Belladonna

Head

Sensation of heaviness. Forehead most sensitive. Shuts the eyes. Throbbing and stitches. Convulsive shaking and bending the head backward. Movements of; boring into the pillow; constantly moving it from side to side. Affections of the hair, which may split, or come out, or be hard and dry, etc. Apoplexy.

Eyes

Very red; much injected and even ecchymosed; diplopia; sees wrong side up; neuralgia. Lachrymation feeling like brine; dim sight. Eyeballs, sclerotic coat; pupils dilated; eyes water; eyebrows; eyelids; inner angles of the eye; ocular illusions, in strange things particularly objects look fiery, etc. Photophobia; paralyzed optic nerve; amaurosis; look is fixed; momentary loss of sight.

Ears

Paralyzed auditory nerve; hard hearing. Affections of the locality below the ears; stitches in and about the ears, parotids, etc.; noise in, particularly humming, roaring; tearing from above downward.

Nose

Bleeding of; pale blood from; smelling too sensitive; smelling too feeble; imaginary smells; foul imaginary smells. Pimples quickly filling with pus and covered with crusts. Fine stitches or tingling in tip of nose relieved by rubbing.

Face

Scarlet red; dark red; bluish red; changing colour frequently; very pale and suddenly red; colored like erysipelas. Distorted with the pain and suffering.

Mouth

Red mouth and fauces; gaping mouth; sensations under the jaw; articulations of the jaws; lock-jaws; puffiness of the lips; affections of corners of the lips. Palate. Gullet. Tongue, red on its edges and borders, white in its middle; not clean (furred); increase of saliva: diminution of saliva, thick and tenacious; papillae red and swollen; trembling of; stammering speech. Haemorrhage from mouth and nose. Lower teeth; grinding of; drawing in; with flushed face and red eyes.

Throat

Dryness in fauces and burning of tongue. Sore throat. Swelling in throat and tonsils. Difficult deglutition. Fluid returns by the nose; aversion to all liquids.

Chest

Aphonia; hoarse; croupy cough. Expectoration bloody; blood pale. Respiration oppressed; quick; slow; unequal; labored; with moaning. Tender chest and rattling of mucus. Fine, stitching, needly pains in. Bubbling sensation in region of heart.

Gastric.-- Sour taste. Eructations, empty gagging with inclination to vomit. Nausea; vomits bile and mucus. Violent hiccough; spasmodic eructations resembling hiccough. Loss of taste; putrid. Complete loss of appetite and aversion to food, especially to meat. Thirst; also great thirst and inability to drink a drop. Hard and painful pressure in stomach; after a meal or when walking, must walk very slowly and easily. Cramps in the stomach suddenly.

Abdomen

Inner lower belly (troubles in this locality are very characteristic). Cramp and colic-like pain in the abdomen, as if a hand had clutched some part, and was griping (squeezing) it with great force, causing great pain, or a feeling as if the nails (of the hand) were dug into the part; this sensation generally comes and goes very suddenly. Cutting pain, as if a knife was actually slicing the parts. Sensation as though the inner parts were distended. Dragging pain. Feels as if a hard body were pressing out of right inguinal ring. Constriction about umbilicus, as if a hard lump would form. Great sensitiveness of abdomen; dartings across.

Stool

Shuddering during; diarrhoea followed by tenesmus; vomiting after tenesmus; involuntary stools. Constipation.

Urine

Urine dark; yellow; lemon; gold color; pale; involuntary. Incontinence of urine in bed at night.

Sexual.-- Male : Testicles are drawn up; lancinations in. Seminal emissions with relaxed penis; total loss of sexual instinct. Female : Pain like labor pains as if pressing out through vulva; pressing followed by flooding; labor pains cease; pains in labor, coming and going very suddenly; labor pains too weak. Abortion. Metrorrhagia. Milk diminished or increased. Erysipelas of mammae. Rigidity of os. Menstruation painful; blood of light color; bad smell. All affections of uterus .

