Belladonna

General

BELLADONNA. [Bellad.] Deadly Nightshade. Hahnemann. Solanaceae.

Mind

► Memory lively ; remembers things long gone by. ► Memory impaired ; forgets in a moment what he was about to do. ► Absent-minded and forgetful. ► Confusion of head, aggravated by movements. ► Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, black dogs and various insects. ► Delirium ; is afraid of imaginary things ; sees monsters. ► Desire to escape or hide herself. ► Weary of life, with desire to drown herself. ► Talkative, then mute. ► Picking at bedclothes as if looking for something lost, with confused muttering. ► Instead of eating, bit the wooden spoon in two, gnawed the plate, and growled and barked like a dog. ► Mania, at one time merry, again ; would spit and bite at those around ; thinks himself suddenly rich. ► Quarrelsome, during exuberant mirth. ► Violent delirium ; broke into fits of laughter, then gnashed the teeth ; disposed to bite and strike those around. ► Starts in affright at the approach of others. ► Very excitable mood, easily brought to tears. ► Morose and serious. ► Anxious and timorous. ► Anxious and confused, fears she is about to die. ► Fretfulness ; nothing seemed right to him ; was vexed with himself.

Sensorium

► All the senses more acute. ► Cloudiness, as if intoxicated. ► Blood mounts to the head, which becomes heavy as if giddy. ► Weariness of the head.

Inner Head

► Feeling in brain like the swashing of water. ► Cold sensation in the brain at the middle of the forehead. ► Headache as if a stone were pressing the forehead. ► Fulness and pressure at temples and forehead, with pain making him restless and uneasy. ► Pain in head and eyeballs, eyes felt as if starting from their sockets. ► Pressive frontal headache so severe, when walking, that the eyes were drawn shut ; better when sitting, ceases when lying down, worse rising again or going into open air. ► Pressure in head, now here now there, which occupies each time large areas. ► Frequently obliged to stand still in walking, from the violence of the pain in forehead ; at every step it seemed as if the brain rose and fell in forehead ; pain ameliorated by strong pressure on forehead. ► Strong pulsation of blood-vessels of forehead, and pain as if the bones were lifted up. ► Violent throbbing in brain from behind forward and towards both sides ; the throbbing ends on the surface in painful shootings. ► Dull shooting in left temple, from in out. ► Severe shooting in right frontal eminence, worse from bending forward, ameliorated by pressure. ► Stabbing as if with a knife, from temple to temple. ► Jerking headache, extremely violent on walking quickly, or ascending stairs rapidly ; at every step a jolt as if a weight were in the occiput. ► Boring, tearing, cutting, shooting pains in various parts of head, generally worse on right side and in forehead, less in occiput. ► Pains come on suddenly, last indefinitely, but cease suddenly. ► Headache from the heat of the sun.

Outer Head

► Head externally so sensitive that the least contact, even the pressure of the hair, gives pain. ► Crampy pain in frontal eminence, extending to zygoma and lower jaw.

Eyes

► Photophobia ; worse from artificial light. ► Far-sightedness. ► Objects appear : double, and seem to revolve and run backwards ; inverted. ► Bright sparks before the eyes. ► Flashes of light before the eyes. ► Halo around the light particolored, red predominating ; at times light seems broken into rays. ► Vision obscured as from a white vapor ; pupils dilated. ► Deep-seated dull pain in the back of the eyes. ► Eyes dry ; feel stiff ; feeling of sand in eyes. ► Heat and burning in eyes. ► Shooting in the eyes, from within outwards. ► Lachrymation. ► Spasmodic motion of eyes. ► Eyeballs red and prominent. ► Conjunctiva covered with red vessels, shooting pains ; eyes water. ► Yellowness of sclerotica. ► Swelling and suppurative inflammation of left caruncula lachrymalis. ► Ophthalmia ; suddenly appearing, worse right eye ; intense photophobia. ► Pain in orbits : often feels as if the eyes had been torn out, sometimes as if pressed into the head. ► Trembling and quivering of right upper eyelid. ► Heaviness of lids. ► Lids feel sore, congested and swollen.

