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external influences, but his real will, in which is his conscience, restrains that and keeps him fromcarrying the impulses into effect. This can only be observed when its action is on a really good man. Hehas a controversy when his external will is aroused, but in an evil man there is no restraint and he willnot have this symptom.Hallucinations: a demon sits on one shoulder and an angel on the other. He is disposed tomalice and has an irresistible desire to curse and swear. Laughs when he should be serious. So it iscarried on until all things in the external will are inverted. Internal anxiety, i.e., the internal will is in aturmoil over this external disturbance. "Contradiction between will and reason" is an attempt to expresswhat the individual knew nothing about. "Feels as though he had two wills". That is better. It finallydestroys or paralyzes the external will, and when a man is naturally evil and is under the paralyzinginfluence of Anacardium he will do acts of violence. A wicked man is restrained, not by his conscience,but by fear of the law.Anacardium paralyzes the external will and places him in a position of imbecility, and he doesacts of violence from his own natural perverted self. It has so acted on a portion of the mind that itteaches a great deal. I have learned much from Anac., Aurum and Argentum of the strange action ofmedicines on the human mind. Psychology must be figured out by the action of drugs on the humanmind. By this means we get at facts and can lay aside many hypotheses.Ideas as if nothing were real, all seems to be a dream. Fixed ideas. He thinks he is double. Thiscomes from a vague consciousness that there is a difference between the external and internal will, aconsciousness that one will is the body and another is the mind. Dwells on thoughts about salvation.That a stranger is by his side, is another recognition of the two wills.That strange forms accompany him, one to his right side and one to his left. This mental statedrives him to madness. Alternation of his moods and understanding. One moment he sees a thing andanother moment he does not understand it. One moment she sees it is her child and another that it isnot. One moment it is a delusion and next moment it is an illusion. One moment thinks it is so and nextmoment has enough reason left to know that it is not so. Delusion is an advanced stage of illusion. Inthe Repertory we have the same remedies often in illusion and delusion, it is a matter of grade. Whenthe intellect is slightly affected it is an illusion, and what he sees he knows is not so.He sees demons, and at first he knows from his intelligence that a demon is not there, but laterhe wants you to drive him out. It does not matter which, they are similar symptoms, and it is a matter ofdegree, and so, in the Repertory, delusions and illusions are not given separate places.Anac., Hyos., Stram. and Bell. are important in bringing out the quality of the perverted humanmind as to the intelligence and affections. Whenever a medicine makes a man desire to do something itaffects his will, and when it affects his intelligence it is acting on his understanding. Medicines act onboth.Low-spirited, disheartened, fears he is pursued, looks for thieves, expects enemies, fearseverything and everybody. Full of internal anxiety. No peace. He is separated from the whole world,and he desires to do that which is required of him. Cowardly in sulky, sullen. Unsocial; complains ofweak memory. Slight causes make him excessively angry. A strong feature is that all moral feeling istaken out of him. He feels cruel. Can do bodily injury without feeling. Cruel, malicious, wicked.Bad effects of mental excitement. Weak-minded. Consequences of fright and mortification.Suitable in religious mania when the conflict between the external and internal will is kept up. It isanalogous to Hyos.Many complaints are ameliorated by eating. Sensation here and there of pressure, described asof a plug, all through the body, in the head, eyes, in the navel and down the spine. Objects appear toofar off. Things have a strange look, sometimes uncanny. Illusions of smell, burning timber, pigeon'sdung.Chronic dry coryza.The whole body has been well covered by symptoms; but it seems that the mind represents theprincipal aspect, and it will seldom be used excepting for such mind symptoms. Usually when themental symptoms are strong the physical arc also covered by the remedy.Full of trembling and paralytic weakness. Tetanus; epilepsy.Sensations as of a hoop or band around the body, limbs or head; pressing as of a plug.The eruptions are like Rhus in many respects; erysipelatous eruptions dark, dusky, and ofmalignant types. It is an antidote to Rhus poisoning. Eruptions all over. Yellow vesicles are common.Intense itching of eruptions. Warts on the palms like Natrum mur. Skin burns much. It seems closelyrelated in its symptoms to all the Rhus family.