Hysteria is the condition of unconsciousness, wants of relief from intolerable stress characterized by clean cut physical sign and mental symptoms in absence of any pathological changes in body.

Aetiology

• Family history
• Characteristic hysteria type personality is usually seen
• Mental stress
• Constitution factor

Clinical Feature

Age- Common in young and some time in aged

Sex- Female dominate

Conversion hysteria 

• when patient present with same physical symptoms with or without sign.

Dissociative hysteria 

• where different type or altered states of awareness are present due to dissociation between different mental activities.

Neurological Symptoms

• Motor weakness, flaccidity
• Hysterical rigidity
• Tremor, jerk may be dull and brisk
• Plantar reflex is flexer 
• Speech may be completely disappear
• Cutaneous sensibility is usually lost is stocking or gloves.

Gastroenterological Symptoms

• Vomiting without nausea
• Sensation a lump in throat called as globus hysteria
• Chronic abdominal pain

Respiratory Symptoms

• Breathlessness
• Recurrent cough
• Aphonia 
• Examination of throat as patient say 'Ah' sound is produce

Cardiovascular Symptoms

• Palpitation
• Precordial pain
• General
• Coldness 
• Artificial eruption
• Dermographism
• Hallucination 

* Some time "Mass Hysteria". It is seen particularly in hostels of girls.

• Ceaseless laughing, crying
• Multiple personality 
• Psychosis 

Treatment

• Physiotherapy
•  No drug is useful 
• (Only Medicines for depression and anxiety ) - Antidepressant

Homoeopathic medicine for hysteria

1. Pulsatilla
2. Ignatia Ambra
3. Hyoscymus
4. kali phos

Pulsatilla

It is best suited medicine for hysteria. 

The disposition and mental state are the chief guiding symptoms to the selection of pulsatilla. It is pre-eminently a female remedy, especially for a mind, gentle, yielding disposition. Sad, cries readily, weeps when talking, changeable, contradiction. The patient seeks open air, always feels better there, even though. She is chilly. Great sensitive. Weep easily. Timid, irresolute.

Fear in the evening of being alone, ghosts. Pulsatilla likes sympathy.

Religious melancholy. She is highly emotional. Mentally, like an April day.

There is marked thirstless. Peevish and chilly patient. Vertigo from open air. Easily discouraged. Morbid dread of the opposite sex.

Ignatia Ambra

Ignatia is one of the chief  remedies for hysteria. It is especially adapted to the nervous temperament, women of sensitive, easily excitable nature, dark, mind disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in executive. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other. Hysteria due to grief and worry. Menalcolic, sad, tearful. Changeable mood, introspective, silent brooding. No communicative. Sighing and sobbing. Hysteria after shock and disappointment.

Mentally, the emotional elements is  upper most or co-ordination of function is interfered with. Produce a marked hyperesthesia of all sense and a tendency to clonic spasm. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling, patient who suffer acutely mentally or physically, at the same time, made worse by drinking coffee. Superficial and erratic character of its symptoms is most characteristic. Patient can not bear tobacco. There is hysterical vomiting.

There is great contradictions. Complaints worse in morning, open air, after meals, coffee, smoking, liquid, external wamrth.

Better while eating and change of position.

Dose- 6th to 200 potency

Hyoscyamus Niger

It is best suited to hysterical condition.

It produces a perfect picture of mania in a quarrelsome and obscene character.

Disturbs the nervous system profoundly. Inclined to be unseemly

and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions. Very talkative and persists in stripping herself, or uncovering genitals. Is jealous, afraid of being poisoned. The patient is very suspicious. Talkative, obscene, lascivious mania, uncovers the body, jealous, foolish. Great hilarity, inclined to laugh at everything. Delirium, with an attempt to run away. Low, muttering speech, constant carpholgia, deep stupor. Its symptoms also point to weakness and nervous agitation. Tremulous weakness and twitching of tendons.

Before menses, hysterical spasm. Spasm in pregnant women. Puerperal mania. Greatlessness, every muscle twitches(chorea).

Worse at night, during menses, after eating, when lying down. Better-stooping.

Spasms and convulsion. Intense sleeplessness. Starts up frightened. Epileptic attack ending in deep sleep. Tremors.

The selection of homoeopathic remedies based on symptom similarities and doses according to the Susceptibility of patient.

Don't take homoeopathic medicine without any prescription / without any advise of physician