Homeopathy LibraryStramonium
Reason for use
Acts chiefly upon the sensorium, increasing its activity, perverting its function, and giving rise to nausea, delirium, and to hallucinations ; simulating in kind the action of Belladonna and Hyoscyamus , yet differing in degree.
The delirium is more furious, the mania more acute, while the congestion, though greater than in Hyoscyamus , is much less than in Belladonna , never approaching a true inflammatory condition.
Stramonium also produces great dryness of the throat and skin, on the latter causing a fiery red rash, resembling that of scarlatina.
On other portions of the body Stramonium only acts through sympathetic irritation from the brain. In this manner it produces dilated pupils, diminished general sensibility, perversion of the special senses, convulsive motions, intense sexual excitement, suppressed urine, etc.
Characteristic, symptoms.
▲ Worse
When alone; in the dark; from being touched; from looking at glistening objects; when attempting to swallow, especially liquids
▼ Better
In the house; from light and company; from cold water
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Mind
(Stramonium)
Delirium ; furious (Bell., Canth., Oenan.) ; full of fear (Bell., Verat. alb.) ; tries to escape ; struggles to get out of bed (Bell.) ; incessant and incoherent talk ; laughing ( Hyos .) ; carphologia ( Bell., Hyos .) ; sexual excitement.
Talks in a foreign tongue ; typhus.
Mania ; desire for light and company ( Kreos., Hyos .) ; attacks of rage, with beating or striking ; proud, haughty (Plat., Lach .) ; screaming - , biting, scratching ; terrified ; merry, exaltation ; singing and dancing. ( Croc .)
Hallucinations ( Anac., Hyos., Can. ind.) which terrify the patient ( Absinth .), horrible images ; sees strangers, or imagines horrible animals are jumping sideways out of the ground, or running at him.
Hydrophobia ( Bell., Hyos .) ; excessive aversion to liquids ; water, a mirror, or anything bright, excites convulsions ; spasmodic constriction of throat, etc.
After a fright : St. Vitus' dance ; epilepsy ; mania ; melancholia.
Dullness of all the senses.
Alternate exaltation and melancholy.
Stupid indifference to everybody and everything. (Berb., Phos., Phos. ac .)
The child on waking is frightened at anything that first meets its eyes (Bell.) ; wants to run away from them.
Unconscious snoring ; jaw hangs down ; hands and feet twitch ; pupils dilated. ( Op .)
Weak memory (Anac., Kreos., Lach., Merc., Natr. mur.) ; loses thoughts before she can utter them ; calls things by wrong names.
Head
(Stramonium)
Vertigo ; cannot walk in the dark ; falling to the left or backward (Bell.) ; reeling as if drunk. (Agar.)
Violent congestion in the head. (Bell.)
Heat in head ; pulsation about vertex and in forehead ; fainting ; loss of sight and hearing ; face bloated and turgid.
Convulsive movements of the head, mostly to the right side ; frequently raising the head up.
Eyes
(Stramonium)
Eyes wide opera, staring, prominent ( Amyl. nit., Naja , Bell., Hyos., Op.) ; brilliant ; contorted.
Pupils dilated (Bell., Hyos., Op.) ; sometimes immovable, and insensible to light. ( Cic., Digit .)
Conjunctiva injected ; as if the vessels were filled with dirty liquid.
Total blindness, transient.
Light dazzles ; shuns the light ; bright light or brilliant objects cause convulsions.
Double vision ( Aur ., Bell., Cic., Phyt.) ; sees obliquely.
Ears
(Stramonium)
Hardness of hearing.
Face
(Stramonium)
Face hot, red, and bloated (Acon., Bell., Op.) ; eyes wild ; expression of terror.
Twitching in muscles of face (Agar., Ant. tart., Cic., Ign.) ; frowns on forehead.
Thinks face elongated.
One-sided erysipelas, with meningitis ; spasmodic symptoms alternate with paralytic.
Prosopalgia nervosa ; pains maddening ; spasmodic starts and shocks through body ; throws arms upward ; skin of forehead wrinkled.
Mouth
(Stramonium)
Tongue swollen, stiff, dry, moved with difficulty.
Stammering (Caust., Can. ind., Selen.), or entirely speechless . ( Hyos .)
Great dryness of mouth and fauces.
Dribbling of glairy saliva from the mouth.
