My Thesis MM

Literature survey on drugs of solanaceae group 2014
“A LITERATURE SURVEY ON DRUGS OF SOLANACEAE

GROUP WITH CASE STUDY”
Dissertation submitted to
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIA MEDICA

Dr.PADIAR MEMORIAL HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE AND
HOSPITAL , CHOTTANIKKARA
For the award of the Degree of

BACHELOR OF HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY
By
RAHEENA MOL C
Under the Guidance and Supervision of

Dr.Rekha.U.S
Head of the department
Department of Material Medica
Dr.padiar Memorial Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital,
Chottanikkara
2014
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DR. PADIAR MEMORIAL HOMOEOPATHIC
MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL, CHOTTANIKKARA.
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIA MEDICA
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the dissertation entitled
A LITERATURE SURVEY ON DRUGS OF SOLANACEAE GROUP
WITH CASE STUDY has been completed by Dr RAHEENA MOL C
under my guidance and supervision during the period of internship in Dr
Padiar Memorial Homoeopathic Medical College, Chottanikkara. She
has taken keen interest on the work and made a remarkable compilation
on the subject.
Dr.Radhesh.M.G
Place:Chottanikkara (principal in charge)
Date :

A NOTE FROM THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
This dissertation compiled by Dr.RAHEENA MOL C under my
guidance deals with A LITERATURE SURVEY ON DRUGS OF
SOLANACEAE GROUP WITH CASE STUDY. I really appreciate the
work and commitment undertaken by her in making this dissertation a
true success. The work is really informative because disease prevention
has a wide range of probabilities in current times as it is known to all
medicinal branches that prevention is better than cure.
Place: Chottanikkara Dr. Rekha.U.S
Date: Head of the Department

AKNOWLEDGEMENT
I express my unreserved gratitude to Dr.Radhesh.M.G (Principal),
Dr.Rekha.U.S (Head of Department) , Dr.Mahesh kumar.N,
Dr.Harikumar.N, Dr.MathewJohn, Dr.SusyCharles, Dr.subhadra K T
and Dr.Ramarajan.S of Dr.Padiar Memorial Homoeopathic Medical
College and Hospital, Chottanikkara,for their valuable suggestions,
constructive criticism, expert guidance and constant encouragement and
unfailing help throughout this attempt and preparation of the manuscript.
I owe my sincere gratitude and personal obligation goes without
any reservation to all of my dear friends for their support given
throughout the period of my study.
I am forever beholden to my parents, brothers and sisters for their
affection and constant encouragement in all my endeavors.
Above all I humbly bow my head before God Almighty whose
blessings are always with me and which brought me safely to the end of
this endeavor.
Place: Chottanikkara Dr.RAHEENA MOL C
Date: INTERN

DEDICATION
This dissertation is dedicated to Dr.Samual Hahnemaan
(Father of homoeopathy).,to my Parents ,my Husband and my
Daughter who have very happily given me the moral and
financial support needed so that I may have the opportunity to
complete these seemingly endless years of study.

PREFACE
This dissertation is presented to the readers in the hope that it
enables them to provide better understanding about the Solanaceae
family .

INDEX Page no:
 Homoeopathic materia medica……………………………...9
 Sources of homoeopathic drugs……………………….....13
 Homoeopathic materia medica through group study....15
 Solanaceae family introduction…………………………...20
 Solanaceae family study…………………………………...28
 Characteristic mental symptoms………………………....30
 Characteristic physical symptoms……………………….31
 Homoeopathic remedies from solanaceae family……...33
 Common characteristic features………………………….35
 Characteristic features of individual remedies……........42
 Atropa Belladona…………………………………………….42
 Hyoscyamus Niger…………………………………………..67
 Datura Stramonium………………………………………....81
 Solanum nigrum……………………………………….......100
 Capsicum Annuum………………………………………...109
 Dulcamara…………………………………………………...118

 Duboisia……………………………………………………..127
 Tabacum…………………………………………………….131
 Pichi………………………………………………………….142
 Comparison…………………………………………………148
 Repertorial part……………………………………………149
 Case Study……………………………………………….....170
a) Case no.1
b) Case no 2
c) Case no 3
 Conclusion………………………………………………….177
 Bibliography……………………………………………......178

HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
Homeopathic Materia Medica is a collection of real ,pure ,reliable

mode of action of simple medicinal substances,a volume of book of
nature,where in is recorded a considerable array of peculiar changes of the
health and symptoms ascertained to belong to each of the powerful medicines,as
they were revealed to the attention of observer,in which the likeness of the
homoeopathic disease elements of many natural diseases to be hereafter cured
by them are present,which in a word,contain artificial morbid states, that furnish
for the similar natural morbid states the only true ,homoeopathic, that is to
say,specific,therapeutics instruments for effecting their certain and permanent
cure.
Samuel Hahnemann started the practise of homeopathy while

translating the botanical Materia Medica of the Scottish physician William
Cullen from English into German in 1790. Twenty pages in that work are
devoted to Peruvian chinchona bark which is used to prepare the
medicine quinine. This substance produces fever-like symptoms while being
used to cure intermittent fever or ague and this led Hahnemann to conceive
the principle of similars: that like may cure like. He went on to develop
the materia medica along these homeopathic lines and others then continued
this work to produce great volumes of potential ingredients.
Although there are various homeopathic Materia Medica, written by

different authors and covering different specialities, the term Homeopathic
Materia Medica is often used to reference the total sum of homeopathic
preparations and prescribing options. Hahnemann developed the first
Homeopathic Materia Medica by a system of homeopathic provings, where a

substance was ingested by the "prover" and the symptoms that the "prover"
developed were recorded in great detail. Materia Medica may also include
accidental poisoning and some information from clinical treatment.
SOURCES OF HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
Drug proving is the basic source of Materia Medica through which,

drugs who have found a place in Materia Medica are known of their
symptomatology and new drugs are known of their symptomatology, Physical
and Mental presentation. Drug proving is carried out by the methods described
by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in his Organon of Medicine in § 105 to §145. The
other sources of Homeopathic Materia Medica are as follows: -
1. Noting of signs and symptoms which occur because of Drug Overdose of

medicines.
2. Noting of signs and symptoms which occur in Poisoning in a person.
3. Noting of signs and symptoms which occur after administering the
medicines in sick people and following the appearance of Side Effects.
4. The books written by the pioneers of Homeopathy have been the base for
the further works on the subject.
CONTRIBUTIONS BY DR. SAMUEL HAHNEMANN
The first works were by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann - The Medicine of

Experience and then followed by Fragmenta de Viribus Medica Mentorum
Postivis. The Fragmenta de Viribus Medica Mentorum Postivis was written in
Latin Language. Dr. Samuel Hahnemann published the work in 1805 A.D. and
was a compilation of the signs and symptoms appearing after poisoning, effects
occurring after administration of drug over dosage, proving of new drugs on

himself and on other people who were known as provers. There were 27 such
drugs presented in the Fragmenta de Viribus Medica Mentorum Postivis.
Reine Arzneimittellehre / Materia Medica Pura

Important to the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, the next work was
the Reine Arzneimittellehre which was translated in English and was known as
the Materia Medica Pura which had three editions.
1st Edition of Reine Arzneimittellehre
The first edition was published in 6 volumes and contained 64 medicines of

which 22 medicines were taken from the Fragmenta de Viribus Medica
Mentorum Postivis and other were newly proved by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann
himself and other provers.
2nd Edition of Reine Arzneimittellehr
The second edition was a revised edition published in 6 volumes and

contained 69 medicines.
3rd Edition of Reine Arzneimittellehre
The third edition was a revised edition, condensed and published in 2

volumes. The medicine Causticum was transferred to another work by Dr.
Samuel Hahnemann - Die Chronischen Krankheiten.
Die Chronischen Krankheiten / The Chronic Diseases

The next work important towards Homeopathic Materia Medica was the Die
Chronischen Krankheiten which was translated in English and was known
as The Chronic Diseases which had two editions.
1st Edition of Die Chronischen Krankheiten
It contained 4 volumes of which the first three volumes were published in the
year 1828 A.D. and the fourth volume was published in the year 1830 A.D.. The
first volume contains the theory towards concept of chronic diseases while the
2nd, 3rd and 4th contains pathogenesis of medicines.
2nd Edition of Die Chronischen Krankheiten
It contained 5 volumes of which the first two volumes were published in the
year 1835 A.D. and the third volume was published in the year 1837 A.D., the
fourth volume in the year 1838 A.D. and the fifth volume was published in the
year 1839 A.D.. The first volume contains the theory towards concept of
chronic diseases while the 2nd, 3rd and 4th contains pathogenesis of medicines.
Further, the volumes of The Chronic Disease were condensed by the publishers
and is now available as a two volume book.

SOURCES OF HOMOEOPATHIC DRUGS
Homeopathic Medicines are derived from various sources from the

earthly world. The sources are:
1.Vegetable Kingdom: It includes whole plants, roots -fresh and dried -, stems,
leaves, herbs., flowers, fruits, seeds, barks, algae, fungi etc. The different plants
and parts thereof, are used for the preparation of mother tincture and mother
substances.
2.Animal Kingdom: The drugs are prepared from living and dried whole
animals, different parts, secretions etc. and also from the venoms of poisonous
animals as well as milk and milk products.
3.Mineral kingdom: The medicines are derived from Acids, Elements,
Compounds, Minerals, Mineral-Spring Water etc.
4.Nosodes or Biotherapeutic Preparations: They are the medicines
designated from the morbid product of disease, when employed as remedies.
The medicines which are prepared from diseased product of human beings,
lower animals and diseased plant products are called Nosodes.
5.Sarcodes: Sarcode means ‘fleshy’. It can be called as ‘protoplasm’ of
animals. In fact, Sarcodes belongs to animal kingdom. Some of the sarcodes are
well-proven and some are not. The remedies are made from preparations of
healthy animal tissues and secretions.
6.Imponderabilia: It means "that which is not weighable", ie. The substances
which have no perceptible weights. They are immaterial power or energy.
Medicines prepared from energy, available from natural and physical reactions
are called, ‘Imponderabilia’.

7.Synthetic Source: Some medicines are derived from the synthetic compounds
also. Therefore , the source for the Homeopathic medicines is not limited and
the substances from any source can be prepared as homeopathic remedy due to
its unique feature of proving and the Potentisation principle
.

HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA THROUGH GROUP STUDY
Homoeopathic materia medica can be studied in various ways.Out of which

comparative study of materia medica is very important and useful way of
studying material medica.Various remedies from one group having common or
similar characters are studied as a group.
Homoeopathy,in the beginning years as the science was new and the
number of drugs to be studied were very limited.The study of material medica
was based on individual study of drugs.But within the last few decades the
mystery of science has been explored.Now the number of medicines in
homoeopathic material medica is more than 3500 and it is very difficult to study
and remember the entire characteristics by individual study of drugs.This has
lead to an evolution of a new concept in materia medica that is “Study of Drugs
in Group”.Drugs originating from same source or drugs having same basic
structure are included in a single group and studied together.This method has
made entire study of materia medica easier and comprehensible as well as time
saving while prescribing.
HISTORY OF GROUP STUDY

The history of concept of group study is not new.For a long time after
initial development of material medica much significance was not given to
group study and no one realized its value in selection of the correct remedy.This
history dates back to Dr.Kent who studied and wrote for the first time on this
subject.Dr.Farrington ,Clarke and others tried to study drugs in groups.Our
botanists also studied them by classifying them into classes,sub-classes and
families.

Historically,Dr.E.A.Farrington in his classical book “Clinical Materia
Medica” made an attempt to study the remedies by classifying them in various
groups.Dr.Clarke in his “ Clinical Repertory” attempted to give remedy
relationships according to various groups.Otto lesser in his “Textbook of
Homoeopathic Materia Medica” attempted to study inorganic material medica
by dividing medicines into different groups according to periodic table of
elements.This was further continued by Jan Scholten in his book “Homoeopathy
and Elements” and “Homoeopathy and Minerals”.This work was further
continued by other stalwarts like M.L.Dhawale,Morrison and Rajan Sankaran.
OBJECTIVES OF GROUP STUDY

 To simplify cumbersome data available in materia medica.
 To arrive at the constitutional remedy in general.
 To develop the study of the radicals:cations/anions and of their
relationships, and their correlation with data in materia medica.
 To study each unit exclusively.
 To derive unknown facets of remedy and to apply them in practice for
verification through adequate clinical experience.
 To formulate some concepts and verify them through experimentation for
further study and enrichment of material medica.
 To incorporate the work done by researchers and verify it in clinical
practice.
 To derive conceptual data out of logical thinking and to make a portrait of
remedy in the absence of drug proving.
 To see how far logical interpretation has a role to play in the conceptual
building of the portrait of a remedy in material medica as developed by
several authors through theprocess of collection,the base firmly being
determined as clinical verification.

 To extra-polate remedy relationship of the particular group of remedy.
ADVANTAGES OF GROUP STUDY

The study could be elaborated could lead us to a great height in exploring
new dimensions in the study and understanding of materia medica.As we grow
deeper into the concepts evolved by this studyour insight grows keener;finer
and finest aspects of a group could be envisioned.This eventually could prove a
boon in our clinical practice as some difficult and mysterious cases can easily be
handled by clarity of concepts.The further advantage of this this method is an
obvious saving of time.Many drug’s ‘Core’ can be studied simultaneously and
can save time for individual study of a case.Once a group is derived,then
individualization of a remedy is easy and more reliable.
Group analysis has helped to evolve a new dimension to grasp the
psychosomatic concept of disease.Many psychiatrists of modern era have
supported our so-called ‘hypothetical’ explanations of a given situation and
many have adopted this pattern to evaluate a case in their clinical practice.This
could prove immensely beneficial to attain popularity and support for our newer
concepts of the Nature’s law of cure.
LIMITATIONS OF GROUP STUDY

The study of material medica throughgroups invariably requires the
process of generalization.In this process one has to neglect or sacrifice
individual attributes that are not homogenous and it is here that the problem
develops.What one achieves with the individual remedial study in its
totality,one can’t achieve with the group study.The chances of getting
prejudiced towards the symptomatology of remedies in a group are more.
Deriving the conclusion that ‘A particular case in hand needs a particular
group and out of that group a particular remedy’may appear simple and

uncomplicated,but this is a very intricate procedure that involves multi-
dimensional aspects having philosophical base.It requires analytical skills of
hiogh degree,which is absent in neophytes.
We need to take a balanced view towards the study of materia medica with
a group consideration.One should not rely too much on group study as the
contents of group study exclude the individual features of the remedy to be
studied.

SOLANACEAE FAMILY

SOLANACEAE FAMILY-INTRODUCTION
The Solanaceae, or nightshades, are an economically important family

of flowering plants. The family ranges from annual and perennial herbs to vines,
lianas, epiphytes, shrubs, and trees, and includes a number of important
agricultural crops, medicinal plants, spices, weeds, and ornamentals. Many
members of the family contain potent alkaloids, and some are highly toxic, but
many cultures eat nightshades, in some cases as staple foods. The family
belongs to the order Solanales, in the asterid group dicotyledons
(Magnoliopsida). The Solanaceae consists of about 98 genera and some 2,700
species, with a great diversity of habitats, morphology and ecology.
The name Solanaceae derives from the genus Solanum, "the nightshade
plant". The etymology of the Latin word is unclear. The name may come from a
perceived resemblance of certain solanaceous flowers to the sun and its rays. At
least one species of Solanum is known as the "sunberry". Alternatively, the
name could originate from the Latin verb solari, meaning "to soothe",
presumably referring to the soothing pharmacological properties of some of the
psychoactive species of the family.
ECOLOGY
Even though the Solanaceae are found on all the continents except
Antarctica, the greatest variety of species are found in Central America and
South America. Another two centres of diversity include Australia and Africa.
They occupy a great number of different ecosystems, from deserts to rainforests,
and they are often found in the secondary vegetation that colonizes disturbed
areas.

Genera and distribution of species
The Solanaceae contain 98 genera and some 2,700 species. Despite this
immense richness of species, they are not uniformly distributed between the
genera. The eight most important genera contain more than 60% of the species,
as shown in the table below. Solanum – the genus that typifies the family -
includes nearly 50% of the total species of the solanaceas.
Genera Approximate number of species
Solanum 1,330
Lycianthes 200
Cestrum 150
Nolana 89
Physalis 85
Lycium 85
Nicotiana 76
Brunfelsia 45
Estimated number of species in the family 2,700
The family has a worldwide distribution, being present on all continents except
Antarctica. The greatest diversity in species is found in South America and
Central America.
The Solanaceae include a number of commonly collected or cultivated

species. The most economically important genus of the family is Solanum,
which contains the potato (S. tuberosum, in fact, another common name of the

family is the "potato family"), the tomato (S. lycopersicum), and the eggplant or
aubergine (S. melongena). Another important genus, Capsicum, produces both
chili peppers and bell peppers.
The genus Physalis produces the so-called groundcherries, as well as the

tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica), the Cape gooseberry and the Chinese
lantern. The genus Lycium contains the boxthorns and the wolfberry Lycium
barbarum. Nicotiana contains, among other species, the plant that produces
tobacco. Some other important members of Solanaceae include a number of
ornamental plants such as Petunia, Browallia, and Lycianthes, the source of
psychoactive alkaloids, Datura, Mandragora (mandrake), and Atropa
belladonna (deadly nightshade). Certain species are universally known for their
medicinal uses, their psychotropic effects, or for being poisonous.
Taxonomy
o 1 Cestroideae (Browallioideae)
o 2 Goetzeoideae
o 3 Petunioideae
o 4 Schizanthoideae
o 5 Schwenckioideae
o 6 Nicotianoideae
o 7 Solanoideae

HABIT AND LEAF FORM. TREES, OR SHRUBS;
(Illustration of Solanum dulcamara, 1.- Flower, 2.- Flower in longitudinal

section, without the petals; 3.- Androecium; 4.- Ovary, in transverse section; 5.-
Seed viewed from above; 6.- Seed in transverse section, note the curved embryo
surrounding the endosperm; A.- Branch with leaves and flowers; B.- Stem with
immature and mature fruit)
Plants in the Solanaceae can take the form of herbs, shrubs, trees, vines
and lianas, and sometimes epiphytes. They can be annuals, biennials, or
perennials, upright or decumbent. Some have subterranean tubers. They do not
have laticifers, nor latex, nor coloured saps.
LEAF ANATOMY
The leaves are generally alternate or alternate to opposed (that is, alternate at the
base of the plant and opposed towards the inflorescence). The leaves can be

herbaceous, leathery, or are frequently inodorous, but on occasions, they are
aromatic or fetid. The foliar lamina can be either simple or compound, and the
latter can be either pinnatifid or ternate. The leaves have reticulated venation
and lack a basal meristem. The laminae are generally dorsiventral and lack
secretory cavities. The stomata are generally confined to one of a leaf's two
sides; they are rarely found on both sides.
REPRODUCTIVE TYPE, POLLINATION.
The flowers are generally hermaphrodites, although some are monoecious,

andromonoecious, or dioecious species (such as some Solanum or
Symonanthus). Pollination is entomophilous.
INFLORESCENCE,FLORAL,FRUIT AND SEED MORPHOLOGY.
The flowers can be solitary or grouped into terminal, cymose, or axillary

inflorescences. The flowers are medium-sized, fragrant (Nicotiana), fetid
(Anthocercis), or inodorous. The flowers are usually actinomorphic, slightly
zygomorphic, or markedly zygomorphic (for example, in flowers with a bilabial
corolla in Schizanthus species). The irregularities in symmetry can be due to the
androecium, to the perianth, or both at the same time. In the great majority of
species, the flowers have a differentiated perianth with a calyx and corolla (with
five sepals and five petals, respectively) an androecium with five stamens and
two carpels forming a gynoecium with a superior ovary (they are therefore
referred to as pentamers and tetracyclic). The stamens are epipetalous and are
typically present in multiples of four or five, most commonly four or eight.
They usually have a hypogynous disk. The calyx is gamosepalous (as the sepals
are joined together forming a tube), with the (4)5(6) segments equal, it has five
lobes, with the lobes shorter than the tube, it is persistent and often accrescent.
The corolla usually has five petals that are also joined together forming a tube.

Flower shapes are typically rotate (wheel-shaped, spreading in one plane, with a
short tube) or tubular (elongated cylindrical tube), campanulated or funnel-
shaped.
The androecium has (2)(4)5(6) free stamens within it, oppositsepals (that is,
they alternate with the petals), they are usually fertile or, in some cases (for
example in Salpiglossideae) they have staminodes. In the latter case, there is
usually either one staminode (Salpiglossis) or three (Schizanthus). The anthers
touch on their upper end forming a ring, or they are completely free, dorsifixed,
or basifixed with poricide dehiscence or through small longitudinal cracks. The
stamen’s filament can be filliform or flat. The stamens can be inserted inside the
coralline tube or exserted. The plants demonstrate simultaneous
microsporogenesis; the microspores are tetrad, tetrahedral, or isobilateral. The
pollen grains are bicellular at the moment of dehiscence, usually open and
angular.
The gynoecium is bicarpelar (rarely three- or five-locular) with a superior

ovary and two locules, which may be secondarily divided by false septa, as is
the case for Nicandreae and Datureae. The gynoecium is located in an oblique
position relative to the flower’s median plane. They have one style and one
stigma; the latter is simple or bilobate. Each locule has one to 50 ovules that are
anatropous or hemianatropous with axillar placentation. The development of the
embryo sack can be the same as for Polygonum or Allium species. The embryo
sack’s nuclear poles become fused before fertilization. The three antipodes are
usually ephemeral or persistent as in the case of Atropa.
The fruit can be a berry as in the case of the tomato or wolfberry] a dehiscent
capsule as in Datura, or a drupe. The fruit has axial placentation. The capsules
are normally septicidal or rarely loculicidal or valvate. The seeds are usually

endospermic, oily (rarely starchy), and without obvious hairs. The seeds of most
Solanaceae are round and flat, about 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) in diameter. The
embryo can be straight or curved, and has two cotyledons. Most species in the
Solanaceae have 2n=24 chromosomes, but the number may be a higher multiple
of 12 due to polyploidy. The fruits of the great majority of the Solanaceae are
berries or capsules (including pyxidia) and less often drupes. Berries are
common in the subfamilies Cestroideae, Solanoideae (with the exception of
Datura, Oryctus, Grabowskia and the tribe Hyoscyameae) and the tribe
Juanulloideae (with the exception of Markea). Capsules are characteristic of the
subfamilies Cestroideae (with the exception of Cestrum) and Schizanthoideae,
the tribes Salpiglossoideae and Anthocercidoideae, and the genus Datura. The
tribe Hyoscyameae has pyxidia. Drupes are typical of the Lycieae tribe and in
Iochrominae.
PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY.
The tropanes are the most well-known of the alkaloids found in the
Solanaceae. The many species contain a variety of alkaloids that can be more or
less active or poisonous, such as scopolamine, atropine, hyoscyamine, and
nicotine. They are found in plants such as the henbane (Hyoscyamus albus),
belladonna (Atropa belladonna), datura or jimson (Datura stramonium),
mandrake (Mandragora autumnalis), tobacco, and others.
The solanaceas include such important food species as the potato (Solanum
tuberosum), the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), the pepper (Capsicum
annuum) and the aubergine or egg plant (Solanum melongena).

Solanaceas and the genome
Many of the species belonging to this family, among them tobacco and the
tomato, are model organisms that are used for research into fundamental
biological questions. One of the aspects of the solanaceas’ genomics is an
international project that is trying to understand how the same collection of
genes and proteins can give rise to a group of organisms that are so
morphologically and ecologically different. The first objective of this project
was to sequence the genome of the tomato.

SOLANACEAE FAMILY STUDY
Active principles:
 Atropine
 Hyoscyamine
 Scopolamine
 Apoatropine
 The chief alkaloid is solanine.
Sphere of action:
 Central nervous system, nerves.
 Joints
 Muscular tissue
 Blood vessels
 Mucus membrane of bronchi
 Bladder and rectum
 Bones of the ear and CVS
Patho-physiological action
These remedies produce nothing but all the symptoms of extreme
overstimulation of sympathetic nervous system.

Symptoms of fright&fight are expressed by restlessness,sleeplessness,fear
and terror,hallucinations and illusions,speech disorders,horrible dreams.
There is beating,tearing,throwing,striking,mania,insanity.
Atropine acts on parasympathetic nervous system nd produces diala tation
of pupils,dryness of mouth,congestion of head,palpitation and hypertension.
All the plants of this family possess the alkaloid atropine&also possess
mydriatric qualities.They attack mainly on brain and produce intoxication
confusion and furious excitement.They also possess narcotic properties.Depress
central nervous system and produce sleep.
COMMON FEATURES
Constitution
 Lymphatic constitution with fine complexion.
 It also adapted to light eyed sanguine person with pale face.
 Nervous, irritable &hysterical.
 Takes cold from slight change.
 Emaciation of cheek and back.
 Dread of any kind of exercise.
 Temperament - Nervous, irritable, hysterical and sanguine.
 Diathesis – Tubercular, scrofulous and phlegmatic.
 Thermal – Very chilly patients also hot patient.

CHARACTERISTICS SYMPTOMS OF SOLANACEAE FAMILY
MENTAL SYMPTOMS:
 Violent delirium, disposition to bite, spite, strike&tear the things.
 Imagines he sees ghost, hideous faces&various insects ,black animals
,dogs,wild animals etc.
 Loss of consciousness, constant desire to comes out of bed.
 Excitement delirium.
 Fear of imaginery things.
 Absent minded.
 At onetime mery, again sad.
 Nothing seems right to him.
 Vertigo with drunkenness, also from smell of flowers and gas.
 Great impatience with restlessness.
 Suicidal tendency.
 Homesickness.
 Sleeplessness: Patient is very sleepless.
 Does not reply to questions.
 Confusion of mind , forgetfulness.
 Patient is suspicious and jealous.
 Confuse : cannot concentrate on thoughts.

 Loquacity, smiles, laughs at everything.
 Silly expression.
 Strange delusions, illusion &hallucinations with lloss of consciousness.
 There is great fear of unusual & imaginary things ,wants to run away
from them.
PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS
 Congestion: Rush of blood to the head and face.Congestive headache
with red face.
 Irritability,activecongestionisproduced,convulsions,irritability ,delirium
and pain.
 Burning sensation anywhere and everywhere.
 Pains come suddenly and go suddenly.Pain comes from above and goes
down.
 Patient cannot bear any touch.
 Thirstlessness.
 Sleepiness.
 Convulsions during teething period.
 Low muttering type of delirium with occasional violent outbreaks.
 Paralysis of urinary bladder.
 Dialated pupils, eyesb are sparkling and staring.

 Face is dark red.
 Dryness of mouth.
 Burning is aggravated by application of cold water.
 Spasmodic and constricting pain is there.
 Involuntary urination and diarrhea.
 Vertigo on opening the eyes.
 Great despondency.
 Throbbing of brain and carotids ,hard and bounding pulse.
 Cough:dry cough ,spasmodic when lying down;worse at night ,motion.
 Tonsilitis :There is rednesss and inflammation of throat ,difficulty in
swallowing fluids.
 Fever ,high grade with external burning heat.
GENERAL MODALITIES
Aggravation
From cold winds , heat of sun ,during menses, at night, rest ,
cold air , after lying down and rising again , motion, uncovering and drafts of
air.
Amelioration
While eating and from heat , uncovering , warmth in general
walking, dry weather, sitting and standing and covering head

HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES FROM SOLANACEAE
1. Belladonna
a. Atropa Belladonna.
b. AtropaMandragora.(Mandragoraofficinarum )
c. Atropinum.
i. AtropinumPurum.
ii. AtropinumSulphuricum.
2. Duboisia
a. DuboisiaHopwoodi.
b. Duboisiamyoporoids.
c. Duboisinum ( DuboisiaMyoporoides)
3. Strammonium
a. DaturaArborea.
b. DaturaFerox.
c. Daturametel.
d. DaturaSanguinea.
e. DaturaStrammonium.
f. Daturinum.
4. Hyoscyamus
a. Hyoscyamus Niger.
b. Hyosciaminum.
i. HyosciaminumSulphatum.
ii. HyosciaminumHydrobromatum.
iii. HyoscinumBromatum.(ScopolaminumBromatum)
iv. HyoscinumBromhydricum.(ScopolaminumBromhydricum)
5. Solanum
a. SolanumNigrum.
b. SolanumArrebenta.
c. SolanumCarolinense.
d. SolanumLycopersicum. ( LycopersicumEsculentum )
e. SolanumMammosum.
f. SolanumMalacoxylon.
g. SolanumOleraceum.
h. SolanumPseudocapsicum.
i. SolanumTuberosum.
j. SolanumVesicarium. ( PhysalisAlkekengi )
k. SolanumVillosum.
l. SolanumXanthocarpum.
m. Solaninum.
n. SolaninumAceticum.
o. SolaninumPurum.

p. SolanumCapense.
q. SolanumErythracantum.
r. SolanumIntegri.
s. SolanumMelongena.
t. SolanumNodiflorum.
u. SolanumSodomoeum.
6. Tabacum
a. NicotianumTabacum.
b. Nicotinum.
7. Dulcamera. (SolanumDulcamera)
8. Capsicum.
a. Capsicum Annuum.
b. Capsicum Frutescens.
9. Pichi. – FabianaImbricata.
Common features:
 First four attack prominently the brain and have narcotic properties.
 Tabacum also has narcotic properties but it acts on other parts of body also,
besides brain.
 Dulcamera is slightly narcotic.
 Capsicum is decidedly irritant or acrid.
 Most of them are OBESE in body structure( Caps.,Bell.,Hyos., Lycpr.,Stram
) and the most important one for obesity is Capsicum
Annuum ( Obesity in children )

Mind :
(I) Cheerful :
 Hyos : Cheerful after urination. Cheerfulness alternating with
irritability.
 Bell : Cheerfulness alternating with moaning, sadness.,
weeping or quite disposition .Dancing,laughing and singing.
Cheerful at evening hours, night.,
while eating (supper) and during perspiration.
Quarrelsome and cheerful.
Stram : Cheerfulness alternating with irritability sadness and weeping.
Dancing,laughing and singing. Cheerful during menses.
(II)Delerium: :
Bell : Throws about arms. Desires to bite. Talks about dogs .
Releived by eating. Wants to go home. Rabid.
With dilated pupils. Periodical
With congestion and pulsatin carotids. Urinating outside the pot.
With running. Rocking to and fro. Jumping into water.
With livid face. With grinding of teeth. Sleep during. Hot head
Hyos: Attacks people with knife.
Embraces the stove and wishes to climb on it as a tree.
Erotic. Murmering to himself. Rocking to and fro.
From vexation. Prepares for wedding.
Wraps up in fur during summer. With red face. Talks of business.
Talks in a foreign language.Quiet.From pains.Wants to naked.
Restless.etc..
Stram : Desires to bite. In dark. Rabid.
Loquacious. Shy,hides himself. With sleeplessness. Stupid. Vivid.
Wild. Restless.Singing. Talks about horses. Noisy.

