and the treatment by the
old school.
1. If a person is suffering from gangrene in the foot, ampu-
tation of the leg Is advised. Yet, it cannot ensure complete
cure. For the person may again have it in the upper parts.
2. If a person is suffering from diabetes, he will have to
continue the treatment throughout his life, with the dis-
ease continuing in the body.
3. If a person is suffering from asthma, bronchitis or alike
diseases, he will suffer from it throughout his life without
cure.
4. If a person is having a renal calculi, he can be operated
upon and the stone removed. But chances are that he may
have a renal calculi after a few years.
5. If a person is suffering from psoriasis, eczema or the like
diseases, either they will continue or they may be sup-
pressed by strong antibiotics, etc., without a fear that they
may cause further complications which may be more
troublesome to the human being.
Well, the above diseases may be serious ones, for which our
modem medical science may no); have a cure, but I can cite the
most ordinary diseases like cold, fever, cough, pneumonia, typhoid, jaundice a

the cases are not cured, because the factors responsible for such
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ailments are not at all considered. Doctors practising modern

medical science deal with the disease direct and administer the
same drug to all the patients suffering from the same disease, let
their other modalities differ from patient to patient. Whenever such
cases or any other fresh cases are dealt with in homoeopathy and
if we also follow the same practice of administering drugs according
to the disease, diagnosis or pathological findings, we, homoeopa-
ths, have to meet with failures. Any efforts in this direction will not
have a success, except some amelioration for a short period or a
suppression.
In the chapter of Pulsatilla at page 26 of the book entitled
"Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics" by Dr. Nash, it has been
mentioned that a homoeopathic physician in New York was asked
to name the disease of a case of so-called phthisis pulmonalis. The
reply of the physician was "stannum". He said it was a name of the
remedy and not of a disease which cured the patient. Thus the
question of diagnosis or disease is not for an active consideration
by a homoeopath.
Indeed, homoeopathy does not deal with the disease direct; it
deals with the individual as a whole being, i.e., personal and char-
acteristic symptoms. It has been observed on many occasions that
the symptoms of the individual do not tally with the disease the
patient is suffering from whether it is a diagnosed disease or it is
an undiagnosed one. With this statement one can say that a ho-
moeopath need not have any knowledge of the disease; its symp-
toms and character. It is not so. Complete knowledge of the disease
nevertheless, is necessary, says Dr. Kent, to bifurcate the disease
symptoms and the individual features. Dr. Kent simultaneously
advises that symptoms of the individual should be considered
for a prescription, and not of the disease. I have a number of
examples where this key feature of homoeopathy has been verified
in practice.
1. Once a patient had pain in his abdomen on the left side,
particularly spleen region. This patient had been taking
treatment from the old school for two years with no relief.
When I examined the case, I found his individual symptoms that he always

always aggravated him. He had a history of alcoholism. On

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repertorising the above symptoms, the remedy worked out

was lycopodium. However, on verification from Kent's
Repertory, lycopodium was not found in pain spleen
region. Since the symptoms of the individual, and not the
disease symptoms, were relied upon, he was cured with
lycopodium.
2. In a case of Burger's disease, according to the symptoms
of the individual, he had aggravation from heavy food, desired more sa

According to these symptoms, the remedy worked out was

sulphur. But it did not work at all. The eruptions he had
were looking very much shining. There was a transparent
type of shining and as such it was considered, on the basis
of experience, that the patient needs asafoetlda. This
remedy cleared the obstructions and the patient started
responding quickly. Later on, the eruptions did not subside completel

persisting. He was again prescribed sulphur, which cured

the patient.
3. A woman aged 42 years had been suffering from diabetes.
Her blood sugar was 432 (PP). while narrating her symptoms, she state

whole day, she desires to do many things, but again and

again she feels drowsy. She was prescribed mux-moschata 30. The pat

tested and it was found normal after about two months.

4. Another case of diabetes. A man aged 57 years had diabe-
tes. His blood sugar was 242 (PP). He used to feel too much
thirst with dryness of mucus membranes, and thirst for
large quantities of water at long intervals. He was pre-
scribed Bry. 30. He had a little response. Thereafter, the
potency was gradually raised to 200, and then to 1M, in
a course of about three months. His blood sugar became
normal. He was getting placebo which was also stopped
and every month, blood sugar was tested for four months.
It remained normal without any further medication.
All the above cases were dealt with on the basis of purely
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Hahnemannian method, i.e., a single dose, followed by placebo.

Many more such cases can be cited wherein experience proved that
the individual symptoms are supreme so far as homoeopathy is
concerned, be it for any disease, small or big.

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of an individual
Consult

MATERIA MEDICA OF
THE HUMAN MIND
by Dr. M.L. Agrawal.

Comments of some of the eminent homoeopaths:

"This compilation gives us, at a glance, the mentals of a drug all
of which cannot be located in one single source."
— Dr. Jugal Kishore,

"The ... compilation will be of inestimable value to those

practitioners who like to work out their cases primarily or
entirely on the basis of mental symptoms."
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