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prescribers.CALADIUM SEGUINUM [calad] [Kent’s]Caladium is a wonderful remedy; perhaps some of you have read it endeavoring to understandit; it is a difficult medicine to understand, because it is quite evident from the provings that the proverdid not understand how to describe and report symptoms; did not know how to tell his sensationsbecause they were so strange; he could not relate his mental state.An individual puts his mind to bear upon something which seems to have taken place during theday, but he is not quite sure whether it took place or not, he thinks the matter over, and yet he cannot bereally sure whether it took place or not,until he actually goes and puts his hands upon the objectthought about; proves to himself by actual contact and observation that his vague impression was so,that it was true, then he goes away and again he is undecided as to whether it was so or not. This relatesto things that actually happened. "Very forgetful, he cannot remember", etc. This led to the use ofCaladium for a good many different kinds of mental affections, loss of memory where there is thatvague state of mind. It might be bordering upon imbecility, it might be the borderland of insanity. Allday long he finds himself looking into the things that should have been done; they have simply escapedhis mind; he has forgotten them.So the mind is worn through in places. A state of absent- mindedness. It may come on in anacute state, with unconsciousness. There is a good deal of congestion of the brain, more or lessexcitement, but more important is prostration of the mind, weakness of the mind; feeble-minded;inability to perform intellectual work, it is impossible. He cannot think; the more thought he puts upona thing the more fatigue he has and the further away that thing seems to be: the more he attempts it theless concentrated is the mind upon a subject. It is not strange, then, that the provers themselves wereunable to put these ideas into speech so as to give us an intelligent idea of proving. It is only by readingbetween the lines, using the remedy and studying it that we can straighten out this tangled skein. "Verythoughtful, absent-minded". There is in acute states delirium, excitement of mind, unconsciousness,stupefaction. As the febrile state is continued, we have this mental state. This remedy is useful in feversthat are continued.One of the most important things to decide when we are going into the mental state of a remedyis whether we shall use this remedy in hysteria, in the delirium of the various phases of fever, or ininsanity, and to ascertain this we turn to that part of the proving which gives us the pace of the remedy.If we want to understand the delirium of Belladonna and Bryonia to see which one would be suitable ina certain case, we turn to the febrile action of the remedy and see what the nature of that is; the pacetells us largely what kind of delirium, if we do not know from the delirium itself. So we will see that inBelladonna there is no continued fever, and as a remedy must, in its very nature, be adapted to the verynature of the disease, it would be useless to follow the many injunctions that are written in our bookstelling us to give Belladonna in the acute form of delirium in typhoid fever; but Bryonia has just thatcondition; hence we will see that Bryonia is useful in such cases which present symptoms similar to it,because the pace of the disease is similar to the pace of Bryonia, which has continued fever.Belladonna has intermittent and remittent fever, particularly remittent, and hence the acute delirium ofBelladonna is similar to the acute delirium of remittent fever. Now to bring this point to bear; thisremedy's fever is a continued fever; it has no great amount of fever in it, but it is a continued fever, weshall see that there is coma and stupor from fever; "delirium, unintelligible murmuring", mentalprostration. This remedy is suitable in low, murmuring, exhaustive cases of typhoid fever, cases thatare running a very sluggish course; not a very active delirium; but muttering; a low form of semiconsciousness,very often coma or stupefaction like Phos. ac., a dazed mind.Forgetfulness in persons who are mentally and physically prostrated from sexual excesses orfrom tobacco poisoning. It is indicated in old debauches who are unable to perform the marital act. Hehas the most tantalizing craving for the opposite sex with no ability to perform coitus. Lascivious ideas.Such men stand on the street corner and feast upon the forms of passing girls, and their semen dribblesaway; a state also found in Picric acid and Selenium. You can only cure these patients if they desire toreform, and if you can inspire them to live a better life. Without this you cannot save them, and thosewho take delight in such things are not worth saving, and medicine will not take hold of them. To cure,the patient must use his will to help the remedy.Extremely nervous; afraid of his own shadow; awake all night with lascivious thoughts,apprehensions, especially before going to sleep; afraid of the future. Fear of catching diseases whenthey are not around. This alternates with an opposite condition.