Relationships
*Antidoted by: Lemon-juice, Vinegar, Tobacco injections, Senna for cerebral symptoms, Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Nux vomica, and “Particularly Camphor” (Taste). *Antidote to: Mercurius, Plb. *Follows well: Cuprum, Belladonna *Incompatible: Coffea. *Compare: Metrorrhagia, from retained placenta with characteristic delirium, Secale )Secale often acts when *Stramonium fails), Pyrogenium (with fever and septic tendency). Delirium, Belladonna, Lachesis, Agaricus, Cuprum, Zn. Illusions of shape, Baptisia, Petroleum, Thuja Erysipelas, Belladonna, Rhus. Stuttering, unable to combine consonants with vowels, Bovista Bright light causes convulsions, K. bro. better Light, Stro. Hiccough, Ignatia (worse after eating, smoking, emotions), Verbascum (after hot drinks). Hears voices from far off talking to him, behind him, Anacardium Body bathed in hot sweat. Opium Gyrating movements (Hyoscyamus, angular). Loquacity, Cuprum, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Opium, Verbascum Hands constantly on genitals, Zn. Laughs and weeps by turns, Aurum, Pul., Alm., Lycopodium, Caps., Graphites, Phosphorus, Sepia, Sul., Verbascum Tetanic convulsions worse touch and light, Nux (Stream. with mania, Nux vomica, mind clear). Desire to escape in delirium, Belladonna, Bryonia, Opium, Rhus. Hydrophobia, Hfb. Painlessness, Opium Sleepy, but cannot sleep, Belladonna, Chem., Opium worse After sleep, Apis, Lachesis, Opium, Spo. Objects appear small, Platina Night blindness, Belladonna, Nux.
Causation
Shock. Fright. Sun. Childbirth. Suppressions.
Mind
(The principal range of this remedy is found in the mental affections. In young people who are sometimes hysterical, showing the following condition: praying and singing devoutly, beseeching, entreating, etc. Young women with suppressed menses may be affected in this manner. In some kinds of fevers, where the patients can’t bear solitude or darkness, if they are left alone or are in a dark room, the mental affections are very much <, also in unconscious delirium when the patient will every now and then jerk up the head from the pillow, then let it fall again, this being kept up without intermission for a long time, women in puerperal fever or convulsions have many absurd notions that they are double, that some one is in bed with them, and other strange and unmeaning fancies. Affections of the intellect in general, madness. Melancholy H. N. G. Sadness, with deadly anguish, and copious tears, especially in evening, in bed. Anguish of conscience. Inconsolable disposition, and susceptibility to irritation by trifles. Great activity and rapidity of movement. Obstinacy and self-will. Bursts of laughter, alternating with choleric passion or moaning. Howling and groans. Murmurs, or continued cries. Ungovernable fury, desire to bite, to strike and to kill. At one time great indifference to matters of business, at another time fear of being found incapable of discharging them properly. Love of procrastinating and loss of will-power (cured in a man, 75 _ R.T.C.). Desire to run away. Desire for society, candle-light, sunshine, because darkness and solitude worse the moral symptoms. The moral symptoms are worse after the autumnal equinox. Loss of memory (loses thoughts before she can utter them, calls things by wrong names). Dulness of all the senses, insensibility to external influences (insensibility to mental impressions). Dizziness, with internal agitation. Mental derangement, especially in drunkards. Loquacious delirium and mania. Mania-a- potu with clonic spasms and desire for light and company. Deliria, generally characterized by terror, with visions of frightful spectres. Loss of consciousness, so that the patient
forgets his own relations. Fixed ideas, the body is supposed to be cut in two. Carphologia. Delusions of fancy, in which all surrounding objects appear to be very small, and the sufferer himself very large, and on an elevation. Deliria, with strange ideas. Mental alienation, with praying and pious actions (prayers, hymns, devout aspect, &c.). Mania, generally with endless fictions of imagination, lascivious talking, conversation with spectres, affectation of importance, dancing, laughter, and blows, or ridiculous buffoonery, in constant alternation with sad and serious behavior. Hallucinations: a voice near right mastoid process scolding her, frightful, of rats, mice, cats, dogs, and animals moving. Hallucinations that causes terror or rage. Saw people coming out of all corners. Rush of blood to head with furious loquacious delirium. Fear: of losing his senses, that his lips will grow together, that he will suffocate, of falling, of everything falling on her. Boy seemed to see black objects, spoke of black people, black clouds, and grasped at air. Awakens with a shrinking look as if afraid of first thing she sees. Dulness of senses before a rash. Conversing in different languages. Talking in Jewish jargon. Ecstatic. Mania from shock. Nervousness and restlessness.
