Practical Utility of the Rubrics

Affliction, feels as if he had suffered from an overwhelming: Cycl
Afflict means:
1 to cause pain or suffering to; distress very much
2 [Obs.] to overthrow
Affliction means:
1 an afflicted condition; pain; suffering
2 anything causing pain or distress; calamity
SYN.—Affliction implies pain, suffering, or distress imposed by illness, loss, misfortune, etc.;
Trial suggests suffering that tries one's endurance, but in a weaker sense refers to annoyance that tries one's patience;
Tribulation describes severe affliction continuing over a long and trying period;
Misfortune is applied to a circumstance or event involving adverse fortune and to the suffering or distress occasioned by it.

Suffered means:
1 to undergo (something painful or unpleasant, as injury, grief, a loss, etc.); be afflicted with
2 to undergo or experience (any process, esp. change)
3 to allow; permit; tolerate
4 to bear up under; endure: now chiefly in negative constructions (they could not suffer opposition)

Overwhlming means:
1 to pour down upon and cover over or bury beneath
2 to make helpless, as with greater force or deep emotion; overcome; crush; overpower
3 [Obs.] to overthrow or overturn

So, the actual meaning of the whole Rubric is...
Feels as if he had suffered from an overwhlming affliction i.e. nothing but a very painful experience. Generally it happens in patients who suffered from a very painful diseased condition or even a very painful mental torture. Cyclamen is the only remedy under this rubric in Complete Repertory.