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Falling Asleep – Sleep – Chapter 37 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

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CHAPTER 37.
SLEEP.

Awaking
* Dreams * Drowsiness
* Sleep * Falling
Asleep * During
Sleep
* After Sleep * Sleeplessness
* Yawning

Falling Asleep.


Falling asleep :-

Aggravation :-

Cham.

Air, feels as if in
air, quick drawing toward feet awakens him :-

Tell.

Breathing :-

Awakes choking :-

Spong.

Choking in
throat-pit :-

Valer.

Breath, loss of :-

Op.

Breath, loses, awakens
to get breath :-

Am-c.

Fear, on account of
loss of breath, which awakens him :-

GRIN.

Respiratory movement
ceases, and is not resumed until till awakened by
suffocation :-

GRIN.

Smothering :-

Arum-t.

Stops :-

LACH.

Suffocation :-

Bad.,
Spong.

Chorea, sudden,
complete awaking :-

Agar.

Cough :-

Evening, in, with heat
in head and face, and cold hands :-

Sulph.

Hacking, as soon as he
was about to, continuing all night, better during sleep, worse 1
A.M. to 1 P.M.

(typhoid) :-
Hep.

Or soon after :-

Coff.

Awakened by tickling
cough :-

Lach.


Delirium :-

Gels.

Chills :-

Spong.

Difficult

(See Sleeplessness.) :-
Arg-m., Nit-ac.

Awaking, after :-

Nat-m.

Itching, with, of
skin :-

Sulph.

Inclination, with, to
sweat :-

Sulph.

Account, on, of great
flow of thought :-

Sulph.

Ears, sensitive to
noise :-

Calc.

Waked by folding of
paper :-

Calad.


Eyes :-

Blue light before right
eye, night :-

Ars-h.

Rolling, or slight
convulsions :-

Æth.

Falling sensation, as
if he would fall from height

(urine
suppressed) (See
Starting.) :-
Calen.

Feet, trembling :-

Croc.

Fever,
intolerable :-

ACON.

Head :-

Confusion, with drawing
in occiput :-

Bry.

Every night, suddenly
awakened by loud, metallic crash :-

Dig.

Noises :-

Kali-p.

Pulsation of temporal
arteries :-

Benz-ac.


Heat, flushes :-

Carb-v.

Jerking :-

(See
Starting, Twitching.)

Kicking, off bedclothes

(hydrocephaloid) :-
Cina.

Late, and wakens early

(See
Difficult.) :-
Sul-ac.

Legs :-

Cannot sleep, unless
crossed :-

Rhod.

Suddenly drawn up and
shot out, partially rousing him :-

Sulph.

Jerking :-

KALI-C.

Jerking, lancinating,
rheumatic :-

Lach.

Limbs :-

Jerking :-

Cob.,
Sulph.

Jerking, excited by
pain in distant parts :-

Ars.

Jerks, single :-

Ign.

Painfulness :-

Ign.


Lip, quivering of one
side of upper :-

Ars.

Mental
condition :-

Apprehensive :-

Calad.

Dreams, his business
came to him in anxious :-

Rhus-t.

Fear :-

Nux-v.

Fear of attack of
closing eyes

(traumatic
tetanus) :- Hydr-ac.

Fear, after nightmare,
lest she die :-

Led.

Fears nightmare and
suffocation :-

Bapt.

Frightened,
easily :-

Aur.

Horrible
phantasies :-

Calc.

Talk, begins to, scold,
turn, twist and scream

(measles) :-
Cupr-a.

Nightmare, as he drops
off to sleep :-

Ter.

Pains :-

Merc.

Palpitation, violent
and rapid :-

SULPH.

Restlessness, tossing

(See
During
Sleep, Restlessness
.) :-
Acon.

Screams, in
hydrocephaloid :-

Cina.

Shocks :-

Ip.,
NIT-AC.

Convulsive :-

Arg-m.

Jerks like electric, in
body :-

Ars.

Starting

(See Twitching,
also During
Sleep, Starting
, Twitching.) :-
Ars-h.,
Ars-s-f., Bell.,
Calc., Cina,
Cor-r.,
Hep., Ign.,
Kreos.,
Lach.,
Nux-v.,
Stront-c.

Brain affections in
children :-

SULPH.

Chilliness, with, and
clammy sweat :-

Daph.

Chorea, in :-

Agar.

Fright, as in :-

Arn.,
Bry., Dulc.,
Nit-ac.

Hydrocephaloid :-

Cina.

Legs suddenly start, as
if he had been frightened :-

Bapt.

Limbs, in :-

Ars.

Smothering :-

Arum-t.

Suddenly, when trying
to go to sleep :-

Merc-c.

Sweat :-

Most on head

(quotidian) :-
Tarax.

Worse after sleeping
awhile :-

ARS.

Toothache :-

Merc-i-r.

Wakes her :-

Glon.

Turning over, in
hydrocephaloid :-

Cina.

Twitching

(jerking) :-
Acon., Aloe,
Hyper.,
Ign., Iodof.,
Stront-c.

Chorea, in :-

Agar.

Left, of whole, side

(meningitis) :-
Gels.

Commences on side on
which he is lying, must change position :-

Cimic.

Menses, after :-

Nat-m.

Muscles, of :-

All-s.

Muscle, in a
single :-

Ign.

Vertigo :-

Tell.

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