# Anhalonium Lewinii

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Sycotic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Anhalonium has been recently tested and a notable proving was made by Dr. Wier Mitchell. 
It is a cardiac tonic and respiratory stimulant. It weakens the heart and produces insanity.  
The chief feature of the drug's action is the production of colorful visions of overpowering brilliancy, associated 
with moving shapes of fantastic design, the motion being regulated somewhat in time by music.  
It makes “each note upon - the piano a center of melody which seems to be sur rounded by a halo of color 
pulsating to the rhythm of the music.’’’Hyperesthesia of all the senses. Acute sensitivity to changes of the 
weather. 
Feeling of cold over the body. General increase in muscular tone. Hypersecretion of the thyroid gland. Hysteria. 
Allergic persons with hypersensitivity. Loss of sex drive (Sep.). Insomnia. Anxiet y and neurosis. Melancholy. 
Chronic hallucinatory state. Schizophrenia. Impression that the self is double. Suicidal tendencies. Basedow's 
disease (Goiter).

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better lying down. Worse on closing eyes. The nausea and faintness were worse on movement. 
There is great disinclination to move.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Anhalonium is a remedy for brainweakness, audio-visual hallucinations with colored brilliant visions.
- It causes a form of intoxication accompanied by wonderful visions, remarkably beautiful and varied 
kaleidoscopic changes  and a sensation of increased physical ability.
- V isions of monsters and various 
gtuesome forms.
- "Delirium.
- Loss of contact w ith the outside world and escape into a fantasy world.
- Loss of conception of time.
- Distrust 
and resentment.
- Lazy contentment.
- Gloomy, sad, dull.
- Irra tional, sudden changes of mood.
- Egocentric 
introversion.
- Noises and touch are perceived through colored vision.
- Depersonalization, does not know his identity.
- Diminution of willpower, apathy and slow reactions.
- Passive 
state.
- Existential anguish.
- Impression that objects and his whole body are transparent, sees his own internal 
organs.
- Memories exalted.
- Anhalonium is a remedy for brainweakness, audio-visual hallucinations with colored brilliant visions.
- It causes a form of intoxication accompanied by wonderful visions, remarkably beautiful and varied 
kaleidoscopic changes  and a sensation of increased physical ability.
- V isions of monsters and various 
gtuesome forms.
- "Delirium.
- Loss of contact w ith the outside world and escape into a fantasy world.
- Loss of conception of time.
- Distrust 
and resentment.
- Lazy contentment.
- Gloomy, sad, dull.
- Irra tional, sudden changes of mood.
- Egocentric 
introversion.
- Noises and touch are perceived through colored vision.
- Depersonalization, does not know his identity.
- Diminution of willpower, apathy and slow reactions.
- Passive 
state.
- Existential anguish.
- Impression that objects and his whole body are transparent, sees his own internal 
organs.
- Memories exalted.

### Vertigo
- Faintness.
- Vertigo, brain tired.
- COMMENTS - One prover, Havelock Ellis said “I first cut up the Peyote buttons into small fragments and 
poured on boiling water twice, a single infusion is inactive.” He noted a distinct slowing of the pulse, slight 
faintness and shallow breathing, but there were none of the terrible heart symptoms of the other Cacti.
- Other symptoms are loss of conception of time, occipital headache, tired feelin g in head, nausea.
- Tremor of 
muscles increased knee-jerk and loss of power of coordination.
- Extreme muscular depression, don't want to 
stir, whole body feels relaxed.
- Lazy contentment.
- Fine tremor in lower limbs before the visions, unable to walk 
without assistance, can with difficulty sit up.

### Eyes
- Pupils dilated.
- Ptosis.
- Accommoda tion impaired.
- Troubled vision, accom modation and perception.
- Visions in all colors.
- Fantastic visions of surpassing brilliance, moving in designs.
- Moving scenes, dances, 
affected by beating time.
- Natural objects seem more brilliant, shadows deepened, flickering of lights greatly 
exaggerated?

### Ears
- Exaggerated reverberation of or dinary sounds.
- Impressions of sound and visions heightened by any 
marked stimulation of skin.

### Face
- Disinclined to make the slightest movement, eyelids droop, they scarcely 
move the lips and jaws in articulating.
- Head - Headaches with disturbed vision.
- Frontal headache with visual zigzags.
- Occipital headache, with disturbed vi sion.
- Persistent ache and tired 
feeling in occipital region.

### Mouth
- Great difficulty in talking, partly from paralysis of the tongue, partly from slowness of thought.
- Nerves - Motor incoordination.
- Extreme muscular depression increased patellar reflex.
- Paraplegia.
- Neuralgias, 
trigeminal of the ophthalmic nerve, the maxillary nerve, frontal nerve and naso-ciliary nerve.
- Nose - The air seemed filled with vague perfume.
- Smell blunted, could not tell whether or not tincture of 
asafetida was a perfume.

### Chest
- Breathing shallow.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea, worse on movement, entirely better on lying down.

### Extremities
- Burning sensation of the limbs.
- A fine tremor in lower limbs.

### Sleep
- Insomnia and hysteria.
- Drowsiness, followed by consciousness of unusual energy.