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Belladonna
Atropa Belladonna · BELL
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Origin Plant · Solanaceae · Simple
Habitat Greece, Italy, Britain
ClarkePreparation Tincture of whole plant when beginning to flower.
Sources 20 entries across 18 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose
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Atropia Sulph, 1-120 to 1-60 grain. Antidotes to Belladonna: Camph; Coff; Opium; Acon.

Reason for useBoericke

Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands. Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperaesthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly (Oxytropis). Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great children's remedy. Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting. Scarlet fever and also prophylactic. Here use the thirtieth potency. Exophthalmic goitre. Corresponds to the symptoms of "air-sickness" in aviators. Give as preventive. No thirst, anxiety or fear. Belladonna stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset. Bell for the extreme of thyroid toxaemia. Use 1x (Beebe).


▲ Worse touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying down
▼ Better semi-erect

By regionBoericke
Mind Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by specters and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities. …
Head Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards. Sensitive to least contact. Much throbbing and heat. …
Eyes Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. Pupils dilated (Agnus). …
Stomach Loss of appetite. Averse to meat and milk. Spasmodic pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to spine. Nausea and vomiting. …
Female Sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the viscera would protrude at genitals. Dryness and heat of vagina. Dragging around loins. Pain in sacrum. …
Respiratory Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea. Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night. Larynx feels sore. Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. …
Extremities Shooting pains along limbs. Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating. Tottering gait. Shifting rheumatic pains. …
Back Stiff neck. Swelling of glands of neck. Pain in nape, as if it would break. Pressure on dorsal region most painful. …
Skin Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth. Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading. Erythema; pustules on face. …
Fever A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxaemia. Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy cold. Superficial blood-vessels, distended. …
Sleep Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth. Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels. Screams out in sleep. Sleeplessness, with drowsiness. …

Books*
Antidoted by Aurum Metallicum 3, Coffea Cruda 3, Aceticum Acidum 2 +21
Complementary Calcarea Carbonica, Hyoscyamus Niger, Opium +10
Follows well Arsenicum Album, Chamomilla, Cinchona Officinalis +14
Compare Arsenicum Album, Bryonia Alba, Hyoscyamus Niger +28

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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