Habitat Not to be confounded with "Deadly Nightshade," Belladonna, nor with "Climbing Bitter-sweet," Celastrus

ClarkePreparation Tincture prepared from fresh green stems and leaves, gathered just before flowering.

Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Boring, burning, in forehead, with digging in brain ; worse from motion, even talking ; head heavy. ► Dull headache, continuous ; pain in head, chest and stomach, with great uneasiness, depressed spirits, labored respiration, mental confusion, cannot concentrate his thoughts. ► Congestion to head, buzzing in ears, dull hearing ; worse from getting feet wet. ► Sensations of a board pressing against the forehead. ► Chilliness in cerebellum, and over the back, returning every evening ; cerebellum and whole head as if enlarged ; worse cold damp ; damp weather ; worse until 2 P.M. ; better lying down.

Eyes ► Aching in eyes when reading ; sight dim ; scintillations ; worse at rest. ► Threatened amaurosis in scrofulous children. ► Dim sight, sees as through a gauze. ► Ophthalmia ; scrofulous, from every exposure to cold. ► Paralysis of the upper lids.

Stomach ► Retraction and burning in the epigastric region.

Female Sexual Organs ► Menses suppressed by cold. ► Rash before menses. ► Menses too late, too short ; blood watery, thin. ► Mammae engorged, hard ; amenorrhoea.

Lungs ► Bronchitis ; offensive-smelling night-sweats. ► Tuberculosis in scrofulous subjects ; also worse in changes from warm to cold ; sputa touch, green ; cough moderate ; stitches here and there in chest ; diarrhoea. ► Phthisis mucosa. ► Rheumatic pleuritis and pleuro-pneumonia, with tough, difficult, discolored sputa. ► Hydrothorax, worse wet weather. ► Mucus on the chest, must cough long before raising it ; suffocative catarrh. ► Haemoptysis, bright red ; tickling in larynx ; worse it rest ; caused by a cold or loose, protracted cough. ► Pain in left chest, as if lung moved in waves.

Neck And Back ► Neck stiff, back painful, loins lame, after taking cold. ► Spinal meningitis during scarlatina or measles, eruption does not develop. ► Myelitis after taking cold during menstruation. ► Hyperaemia of the spinal cord. ► Drawing pain from small of back down thighs, during rest ; stitches when moving, relieved by pressure. ► Coldness is small of back. ► Sacrum feels cold.

Limbs In General ► Cold limbs. ► Rheumatism after acute eruptions, or when chronic forms alternate with attacks of diarrhoea. ► Pains in the joints on exposure to cold. ► Rheumatism after exposure to wet ; parts as if beaten severe pains when remaining in one position, subside only when he moves about.

Sleep ► Falling asleep, evening starts as if in affright. ► During sleep, mouth open snoring. ► Sleep restless after 12 P.M. ► Uneasy sleep, confused dreams, frequent sweat ; tosses from side to side. ► Sleep worse after 3 P.M.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill commencing in or spreading from the back, not relieved by warmth ; mostly towards evening. ► Chill with pains. ► Chill with violent thirst. ► General dry burning heat all over. ► Heat and burning in the back. ► Heat with delirium, without thirst. ► Fetid sweat, with skin diseases ; with copious limpid urine. ► Offensive sweat, night and morning, over the whole body ; during day more over back, in axillae and palms. ► Sweat suppressed and entirely wanting.

Skin ► Skin hot dry. ► Tetter oozing a watery fluid, bleeds after scratching. ► Thick brown herpes, red border ; glands swollen. ► Red spots, as if from flea bites. ► Eruption of itching pustules, ceasing to itch after scabbing over ; sensitive to touch ; worse washing. ► Impetiginous eczema of scrofulous children. ► Suppressed itch. ► Painful ulcers ; discharge scanty. ► Nettle-rash, with much itching ; after scratching it burns ; increases in warmth, better in cold. ► Small furuncles on places formerly injured by concussion. ► Warts, fleshy or large, smooth ; on dorsa of hands and on the face. ► Retrocession of eruptions, from exposure to damp, cold air : 26. ► Skin callous.

Complementary Baryta Carbonica, Kalium Sulphuricum

Follows well Bryonia Alba, Calcarea Carbonica, Lycopodium Clavatum +5

Compare Bryonia Alba, Calcarea Carbonica, Pulsatilla Pratensis +28