Dulc : During fever. On waking. Sorrowful. with sleeplessness.
Caps : During chill.
Sol.ni: Raging.
Tab. : Murmering to himself. Quiet.
(III) Sensitiveness :
 Bell : To light.,noise(during chill).,slightest noise., odors.,and pain.
 During perspiration.
 In puberty.Heat during. Labor during.
 Alternating with indifference. Children.
 Hyos : To noise. Morning.
 Caps : To all external impressions.To noise during chill..
 Stram :To noise.,pain.,
 Tab : To music.
(IV)Fear:
Bell : Aternating with mania. Of animals (black).
Of impending death. Of dogs(black).
With desire to escape.
Of imaginary things or imaginary animals.
Jumps from bed out of fear. Jumps on touch.
Of liquids with thirst.Of those standing near.
Ofparalysis.Ofrats.Ofwolves.
Caps: Of fresh air.
Fulloffearonwaking.
Dulc : Of evil.Of vaults,churches and cellars.
Hyos : Of being alone. Of being bitten.
Chronic fear. Of being devoured by animals.
Of dogs. After eating. Constant of every thing.

Of being injured.Of liquids with thirst.
People of. Of being poisoned. Of water.
Stram : Of being alone(Night),with aversion to company.
Fear of animals. Of being attacked. Of everything black.
Of brilliant objects. Of dark. Fear from delusions.
Of being devoured by animals. Of doctors.
That every thing is falling on her.
Of fire and that things will catch fire.
Of imaginary things. Of being injured.
Of insanity. Of losing one’s sense. Of liquids with thirst.
Of mirrors in room. Of the noise of rushing water.
In processions. Of suffocation. Of tunnels.Of water.
Tab : < 4.pm.Of being alone at night. In a crowd.
Of impending disease. Of falling.
That something will happen.
Of being murdered.In narrow place.After nausea.
From noise.People of solitude. Of work.
Generalities:
(I) Convulsions :
Location:
Bell : One side with paralysis of the other.Right.Left.
Dulc : One side.
Stram : One side with paralysis of the other. of isolated group of muscles.
Aetiology & Aggrevation :
Atro : Peurperal.
Bell : Apopletic.In children.Cold aggrevates.
Colic during. Cough during.Delivery during.
Dentition during. Menses before or during.

After mental exertion.
During pain.,convulsion renewed at every attack of pain.
Sleep during.Touched when.
Hyos: Night. Delivery during. Eating after.
eruptions suppressed.From excitement.
Fright from.Heat during. Menses during.
During pregnancy.
Peurperal,with haemorrhage and shreiking.Sleep during.
Sol.ni : During pregnancy.
Stram : Evening and night. From anxiety. Apopletic.
Bright light from. In children. Cough during.
Delerium tremens in. Delivery during.
Dentition during. From suppressed discharges
Frght from.Heat during. Light aggravation.
From suppressed lochia.
Menses during.Mercurial vapours from. From strong odors.
Periodical.,everythree weeks or every summer.
Peurperal,with perspiration and fear.
Shining objects from.Sleep during.
On attempting to swallow. Water at sight of. Touched when.
Tab : Morning.
Begins in :
Bell : Arm.
Hyos : Face.
Aura: :
Bell:Absent.Forearmsin.Auditorydisturbances.
Formication. Limbs in. Like a mouse running.

Solarplexus.Instomach.Visualdisturbance.
Hyos : Ear noises. Sparks before the eyes.
Ravenous appetite. Stomach in. Vertigo. Visual disturbance.
Stram : Head from. Heel to occiput,right. Shreiking.
Concomitants :
Bell : With congestion of brain.With coldness of body or feet.
With coldness of feet and hot head.Face bluish ,pale or red.
Froth from mouth. Pupils dilated.
Falling with,to right or left.Stretching out limbs during convulsions.
Hyos : With coldness of body.Face bluish.Froth from mouth.
Involuntary urination.Shrieking.Grinding of teeth. Falling with.
Stram : With coldness of body. Biting tongue. Face red.
Shreiking. With hydrocephalus. With Hydrophobia.
Concomitants after convulsions :
Bell : Vomiting
Type :
 Atro : Epileptic. Tetanic rigidity.
 Bell : Tonic cramps.Clonic. tonic alternating with clonic.
Consciousness without.Epileptic.Tetanic rigidity.
 Dat.m : Epileptic.
 Dulc : Clonic. Tetanic rigidity.
 Hyos : Clonic.Consciousness without.Epileptic. Tetanic rigidity.
 Sol.ni : Epileptic.tetanic rigidity.
 Stram : Clonic. Clonic alternating with tonic.
Consciousness with. Epileptic.
Tetanic rigidity.
 Tab : Tonic cramps. Clonic.Clonic alternating with tonic.

Eyes :
(I)Dilatedpupil:
Mouth
(I)Drynessofmouth (II)Speech,stammering

CHARACTERISTICS FEATURES OF INDIVIDUAL

REMEDIES
ATROPA BELLADONA
Name and Synonyms
BOTANICAL NAME:Atropa belladonna Linn

•Family: Solanaceae
•Synonyms:
English : Deadly nightshade, Devil's cherries, Naughty man's cherries,
Black cherry,Devil's herb, Great morel, Dwayberry, Divale, Dwale
Banewort
Hindi : Sag angur
French : Belladone
German : Tollkraut

Description
Atropa belladonna is a branching herbaceous perennial, often growing as a
subshrub, from a fleshy rootstock. Plants grow to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) tall with 18
centimetres (7.1 in) long ovate leaves. The bell-shaped flowers are purple with
green tinges and faintly scented. The fruits are berries, which are green, ripening
to a shiny-black, and approximately 1 centimetre (0.39 in) in diameter. The
berries are sweet and are consumed by animals that disperse the seeds in their
droppings, even though the seeds contain toxic alkaloids. There is a pale-yellow
flowering form called Atropa belladonna var. lutea with pale-yellow fruit.It is
naturalized in parts of North America, where it is often found in shady, moist
locations with limestone-rich soils.
Naming and taxonomy
The name Atropa belladonna was published by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum

in 1753. It is in the nightshade family (Solanaceae), which it shares with
potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, jimsonweed, tobacco, wolfberry, and chili
peppers. Atropa is thought to be derived from that of the Greek goddess
Atropos, one of the three Greek fates or destinies who would determine the
course of a man's life by the weaving of threads that symbolized his birth, the
events in his life, and finally his death, with Atropos cutting these threads to
mark the last of these. The name "belladonna" comes from the Italian
language, meaning "beautiful lady"; originating either from its usage as
cosmetic for the face or, more probably, from its usage to increase the pupil size
in women.

Toxicity
Belladonna is one of the most toxic plants found in the Eastern Hemisphere. All
parts of the plant contain tropane alkaloids. The berries pose the greatest danger
to children because they look attractive and have a somewhat sweet taste. The
consumption of two to five berries by a human adult is probably lethal. The root
of the plant is generally the most toxic part, though this can vary from one
specimen to another. Ingestion of a single leaf of the plant can be fatal to an
adult.
ALKALOID
The active agents in belladonna, atropine, hyoscine (scopolamine), and

hyoscyamine, have anticholinergic properties.
Medicinal uses
Belladonna has been used in herbal medicine for centuries as a pain reliever,
muscle relaxer, and anti-inflam Scopolamine is used as the hydrobromide salt
for GI complaints and motion sickness, and to potentiate the analgesic and
anxiolytic effects of opioid analgesics. It was formerly used in a painkiller
called "twilight sleep" in childbirth.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
 This agent, when applied locally, diminishes the sensibility of the sensory
nerves, and when absorbed it produces systemic effects.
 Taken internally, it lessens the secretions, and as a result there is dryness

of the mucous surfaces. This is brought about by paralysis of the
peripheral nerve endings.

 At first the pulse is retarded, but it is quickly accelerated and rendered

firmer, while the arterial tensions is increased.
 The heart muscle is stimulated but if it is over-stimulated it then becomes

weak.
Full doses stimulate the brain and many produce hallucinations
and a delirium, which may be mild, joyful, talkative, or of a violent type;
accompanying these there are frequently spectral illusions.
.The reflexes at first are slightly stimulated, while later they are
diminished.
•There may be complete motor paralysis.
•The sensory nerves are depressed, especially from a local application of

the drug
 The respirations are quickened and rendered deeper by medicinal

doses; while poisonous doses, by over-stimulating, soon result in
exhaustion and paralysis of the respiratory centers, and the
breathing becomes shallow and asphyxia and death may result.
•The bodily heat is increased.
•It dilates the pupil and increases intra-ocular tension, occasions vertigo
and turgescence of the face.
•Assimilation is impaired.
•It is rapidly absorbed and is eliminated by the kidneys and bowels.

DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE
Belladonna plant grows nicely in soil containing calcium carbonate. So
Calcarea carb is complementary to belladonna.The flowers of this plant are
bloated in appearance & this can be used for bloated condition of congestions
Spheres of action
 Its chief centre of action is cerebrum, from where it radiates its influence
upon the entire organism.
 Brain and its membranes.
 CVS
 Lungs
 Mucous membranes – eyes, mouth, throat, skin etc.
 Glandular structures
Preparation:
•Class I (old method)
•New method
(a) Mother Tincture Drug Strength 1/10
Belladonna in course powder 100 g
Purified water 567 ml
Strong Alcohol 470 ml
To make one litre of the Mother Tincture.
(b) Potencies: 2x to contain one part Mother Tincture, four parts Purified Water,

five parts Strong Alcohol; 3x and higher with Dispensing Alcohol
Parts used: Tincture of whole plant when beginning to flower.
Clinical.─ Abscess. Acne. Amaurosis. Apoplexy. Bladder weakness. Boils.

Brain, affections of. Bronchial glands, disease of. Carbuncle. Colic.
Constipation. Convulsions. Cough. Croup. Delirium tremens. Depression.
Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Ear, affections of. Enteric fever. Epilepsy. Erysipelas.
Erythema. Excitement. Eye, affections of. Fear, effects of. Glandular swellings.
Goître. Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hydrocephalus.
Hydrophobia. Hyperæmia. Influenza. Kidney, affections of. Lung, affections of.
Malignant pustule. Mania. Measles. Meningitis. Menstruation. Mouth
affections. Mumps. Neuralgia. Nose, affections of. Nyctalopia.
Nymphomania. Paralysis. Parametritis. Perichondritis. Perimetritis.
Peritonitis. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Pleurisy. Pneumogastric paralysis.
Pneumonia. Pregnancy, disorders of. Puerperal mania. Rheumatism. Roseola.
Scarlatina. Sensitiveness. Sleep, disorders of. Smell, disordered. Strangury.
Taste, disordered. Tenesmus. Testicles, affections of. Thirst. Throat, sore.
Tongue, affections of. Tuberculosis. Ulcers. Uterine affections. Vaccinia.
Vertigo. Whooping-cough. Worm fever.
Characteristics.─Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitution;persons

who are lively and entertaining when well,but violent and often delirious when
sick.
Bell. is suited to the bilious, lymphatic temperament. Light hair and

complexion, blue eyes.
Belladonna acts primarily on the brain. An enormous number of the

symptoms of Bell. are developed in and from the head and sensorium.

Pains of Bell. run downwards, i.e., away from the head. (Silic. and Gels. have
a pain running up the back). To understand aright the action and uses of this
great medicine it is necessary to bear in mind some leading features which
characterise its action in all parts of the organism.
Great general sensitiveness and also sensitiveness of the special

senses─sensitive to light; to slightest noise; to motion or jar as when someone
touches the bed. This is one feature which renders Bell. so appropriate in
hydrophobia. It is a chilly medicine; sensitive to changes from warm to cold, to
draught of air, to damp weather, to chilling from having the head uncovered,
or having the hair cut; better from being wrapped up warmly in a room. Under
this drug there is a remarkable quickness of sensation, or of motion; the eyes
snap and move quickly.
The pains come and go suddenly no matter how long they may last. They
are in great variety, but throbbing, burning, and stabbing are very characteristic:
"stabbing from one temple to the other."
The great intensity and variety of the head pains has caused Bell. to be
regarded as the headache medicine par excellence. Congestion of blood to the
head. Vertigo, mostly at night on turning over in bed, or when getting up in the
morning, also when walking and on every change of position. Headache with
flushed face and brilliant eyes, dilated pupils. Feeling in brain like swashing of
water. Throbbing, pulsating headache, with beating arteries and violent
palpitation of the heart. It has cured a very severe headache in a nervous man
occurring whenever he was exposed to tobacco smoke.
In the mental sphere are mania; rage; disposition to bite, scratch and tear
things. Fantastic illusions when closing eyes. Dull and sleepy; half asleep and
half awake. Spasms and twitchings are very marked. Many disorders of vision.

Heat, redness and burning are three great characteristic notes of Bell.,
and are constantly cropping out in the pathogenesis. The face is purple, red, and
hot, or yellow. Redness and pallor alternate. The mouth is exceedingly dry
without thirst. Stinging in œsophagus, < swallowing or talking. Œsophagus
feels contracted. Sensation of a hand clutching intestines. Stool in lumps like
chalk. Spasmodic contraction of anus; obstinate constipation. Bleeding piles;
back pains as if breaking. The menstrual flow is hot; of light colour; or bad
smell. Cough short, dry, tickling, similar to cough of Rumex and Phos.
Whooping-cough; with crying or pains before the attack; flushed face; nose-
bleed and bloody expectoration; sparks before eyes; stitches in spleen;
involuntary stool and urine. Paralysis of lungs and heart (vagus nerve). Violent
palpitation of heart. Stitches in chest. Swelling of breast with bright red streaks
radiating from centre of inflammation. Rheumatism < by motion. Sweat on
covered parts only.
A striking picture of Bellad. is sometimes seen in cases of worm-fever.
Bell. is a great children's remedy, not less important than Cham.

Complaints come suddenly; hot, red face, semi-stupor, every little while starting
or jumping in sleep as if it might go into convulsions.
A very general characteristic of Bell. is < on lying down. It refers to

headache and all kinds of inflammatory affections. Some characteristic
symptoms are: "Tenderness of abdomen, < by least jar." "Pressing downward as
if contents of abdomen would issue through vulva, < mornings; often associated
with pain in back as if it would break." Starting, twitching, or jumping in sleep.
Moaning in sleep. "Sleepy, but cannot sleep." The characteristic skin of Bell. is:
"Uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet redness, so hot that it imparts a burning

sensation to the hand of one who feels it." "Sweat on covered parts only" is also
a marked symptom of Bell.
Bell. is predominantly a right-side medicine: all affections of internal head,

right side right eye; right ear right face; right teeth; right hypochondrium right
chest; right upper extremity; right lower extremity; mouth and fauces left side.
It is suited to plethoric persons with red face; and to conditions where there is
local plethora, that is, inflammatory states with pain, throbbing, shiny redness as
in acute gout.
Symptoms are < afternoon; 3 p.m.; 11 p.m.; after midnight; during the
night and not at all in the day; morning. By touch; draught of air; cold
applications; having hair cut; looking at shiny things; drinking; sleeping; lying
down; lying on affected side. >Bending affected part backwards or inwards;
leaning head against something; standing; by warmth.
Causation.─Hair-cutting. Head, getting wet. Sausages. Sun. Wind,

walking in.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─Melancholy, with grief, hypochondriacal humour, moral dejection,

and discouragement.Great agitation, with continual tossing about, inquietude,
and anguish, chiefly at night, and in the afternoon, sometimes with headache
and redness of face.Desire to die, and inclination for suicide.Lamentations,
groans, cries, and tears.Perversity, with tears (in children).Timidity, disposition
fearful, mistrustful, and suspicious; apprehension and inclination to run
away.Fear of approaching death.Mental excitation, with too great sensibility to
every impression, immoderate gaiety, and disposition to be easily
frightened.Nervous anxiety, restlessness, desire to escape.Dotage, delirium, and

mania, with groaning, disposition to dance, to laugh, to sing, and to whistle;
mania, with groans, or with involuntary laughter; nocturnal delirium; delirium
with murmuring; delirium, during which are seen wolves, dogs, fires, &c.;
delirium by fits, and sometimes with fixedness of look.Stupefaction, with
congestion to the head; pupils enlarged.Delirium.Great apathy and indifference,
desire for solitude, dread of society and of all noise.Repugnance to
conversation.Disinclination to talk, or very fast talking.Ill-humour, disposition
irritable and sensitive, with an inclination to be angry and to give offence.Folly,
with ridiculous jesting, gesticulations, acts of insanity, impudent manners.Fury
and rage, with desire to strike, to spit, to bite, and to tear everything, and
sometimes with growling and barking like a dog.Dejection and weakness of
mind and body.Dread of all exertion and motion.Loss of
consciousness.Fantastic illusions (when closing the eyes).Dementia, to such an
extent as no longer to know one's friends, illusions of the senses and frightful
visions.Complete loss of reason, stupidity, inadvertence, and distraction,
inaptitude for thought, and great weakness of memory.Memory: quick; weak;
lost.
2. Head.─Confusion of the head, cloudiness, and apparent intoxication, chiefly

after eating or drinking, or else in the morning.Apoplexy.
Fits of vertigo, with tottering, swimming in the head, dulness,

giddiness, nausea, trembling of the hands, anxiety; sparks before the eyes,
chiefly in the morning on getting up, on standing upright, or on
stooping.Vertigo with anguish, and falling with loss of consciousness, or with
weariness and fatigue before and after the attack.Vertigo, with stupefaction,
vanishing of sight and great debility.Vertigo, with anguish and falling insensibly
on the l. side, or backwards, with flickering before the eyes, esp. when stooping,
and when rising from a stooping posture.Stupor and loss of consciousness, so as

to know one's friends only at most by the hearing, sometimes with pupils dilated
and mouth and eyes half open.Fulness, heaviness, and violent pressure on the
head, chiefly on the forehead, above the eyes, and nose, or on one side of the
head, and sometimes with giddiness, stupor, and sensation as if the cranium
were going to burst, or with ill-humour and groans, drawing up of the eyelids
and desire to lie down.Sensation of inflation and pressive expansion in the
brain.Sharp, tractive, and shooting pains in the head.Dartings into the head, as if
from knives.Violent throbbings in the head.Strong pulsation of the arteries of
the head.Ebullition and congestion of blood in the head, chiefly on
stooping.Congestion of blood to the head, with external and internal heat;
distended and pulsating arteries, stupefaction in the forehead, burning, red
face; < in the evening, when leaning the head forward, from the slightest noise,
and from motion.
The pains in the head are generally aggravated by movement, especially

of the eyes, by shaking, by contact, by free air and a current of air; they are
mitigated by holding the head back and by supporting it.Cramp-like pain in the
scalp.Copious sweat in the hair.
Affections of the hair, which may split, or come out, or be hard and dry,
&c.Profuse pungent-smelling perspiration, esp. on the covered parts, while the
body is burning.Shaking or turning of the head backwards.Hydrocephalus, with
boring with the head in the pillows; sensation as if water were moving in the
head; < in the evening and when lying; > from external pressure, and when
bending the head backwards.Boring with the head on the pillow while
sleeping.Boring headache in the r. side of the head; changing to stitches in the
evening.Pressing headache, as if the head would split, pupils contracted, voice
faint.

3. Eyes.─Heat and burning in the eyes, or pressure as from sand.Aching in the
eyes and the sockets, extending into the head.Sensation of weight in the eyelids,
which close involuntarily.Quivering in the eyelids.Ectropium.Paralysis of the
optic nerve.Falling down of the eyelids, as if from paralysis.Shooting in the
eyes and in the corners, with itching.Eyes red, brilliant, and convulsed, or fixed,
sparkling, and prominent, or dull and turbid.Congestion of blood to the eyes,
and redness of the veins.Look fixed, furious, and wavering.Look wild, unsteady,
wavering.Spasms and convulsive movements of the eyes.Eyelids wide
open.Inflammation of the eyes, with injection of the veins and redness of the
conjunctiva and of the sclerotica.Heat in the eyes.Distension of the
sclerotica.Inflammatory swelling and suppuration of the lachrymal
aperture.Softening of the sclerotica.Spots and ulcers on the cornea.Medullary
fungus in the eye.Swelling and inversion of the eyelids.Yellowish colour of the
sclerotica.Eyes as if affected by ecchymosis, with hæmorrhage.Sensation of
burning dryness in the eyes; or flow of acrid and (salt) corrosive tears.Pupils
immovable and generally dilated, but sometimes also contracted.Agglutination
(nocturnal) of the eyelids. Blindness at night (moon-blindness).Presbyopia.Mist,
flames, and sparks, before the eyes.Diffusion of the light of candles, which
appear to be surrounded by a coloured halo.White stars and silvery clouds
before the eyes, esp. on looking at the ceiling of the room.Objects appear double
or reversed, or of a red colour.Trembling and sparkling of the letters when
reading.
4. Ears.─Piercing, aching, sharp pain, pinching, squeezing, and shooting in the

ears.Inflammation of the external and internal (r.) ear, with discharge of
pus.Excretion of pus from the ears.Stinging in and behind the ears.Ringing,
murmuring, and buzzing in the ears.Humming and roaring in the ears.Paralysis
of the auditory nerves.Great acuteness of hearing.Hardness of hearing;
sometimes as if there were a skin before the ears.Swelling of the parotids, with

shooting and tractive pains, which sometimes extend even to the throat.Stitches
in the parotid gland.
5. Nose.─Pain, as of a bruise, in the nose, esp. on touching it, and sometimes

with burning.Nocturnal shootings in the nose.Swelling, redness, and burning it
the point of the nose.Inflammatory swelling and redness of the external and
internal nose.Bleeding of the nose, with redness of the face.Painful ulceration of
the nostril.Nose very cold.Bleeding of the nose, chiefly night and
morning.Hæmorrhage from the nose and mouth.Great dryness of the nose.Sense
of smell either too sensitive, esp. to tobacco smoke, or diminished.Putrid smell
in the nose.Fluent coryza of one nostril, alternating with stoppage of the
nose.Smell like herring in the nose during the coryza.
6. Face.─Paleness of the face, which sometimes suddenly alternates with

redness.Face hollow, with anxious look of the features, and wandering
air.Burning heat of the face, sometimes without redness.Glowing redness and
bloated appearance of the face, as from drinking wine.Deep, or scarlet, or bluish
redness of face.Purple, red, hot face, or yellow colour of the face.Hard swelling
and bluish redness of face, principally (of one) of the cheeks, and sometimes
with burning, shooting, piercing, and pulsation.Erysipelatous swelling of the
face.Semi-lateral swelling of the face.Spots of a scarlet or deep red colour on
the face.Eruption of red pimples on the temples, in the corners of the mouth,
and on the chin.Purulent and scabby pimples, chiefly on the cheeks and on the
nose.Thickening of the skin of the face.Cramp-like pressure, sharp and drawing
pain in the cheek-bones.Nervous, violent incisive pain in the face, following the
course of the sub-orbital nerve.Nervous prosopalgia, with violent, cutting
pains.Muscular palpitations and convulsive movements in the face, chiefly in
the mouth, which is drawn towards the ear.Spasmodic distortion of the mouth
(risus sardonicus).Swelling, of the upper lip.Induration and swelling of the lips,

with shootings in rough weather.Deep redness and dryness of the lips.Pimples,
scabs, and ulcers; with a red circular margin, on the lips and in the corners of
the mouth.Convulsive clenching of the jaws, which renders it impossible to
open the mouth.Sensation as if the lower jaw were drawn very far back.Sharp
pains in the jaws; shooting and tension in the maxillary articulations.Mouth half
open, or spasmodically closed by lock-jaw; sensations under the jaw; affections
of the articulations of the jaws (sometimes while chewing).Swelling of the sub-
maxillary glands, and of those of the neck, with nocturnal (shooting) pains.
7. Teeth.─Violent grinding of the teeth.Sharp and drawing pains or successive

pullings in the teeth, sometimes with pain in the ears, and chiefly at night or in
the evening, during intellectual labour, or else after having eaten.The toothache
is < by exposure to the air, or by the touch, while masticating.Toothache with
inflammatory swelling of the cheek.Piercing in carious teeth, and flow of blood
on sucking them.Painful swelling of the gums, with heat, itching, and
pulsations, or with ulcerative pain on being touched.Bleeding of the
gums.Vesicles on the gums, with pain like that of a burn.
8. Mouth.─A sensation of great dryness, or a real and extreme dryness and

choking in the mouth.Dryness of the mouth, without thirst.Foam before the
mouth, sometimes of a reddish colour, or having the smell of rotten
eggs.Accumulation and flow of saliva, viscid, thick, and whitish.Great
accumulation of viscid, whitish mucus in the mouth and in the throat.Offensive
smell of the mouth, chiefly in the morning.Inflammatory swelling and redness
of the buccal cavity, and of the pharynx.Violent hæmorrhage of the
mouth.Excoriation of the interior of the cheek; the orifices of the salivary ducts
are as if ulcerated.Sensation of cold, of torpor, and of numbness in the
tongue.Tongue red, hot, dry, and cracked, or loaded with whitish mucus, or
yellowish, or brownish; redness of the edges of the tongue.Inflammatory

swelling and redness of the papillæ of the tongue.Phlegmonous inflammation of
the tongue.Soreness of the tongue, esp. on touching it, with a sensation as if it
were covered with vesicles.Heaviness, trembling, and paralytic weakness of the
tongue, with difficult and stuttering speech.Dumbness.Voice weak, whistling,
and nasal.
9. Throat.─Pain of excoriation, scraping, and shooting in the throat and in the

amygdalæ, principally on swallowing, and sometimes extending to the
ears.Great dryness and burning in the throat and on the tongue.Inflammation
and swelling of the throat, of the velum palati, of the uvula, and of the tonsils;
suppuration of the tonsils.Inflammation of the throat, with sensation of a lump,
which induces hawking, with dark redness and swelling of the velum palati and
tonsils.Burning and dryness in the œsophagus.Stinging in the œsophagus, in the
tonsils; < when swallowing, and when talking.Tonsils inflamed, swollen, ulcers
rapidly forming on them.Painful and difficult deglutition.Complete inability to
swallow even the least liquid, which frequently passes out through the
nostrils.Constant inclination to swallow, with a sensation as though suffocation
would otherwise follow.Sensation of contraction, strangling, and spasmodic
constriction in the throat.Sensation as if there were a tumour in the throat, or a
plug which cannot be detached.Paralytic weakness of the organs of deglutition.
10. Appetite.─Loss of taste.Food appears insipid or too salt.Putrid, or insipid,

or slimy, or bitter taste of the mouth.Rye bread tastes acid.Want of appetite and
distaste for all food, chiefly for meat, acids, coffee, milk, and beer.Burning,
excessive, intolerable thirst, often with dread of all drink; or constant desire to
drink with inability to swallow a single drop of liquid.Drinking is performed
with trembling precipitation.Great and unbearable hunger.After having eaten, a
feeling of intoxication, colic, pains in the stomach, heat, and thirst.

