The author suggests that the term night watching in our repertories be reclassified as waking at night. We may have overlooked that the original meaning in the rubric, "Night watching", was considered a common occurrence during the time of the creation of our repertories. In the pre-industrial times, when light was not artificially reproduced, sleep was segmented into first sleep and a second period of sleep. In between was a "watching period". Night watching sleep may be "a re-creation of the older sleep-wake-sleep pattern."
This is an example of a case (girls, 16y.) for which the solution was delayed because of interpreting information only from my perspective. After additional information from the mother the case could be solved. Her father has been physically and emotionally absent for her.
The following will prove how perfectly remedies work when the patient’s vital force is also taken into consideration for treatment. Three cases illustrate these: impaired mental growth, the delusion of shrunken thighs and continuous crying of a child after an inflammation in the brain had rested.
A place of self autonomy from the forces of pressure and perseverance. The restrictions from boss and father made the client (male, 32y.) worry whether he would be able to be a proper father himself. After the prescription of Samarium Carbonicum all the symptoms and complaints disappeared and the client felt stronger in everything.
Woman, 65years old, fear of death and darkness, delusions of persecution and needing to be grand. A sycotic miasm because her fears were a steady longstanding theme, a special noted sexual interest and the secretiveness surrounding it made me chose Fabiana MK. The recurrent cystitis was the confirmation for me. Because she feels alone and rejected and cut off from others. Fear of joining the group, critical of self and others, resentful, grief, may have bulimia or alcoholism. The choice of Pseudotsuga menzeisii was made.
Obvious in this case is the oversensitivity to visual and acoustic impressions and the electric-charged-feeling, vertigo and diminished orientation and memory. Furthermore a need to be reachable anytime.