by Nicole Evans M.D.

Created on: September 16, 2008

Homeopathy is a safe and inexpensive way to promote the body's natural ability to heal. Each homeopathic remedy has specific documented effects upon the mind and body. The homeopathic medicines listed below are indicated for the emotional and physical effects of guilt, remorse, heavy conscience, and tormenting thoughts.

The remedies are listed by their latin name followed by their common name and then the author of the official materia medica from which the information on their indicated uses was derived.

Arsenicum album: (Clarke's) (Oxide of Arsenic) Melancholy, sometimes of a religious character, sadness, care, chagrin, cries and complaints. Anguish, restlessness, fear of being left alone, anger, anxiety. Anxiety of conscience, as if a crime had been committed. Indecision and changeable humour. Despair, despondency, weariness of life, inclination to suicide, or excessive fear of death. Too great sensibility and scrupulousness of conscience, with gloomy ideas, as if one had offended all the world. Ill-humor, impatience, vexation, inclination to be angry, repugnance to conversation, inclination to criticize.

Cuprum metallicum: (Clarke's) (Copper) Melancholy, with attacks of extreme anguish, like fear of death; restlessness, groaning, and desire to escape. Want of moral courage. Anxiety and tears, alternating with buffoonery. Mildness, alternating with obstinacy. Unfitness for exertion, with fear to be idle. Attacks of rage (wants to bite the bystanders).

Cyclamen: (Clarke's) (Sow-bread) Taciturn, sudden change of sadness and cheerfulness, weakness of memory, secret vexation and troubled conscience. Memory alternately quick and weak. Dullness and confusion of mind, with unfitness for every kind of labor.

Digitalis purpurea: (Clarke's) (Fox Glove) Extreme anguish, especially. in the evening, with disposition to weep and great fear of the future. Gloomy and peevish, indisposed to speak; inclination to lassitude. Remorse, tearful moroseness; with sensation of internal uneasiness. Sadness from music.

Ignatia Amara: (Clarke's) (St. Ignatius Bean) Continuous sad thoughts. Melancholy. Concentrated sorrow with sighing. Tenderness of disposition and of conscience. Love of solitude. Inclination to grief without saying anything about it. Anger, followed by quiet grief and sorrow, cries, and complete discouragement, at the least provocation.

Natrum Muriaticum: (Boericke's) (Sodium Chloride) Ill effects of grief, fright, anger. Depressed. Consolation aggravates. Irritable, gets into a passion about trifles. Wants to be alone to cry.

Phosphoricum Acidum: (Clarke's) (Phosphoric Acid) Disposition to weep. Bad effects from grief and sorrow. Sadness and uneasiness respecting the future. Aversion to conversation. Great indifference. No interest in the outside world. Dullness of mind and weakness of memory. Cannot connect thoughts.

Thuja Occidentalis: (Clarke's) (Arbor Vitae) Mental dejection, anxious apprehensions respecting the future, disquiet, which renders everything troublesome and repugnant. The merest trifle occasions pensiveness, music causes him weeping. Ill-humor, talks hastily, indisposition to any kind of intellectual labor. Mental depression after childbirth. Very depressed, sad, irritable. Scrupulous about small things. Aversion to life. Moroseness and peevishness. Overexcited, quarrelsome; easily angered about trifles.

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