11. Stomach.─Frequent risings, often bitter, or putrid, or sour and
burning.Pyrosis.Obstructed and abortive risings.Nausea and inclination to
vomit, chiefly on beginning to eat, or in the open air, or after breakfast,
sometimes with burning thirst.Retching and violent vomiting, principally in the
evening or at night; retching, with entire inability to vomit; vomiting of food, or
of mucous or bilious matter, of blood; or acid and serous matter; vomiting with
diarrhœa, or with vertigo, heat, and sweat.Spasmodic hiccough, sometimes with
sweats and convulsions.Pressure, cramp-like and contractive pains, sensation of
fulness and inflation in the stomach and in the epigastrium, principally after
having eaten or while eating.Shootings, beatings, pulsations, and burning in the
stomach and in the precordial region.Inflammation of the stomach and of the
duodenum.
12. Abdomen.─Colic with constipation, abundant flow of urine, risings and

nausea.Violent pain in the abdomen, which allows no rest whatever.Shootings
in l. side of the abdomen, on coughing, on sneezing, and on being touched.Pains
and burning in the hypochondria.Pressure in the abdomen, as if by a stone,
chiefly in the lower part of the abdomen and in the groin.Painful pressure in the
pit of the stomach and stomach, esp. after eating.Painfully distended abdomen,
very sensitive to the touch.Inflation and tension of the abdomen, chiefly in the
hypochondria.Colic, with restlessness, below the umbilicus, as from clutching
and griping with the nails, < from external pressure.Cramp-like, contractive, and
constrictive pains and pinching in the abdomen, and esp. round the navel or in
the hypogastrium, with a sensation as if one or other of the parts were squeezed,
or seized with the nails; the pains necessitate a bending of the body, and are
sometimes accompanied by vomiting, or by inflation and protrusion of the colon
in the form of a pad.Digging in the abdomen.Cuttings and shootings in the
abdomen, as from knives.Heat and great anguish in the abdomen.Rumbling in
the abdomen, with frequent escape of flatus without smell.Soreness of the

whole abdomen, as if everything in it were excoriated and raw, and painful
sensibility to the touch of the teguments of the abdomen.Shootings in the
groins.Itching in the abdomen.
13. Stool and Anus.─Suppressed evacuations and constipation, sometimes with

inflation of the abdomen, heat of the head, and copious sweats.Hard and scanty
evacuations.Frequent inclination to evacuate, with tenesmus, but without
result.Frequent small evacuations, often with tenesmus.Frequent small
diarrhœic stools of mucus.Evacuations whitish like chalk, or greenish;
evacuations watery or slimy.Thin, green stools, with frequent micturition and
perspiration.Dysenteric stools.Before stool, perspiration.During stool,
shuddering.Spasmodic stricture of the rectum.Stinging pain in the rectum.Loose
evacuations, with nausea and aching pains in the stomach.Involuntary
evacuations, from paralysis of the sphincter of the anus.Bleeding piles; back
pains as if breaking.Mucous membrane of anus seems swollen as if pressed
out.Prolapsus ani.
14. Urinary Organs.─Frequent desire to make water.Retention of

urine.Difficult discharge of urine (and then discharge of a few drops of bloody
urine only).Continual dribbling of urine.When passing water, fæces
escape.Frequent emission of urine, copious, pale, and watery, sometimes with
profuse perspiration, thirst, increased appetite, diarrhœa, and obscuration of
sight.In continence and involuntary emission of urine, even in the night and
during sleep.Paralysis of the neck of the bladder.Strictures of the urethra.Urine
turbid, of a yellow colour, or clear, the colour of gold or citron; or scanty and of
a brownish-red colour, or the colour of blood, or a bright red colour.Red, or
whitish and thick sediment in the urine.Sensation of motion in the bladder, as of
a worm.Nocturna pressure in the bladder.Shooting, burning pains in the renal
region.

15. Male Sexual Organs.─Sharp and drawing pain in the spermatic cords,
chiefly while making water.Retraction of the prepuce.Soft and painless nodosity
in the glans.Shootings in the testes, which are drawn up.Inflammation of the
testicles, great hardness in the drawn-up testicles.Pollutions, with flaccidity of
the penis.Nocturnal sweat of the genital parts.Flow of prostatic fluid.Sexual
desire diminished, with perfect indifference to all voluptuous excitement.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─Violent pressure towards the genital parts, as if all
were going to protrude, principally when walking, or when in a crouching
posture.Shooting in the internal genital parts.Great dryness of the
vagina.Prolapsus and induration of the matrix.Catamenia too copious, and too
early, or too tardy.Catamenia too pale.Before the catamenia, fatigue, colic, loss
of appetite, and confused sight.During the catamenia, nocturnal sweat on the
chest, with yawning and transient shiverings, colic, or anguish of heart, burning
thirst, sharp and cramp-like pains in the back and in the arms.Flow of blood
beyond the period of the catamenia.Flow of blood between the
periods.Menstrual discharge bright red, feeling very hot like hot sealing-
wax.Metrorrhagia of clear red blood, with a discharge of fetid clots; with violent
pain in the small of the back and bearing-down.Menstrual blood of bright
colour, or of a bad smell.Leucorrhœa with colic.Diminished lochia.Spasmodic
contraction of the uterus.Labour pains too distressing, spasmodic; too weak, or
ceasing.After-pains.Congestion and inflammation of the uterus and
labia.Stitches in the organs.Puerperal fever, nymphomania.Flow of milk from
the breast.Mammæ swelled, inflamed, or indurated.
17. Respiratory Organs.─Catarrh with cough, coryza, hoarseness with

tenacious mucus in the chest.Voice weak, hoarse, and whistling; nasal-toned
voice.Loss of the voice.Great soreness of the larynx, with danger of suffocation
on pressing the gullet, as well as on coughing, on speaking, and on

breathing.Spasmodic constriction of the larynx.Larynx very painful, with
anxious starts when touching it.Constriction of the trachea.Short, dry cough,
from tickling in the larynx, with headache, redness, and heat in the face.Cough
with stitches in the chest, in the lumbar region, in the hip, in the uterus; pain in
the sternum, with tightness of the chest; with rattling of mucus on the chest.Dry
spasmodic cough, with vomiturition, esp. after midnight.Whooping-cough, with
crying, or pain in the stomach before the attack, with expectoration of blood
(pale or coagulated), congestion of blood to the head, sparks before the eyes,
spasms in the throat, bleeding from the nose, stitches in the spleen, involuntary
stool and urine, oppressed breathing, stiffness of the limbs, shaking of the whole
body, and dry general heat.Cough, as if one had swallowed dust, or as if there
were some foreign body in the larynx, or in the pit of the stomach, which
excites the cough; chiefly at night, or in the afternoon, in the evening in bed,
and even during sleep; the cough is mostly dry, short, and sometimes
convulsive, fatiguing and shaking, or hollow and barking.Before the cough,
tears, or pains in the stomach; when coughing, shootings in the abdomen, or
retching, or pain as of a bruise in the nape of the neck; after the paroxysm,
sneezing.The least movement, when in bed at night, renews the cough.Cough
with rattling in the chest, or with catarrh, and shootings in the sternum, or with
headache and redness of face.Expectoration of thick and puriform mucus with
the cough.Cough with spitting of blood.
18. Chest.─Breathing laboured, unequal, quick, with moaning.Rattling noise,

and crepitation in the bronchia.Vehement expirations.Feeling of suffocation
when swallowing, or when touching and turning the neck.Oppression of the
chest, difficult respiration, dyspnœa and shortness of breath, sometimes with
anxiety, and chiefly in the evening in bed, and after having drunk
(coffee).Oppression of the chest in the morning when rising, cannot breathe in
the room, better in the open air.Congestion to the chest.Irregular respiration, at

one time small and rapid, at another time slow and profound.Respiration short,
anxious, and rapid.In the morning after rising, want of breath, relieved in the
open air.When walking, cramp-like oppression of the chest, with necessity to
fetch a long breath.Pressure on the chest, with pain in the shoulder-blades and
short breath.Tension in the chest.Shootings in the chest, sometimes as if from
knives, and chiefly on coughing and yawning.Great inquietude and beatings in
the chest.Painful blisters, filled with water, or small spots of a deep red colour
on the chest.
19. Heart.─Violent beatings of the heart, which sometimes are felt in the
head.Palpitation of the heart when ascending.Trembling of the heart, with
anguish and pressive pain.Violent palpitation of the heart, reverberating in the
head.
20. Neck and Back.─Painful swelling and stiffness in the neck and in the nape
of the neck.Painful swelling in the glands of the neck and in those of the nape of
the neck.Sharp pains in the armpits.Red and purulent pimples on the back and
nape of the neck.Veins in the neck swollen.Sour sweat, only on the neck.Pain,
as of dislocation; rheumatic and drawing pains in the back and between the
shoulder-blades.Furunculus on the shoulder.Dartings, as if from knives, in the
bones of the spine.Gnawing in the dorsal spine, with cough.Painful stiffness and
cramp-like pains, in the sacral regions and in the back.
22. Upper Limbs.─Arms benumbed and painful.Tractive pressure, with

sensation of torpor, and sharp pains in the arms.Inclination to stretch the
arms.Arms heavy, as if paralysed.Torpor and heaviness of the arms.Swelling
and scarlet redness of the arms and of the hands.Drawing and aching pain in the
shoulder, running rapidly from the top to the bottom of the arms, and exhibiting
itself particularly at night, diminished by external pressure, excited by

motion.Painful startings, cramp and convulsions in the arms and in the
hands.Trembling of the hands.Pressure, with sharp pains in the carpal and
metacarpal bones.Arthritic stiffness in the joints of the hand.Frequent
dislocation of the joints of the fingers.Drawing back of the thumbs.
23. Lower Limbs.─Shootings and burning pains, aggravated by fits, in the

coxo-femoral joint, more unbearable at night, and increased by the least
contact.Stiffness in the hip, after sitting for some time, with difficulty in getting
up.Pain in the hip, which causes lameness.Involuntary limping.Tottering walk,
when rising from bed in the morning, the legs refuse their service.Trembling of
the knees.Drawing pains in the legs, esp. in the knees.Heaviness and paralysis
of the legs and of the feet.Bending of the knees and of the feet in
walking.Tension of the tendons of the ham.Swelling of the feet.Crawling
sensation in the feet.Phlegmasia alba dolens.
24. Generalities.─Shooting, or tearing, aching pains in the limbs.Bruise-like

pains in the joints and bones.Rheumatic pains (in the joints) flying from one
place to another.The pains are aggravated, chiefly at night, and in the afternoon
towards three or four o'clock.The least touch, and sometimes also the slightest
movement, aggravates the sufferings.Some of the symptoms are aggravated, or
make their appearance after sleep.Jerking in the limbs, muscular palpitations
and shocks of the tendons.St. Vitus's, dance.Sensation in the muscles, as if a
mouse were running over them.Cramp, spasms, and convulsive movements,
with violent contortion of the limbs; convulsive fits, with cries, and loss of
consciousness; epileptic convulsions, drawing back of the thumbs.Renewal of
the spasms by the least contact, or from the glare of light.Hydrophobia.Burning
in the inner parts.Attacks of immobility and of spasmodic stiffness of the body,
or of some of the limbs, sometimes with insensibility, swelling of the veins,
bloatedness and redness of the face, pulse full and quick, with copious

sweat.Spasms in single limbs, or of the whole body, in children, during
dentition.Full habit (plethora).Swelling in general of the parts
affected.Inflammation of the glands; induration of the glands; glands painful,
prickling, swelling, hot swelling of the glands.Attacks of tetanus at times, with
the head thrown back.Spasmodic attacks, with involuntary laughter.Before the
convulsive fits, formication, with a sensation of swelling and torpor in the
limbs; or colic and aching in the abdomen, extending to the head; after the
attack, oppression at the chest, as if from a heavy weight.The attacks are
renewed by the least touch, as well as by the slightest opposition.Great
uneasiness in the head and limbs, chiefly in the hands.Trembling of the limbs,
with fatigue and lassitude.Heaviness in the limbs, with weariness, great
indolence and dread of all movement and of all labour.Failing of strength,
paralytic weakness, and paralysis of the limbs.Paralysis and insensibility of one
side of the body.Fits of swooning and of syncope, with loss of all sensation and
of all motion, as in death.Ebullition of blood, with congestion to the head, and
fatigue even to fainting.Congestions (head, lungs).Apoplexia.Over-excitement
and too great sensibility of all the organs.Tendency to be chilled easily, with
great sensibility to cold air.Formication in the limbs.
25. Skin.─Swelling, with heats and scarlet redness of the whole body, or of
several parts, chiefly the face, the neck, the chest, the abdomen, and the
hands.Cutting of the skin as though "sliced" with a sharp knife.Erysipelatous
inflammations, with phlegmon, which sometimes turn to gangrene.Gangrene
and sphacelus of several parts.Red places, inflamed and scarlet spots on several
parts of the body, sometimes with small, quick pulse, difficulty of respiration,
violent cough, delirium, liveliness of memory, inclination to rub the nose, and
dilated pupils.Red spots, the colour of blood, over the whole body, principally
on the face, neck, and chest.Eruption resembling morbilli.Eruption of petechiæ,
with itching and redness of the whole body.Miliary eruptions.Vesicles which

discharge a great deal of serum, and are so painful as to extort cries and
groans.Bleeding soreness of the bends of the joints.Eruption of pustules with
whitish edges, with black slough, and œdematous swelling of the diseased
part.Boils (returning every spring).Red scaly eruption on the lower part of the
body.Scrofulous tumours and nodes, which are painful.Pain, as of excoriation,
burning and pulling in ulcers, principally on being touched, during motion, and
in the night.Dry, burning-hot skin.Burning of the skin, particularly when the
hand continues to burn after touching the skin, as though a hot stove had been
touched, very characteristic.Red, hot, and shining swelling of the diseased
parts.Smooth, even shining (not circumscribed) redness of the skin, with
bloatedness, dryness, heat, burning itching and swelling of the parts (esp. face,
neck, chest, abdomen and hands).The ulcers secrete a purulent and sanguineous
matter.Chilblains.Painful swelling of the glands (inflamed, stinging).
26. Sleep.─Constant drowsiness, sometimes with cloudiness, and yawning, and

chiefly towards the evening.Fits of somnolence and of lethargy, with profound
sleep, immobility of the body, jerking of the tendons pale and cold face, hands
cold, and pulse small, hard, and quick.Somnolence: stupor, lethargy (with
snoring).Coma, interrupted by momentary wakings, with furious looks.After the
fit of coma, great hunger, burning heat, and dryness of the mouth.Pulsations of
the blood-vessels; may hear the pulsations of the blood-vessels so loud when
trying to sleep as to be kept awake by it.Sleep,with moaning and tossing
about.Nocturnal sleeplessness. On sleeping, frequent starts with fright, groans,
cries, starting of the limbs, carphology, aggravation of pains, singing, talking,
delirium, and continual dreams.Nightmare.Dreams: anxious, terrible, frightful,
vivid, dreams of fires, of robbers, and assassins; meditative dreams.On closing
the eyes in order to go to sleep, frightful visions and jerking in the limbs.On
waking, headache and aggravation of sufferings.

27. Fever.─Coldness over the entire body, with paleness of face, or coldness of
the extremities, with bloatedness and redness of the face.Shiverings and partial
shuddering, chiefly in the back or the pit of the stomach, or in one arm, and
sometimes with heat in other parts, chiefly in the head, or followed by universal
shivering.Cold limbs, with hot head.Chilliness not relieved by the heat of the
stove.Continuous dry, burning heat, with perspiration only on the head.Internal
heat with restlessness; hot forehead and cold cheeks.Dry heat and thirst, and
perspiration only on the head and neck (sour-smelling).
The shiverings appear mostly in the evening, sometimes with nausea;

bruise-like sensation, and pulling in the back and in the limbs, pricking in the
chest and obscuration of the eyes.Febrile attacks, in which shiverings alternate
with heat, or of shiverings followed by heat, with aggravation at night or in the
evening, resembling quotidian, or double quotidian, or tertian, with complete
adypsia, or burning and inextinguishable thirst.
Dry, burning heat, often with swelling of the veins, pulsation of the
carotids, heat, redness and bloatedness of the face, burning thirst, agitation,
furious delirium, and shiverings on being even slightly uncovered.
Pulse strong and quick, or full and slow, or small and quick, or hard and
wiry.If slow, the pulse is full.Pulse full; hard; strong, bounding, double.Sweat
with or after the heat; copious sweat during the night, or in the morning; sweat
of the parts that are covered only; ascending from the feet to the head; sweat
when asleep; sweat of an empyreumatic smell, or which imparts a yellow colour
to the sheets.

RELATIONSHIPS
•Complementary to: Calcarea
•Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea, which is often required to complete the

cure
•It follows well after: Ars alb, Cham, Hepar, Merc sol
•Is followed well by: Dulc, Hepar, Hyos, Lach, RT
•Antidotes: Coffea and Hyos

HYOSCYAMUS NIGER
Hyoscyamus niger (commonly known as henbane), also known as stinking

nightshade or black henbane, is a plant of the family Solanaceae that
originated in Eurasia, though it is now globally distributed.
Toxicity and historical usage
It was historically used in combination with other plants, such as mandrake,

deadly nightshade, and datura as an anaesthetic potion, as well as for its
psychoactive properties in "magic brews." These psychoactive properties
include visual hallucinations and a sensation of flight. It was originally used in
continental Europe, Asia, and the Arab world, though it did spread to England
in the Middle Ages. The use of henbane by the ancient Greeks was documented
by Pliny. The plant, recorded as Herba Apollinaris, was used to yield oracles by
the priestesses of Apollo.

HYOSCYAMUS PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
 While in its action this agent has many points in common with
Belladonna and Stramonium, yet each has an individuality of its own.
 Hyoscyamus does not produce the intense cerebral congestion and

inflammation of Belladonna, nor the intense maniacal delirium and
sensorial excitement of Stramonium.
 It produces a sensation of fullness and heat of the head, with a flushed

face without pronounced hyperaemia; indistinct, clouded vision, which
may approach complete blindness, and owing to its stimulating action
upon the sympathetic nerves, the pupils are dilated
 There is giddiness, and a delirium that resembles drunkenness, and
hallucinations.
 She sees things that do not exist, from which she would escape.
 At times she is immodest and undresses, becomes vulgar in her acts,

gestures and expressions.
 The delirium is apt to be accompanied by insomnia; in other cases there is

an incoherent muttering, such as accompanies typhoid fever.
 The habitual use of this drug produces muscular paralysis and delirium of
a violent character.
 The secretions of the respiratory tract are diminished and a dry,

spasmodic cough results
History and authority: Introduced by Hahnemann in 1805.
Preparation:
(a) Mother Tincture Drug Strength 1/10

Hyoscyamus niger moist magma containing solids 100 450 g
g and plant moisture 350 ml
(b)Potenc: 2x to contain one part Mother Tincture, four parts Purified Water, five parts
Strong Alcohol. 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol
Spheres of action
 Nervous system
 Sensorium
 Muscular system
 Mucous membranes
 Skin
Parts used: Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Amaurosis. Angina pectoris. Bladder, paralysis of. Bronchitis. Chorea.

Coma vigil. Cough. Delirium tremens. Diarrhoea. Dysmenorrhoea. Enteric
fever. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Erotomania. Eyes, affections of. Haemoptysis.
Haemorrhages. Hiccough. Hydrophobia. Hypochondriasis. Lochia, suppressed.
Mania. Meningitis. Mind, affections of. Neuralgia. Night-blindness.
Nymphomania. Paralysis. Paralysis agitans. Parotitis. Pneumonia. Puerperal
mania. Rage. Sleep, disordered. Stammering. Tetanus. Toothache. Urine,
retention of. Vision, disorders of.
Characteristics

Hyoscyamus (“Hog-bean”) is nearly allied to Belladonna botanically, and in

pathogenetic action the two drugs are much alike in their main features. But
when examined closely their differences are sufficiently well marked to render
their distinction easy. Though sometimes growing near rivers, Bell. flourishes
best in a chalky soil. Hyos. is found growing on old rubbish heaps, near ruins,
on roadsides, and sometimes by the seashore. The flower of Bell. is of a dull,
purplish brown, of Hyos. a dirty yellow, with claret-coloured streaks. Bell. is a
smooth plant,whilst Hyos. is densely covered with thickly woven hairs, and by a
sticky, heavy-smelling exudation.
The delirium of Hyos. is more of the low, muttering type,whilst that of
Bell. tends to be violent and furious. Hyos. also has fits of ungovernable rage,
but the violence is not so sustained as that of Bell. The face of Bell. is red, of
Hy. pale or bluish. Hy. corresponds to a great variety of cases of melancholia
than Bell., and here one great characteristic is “suspicion,” so frequently met
with in cases of insanity or of those on the borderland.
Twitching is one of the grand characteristics of Hyos. “Every muscle in the
body twitches, from the eyes to the toes,” clonic spasms: twitching of groups of
muscles, spasms in general, with unconsciousness. Another feature of the Hyos.
insanity is uncovering. This is not because the patient feels too warm (for Hyos.,
like the other Solanids, is a chilly remedy), but because they will not remain
covered: nymphomania, lascivious mania, lies naked in bed and chatters. There
are violent outbreaks in the delirium of Hy., but they cannot be kept up (as are
those of Bell.), on account of the weakness.
Hyos. corresponds to the typhoid state: tongue dry and unwieldy, sensorium
so clouded that if the patient be aroused to answer he falls back into a stupor
again. The sight is disordered, sees things too large or too near and grasps at
them, picks the bedclothes and mutters. Twitchings, subsultus tendinum, and
picking at the bed-clothes. Teeth covered with sordes. Involuntary passage of

urine and faeces. When influenza takes the typhoid form if often finds its
remedy in Hyos. Parotitis with metastasis to brain.
Hyos. is suited to many pulmonary conditions. The characteristic cough is
worse on lying down, almost completely removed by sitting up, worse at night,
worse after eating, drinking or talking. Cough from elongated uvula. The
drowsiness of Hyos. has another side in restlessness. The patient lies awake for
hours, children twitch in sleep, cry out, tremble, and awake frightened. Hy. is
one of our best remedies in toothache, having well-defined symptoms. It is also
an ancient domestic remedy for toothache, the application being peculiar.
Hyos. is suited to nervous, irritable, excitable, sanguine people, to light-
haired people. The symptoms of Hy. are worse by touch, the abdomen is sore to
touch, worse evening and night, worse lying down, worse from cold and cold
air. better From sitting up, motion, walking, warmth. Worse From mental
affections, jealousy, unhappy love, approaching menstruation, commencing
menstruation, during menstruation.
Causation
Jealousy. Lochia, suppressed, Milk, suppressed.

SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Melancholy. Melancholy from unfortunate love, with rage or inclination to

laugh at everything. Anthropophobia. Suspicious. Anguish and fear. Fright
followed by convulsions and starts from sleep. Desire to run away from the
house at night. Fear of being betrayed or poisoned. Disposition to make a jest of
everything. Loquacity. Talks more than usual, more animatedly and hurriedly.
Jealousy, with rage and delirium. Unfortunate love with jealousy, with rage and

incoherent speech. Peevish and quarrelsome humor. Rage, with desire to strike
and to kill. Stupor, with plaintive cries, especially on the slightest touch, and
complete apathy. Loss of memory. Delirium without consciousness, does not
know anybody, and has no wants (expect thirst). Loss of consciousness, with
eyes closed, and raving about business. Delirium tremens, with clonic spasms,
unconsciousness and aversion to light and company. Delirium, sometimes with
trembling, and fits of epileptic convulsions. Delirium, sees ghosts, demons, etc.
Wandering thoughts. Perversion of every action. Mania, with loss of
consciousness, or with buffoonery and ridiculous gestures. Lascivious mania,
and occasional mutterings, uncovers his whole body.
Head
Confusion and heaviness of the head. Vertigo, as from intoxication, or with

obscuration of the sight. Attacks of cerebral congestion, with loss of
consciousness and snoring (with delirium, answering all questions properly,
pupils dilated). Headache, as from concussion of the brain. Congestion of blood
to the head, red, sparkling eyes, face purple-red, worse in the evening. Pressive
and numbing pain in the forehead, especially after a meal. Headache as if brain
shattered and shaken, when walking. Pressive, stupefying headache, especially
in forehead, occurring in alternation with needle-like stitches, particularly on
left side. Forehead feels as if screwed inward. Sticking in head over right eye,
when coughing. Violent throbbing headache, waking him at night, with
throbbing carotids. Headache in base of brain. Brain feels as if loose.
Constrictive obstruction in the forehead. Sensation of fluctuation, or of
commotion in the brain, especially on walking. Heat, and tingling in the head.
Inflammation of the brain, with unconsciousness, heat and tingling in the head,
violent pulsation in the head, like waves, the head shakes, worse from becoming
cold and after eating. better by bending the head forward (stooping) and from

heat. Hydrocephalus, with stupor, the head is shaken to and fro, sensation of
swashing in the head. Heat of the head, with general coldness of the body,
without thirst. Liability to catch cold in the head, principally from dry, cold air.
Headache, alternately with pain in the nape of the neck. Waving or shaking of
the head from one side to the other, with loss of consciousness and red sparkling
eyes.
Eyes
Eyes downcast and dull. Eyes red, fixed, convulsed, and prominent.
Spasmodic movement of the eyes. Redness of the sclerotica. Swelling of the
eyelids. Strabismus. Staring, distorted eyes. Contortion of the eyes. Quivering in
the eye. Spasmodic closing of the eyelids. Inability to open the eyelids. Pupils
dilated. Dimness of sight. Myopia, or presbyopia. Errors of vision. Diplopia.
Objects seem to be much large than they are in reality, or else of a red colour.
Objects have coloured borders, chiefly yellow. Nocturnal blindness. Weakness
of sight, as from incipient amaurosis.
Ears
Buzzing in the ears. Hardness of hearing, as if stunned.
Nose
Epistaxis. Cramp-like pressure at the root of the nose and the zygomata.
Dryness of nose. Nostrils sooty. Loss of smell.
Face
Face: cold, pale bluish, or puffed and blood-red. Face flushed, excited,
bloated, dark-red. Twitching of muscles of face. Distorted, bluish face, with
mouth wide open. Cramp-like pressure on the cheek-bone. Dryness of the lips.
Cramps in the jaw. Lock- jaw. Heat and redness of the face.

Teeth
Pulsative and tearing pains in teeth, from cheek to forehead, especially after
a chill in the cold air, or in the morning, and often with congestion of the head,
heat and redness of the face, swelling of the gums, and spasms in the throat.
Toothache driving to despair, in sensitive, nervous, excitable persons, causing
spasmodic jerks of fingers, hands, arms, and face muscles. Teeth feel too long.
Toothache worse from cold air, morning. Dentition. Pulsating toothache, as
from inflammation of the periosteum. Painful drawing in a single tooth, here
and there, as if a tooth were becoming pithy. Toothache during sweat. Tearing
in the gums, with buzzing and sensation as if the teeth were loose. Clenching of
the teeth. Grating teeth. Teeth covered with mucus.
Mouth
Dryness in the mouth. Salivation of a salt taste. Sanguineous saliva. Foam at

the mouth. Fetid exhalations from the mouth, perceptible to the patient. Heat
and numbness of the tongue, as if it had been burned. Tongue dry, and loaded
with a brownish coating. Redness of the tongue. Utters inarticulate sounds.
Paralysis of the tongue. Loss of speech.
Throat
Dryness and burning heat of the throat. Stinging dryness of fauces.

Constriction in the throat, and inability to swallow liquids. Elongation of the
uvula.
Appetite
Loss of taste. Bulimy, with violent thirst, with inability to swallow. Thirst
with drinking but little at a time. Dread of drinking. Hiccough, especially after a
meal (with spasms and rumbling in the abdomen). After a meal, headache,

intoxication, great anguish, and sadness. After drinking, convulsions.
Stomach
Nausea, on pressing the epigastrium. Bitter eructations. Retching and

vomiting, with cutting pains which extort cries. Vomiting and retching after
coughing. Aqueous vomiting, with vertigo. Vomiting of mucus (sanguineous)
and of blood, of a deep red, sometimes with convulsions, choking, pains in the
pit of stomach, great exhaustion, and coldness in the limbs. Vomiting of
ailments, immediately after a meal, and sometimes with violent pain at the pit of
the stomach. Cramps (colic) in the stomach in periodical attacks, and better by
vomiting. Painful sensitiveness of the epigastrium to the touch. Inflammation of
the stomach, with burning pain.
Abdomen
Dull pains in the hepatic region. Abdomen tight, inflated, painful when
touched. Cramp-like pain in the abdomen, and cutting, sometimes accompanied
by vomitings, pain in the head, and cries. Shootings in the umbilical region, on
walking and breathing. Pain, as from excoriation in the abdominal muscles, on
coughing. Spasms and rumbling in the abdomen, with hiccough.
Stool and Anus
Constipation. Frequent want to evacuate, with scanty and infrequent relief.