Ears

► Extreme sensibility of hearing. ► Deafness, as if a skin were drawn over the ears. ► Fancied noise awakens ; slight delirium on waking. ► Tearing in internal and external ear, in a downward direction. ► Shooting in internal ear, with hardness of hearing. ► Pinching in the ears, first right, then left. ► Tearing in right external ear and whole right side of face downwards. ► Swelling of the right parotid gland, with erysipelatous redness and violent shooting pains.

Nose

► Extreme sensibility of smell ; odor of tobacco and soot are intolerable. ► Frequent sneezing. ► Dryness of nose with dull frontal headache. ► Fluent coryza from one nostril only. ► Coryza, with offensive smell ; smell in nose as of herring pickle, especially when blowing the nose. ► Discharge of mucus, mixed with blood, from the nose. ► Suppressed catarrh, maddening headache. ► Nostrils and corners of lips ulcerated, without pain or itching. ► Sudden redness of tip of nose, with burning sensation. ► Nosebleed : with congestion to head ; in children at night.

Face

► Red and hot, or pale and cold ; mottled red ; swollen and hot. ► Sensation of burning heat in whole face, without redness of cheeks ; or with marked thirst, body warm, feet cold. ► Scraping, itching of forehead. ► Neuralgic pains commencing under left orbit and running back to the ear. ► Violent shooting in right maxillary joint, extending to the ear ; when chewing. ► Cutting, tearing pain, mostly right side, shooting from side of the face up to temple, into the ear and down to nape of neck, worse from touch and motion ; hard pressure sometimes relieves.

Lower Face

► Raw feeling at corners of mouth. ► Pustules at borders of lips, with smarting pains. ► Severe swelling of the upper lip. ► Lips : especially the upper one, crack in the middle ; dry and parched. ► Sensation as if lower jaw was drawn backwards.

Teeth

► Dull drawing in upper row, right side, all night. ► Toothache some minutes after eating, not during ; increases gradually to high degree and as gradually diminishes. ► Teeth feel "on edge". ► Extremely painful swelling of gums on right side. ► Bleeding of gums.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : salty ; sour ; bitter ; pappy ; offensive ; putrid when eating or drinking. ► Bread tastes sour. ► Stammering speech. ► Paralytic weakness of organs of speech. ► Tongue : inflamed and much swollen, papillae of deep red color ; tip and edges light red. ► Feeling in tip of tongue as if a vesicle was on it, with burning pain when touched. ► Feeling of coldness and dryness of forepart of tongue. ► Tongue : white centre with red edges ; or two white stripes ; covered with white clammy fur, which can be pulled off in strings ; dry and furred ; covered with much tenacious, yellowish-white mucus.

Mouth

► Saliva thickened, tenacious, white, clings to the tongue like glue. ► Dryness of mouth with thirst. ► Mouth feels hot. ► Salivation succeeding the dryness of mouth. ► Slimy mouth in morning, when awaking, with pressing headache.

Throat

► Dryness of roof of mouth, fauces and throat. ► Constant urging and desire to swallow ; seemed as if he would choke if he did not swallow. ► During deglutition, feeling in the throat as if it were too narrow, or drawn together, as if nothing would pass properly. ► Throat : feels raw and sore ; looks very red and shining. ► Fine tearing on inner surface of angle of left lower jaw, in and behind the left tonsil, unaffected by contact ; worse when swallowing. ► Tonsillitis, worse right side ; parts bright red ; worse swallowing liquids. ► Rapidly forming aphthous ulcers on tonsils ; intense congestion ; throbbing of the carotids. ► Pharynx as if excoriated ; scraping ; sensation of enlargement with dryness and burning ; bright redness or bright and yellowish-redness of fauces. ► Cervical glands inflame suddenly.

