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He is so anxious while waiting! Sometimes, if he is waiting for an important event to come, then he may have nervous frequent urination or nervous diarrhea. But, usually his anxiety is off seconds or minutes after the event takes place. It’s anxiety while waiting. If he is expecting an important event to happen tomorrow or in a few days, then he keeps thinking about it all the time or asks questions to others around him about it all the time until it happens.

Lycopodium is also very anxious whenever he is expecting an important event or whenever he has to talk in front of an audience even if he is well prepared for it. But his stage fright begins only some minutes or hours before the event takes place and lasts only some minutes after the beginning of his speech and he does very well on the process. Silica dreads to appear in public and carry on a presentation. She is very anxious before, during and even after the presentation. Many times she avoids such presentations on any cost.

2.12 Obsessive fear about his health

Argentum Nitricum often says that he is afraid about his health. We have to differentiate between his fear and the fear of Phosphor and Arsenicum about their health. In the case of Argentum Nitricum it’s not really a fear but an obsession about his health. A thought crosses his mind “What if I have a severe disease?” and from that time on this becomes an obsession and he starts rushing to doctors for consultation and to labs for tests. The general and characteristic thing is his general tendency for obsessions and the specific and not characteristic thing is his obsession-fear about his health.

Phosphor on the other hand has a clear fear about his health because his Neurovegetative Nervous System is malfunctioning. So, he has several neurovegetative symptoms and these cause great fear and anxiety to him because he thinks, not to say he is certain, that he does suffer from a severe disease. Somebody told him that a neighbor had a stroke and then he immediately started having neurovegetative symptoms and he is sure that he is also going to have a stroke or a heart attack or something sudden and severe.

He rushes to the doctor and the doctor examines him and tells him: “You’ve got nothing pathological! It’s all in your mind! You are simply hypochondriac!” He is so offended and angry when they tell him so because he does feel those symptoms and he is a very sincere person in general. He says: “Why don’t you believe me doctor? Why, on earth,

would I lie? I work hard for years and never left my job, apart from severe causes. I do have these symptoms! I swear to you I have them!”

The doctor prescribes pills, taps him on the shoulder and reassures him that he is going to get well. He is relieved for a while and then he has again the same symptoms and again he rushes to the doctor in despair. He isn’t so much afraid of death; he is afraid of the symptoms or that he may have some severe disease.

Arsenicum also has fear about his health but this is a part of his general fear about death. His is such an egoistic and self centered person that he is very much afraid of stop existing. So he doesn’t like hearing about old age, death and diseases. Aconitum is also intensely afraid of death but this usually begins after a sudden fright from an extreme event; it’s mostly an acute condition and an extreme one because he is afraid that any minute he will die due to his extreme physical symptoms.

Phosphor is not so much afraid of death; he is mostly afraid of the symptoms that he has. Whenever he feels symptoms he rushes to the doctor for help. He wants consolation very much, is easily reassured but then he is also worried again and this goes on like that. Although he is calling the doctor a lot and visiting him all the time worried, nevertheless, he is a likeable person because he is psoric, sincere and very grateful. You empathize with him because he is like a good small child seeking for consolation and guidance.

On the contrary, Arsenicum creates negative feelings to the doctor because he is syphilitic, egoistic, mistrustful, mean and peevish. Argentum Nitricum isn’t as repulsive as Arsenicum but still he isn’t so likeable as Phosphor because he has that misery and that attachment to his obsessions.

Argentum Nitricum, due to his obsessions, is often nervous and anxious. He feels his belly very much distended and is complaining about it all the time. He is also very restless; while sitting he has to do something with his hands or move his feet all the time.

This is the general picture of Argentum Nitricum. Our aim in Miasmatic Idiosyncratic Materia Medica isn’t to give a full, complete, detailed picture of an Idiosyncrasy. This would create difficulty in memorizing information and even confusion and we would easily miss the essence of the Idiosyncrasy. If you identify the “core”, the “essence”, the “skeleton” of any idiosyncrasy then you can add all other less important information. And this tactic is in accordance with the Law of Hierarchy and the Law of Whole.

B. GELSEMIUM

The idiosyncrasy Gelsemium corresponds to the homonymous homeopathic medicine prepared by the homonymous plant.

2.13 Timidity and stage fright

Timidity and stage fright are the main characteristics and essence of Gelsemium. He also has lack of self confidence but not as much as Thuja. He is the kid that blushes and stammers in front of strangers; he is so shy!

Psoric Lycopodium may also have stage fright at the beginning of a meeting but he quickly overcomes it and mingles with the company, often trying to be the centre of attention showing off his culture and knowledge. You see, Lycopodium thinks a lot of himself, believes that as cleverness and refinement is concerned, he is above the average but still due to his psoric nature and fear of spoiling his image he is anxious when meeting someone for the first time.

On the contrary Gelsemium stays reserved and speechless and shy in a company for a long time before starting to feel a bit comfortable and relaxed. Psoric Sulphur also may appear to be shy and reserved when meeting new people but not because he is shy but because he is very introvert.