Watery diarrhoea. Painless diarrhoea. Mucous diarrhoea. Diarrhoea of lying-in
women. The stool is small in size. Involuntary evacuations, from paralysis of
the sphincter ani. Haemorrhoids, profusely bleeding.
Urinary Organs
Retention of urine, with pressure in the bladder. Retention of urine in child-

bed. Frequent want to make water, with scanty emission. Urine copious and

clear, like water. Involuntary emission of urine, as from paralysis of the bladder.
Male Sexual Organs
Increase of sexual desire, lascivious, exposes his person. Impotence.
Female Sexual Organs
Lascivious, uncovers sexual parts. Lascivious furor, without modesty.

Excited sexual desire without excited fancy. Catamenia more abundant.
Suppression of the catamenia. Suppressed lochia. Spasms of pregnant women,
especially during parturition. Puerperal fever. Metrorrhagia, of a bright-coloured
blood. Metrorrhagia, the blood pale, with convulsions. During the catamenia,
delirium, flux of urine, sweat and convulsive trembling. Before the catamenia,
hysterical cramps and fits of laughter. During the menses, convulsive trembling
of the hands and feet, severe headache, profuse perspiration.
Respiratory Organs
Catarrh, with accumulation of mucus in the larynx and in the trachea,

rendering the speech and the voice indistinct. Constant cough when lying down,
which ceases on rising up. Fits of coughing, as in the whooping-cough. Cramp-
like cough at night, especially when lying down, sometimes with redness of the
face, and vomiting of mucus. The cough is worse at night (after midnight),
when at rest, during sleep, in the cold air, from eating and drinking. Dry,
shaking, sobbing cough, with pain, as of excoriation, in the abdominal muscles.
Dry, spasmodic cough at night (in old persons) from continuous tickling in the
throat (as if the palate or uvula were too long). Greenish expectoration with the
cough. Cough, with expectoration of blood, and convulsions. Violent spasmodic
cough, short consecutive coughs,caused by a tickling sensation in the throat, as
if some mucus were lodged in it, during the day, expectoration of saltish- tasting

mucus, or of bright-red blood, mixed with clots. Haemoptysis, blood bright-red

with spasms. Haemoptysis of drunkards.
Chest
Slow, rattling breathing. Oppression, and embarrassed and rattling

respiration. Pressure on right side of chest, with great anxiety and shortness of
breath, on going up stairs. Spasms in the chest, with shortness of breath, which
forces the patient to bend forward. Shootings in the sides of the chest.
(Inflammation of the lungs.).
Heart
Pressure, tightness, and anxiety in precordial region. Oppression of heart

with transient stitches. Tearing, sticking in heart. Violent stitch in precordial
region. Soreness in spots to left of nipple alternating with stitches. Soreness,
tightness of heart region. Heart’s action violent, tremulous, irregular.
Palpitation, unable to move body without greatest anxiety, apprehension of
suffocation, or swooning, unquenchable thirst in morning, frequent copious
discharge of limpid urine. Pulse: full, hard, strong, rapid, intermitting, slow,
small, scarcely perceptible.
Back
Tettery spots on the nape of the neck. Pains in the back, and especially in
the lumbar region, with swelling of the feet. Lancinations in the loins, and
shoulder-blades.
Upper Limbs
Trembling of the arms and of the hands, especially in evening, after

movement. Painful numbness and stiffness of hands. Swelling of hands. Fists
clenched, with retraction of the thumbs (in convulsive fits). Carphologia

(picking of the bed cover or of the face). Fingers look and feel too thick. Hands
slightly paralysed.
Lower Limbs
Painful cramps in the (anterior part of the) thighs, and calves of the legs,
which contract the legs. Gangrenous spots and vesicles on the legs. Stiffness
and lassitude in the joint of the knee. Coldness and swelling of the feet.
Contraction of the toes when walking and ascending.
Generalities
Incisive tearing, and dull pulling in the limbs and joints. Limbs, cold,
trembling and numbed. Convulsive movements and shaking of some of the
limbs, or of the whole body, sometimes on making the slightest effort to
swallow liquid. Spasms and convulsions (with watery diarrhoea). Jerking of the
feet and of the hands. Epileptic fits, sometimes with bluish colour and puffing
of the face, involuntary emission of urine, foaming at the mouth, drawing back
of the thumbs, sensation of hunger and of gnawing at the pit of the stomach,
eyes prominent, cries, grinding of the teeth, etc. Epileptic convulsions,
alternately with attacks of cerebral congestion (apoplectic fit). Convulsions
resembling St. Vitus’ dance. Convulsions, with cries, great anguish, oppression
of the chest and loss of consciousness. After the epileptic convulsions, profound
sleep, with snoring. Uncommon sinking of strength. Fainting fits (repeated
attacks). Great weakness and debility. Sensation of levitation, as if walking on
and through air. Paralysis. Jerking of the tendons (subsultus). The majority of,
and the principal symptoms, manifest themselves after eating or drinking, as
well as in the evening.
Skin

Skin dry and rough. Hot, dry, brittle skin. Miliary eruption. Eruption of dry
pimples, like confluent small-pox. Brownish (or gangrenous) spots on the body,
from time to time (as in typhus). Frequent, large furunculi. Spots and
gangrenous vesicles on different parts. Rash from the abuse of *Belladonna.*
Bleeding of ulcers.
Sleep
Somnolency, like coma vigil. Retarded sleep, or sleeplessness caused by

excessive nervous excitement, or by great anguish, sometimes with convulsions
and starts. Nightly sleeplessness. Child sobs and cries in sleep without waking.
Profound, comatose sleep, with convulsions and involuntary movements of the
limbs, especially the hands. When sleeping, carphologia, or smiling
countenance, or starts with fright.
Fever
Shuddering from head to foot. Burning heat of the body, and especially of
the head. Fever, with fits of epilepsy, great weakness, flames before the eyes,
and congestion in the head, quartan or quotidian type. Pulse quick (full hard),
with swelling of the veins (arteries). Universal coldness over the whole body,
with heat of face, ascending from the feet. Nightly coldness, extending over the
back from the small of the back. Heat in the evening, with thirst (congestion of
blood to the head), and putrid taste. Debilitating perspiration during sleep. Cold,
sour- smelling perspiration. Perspiration, principally on the legs.
Relations.─Antidoted by: Vinegar, Citric acid, Bell., Chi., Stram.
It antidotes: Ether, Bell., Stram., Merc.
Is followed well by: Bell., Puls., Stram., Ver., Phos.
Follows well:Bell., Nux, Op., Rhus.
Compare: Suppression of lochia, Nux, Secal., Con., Col., Pul.;

loquacity, Stram., Lach., Op., Cup., Ver.; gossiping, babbling, Ver. (religious
subjects, Ver.); difficult swallowing of liquids, Hydrob., Bell., Caus., Con., Ign.,
Lach., Lyc., Pho. Convulsions from fright or worms, Cin. Every muscle of the
body twitching, Nux (but Nux retains consciousness, Hyo. has unconsciousness);
cough < lying down, Dros.; (> lying down, Mang., Fer.); cough < at night, after
eating, drinking, talking, singing, Dros., Phos.; hæmoptysis of drunkards, Nux,
Op.; meningitis, Bell. (Bell. has < from shaking head; from sitting with head bent
forward; Hyo. has > from both); tickling cough > in warm air, Rumex;
convulsions, spasms, twitchings, Cic. v.; chorea, Stram., Ver., Agar; jealousy,
Apis, Ign.; waves through head, Act. r.; mania, Stram. (Stram. has desire for light
and company, Hyo. aversion to both; Stram. uncovers whole body, Hyo. especially
the genitals; sexual mania, Grat., Calc. ph.; Stram. sees objects.mice, dogs, &c.rise
from every corner and come towards him); sees ghosts and demons, Plat., Kali
bro.; fears being poisoned, Glo., Rhus, Kali bro., Bapt.; hiccough, Ign. (Ign. after
emotions, Hyo. after abdominal operations); spasms, twitchings, Ign., Tarent.;
levitation, Phos. ac., Sticta pul., Hyp.; fits of ungovernable rage, Staph. Teste puts
Hyo. in the Mur. ac. group with Viol. od. He also puts it in the Bell. group.

STRAMONIUM
Common names :
•English: Jimson weed, Devil's trumpet, Devil's weed, Thorn apple, Tolguacha,
Jamestown weed, Stinkweed, Locoweed, Datura, Pricklyburr,
Devil's cucumber,
Hell's bells, Moonflower
•Hindi: Sada dhutura
It is also a powerful hallucinogen and deliriant, which is used

spiritually for the intense visions it produces. The tropane alkaloids
which are responsible for both the medicinal and hallucinogenic
properties are fatally toxic in only slightly higher amounts than the
medicinal dosage.
Description
D. stramonium is a foul-smelling, erect annual, freely branching herb that

formsa bush up to 2 to 5 feet (60–150 cm) tall. The root is long, thick, fibrous

and white. The stem is stout, erect, leafy, smooth, and pale yellow-green. The
stem forks off repeatedly into branches, and at each fork forms a leaf and a
single, erect flower.
The leaves are approximately 3 to 8 inches (8–20 cm) long, smooth, toothed,
soft, irregularly undulate. The upper surface of the leaves is a darker green, and
the bottom is a light green. The leaves have a bitter and nauseating taste, which
is imparted to extracts of the herb, and remains even after the leaves have been
dried.
Datura stramonium generally flowers throughout the summer. The fragrant

flowers are trumpet-shaped, white to creamy or violet, and 2 1⁄2 to 3 1⁄2 inches
(6–9 cm) long, and grow on short stems from either the axils of the leaves or the
places where the branches fork. The calyx is long and tubular, swollen at the
bottom, and sharply angled, surmounted by five sharp teeth. The corolla, which
is folded and only partially open, is white, funnel-shaped, and has prominent
ribs. The flowers open at night, emitting a pleasant fragrance and is fed upon by
nocturnal moths.
The egg-shaped seed capsule is 1 to 3 inches (3–8 cm) in diameter and either
covered with spines or bald. At maturity it splits into four chambers, each with
dozens of small black seeds.
TOXICOLOGY
•Fatal dose: 1/50 to 1/2 grain
•Symptoms of Datura toxicity usually occur within 30-60 minutes after

ingestion and may continue for 24-48 hours because the alkaloids delay
gastrointestinal motility.

•Ingestion of Datura manifests as classic atropine poisoning. Initial
manifestations include dry mucous membranes, thirst, difficulty swallowing
and speaking, blurred vision, and photophobia, and may be followed by
hyperthermia, confusion, agitation, combative behaviour, hallucinations
typically involving insects; urinary retention, seizures, and coma.
•Datura intoxication is characterized by two hallmark symptoms: senseless

behaviour and amnesia.
PATHOGENECITY
•Action of this agent is very similar to that of Bell, except that the
sympathetic nervous system is more affected by this drug, than Bell.
•It is a powerful narcotic and antispasmodic.
•The heart’s action is rendered more irregular than by Bell.
•Involuntary muscular fibres or the bronchial tubes are relaxed to a great

extent.
•It produces suppressed secretions and excretions of the mucous

membranes.
•Proved and introduced by Hahnemann
Range and habitat
Datura stramonium is native to North America, but was spread to the Old
World early. It was scientifically described and named by Swedish botanist Carl
Linnaeus in 1753, although it had been described a century earlier by herbalists,
such as Nicholas Culpeper.

Toxicity
All parts of Datura plants contain dangerous levels of the tropane alkaloids
atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine which are classified as deliriants, or
anticholinergics.
Medicinal uses
Datura has long been used as an extremely effective treatment for asthma
symptoms. The active anti-asthmatic agent is atropine, which causes paralysis
of the pulmonary branches of the lungs, eliminating the spasms that cause the
asthma attacks.
Atropine and scopolamine (both of which are found in very high concentrations
in datura) are muscarinic antagonists which can be used to treat Parkinson's
disease and motion sickness, and to inhibit parasympathetic stimulation of the
urinary tract, respiratory tract, GI tract, heart and eye.
Datura should be avoided by patients with heart problems, glaucoma, enlarged

prostate, urinary difficulties, fluid buildup in the lungs, or bowel obstructions.
PREPARATION :
•Old Method: Class I
•New method
(a) Mother Tincture Drug Strengt
Stramonium moist magma containing solid 100 g and plant moisture 200 ml 300 g
Purified water 200 ml
(b) Potencies: 2x to contain one part Mother Tincture, three parts Purified Water, six

parts Strong Alcohol; 3x and higher with Dispensing Alcoho
Spheres of action
•Nervous system
•Brain
•Mind
•Skin
•Mucous membrane
PARTS USED:Tincture of fresh plant in flower and fruit.
Clinical
Anasarca (after scarlatina). Aphasia. Apoplexy. Burns. Catalepsy. Chordee.

Chorea. Delirium tremens. Diaphragmitis. Ecstasy. Enuresis. Epilepsy.
Erotomania. Eyes, affections of. Headache, from sun. Hiccough. Hydrophobia.
Hysteria. Lochia, offensive. Locomotor ataxy. Mania. Meningitis.
Nymphomania. Oesophagus, spasm of. Scarlatina. Stammering. Starting.
Strabismus. Sunstroke. Tetanus. Thirst. Tremors. Trismus. Typhus.
Causation
Shock. Fright. Sun. Childbirth. Suppressions.
Characteristics
Mental alienation, because it was supposed to produce “a marked and

persistent disorder of the mental faculties.” Hahnemann proved it, and
introduced it into the homoeopathic materia medica.
Hahnemann attached a good deal of importance of this. ”Stram.,” he says,
“allays some spasmodic movements, and restores suppressed excretions in

which absence of pain is a prominent symptom.” This mobility affects muscles

of expression and muscles of locomotion.
The movements of Stram are generally gyratory and graceful when they
occur in the arms.
Nymphomania of lying-in women. Certain forms of religious monomania,
in exaggerated and ridiculous scruple of conscience. Fixed notion that some
unpardonable sin has been committed (which the patient is nevertheless unable
to remember), that he is possessed of the devil. Hallucinations.
The delirium of Stram. is for the most part terrifying. It corresponds
exactly to many cases of delirium tremens. Visions of animals enter largely into
it.
In a case of severe pleuro-pneumonia of right side, supervening on
scarlatina, the patient, a young man, said he saw a large black dog about the
room. This led me to give Stram.which rapidly altered the whole case for the
better, including the pneumonia, and resolved a situation of no little anxiety.
Stram. is congestions without actual inflammation, but with high mental
exaltation and furious delirium and little or no fever, without pain but with some
coma.
Difficulty of swallowing is a marked feature of Stram., and with the
intense thirst, delirium, and hallucinations completes the picture of many cases
of hydrophobia. Another symptom indicating it here is ” worse by bright light,
mirror or surface of water.”
Head movements of Stram. are characteristic: Continually jerks head up
from pillow, head bent back, boring head into pillow. The twitchings of single
muscles and the squint mark *Stram. as the remedy for many cases of chorea.
Stram. has a relation to the hip-joints, and Stram. has cured both coxalgia
and morbus coxae (left). This is accompanied by very severe pain, and is one
exception to the “painlessness” of Stram. affections.

The effect of Stram. on the secretions is to suppress them, and this makes
Stram. an excellent remedy in many cases of illness due to suppressed
secretions menses, lochia, sweat, eruptions.
Stram. causes high fever with rashes, some scarlet, like scarlatina,
petechiae, spots on the arms like flea-bites, vesications, and it corresponds also
to burns and scalds.
Stram. relieved an extensive eczematous eruption which came on after a
fright. As a result of suppressions convulsions occur. These may be general, or
they may be partial or choreic.
The convulsant, spasmodic properties of Stram. are shown in the
respiratory sphere in constriction of the chest, asthmatic symptoms, and cough
of the whooping-cough type. The common practice of smoking Stramonium
leaves for asthma is roughly homoeopathic.
Peculiar Sensations of Stram. are: As if spinning or weaving. As if
objects were smaller than they really are. As if dizzy. As if he had no limbs. As
if drunk. Head as if drawn backward. Starts as if a shock of electricity had been
passed through her body. As if eyes were forced out. As of sparks of fire
rushing from stomach to eyes. Eyelids as if swollen, or as if oppressed with
sleep, as of wind rushing out of ears. As if sawing cheek-bone, as if a hole were
there and the brain were touched. As if nose were shifted. As if pins and needles
were in forehead. As if he was seeking something. As if bones were sawed
through. As if front teeth would fall out. Teeth as if pressed together. Moving
fingers as if searching for something. Cries as if from sight of hideous objects.
As if lips would grow together. Inner mouth as if raw. Soft palate as if drawn
down. As of boiling water in throat. As if a ball were wedged in throat. As if
falling. As if he would vomit. As if navel were to be torn out. Abdomen as if
puffed up. As if abdomen were expanded to extremest degree. As if urine could
not be passed on account of narrowness of urethra. As if a cylindrical body were

being passed through urethra. As if he had not power to close neck of bladder.
As if very tall. As if something turned round in chest. Limbs feel as if gone to
sleep. As if parts of limbs were completely separated from body. Hands and feet
as if loose in joints. As if cold water were poured down back. *Stram. is an ill
smelling plant, and the discharges and secretions it causes are often foul and
even cadaveric in odour.
Stram. is Suited to: Ailments of young, plethoric persons, especially of
children (chorea, mania, fever, delirium).
The symptoms are: worse By touch, by pressure. Motion worse,
removing head from pillow causes vomiting of bile, walking causes involuntary
micturition, walking in dark causes vertigo. worse After motion (vomiting of
bile, palpitation, pain in back, shoulder, and abdomen). While sitting:
involuntary micturition, cough causes lower limbs to be jerked up. Lying better
pulsating heat of vertex, in evening causes prosopalgia in left cheek, causes
cutting pain in sternum. Lying on side worse vertigo. Wind cold worse. Worse
evening and night. Worse In dark.
Better In light. Better in company. Worse looking at shining objects,
water, & c. Worse sun. Great desire for acids, citric acid better. Warmth better.
SYMPTOMS
Mind
The principal range of this remedy is found in the mental affections. In

young people who are sometimes hysterical, showing the following condition:
praying and singing devoutly, beseeching, entreating, etc. Young women
with suppressed menses may be affected in this manner.
Can’t bear solitude or darkness, if they are left alone or are in a dark

room, the mental affections are very much <, also in unconscious delirium
when the patient will every now and then jerk up the head from the pillow, then
let it fall again, this being kept up without intermission for a long time, women
in puerperal fever or convulsions have many absurd notions that they are
double, that some one is in bed with them, and other strange and unmeaning
fancies.
Affections of the intellect in general, madness.
Melancholy ,Sadness, with deadly anguish, and copious tears, especially in
evening, in bed.
Anguish of conscience. Inconsolable disposition, and susceptibility to
irritation by trifles. Great activity and rapidity of movement. Obstinacy and self-
will. Bursts of laughter, alternating with choleric passion or moaning. Howling
and groans. Murmurs, or continued cries. Ungovernable fury, desire to bite, to
strike and to kill. At one time great indifference to matters of business, at
another time fear of being found incapable of discharging them properly. Love
of procrastinating and loss of will-power.
Desire to run away. Desire for society, candle-light, sunshine, because
darkness and solitude worse the moral symptoms. The moral symptoms are
worse after the autumnal equinox. Loss of memory (loses thoughts before she
can utter them, calls things by wrong names).Dulness of all the senses,
insensibility to external influences (insensibility to mental impressions).
Dizziness, with internal agitation. Mental derangement, especially in
drunkards.
Loquacious delirium and mania. Mania-a- potu with clonic spasms and
desire for light and company. Deliria, generally characterized by terror, with
visions of frightful spectres. Loss of consciousness, so that the patientforgets his
own relations.
Fixed ideas, the body is supposed to be cut in two. Carphologia. Delusions

of fancy, in which all surrounding objects appear to be very small, and the
sufferer himself very large, and on an elevation. Deliria, with strange ideas.
Mental alienation, with praying and pious actions (prayers, hymns, devout
aspect, &c.). Mania, generally with endless fictions of imagination, lascivious
talking, conversation with spectres, affectation of importance, dancing, laughter,
and blows, or ridiculous buffoonery, in constant alternation with sad and serious
behavior.
Hallucinations: a voice near right mastoid process scolding her, frightful,
of rats, mice, cats, dogs, and animals moving. Hallucinations that causes terror
or rage. Saw people coming out of all corners. Rush of blood to head with
furious loquacious delirium. Fear: of losing his senses, that his lips will grow
together, that he will suffocate, of falling, of everything falling on her. Boy
seemed to see black objects, spoke of black people, black clouds, and grasped at
air. Awakens with a shrinking look as if afraid of first thing she sees. Dulness of
senses before a rash. Conversing in different languages.Ecstatic. Mania from
shock. Nervousness and restlessness.
Head
Intoxication and dizziness. Vertigo, cannot walk in the dark, falling to left
or backward. Vertigo, with giddiness and staggering, or with clouded sight,
headache (red face, colicky pain and diarrhoea). Vertigo, head feels drawn
backward. Stupefaction with vanishing of vision and hearing, and convulsive
movements of head.
Headache, with clouded sight and dysecoia. Headaches with tendency to
speak incoherently .Anaemia of the brain in old people. Distressing sensation of
lightness and weakness in head. Woke up with fearful headache and extreme
sickness, got up at noon but could hardly speak to any one all day, this went on
for three days and then left. Head feels empty, hollow, sensitive to very sound.

Throbbing pains in vertex, with syncope. Congestion of blood to head, with

heat. Congestion of blood to head, pulsation in vertex, loss of sight and hearing,
bloated, turgid face, total loss of consciousness, and painlessness. Inflammation
of brain, with heat and pulsation of vertex, attacks of fainting, loss of sight and
hearing, convulsive movements of head, frequently raising head up or bending
it backward, better while lying still.
Hydrocephalus with convulsive movements of head, sensation of lightness
of head, and frequently raising, head up. Painful dark-red swelling of the highly
congested head and turgid face, with convulsive movements, delirium, and
desire for light and company. Retraction and convulsive movements of head.
Lifting head frequently from pillow when lying down. Bores head into pillow.
Bends head backward. Left side of head numb. Head perspires more than usual.
Eyes
Eyes red (inflamed) and swollen. Pressure and tension in eyes and lids.
Inflammation of margins of lids. Eyelids ulcerated. Involuntary lachrymation.
Nocturnal agglutination of eyes.
Eyes wide open, staring, prominent. Conjunctiva injected, as if the vessels
were filled with dirty liquid. Eyes fixed, wide open, and sparkling. Eyes half
open in sleep. Photomania. Vague, melancholy look. Paralysis and spasmodic
closing of lids. Eyes convulsed. Contortion of eyes and lids. Marked convergent
strabismus.
Pupils dilated and insensible. Cloudiness of sight. Transient blindness.
Blindness (at night), periodical. Objects appear blue. Myopia. Diplopia.
Indistinct, confused sight.
Amblyopia. Confusion of letters, when reading. Errors of vision, objects
appear oblique or coloured. Illusions of vision.
Hallucinations dark, black spots before eyes. Luminous vibrations, fiery

sparks. Sees balls of fire roll over the counterpane. Sensation as of sparks of fire
rushing from stomach to eyes.
Ears
Wind rushes out of both ears. Dryness in Eustachian tube. Pains in ears.
Pain in left ear pressing down to left side of cheek. Tearing pain in right ear
with shooting through forehead and vertex. Hearing very acute. Hallucinations
of hearing. Deafness.
Nose
Obstruction of the nose. Alae nasi white, face red. Nasal discharge yellow,
bad-smelling, quickly liquefies. Nose feels obstructed and dry, though she is
able to breathe through it. The cold of Stram. is accompanied by catarrh of nasal
passages and shooting pains over right eye. Spasmodic sneezing.
Face
Dull and bewildered air, with timid behavior. Stupid, distorted countenance.
Anxiety and fear is expressed in the countenance. Sardonic grin. Painful
distortion of features.
Facial muscles in constant play during delirium. Twitching in muscles of
face, frowns on forehead. Left side of face for moments distorted with painless
convulsions, contraction of zygomatic muscles draws cheeks and mouth from
below up, and from face backward to temples. Face deeply furrowed and
wrinkled.
Face bloated, puffed with blood, sometimes with an idiotic expression.
Circumscribed redness of cheeks. Hot cheeks. Blood rushing to face. Deep red,
or very pale colour of face. Fainting with paleness of face, dryness in throat, and
subsequent red face. Erysipelas on one side of face and nose. Boils come out on

face while taking. Lips dry and glued together. A yellow streak in red part of
lips. Quivering in lips. Distortion of the mouth. Crawling sensation on chin.
Chewing motion with mouth. Mouth spasmodically closed. Lock-jaw.
Teeth
Grinding of the teeth. Pulsative toothache, as if the teeth were going to fall
out.
Mouth
Dryness of mouth (dry fauces and dry, sticky lips). Dribbling of glairy saliva
from mouth. Copious salivation. Saliva decreased. Sanguineous froth before
mouth. Haemoptysis. Tongue swollen and paralysed. Tongue felt stiff, dry, and
parched to the very root, as if edges rolled up as hard and dry as leather. Tongue
paralysed, trembles when put out. Imperfect speaking and stammering (with
distortion of face). Continued murmurs. Complete loss of speech. A trembling
tongue.
Throat
Spasmodic constriction of throat. Impeded deglutition, with shootings in

throat, or pressure in submaxillary glands. Deglutition obstructed, sometimes by
dryness in throat. Dryness of throat and fauces not better by any sort of drink.
Paralysis of pharynx and oesophagus. Contracting, tearing in throat, sensation
as if a ball were lodged in throat. Twitching of pomum Adami, up and down
movement as in swallowing. Spasm of oesophagus.
Appetite
Loss of taste. Food tastes only of sand, or straw (or has no taste at all).
Violent thirst (for large quantities). Violent thirst, especially for acid drinks.
Constant bitterness in mouth, with bitter taste of food. Burning thirst, generally

with dread of water and all liquids.
Stomach
Risings, with sour taste. Nausea. Watery vomiting with colic and diarrhoea.
Vomiting of mucus, which is greenish, or of a sour smell. Vomiting of green
bile after slight exercise. Convulsive hiccough. Pain in stomach, with smarting
or pressive sensation. Anxietas precordium, with obstructed respiration.
(Inflammation of stomach). Diaphragmitis, delirium, burning along diaphragm,
short-breathed, spasms, struggles against the water offered.
Abdomen
Abdomen painful when touched. Abdomen distended, not hard. Abdomen

inflated, hard, distended. Contusive pain in abdomen during movement. Violent
pains in abdomen, as if navel were being torn out. Hysterical spasms in
abdomen. Swelling of inguinal glands. Borborygmi and fermentation in
abdomen. Expulsion of much flatus.
Stool & Anus
Constipation (unsuccessful urging to go to stool.) Tenesmus. Fetid faeces

(painless) of a corpse-like smell. Diarrhoea, with pain and borborygmi in the
abdomen. Discharge of coagulated blood from anus. Suppression of both stool
and urine. (Stools passed unconsciously and very frequently loose, with mental
derangement.
Urinary Organs
Suppression of secretion of urine (in typhus). Emission of urine, drop by

drop, with frequent want to urinate. Involuntary emission of urine. Urine:
profuse flow, sudden, and burning.