Desires And Aversions

► Thirst ; drinks water, wants lemonade. ► Great thirst in evening with watery taste ; all drinks are loathsome. ► Violent thirst at noon. ► Desire for lemons (which prove beneficial). ► Repugnance to beer, acids, coffee, camphor.

Eating And Drinking

► Wine aggravates dyspnoea. ► After eating : putrid taste in mouth. ► After drinking beer, internal heat.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Violent hiccough. ► Hiccoughing eructations ; spasm composed partly of eructation, partly of hiccough. ► Half suppressed, incomplete eructation. ► Nausea in the stomach. ► Ineffectual efforts to vomit about midnight, with cold sweat. ► Vomiting of mucus ; of bile and mucus ; of undigested food ; watery ; can keep nothing down, is pale and weak.

Stomach

► Painless throbbing and beating at pit of stomach. ► Feeling of emptiness in stomach. ► Cutting pain in the stomach, worse from motion or pressure. ► Hard pressure in stomach after eating. ► Distention of epigastrium, with tensive pain in stomach. ► Gnawing, pressing, crampy, drawing and wrenching pain in stomach, compels patient to bend backwards, worse after drinking. ► Spasms in the stomach like cramp. ► Shooting pains in stomach. ► Burning in stomach. ► Painful pressure in pit of stomach only when walking ; compels him to walk slowly. ► Haematemesis ; ringing in ears ; red cheeks ; feeling of fulness and warmth in stomach.

Hypochondria

► Region of liver painful and sore to touch. ► Acute pain in region of liver ; worse lying on right side ; pains go to shoulder and neck ; can tolerate no pressure or jar ; pit of stomach bloated. ► Colic from gall-stones ; indurated liver ; jaundice.

Abdomen

► Distention of abdomen. ► During the pain, the transverse colon protrudes like a pad all the way across the abdomen. ► Clawing around the navel ; better from pressure. ► Abdomen distended, hot. ► Loud rumbling and pinching in the belly. ► Colic, as if a spot in the abdomen were seized with the nails, a griping, clutching, clawing. ► Violent cutting pressure in hypogastrium, now here, now there. ► Great pain in right ileo-coecal region, cannot bear the slightest touch, not even the bed-cover. ► Feeling as if a hard body pressed from within outwards, at right inguinal ring ; the part not feeling hard to the touch ; while sitting with body bent forwards. ► Fine shooting in left groin. ► Tenderness even to slight pressure, especially over ovarian region.

Stool, Etc

► Pressing in rectum towards the anus. ► Voluptuous tickling in lower part of rectum and anus. ► Stools : thin, green mucus ; frequent, thin ; bloody mucus with tenesmus, containing lumps like chalk ; clay-colored ; chalky white, with granular, slimy mucus ; smell sour. ► Urging to stool, which is more fluid than usual, but passed in proper quantity. ► Involuntary evacuation, paralysis of the sphincter ani. ► Bleeding piles ; back pains as if breaking. ► Spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani. ► Mucous membrane of anus seems swollen and pressed out. ► Violent itching, at same time constrictive sensation in anus.

Urine

► Spasmodic crampy straining along the ureter, during passage of calculus. ► Urine : bright yellow and clear, frequent, copious, pale and watery ; first clear, becomes turbid on standing ; blood red. ► When the urine is heated, almost invariably deposits a cloud of phosphates. ► Frequent desire with small quantity. ► Involuntary micturition, with paralysis of sphincter and retention with paralysis of bladder. ► Vesical region very sensitive to pressure or jar. ► Sensation of turning and twisting in the bladder, as if from a large worm, without desire to micturate. ► Wets the bed ; restless, starts in sleep.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual desire decreased. ► Weakness and relaxation of genitals. ► Nocturnal emission of semen, during relaxation of penis. ► Violent stitches in the testicles which are drawn upwards. ► Tearing upwards, in left spermatic cord, evening in bed. ► Soft painless tumor on the glans. ► Sweating of genital organs.

