Many folks suffering from anxiety/fear in these uncertain times. Here are 4 well known homeopathic medicines addressing this issue. You will notice that there are repeat symptoms throughout these provings. To avoid confusion as to what medicine may be most suited for any individual please consult a homeopathic materia medica to study additional symptoms to clarify the case.
Aconite napellus: Great fear, anxiety and worry accompany every ailment, however trivial. Fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street. Forebodings and fears. Fears death but believes that he will soon die, predicts the day. Delirium is characterized by unhappiness, worry, fear, raving, rarely unconsciousness. Lotus Materia Medica: Robin Murphy, ND
Desktop Guide To Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms: Roger Morrison, M.D.
Tremendous fear of death.
Fears death is imminent. Predicts or has a fixed idea of some specific time when death will come.
Fears: Claustrophobia. Fear of being in crowd or crowded room. Earthquakes. Agoraphobia. Airplanes, Bad news. Ghosts. Heart disease.
Panic disorder with recurring episodes of tremendous fear of death, convinced that death is upon him, face full of terror, strong or even violent palpitations, marked flushing, and shortness of breath.
Anxiety states following a strong fright such as a car accident or earthquake, etc.
Restlessness.
Panic symptoms come in evening and also just after falling asleep. Wakes 1 to 2 hours after sleep with fright, beginning after a shock.
Fear during labor, fears she will die.
Anxiety for others.
Desires company.
Frantic with pains, feels urgent need of relief.
Arsenicum album: Children are capricious, want to be carried, want to go from father to mother to nurse. Fastidious, upset about disorder, dirt, germs. Oversensitive. Fault finding. Irritable. Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage. Melancholy. Suspicious. Groans, moans and weeps during menses.
Extremely nervous, restlessness. Despair of recovery. Thinks useless to take medicine. Fear of death and disease, yet tired of living, worse night. Fear of starvation, of financial loss. Fear of being left alone. Great fear with cold sweat. Changes place continually.
Delirium tremens, cursing and raving, vicious. Suicidal impulses, mania. Fixed ideas, hallucinations of smell and sight. Sees vermin, throws away bugs by handfuls. Imagines house full of thieves, jumps and hides. Hasty. Sees ghosts day and night. Self-torture, pulls her hair, bites her nails, tears her own body. Lotus Materia Medica: Robin Murphy, ND
Desktop Guide To Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms: Roger Morrison, M.D.
Anxious, proper, tense and worried patients.
Tremendous anxiety, often with great restlessness.
Panic attack, especially after midnight, or from 12 to 2 AM.
Anxiety about health.
Great restlessness, pacing or fidgetiness.
Constantly calls the doctor and is reassured only with difficulty.
Despair of recovery.
Fear of death.
Fear of disease: Cancer, Heart disease. Multiple sclerosis. Germs.
Fears: Robbers. Poverty. Evil. Vomiting. Insanity. Agoraphobia.
Fear when alone, desire for company.
Anxiety for the well-being of family members or close friends who provide the security base.
Selfishness. Extreme stinginess. Saves everything.
Fastidious.
Perfectionist.
Compulsive disorders.
Desire to remain in control as all times. Careful planning.
Depression, even to the point of suicide.
Suicidal impulse, often has the fantasy of hurting himself with a knife (to slash himself). Fear of committing suicide.
Impulse to kill. Fear of killing someone.
Compulsive hand-washing. Ritualistic behavior.
Anorexia Nervose.
Phosphorus: Anxious, fears being alone at twilight, of ghosts, about future, of thunderstorms. Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner. Quickly prostrated by unpleasant impressions. Timid and irresolute. Amorous, will uncover his body and expose his genitals. Excitable, impressionable. Melancholy, disinclined to work, study, converse. Weary of life. Apathy, indifference even towards her own children.
Insanity with exaggerated idea of one’s own importance. Clairvoyant. Weeps before menses. Wants sympathy.
Anxious, restlessness, patient cannot sit or stand still for a moment especially in dark or twilight. Great tendency to start. Over-sensitive to external impressions. Loss of memory. Paralysis of the insane. Ecstasy. Dread of death when alone. Brain feels tired. Restless, fidgety. Lotus Materia Medica: Robin Murphy, ND
Desktop Guide To Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms: Roger Morrison, M.D.
Open, bright, excitable, suggestible, anxious patients.
Anxiety when alone; ameliorated in company. Even the radio provides company.
Fears: Alone, Death, Dark. Thunderstorms. Something bad will happen. Diseases. Future. For others. Ghosts. Insanity. Robbers. Insects. Water. Earthquakes. Any fear.
Sympathetic.
Dependent on the physician. Easily reassured.
Gullible.
Clairvoyant. Out of the body experience.
Startles easily.
Mentally distractible and spacey.
Slow, apathetic, dull-minded state (late stage).
Unable to exert the mind.
Answers slowly.
Calcarea carbonica: Overwhelmed mental and physical state due to overwork and worry. Rumination and worrying. Overworked and exhausted. Sits and thinks about little affairs, that amount to nothing. Worries about all their responsibilities and duties. Averse to work or exertion. Inability to apply himself. Learns poorly. Low-spirited. Apathetic. Apprehensive, word towards evening. Depressed. Melancholic or doubting moods. Hopeless of ever getting well.
Forgetful, confused, misplaces words and expresses himself wrongly. Fears of being observed. Easily frightened or offended. Cautious. Fears loss of reason. Fears of misery, disaster, insanity. Fear excited by reports of cruelties. Fear of misfortune, contagious diseases.
Anxiety with palpations. Desire to weep, to go home. Suspicious. Sits and breaks sticks, etc. all day long.
Children are self willed. Child is afraid of everything it sees. Nightmares and poor sleep. Imagines someone in their reel. Fear of monsters. Obstinate. Irritable, cries about trifles, borrows trouble. Visions of fire, murder, rats and mice in delirium. Feels as if she would run up and down and scream. Lotus Materia Medica: Robin Murphy, ND
Desktop Guide To Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms: Roger Morrison, M.D.
Over-worked, over-burdened, overwhelmed patients.
Strong sense of duty and responsibility.
Works to exhaustion then must give up his job all together.
Preoccupation with metaphysical concerns, such as life after death, reincarnation, etc.
Fears: Heights. Mice or rats. Insanity. Insects and spiders. Dogs. Dark. Diseases. Claustrophobia. Cancer. Infections. Tuberculosis. Earthquakes. Storms. Poverty. Accidents.
Anxiety about health.
Despair of recovery.
Feels that his mind is weak or that he may go insane, and that others can perceive this confusion.
Obstinate.
Aversion to hearing bad news, such as when hearing of crimes or accidents on the news or in the paper.
Vision of terrible faces on closing the eyes or even as soon as he lies down at night.
Nightmares or night terrors at any age.