BELLADONNA
Deadly Nightshade
Belladonna acts upon each section of the fearful system, producing energetic congestion, livid excitement, perverted exceptional senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It has a marked motion on the vascular system, pores and skin and glands. Belladonna continually is related with hot, pink skin, flushed face, obvious eyes, throbbing carotids, excited intellectual state, hyperaesthesia of all senses, delirium, stressed sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come and go unexpectedly (Oxytropis). Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great kid’s remedy. Epileptic spasms accompanied with the aid of nausea and vomiting. Scarlet fever and additionally prophylactic. Here use the thirtieth potency. Exophthalmic goitre. Corresponds to the signs and symptoms of “air-sickness” in aviators. Give as preventive. No thirst, nervousness or fear. Belladonna stands for violence of assault and suddenness of onset. Bell for the excessive of thyroid toxaemia. Use 1x (Beebe).
Mind.–Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed through specters and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities. While the retina is dispassionate to real objects, a host of visible hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within. He is acutely alive and crazed by way of a flood of subjective visible impressions and super illusions. Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces. Delirium; frightful images; furious; rages, bites, strikes; wish to escape. Loss of consciousness. Disinclined to talk. Perversity, with tears. Acuteness of all senses. Changeableness.
Head.–Vertigo, with falling to left aspect or backwards. Sensitive to least contact. Much throbbing and heat. Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing. Pain; fullness, particularly in forehead, additionally occiput, and temples. Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow. Sudden outcries. Pain worse light, noise, jar, mendacity down and in afternoon; higher by way of stress and semi-erect posture. Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from facet to side. Constant moaning. Hair splits; is dry and comes out. Headache worse on proper facet and when mendacity down; sick effects, colds, etc; from having hair cut.
Face.–Red, bluish-red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive action of muscular tissues of face. Swelling of top lip. Facial neuralgia with twitching muscle groups and flushed face.
Eyes.–Throbbing deep in eyes on mendacity down. Pupils dilated (Agnus). Eyes sense swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burn; photophobia; capturing in eyes. Exophthalmus. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids. Sensation as if eyes have been half of closed. Eyelids swollen. Fundus congested.
Ears.–Tearing ache in center and exterior ear. Humming noises. Membrana tympani bulges and injected. Parotid gland swollen. Sensitive to loud tones. Hearing very acute. Otitis media. Pain reasons delirium. Child cries out in sleep; throbbing and beating ache deep in ear, synchronous with coronary heart beat. Hematoma auris. Acute and sub-acute stipulations 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 crimson face. Coryza; mucus combined with blood.
Mouth.–Dry. Throbbing ache in teeth. Gumboil. Tongue pink on edges. Strawberry tongue. Grinding of teeth. Tongue swollen and painful. Stammering.
Throat.–Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion (Ginseng); red, worse on proper side. Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; challenging deglutition; worse, liquids. Sensation of a lump. Å’sophagus 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 ache in epigastrium. Constriction; ache runs to spine. Nausea and vomiting. Great thirst for bloodless 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 with the aid of a hand; worse, jar, pressure. Cutting ache across; stitches in left facet of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching it. Extreme sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, and so on (Laches).
Stools.–Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk. Shuddering at some point of stool. Stinging ache in rectum; spasmodic stricture. Piles greater touchy with backache. Prolapsus ani (Ignatia; Podoph).
Urine.–Retention. Acute urinary infections. Sensation of action in bladder as of a worm. Urine scanty, with tenesmus; darkish and turbid, loaded with phosphates. Vesical location sensitive. Incontinence, non-stop dropping. Frequent and profuse. Haematuria the place no pathological situation 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 warmth of vagina. Dragging round loins. Pain in sacrum. Menses increased; brilliant red, too early, too profuse. Haemorrhage hot. Cutting ache from hip to hip. Menses and lochia very offensive and hot. Labor-pains come and go suddenly. Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple. Breasts sense heavy; are tough and red. Tumors of breast, ache worse mendacity down. Badly smelling haemorrhages, warm gushes of blood. Diminished lochia.
Respiratory.–Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea. Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night. Larynx feels sore. Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes respiratory (Cocaine; Opium). Hoarse; loss of voice. Painless hoarseness. Cough with ache in left hip. Barking cough, whooping cough, with ache in belly earlier than attack, with expectoration of blood. Stitches in chest when coughing. Larynx very painful; feels as if a overseas physique have been in it, with cough. High, piping voice. Moaning at each and every breath.
Heart.–Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored breathing. Palpitation from least exertion. Throbbing all via body. Dichrotism. Heart appeared too large. Rapid however weakened pulse.
Extremities.–Shooting pains alongside limbs. Joints swollen, red, shining, with pink 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 place most painful. Lumbago, with ache in hips and thighs.
Skin.–Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth. Eruption like scarlatina, unexpectedly 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 excessive feverish kingdom with comparative absence of toxaemia. Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy cold. Superficial blood-vessels, distended. Perspiration dry solely on head. No thirst with fever.
Sleep.–Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth. Kept wakeful via pulsation of blood-vessels. Screams out in sleep. Sleeplessness, with drowsiness. Starting when closing the eyes or in the course of sleep. Sleeps with fingers beneath head (Ars; Plat).
Modalities.–Worse, touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, mendacity down. Better, semi-erect.
Relationship.–Compare: Sanguisorba officinals 2x-6x, a member of the Rosaceae family, (Profuse, long-lasting menses, specifically in fearful sufferers with congestive signs to head and limbs. Passive haemorrhages at climacteric. Chronic metritis. Haemorrhage from lungs. Varices and ulcers). Mandragora–(Mandrake). A narcotic of the ancients-Restless excitability and bodily weakness. Desire for sleep. Has antiperiodic residences like China and Aranea. Useful in epilepsy and hydrophobia, additionally Cetonia (A. E. Lavine). Hyos (less fever, extra agitation); Stram (more sensorial excitement, frenzy); Hoitzia-A Mexican drug, comparable in motion to Bellad (Useful in fever, scarlatinal eruption, measles, urticaria, etc. High fever with eruptive fevers. Dry mouth and throat, crimson face, injected eyes, delirium). Calcar is frequently required after Bell; Atropia. Alkaloid of Belladonna covers greater the neurotic sphere of the Belladonna motion (Great dryness of throat, nearly not possible to swallow. Chronic belly affections, with remarkable ache and vomiting of all food. Peritonitis. All variety of illusions of sight. Everything seems large. Platina opposite). Hypochlorhydria; pyrosis. Motes over everything. On reading, phrases run together; double vision, all objects appear to be elongated. Eustachian tube and tympanic congestion. Affinity for the pancreas. Hyperacidity of stomach. Paroxysms of gastric pain; ovarian neuralgia.
Non-Homeopathic Uses.–Atropia and its salts are used for ophthalmic purposes, to dilate the student and paralyze the accommodation.
Given internally or hypodermically, it is hostile 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 night time sweats in phthisis.
Atropia 1-20 gr is adversarial to 1 gr. Morphine.
Also used as a nearby anaesthetic, antispasmodic, and to dry up secretions, milk, etc. Hypodermically 1-80 gr night time sweats in phthisis.
Dose.–Atropia Sulph, 1-120 to 1-60 grain.
Antidotes to Belladonna: Camph; Coff; Opium; Acon.
Complementary: Calc. Bellad (contains lime). Especially in semi-chronic and constitutional diseases.
Incompatible: Acet ac.
Dose.–First to thirtieth efficiency and higher. Must be repeated often in acute disease.