Female Sexual Organs

► Pressure downwards, as if all the contents of abdomen would issue through the vulva ; worse morning. ► Violent pressing and urging towards the genitals, as if everything would fall out there ; worse sitting bent, and in walking ; better standing, and sitting erect. ► Right ovary much enlarged ; stitching, throbbing pains ; pains come suddenly and go suddenly. ► Clutching or clawing pains, or transient stitches in the uterine region, parts sensitive, cannot bear least jar. ► Profuse discharge of hot, bright red blood, sometimes dark, clotted, and of a bad smell ; flow of blood between the periods. ► Painful menstruation. ► Amenorrhoea. ► Leucorrhoea, of white mucus ; with colic. ► Great heat and dryness of vagina. ► Climaxis : congestion ; axillary glands hard ; sudden hot flushes.

Pregnancy

► Lochia offensive, feel hot to the parts. ► Labor-pains : deficient ; cease, have only periodical slight pressure on sacrum ; amniotic fluid gone ; yet os still spasmodically contracted. ► Phlegmasia alba dolens. ► Appears as if stunned ; semi-conscious and loss of speech ; convulsive movements in limbs and muscles of face ; paralysis of right side of tongue, foam at mouth ; renewal of fits at every pain. ► Retained placenta, profuse flow of hot blood, which speedily coagulates.

Larynx

► Hoarseness ; rough voice. ► Voice weakened even to complete aphonia. ► Speaking is very difficult to him ; speaks in a piping tone. ► Dryness of larynx.

Breathing

► Short, hurried, anxious breathing. ► Breathing heavy and stertorous. ► Difficult respiration. ► Asthmatic paroxysm in afternoon and evening, with sensation of dust in lungs. ► Asthma in hot, damp weather ; worse after sleep. ► Quick short, irregular breathing, alternates with slow, gentle, at times almost imperceptible breathing ; in a child.

Cough

► Dry cough : from dryness of larynx ; from tickling itching in back part of the top of larynx, evening, after lying down in bed ; from sensation of a foreign body in larynx. ► Attack of coughing, as if one had inhaled dust ; wakens at night ; mucous expectoration. ► Sensation as if something were in the pit of stomach, which excites cough. ► Violent cough about noon, with expectoration of much tenacious mucus. ► Cough, with bloody mucous expectoration in the morning ; bloody taste in mouth. ► Night cough ; wakes from sleep. ► Attacks of cough ending with sneezing. ► Pressing pain in nape of neck when coughing. ► Child begins to cry immediately before cough comes on. ► Barking cough, waking suddenly, 11 P.M. ; face fiery red ; crying with cough.

Lungs

► Noise and rattling in the bronchial tubes. ► Pressive pain in chest, with shortness of breath, and at same time between shoulders, when walking or sitting. ► Pressure in right chest, causes anxiety. ► Constriction across chest, as if pressed inwards from both sides. ► Burning in right chest. ► Stitches in apex of right lung.

Heart And Pulse

► Pressure in the cardiac region, which arrests the breathing and causes a sense of anxiety. ► Gurgling at the heat, a kind of palpitation, when going up stairs. ► Pulse : accelerated, frequently full, hard and tense ; large, full and slow ; at times small and soft. ► Throbbing in the carotid and temporal arteries.

Outer Chest

► Corroding, gnawing pain beneath the cartilages of last ribs, right side.

Neck And Back

► Pressive pain externally in neck, when bending head backwards, and when touching the part. ► Swelling of glands in nape of neck, with cloudiness of head. ► Pressive pain under left scapula, more towards outer side. ► Drawing pressure between right scapula and spinal column. ► Shooting and gnawing pain in the spinal column. ► Stabbing as if with a knife, from without inwards, in the vertebrae. ► Drawing, burning and throbbing pain in the spine. ► Soreness of last dorsal and first lumber vertebrae. ► Back aches, as if broken. ► Cramp-like sensation in left lumbar region. ► Curvature of the lumber vertebrae. ► Bearing down on to sacrum.

