Gelsemium Sempervirens - Mental (inc. personality) symptoms - Reversed & reworded Kent repertory

MIND

Mind

Aversions, dislikes

company

company; avoids the sight of people

averse to being disturbed

indolence, aversion to work; afternoon

thinking

aversion to mental work

to being spoken to

Behaviour

clinging to persons or furniture

jumping; impulse to jump from height

jumping; from window (see suicide)

shrieking

during a thunder storm

on waking

singing

sits quite stiff; still

Dazed

during vertigo, dizziness

Delirium

talks a lot

muttering

comes on suddenly

during sleep

on falling asleep

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

about self; identity; errors of personal identity; thinks is some one else

visions or presence of phantoms, figures, people; frightful

desire for open air

Desires, wants

company

desire for light (see dark)

desire for mental work

Symptoms follow intense emotions

anger

anticipation

bad news

fright

ailments from grief

cannot cry

Excitement

when anticipating events

after bad news

ailments from emotional excitement

after hearing horrible things

Mental exertion

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome)

cheerful, happy

alternating with other states of mind; sadness

followed by other states of mind; melancholy

cowardice

ecstatic; exhilaration

can recall things long forgotten

impatience

impetuous; heedless

indifference, apathy, etc.

irritability

during chill

when spoken to

mirth, hilarity, liveliness, etc.

mood; changeable, variable mood

quiet disposition

sensitive, oversensitive

horrible things, sad stories, affect her profoundly

to noise

to noise; during chill

unhappy; wants to injure self; suicidal disposition

throwing himself from a height

throwing himself from a height; from windows

unhappy; lamenting, regretting; moaning, groaning

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

from masturbation

cannot weep

vivacious

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting)

High places

Hysteria

Intellectual faculties

bright, intelligent, clear; abundant ideas, clearness of mind

impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating

alternating with uterine pains

on attempting to concentrate, it becomes dark before the eyes; has a vacant feeling

impaired thinking; confusion

on attempting to concentrate

from mental exertion

after smoking

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

strong flow of urine

unable to think for long

impaired thinking; vanishing of thoughts

on mental exertion

impaired thinking; weakness of mind

ideas; abundant ideas, clearness of mind

Insanity

mania, madness; from drinking (delirium tremors)

comes on suddenly

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

anxiety; night; before midnight

anxiety; anticipating an engagement

anxiety; in children

anxiety; during chill

anxiety; after a fright

anxiety; about future

anxiety; from movement; downward

anxiety; during a thunder storm

anxiety; if a time is set

lacking self confidence

fear

of being alone (see company)

when ready to go to church or opera

of public places

of death

of downward movement

of falling

something will happen

that heart will cease to beat unless constantly on the move

of insanity

losing self-control

before sleep

of thunderstorm

of water

timidity

appearing in public

Memory

active memory

forgetful

weakness of memory

for mental labour (compare daze)

for mental labour (compare daze); from fatigue

Perception; numbness

Preoccupied; brooding (see anxiety, sadness)

Quiet, peace (or lack of); quiet disposition

during heat

wants to be quiet

Restlessness, nervousness

morning

night

during heat

during period

during storm

Talking, conversation

answers abruptly, shortly, curtly

answers not lucid; monosyllable

dislike of talking, desire to be silent, taciturn

speech; confused

speech; incoherent

night

during sleep

as if intoxicated

talkative

Thinking of complaints

Unconsciousness

cannot open eyes

Work; impossible to work