Sleep

Pulsations of the blood vessels; may hear the pulsations of the blood vessels so loud when trying to sleep, as to be kept awake by it. Drowsy; stupid; sleepless; screams out; jumping; jerks; anxious; frightful; terrifying sleep, unrefreshing. Stupor like sleep; concomitant complaints to morbid sleep; sleeplessness, with drowsiness very characteristic.

Fever

Pulse full; hard; strong, bounding, double. Sensation of external and internal heat; heat of single parts; heat of outer or of inner parts. Congestion of blood to single parts. Shuddering in general. Perspiration; want of perspiration, Compound fevers in general; heat, with shuddering. Chills commencing in the back, pit of stomach, arms, spreading over; no thirst. During fever, thirst, drowsy, starting, delirium.

Skin

Burning of the skin, particularly when the hand continues to burn after touching the skin, as though a hot stove had been touched, very characteristic . Cutting of the skin as though "sliced" with a sharp knife. Desquamation of skin; pale; dry; red. Boils red, with sensation of heat, and feels hot to the hand. Exanthema ; erysipelatous; flat; painful; peeling off; of scarlet color; smooth scarlatina, with swelling; phlegmonous erysipelas, swollen thick; red spots; swelling of the parts affected; sensation as if a part were swollen. Ulcers; cutting, hard, swollen red and angry looking. Warts, with red streaks.

Parts.-- All affections of the internal head, right side; right eye; right ear; face, right side; teeth, right side; mouth and fauces, left side; right hypochondria; right chest; right upper extremity; right lower extremity; general symptoms right side. Neck: glands of the neck, and lower jaw. Complaints pertaining to the back; foot; hollow of the knee; patella. Back: Pains in, can't lie, sit, or stand; sharp pain in, transfixes one on motion. Affections of glands, cervical, left axillary.

Sensations

Burning in inner parts; boring as if the parts would burst, or as if they were pushed or pressed asunder; of contraction of inner parts; cramp pains in muscles; dryness of inner parts, as of the throat, etc., as though the inner parts were falling, (particularly in females, through vulva); heaviness of the outer parts, jerking pain of the outer parts. Motion rendered difficult; sensation of motion; drawing from below upwards; vibration like dull tingling in the body; convulsive motion. Paralyzed inner parts. Pricking or darting in outer parts; darting from below upwards; darting in the bones. Convulsions in general; clonic; tonic.

Extremities

Upper : Creeping on limbs as of a mouse. Arthritic pains in joints; lameness of; sharp pains; dartings. Lower : Right hip-joint, can't lie on it; rising from seat very painful Lancinations in right thigh close above knee when sitting. Cramp pain in right knee; also bubbling sensation in.

Generalities

Concomitant complaints to cough. Milk increased. Apoplexy. Bleeding from inner parts; blood feels hot; with forcing pains; coagulates easily. Plethora. Chlorosis. Distension of the blood vessels. Dropsy of the inner parts. Epilepsy. Hydrophobia. Indurations after inflammations. Inflammation of the mucous membrane wherever occurring. Staggering when walking. Starting of the body. Swelling in general and of the parts affected. Inflammation of the glands; induration of the glands; glands painful, prickling, swelling, hot swelling of the glands. Pricking in the bones.

Worse.-- From the least jar of the bed or chair which aggravates the patient exceedingly ; in the afternoon; in the evening; after taking cold; after having the hair cut; from draught of air; while drinking, often times the fluid will escape through the nose; applicable to the complaints of children; from looking at shining objects (puerperal convulsions will sometimes come on from looking at a shining object); looking at running water; after moving; after taking narcotics; sausages; suppressed perspiration; during pregnancy; on rising after scarlet fever; during sleep; from strong smells; from sun burning; from touching the parts; during walking; walking in the wind particularly; with women, especially in confinement; when shaking the head; from the head getting wet.

Better.-- On bending or turning the affected part; while reposing; while standing; while sitting up.

Remedies following well:-- Acon., Calc. carb., Hyosc., Laches., Moschus, Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur .

Antidotes

Hyosc., Coffea .