Head
Intoxication and dizziness. Vertigo, cannot walk in the dark, falling to left or backward. Vertigo, with giddiness and staggering, or with clouded sight, headache (red face, colicky pain and diarrhoea). Vertigo, head feels drawn backward. Stupefaction with vanishing of vision and hearing, and convulsive movements of head. Headache, with clouded sight and dysecoia. Headaches with tendency to speak incoherently (much relieved. R.T.C.) Anaemia of the brain in old people (relieved. R.T.C.). Distressing sensation of lightness and weakness in head. Woke up with fearful headache and extreme sickness, got up at noon but could hardly speak to any one all day, this went on for three days and then left (produced in a woman, 60, fourth day after single dose of O. R.T.C.). Head feels empty, hollow, sensitive to very sound. Throbbing pains in vertex, with syncope. Congestion of blood to head, with heat. Congestion of blood to head, pulsation in vertex, loss of sight and hearing, bloated, turgid face, total loss of consciousness, and painlessness. Inflammation of brain, with heat and pulsation of vertex, attacks of fainting, loss of sight and hearing, convulsive movements of head, frequently raising head up or bending it backward, better while lying still. Hydrocephalus with convulsive movements of head, sensation of lightness of head, and frequently raising, head up. Painful dark-red swelling of the highly congested head and turgid face, with convulsive movements, delirium, and desire for light and company. Retraction and convulsive movements of head. Lifting head frequently from pillow when lying down. Bores head into pillow. Bends head backward. Left side of head numb. Head perspires more than usual.
Eyes
Eyes red (inflamed) and swollen. Pressure and tension in eyes and lids. Inflammation of margins of lids. Eyelids ulcerated. Involuntary lachrymation. Nocturnal agglutination of eyes. Eyes wide open, staring, prominent. Conjunctiva injected, as if the vessels were filled with dirty liquid. Eyes fixed, wide open, and sparkling. Eyes half open in sleep. Photomania. Vague, melancholy look. Paralysis and spasmodic closing of lids. Eyes convulsed. Contortion of eyes and lids. Marked convergent strabismus. Pupils dilated and insensible. Cloudiness of sight. Transient blindness. Blindness (at night), periodical. Objects appear blue. Myopia. Diplopia. Indistinct, confused sight. (Everything looks jumbled up. R.T.C.). (Used as a lotion to prevent cataract by a well known oculist. R.T.C.). Amblyopia. Confusion of letters, when reading. Errors of vision, objects appear oblique or coloured. Illusions of vision. Hallucinations dark, black spots before eyes. Luminous vibrations, fiery sparks. Sees balls of fire roll over the counterpane. Sensation as of sparks of fire rushing from stomach to eyes.
Ears
Wind rushes out of both ears. Dryness in Eustachian tube. Pains in ears. Pain in left ear pressing down to left side of cheek. Tearing pain in right ear with shooting through forehead and vertex. Hearing very acute. Hallucinations of hearing. Deafness. Deafness of right ear improves at once from 30th (twitching of pomum Adami led me to it. R.T.C.).
Nose
Obstruction of the nose. Alae nasi white, face red. Nasal discharge yellow, bad-smelling, quickly liquefies. Nose feels obstructed and dry, though she is able to breathe through it. The cold of Stramonium is accompanied by catarrh of nasal passages and shooting pains over right eye (produced. R.T.C.). Spasmodic sneezing.
Face
Dull and bewildered air, with timid behavior. Stupid, distorted countenance. Anxiety and fear is expressed in the countenance. Sardonic grin. Painful distortion of features. Facial muscles in constant play during delirium. Twitching in muscles of face, frowns on forehead. Left side of face for moments distorted with painless convulsions, contraction of zygomatic muscles draws cheeks and mouth from below up, and from face backward to temples. Face deeply furrowed and wrinkled. Face bloated, puffed with blood, sometimes with an idiotic expression. Circumscribed redness of cheeks. Hot cheeks. Blood rushing to face. Deep red, or very pale colour of face. Fainting with paleness of face, dryness in throat, and subsequent red face. Erysipelas on one side of face and nose. Boils come out on face while taking *Stramonium (R.T.C.) Lips dry and glued together. A yellow streak in red part of lips. Quivering in lips. Distortion of the mouth. Crawling sensation on chin. Chewing motion with mouth. Mouth spasmodically closed. Lock-jaw.
