Cellular Tissue.-Early stages of cellulitis, e.g., whitlow.
The fevers demanding belladonna are those in which there is much cerebral hyperaemia, which are sudden in their onset, are sthenic and not long continued, but are a concomitant of local inflammations, of chills or other causes of sudden disturbance of the circulation. They are violent while they last, are frequently accompanied with delirium and there is nearly always thirst.
Belladonna poisoning presents many of the symptoms of exophthalmic goitre, such as the protruding eyes, the rapid pulse and the tremors, and it has been sometimes successfully employed for these symptoms, but it would be mainly suitable for the sympathetic enlargement of the thyroid in puberty or during pregnancy. The more severe cases of exophthalmic goitre require a deeper acting remedy.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Congestions and inflammations of a violent and intense character.
(2) Pains and symptoms come and go suddenly and are violent.
(3) Tendency to delirium of an active violent kind; hallucinations, fears of imaginary things (“a black dog”) with desire to escape.
(4) Tendency to twitchings, jerkings and convulsions (teething in children).
(5) Burning fever and rapid pulse, which is strong and bounding; early stages of inflammations.
(6) Hot, red face and head (with cold feet); after exposure to sun.
(7) Dryness and heat of the skin and mucous membranes.
(8) Hypersensitiveness to all impressions, draughts, noises, pressure, &c.
(9) Great thirst not relieved by drinking.
(10) Aggravation of symptoms in the afternoon and till after midnight.
(11) Predominance of affections on the right side.
(12) Symptoms are worse in a horizontal position (especially head).
(13) Wide awake at night, or sleepy but cannot sleep.
(14) Plethoric lymphatic constitutions. Young, full blooded people; children and women of delicate light complexion and hair.
(15) Symptoms pass from above downwards.
(16) Tendency to rapid formation of pus in external inflammations.
AGGRAVATION :
From lying down; stooping or bending backwards or forwards (the vertical position is the best), from noise, light, touch, pressure, lying on the affected side, effort, movement, jars, draughts, cold air and cold applications, having the hair cut, drinking, at 3 p.m. and onwards till after midnight. Though cold aggravates, exposure to direct sunlight does not same (e.g., headache).
AMELIORATION :
From sitting still and upright, warm applications and wraps.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,