Remedy

Belladonna

Deadly nightshade

71 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain.
  • It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands.
  • Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperaesthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly.
  • Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great children's remedy.
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  • Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting.
  • Scarlet fever and also prophylactic.
  • Here use the thirtieth potency.
  • Corresponds to the symptoms of "air-sickness" in aviators.
  • Give as preventive.
  • No thirst, anxiety or fear.
  • Belladonna stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset.
  • Use 1x (Beebe).

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Mind & mood

  • Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by spectres and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities.
  • While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within.
  • He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic illusions.
  • Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces.
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  • Delirium; frightful images; furious; rages, bites, strikes; desire to escape.
  • Loss of consciousness.
  • Disinclined to talk.
  • Perversity, with tears.
  • Acuteness of all senses.
  • Changeableness.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

TouchJarNoiseDraughtAfter noonLying down

Better

Semi-erect

Symptoms by body part

Head

Dizziness, with falling to left side or backwards. Sensitive to least contact. Much throbbing and heat. Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing. Pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples. Headache from suppressed with mucus flow. Sudden outcries. Pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semi-erect posture. Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side. Constant moaning. Hair splits; is dry and comes out.

Face

Red, bluish-red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face. Swelling of upper lip. Facial neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face.

Eyes

Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. Pupils dilated. Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burn; sensitive to light; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmus. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids. Sensation as if eyes were half closed. Eyelids swollen. Fundus congested.

Ears

Tearing pain in middle and external ear. Humming noises. Membrana tympani bulges and injected. Parotid gland swollen. Sensitive to loud tones. Hearing very acute. Otitis media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in sleep; throbbing and beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat. Hematoma auris. Acute and sub-acute conditions of Eustachian tube. Autophony - hearing one's voice in ear.

Nose

Imaginary odors. Tingling in tip of nose. Red and swollen. Bleeding of nose, with red face. Runny nose (cold); mucus mixed with blood.

Mouth

Dry. Throbbing pain in teeth. Gumboil. Tongue red on edges. Strawberry tongue. Grinding of teeth. Tongue swollen and painful. Stammering.

Throat

Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion; red, worse on right side. Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids. Sensation of a lump. Oesophagus dry; feels contracted. Spasms in throat. Continual inclination to swallow. Scraping sensation. Muscles of deglutition very sensitive. Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.

Stomach

Loss of appetite. Averse to meat and milk. Spasmodic pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to spine. Nausea and vomiting. Great thirst for cold water. Spasms of stomach. Empty retching. Abhorrence of liquids. Spasmodic hiccough. Dread of drinking. Uncontrollable vomiting.

Abdomen

Distended, hot. Transverse colon protrudes like a pad. Tender, swollen. Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure. Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching it. Extreme sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, etc.

Stools

Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk. Shuddering during stool. Stinging pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture. Prolapsus ani.

Urine

Retention. Acute urinary infections. Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm. Urine scanty, with constant urge to pass stool; dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates. Vesical region sensitive. Incontinence, continuous dropping. Frequent and profuse. Haematuria where no pathological condition can be found. Prostatic hypertrophy.

Male

Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed. Nocturnal sweat of genitals. Flow of prostatic fluid. Desire diminished.

Female

Sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the viscera would protrude at genitals. Dryness and heat of vagina. Dragging around loins. Pain in sacrum. Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse. Haemorrhage hot. Cutting pain from hip to hip. Menses and discharge after childbirth very offensive and hot. Labor-pains come and go suddenly. Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple. Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red. Badly smelling haemorrhages, hot gushes of blood. Diminished discharge after childbirth.

Respiratory

Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea. Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night. Larynx feels sore. Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes respiration Hoarse; loss of voice. Painless hoarseness. Cough with pain in left hip. Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with phlegm coughed up of blood. Stitches in chest when coughing. Larynx very painful; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough. High, piping voice. Moaning at every breath.

Heart

Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored breathing. Palpitation from least exertion. Throbbing all through body. Dichrotism. Heart seemed too large. Rapid but weakened pulse.

Extremities

Shooting pains along limbs. Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating. Tottering gait. Shifting rheumatic pains. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Jerking limbs. Spasms. Involuntary limping. Cold extremities.

Back

Stiff neck. Swelling of glands of neck. Pain in nape, as if it would break. Pressure on dorsal region most painful. Low back pain, with pain in hips and thighs.

Skin

Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth. Rash like scarlatina, suddenly spreading. Erythema; pustules on face. Glands swollen, tender, red. Boils. Acne rosacea. Suppurative wounds. Alternate redness and paleness of the skin. Indurations after inflammations. Erysipelas.

Fever

A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxaemia. Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy cold. Superficial blood-vessels, distended. Perspiration dry only on head. No thirst with fever.

Sleep

Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth. Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels. Screams out in sleep. Sleeplessness, with drowsiness. Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep. Sleeps with hands under head.

Non-homoeopathic uses

Atropia and its salts are used for ophthalmic purposes, to dilate the pupil and paralyze the accommodation. Given internally or hypodermically, it is antagonistic to Opium and Morphine. Physostigma and Prussic Acid. Narcotic poisons and mushroom poisoning. Renal colic 1-200 of a grain hypodermically. Atropin injected subcutaneously in doses from a milligram upwards for intestinal obstruction threatening life. Hypodermically 1-80 gr. Atropia 1-20 gr. Is antagonistic to 1 gr. Morphine. Also used as a local anaesthetic, antispasmodic, and to dry up secretions, milk, etc.

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