Male Sexual Organs
Lasciviousness (exalted sexual desire in both sexes). Constant uncovering of

genitals, indecent talk. Priapism. Scrotum oedematous. Testes retracted, penis
erect as in chordee. Onanism, causing epilepsy. Impotence.
Female Sexual Organs
Nymphomania. Increased catamenia, with discharge of large masses of

coagulated black blood.Menses too profuse and attended with headaches.
Increased sexual desire. Metrorrhagia (with characteristic mental symptoms).
Eclampsia. During catamenia, fetid smell from body, great loquacity, drawing
pains in abdomen and thighs. Sobs and moaning after catamenia. Too profuse
secretion of milk in nursing women. During pregnancy: mania, face ache, is full
of strange fancies. Cadaverous odour of lochia, she is full of strange fancies and
visions.
Respiratory Organs
Voice: hoarse and croaking, high, fine, squeaking, indistinct. Twitching of

pomum Adami. Constrictions of larynx. Periodically returning attacks of
painless, barking, spasmodic cough, in fine, shrieking tone, from constriction of
larynx and chest, without expectoration. Voice loud and bawling. Want of
breath. Difficult (hurried or) sighing respiration. Suffocating obstruction of
respiration. Oppression with desire for open air. (Asthma continually recurring,
with some gouty tendency: attacks worse at night. Dyspnoea on waking up
every morning, cold winds catch her breath, “can cough at any time”.
Chest
Constrictive oppression on chest (with dyspnoea). Pressure on chest, worse

by speaking. Sensation, as if something were turning over in chest. Spasm in

pectoral muscles. Red rash on chest.
Heart and Pulse
Pressure about heart. Angina pectoris. For a week after single dose of felt as
if heart beat insufficiently, and had a suffocating feeling in throat. Palpitation.
Pulse rapid, full, strong, irregular, hard, slow, small, frequent.
Back and neck
Neck stiff, cannot bend head backward. Pain in nape, from neck over head.
Sensitiveness along spine. Pain as of a fracture in back, when moving. Drawing
and tearing in the back and loins. Spine sensitive, slightest pressure causes
outcries and ravings. Drawing pains in middle of spine, in sacrum. Opisthotonos
(with distorted countenance).
Extremities
Twitching of hands and feet, of the tendons. Trembling of limbs, they fall
asleep.
Upper Limbs
Convulsive movements of arms, above head. Convulsive movements of

arms and hands, carphologia. Contractive pain in arm, with acute lancinations in
forearm. Distortion of hands. Clenched fists. Cramps in hands. Trembling of
hands. Numbness of fingers.
Lower Limbs
Coxalgia, left hip, violent, distracting pain when abscesses form. Pain in
muscle of outer side of right hip. Morbus coxae, left Drawing pains in thighs.
Jerking in legs, as from a shock, with retraction. Drawing pains in thighs.
Bending of legs when walking (he falls over his own legs). Trembling of feet.

Contractive cramps in feet.
Generalities
Face red and bloated. Cannot walk or keep on the feet in a darkened room, is
sure to fall. Restlessness of the body, staggering when walking, pithy, numb
feeling of outer parts. Complaints concomitant to morbid sleep. Worse during
perspiration, after sleep, when first awakens from sleep will shrink away as if in
fear, in the dark, in solitude. Better in company. The Stram. patient longs for
light, if lying down, longs to sit up, and dislikes having head on pillow.
Spasmodic, drawing, paralytic pains in muscles and joints of limbs.
Contractive cramp in limbs. Tingling in the limbs. Sensation as if limbs were
separated from body. Slow contraction and extension of limbs. Attacks of
cramps of different kinds. Tetanus. Opisthotonos (the body is bent backwards
with distorted countenance) Cramps, and other hysterical sufferings. Stiffness
and contraction of several of the limbs. Attacks of cataleptic stiffness in body,
with loss of consciousness, preceded by headache with vertigo. Easy movement,
or great heaviness, of limbs. Involuntary motions, hydrophobia. Excessive
aversion to liquids.
Convulsions (in children) with profuse perspiration followed by sleep. The
movement of the muscles subject to the will is easier and increased. Convulsive
jerking of limbs, with weeping. Convulsive movements and jerks, especially on
touching, or fixing the eyes on brilliant objects (such as a candle, a mirror, or
water), or else appearing periodically. Convulsions, as in epilepsy, but without
loss of consciousness. Puerperal convulsions. Syncope, with stertorous
breathing. Unconscious snoring, jaws hang down, hands and feet twitch, pupils
dilated. Trembling of limbs (also in drunkards). Tottering of limbs, when
walking, and when standing upright. Paralysis, sometimes after an attack of
apoplexy. Symptoms as from old age, sight becomes dim, has to use glasses,

mind gets weak, cannot complete sentences, avoids people and suspects them,
wakes with right arm over his head and cannot get it down again Weakness,
with necessity to lie down.
Suppression of all secretions and excretions. Painlessness with most all
ailments. Movements hurried. Restlessness and nervousness beyond description.
Whole body sensitive to touch and every movement aggravates.
Skin
Suppressed eruptions and the consequences thereof. Intense, bright, scarlet-

red rash over whole body.
Sleep
Strong disposition to sleep by day. Deep sleep, with snoring, cries, and
howling. Lies on back with open, staring eyes. Restless sleep, with tossing
about, twitching, and screaming. Comatose somnolency, with a ridiculously
solemn expression of countenance on waking. Wakes in a great fright from
indefinable terrors, stammers and puffs on least excitement. Agitated sleep, with
vivid dreams. Frightful visions during sleep. Kneeling position in bed, and
starting at least touch, with shrieks and wild gestures.
Fever
Coldness of whole body, especially of limbs, with shaking and shivering

and general jerking. Coldness of hands and feet, with redness of face. General
coldness in afternoon after previous heat of head and face, followed by general
heat. During chill great sensitiveness to being uncovered. Chill running down
back. Heat over whole body, with red face and perspiration. Profuse
perspiration already during the heat with violent thirst. Greasy, oily, putrid-
smelling perspiration. Cold perspiration.

Intermittent fever. Chill over whole body without thirst, followed by heat
and anguish, sleep during hot stage, and violent thirst after waking up, which
causes a stinging in throat, until he drinks something. Heat, with anxiety, and
redness of cheeks, or else with thirst and vomiting. At first, heat in head, then
general coldness, followed by heat and thirst. Pulse very irregular, generally
full, hard, and quick, or small and rapid, at times slow and scarcely perceptible,
occasionally intermitting and trembling. Frequent profuse sweat. also at night.
Retention of urine in any fever.
Relationships
Antidoted by: Lemon-juice, Vinegar, Tobacco injections, Senna for

cerebral symptoms, Bell., Hyos., Nux, and “Particularly Camphor” (Taste).
Antidote to: Merc., Plb.
Follows well: Cupr., Bell.
Incompatible: Coffea.
Compare: Metrorrhagia, from retained placenta with characteristic
delirium, Sec. )Sec. often acts when *Stram. fails), Pyro. (with fever and
septic tendency). Delirium, Bell., Lach., Agar., Cupr., Zn. Illusions of shape,
Bapt., Petr., Thuj. Erysipelas, Bell., Rhus. Stuttering, unable to combine
consonants with vowels, Bov. Bright light causes convulsions, K. bro. better
Light, Stro. Hiccough, Ign. (worse after eating, smoking, emotions), Ver.
(after hot drinks). Hears voices from far off talking to him, behind him, Anac.
Body bathed in hot sweat. Op. Gyrating movements (Hyos., angular).
Loquacity, Cup., Hyos., Lach., Op., Ver. Hands constantly on genitals, Zn.
Laughs and weeps by turns, Aur., Pul., Alm., Lyc., Caps., Graph., Phos., Sep.,
Sul., Ver. Tetanic convulsions worse touch and light, Nux (Stream. with
mania, Nux, mind clear). Desire to escape in delirium, Bell., Bry., Op., Rhus.
Hydrophobia, Hfb. Painlessness, Op. Sleepy, but cannot sleep, Bell., ChemOp.

SOLANUM NIGRUM
COMMON NAMES
Solanum nigrum (European black nightshade or locally just "black

nightshade", duscle, garden nightshade, "garden huckleberry",hound's
berry, pettymorel, wonderberry, small-fruitedblack nightshade or popolo) is a
species in the Solanum genus, native toEurasia and introduced in
the Americas, Australasia and South Africa.
Black nightshade is a common herb or short-lived perennial shrub, found in many

wooded areas, as well as disturbed habitats. It has a height of 30 to 120 cm (12 to 48
in), leaves 4 to 7.5 cm (1.5 to 3 in) long and 2 to 5 cm (1 to 2.5 in) wide; ovate to
heart-shaped, with wavy or large-toothed edges; both surfaces hairy or
hairless; petiole 1 to 3 cm (0.5 to 1 in) long with a winged upper portion. The flowers
have petals greenish to whitish, recurved when aged and surround prominent bright
yellow anthers. The berry is mostly 6 to 8 mm (0.3 to 0.8 in) diam., dull black or
purple-black.[5] In India, another strain is found with berries that turn red when ripe.[6]
S. nigrum is a widely used plant in oriental medicine where it is considered to be

antitumorigenic, antioxidant,antiinﬂammatory, hepatoprotective, diuretic,
and antipyretic.

PARTS USED: Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Amaurosis. Chorea. Headache. Heartburn. Hydrocephalus. Mania.
Meningitis. Night-terrors. Parotitis. Peritonitis. Puerperal convulsions.
Scarlatina. Small-pox. Stammering. Tetanus. Trismus. Tympanites. Typhoid
fever. Varicosis. Vertigo. Ulcers.
Characteristics
Sol. n. is a common weed found in waste places. It has white flowers and
black berries. “The leaves applied externally ease pain and abate inflammation.
Too large a quantity occasions violent sickness and headache, giddiness,
drowsiness, and other dangerous symptoms. Close affinity of Sol. n. with Bell.:
Delirium, headache, flushed face, sparkling eyes, pains coming and going
suddenly, fiery rashes, burning skin and sweat. blackness:
“The swelling is very painful, it enlarges, becomes shiny, hard, and deep red,
and in several places, quite black.” “The black hue of the swollen parts grows
deeper, the fingers are stiffened,”.
“The tip of the nose, the hands, from the finger-tips to the knuckles, and the
toes to the tarsal joints become quite black as if regularly dyed.” Corresponding
to the black appearance is a bruised feeling all over the body.
The headaches of Sol.n. are described as “frightful.” They are splitting,

throbbing, bursting, piercing, and are worse by least movement of head, light,
noise, stooping, by least movement after sitting, worse in a close room, and
rather better in open air.

The delirium is characterized by the cephalic cry, efforts to escape, and by

stammering speech. Dilatation of the pupils is as marked as with Bell., and there
is the same dryness of mouth and throat. Spasms, convulsions, and tetanic
rigidity of the whole body have been induced.
The most peculiar feature of the convulsions is this: “In the midst of these
convulsions the children frequently stretch out their little hands, then carry them
eagerly to their mouths, and go through the motions of mastication and
swallowing.”
The skin symptoms are very marked.Patches of psoriasis, knees, elbows,

and forehead, scaly, with red irritating spots at roots of hair.
Peculiar Sensations are: Brain as if swimming. As if things moving in a

circle, when stooping. As if bed turning rapidly in a circle. As if brain shaking
about in skull, on moving head. As if head would split. As from a blow on
forehead. As if sand in eyes. As if splinter in right tonsil. Tongue as if scalded.
Pains come and go suddenly. Symptoms extend upward. Right upper, left lower.
Alternate coldness and heat.
The symptoms are worse by touch. Worse motion. Worse moving head.
Worse moving. Worse beginning to move after sitting. Worse walking (inclines
to left). Worse misstep. Worse swallowing. Worse light. Worse bright sunshine
(eyes).
Better closing eyes (headache causes him to close eyes). There is very
great sensitiveness to cold air, but headache is worse in warm room and better
in open air. Many symptoms are worse morning on waking. Headache at 10
A.M.

SYMPTOMS
Mind
Delirium: with stammering speech, efforts to get out of bed, with piercing
cries and convulsions. Complete cessation of mental faculties. Apoplectic
stupor, muscles relaxed, face flushed, pulse full and irregular. Coma with
twitching.
Head
Vertigo: on rising and moving about, with dizziness before eyes, with
nausea and colic, on stooping, on rising in morning, better in open air.- Brain
seems to swim, worse on moving head. On stooping sensation as if everything
moving in a circle.While walking, body inclines to left.
Headache: dull, heavy throbbing, followed by dilatation of
pupils.Lightness in head.Frightful headache.Headache worse beginning to move
after sitting, better walking in open air.Very severe pain in head immediately
over eyes, makes him partially close eyes, worse by light, by stooping,10a
m.Headache worse in close room.Feeling as if head would split.- Feeling on
least motion after sitting as if brain would burst from forehead.In forehead: dull,
heavy pressure, sensation as from a blow, throbbing during whole afternoon.-
Severe pain through temples as if head would split.- Severe throbbing pain in
left temple worse slightest miss-step, and worse stooping at 1 p.m. Sharp
gnawing pain in right temple 9 A.M. causing him to grasp his hand and shut his
eyes.- Throbbing of temporal and carotid arteries, 11 A.M. Pain in small
circumscribed spot on vertex.- Pressure on vertex and forehead.
Eruption on forehead of small red pimples, sore to touch and very hard,

when one went another came.

Scalp sore on moving hand through hair. Scalp sore as if hair had been
severely pulled.
Eyes
Wrinkles round eyes. Eyes wide open, moist, and sparkling.Eyes: red, full
and tense, dull and heavy, burning, very sensitive to light, sensation as if sand in
them.- Pain: over left eye, severe in supraorbital region on waking in morning,
worse motion and stooping, heavy, bruised sensation. Sharp shooting over right
eye.-Burning in lids. Burning in lid- margins, Lids swollen and itching.Lids
agglutinated.Pain in left inner canthus. Lachrymation.Pupils dilated:
enormously and insensible, alternating with contraction. Vision weak, worse by
bright sunlight.Erethiritic amaurosis.Muscae, flickering black points and
streaks, darkness before eyes, everything seemed too bright. Sparks before eyes
(with nausea).
Ears
Most violent parotitis.Stitches in ear.Sounds seem distant.Buzzing before

ears.
Nose
Nose deep red.Considerable sneezing.Discharge of thin, watery substance,

from right nostril, left being closed. Burning in nose.Nose swollen, painful, and
black.Tip of nose black.
Face
Wrinkles round eyes, on upper lip and on fingers.Face highly congested,

wild anxious.Face, red, swollen, bloated, itching.Expression: fatigued, of fright
and terror, as if intoxicated.Face pale.Sloughs detached from face.Sharp,

neuralgic-like pains shooting from lower jaw up into left ear, coming and going
suddenly (10 A.M.). Lips dry and blistered, as if scalded. Trismus.
Mouth
Lips and tongue dry as if scalded.Tongue sore as if burnt.Dryness: of back

of tongue and arch of palate, of mouth.Insipid taste (with pain over eyes) on
waking in morning.Utterance becomes uneasy.
Throat
Throat sore as if burnt.- Stitches in right side of throat.-Raw sensation in

throat, painful on swallowing, solids or liquids.- Tickling in throat causing
cough.- Fauces: dry, sticking in worse on swallowing, at times stitches shooting
to drum of right ear.Left tonsil swollen.Feeling as if splinter in right tonsil.
Cramp in oesophagus.Violent beating of carotids.
Stomach
Appetite lost.Great thirst, for large quantities, often.Empty eructations with

burning in stomach.Heartburn.Nausea with sparks before the eyes, continuing
till he went to sleep.Nausea and retchings.Nausea and efforts to vomit, followed
by profuse vomiting, at first of mucus, afterwards of bluish or greyish- black
fluid.Vomit: ingesta, blackish-green liquid, thick.Severe pain in region of
stomach, extending into heart region and left shoulder (5 p.m.).Pressure in
stomach, constant or in paroxysms. Cramps, cutting, burning in pit of stomach.
Burning in stomach extending up into oesophagus.
Abdomen
Violent cutting in umbilical region.Abdomen excessively distended and

tense.Colic, and ineffectual urging.Pain 5 p.m., as if intestines were cut with
knives.Pains in abdomen and desire to lie down.

Stool and Anus
Tenesmus in anus.Stools: natural but more frequent, semi-fluid, yellow,

watery.Stools followed by burning pain in stomach, extending up, with nausea.
Constipation, small, dry, hard stools.
Urinary Organs
If a sweat did not break out an extraordinary discharge of urine occurred,

frequently followed by purging.
Respiratory Organs
Respiration: rapid, difficult, quick but easy, stertorous.
Chest
Chest: oppression of, constriction of.- Pressure on sternum and at tenth dorsal
vertebra.- Cutting pains in left side.- On upper part of sternum a large round
blotch, deep red.
Heart
Anxious feeling in region of heart.Pulse: rapid, scarcely perceptible,

irregular, slow, small, soft.
Neck and Back
Neck sore, stiff, as if bruised, worse moving head.Severe pains in muscles

of neck.Great pains in back of neck and shoulders, and in lower limbs.Pains in
back of neck and between shoulders.Bruised feeling in back and limbs.
Limbs
Restlessness in limbs and carphologia.Wandering pains, first in shoulders,

then down arm, then in lower limbs.Severe pains in all the limbs, 8 p.m. Painful

drawing in arms and feet.
Upper Limbs
Arms heavy, prostrated, worse r.Dull, heavy pain in right arm extending to
finger-tips (10 A.M. to 3 p.m.).Lancinating pains down left arm.Pain shooting
through left arm and wrist.- Pain in left shoulder and right wrist.Palms greenish
blue.Tips of fingers black as if dyed.Vesicles appear on back of hands, break
and discharge an acrid fluid.Eruption like small-pox, sloughs form on fingers.
Lower Limbs
Gait unsteady, heavy, insecure.Trembling of lower limbs, especially of

muscles of thighs, like small successive jerks.Lower limbs prostrated, worse
left.Thighs weak.Pain in right knee extending up to hip. Legs feel sore on
walking as if bruised.In left calf: compression, crawling.Swelling of feet.
Tearing on back of left foot.Chronic ulcers on feet.
Generalities
Coma, convulsive agitation, plaintive cries.In midst of convulsion the

children stretch out their hands, as if to grasp something, carry them eagerly to
their mouths, and go through the motions of mastication and swallowing.Most
violent, convulsive agitation.Convulsions, tetanic rigidity and death.Lies on
back in entire prostration, disturbed at intervals by spasmodic movements.
Increased distension and prominence of varicose veins.All muscles sore to
touch.Bruised feeling of whole body.Great sensitiveness to cold air.
Skin
Red blotches like scarlatina, irregularly dispersed over whole surface.Great

swelling and intolerable itching of face, eyelids, lips, hands, and feet.Hands,
feet, and nose painful, swollen, and black.Black hue of swollen parts, shiny,

painful.The swelling and black discoloration diminish together, and are

followed by desquamation.Itching burning of extremities. Vesicles on back of
hands, sloughing on fingers, blisters discharge acrid fluid over arms.Sloughs are
detached from face, but right hand swells up again.Face cleans off, but hands
are again covered with hard and very painful crusts, which fall off and are soon
replaced by new ones. Swelling of feet, arms, abdomen, scrotum, and penis.
Sleep
Sleepiness, during forenoon, all day.Deep sleep.Night very restless,

sleepless, with hallucinations and carphologia.In middle of night he wakes up
uttering groans, which are wrung from him by violent headache.Feeling on
waking as if he had lost several nights’ sleep.Dreams: waking him in terror,
with sensation of falling from a great height, of snakes.
Fever
Alternation of coldness and heat.Flushes across face, 3 p.m.High fever

followed by profuse sweat.High fever, 2 p.m., with great pain in back of neck,
shoulders,and lower limbsHeat, redness of face.Fever, painfulness in praecordia,
distension of abdomen with at times screaming and grasping at abdomen, and
constipation.Burning dry heat.Skin burning, sweating.Heat in face, hands, and
along back.Flashes of heat run up and down back.Frequent sweats.Whole body
bathed in profuse sweat.
Relations
Compare: In general Bell, and other Solanaceae. Cerebral cry, Apis.

Stammering, Stram. Headache 10 A.M. Nat-m. Splinter sensation, Nit-ac.,
Hep. Tongue as if scalded, Sang. Pain in back of neck, Hell. Sensation of a
blow, Naja. (Naja. On occiput, Sol. n. on forehead).

CAPSICUM ANNUUM
COMMON NAME: Capsicum annum (Cayenne Pepper)
Capsicum annuum is a species of the plant genus Capsicum native to

southern North America and northern South America. This species is the most
common and extensively cultivated of the five domesticated capsicums. The
species encompasses a wide variety of shapes and sizes of peppers, both mild
and hot, ranging from bell peppers to chili peppers. In the past some woody
forms of this species have been called C. frutescens, but the features that were
used to distinguish those forms appear in many populations of C. annuum and
there is no consistently recognizable C. frutescens species.
PARTS USED:Tincture of the dried pods.

Clinical
Amaurosis. Asthma. Brain, irritation of. Delirium tremens. Cough.

Diarrhoea. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Ear affections. Glandular swellings.

Haemorrhoids.Headache.Heartburn.Hernia.Home-sickness.Intermittents. Lungs,
affections of. Measles. Mouth, ulcers in. Neuralgia. Nose, affections of.
Obesity. Oesophagus, stricture of. Paralysis. Pleuro-pneumonia.Pregnancy,
disorders of. Rectum, diseases of. Rheumatic gout. Rheumatism. Sciatica.
Scrofula. Seasickness. Stomatitis. Throat, sore. Tongue, paralysis of. Trachea,
tickling in. Urine, disorders of. Whooping-cough. Yellow fever.
Characteristics
It acts with great intensity on the mucous membranes, and also on the bones:
affections of bones in general, pains in bones of face, inflammation of petrous
bone
Capsicum corresponds especially to persons of light hair and blue eyes, also
to persons of lax fibre and muscles, obesity, lazy, fat, unclean persons who
dread the open air, clumsy children, awkward persons, haemorrhoidal troubles.
Lack of reaction and bodily irritability.
Symptoms generally appear on left side. As with Dulcamara, there is
extreme sensitiveness to cold and damp which worse most symptoms. The well-
known burning effects of red pepper is a leading indication for its use:
“Burning pains”. The burning of Caps. is worse from cold water. Redness of
the skin, and even a scarlet eruption like *Belladonna.
Very characteristic is a cough with fetid breath, or bad taste. Cough causing
splitting pain in head. Chill at 10.30 a m., beginning between shoulders and
running down back.
Caps. is a notable fever remedy. The patient is thirsty_but drinking causes
shuddering. Absence of thirst during heat. Burning, pungent pains, worse by
application of cold water, are very marked. Burning, pungent sensation in face
worse by slightest draught of cold air, burning in throat, burning blisters in roof

of mouth (diphtheria or gangrene), constriction of throat, spasmodic closure,

pain when not swallowing, burning in rectum, tenesmus, haemorrhage, burning
on urination, burning in bladder. Caps. is among the remedies of the front rank
in stomatitis, in inflammation of the middle ear, with involvement of mastoid
cells, in the sore throat of smokers and drinkers, with inflammation, burning,
relaxed uvula, sometimes dry, sometimes with tough mucus difficult to
dislodge.
“Home-sickness, with red cheeks and sleeplessness, with hot feeling in
fauces.”There is awkwardness, fearfulness, obstinacy. Alternating states, laughs
and weeps by turns, is now jocose and sings, but becomes angry from slightest
cause. Delirium: it has been given with great success in delirium tremens,
mostly in drachm doses of the tincture, given in milk. better From heat is the
most important modality. Patients who cannot get to sleep without a hot bottle
at their back. Rest worse some forms of headache and better others. Motion
causes headache as if skull would split, as if bruised, asthma, chilliness, stiff
joints to crack. Ascending causes asthma. worse By touch. Shuns open air,
dreads uncovering, dreads air, especially a draught. Spirits become lower as
body becomes cooler. Sensation as if cayenne pepper were sprinkled on parts.
Violent pains in various places, now here now there. Sensation as if parts would
go to sleep.
SYMPTOMS
Mind
Tendency to take alarm. Discontent. Opinionativeness. Strong disposition to

take everything in bad part, to fly into a rage, even on account of harmless jests,
and to utter reproaches. Capricious and exceedingly changeable humour.
Dullness of all the senses. Want of reflection and awkwardness. Nostalgia, with

redness of the cheeks and sleeplessness. Disposition to jest, and to utter

witticisms, but gets angry at least trifle.
Head
Bewilderment of the head. Intoxication, as if from spirituous liquors.

Headache, as if the cranium were going to burst, on walking, or moving the
head or coughing. Attack of semi-lateral headache, pressive and shooting, with
nausea, vomiting, and loss of memory, aggravated by movement of the eyes.
Shooting, or acute, drawing pains, especially in the sides of the head. Pain of
pressive severing in the brain, as if from fullness. Pulsative headache, (better in
motion). Gnawing itching in the scalp, with pain in the roots of the hair after
scratching.
Eyes
Pressure in the eyes, as if from a foreign body introduced into them.

Inflammation of the eyes, with redness, burning pain, and lachrymation. Eyes
prominent. Confusion of sight, especially in the morning, as if something were
swimming on the cornea, mitigated for an instant by rubbing. Objects appear
black when brought before the eyes. Sight entirely extinct, as if from amaurosis.
Ears
Acute drawing pains in the ears. Itching and pressure in the bottom of the
auditory tube. Painful swelling on the bone behind the ear, worse by touch.
Tearing behind left ear. Diminution of hearing after previous burning and
stinging in the ear.
Nose
Epistaxis, especially in bed, in the morning. Painful pimples under the

nostrils. Dry coryza, with tingling and tickling in the nostrils.

Face
Redness of the face (without heat), often alternately with paleness. Many
small red spots on the face. Corroding, itching tetter on the forehead. Pains in
the face, in the bones, where they are aggravated by the touch, or in the nerves
where they are aggravated during sleep. Dull pressure on the cheek-bone.
Swelling of the lips. Ulcerated eruptions, and fissures in the lips.
Teeth
Pains in the teeth, as if they were set on edge, or elongated. Pullings in the
teeth, and in the gums. Swelling of the gums.
Mouth
Burning vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue. Viscid saliva in the mouth.
Throat
Sore throat with painful deglutition and pulling sensation in the pharynx.
Inflammation, with dark redness and burning of the throat. Cramp-like
contraction of the throat. Uvula elongated, with sensation as if it were pressing
on something hard.
Appetite
Unnaturally increased appetite, alternated with aversion to food. Aqueous

and insipid taste. Sour taste in the mouth, and also a taste of broth. Want of
appetite. Desire for coffee, with inclination to vomit before or after taking it.
Pyrosis. Nausea, felt generally in the epigastrium, with pressure on the part.
Stomach
Pain in the stomach, which is inflated. Sensation of cold in the stomach.

Burning pain in the stomach, and in the epigastrium, especially just after a meal.
Shootings in the epigastrium, on breathing rapidly and deeply, on speaking, and
on the part being touched.
Abdomen
Abdomen inflated, almost to bursting, with pressive tension, and suspension

of respiration. Painless rumbling in the abdomen. Colic about umbilicus, with
mucous stools. Draggings and movements in the abdomen. Strong pulsations in
the abdomen. Flatulent colic. Protrusion, flatulent hernia in the inguinal ring.
Stool and Anus
Tenesmus Small dysenteric evacuations, with discharge of slimy and

sanguineous matter, preceded by flatulent colic. Nocturnal diarrhoea, with
burning pains in the anus. Blind haemorrhoids, with pain during evacuation.
Haemorrhoidal tumors, with burning (bleeding).
Urinary Organs
Tenesmus of the bladder. Frequent, urgent and almost useless efforts to

make water. Burning pains on making water. Cramp-like and incisive
contractions in the neck of the bladder. Incisive and shooting pains in the
urethra, when not urinating. Purulent running from the urethra, as in
gonorrhoea. Flow of blood from the urethra, which is painful to the touch.
Male Sexual Organs:-
Impotence and coldness of the genital parts. Purulent discharge from the
urethra. Dwindling of the testes. Violent erections in the morning. Trembling of
the whole body, during amorous caresses.

Female Sexual Organs:-
Disordered menstruation, with a pushing or sticking sensation in left ovarian

region.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness. Cough, more violent in the evening and at night, with pains in
other parts of the body, especially in the head and in the bladder, as if they were
going to burst, or with pressure in the throat and ears, as if an abscess were
about to open in them. Cough, after taking coffee. Cough, with fetid breath, and
disagreeable taste in the mouth.
Chest
Want to breathe deeply. Deep breathing, almost like a sigh. Oppressed

respiration, sometimes as if proceeding from the stomach, or from fullness of
the chest. Asthma, with redness of the face, eructation and sensation as if the
chest were extended. Constrictive pain in the chest. Shootings in the chest on
breathing. Pulsative pain in the chest, which suspends respiration, and which is
increased by movement.
Neck and Back
Stiffness of the neck. Acute drawing pains in the back.
Limbs:
Rheumatic pain in limbs. Tension in the knees and stiffness in the calves of
the legs on walking. Stiffness of the arms and legs, with tingling as when they
are asleep. Shooting-tearing from hip to knee and foot, especially when
coughing. Caries of right hip, left leg atrophied, violent pains in atrophied leg.
Cold sweat on upper part of legs.

Generalities
Aching pains. Drawing pains in the limbs excited by movement. Pain, as

from dislocation, and stiffness in the joints, with cracking, especially at the
beginning of a walk. Phlegmatic temperament, and relaxed fibres. Cramps in the
body, with stiffness in the arms and legs, with numbness and sensation of
tingling. Repugnance to movement. The symptoms show themselveschiefly in
the evening and at night, and are aggravated by the open air, by contact, and by
cold, as well as on beginning to move, and after drinking or eating. Great
sensibility to fresh air, and to a current of air. Symptoms generally appear on
left side, suited for light-haired people, tendency to get fat, laxness of the
muscles, bloatedness of the skin. Affections of the bones in general, pains in
bones of the face.
Sleep
Sleeplessness, without apparent cause. Sleeplessness after midnight.