Upper Limbs

► Stitching pressure on top of left shoulder. ► Heaviness and paralytic feeling in upper limbs. ► Violent stabbing, as with a blunt knife, below the head of the humerus, from within out. ► Drawing pain on inner side of left upper arm. ► Tearing pain in humerus. ► Bruised pain in upper arm. ► Cutting pain in interior of left elbow-joint when walking. ► Sharp shooting externally in elbow-joint. ► Cutting, tearing in lower muscles of both forearms. ► Not able to turn the hand easily and freely on its axis (as when dropping from a glass), turns only by jerks ; as from want of synovial fluid in wrist-joint ; painless. ► Painful drawing in the metacarpo-phalangeal articulation of the left middle finger, as if in the periosteum. ► Paralytic tearing in the middle joint of right index finger. ► Numbness and prickling in the hands.

Lower Limbs

► Pain in thighs and legs, as if beaten and as if carious ; fine shooting and gnawing along the bones, with violent tearing in the joints ; the pain rises gradually from the ankle to hips, necessitates, while sitting, constant motion and shifting of the feet ; is milder when walking. ► Crampy pain in the gluteal muscles, with tension on bending the body forward. ► Cutting stitches in the outer muscles of right thigh, just above knee, only when sitting. ► Cramp-like pain in right knee near the patella, towards the outer side when sitting. ► Sensation in joints of lower limbs, particularly knees, as if they would give way, especially when walking, and more marked when going down hill. ► Burning-stinging in knee-joint, worse at night. ► Synovitis of knee-joint ; intense inflammation ; sense of bubbling as from drops of water. ► Dull tearing in the legs. ► Tremulous heaviness of legs. ► Tearing pressure in middle of the inside of the leg, uninfluenced by motion or contact. ► Tension in right tarsal-joint while walking in open air. ► Pain in metatarsal bones, as if dislocated. ► Boring, digging or shooting pains in soles. ► Pain as if bruised in the heel when treading thereon.

Limbs In General

► Loss of co-ordination of the muscles of both upper and lower limbs, very like the heaviness and helplessness of movement observed in first stage of progressive paralysis of the insane.

Position, Etc

► Disinclination and aversion to walk or motion. ► Restlessness ; he was obliged constantly to move the body to and fro, especially the hands and feet. ► Cannot stay long in any position, at one time lies, at another sits, again stands, in all of which he constantly changes his position. ► Motion : 2, 8, 17, 20, 21, 33. Walking : 3, 17, 22, 28, 32, 33. Every step : 3. Ascending : 3, 29. Descending : 33. Standing : 22. Sitting : 3, 28, 33 ; erect : 22 ; bent : 22. Stooping : 2. Backwards : 17. Rising : 3. Lying down : 3, 27.

Nerves

► Trembling in all the limbs. ► Weakness and tottering gait. ► Paralytic weakness of all the muscles, especially of feet. ► Great restlessness with sudden startings. ► Muscles of face, jaw and limbs, agitated by convulsive twitchings. ► Spasm of one and paralysis of other side. ► Spasmodic motions of body, generally backwards. ► Throws body forwards and backwards, while lying, like constant change from emprosthotonos to opisthotonos. ► Convulsions commence in arm. θ Epilepsy. ► Clenched the teeth together with such force that they could not be opened. ► Stiffness of whole body. ► Tetanus, while working in hot sun he become unconscious, jaws fixed, head hot, feet cold.

Sleep

► Frequent yawning. ► Towards evening drowsiness, with yawning ; in the morning feels as if he had not slept enough. ► Sleeps much, yet not refreshed. ► Sleeps prevented by anxiety. ► Sleepy, yet cannot sleep. ► Starts as if affright, during sleep and on awaking. ► During sleep ; singing and talking loud ; moaning. ► Vivid dreams : about murder ; street robbers ; of danger from fire.

