SOLANUM NIGRUM
Black Nightshade
Used with success in ergotism, with tetanic spasms and stiffness of complete body, with mania. Marked motion on head and eyes. Meningitis. Chronic intestinal toxaemia. Brain inflammation at some stage in dentition. Restlessness of a violent and convulsive nature. Formication with contraction of extremities.
Head.–Furious delirium. Vertigo; horrible headache and entire cessation of the intellectual faculties. Night terrors. Congestive headache.
Nose.–Acute coryza; profuse, watery discharge from proper nostril; left stopped up, with chilly sensation, alternating with heat.
Eyes.–Pain over each eyes. Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils; susceptible sight; floating spots.
Respiratory.–Constructive feeling in chest, with challenging breathing; cough with tickling in throat. Expectoration thick, yellow. Pain in left chest, sore to touch.
Fever.–Alternation of coldness and heat. Scarlet fever; eruption in spots, giant and vivid.
Relationship.–Compare: Bellad; Solanum Carolinense-Horse-nettle–(conclusions and epilepsy, twenty to forty-drop doses; is of notable price in grand mal of idiopathic type, the place the sickness has begun past age of childhood; hystero-epilepsy, additionally in whooping-cough); Solan mammosum-Apple of Sodom–(pain in left hip-joint); Solan oleraceum (swelling of mammary gland, with profuse secretion of milk); Solan tuberosum (cramps in calves and contraction of fingers; spitting thru closed teeth); Solan vesicarium (recommended in facial paralysis); Solaninum aceticum (threatening paralysis of the lungs in the direction of bronchitis in the aged and teens need to cough a lengthy time earlier than capable to elevate expectoration); Solan pseudocaps (acute pains, in decrease abdomen); Solan tuberos aegrotans-Diseased potato–(prolapse of the rectum, patulous anus; offensive breath and smell of body; tumors of rectum seem like decayed potato; desires of swimming pools of blood); Solanum tuberosum-Potato berries–(cramps in the calves of the legs and fingers).
Dose.–Second to thirtieth potency.