Sensation as if falling from a height during sleep. Sleep full of dreams.
Fever
Pulse irregular, and often intermitting. Febrile shivering and cold over the
whole body, with ill-humour increasing with the cold, or else with anxiety,
dizziness and dulness of the head. Shivering, commencing at the back, between
shoulders. Cold and shivering whenever drink is taken. Fever with
predominance of cold, and with thirst, burning heat, and affections of the
mucous membranes. Shiverings, with much thirst, afterwards heat, (without or)
with thirst and perspiration. On the upper part of the legs cold perspiration.

Relations
Antidoted by: Calad., Camph., Cina, Chi., Sul-ac., or vapor of burning

sulphur.
It antidotes: Effects of Alcohol, Coffee, Opium, Quinine.
Compatible: Bell., Lyc., Puls., Sil.
Compare: Arn., Bell. (headache, etc.), Bry. (headache from cough), Canth.
(burning pains, throat symptoms, dysentery, urinary symptoms), Psor. (lack of
reaction, despair of recovery, Caps. in persons of lax fibre), Lach (thirst before
chill, continues into chill, drinking worse, also Elaps), Nat-m., Carb-v. and
Meny. (intermittents, Nat-m. is the “chronic” of Caps.), Carb-an. and Nit-ac.
(inflammation behind ears, Aur. and Nit-ac. preferable in abscess, Sil. in
chronic suppuration), Ph-ac. (home-sickness, Caps. has red face), Ars., Alum.,
Carb-v., Lyc. have burning pains better by heat. Merc., Nit-ac., Sulph. have
passage of blood from bowels, Crot-t. (after drinking urging to stool), Hell.
(colic with spasm of bladder), Plat. (burning, pungent pain in face, worse
slightest draught of air, warm or cold). Compare also Solanaceae.

DULCAMARA
Solanum dulcamara, also known as bittersweet, bittersweet
nightshade, bitter nightshade, blue bindweed, Amara Dulcis, climbing
nightshade, fellenwort, felonwood, poisonberry, poisonflower, scarlet
berry, snakeberry,trailing bittersweet, trailing nightshade, violet bloom,
or woody nightshade, is a species of vine in the potato genus Solanum,
family Solanaceae.
Bittersweet is a semi-woody herbaceous perennial vine, which scrambles over

other plants, capable of reaching a height of 4 m where suitable support is
available, but more often 1–2 meters high. The leaves are 4–12 cm long,
roughly arrowhead-shaped, and often lobed at the base. The flowers are in

loose clusters of 3–20, 1–1.5 cm across, star-shaped, with five purple petals
and yellow stamens and style pointing forward. The fruit is an ovoid
red berry about 1 cm long, soft and juicy, with the aspect and odor of a tiny
tomato, and edible for somebirds, which disperse the seeds widely.
PARTSUSED:Tincture prepared from fresh green stems and leaves,

gathered just before flowering.
Clinical.─Adenitis. Angina faucium. Aphonia. Bladder, affections of.

Blepharophthalmia. Catarrh. Cholera. Crusta lactea. Diarrhœa. Dropsy.
Dysentery. Emaciation. Exostoses. Hæmorrhage. Hæmorrhoids. Hay-fever.
Headache. Herpes. Influenza. Irritation. Lichen. Lumbago. Measles.
Meningitis. Myalgia. Myelitis. Nettle-rash. Neuralgia. Ophthalmia. Paralyses.
Pemphigus. Rheumatism. Scarlatina. Scrofula. Stammering. Stiff-neck. Thirst.
Tibiæ, pains in. Tongue, affections of. Tonsillitis. Tumours. Typhoid. Urine,
difficulty in passing; incontinence of. Warts. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics.─The leading indication for the homœopathic use

of Dulcamara is found in its modality, "< from cold and damp." Any condition
which has this feature may find its remedy in Dulc. Effects of lying on damp
ground (e.g., paralysis); conditions which are < in cold, damp weather; or, from
changes from hot to cold weather, especially if sudden. Phlegmatic, torpid,
scrofulous patients, who are restless and irritable and who take cold on damp
changes, are especially suited for Dulc. Sensitiveness to cold and damp runs
through the Solanaceæ, and is marked in Bell. and Caps., but it is supreme
in Dulc. In poisoning cases Dulc. produces: Hard, griping pains in bowels;
unconsciousness; tetanic spasm; trismus; loud, rattling breathing; death.
Paralyses are numerous: paralysis of tongue; of lungs; of heart (pneumogastric
paralysis).

Paralysis of the bladder. Rheumatic paralyses. Paralysed part feels icy
cold. One-sided spasms. Convulsions beginning in face. Trembling, especially
of right arm. It cured: "Paralysis of vocal cords (aphonia) from sleeping over a
damp cellar."
Dulc. is a scrofulous remedy and has many scrofulous-looking eruptions:

moist or dry, red, tettery eruptions, especially on face; furfuraceous; herpetic;
urticaria; skin callous; warts, fleshy or large, smooth. Painless ulcers.It
corresponds to results of repercussed eruptions. Offensive sweat; effects of
sudden cooling whilst sweating. Dropsical affections. Catarrhal troubles.
Dryness of mucous membranes strongly indicate it.Dulc. causes diarrhœa, and a
characteristic form is when there is vomiting with the stool. It causes a mucous-
like sediment in the urine and is particularly indicated when a muco-purulent
urine is associated with general one-sided sensitiveness, especially of the
abdomen.
Sensations: as of a board pressing against forehead; as if head were enlarged;

as if hair stood on end; as if fire were darting out of eyes; as if worms were
crawling up and down in abdomen; biting in rectum as from salt; as if lung
moved in waves; as if arms were of wood; as of needles over whole body.
Crawling, tickling itching of various parts; of tip of tongue. < Lying on
back; > lying on side. < Stooping, > erect. < Bending diseased part backward.
Most symptoms < at rest and > by motion. Most symptoms are < evening and
night. Warmth > most symptoms, but < cough and nettle-rash. < Cold air; cold
change of weather; damp weather; getting wet; using water. < From cold drinks;
from ice-creams. Skin eruptions are sensitive to touch; pressure >. Small
furuncles appear on places hurt by concussion.

Causation.─Damp with cold. Wading. Washing. Injuries. Checked eruptions.
Checked perspiration.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─Mental agitation.Great impatience and restlessness.Impatient desire

for different things, which are rejected as soon as they are obtained.Inclination
to scold, without being angry.Combative disposition, without anger.Nocturnal
delirium, with aggravation of pains.
2. Head.─Vertigo when rising from bed, with darkness before the

eyes.Giddiness early in the morning, > on getting up.Giddiness so as to
occasion failing, with trembling of the whole body, and general
weakness.Giddiness, with heat ascending to the face.Dull pressure, as if a board
were resting heavily on the forehead.Pressive stunning pains in different parts of
the head.Piercing and burning pain in the forehead, with digging from the inside
outwards, with the sensation as if the brain were enlarged; < in evening till
midnight and when becoming cold; > when lying down.Bursting pains
extending from forehead to bridge of nose.The headache is < by the slightest
movement, and even by speaking.Boring headache, from within to without, in
the temples and forehead; < before midnight and when lying quiet; > when
talking.Sensation of heaviness in the head.Congestion in the head, with buzzing
in the ears, and hardness of hearing.Sensation in the occiput as if it were
enlarged.Stupefying headache; heaviness of the head.Stupefying ache in occiput
ascending from nape of neck.Unpleasant sensation of chilliness in the
cerebellum and over the back, with the sensation as if the hair were standing on
end; returning everyday in the evening.Thick crusts on the scalp, causing the
hair to fall off.

3. Eyes.─Aching in the eyes, esp. when reading.Sensation as if fire were issuing
from the eyes when walking in the sun or in the room.Inflammation of the eyes
(ophthalmia from catching cold).Itching of the eyelids in the cold
air.Ptosis.Eyelids dry.Sparks before the eyes.Confused sight, as from incipient
amaurosis, sees everything as through gauze.
4. Ears.─Otalgia, at night, with nausea.Acute pullings, with shootings in the

ears.
5. Nose.─Epistaxis of a very hot and bright red blood, with pressive pain above
the nose.Coryza; dry; with stoppage of the nose, < in cold air.
6. Face.─Paleness of the face, with circumscribed redness of the

cheeks.Eruptions and warts on the face.Thick, brownish or yellowish, scabs on
the face, on the forehead, on the temples, and on the chin.Crusta lactea.Moist
tetter in the cheeks.Twitching of the lips in the cold air.Paralysis of the lower
jaw.Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.Redness of the face.Distortion of the
mouth; it is drawn to one side.
8. Mouth.─Salivation; saliva tenacious, soap-like.Dryness of the tongue and

roughness, with much thirst and increased flow of saliva.Tongue loaded with
thick mucus.Swelling of the tongue, hindering speech and impeding
breathing.Stammering from time to time as if drunk; indistinct articulation,
though he tried constantly to speak.Pimples and ulcers in the mouth.Gums
loosened and fungous.
9. Throat.─Sore throat, as if from elongation of the uvula, with pressive

pain.Burning heat in the palate.Sore throat, as after a chill.Continual hawking
up of very tough saliva, with much rawness in the fauces.

10. Appetite.─Sickly and saponaceous taste in the mouth.Bitterness in the
mouth.Burning thirst for cold drinks, generally with dryness of the tongue,
joined to a more abundant secretion of saliva.Hunger after the fever-
heat.Hunger, with repugnance to all food.Distension of the abdomen and
epigastrium after eating moderately.Nausea, with vomiting of viscid
phlegm.Vomiting of (white) tenacious mucus (morning).
11. Stomach.─Aching in the stomach, extending to the chest.Cramp-like

contraction in the stomach, so as to suspend respiration.Retraction of the
epigastrium, with burning pain.Sensation of inflation in the pit of the stomach,
with disagreeable sensation of emptiness in the abdomen.Retraction of the pit of
the stomach, with burning pain.
12. Abdomen.─Pains in the umbilical region.Shooting, pinchings, and cuttings

in the umbilical region, esp. at night.Pinchings, gnawing, and sensation as if a
worm were wriggling in the abdomen.Pain in the abdomen as from the effects
of cold.Inflammatory congestion and induration of the inguinal glands, with
drawing and tensive pains.Swelling of the inguinal glands.Dropsy of the
abdomen.
13. Stool and Anus.─Constipation.Difficult, dry, infrequent stool.Diarrhœa, as

after a chill, with cuttings, or with vomitings, risings, and thirst.Diarrhœa of
greenish (white) or brownish mucus.Slimy diarrhœa, with faintness.Chronic,
bloody diarrhœa, with biting at the anus.Sanguineous diarrhœa, with itching in
the anus, and prolapsus of the rectum.Nocturnal watery diarrhœa, with colic,
particularly in the summer; also when the weather suddenly becomes coolwith
prolapsus recti.
14. Urinary Organs.─Retention of urine.Scanty and fetid urine.Clear and

viscid urine, or troubled, with sediment-like mucus.Red, burning

urine.Involuntary discharge of urine, as from paralysis of the bladder.─Difficult
(painful) urination, water issuing drop by drop.Thickening of the
bladder.Discharge of mucus from the urethra.Stricture of the urethra.Turbid and
whitish urine.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─Tetters on the genitals.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─Catamenia retarded, and too abundant; blood

watery, thin.Tettery eruption of the labia.Miliary eruption before the
catamenia.Suppressed menstruation from cold.Tetters on the breast in nursing
women.Suppression of milk from a cold.
17. Respiratory Organs.─Oppressed breathing, from a cold; from

accumulation of mucus.Catarrh and hoarseness, as from having taken
cold.Cough, with hoarseness.Moist cough.Cough, with expectoration of bright
red blood.Cough, similar to whooping-cough, excited by taking a deep
inspiration, with profuse secretion of mucus in the larynx and trachea; during
each attack easy expectoration of tasteless mucus, which is often streaked with
blood.
18. Chest.─Great oppression of the chest, esp. when breathing.Dull shooting, as

from blows in and upon the sides of the chest.Troublesome undulating pain in
the l. side of the chest.(Impending paralysis of lung.)
19. Heart.─Strong palpitation of the heart, at night, perceptible externally.
20. Neck and Back.─Stiffness at the nape of the neck.Stiffness of the neck
from a cold.Engorgement and induration of the glands of the nape, and of the
neck.Violent pains in the lumbar region, above the hips, digging, shooting, or
drawing, chiefly at night during repose.Lameness of the small of the back, from
a cold.Shooting pullings in the loins, shoulders, and arms.

22. Upper Limbs.─Paralysis of the arms, with icy coldness (esp. during rest),
as from apoplexy.Paralytic pain in the arms, as from a bruise, chiefly during
repose.Tettery eruption, and warts, on the hands.Perspiration in the palms of the
hands.
23.Lower Limbs.─Tractions and tearings in the legs, esp. in the thighs.Tetters

on the knee.Puffing and swelling of the leg as far as the knee.Burning sensation
in the feet, and in the toes.Erysipelatous desquamation and itching in the
feet.Tingling in the feet, as from formication.
24.Generalities.─Tearing, shooting, or drawing pains in the limbs.Sufferings,

as from a chill in various parts.Rheumatic pains and other complaints, from a
cold.Aggravation of sufferings, chiefly in the evening or at night, and during
repose; > by movement.Pains, with coldness of the body.Immoderate secretion
and excretion of mucous membranes and glands, the activity of the skin being
suppressed.Swelling and induration of the glands.Emaciation.Dropsical
swelling of the whole body, limbs, and face.Rapid swelling of the whole
body.Weakness and painful weariness of the whole body.Semilateral
convulsions, with loss of speech.Paralytic affections of the limbs (of different
single parts).Great lassitude.
25. Skin.─Dryness and heat of the skin.Miliary nettle-rash, with fever.Tetters of

different kinds, such as humid, scaly, pale tetters, oozing after having been
scratched; reddish tetters, with red areola, bleeding after having been scratched;
tetters with red edges, painfully sensitive to the touch, and to cold water; small,
round, yellowish-brown tetters, bleeding after having been scratched; dry,
furfuraceous tetters.Tettery scabs over the whole body.Tettery eruptions, with
swelling of the glands.Warts.Tetters in the joints.Eruption of itching pustules,

which pass into suppuration, and become covered with a scab, esp. in the lower
limbs and the hinder part of the body.Red spots, as if caused by flea-bites.
26. Sleep.─Great inclination to sleep during the day.Nocturnal sleep, agitated,

restless, in consequence of heat and startings in the body, esp. after
midnight.Waking very early. Visions in the morning on waking.
27. Fever.─In the evening, frequent shiverings and coldness, not even relieved
by the heat of the fire.Cold during the pains.At first, febrile shivering, then
burning heat with stunning pain in the head, face red, burning heat in the palate,
and insatiable thirst for cold drinks.Dry, burning heat over the whole body.Heat
and burning in the back.Dry heat and burning sensation in the skin, with
delirium and thirst.Heat with delirium without thirst.Fever, with aggravation in
the evening.Pulse small, hard, and tight, esp. at night.General sweat, esp. at
night.Fetid sweat, with discharge of much urine.Fetid perspiration, at night and
in the morning, over the whole body; during the day, more on the back, in the
armpits and hands.Perspiration suppressed and entirely wanting.
Relations.─Dulc. antidotes: Cupr. and Merc.
Is antidoted by: Camph., Cup., Ip., Kali c., Merc.
Follows well: Bry., Calc. c., Lyc., Rhus t., Sep., Verat.
Incompatible: Bell., Lach.
Complementary: Baryta c.
Compare: Acon., Ars., Cham., Helleb., Nit. ac., Puls., Staph., Sul. In
faintness during stool, Crot. t., Ver. Effects of cold, moist winds, Ars., Calc., Nux
m. (cold, dry winds, Aco., Bry.). Effects of exposure to wet, and > by motion,
Rhus.

DUBOISIA
Duboisia myoporoides(commonly called Corkwood Tree) is a genus of

small perennial shrubs to trees about 14 m tall, with extremely light wood
and a thick corky bark. There are four species; all occur in Australia, and
one also occurs in New Caledonia.The alternate, glabrous leaves are narrow
and elliptical. The inflorescence is an open cymose panicle of apically small
white flowers, sometimes with a purple or mauve striped tube. They flower
profusely in spring. The fruit is a small, globular, black, juicy berry.
The nicotine, scopolamine and hyoscyamine-containingleaves

of Duboisia are the active component of the drug
PARTS USED
Tincture and solution of alkaloid prepared from extract of the leaves.
Clinical.─Delirium. Drowsiness. Eyes: dilated pupils. Locomotor ataxy. Mouth,

dryness of. Paralysis. Presbyopia. Throat, dryness of. Vertigo. Vision, disorders
of.

Characteristics.─Duboisia belongs to the same order as Belladonna, and its
alkaloid, Sulphate of duboisia, has been used as a substitute for Atropine. Its
application to the eye has caused marked constitutional symptoms of fever,
delirium, stupor, and dry mouth. A symptom which may prove a keynote is "a
red spot floating in the field of vision."
Dryness of mucous membranes is very characteristic. Cool feeling in the

eyes. Sensation as if stepping on empty space. Feeling of largeness in eyes, in
tongue. Inability to stand with the eyes shut gives it a place in locomotor ataxy.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─Excitable; tries to get off the sofa.Stupor; though if questioned

replies, but with difficulty.Picks at surrounding objects; slight drawings up of
arms; very restless.Carphology; Busy delirium; plucks at collar of night-dress;
gazes intently at foot of bedstead where no one is, reaches out toward imaginary
person or object.Unable to concentrate thoughts on any subject; absent-minded
thoughts wander from subject to subject; forgets what he started with thoughts
silly, nonsensical.Unable to express herself.
2. Head.─Dizziness; strange feeling in head, with nausea and darkly flushed

face; the "strange" feeling lasted longer than the faintness and drowsiness
ensued.Headache.Head feels light; vertigo on rising up or walking; great
inclination to fall backward, esp. on going up stairs; almost impossible to stand
with eyes shut.Head heavy, dizzy.Dull pain through upper part of eyeballs and
forehead like sick-headache.
3. Eyes.─Pupils widely dilated.Eyes feel cool.Sharp pain in upper eyeball.Eyes

feel tired.Things seemed elevated; every time he looked up from his book a dull
pain flies through upper part of eyeballs and forehead like sick-headache; eyes

felt large and protruding. Appearance of a red spot in field of vision moving
with the eye.Hyperæmia of optic nerve; Fluttering sensation in
eyeball.Twitching of orbicularis palpebrarum.Eyes for the most part kept
closed, but opened occasionally.
4. Ears.─Ringing in ears (esp. r.), comes on suddenly.
5. Nose.─Nose very dry and stopped up.
6. Face.─Face deep red.Lips very dry.
8. Mouth.─Tongue appears to swell; becomes too large for mouth, impeding

speech.Tongue feels "flat"; cannot articulate distinctly.Excessive dryness in
mouth and throat, can scarcely speak for it.
9. Throat.─Throat dry; red; capillaries varicose; no secretion of any kind

visible; in consequence of the dryness the follicles are very prominent, and the
conformation of spinal column plainly visible; an almost perfect picture of
"pharyngea sicca"; epiglottis hyperæmic; laryngeal cavity engorged, dry, with
here and there patches of mucus, viscid, semi-transparent. Constant desire to
clear throat.Great difficulty in swallowing, esp. empty swallowing.
11. Stomach.─Loss of appetite, nausea.Deadly "gone" feeling, as if at greater

curvature, not > by eating or drinking; pulse feeble and intermittent.
14. Urinary Organs.─Constant desire to pass water, with great difficulty in

doing so.No urine passed; bowels inactive; bathed in sweat.Slight burning in
urethra during micturition.
17. Respiratory Organs.─Hoarseness.Hard, dry, hacking cough caused by

tickling at about bifurcation of trachea; cough feeling of soreness or rawness

over whole of both lungs, esp. lower lobe l. and upper r.; cough not > or < by
anything.Respiration puffy and noisy.
19. Heart.─A rapid pulse.Faintness.Sense of oppression and longing to get rid

of the medicine, increased to agony.Agony of breathlessness and sense of
impending death.Pulse rate falls on sitting up and increases on lying down.Pulse
irregular and intermittent.
20, 21. Back and Limbs.─L. leg powerless, r. leg rigid.Arms frequently and
involuntary jerked away from the sides.Dorsal and lumbar muscles thrown into
violent rhythmic contractions.Loss of power in lower limbs; staggers as if
drunk..Severe pressive pain in lumbar region in each side on waking, > on
moving about.Peculiar sensation in legs, then in thighs, arms, and other parts of
the body, as if they were asleep.
24. Generalities.─Heaviness of limbs, esp. lower.General weakness,

disinclination to move.Sense of lightness throughout body and head.Unsteady
gait, occasionally a feeling as if he had stepped on empty space, and would
catch himself for fear of falling.Staggered, had to concentrate his energy and
look directly ahead, for on looking to one side there was disposition of falling to
the other.
26.Sleep.─Stuporwhich is not sleep, he replies if questioned.Sleepy.Drowsiness

and rambling.
27. Fever.─Complained of chilliness.Temperature 100.5°.Cold and chilly,

wants to wear extra clothing, which makes him feel comfortable.Bathed in
sweat.
Relations.─Antidoted by: Coffee; lemon-juice. Compare: Bell., Atrop., Dulc.,

Stram., &c. Anhalonium (coloured vision).

TABACUM
Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is an annually-

grown herbaceous plant. It is found only in cultivation,
PARTS USED: Tincture of the fresh leaves collected before the flowers are
developed.
Clinical.─Amaurosis. Anæmia. Angina pectoris. Anus, prolapse of. Apoplexy.

Asthma. Backache. Brain, anæmia of. Brain-fag. Catalepsy. Cholera. Cholera
infantum. Colour-blindness. Constipation. Diarrhœa. Epilepsy. Freckles.
Glands, enlarged. Heart, intermittent. Hernia. Hiccough. Idiocy. Leg, jerking of.
Lip, cancer of. Masturbation, effects of. Ménière's disease. Œsophagus, stricture
of. Optic neuritis. Pregnancy, pruritus of; sickness of; toothache of.
Prostatorrhœa. Pruritus. Pyrosis. Rectum, paralysis of; stricture of. Sea-sickness.
Speech, embarrassed. Strabismus. Tetanus. Toothache. Varicocele.

Characteristics.─ He soon began to feel dizzy, and could not distinguish his
copy; the letters danced all over the page; a cold perspiration broke out on the
forehead, and extended all over the body. He felt a deathly nausea at his
stomach; his hands trembled so that he could not hold pen to paper. He felt so
weak and faint he feared he would fall out of his seat.
The nausea was the first symptom to disappear, then the cold
perspiration. The dizziness, trembling, and excessive weakness did not entirely
leave till next day. The constrictive sensation is not confined to the throat; it
affects the rectum, bladder, and chest. There is violent rectal tenesmus; and
there is also paralysis and prolapsus ani. The vesical sphincter is paralysed,
there is debility of urine, and enuresis. The power of Tab. to paralyse sphincters
and also morbid constrictions accounts for its traditional use in cases of
strangulated hernia and obstruction of the bowels, which has been confirmed in
homœopathic practice. Renal colic comes under the same heading. The same
pair of opposites relaxation and constriction are seen in the weakness and
paralysis on the one hand, and the convulsions on the other. All shades of
nervous tremors, faintings, cramps, jerkings, and restlessness are noted. This is
a central nervous action, and if too much indulged leads to degeneration of
nerve tissue, as seen in tobacco-blindness.
Tab. also produces a condition like brain-fag; inability to concentrate

thoughts; this may even go on to a state of idiocy. Silly talking in boys.
Deficient digestive power. Sluggish intellect. Craving for alcoholic stimulants.
Epistaxis. Ulcerated mouth.
Backache persistent; <lying down, > walking; history of anginoid

attacks. in cases of cholera, sea-sickness, sickness of pregnancy, renal colic,
strangulated hernia, &c.,

The keynote symptoms are: deathly nausea, pallor, coldness; icy cold
surface, covered with cold sweat; vomiting violent, as soon as he began to
move, > on deck and in fresh air. Terrible faint, sinking feeling at pit of
stomach.
A keynote symptom of much importance in many abdominal cases is: > by

uncovering abdomen. Child wants abdomen uncovered; it > nausea and
vomiting. There may be coldness of the abdomen at the same time. Tab.
produces a number of skin affections, notably pruritus.
Other symptoms were: sweating, impaired memory, hypochondriasis,

drumming in the ears, facial as well as crural clonus, white tongue, epigastric
sinking, alternating with nausea and flatulence, heart action increased by day,
diminished down to severe fainting during the night.
Sensations are: Sensation of excessive wretchedness. As if struck by a

hammer on right side of head. As if a band round head. As if brains were being
bored out. As if black dots filled visual field. As if ears were closed. As of a
plug in œsophagus. As if throat gripped by a hand. As if sea-sick. As if stomach
were relaxed. As if chest too tight. As if a crowbar were twisted round heart.
The symptoms are: > Uncovering abdomen. < By pressure. < Motion of
vessel. < Lying; > walking. Lying on left side = palpitation. Motion (even
least) <. Coughing =hiccough; stitches in pit of stomach. Rising <. < Morning:
vomiting; diarrhœa; sickness of pregnancy; cramps in fingers. Thirst < night.
Sight < evening. > In open air; (ear symptoms <). > Cold affusion to
head. < Indoors. Symptoms come in paroxysms; are periodical. < By stimulants.
Weeping >. Vomiting >. Music pains in ears.

SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─Gloomy melancholy.Inclination to weep.Anguish and inquietude,

generally in the afternoon, > by weeping.Restlessness, which prompts continual
change of place.Dislike to labour and conversation.Excessive vertigo; mental
faculties much impaired; cannot read or study; sufferings from abuse of
tobacco.Difficulty of concentrating mind for any length of time on one
subject.Feels as if some one were coming to arrest him, or murder him; always
with singing in ears.Suicidal tendency, gloomy forebodings, inclined to hang
down head, breath becomes short, appetite goes .Feels intoxicated, hands and
feet tremble.Over-excitement and great liveliness, with songs, dancing, and
great loquacity.Frequent laughter without cause.Silly talk, cannot stop; loss of
memory. Idiotic; epileptic idiocy.Concourse of confused ideas.Cataleptic
stateStupor.Coma.
2. Head.─ Emptiness and confusion in the head.Dizziness.Vertigo, which often

produces loss of consciousness, with nausea (< indoors; > in open air), and
pains in head and eyes.Vertigo < on rising and looking up,brought on by
immoderate use of cigars.Giddiness in occiput.Headache, with nausea and
vertigo.Excessive heaviness of head.Pressive headache, esp. above eyes, vertex,
and temples.Shootings in head.Headache from one temple to the other,
involving orbits, or with shooting in one eye, > from cold.While passing urine,
suddenly attacked with pains in head, so severe he screamed for assistance;
immediately followed by vomiting.Congestion of blood in head, with internal
heat, and throbbing in temples.Neuralgic headache, sensation as of sudden
blows struck by a hammer.Periodical sick-headache from fatigue or
excitement.Tightness in head as though a band stretched round it, disturbance of
vision, tinnitus, and vertigo.Headache > in the open air.Burning and tingling

sensation in exterior of head.Trembling of head.Hair falls out.Formication
above temple.
3. Eyes.─Pain in eyes, as from much weeping.Aching in eyes, extending into

bottom of orbits.Sensation, as if there were a hair in eye. Smarting in eyes.Heat
and burning sensation in eyes, with redness.Contraction of the lids.Pupils:
dilated and insensible; irregularly dilated; contracted.Amblyopia with
intolerance of light.Loss of sight on looking steadily at anything white.Confused
sight, in evening, as if looking through a veil.Sees as through a fog, and hears as
through cotton wool Squinting when trying to read.Insufficiency of internal
recti.Sparks and black specks before eyes.Central colour scotoma.White or grey
atrophia of optic nerve.Optic neuritis.Sudden failure of vision.Tobacco-
blindness commences in one eye, generally r.; sight < evening.Photophobia.
4. Ears.─Shootings in ears, esp. in open air, and when listening to

music.Hyperæsthesia to music and loud talking.Jerking tearing in r. ear, and in
front of it externally.Burning heat and redness of the ears.Hard reddish swelling
behind one ear, with shootings.Ringing; roaring; rushing; humming in ears, < by
loud noise or going into open air.Tinnitus and vertigo.Fluttering in r. ear both
heard and felt.
5. Nose.─Burning sensation and tingling in the nose.Diminished power of

smell, which, however, is very sensitive to odour of wine; fumes all but
intoxicate her.Frequent sneezing.Dryness and obstruction of nose.
6. Face.─Deadly paleness of face (during the nausea; face collapsed, cold sweat
on).Burning heat in face, with redness, sometimes of one cheek only, and
paleness of the other.Face covered with cold sweat.R. cheek glowing, the other
pale.Red spots on face.Tearings in bones of face (and teeth, in evening).Pimples
on cheeks, wings of nose, and corners of mouth.Violent tearing in r. facial

bones and teeth.Granulated tuberosities on cheeks.Emaciation of face.Lips dry,
burning, rough, and cracked.Eruption on commissures of lips.Lancinating pains
in maxillary joint, when laughing.
7. Teeth.─Toothache, with drawing and tearing pains.Lancinations in carious

teeth, when masticating.Violent tearing in r. teeth.Throbbing or jumping pains
in teeth.Drawing pain in gums.Gums pale and parched.
8. Mouth.─Dryness of the mouth and tongue, with violent thirstTongue feels

swollen.Tongue: trembles; white; red; furred; dry and parched; covered with
blackish brown crust.Frothing from the mouth.Profuse salivation.Accumulation
of white, tenacious mucus in mouth and throat, which must be frequently
expectorated.Swelling of glands under tongue.Weak,interrupted
speech.Drawling, monotonous style of reading.
9. Throat.─Roughness, dryness, and scraping in throat, as from a foreign body.

