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Stramonium

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37 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • The entire force of this drug seems to be expended on the brain, through the skin and throat show some disturbance.
  • Suppressed secretions and excretions.
  • Sensation as if limbs were separated from body.
  • Delirium tremens.
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  • Absence of pain and muscular mobility especially of muscles of expression and of locomotion.
  • Gyratory and graceful motions.
  • Parkinsonism.

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Mind & mood

  • Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking.
  • Loquacious, garrulous, laughing, singing, swearing, praying, rhyming.
  • Sees ghosts, hears voices, talks with spirits.
  • Rapid changes from joy to sadness.
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  • Violent and lewd.
  • Delusions about his identity; thinks himself tall, double, a part missing.
  • Religious mania.
  • Cannot bear solitude or darkness; must have light and company.
  • Sight of water or anything glittering brings on spasms.
  • Delirium, with desire to escape.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

In dark roomWhen aloneLooking at bright or shining objectsAfter sleepOn swallowing

Better

From bright lightCompanyWarmth

Symptoms by body part

Head

Raises head frequently from the pillow. Pain in forehead and over eyebrows, beginning at 9 a.m.; worse until noon. Boring pain, preceded by obscure vision. Rush of blood to head; staggers, with tendency to fall forward and to the left. Auditory hallucinations.

Eyes

Seem prominent, staring wide open; pupils dilated. Loss of vision; complains that it is dark, and calls for light. Small objects look large. Parts of the body seem enormously swollen. Strabismus. All objects look black.

Face

Hot, red; circumscribed redness of cheeks. Blood rushes to face; distorted. Expression of terror. Pale face.

Mouth

Dry; dribbling of viscid saliva. Aversion to water. Stammering. Risus sardonicus. Cannot swallow on account of spasm. Chewing motion.

Stomach

Food tastes like straw. Violent thirst. Vomiting of mucus and green bile.

Urine

Suppression, bladder empty.

Male

Sexual erethism, with indecent speech and action. Hands constantly kept on genitals.

Female

Metrorrhagia, with loquacity, singing, praying. Puerperal mania, with characteristic mental symptoms and profuse sweatings. Convulsions after labor.

Sleep

Awaken terrified; screams with fright. Deep snoring sleep. Sleepy, but cannot sleep.

Extremities

Graceful, rhythmic motions. Convulsions of upper extremities and of isolated groups of muscles. Chorea; spasms partial, constantly changing. Violent pain in left hip. Trembling, twitching of tendons, staggering gait.

Skin

Shining red flash. Effects of suppressed rash in scarlatina, with delirium, etc.

Fever

Profuse sweat, which does not relieve. Violent fever.

Listed for these health issues

AversionConfusionDesire (Craving)FearForgetfulnessManiaStealingTalkativenessThinking DisturbancesWeepingWitty ConditionWriter's Cramps
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ChoreaConvulsionsDeliriumEncephalitisHydrophobiaColoured VisionDouble VisionVision IllusionsAcute HoarsenessSwallowing DifficultiesExcessive SalivationStammeringTaste DisturbancesHiccupsVomitingPolyuria - Excessive UrinationCoition-Related ConditionsAilments Before, During and After DeliveryNymphomaniaMyastheniaBoilsEruptions: Itching, Hives, Urticaria and PruritusAggravationsAmeliorationGeneralities

Often compared with

BelladonnaBryonia alba

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