HYOSCYAMUS


HYOSCYAMUS homeopathic remedy keynotes and indications from the Decachords by Gladstone Clarke, of the medicine HYOSCYAMUS …


Symptoms

      1. Acute mania; patient, talkative, quarrelsome, gen. lascivious, exposes the person, etc.; in the between state, suspicious depression, fears solitude, poison, plots. Ailments from jealousy, unfortunate love, mental emotions.

2. Delirium during course of acute diseases; temperature not markedly high; restless, picks bedclothes, etc.; beclouded senses; staring eyes; dry tongue, etc.; involuntary urine and faeces; stands midway between Belladonna and Stramonium lacking cerebral congestion of former and fierce, raging of latter. Delirium tremens.

3. Spasmodic affections without consciousness; every muscle twitches from eye to toes; opisthotonos; convulsions, of children from fright, worms; of pregnant or parturient women.

4. Nervous coughs; teasing, dry, spasmodic, ((<)) on lying down, (>) sitting up (Drosera); ((<)) night, using voice, eating, drinking.

5. Insomnia in irritable, excitable subjects; from business difficulties or other nervous excitement; drowsy yet restless; in children, with twitchings and startings from night.

A. Gladstone Clarke
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.