Throat dry, can hardly swallow.Crawling and tickling in throat.Swallowing very
painful from spasms in throat.Peculiar sensation of plug in œsophagus, with
constant dull pressure.Redness of fauces.Burning in pharynx.Accumulation of
viscid mucus in throat.
10. Appetite.─Mawkish and clammy, or bitter and sour taste.Acid taste of all
food.Acidulated taste of water, as if it contained wine.Adipsia, and dread of
water.Great thirst; < at night.Absence of hunger and appetite.Constant hunger,
with nausea if nothing is eaten.
11. Stomach.─Frequent empty and noisy risings.Sour, burning

risings.Pyrosis.Spasmodic hiccough.Frequent nausea, esp. during movement,
often inducing syncope, with deadly paleness of face, disappearing generally in
open air.Deathly nausea, with vertigo, in paroxysms, body covered with cold

sweat; sea-sickness.Nausea, with inclination to vomit, sensation of coldness in
stomach, or pinchings in abdomen.Vomiting of water only, with yellow and
greenish reflection before eyes.Vomiting of acid serum, often mixed with
mucus.Violent vomiting; easy, of sour liquid; watery, insipid, sometimes bitter
in morning.The vomiting is renewed by the slightest movement.Stomach-
ache.Squeezing, contractive cramps in stomach, sometimes after a meal, often
accompanied by nausea, and an accumulation of saliva in mouth.Shootings in
the scrobiculus, which pass through back.Relaxation, and sensation of coldness
or burning in stomach.Sinking at the pit of stomach.Dreadful faint feeling in
stomach.
12. Abdomen.─Hepatic pain, when pressing on the part.Hepatic and renal

regions sensitive to pressure.Pressure in hepatic region, as from a heavy
body.Shooting in hepatic region. Great sensitiveness of abdomen to slightest
touch.Uncovering abdomen > nausea and vomiting.Painful distension of
abdomen.Pressive pains in abdomen, esp. in umbilical region, with spasmodic
retraction of that part.Violent burning in abdomen, horrible pains, must
shriek.Nocturnal tearings in abdomen.Pinchings and borborygmi in
abdomen.Incarcerated hernia.
13. Stool and Anus.─Constipation.Chronic constipation, great pain and

tympanitic distension of intestines; great dyspnœa.Stools clay-colour or mottled
grey and brown.Habitual constipation; paralysis of rectum; spasm of anal
sphincter.Prolapsus ani; great drowsiness during day when trying to
study.Frequent tenesmus.Soft fæces of consistence of pap, also at night.Violent
pain in small of back during soft stool.Shifting of flatulence, formed by sudden,
papescent, yellow-green or greenish, slimy stools with tenesmus.Violent
diarrhœa, fetid or yellowish green slime; also at night, accompanied and

followed by violent tenesmus, and burning sensation in anus.Cholera-like
stools; watery, urgent, painless.
14. Urinary Organs.─Renal colic; violent pains along ureters; cold sweat;
deathly nausea.Paralysis of sphincter, constant dribbling.Enuresis.Urine
yellowish-red, with increased secretion.Inflammation of the orifice of the
urethra.
15.MaleSexualOrgans.─Frequenterections.Flowof prostatic fluid.Nocturnal

emissions; until waking.Genital organs flabby; no erections or sexual
desire.Varicocele.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─Retarded and profuse catamenia.Leucorrhœa, like

sanguineous water.Leucorrhœa of serous liquid after the menses.In climacteric
period, also during menses; subjective coldness; epigastric sinking, palpitation,
severe diarrhœa, muscular relaxation, excessive sense of wretchedness.Morning
sickness of pregnancy; nausea and vomiting, patient dreads least
movement.During pregnancy, insupportable pruritus over whole body, pyrosis,
toothache, and other gastric symptoms.
17. Respiratory Organs.─Dry cough, excited by a tickling in throat, in

morning and towards evening.Cough in pit of stomach sensation as of a wound
by some sharp instrument.Cough, with hiccough (at same time), almost
suffocating; (or hiccough after every paroxysm of whooping-cough).Difficult
respiration.Paroxysm of suffocation.
18. Chest.─Oppression of the chest, with anguish.Constriction of the

chest.Pressure on the chest and sternum.Shootings in chest and sides of chest,
sometimes when drawing breath.Sticking under sternum with inability to take a

deep breath.On taking a deep breath it seemed as if chest were too tight..Pain, as
from excoriation, in chest, during a meal.Itching pimples on chest.
19. Heart and Pulse.─Sudden attacks of extreme faintness; feeling of

oppression around cardiac region.Angina pectoris.Feeble, irregular
pulse.Palpitation of heart, when lying on l. side.
20. Neck and Back.─Stiffness of the neck.Head drawn back in

convulsions.Neuralgic pains in neck and between shoulders.Burning under
scapula.Neuralgia of back with tightness of throat.Contractive pains in the loins,
esp. after a stool.Violent pain in small of back and loins (renal
calculi).Throbbing in sacral region, evening.Pain in small of back and loins, esp.
after sitting.Intolerable pain in small of back much < while sitting.Pains in small
of back, constriction; esp. after a stool.Pressive pain in lumbar region on rising
from a seat and beginning to walk, goes off on walking.Emaciation of the
back.Red, itching eruption on the back.
22. Upper Limbs.─Painful weakness of hands and arms, which are, as it were,
paralysed.Constant need to stretch arms.Shootings and drawing in
shoulders.Red spots on shoulder, which burn when they are touched.Tension in
arm, esp. in elbow.Pain and shootings in l. arm, which disable it and prevent its
extension.(Coldness and trembling of the limbs), trembling of hands.Cold
perspiration on hands.Cramps in the arms and hands.Cramps in single fingers,
esp. while washing; early morning.Cramps and tingling in fingers.Swelling of
fingers.Itching pimples on fingers.
23. Lower Limbs.─Burning pain in knee and soles.Legs icy cold from knees
down.Shooting in knee and ham.Flexion of knees, when walking.Cramp in toes,
extending into knees.Jerking of legs in bed.Tingling, crawling, from knee to

toes.Tension in leg when walking, from knee to foot.Trembling and paralytic
weakness of feet.
24. Generalities.─Pressive pains, with agitation throughout body, and anxious

perspiration.Sudden breaking out of cold, clammy sweat; with much nausea,
feeble, irregular pulse; collapse.Cramps and tingling in limbs.Restlessness,
wants to change place continually.Gait slow and shuffling, difficulty in
ascending stairs.Excessive emaciation.Anæmia of boys and girls, particularly
with brain symptoms.Paralytic and painful weakness of limbs.Trembling of
limbs.Great general lassitude.Jerkings throughout body, with pulsation and
palpitation of the heart.Convulsions, head firmly drawn back, with rigidity of
muscles at back of neck; constantly recurring rigid tetanic spasms, muscles of
back being principally affected, till death a week after he chewed the
tobacco.Epileptiform convulsions.Symptoms < on l. side; from great heat or
great cold, and esp. in stormy weather; from walking, riding in a carriage, and
jar of a railway train.> In the open air; from vomiting.
25. Skin.─Itching in skin, as from flea-bites.Itching over the whole

body.Eruption of itching pimples, or vesicles, with yellow serum and red areola.
26. Sleep.─Urgent inclination to sleep, esp. after a meal, and towards evening,
with frequent yawnings.Retarded sleep in evening, and difficulty in waking in
morning.Stupefying sleep at night.Disturbed sleep at night, with
fright.Nightmare.
27. Fever.─Pulse full, hard, and rapid, or small, imperceptible, intermittent,

slow.Coldness and shivering, sometimes with chattering of teeth.Coldness of
legs from knees to toes; warm body, cold hands.Chilliness after eating and
drinking.Frequent attacks of shuddering, sometimes with flushes of
heat.Permanent shuddering, from morning till evening.Perspiration at

night.Viscid cold sweat, with intermitting pulse.Cold sweat, in hands, on
forehead and face.
Relations.─Antidoted by: Vinegar, Sour Apples, Camph., Coff.; Ipec. (primary

effects: vomiting); Ars. (effects of chewing tobacco); Nux (bad taste in mouth in
morning, amblyopia); Phos. (palpitation, tobacco heart, amblyopia, sexual
weakness); Spig. (heart affections); Ign., Puls. (hiccough); Clem. (toothache); Sep.
(neuralgia in face and dyspepsia, chronic nervousness); Lyc. (impotence); Wine
(spasms, cold sweat from excessive smoking). Plant. maj. has sometimes caused
aversion to tobacco. Gels. (occipital headache and vertigo); Tab. 200, or 1,000 for
the craving when discontinuing its use.
Antidote to: Cic., Stram.
Compare: Nicotinum. Cold sweat, Ver. (Ver. on forehead; Tab. all over).
Coldness in abdomen, Colch., Elps., Lach. Spasmodic pains along l. ureter, Berb.
Ménière's disease, Salicin. Incarcerated hernia, Aco., Nux, Op., Sul. Chills or
creeps precede headache (Chel., accompany headache). Sinking immediately after
meals, Ars., Cin., Lyc., Sel., Stp., Ur. nit. Hair sensation, K. bi., Sil. (Tab., in eye).
Blindness, optic atrophy, Carb. s., Benz. din., Filix. m. Emissions, heart, anæmia,
Dig. Retracted abdomen, Pb. Jerking of legs in bed, Meny. As if a hand clutching
throat (Bell., intestines).

PICHI (FABIANA IMBRICATA)
Fabiana imbricata (pichi) is a species of flowering plant in

the family Solanaceae, native to dry upland slopes in Chile and Argentina. Growing to
2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) tall and wide, it is a frost-hardy, heath-like evergreen mound-
forming shrub. It has needle-like leaves and small white, tubular flowers in early summer.
PARTS USED: Fluid extract.
Clinical.─Cystitis. Gall-stones. Gonorrhœa. Liver, affections of. Prostate,

disease of.
Characteristics.─Pichi is a solanaceous shrub used with good effect in cases of

chronic cystitis with enlarged prostate; liver affections and gall-stones; excess
of uric acid. Hansen gives these indications: Excoriating urine and urinary
calculi. Inflammation of whole urethral tract, must pass water frequently;
burning pains and violent vesical tenesmus after urination. Acute or chronic
cystitis, caused by gravel, painful urination, much mucus and pus. Subacute or
chronic gonorrhœa, painful urination, much mucus and pus.

SHORT REMEDIES IN BRIEF

Atropa mandragora :
 Tincture of the plant without the root.
 `Mandragora’ signifies injurious to cattle.
 Great desire for sleep.
 Exaggeration of sounds and enlarged vision.
 Inactive bowels with white hard stools.
 Pupils dilated.
 Desire for dry rice.,meat.,and fish.
 Fatty food aggravates.
Atropinum :
 Gastric ulcer., Pancreatitis.
 Right sided.
 Mind : Spectral illusions; sees insects and crawling things and tries to catch
them. when spoken to, often turns his head to opposite side.
 Head : Headaches of epileptics.
 Eye : Objects appears large.
 Mouth : Difficulty of speech.
 Stomach : Vomiting of food; after hot drinks;with severe sticking pain in
umbilical region – > by vomiting.Region of stomach very sensitive. swelling
in pyloric region.
 Sleep : Disturbed by gastric pains.
 General : Epilepsy from ovarian irritation.Hyperaesthesia of nerves.
giddiness and staggering > motion.
Datura arborea :
 Medicine is prepared from tincture of the flowers.

 Strange feeling of pleasent and easy comfort and as if he scarcely touched
earth with his feet,and had to gather ideas from afar,as if they were floating
in the clouds.
Datura ferox : ( chinese datura )
 Trituration of seeds or tincture of unripe fruits.
 Raving madness.,Mania.,Delerium.
 Dancing with music.
Datura metel : ( indian datura )
 Trituration of seeds.
 Delerium.,Mania .,Spasms.
 Excessive timidity.
 Extreme dilatation of pupil.
 Picks at real or imaginary objects.
Hyoscyaminum :
 Paralysis agitans from excessive use of alcohol and tobacco.
 Delirium.Picking at objects.
 Coma with vomiting.
 Dilated pupil.
Solaninum : ( Obtained especially from dulcamera.)
 Paralysis of lungs.
 Respiration was slowed in inverse proportion to the increase
 in the pulse rate.
 Pupils slightly contracted.
 Salivation.
 Hyperaesthesia pf skin.

Solaninumaceticum:
Threatening paralysis of the lung in the course of bronchitis in the aged and
children must cough a long time before able to raise expectoration.
Solanum arrebenta:
 Tincture of the leaves.
 Apoplexy. Swelling of breasts, and glands.
 Vertigo after bathing.
 Urticaria.
Solanum carolinense :
 Tincture of fresh ripe berries.
 Epilepsy; Tetanus.
 Convulsions and epilepsy. Twenty to fourty drop doses;is of great value in
grand mal of idiopathic type,where disease has begun beyond the age of
childhood;histero epilepsy.also in whooping cough.
Solanum mammosum :
 Tincture of fresh ripe fruit.
 Haemoptysis.
 Effects of tobacco.
 Great weariness and desire to sleep without ability to sleep.
 Pain in left hip joint.
Solanumvesicarium:
Recommended in facial paralysis.
Solanum oleraceum :
 Tincture of flowers.
 Swelling of breasts with profuse effusion of milk.
 Swelling of glands.
 Leucorrhoea.,Stye .,Urticaria.
 Cold feeling in left chest after drinking.

Solanum pseudo-capsicum :
 Trituration or tincture of fruit.
 Dilated pupils ., Somnolence.
 Acute pains in lower abdomen.
Solanum tuberosum :
 Tincture of the berries.tincture of green potatoes.
 Pupils dilated. Vision indistinct.
 Constantly spitting through the closed teeth, viscid, frothy, phlegm.
 Speech thick.
 Abdominal tunours.
 Epigastrium sensitive to pressure.
 Tumours round cervix uteri.
Solanum xanthocarpum :
 Most important field of action is Respiratory system.
 Asthma,Broncho-pneumonia.,hoarseness with cough.Respiratory affections
with aphonia.
 Retension of urine.Renal calculi.
 A sure preventive for Small-pox.
Lycopersicum esculentum : (tomato)
 Tincture of ripe fruits or fresh plant.
 Right sided.
 Deltoid rheumatism.Diabetes. Obesity.
 Coryza < out of doors.
Mind :
 Thoghts disappear when leaning head against anything.
 Unusually active for short periods,followed by longer
 periods of dullness.
Head :

 > from tobacco smoke.

 > leaning head against anything.
Eye :
 Pupils minutely contracted.
Neck and Back :
 Rheumatic pain near attachment of trapezius to spine.(R)
Extremities :
 Sharp pain in deltoid and pectoral muscles.
Nicotinum:
Alternate tonic and clonic spasms,followed by general realxation and
trembling.
Nausea,cold sweat and speedy collapse; head drawn back,contraction of
eyelids and massater muscles ; muscles of neck and back rigid.
Hissing respiration from spasm of laryngeal and bronchial muscles.
Scopolaminum hydrobromide :
 Paralysis agitans.Tremor of disseminated sclerosis.
 Sleeplessness and nervous agitation. Dry cough in phthisis.
 Similar in its effects to alcohol,both recent and remote.
 Corresponds to the effects of strong poisons introduced into or generated
within the body. Symptoms of uraemia and acute nervous exhaustion. A
remedy for shock.

COMPARISON
COMPARISON BELLADONA HYOSCYAMUS STRAMONIUM

ONSET SUDDEN AND GRADUAL
VIOLENT
DELIRIUM VIOLENT AND LOW MUTTERING LESS VIOLENT AND
FURIOUS FURIOUS THAN
BELL
MANIA VIOLENT AND LACSIVIOUS RELIGIOUS
FURIOUS
FEVER HIGH RISE OF LOW GRADE
TEMPERATURE TEMPERATURE
FACE RED PALE OR BLUISH RED/PALE
MELANCHOLIA NOT MARKED WELL MARKED
SUSPICION AND NOT PRESENT WELL MARKED
JEALOUSY
JERKING OF NOT MUCH EVERY MUSCLE SINGLE MUSCLE OR
MUSCLES JERKS GROUP OF MUSCLE
THROBBING OF PRESENT NOT PRESENT
CAROTIDS
PHYSICAL NOT FOUND WELL MARKED
WEAKNESS
TYPHOID NOT PRESENT PRESENT
STATE

REPERTORY PART
Belladonna
 MIND
Mind, absent-minded (See Forgetful) (p. 1)
Mind, absorbed, buried in thought (p. 1)
Mind, abusive (p. 1)
Mind, admonition agg. (p. 1)
Mind, anger, irascibility (See Irritability and Quarrelsome) (p. 2)
Mind, anger, ailments after anger, vexation, etc. (p. 2)
Mind, anger, ailments after anger, with anxiety (p. 2)
Mind, anger, ailments after anger, with fright (p. 2)
Mind, anger, ailments after anger, with silent grief (p. 2)
Mind, anger, cough, before (p. 2)
Mind, anger, cough, from the (p. 2)
Mind, anger, violent (p. 3)
Mind, anguish (p. 3)
Mind, anguish, menses, during (p. 3)
Mind, anguish, walking in open air (p. 3)
Mind, answers, aversion to (p. 3)
Mind, answers, foolish (p. 3)
Mind, answers, hastily (p. 3)
Mind, answers, incoherently (p. 3)
Mind, answers, incorrectly (p. 3)
Mind, answers, irrelevantly (p. 3)
Mind, answers, refuses to (p. 3)
Mind, antics, plays (p. 4)
Mind, anxiety (p. 4)
Mind, anxiety, daytime (p. 4)
Mind, anxiety, afternoon (p. 4)
Mind, anxiety, evening (agg.) (p. 4)
Mind, anxiety, night (p. 5)
Mind, anxiety, air, in open (agg.) (p. 5)
Mind, anxiety, company, when in (p. 6)
Mind, anxiety, crowd, in a (p. 6)
Mind, anxiety, eating, after (p. 6)

Mind, anxiety, fear, with (p. 6)
Mind, anxiety, fever, during (p. 6)
Mind, anxiety, fits, with (p. 6)
Mind, anxiety, headache, with (p. 7)
Mind, anxiety, menses, during (agg.) (p. 7)
Mind, anxiety, shuddering, with (p. 8)
Mind, anxiety, sleep, during (See Dreams) (p. 8)
Mind, anxiety, stooping, when (agg.) (p. 8)
Mind, anxiety, waking, on (p. 8)
Mind, anxiety, walking, while (p. 9)
Mind, anxiety, walking, in open air (agg.) (p. 9)
Mind, barking (p. 9)
Mind, battles, talks about (p. 9)
Mind, bellowing (p. 9)
Mind, biting (p. 9)
Mind, biting, night (p. 9)
Mind, biting, spoons, etc. (p. 9)
Mind, brooding (See Anxiety, Sadness) (p. 10)
Mind, business, talks of (p. 10)
Mind, capriciousness (p. 10)
Mind, carried, desires to be, fast (p. 10)
Mind, censorious, critical (p. 10)
Mind, chaotic (p. 10)
Mind, cheerful, gay, happy (See Mirth) (p. 10)
Mind, cheerful, evening (p. 11)
Mind, cheerful, night (p. 11)
Mind, cheerful, alternating, mania, with (p. 11)
Mind, cheerful, eating, while (p. 11)
Mind, cheerful, followed by sleepiness (p. 11)
Mind, cheerful, perspiration, during (p. 11)
Mind, company aversion to (p. 12)
Mind, company aversion to, friends, of intimate (p. 12)
Mind, company aversion to, perspiration, during (p. 12)
Mind, company, desire for (p. 12)
Mind, complaining, sleep, in (p. 12)
Mind, concentration, difficult (p. 13)
Mind, concentration, difficult, studying, reading, etc., while (p. 13)
Mind, confidence, want of self (p. 13)

Mind, confusion of mind (See Concentration) (p. 13)
Mind, confusion, morning (p. 13)
Mind, confusion, morning, rising, on (p. 14)
Mind, confusion, evening (p. 14)
Mind, confusion, air, in open, amel. (p. 14)
Mind, confusion, beer, from (p. 14)
Mind, confusion, dream, as if in (p. 14)
Mind, confusion, drinking, after (p. 15)
Mind, consolation agg. (p. 16)
Mind, contrary (See Obstinate, Irritable) (p. 16)
Mind, cowardice (p. 17)
Mind, croaking, in sleep (p. 17)
Mind, cursing (p. 17)
Mind, dancing (p. 17)
Mind, dancing, alternating with sighing (p. 17)
Mind, dancing, wild (p. 17)
Mind, death, desires (See Loathing of Life) (p. 17)
Mind, death, desires, walking in open air, while (p. 17)
Mind, death, presentiment of (p. 17)
Mind, delirium (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, evening (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, night (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, antics, plays (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, anxious (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, arms, throws about (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, busy (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, cheerful (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, chill, during (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, closing the eyes, on (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, convulsions, after (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, crying (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, eating amel. (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, fantastic (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, fear of men, with (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, fierce (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, foolish, silly (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, frightful (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, gather objects off the wall, tries to (p. 19)

Mind, delirium, gay (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, hysterical, almost (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, laughing (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, loquacious (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, maniacal (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, menses, before (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, menses, during (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, mouth, moves lips as if talking (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, muttering (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, muttering, himself, to (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, noisy (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, paroxysmal (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, rabid (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, raging, raving (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, rambling (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, recognizes no one (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, rocking to and fro (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, sleep, during (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, sleep, amel. after (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, sleep, falling, on (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, sorrowful (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, urinates outside the pot (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, violent (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, vivid (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, waking, on (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, water, jumping into (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, wild (p. 20)
Mind, delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions (p. 20)
Mind, delusions, active (p. 20)
Mind, delusions, animals, of (p. 20)
Mind, delusions, animals, beetles, worms, etc. (p. 21)
Mind, delusions, animals, black, on walls and furniture, sees (p. 21)
Mind, delusions, animals, dark colored (p. 21)
Mind, delusions, animals, fire, in the (p. 21)
Mind, delusions, animals, frightful (p. 21)
Mind, delusions, animals, rats, mice, insects, etc. (p. 21)
Mind, delusions, animals, unclean (p. 21)
Mind, delusions, arrested, is about to be (p. 21)

Mind, delusions, beautiful (p. 21)
Mind, delusions, bed, sinking, were (p. 21)
Mind, delusions, devils, sees (p. 23)
Mind, delusions, die, time has come to (p. 24)
Mind, delusions, dogs, sees (p. 24)
Mind, delusions, dogs, black (p. 24)
Mind, delusions, dogs, swarm about him (p. 24)
Mind, delusions, dreaming when awake, imagines himself (p. 24)
Mind, delusions, drinking (p. 24)
Mind, delusions, engaged in some occupation, is (p. 24)
Mind, delusions, engaged in ordinary occupation (p. 24)
Mind, delusions, enlarged (p. 24)
Mind, delusions, enlarged, eyes are (p. 25)
Mind, delusions, faces, sees (p. 25)
Mind, delusions, faces, sees, closing eyes, on (p. 25)
Mind, delusions, faces, sees, hideous (p. 25)
Mind, delusions, fancy, illusions of (p. 25)
Mind, delusions, figures, sees (p. 25)
Mind, delusions, fire, visions of (p. 25)
Mind, delusions, gallows, vision of, with fear of (p. 26)
Mind, delusions, images, phantoms, sees (See Faces, Figures, Men,
Spectres, Visions) (p. 27)
Mind, delusions, images, phantoms, night (p. 27)
Mind, delusions, images, phantoms, black (p. 27)
Mind, delusions, insects, sees (p. 28)
Mind, delusions, murdered, that he would be (p. 29)
Mind, delusions, people, sees (p. 30)
Mind, delusions, people, beside him, are (p. 30)
Mind, delusions, people, closing eyes, on (p. 30)
ound her (p. 32)
Mind, delusions, soldiers, sees (p. 32)
Mind, delusions, spectres, ghosts, spirits, sees (p. 32)
Mind, delusions, spectres, closing eyes, on (p. 32)
Mind, delusions, spectres, fire, in (p. 32)
Mind, delusions, spotted brown, his body is (p. 32)
Mind, delusions, stabbed, that he had, a person who passed him on the
street (p. 33)
Mind, delusions, strange, familiar things seem (p. 33)

Mind, delusions, surrounded by friends, is (p. 33)
MMind, delusions, visions, closing the eyes, on (p. 34)
Mind, delusions, visions, horrible (p. 34)
Mind, delusions, visions, horrible, in the dark (p. 34)
Mind, delusions, visions, monsters (p. 34)
Mind, delusions, vivid (p. 34)
Mind, delusions, voices, hears (p. 34)
Mind, delusions, voices, dead people (p. 34)
Mind, destructiveness (p. 36)
Mind, destructiveness, of clothes (p. 36)
Mind, dream, as if in a (p. 37)
Mind, drinking, after (p. 37)
Mind, dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and
comprehending (p. 37)
Mind, dullness, chill, during (p. 38)
Mind, dullness, dreams, after (p. 38)
Mind, dullness, waking, on (p. 38)
Mind, eat, refuses to (p. 39)
Mind, ecstasy (See Exhilaration) (p. 39)
Mind, escape, attempts to (p. 39)
Mind, escape, attempts to, spring up suddenly from bed (p. 39)
Mind, escape, attempts to, to run away (p. 39)
Mind, escape, attempts to, window, from (p. 39)
Mind, excitement, excitable (p. 40)
Mind, excitement, perspiration, during (p. 41)
Mind, exertion, agg. from mental (p. 41)
Mind, exhilaration (p. 41)
Mind, extravagance (p. 41)
Mind, fancies, exaltation of (p. 41)
Mind, fancies, lascivious (p. 42)
Mind, fear (See Anxiety) (p. 42)
Mind, fear, night (p. 42)
Mind, fear, alone, of being (See Company) (p. 43)
Mind, fear, alternating with mania (p. 43)
Mind, fear, apoplexy, of (p. 43)
Mind, fear, approaching him, of others (p. 43)
Mind, fear, death, of (p. 44)
Mind, fear, death, of, alone, when (p. 44)

Mind, fear, dogs, of (p. 44)
Mind, fear, gallows, of the (p. 45)
Mind, fear, ghosts, of (p. 45)
Mind, fear, imaginary things (p. 45)
Mind, fear, imaginary animals (p. 45)
Mind, fear, poisoned, of being (p. 46)
Mind, fear, putrefy, body will (p. 47)
Mind, fear, robbers, of (p. 47)
Mind, fear, waking, on (p. 47)
Mind, fear, waking, on, of something under the bed (p. 47)
Mind, fear, water, of (p. 48)
Mind, feigning sick (p. 48)
Mind, fight, wants to (See Quarrelsome) (p. 48)
Mind, foolish behavior (See Childish) (p. 48)
Mind, forgetful (See Memory) (p. 48)
Mind, forgetful, chill, during (p. 48)
Mind, forgetful, purchases, of, goes off and leaves them (p. 49)
Mind, fright, complaints from (p. 49)
Mind, frightened easily (See Starting) (p. 49)
Mind, frightened, waking, on (p. 49)
Mind, gestures, makes (p. 50)
Mind, gestures, hands, clapping of the (p. 50)
Mind, gestures, hands, grasping or reaching at something (p. 50)
Mind, grimaces (p. 51)
Mind, growling like a dog (p. 51)
Mind, grunting (p. 51)
Mind, heedless (p. 51)
Mind, hide, desire to (p. 51)
Mind, hide, desire to, on account of fear (p. 51)
Mind, hides things (p. 51)
Mind, home, desires to go (p. 51)
Mind, home, talks of (p. 51)
Mind, home-sickness (p. 51)
Mind, hurry (p. 52)
Mind, hurry, movements, in (p. 52)
Mind, hydrophobia (p. 52)
Mind, hysteria (p. 52)
Mind, ideas abundant, clearness of mind (p. 52)

