Homeopathy LibraryHyoscyamus Niger
Reason for use
The general sphere of action of this remedy is found in spasmodic affections.
Mental.-- Amativeness; affections of the intellect; delirium; in which the patient may jump out of bed, throw off the bedclothes, or take off the clothes and go naked; nymphomania. Patients with fever will often throw the bed-clothes entirely off, not because they are too warm, but they will not remain covered ; madness; imbecility of the intellect; memory weak or lost.
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Eyes
Pupils dilated; blindness; amaurosis; ocular illusions; diplopia; momentary loss of sight.
Sexual.-- Menstrual blood pale; spasmodic labor pains (particularly when accompanied by spasmodic affections of other parts of the body); complaints at beginning of menstruation, also during.
Spasma.-- Epilepsy without consciousness; great restlessness of the body; all convulsive motions where every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes; spasms in general; spasms clonic.
Generalities
Light-haired people; hardness of hearing from paralyzed auditor nerves; bleeding of the nose, blood pale; sensation of smell too feeble; bluish color of face; painless diarrhoea; troubles of the bladder; expectoration mixed with pale blood; hydrophobia; hard; full pulse; inflammation of blood vessels.
Worse.-- In the evening; from mental affections; from jealousy; unhappy love; sufferings of children; from taking cold; from cold air; from approaching menstruation, and at beginning of, also during menstruation.
Better.-- On stooping.
Remedies following:-- Bellad., Pulsat., Stramon., Veratr .
Antidotes
Bellad., Stramon .
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