HYOSCYAMUS NIGER



Toes spasmodically contracted in walking or going up stairs.

Limbs in General

      Trembling of arms and hands.

Lancinating pains in almost all joints, especially on motion.

Cold hands and feet.

Position etc.

      Motion :, Walking : Ascending stairs : Exertion : Sitting up : Leaning forward : Bending head forward : Jump out of bed and turn away: Mental excitement: Lying : Talking : Lying on back : Cannot remain quiet in one place : wants change :.

Nerves

      Throws arms about, misses what is reached for, gait tottering; chorea.

Convulsions after meals: child sickens after eating, vomits or shows distress at the stomach, sudden shriek, and then insensible.

Convulsive jerks; long-lasting spasms.

Angular motions; jerks of single muscles or sets of muscles.

Subsultus tendinum.

Epilepsy, Before the attack: vertigo, sparks before eyes, ringing in ears, hungry, gnawing. During attack : face purple, eyes projecting, shrieks, grinding teeth; urination. After attack : sopor, snoring.

Suffocating spells and convulsions during labor.

Convulsions of children, especially from fright.

Restless, turns from one place to another.

Paralysis after spasms, or after diphtheria.

Sleep

      Stupid and drowsy, or excitable and sleepless.

Falls asleep while answering.

Deep sleep with convulsions.

Constant slumber, with picking.

Sleep, with outcries.

Sleepless, or constant sleep, with muttering.

Sleeplessness, after violent disease, or with irritable, excited persons.

Lying on back, suddenly sits up, then lied down again.

Starts in sleep, after a fright.

Dreams : anxious; lascivious.

Awaking with screams.

Time

      Morning : 10 A.M. : Morning and evening:. Evening : Night :.

Temperature and Weather

      Worse in the sun: head. Heat : Get warm in bed : Becoming cold : Dry cold air : Cold air :. Cold body :.

Chill Fever Sweat

      Chill alternate days, 11 A.M.; cannot bear to be talked to, or hear the least noise.

Chill from feet upwards: shivering, heat of face.

Cold at night, up the back from small of back; cannot get warm in bed.

Whole body cold, with burning redness of face.

Chill, alternating with heat.

Burning heat all over, every evening congestion to head; putrid taste. Heat, no desire to drink.

Skin burning hot to examining hand.

Congestive chills.

Sweat mostly on legs.

Sweat : cold; sour; weakening; during sleep.

Attacks

      Alternate days, at 11 A.M.: Every evening :.

Sides

      Upper right, lower left.

Right :. Left : Below upward : To and fro :.

Sensations

      Sensation of pricking all over.

As if blood burned in the veins.

Want of sensation :.

Tissue.

      Fulness of the veins; full pulse.

Hemorrhages usually light red.

Obesity.

Skin and muscles lax.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Touch :”, After injury : Chewing (pressure):.

Skin

      Skin often pale, with delirium; body hot.

Hot, dry, brittle skin, want to sensation.

Brown or gangrenous spots.

Skin red, or with red rash.

Varicella; vesicles in crops, sleepless; nervous; dry cough, must sit up.

Gangrene, with nervous restlessness; itching around.

Large pustules, clustering from hips to knees.

Ulcers painful, bleeding; bruised feeling on moving the part.

Scarlatina, with marked mental symptoms.

Stages and States

      Nervous irritable, excitable.

Sanguine temperament.

Drunkards.

Hysterical subjects.

Old men.

Face pale, limbs cold but temperature high :.

Relationship

      Hyosc. is suitable in : hard hearing after apoplexy. Bellad. failing; haemoptysis of drunkards, after Opium or Nux vomica; congestive chills, after Bellad. and Opium fail.

Excessive lasciviousness to Phosphor., when Hyosc. fails.

Complaints from inhaling ether.

Ailments from Plumbum, or abuse of Bellad.

Antidotes : vinegar, Bellad., citric and Cinchon., Stramon.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.