Throat
(Stramonium)
Difficult deglutition, from spasmodic constriction of the throat. (Bell., Hyos., Laur ., Plumb., Verat. alb .)
Great dryness of the throat . ( Apis, Nux m ., Rhus tox.)
Stomach
(Stramonium)
Violent thirst , especially for acid drinks. (Ant. tart., Cinch., Phos., Verat. alb.)
Hiccough ; nausea ; vomiting.
Diaphragmitis, delirium ; burning along diaphragm ; short breathed ; spasms ; struggles against water offered.
Abdomen
(Stramonium)
Abdomen distended, not hard.
Stool and Urine.- (Stramonium)
Suppression of both stool and urine.
Cholera infantum ; foul-smelling stools ; strabismus ; awakes with fright ; pale face.
Constipation.
Urine dribbles away slowly and feebly. (Acon., Caust.)
Involuntary urination. ( Ars., Bell., Cic., Hyos., Op .)
Onanism, causing epilepsy.
Sexual Organs
(Stramonium)
Exalted sexual desire in both sexes ; in females, nymphomania. (Canth., Cinch., Plat .)
Metrorrhagia, with characteristic mental symptoms.
Respiratory Organs.- (Stramonium)
Voice hoarse and croaking ; high, fine, squeaking ; indistinct.
Cough of drunkards.
Difficult, hurried respiration.
Great sense of suffocation, from constriction of the chest. (Asaf., Ign.)
Red rash on chest ; typhus.
Heart and Pulse.- (Stramonium)
Palpitation. (Acon., Bell., Spig .)
Pulse rapid, full, strong ; soft, feeble, frequent.
Limbs
(Stramonium)
Convulsive motions of hands and arms ; carphologia. (Hyos.)
Panaritium ; pain intolerable, drives to despair ; relieves pain of suppuration.
Twitching of the hands and feet . (Bell., Hyos.)
Twitching of the tendons . (Hyos., Kali iod.)
Trembling of the limbs . (Coccul., Coni., Gels., Merc.)
The limbs fall asleep.
Inside of right thigh swollen, red ; typhus.
Generalities
(Stramonium)
Suppression of all secretions and excretions.
Trembling of the whole body, as of from fright. ( Gels .)
Frequent twitchings (Agar., Cic.) ; sudden jerks through the body.
Catalepsy ; limbs can be moved by others.
Convulsions : from the sight of bright, dazzling objects ; from water, touch (Nux v.), or being spoken to. (Cic.)
Choreic convulsions (Agar., Cic., Cimic., Hyos., Ign., Laur.) ; especially from fright.
Constant, restless movements of the limbs and whole body.
Drawing pains in the spine.
Paralyzed limbs after apoplexy.
Skin
(Stramonium)
Intense scarlet-red rash over the whole body . (Apis, Arum, Bell ., Rhus tox.)
Sleep
(Stramonium)
Snoring ; deep sleep. (Laur., Op .)
Restless sleep, with tossing about, twitching and screaming.
Fever
(Stramonium)
Coldness of the whole body, especially the limbs .
During chill head is hot ; don't want to be covered.
Hot, red face, with cold feet.
Violent fever ; skin dry and burning hot, especially head and face. (Bell.)
Cold sweat over the whole body. (Ant. tart., Ars., Cupr., Digit., Verat. alb.)
Fever in children ; cry out in sleep ; start, jerk ; eyes half open ; pupils large ; suppressed urine.
Amelioration
Therapeutic Range.- (Stramonium)
Acute mania ; delirium tremens ; hydrophobia ; nymphomania ; convulsions ; epilepsy ; chorea ; hysteria ; catalepsy ; spasmodic affections from fright ; coxalgia ; paralysis ; ailments from the vapor of Mercury ; scarlatina ; measles ; suppressed eruptions ; whooping cough ; anasarca after scarlatina ; burns.
Conditions
(Stramonium)
Especially in children, and in young plethoric persons.
Compare
(Stramonium)
Agar ., Ars., Bry., Bell ., Cham., Can. ind ., Cic., Hyos., Ign., Lyc., Nux v., Op., Plumb., Puls., Sulph., Verat. alb.
Antidotes
(Stramonium)
Bell., Hyos., Nux v.
To large doses : Lemon juice, vinegar, tobacco, injections.
Stramonium Antidotes.-
Merc., Plumb.
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