Belladonna

William Boericke 1922

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. [Laches,] Stoo'ls. — Thin, green, dysenteric ; in lumps like chalk. Shuddering during stool. Stinging pain in

William Boericke 1922

Pain in nape, as if it would break. Pressure on dorsal region most painful. Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.

William Boericke 1922

S'ioclliiu/ of glands of

William Boericke 1922

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.

William Boericke 1922

Diminished lochia.

William Boericke 1922

llyos. (less fever, more agitation) ; Strain, (more sensorial excitement, frenzy) ; Hoitzia — A Mexican drug, similar in action to Bellad. (Useful in fever, scarlatinal eruption, measles, urticaria, etc. High fever with eruptive fevers. Dry mouth and throat, red face, injected eyes, delirium).* Calcar, is often required after Bell.; Atropia. (Great dryness of throat, almost impossible to swallow. Almost identical in action, with accentuation of the nerv- 132

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Low to medium potencies repeated in acute congestion; stop on amelioration.

William Boericke 1922

Tearing pain. Humming noises. Membrana tympani bulges and injected. Parotid gland swollen. Sensitive to loud tones. Hearing very acute. Otitts media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in

William Boericke 1922

Shooting pains along

William Boericke 1922

Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. Pupils dilated. [Agnus.^ Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burn; ^ photophobia ; shooting in eyes'. Ocular illusions ; fiery appearance. Diplopia; squinting, spasmj of lids ^ Sensation as if eyes were half closed. Eyelids swollen, l^undus congested.

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Injected, staring eyes with photophobia; objects appear doubled; pupils dilated and sluggish.

William Boericke 1922

Glands szvollcn, tender, red. Boils. Acne rosacea. Suppurative wounds. (Atropia has the power of greatly increasing the phagocytic activity of the leucocytes.)

William Boericke 1922

Swelling of upper lip.

William Boericke 1922

—- Red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of

William Boericke 1922

Coryza; mucus mixed with

William Boericke 1922

Sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the tFisccra would protrude at genitals. Dryness and heat of vagina. Dragging around loins. Pain in sacrum. Menses increased ; bright red, too early, too profuse. Ilcemorrhage hot. Cutting pain from hip to hip. Menses and lochia 7vry offensive and hot. Labor-pains come and go suddenly. Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple. Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red. Tumors oi breast, pain worse lying down. Badly smelling hjemorrhages, hot gushes of

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Burning dry heat with flushed face; sweat only on covered parts; feet icy despite general heat. Pulse strong and rapid.

William Boericke 1922

A high feverish state wdth comparative absense of toxaemia Burning, pungent heat. Feet icy cold. Superficial blood-vessels, distended. Perspiration dry only on

William Boericke 1922

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.

William Boericke 1922

spasmodic stricture. Piles more sensitive with backache. Prolapsus ani. [Jpnatia; Podoph.] Urine. — Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm. Urine scanty, with tenesmus : dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates. Vesical region sensitive. Incontinence, continuous dropping. Frequent and profuse.

William Boericke 1922

No thirst ivith

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Violent throbbing headache with fullness of the temples, worse from light, noise, motion and jar, better from pressure and semi-erect posture; face flushed and hot with dilated pupils.

William Boericke 1922

Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards. Sensitive to least contact. Much throbbing and heat. Pain ; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples. Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow. Sudden outcries. Pain worse light, noise, jar, lying dozvn 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. Headache worse on right side and when lying down; from having hair cut.

William Boericke 1922

[Ars.; Plat.]

William Boericke 1922

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

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Sudden, violent, congestive states with burning heat, redness and throbbing — the picture arrives fast and burns bright.

William Boericke 1922

Spasms. Involuntary limping.^ Cold rxtrcvtilics, ,

William Boericke 1922

Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating. Tottering gait. Shifting rheumatic pains. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Jerking

William Boericke 1922

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

William Boericke 1922

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. Hallucniations ; sees monsters, hideous faces. Delirium ; frightful images ; furious; rages, bites, strikes; Tesire to escape. Loss of consciousness. Disinclined to talk. Perversity, with tears. Acuteness of all senses.

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Acute delirium with frightful images, biting and striking; fear of imaginary animals. Child cries out in sleep; convulsions with twitchings during fever.

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Worse: light, noise, jar, touch, draft on head, 3 PM. Better: semi-erect, warm wrapping of head, rest.

William Boericke 1922

Worse^ touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying down. Better, semi-erect.

William Boericke 1922

Dry. Throbbing pain in

William Boericke 1922

Red and swollen. Bleeding of nose, with red

William Boericke 1922

Imaginary odors. Tingling in tip of

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Compare Gelsemium (dull, drowsy counterpart), Hyoscyamus (more nervous frenzy), Stramonium (more violent mania). Calcarea suits weakly children who Bell-adapt poorly.

William Boericke 1922

Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and

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Smooth, red, dry eruptions disappearing suddenly — scarlatiniform in character; sensitive to touch.

William Boericke 1922

Dry and hot: swollen, sensitive; burns, scarlet, smooth. Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading. t'rythcma; pustules on

William Boericke 1922

Restless, crying out, gritting of

William Boericke 1922

throbbing and beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat.

William Boericke 1922

Sleeps with hands under

William Boericke 1922

Sleeplessness, with drowsiness. Starting when elosing the eyes or during

William Boericke 1922

Nausea and vomiting. Great thirst for cold water. Spasms of

William Boericke 1922

Loss of appetite. Averse to meat and milk. Spasmodic pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to

William Boericke 1922

Empty retching. Abhorrence of liquids. Spasmodic hiccough. Aversion to zvater. Dread of drinking. Uncontrollable vomiting.

William Boericke 1922

Gumboil. Tongue red on edges. Strawberry

William Boericke 1922

Kept awake by pul.sation of blood-ve.ssels. Screams out in

William Boericke 1922

Tongue swollen and painful. Stammering. [Stram.]

William Boericke 1922

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 iace, 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. [Oxytropis.] Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great ^ childr^n*s remedy. Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting. Scarlet fever and also prophylactic. Here use the thirtieth potency. Exophthalmic goitre. 128

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Dry, red, shining throat with difficult swallowing; tonsils swollen; neck stiff and tender.

William Boericke 1922

Continual 'inclination to swallow. Scraping sensation. Muscles of deglutition very sensitive.

William Boericke 1922

Dry, as if glazed ; angry-looking congestion [Ginseng]; red, worse on right side. Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids. Sensation of a lump. CEsophagus dry; feels contracted. Spasms in

William Boericke 1922

Grinding of

William Boericke 1922

Tickling, short, dry cough: worse at night. Larynx feels sore. Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes respiration [Cocain; Opium.] Hoarse; loss of voice. Painless hoarseness. Cough with pain in left hip. Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of