Origin Plant · Solanaceae · Simple
Habitat Grows in vicinity of cultivation on rank soil where refuse is deposited in all parts of the world
ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh plant in flower and fruit.
Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
30X
Thirtieth potency and lower
By regionHering
Mind ► Dulness of sense ; also before a rash. ► Coma, spasms ; later, snoring, unconscious, jaw hangs, hands and feet twitch, eyes roll ; pupils dilated ; automatic grasping of hands towards nose, ears, etc. ; difficult to swallow liquids. ► Unconscious, stupid. ► Awakens terrified, knows no one, screams with fright, clings to those near (child). ► Feels stupid, with indifference to everybody and everything. ► Memory weak ; loses thoughts before she can give them utterance ; weeps about her weak mind also after sunstroke. ► Hallucinations, which terrify the patient sees ghosts, hears voices back of his ears sees strangers or imagines animals are jumping sideways out of ground, or running at him. ► Strange, absurd ideas ; thinks herself tall, double, or lying crosswise ; one-half of body cut off, etc. ► Says he converses with spirits ; prays fervently ; sermonizes. ► Ecstatic. ► Delirium with grand ideas ; general paralysis. ► Delirium ; shy, hides himself ; tries to escape ; conscious of her condition ; full of fear ; talks incessantly, absurdly, laughs, claps her hands over head, wide-open eyes ; great sexual excitement, during night. ► Lies on the back, knees and thighs flexed, hands, joined ; delirium alternating with tetanic convulsions. ► Mania : for light and company ; cannot bear to be alone ; runs about ; rage ; proud, haughty ; merry, exaltation. ► Hydrophobia ; water, a mirror or anything bright excites convulsions ; screams ; bites ; mouth dry ; pupils large ; unconscious. …
Inner Head ► Tormenting sensation of heat in whole head, mostly vertex, with great dullness ; after sunstroke. ► Pressure on forehead when rising, could only half open eyes, could not look up. ► Headache congestive, morning ; worse toward noon, gradually decreasing, toward evening ; pains terrible, fears going mad, would run or press head against a wall. ► Pulsating in vertex ; fainting. ► Heat, pulsating about vertex, attacks of fainting, loss of sight and hearing, face bloated, turgid ; convulsive motions of head, frequently raising head from pillow, or bending it backward ; better lying still. ► Sensation of lightness of head. ► Pain in head ; nausea, delirium, eyes wild, starting, inflamed ; frenzy, convulsive spasms and twitchings of nerves, hands and feet become cold, pulse sinking. θ Meningitis. ► Headache, with loss of sight and hearing. ► Rheumatic headache, with dullness ; difficult thinking ; worse on vertex or forehead ; worse evening and night. ► Tearing in neck and over head, shunning light ; better from warmth ; worse from cold ; worse on getting up in morning.
Eyes ► Light dazzles ; shuns light ; convulsions from bright or brilliant objects. ► Hemeralopia. ► Illusions in colors, often dark, less often blue and red. ► Double vision, obliquely. ► Vision cloudy, as through a veil. ► Total blindness. θ Typhus. ► Pupils dilated ; sometimes immovable and insensible to light. ► Eyes : wide open, staring ; brilliant ; wild and red ; protrude ; vacillate ; vessels injected ; contorted ; rolling ; squinting ; half open, in sleep ; inflamed.
Stomach ► Drawing in back part of stomach. ► Inflammation, burning ; anxiety. ► Intense pain, vomits nearly all food. ► Cardialgia, eructations, vomiting all food ; emaciation. ► Epigastrium tense, hard, painful.
Female Sexual Organs ► Nymphomania ; lewd talking ; sings obscene songs ; has smell of semen. ► Excessive menstrual flow ; drawing in thighs, abdomen and upper limbs. ► Menstrual flow very watery. ► During menses loquacity ; strong smell as of semen. ► After menses ; sobbing, whining. ► Dysmenorrhoea. ► Metrorrhagia, loquacity, singing, praying ; sometimes passing large coagula.
Lungs ► Pain in breast, cough and other pre-pneumonic symptoms during recovery from meningitis.
Neck And Back ► Constant pain in cervical and upper dorsal vertebrae. ► Bending backward. ► Drawing pain in spine. ► Spot in back pains when touched. ► Put right arm often to small of back and draws mouth, as if he had severe pain.
Limbs In General ► Arms agitated, lower limbs quiet. ► Drawing, laming, somewhat, spasmodic pains in muscles. ► Fingers and heels numb, latter sometimes painful, rheumatic headaches. ► Limbs feel as if "gone to sleep". ► Cold hands and feet.
Sleep ► Drowsy by day ; staggering and drowsy. ► Sleepy, but cannot sleep ; after the convulsions. ► Snoring, deep sleep. ► Coma, rattling respiration, bloody froth at mouth. θ Scarlatina. ► Falls into a deep sleep ; deep breathing, snoring. ► Sleepless, tosses about. ► During sleep : laughs ; screams ; starts ; sexual excitement ; emission ; spasms ; sit up, looks about, talk incoherently. ► Awakens : with a solemn air of importance ; all things seem new ; screaming, seems frightened, knows no one, shrinks away, or jumps out of bed.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chilly, as from cold water down her back. ► Chills : run down back ; and general coldness, with red face and twitchings ; with great sensitiveness to uncovering ; with heat in head. ► Fever in children ; cry out in sleep ; start, jerk ; eyes half open, pupils large ; suppressed urine. ► Anxious heat with vomiting. ► Afternoon, first heat of head and face, then general coldness, then general heat. ► Heat : anxious, with vomiting ; delirium, thirst and sweat ; of whole body, face vivid red ; at the same time sweat. ► Covers up during heat. ► Sweat : cold all over ; with delirium ; with impaired vision, or shunning light ; oily of putrid odor.
Skin ► Whole skin and conjunctivae red, like crimson. ► Skin hot and dry. ► Worse when eruptions are suppressed, or do not come out well. ► Burns. ► Entire face swollen, muttering delirium, small-pox before vesicles form. ► Restless, skin itching ; rash coppery-red, skin dry, hot. ► Measles, before eruption, with convulsions, frightful visions of rats and mice, seem frightened, try to hide ; spasms of oesophagus ; body hot, face red, puffed.
Books*
Antidoted by Belladonna 3, Hyoscyamus Niger 3, Nux Vomica 3 +10
Complementary Apis Mellifica, Bryonia Alba, Rhus Toxicodendron
Follows well Belladonna, Cuprum Metallicum
Compare Belladonna, Hyoscyamus Niger, Secale Cornutum +27
* 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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