ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE (Anac.) – اناکارڈیم اوریئٹل
Heartless individuals with characteristic cruelty towards people and animals. The patient experiences great conflict by having two opposing wills or dilemmas and not being able to take a decision. Severe feeling of inferiority and low self-esteem usually seen on the other type of Anacardium which is nice and sweet.
DUALITY-TWO OPPOSING WILLS, LACK OF SELF CONFIDENCE, CRUELTY
MENTAL
Two types: cruel/unfeeling/malicious/sadistic and helpless, hopeless, pleading, needy and insecure.
Contradiction of will, sense of DUALITY. Thinks as if he had TWO WILLS, opposing each other.
GREAT LACK OF SELF – CONFIDENCE with inferiority complex.
DESIRE TO CURSE. Malicious, mischievous, wicked. Absence of all moral feeling.
Sudden loss of memory, as if mind is blocked.
PHYSICAL
SENSATION OF PLUG in various parts i.e. head, chest, ear, eye, abdomen.
Constriction, SENSATION OF A BAND AROUND A SINGLE PART like head, knee, back etc.
Eruptions with intolerable VOLUPTUOUS ITCHING < warmth of bed.
The more he scratches the more he wants to scratch and the worse the itching becomes until he is driven to despair.
MODALITIES
AGG.: rubbing, lying on side, motion.
AMEL.: eating (while or after).