Stramonium

General

STRAMONIUM. [Stramon.] Jamestown-wood. Hahnemann. Solanaceae.

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. (Best drug, change dose till cure certain). ► Talks in a foreign tongue. θ Typhus. ► Loquacious ; talks all the time, sings, makes verses. ► Melancholic, fears death ; weeps all the time. ► Pangs of conscience ; thinks he is not honest. ► Alternate exaltation and melancholy. ► Alternation of delirium and somnolence. ► On being reprimanded, pupils dilate immediately (child). ► After fright : St. Vitus dance ; epilepsy ; mania ; melancholia.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : cannot walk in dark, or with eyes closed ; staggering, obscuration of vision, red face ; reeling as if drunk.

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.

Outer Head

► Jerks head up from pillow. ► Boring head into pillow. ► Head bent backward. ► Moves head, thrusts it in all directions : in spasms, mostly to the right. ► Supports head with hands while bending or rising ; after sunstroke.

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.

Ears

► Very sensitive to noises ; least noise startles him. ► Hardness of hearing. ► Sensation as of wind rushing out of ear. ► Otalgia, left side, violent pains, remitting somewhat at night, better when covering head warmly.

Nose

► Nose feels stopped, yet he breathes freely. ► Nasal discharge yellow, bad smelling. ► Nosebleed : dark, in lumps ; with whooping-cough.

Face

► Red, bloated, hot ; red, eyes wild ; hot and red, with cold hands and feet ; circumscribed redness of cheek ; pale. ► Forehead wrinkled, frowning often in brain diseases. ► Thinks face elongated. θ Hysteria. ► One-sided erysipelas, with meningitis ; spasmodic symptoms alternately with paralytic. ► Prosopalgia nervosa, pains maddening, spasmodic starts and shocks through body, throws arms upward ; skin of forehead wrinkled. ► Pain in cheek, near left ear, as if sawing the bone ; muscle in oscillating motion.

Lower Face

► Moves lips back and forward. ► Lips : red ; with yellow streak on vermilion border, as in malignant fevers ; dry ; or sore and cracked. ► Lock-jaw after convulsions. ► Mouth spasmodically closed. ► Lower jaw hangs.

Teeth

► Grinding the teeth. ► Sordes on teeth.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : bitter, all food tastes like straw to her. ► Stammering ; distorts face ; makes great effort to speak ; mouth drawn now to right again to left. ► Speechless ; sometimes with spasmodic laughter at night, weeping during day. ► Tongue : whitish, with fine red dots ; point redder than usual ; dry, red ; dry and parched ; pale red, in constant motion ; swollen, coated dry ; yellow in centre, dry ; swollen, hangs out of the mouth.

Mouth

► Mouth and throat so dry they glisten ; thirst. ► Saliva increased ; dribbling. ► More saliva with chills and fever. ► Viscid slime in mouth. ► Whole inner mouth as if raw.

Throat

► Difficult swallowing, with stinging, pressing pain in submaxillary glands. ► Averse of fluids ; shrinks from the proffered cup. ► Averse to water, even sight of it causes spasm ; constriction of throat, froth, spitting ; hydrophobia : 36. ► Feeling as of boiling water rising in throat. ► Spasm of oesophagus, worse trying to swallow.

Desires And Aversions

► Appetite either increased or decreased. ► Violent thirst. ► Troublesome thirst even with much saliva. ► Thirstless, sometimes with cold or hot stage and sweat ; averse to water during fever. ► Averse to water : 13.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Hiccough ; restless at night, screaming in sleep. ► Nausea : flow of very salt saliva ; but cannot vomit. ► Vomiting : dark green, mixed with food ; in evening ; vomits bile. ► Diaphragmitis, delirium ; burning along diaphragm ; short-breathed ; spasms, struggles against water offered.

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.

Abdomen

► Heat, anxiety in abdomen. ► Wind in abdomen awakens her ; screams, thinking herself full of creeping things. ► Abdomen hard, tense ; tympanitic ; distended, but not hard. ► Colic : with rumbling ; violent, coming on suddenly, in evening with faint sensation and cold shivers.

Stool, Etc

► Stools : black preceded by writhing in bowels, and delirium ; smelling like carrion, blackish ; painless, diarrhoeic. ► Cholera infantum ; foul-smelling stools ; strabismus ; awakes with fright ; pale face. ► Constipation : with convulsions ; cardialgia ; alternating with diarrhoea. ► Hemorrhoids : painful ; bleeding. ► Coagulated blood passes from the anus.

Urine

► Kidneys secrete less or none, in acute diseases, especially of children. ► Urine : clear, profuse, passed suddenly at night ; also after delirium ; copious with spasms ; passed involuntarily ; suppressed, especially in cerebral diseases ; dribbles slowly, feebly ; despite urging no stream forms, no pain. ► During urination : rigors, rumbling in belly.

Male Sexual Organs

► Exalted sexual passion. ► Child constantly has hand on the genitals with spasms. ► Onanism causing epilepsy.

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.

Pregnancy

► During pregnancy : mania ; faceache ; full of strange ideas. ► Threatened abortion ; unceasing talking, singing, imploring. ► Puerperal convulsions, with copious sweating. ► Scanty lochia ; puerperal mania, milk still copious ; many hallucinations ; talks foolishly.