Time

► Remission forenoon and after 12 P.M. ► Morning : 12, 23, 27, 36. Noon : 14, 27. Afternoon : 20, 26. Evening : 14, 22, 26, 27, 37, 40. Night : 7, 10, 27, 33. 11 P.M. : 27. Midnight : 16. Day or night : 40.

Temperature And Weather

► Takes cold from having the hair cut. ► Open air : 3, 33. ► Worse in sudden changes, from warm to cold. ► Better wrapped up warmly in the room. ► Spring : boils, etc. ► Hot weather : worse from sun ; from heat : 3, 20, 26, 36.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill in the evening, mostly on arms, with heat of head. ► Internal chill, with external burning heat. ► Chill and heat alternating. ► Coldness of the limbs, with heat of the head. ► Shivering running down the back. ► Continuous dry, burning heat, with sweat only on the head. ► Internal heat with anxiety and restlessness. ► Heat of forehead, with cold cheeks ; of head, with redness of face and delirium. ► Heat predominating ; averse to uncovering. ► Sweat on the covered parts ; with or immediately after the heat, mostly in face ; staining the clothing and of empyreumatic smell ; during sleep, day or night ; ascending from feet to head. ► Entire want of sweat. ► General sweat suddenly occurring and disappears quickly.

Attacks

► Pains come on suddenly, and after a shorter or longer duration, cease suddenly. ► Sudden attacks of violent cramp-like pain in one side of chest, or of abdomen, or loin, or one elbow especially during sleep, causing one to bend the painful part. ► With every labor-pain : 24.

Sides

► Right : 3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 18, 19, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33. Left : 3, 5, 8, 13, 18, 19, 22, 31, 32. In out : 3, 5, 19, 32. Out in : 28, 31. Above downwards : 6, 40. Below upwards : 18, 33, 40. Behind forwards : 3. Front backwards : 8.

Tissues

► Acts on circular fibres of blood-vessels. ► On sphincters, as in spasm of os uteri, etc. ► Inflammations of serous and mucous membranes. ► Pains along the periosteum. ► Ostitis, traumatic, erysipelatous redness of the part. ► Red shining swelling of the joints. ► Housemaid's knee, acute symptoms. ► Phlegmonous inflammation. ► Engorgement of glands ; acute swelling.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 4, 8, 18, 19, 31. Contact : 33. Pressure : 3, 8, 17, 19, 21. Jar : 21, 23.

Skin

► Painful sensitiveness of skin to contact. ► Eruptions resembling measles. ► Heat over whole body, with bluish redness of whole surface. ► Skin imparts a burning sensation to the examining hands. ► Intense erysipelatous fever, accompanied with inflamed swellings, passing even into gangrene. ► Pustules on nape of neck, arms and back. ► Red scaly eruption on lower part of body, as far as the abdomen. ► Skin scarlet and smooth. ► Urticaria during profuse menstruation. ► Jaundice after abuse of peruvian bark or mercury ; in complication with stones in gall-bladder.

Stages And States

► Suits plethoric, lymphatic constitutions, who are jovial and entertaining when well, but violent when sick. ► Women, children, blue eyes, light hair, fine complexion, delicate skin. ► Tuberculous patients ; pleurisy. ► Young, full-blooded : with fevers and inflammations, when pulse and heat run high, congestions ; nervous, delirious, threatened convulsions.

Relationship

► Antidotes to Bellad. : of large doses ; Coffea, Hyosc. ; of small doses : Camphor., Coffea, Hepar, Hyosc., Opium, Pulsat., Vinum. ► Bellad. antidotes Acon., Cuprum, Ferrum, Hyosc., Mercur., Plumbum. ► Bellad. is said to be an antidote to Jaborandi. ► Vinegar increases headache of Bellad. ► Bellad. is frequently indicated after Chamom., Hepar, Laches., Mercur., Phosphor., Nitr. ac. ► After Bellad. : Cinchon, Conium, Dulcam., Hepar, Laches., Rhus, Seneg., Stramon., Valer., are frequently indicated. ► Complementary to Calc. ostr.