Mind, ideas, deficiency of (p. 53)
Mind, idiocy (p. 53)
Mind, imbecility (p. 53)
Mind, impatience (p. 53)
Mind, impatience, heat, with (p. 53)
Mind, indifference, apathy, etc. (p. 54)
Mind, indifference, everything, to (p. 55)
Mind, indifference, perspiration, during (p. 55)
Mind, indolence, aversion to work (p. 55)
Mind, industrious (p. 56)
Mind, insanity, madness (p. 56)
Mind, insanity, paroxysmal (p. 57)
Mind, insanity, puerperal (p. 57)
Mind, insanity, strength increased (p. 57)
Mind, introspection (p. 57)
Mind, irritability (See Anger) (p. 57)
Mind, irritability, morning, waking, on (p. 58)
Mind, irritability, alternating with, indifference (p. 58)
Mind, irritability, alternating with, weeping (p. 58)
Mind, irritability, chill, during (p. 59)
Mind, irritability, consolation agg. (p. 59)
Mind, irritability, waking, on (agg.) (p. 60)
Mind, jesting (p. 60)
Mind, jesting, ridiculous or foolish (p. 60)
Mind, jumping (p. 60)
Mind, jumping, bed, out of (p. 60)
Mind, jumping, window, from (See Suicide) (p. 60)
Mind, kicks (p. 60)
Mind, kicks, sleep, in (p. 60)
Mind, kill, desire to (p. 60)
mind, killed, desires to be (p. 61)
Mind, lamenting, bemoaning, wailing etc. (compare weeping) (p. 61)
Mind, lamenting, alternating with delirium (p. 61)
Mind, laughing (p. 61)
Mind, laughing, alternating with groaning (p. 61)
Mind, laughing, annoying (p. 61)
Mind, laughing, involuntarily (p. 62)
Mind, laughing, loudly (p. 62)

Mind, laughing, sardonic (p. 62)
Mind, light, desire for (See Dark) (p. 62)
Mind, loathing, general (p. 62)
Mind, loquacity, alternating with laughing (p. 63)
Mind, loquacity, perspiration, during (p. 63)
Mind, malicious (p. 63)
Mind, mania, madness (See Delirium, Insanity, Rage, etc.) (p. 63)
Mind, mania-a-potu (p. 64)
Mind, memory active (See Ideas) (p. 64)
Mind, memory, weakness of (See Mistakes) (p. 64)
Mind, mistakes, work, in (p. 67)
Mind, moaning, groaning (See Lamenting) (p. 67)
Mind, moaning, cough during (p. 67)
Mind, moaning, heat, during (p. 67)
Mind, moaning, sleep, during (p. 67)
Mind, mood, alternating (p. 67)
Mind, mood, changeable, variable, etc. (p. 68)
Mind, moonlight (p. 68)
Mind, morose (p. 68)
Mind, mortification, ailments after (p. 68)
Mind, muttering (See Delirium) (p. 68)
Mind, muttering, evening (p. 68)
Mind, naked, wants to be (p. 68)
Mind, naked, wants to be, in delirium (p. 68)
Mind, nymphomania (p. 68)
Mind, obstinate (p. 69)
Mind, pleasure, voluptuous ideas, only, in (p. 69)
Mind, praying (p. 69)
Mind, pull, desire to pull ones hair (p. 70)
Mind, pull, desire to pull, ones teeth (p. 70)
Mind, quarrelsome (p. 70)
Mind, quarrelsome, anger, without (p. 70)
Mind, quarrelsome, sleep in (p. 70)
Mind, quiet, Mind, quiet disposition (p. 70)
Mind, quiet, wants to be (p. 70)
Mind, rage, fury (See Insanity, Mania, Delirium) (p. 70)
Mind, rage, evening (p. 70)
Mind, rage, night (p. 70)

Mind, rage, convulsive (p. 71)
Mind, rage, does not know his relatives (p. 71)
Mind, rage, epilepsy, with (p. 71)
Mind, rage, headache, with (p. 71)
Mind, rage, menses, during (p. 71)
Mind, rage, pulls hair of bystanders (p. 71)
Mind, rage, shining objects, from (p. 71)
Mind, rage, staring looks, with (p. 71)
Mind, rage, strength increased (p. 71)
Mind, rage, touch, renewed by (p. 71)
Mind, rage, violent (p. 71)
Mind, rage, water, sight of (p. 71)
Mind, recognize, does not his relatives (p. 71)
Mind, religious affections (See Anxiety, Despair, Fear) (p. 71)
Mind, remorse (p. 71)
Mind, repulsive mood (p. 71)
Mind, reserved (p. 72)
Mind, restlessness, nervousness (p. 72)
Mind, restlessness, noon (p. 72)
Mind, restlessness, night (p. 72)
Mind, restlessness, anxious, etc. (p. 73)
Mind, restlessness, bed, driving out of (p. 73)
Mind, restlessness, bed, wants to go from one bed to another (p. 73)
Mind, roving about, senseless, insane (p. 75)
Mind, rudeness (compare insolent) (p. 75)
Mind, runs about (See Escape) (p. 75)
Mind, sadness, mental depression (p. 75)
Mind, sadness, anger, after (p. 76)
Mind, sadness, continence, from (p. 76)
Mind, sadness, heat, during the (p. 77)
Mind, sadness, menses, before (p. 77)
Mind, sadness, perspiration, during (p. 77)
Mind, sadness, waking, on (See Morning) (p. 77)
Mind, scorn (See Contempt), ailments from (p. 78)
Mind, senses, acute (p. 78)
Mind, senses, confused (p. 78)
Mind, senses, dullness of (p. 78)
Mind, senses, vanishing, of (p. 78)

Mind, sensitive, oversensitive (See Offended) (p. 78)
Mind, sensitive, children (p. 78)
Mind, sensitive, heat, during (p. 78)
Mind, sensitive, light (p. 78)
Mind, sensitive, noise, to (p. 79)
Mind, sensitive, noise, to, chill, during (p. 79)
Mind, sensitive, noise, to, labor, during (p. 79)
Mind, sensitive, perspiration, during (p. 79)
Mind, sensitive, want of sensitiveness (p. 79)
Mind, serious (See Sad) (p. 79)
Mind, shameless (p. 79)
Mind, shining objects agg. (p. 79)
Mind, shrieking (p. 79)
Mind, shrieking, brain cry (p. 80)
Mind, shrieking, children, in (p. 80)
Mind, shrieking, convulsions, before (p. 80)
Mind, shrieking, pain, with the (p. 80)
Mind, shrieking, sleep, during (p. 80)
Mind, sighing (See Respiration) (p. 80)
Mind, sighing, heat, during (p. 80)
Mind, singing (p. 80)
Mind, singing, alternating with groaning (p. 80)
Mind, singing, alternating with weeping (p. 80)
Mind, singing, fever, during (p. 80)
Mind, singing, sleep, in (p. 80)
Mind, sit, inclination to (p. 80)
Mind, sits, and breaks pins (p. 81)
Mind, slander, disposition to (p. 81)
Mind, slowness (p. 81)
Mind, smiling, foolish (p. 81)
Mind, smiling, involuntarily (p. 81)
Mind, smiling, sardonic (p. 81)
Mind, somnambulism (p. 81)
Mind, speech, confused (p. 81)
Mind, speech, foolish (p. 81)
Mind, speech, hasty (p. 81)
Mind, speech, incoherent (p. 81)
Mind, speech, loud (p. 82)

Mind, speech, nonsense (p. 82)
Mind, speech, slow (p. 82)
Mind, speech, unintelligible (p. 82)
Mind, speech, wandering (p. 82)
Mind, speech, wandering, night, at (p. 82)
Mind, spits in faces of people (p. 82)
Mind, starting, startled (p. 82)
Mind, starting, evening, on falling asleep (p. 82)
Mind, starting, falling, as if (p. 83)
Mind, starting, fright, from (p. 83)
Mind, starting, sleep, on falling (p. 83)
Mind, starting, sleep, during (p. 83)
Mind, starting, sleep, from sleep (p. 83)
Mind, starting, touched, when (p. 83)
Mind, starting, waking, on (p. 84)
Mind, striking (p. 84)
Mind, striking, abdomen, his (p. 84)
Mind, striking, about him at imaginary objects (p. 84)
Mind, striking, desires to strike (p. 84)
Mind, striking, face, his (p. 84)
Mind, striking, himself (p. 84)
Mind, striking, knocking his head against wall (p. 84)
Mind, stupefaction (p. 84)
Mind, stupefaction, air, in open, amel. (p. 84)
Mind, stupefaction, vertigo, during (p. 85)
Mind, suicidal disposition (p. 85)
Mind, suicidal disposition, drowning, by (p. 85)
Mind, suicidal disposition, hanging, by (p. 85)
Mind, suicidal disposition, heat, during (p. 85)
Mind, suicidal disposition, knife, with (p. 85)
Mind, suicidal disposition, pains, from (p. 85)
Mind, suicidal disposition, throwing himself from a height (p. 85)
Mind, suicidal disposition, throwing himself, windows, from (p. 85)
Mind, suicidal disposition, walking in open air, while (p. 85)
Mind, suspicious (p. 85)
Mind, talk, indisposed to, desire to be silent, taciturn (p. 86)
Mind, talking, sleep, in, Mind, talking, sleep, in (p. 86)
Mind, talks to himself (p. 87)

Mind, talks, dead people, with (p. 87)
Mind, talks, war, of (p. 87)
Mind, tears things (p. 87)
Mind, tears, hair, her (p. 87)
Mind, tears, himself (p. 87)
Mind, thoughts, profound (p. 88)
Mind, thoughts, thoughtful (p. 88)
Mind, timidity (p. 88)
Mind, timidity, bashful (p. 89)
Mind, touched, aversion to being (p. 89)
Mind, tranquility (p. 89)
Mind, unconsciousness (p. 89)
Mind, unconsciousness, night (p. 89)
Mind, unconsciousness, chill, during (p. 90)
Mind, unconsciousness, fever, during (p. 90)
Mind, violent, vehement, etc. (See Anger, Rage, Wildness) (p. 91)
Mind, violent, deeds, rage, leading to (p. 91)
Mind, wearisome (p. 92)
Mind, weary of life, walking in open air, while (p. 92)
Mind, weeping, tearful mood, etc. (p. 92)
Mind, weeping, morning (p. 92)
Mind, weeping, night (p. 92)
Mind, weeping, admonitions, cause (p. 93)
Mind, weeping, aggravates (p. 93)
Mind, weeping, chill, during the (p. 93)
Mind, weeping, consolation agg. (p. 93)
Mind, weeping, coughing, before (p. 93)
Mind, weeping, coughing, during (p. 93)
Mind, weeping, coughing, after (p. 93)
Mind, weeping, heat, during the (p. 93)
Mind, weeping, involuntary (p. 93)
Mind, weeping, perspiration, during the (p. 94)
Mind, weeping, refused anything, when (p. 94)
Mind, weeping, remonstrated with, when (p. 94)
Mind, weeping, sleep, in (p. 94)
Mind, weeping, waking, on (p. 94)
Mind, weeping, walking in open air, when (agg.) (p. 94)
Mind, whistling (p. 95)

Mind, wildness (p. 95)
Mind, work, aversion to mental (p. 95)
Hyoscyamus Niger
 MIND
Mind, absent-minded (See Forgetful) (p. 1)
Mind, abstraction of mind (p. 1)
Mind, abusive (p. 1)
Mind, anger, irascibility (See Irritability and Quarrelsome) (p. 2)
Mind, anguish (p. 3)
Mind, answers, abruptly, shortly, curtly (p. 3)
Mind, answers, aversion to (p. 3)
Mind, answers, imaginary questions (p. 3)
Mind, answers, incorrectly (p. 3)
Mind, answers, irrelevantly (p. 3)
Mind, answers, refuses to (p. 3)
Mind, answers, stupor returns quickly, after (p. 4)
Mind, answers, unintelligibly (p. 4)
Mind, anxiety (p. 4)
Mind, anxiety, night (p. 5)
Mind, anxiety, conscience, of (as if guilty of a crime) (p. 6)
Mind, anxiety, fits, with (p. 6)
Mind, bed, desires to remain in (p. 9)
Mind, biting (p. 9)
Mind, business, talks of (p. 10)
Mind, cheerful, gay, happy (See Mirth) (p. 10)
Mind, company aversion to (p. 12)
Mind, company, desire for (p. 12)
Mind, complaining, supposed injury, of (p. 12)
Mind, concentration, difficult (p. 13)
Mind, confusion of mind (See Concentration) (p. 13)
Mind, confusion, heat, during the (p. 15)
Mind, cursing (p. 17)
Mind, dancing (p. 17)

Mind, delirium, antics, plays (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, anxious (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, busy (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, comical (p. 18)
Mind, delirium, laughing (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, loquacious, indistinct (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, murmuring (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, nonsense, with eyes open (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, quiet (p. 19)
Mind, delirium, waking, on (p. 20)
Mind, delirium, wedding, prepares for (p. 20)
Mind, delusions, active (p. 20)
Mind, delusions, animals, of (p. 20)
Mind, delusions, criminals, about (p. 23)
Mind, delusions, dead, persons, sees (p. 23)
Mind, delusions, devoured, had been by animals (p. 23)
Mind, delusions, home, think is away from (p. 27)
Mind, delusions, images, phantoms, sees (See Faces, Figures, Men,
Spectres, Visions) (p. 27)
Mind, delusions, injury, is being injured, by his surroundings (p. 28)
Mind, delusions, large, parts of body seem too (p. 28)
Mind, delusions, murdered, that he would be (p. 29)
Mind, delusions, people, sees (p. 30)
Mind, delusions, poisoned, thought he had been (p. 31)
Mind, delusions, pursued, enemies, by (p. 31)
Mind, delusions, pursued, police, by (p. 31)
Mind, delusions, snakes in and around her (p. 32)
Mind, delusions, spectres, ghosts, spirits, sees (p. 32)

Mind, delusions, talking, as with dead people (p. 33)
Mind, delusions, visions (See Images, spectres) (p. 34)
Mind, delusions, watched, that she is being (p. 35)
Mind, delusions, wrong, has suffered (See Injured) (p. 35)
Mind, destructiveness (p. 36)
Mind, dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and
comprehending (p. 37)
Mind, eat, refuses to (p. 39)
Mind, escape, attempts to (p. 39)
Mind, excitement, excitable (p. 40)
Mind, fancies, confused (p. 41)
Mind, fear, alone, of being (See Company) (p. 43)
Mind, fear, bitten, of being (p. 43)
Mind, fear, dogs, of (p. 44)
Mind, fear, people, of (p. 46)
Mind, fear, poisoned, of being (p. 46)
Mind, fear, sold, of being (p. 47)
Mind, fear, syphilis, of (p. 47)
Mind, fright, complaints from (p. 49)
Mind, gestures, makes (p. 50)
Mind, gestures, hands, motions, involuntary, of the (p. 50)
Mind, gestures, intoxicated, as if (p. 50)
Mind, gestures, picks at bedclothes (p. 50)
Mind, gestures, plays with his fingers (p. 50)
Mind, gestures, ridiculous or foolish (p. 50)
Mind, gestures, violent (p. 50)
Mind, gossiping (p. 50)
Mind, grief, ailments, from (p. 51)
Mind, haughty (p. 51)

Mind, hysteria (p. 52)
Mind, hysteria, menses, before (p. 52)
Mind, ideas, deficiency of (p. 53)
Mind, impatience (p. 53)
Mind, indifference, apathy, etc. (p. 54)
Mind, indifference, complain, does not (p. 54)
Mind, indifference, exposure of her person (p. 55)
Mind, industrious (p. 56)
Mind, insanity, drunkards, in (p. 56)
Mind, insanity, erotic (p. 56)
Mind, insanity, onanism (p. 57)
Mind, insanity, puerperal (p. 57)
Mind, insanity, wantonness, with (p. 57)
Mind, insolent (See Rudeness) (p. 57)
Mind, jealousy (p. 60)
Mind, kill, desire to (p. 60)
Mind, lasciviousness, lustful (p. 61)
Mind, laughing, menses, before (p. 62)
Mind, laughing, sardonic (p. 62)
Mind, laughing, silly (p. 62)
Mind, laughing, sleep, during (p. 62)
Mind, lewdness (See Shameless) (p. 62)
Mind, lewdness, lewd talk (p. 62)
Mind, lewdness, lewd songs (p. 62)
Mind, loquacity (See Speech) (p. 63)
Mind, love, ailments, from disappointed (p. 63)
Mind, meditation (See Absorbed) (p. 64)
Mind, memory active (See Ideas) (p. 64)
Mind, memory, weakness of (See Mistakes) (p. 64)
Mind, memory, weakness of, done, for what has just (p. 64)
Mind, memory, weakness of, heard, for what has (p. 64)

Mind, memory, weakness of, read, for what has (p. 65)
Mind, memory, weakness of, said, for what has (p. 65)
Mind, memory, weakness of, thought, for what has just (p. 65)
Mind, mirth, hilarity, liveliness, etc. (p. 65)
Mind, misanthropy (See Hatred) (p. 66)
Mind, mischievous (p. 66)
Mind, mistakes, reading (p. 66)
Mind, moaning, groaning (See Lamenting) (p. 67)
Mind, muttering, sleep, in (p. 68)
Mind, naked, wants to be (p. 68)
Mind, naked, wants to be, in delirium (p. 68)
Mind, nymphomania, menses, during (p. 69)
Mind, quarrelsome (p. 70)
Mind, quiet, Mind, quiet disposition (p. 70)
Mind, rage, evening (p. 70)
Mind, rage, night (p. 70)
Mind, rage, kill people, tries to (p. 71)
Mind, recognize, does not his relatives (p. 71)
Mind, religious affections (See Anxiety, Despair, Fear) (p. 71)
Mind, remorse (p. 71)
Mind, reproaches, himself (p. 71)
Mind, reproaches, others (p. 71)
Mind, reserved (p. 72)
Mind, restlessness, night (p. 72)
Mind, restlessness, bed, wants to go from one bed to another (p. 73)
Mind, rudeness (compare insolent) (p. 75)
Mind, sadness, mental depression (p. 75)
Mind, senses, dullness of (p. 78)
Mind, sensitive, oversensitive (See Offended) (p. 78)
Mind, sensitive, noise, to, chill, during (p. 79)
Mind, shameless (p. 79)
Mind, shameless, exposes the person (p. 79)

Mind, shining objects agg. (p. 79)
Mind, shrieking, brain cry (p. 80)
Mind, shrieking, convulsions, puerperal (p. 80)
Mind, shrieking, waking, on (p. 80)
Mind, singing (p. 80)
Mind, singing, obscene songs (p. 80)
Mind, sit, inclination to (p. 80)
Mind, sits quite stiff (p. 81)
Mind, speech, babbling (See Mouth) (p. 81)
Mind, speech, confused (p. 81)
Mind, speech, foolish (p. 81)
Mind, speech, hasty (p. 81)
Mind, speech, intoxicated, as if (p. 82)
Mind, speech, loud (p. 82)
Mind, speech, nonsense (p. 82)
Mind, speech, prattling (p. 82)
Mind, speech, prattling, lies naked in bed (p. 82)
Mind, spoken to, averse to being (p. 82)
Mind, spoken to, averse to being, chill, during (p. 82)
Mind, starting, sleep, during (p. 83)
Mind, starting, sleep, from sleep (p. 83)
Mind, striking (p. 84)
Mind, striking, about him at imaginary objects (p. 84)
Mind, striking, desires to strike (p. 84)
Mind, stupefaction, convulsions, between (p. 84)
Mind, suicidal disposition (p. 85)
Mind, suicidal disposition, drowning, by (p. 85)
Mind, suspicious (p. 85)
Mind, talk, indisposed to, desire to be silent, taciturn (p. 86)
Mind, talk, of others agg. (p. 86)
Mind, talking, sleep, in, Mind, talking, sleep, in (p. 86)

Mind, talks to himself (p. 87)
Mind, talks, dead people, with (p. 87)
Mind, thoughts, rapid, quick, etc. (p. 88)
Mind, tranquility (p. 89)
Mind, unconsciousness (p. 89)
Mind, unconsciousness, answers correctly when spoken to, but delirium and
unconsciousness return at once (p. 90)
Mind, unconsciousness, fever, during (p. 90)
Mind, unconsciousness, frequent spells (p. 90)
Mind, unconsciousness, mental insensibility (See Conduct Automatic) (p.
90)
Mind, violent, vehement, etc. (See Anger, Rage, Wildness) (p. 91)
Mind, vivacious (p. 91)
Mind, weeping, alternating with laughter (p. 93)
Mind, weeping, sleep, in (p. 94)
Stramonium
 MIND
Mind, anxiety, noise, of rushing water (p. 7)
Mind, biting (p. 9)
Mind, company, desire for, night (p. 12)
Mind, darkness agg. (See Fear) (p. 17)
Mind, delusions, dogs, attack him (p. 24)
Mind, delusions, images, phantoms, black (p. 27)
Mind, delusions, objects, bright from (p. 30)
Mind, excitement, water poured out, from hearing (p. 41)
Mind, fancies, exaltation of, frightful (p. 42)

Mind, fancies, vivid (p. 42)
Mind, fear, alone, of being, night (p. 43)
Mind, fear, dark (p. 43)
Mind, fear, injured, of being (p. 45)
Mind, fear, noise, from, rushing water (p. 46)
Mind, gestures, picks at bedclothes (p. 50)
Mind, indifference, complain, does not (p. 54)
Mind, indifference, suffering, to (p. 55)
Mind, light, desire for (See Dark) (p. 62)
Mind, loquacity (See Speech) (p. 63)
Mind, rage, headache, with (p. 71)

CASE STUDY
Case no-1
Name of the patient:vishnu
Age:26
Address:ramalayam,chottanikkara
Op no:23087
Presenting complaints:
Rise of body temperature since yesterday. Associated with headache and redness of
face&lip.
Headache<stooping,motion ,cold
History of presenting complaints:
The complaint started suddenly at yesterday onwards.Rise of body temperature
associated with headache and redness of face & lip.Also having burning and dryness
of mouth.
Past history: Nothing relevant
Personal history:
Place of birth : chottanikkara
Education : degree
Domestic position : 1/2
Birth weight : 3kg
Milestones: at correct time
Vaccinations: all are taken
Generalities:

Appetite: moderate, prefer warm food
Desire: sweets
Thirst: reduced
Stool: passes without difficulty
Urine: no difficulty to pass
Sweat: moderate
Sleep: disturbed,prefer to lie on sides
Response to:
Fanning: aversion
Covering: desire
Bathing: warm water
Thermal: hot
Mind:
Irritable, nervous , delirium
General examination:
Pallor: nil icterus: nil
Cyanosis: nil clubbing; nil
Lymphadenopathy: nil pulse:60beats/min
Tongue:clean
Prescription:
Belladona 200/1dose
Follow up:
After 2days better no medicine

After 1 week no complaints no medicine
Case no 2
Name of the patient:susheela
Age:55
Sex:female
Address:keppuppuraykkal,aluva
Op no:22244
Presenting complaint:
Dry cough with itching in throat.
<night,lying down,drinking,talking
>sitting up,warmth
History of presenting complaint:
The patient has been complaining of dry cough with itching in throat for
last 8 months.since 2weeks complaint got aggravated.She is having heaviness of
head&vomiting of fluids.cough aggravates after eating and night..
Past history:
Eczema 3yrs allopathy relieved
Family history:
Mother:hypertensive

Personal history:
POB:aluva
Education;5th std
Domestic position:2/2
Generalities:
Appetite:reduced,prefer warm food.
Desire:sour,non veg,
Aversion:pungent
Thirst:Increased with dryness of lips and mouth.
Stool:no difficulty to pass;loose stool from mental tension
Urine:no difficulty to pass
Sweat:moderate
sleep:good,prefer to lie on sides
Response to:
fanning:desire
covering:desire
bathing:warm water
thermal:chilly
Mind:
desire to be alone,anxious, exam fear,

Pallor:nil icterus:nil
Cyanosis:nil lymphadenopathy:nil
Clubbing:nil pulse:64/min
Tongue:slightly coated
Prescription:
Hyoscyamus 200/1dose
follow up:
after1week general well being no medicine
after 1 month no complaints no medicine
Case No: 3
Name of the Patient : Arya nayar
Age : 10
Sex : female
Address :Erapuzha ,Idukki Dt
OP No 22258
Presenting Complaint :
Convulsions&sleeplessness for 1 year.
<mental exertion,night,after sleep
>from briht light,company
History of presenting complaint:

Complaint started 20yrs back gradually.started as convulsions from
mental exertion and after sleep.He took allopathic medicines,but only partial
relief.After that same complaint noticed before 1year as convulsions with
sleeeplessnes.
Past history:
Chicken pox 15yrs allopathy relieved
Hepatitis 20yrs allopathy relieved
Family history:
Father:cardiac complaint
Mother:hypertensive
Personal history:
POB:kothamangalam
Education:5th std
Occupation;student
Domestic position:1/2
Generalities:
Appetite:moderate,prefer warm food
Desire:sweets,fish
Thirst:reduced
Stool:passed with great straining,unsatisfactory
Urine:no difficulty to pass

Sweat:scanty,offensive
Sleep:disturbed,prefer to lie on back
Mind:
Loquacious,tensed at trifles nervous,anxious,cannot bear to be alone,Delirium.
Pallor:nil icterus:nil
Cyanosis:nil clubbing:nil
Lymphadenopathy:nil BP:120/80mm Hg
Pulse:62/min
Prescription:
Stramonium 200/1dose
Follow up:
After 1week better no medicine
After1month occationally medicine repeat

CONCLUSION
While concluding this thesis , it becomes conspicuous that the medicines
coming under Solanaceae family has a variety of use in the persons with varied
constitutions. The project has sought to explore the nature and function of the
medicines coming under this family profoundly and significantly touching its
aspects in its entirety and comprehensiveness. By revisiting these medicines and
articulating their features systematically and meticulously, one can easily
deduce and discern the importance of the this medicinal family which can be
hardly over looked by the professional homeopathic practitioner .

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Literature survey on drugs of solanaceae group 2014

“A LITERATURE SURVEY ON DRUGS OF SOLANACEAE

DEPARTMENT OF MATERIA MEDICA

For the award of the Degree of

Under the Guidance and Supervision of

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DR. PADIAR MEMORIAL HOMOEOPATHIC

MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL, CHOTTANIKKARA.

DEPARTMENT OF MATERIA MEDICA

This is to certify that the dissertation entitled

A LITERATURE SURVEY ON DRUGS OF SOLANACEAE GROUP

WITH CASE STUDY has been completed by Dr RAHEENA MOL C

under my guidance and supervision during the period of internship in Dr

Padiar Memorial Homoeopathic Medical College, Chottanikkara. She

Place:Chottanikkara (principal in charge)

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A NOTE FROM THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

This dissertation compiled by Dr.RAHEENA MOL C under my

guidance deals with A LITERATURE SURVEY ON DRUGS OF

SOLANACEAE GROUP WITH CASE STUDY. I really appreciate the

work and commitment undertaken by her in making this dissertation a

true success. The work is really informative because disease prevention

has a wide range of probabilities in current times as it is known to all

medicinal branches that prevention is better than cure.

Place: Chottanikkara Dr. Rekha.U.S

Date: Head of the Department

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I express my unreserved gratitude to Dr.Radhesh.M.G (Principal),

Dr.Rekha.U.S (Head of Department) , Dr.Mahesh kumar.N,

Dr.Harikumar.N, Dr.MathewJohn, Dr.SusyCharles, Dr.subhadra K T

and Dr.Ramarajan.S of Dr.Padiar Memorial Homoeopathic Medical

College and Hospital, Chottanikkara,for their valuable suggestions,

constructive criticism, expert guidance and constant encouragement and

unfailing help throughout this attempt and preparation of the manuscript.

I owe my sincere gratitude and personal obligation goes without

any reservation to all of my dear friends for their support given

throughout the period of my study.

I am forever beholden to my parents, brothers and sisters for their

affection and constant encouragement in all my endeavors.

Above all I humbly bow my head before God Almighty whose

Place: Chottanikkara Dr.RAHEENA MOL C

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This dissertation is dedicated to Dr.Samual Hahnemaan

(Father of homoeopathy).,to my Parents ,my Husband and my

Daughter who have very happily given me the moral and

financial support needed so that I may have the opportunity to

complete these seemingly endless years of study.

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This dissertation is presented to the readers in the hope that it

enables them to provide better understanding about the Solanaceae

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INDEX Page no:

 Homoeopathic materia medica……………………………...9

 Sources of homoeopathic drugs……………………….....13

 Homoeopathic materia medica through group study....15

 Solanaceae family introduction…………………………...20

 Solanaceae family study…………………………………...28

 Characteristic mental symptoms………………………....30

 Characteristic physical symptoms……………………….31

 Homoeopathic remedies from solanaceae family……...33

 Common characteristic features………………………….35

 Characteristic features of individual remedies……........42

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