Larynx

► Voice : higher and finer ; screeching ; indistinct. ► Constriction of larynx and thoracic muscles.

Breathing

► Rattling breathing : toward 12 P.M. ; in whooping-cough ; in chill or sweat. ► Frequent inspiration and expiration ; breath oppressed. ► Breathing : short, difficult ; anxious during heat or sweat. ► Spasms of muscles of chest ; single parts twitch ; spasmodic motions of arms ; sometimes chest fixed ; breathes only with diaphragm and abdominal muscles. ► Inspiration slow, expiration quick.

Cough

► Of drunkards. ► Periodical, painless, spasmodic cough, shrill screeching tone ; worse morning ; from touching throat ; from walking in wind ; in vaulted rooms ; after debauch ; after fright ; from looking at bright objects ; from drinking water. ► Whooping-cough, barking, croup-like, with suffocating contraction of chest, violent beating of heart, rattling, anxiety, congestion, blood-spitting ; convulsions.

Lungs

► Pain in breast, cough and other pre-pneumonic symptoms during recovery from meningitis.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation. ► Beating of heart, so increased by motions he cannot speak for hours ; trembling, twitching as in chorea ; murmurs instead of regular sounds ; consequent on fright. ► Pulse : full, strong ; frequent, hard ; irregular ; small and spasmodic ; slow, in typhus ; sometimes trembling or imperceptible ; sometimes double and very quick, with quiet respiration.

Outer Chest

► Red rash on chest. θ Typhus.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Raises arm above head, claps hands, makes graceful, gyratory motions. ► Grasping about with hands, as if reaching for things ; searching for things ; picking. ► Grasps the throat ; sighing, groaning. ► Hands and arms tremble. ► Clapping hand over head. ► Hands clenched (not thumbs) but they can be opened. ► Difficult to bring hand to tumbler or carry latter to mouth. ► Panaritium, pain intolerable, drives to despair ; relieves pain of suppuration.

Lower Limbs

► Coxalgia, left side ; also for violent pains when abscesses form. ► Inside of right thigh red, swollen. θ Typhus. ► Spasmodic rigidity of lower limbs. ► Paralysis of lower limbs ; loss of speech ; staring. ► Constant trembling of feet.

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.

Position, Etc

► Lying : 3. Inclined to lie down : 36. Rising : 2, 4. Rising head : 3, 4. Bends backward : 3, 4. Bending : 4, 31. Motion : 4, 29.Walking : 36.

Nerves

► Great inclination to lie down. ► Totters as if giddy, cannot make even a few steps without help. ► Frequent twitching ; sudden jerks through the body. ► Trembling of limbs. ► Convulsions, especially opisthotonic, from bright, dazzling objects, water or touch. ► Child rigid as a board. ► Chorea from fright ; creeping in limbs, then violent movements generally crosswise ; rotate arms over head ; jump up, climb over tables, etc. ► Hysteria preceded by great sensitiveness, weeping and laughing alternately ; sexual excitement. ► Spasms ; abdomen puffed ; alternation of clonic and tonic ; body very hot ; continually changes character. ► Said to be very effective for hydrophobia (vary the dose even to the production of symptoms). ► Epilepsy from fright ; attacks sudden, with screams, afterwards drowsy ; aching in stomach ; periodical. ► Gives warning of approach by premonitory symptoms. ► Catalepsy, limbs can be moved by others. ► Tonic spasms. ► Muscles will not obey the will. ► Paralysis of one, convulsions of other side. ► Left side paralyzed, stammering, unconnected words, sheds tears. ► Paralyzed limbs after apoplexy.

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.

Time

► Morning : 3, 7, 27. Afternoon : 40. Evening : 3, 16, 19. Night : 1, 3, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, 28. Toward midnight : 20. Toward morning : 7. Day : 11, 37.

Temperature And Weather

► Warmth : 3. Warm covering : 6. Cold : 3. Vaulted rooms : 27. Sunstroke : 1, 3, 4.

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.

Attacks

► Worse during equinoxes : 36. ► Worse in summer : spasms, ecstasy. ► Attacks of epilepsy come periodically : 36. Gradually decreasing : 3. Suddenly appearing : 19, 21.

Sides

► Right : 4, 33. Left : 6, 8, 33, 36. Right to left : 11.

Sensations

► Painful sensations as if joints were loose, with anguish therefrom. ► Arms and legs feel as if separated from body.

Tissues

► Mitigates the terrible pains of tumors, abscesses. ► Plethoric, especially young persons. ► Emaciated, cries day and night ; cough. ► Anasarca, after scarlatina.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 31, 36. Pressure : 3.

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.

Stages And States

► Children especially ; chorea, mania, fever. ► Young, plethoric persons.

Relationship

► In metrorrhagia from retained placenta, with clapping hands, delirium, loquacity, etc. ; Secale acts better than Stramon. ► Ailments from : vapor of Mercur., Plumbum. ► Antidotes to Stramon. : Bellad., Hyosc., Nux vom. ; against large doses : lemon juice ; Senna (cerebral symptoms) ; tobacco injections ; vinegar. ► Stramon. : useful in whooping-cough after Bellad., had acted too powerfully.