BELLADONNA



Confusion of mind, with flickering before the eyes.

Confusion of the senses; sleepy, yet awake, he imagines he is dreaming.

Thought became disturbed and confused.

Talked confusedly.

Speech slow and confused.

Disordered consciousness.

First this occurred to him, and then that, he could not think in an orderly manner, and forgot immediately whatever he thought or read about.

His manner of expression is incomplete; speech very difficult.

He sat lost, as one in a dream.

Heedlessness and frequent absence of mind.

Mental weakness.

Weakness of the mind and memory.

Loss of understanding and memory.

Stupidity.

Irrationality, stupidity.

Loss of the thinking faculty; one is stupid, and like an idiot.

Intellectual obscuration.

Obtuseness of sense.

Impaired understanding for some weeks.

Entire disappearance of intelligence.

He does not seem to know where he is.

He paid no attention to those about him, in fact, seemed unconscious of their presence; only now and then, when addressed in a loud voice he stared at the speaker for an instant, like one suddenly roused from a sound sleep.

The face was a little flushed (after eight hours).

Disinclination to all kinds of mental exertion.

Aversion and incapacity for all work, and especially for all efforts of though.

Memory.

Lively memory (after twenty-four hours).

He remembers thighs long bygone.

He remembers things which happened three years ago.

Temporary return of the lost memory, (Case 5).

Diminished memory.

Loss of memory.

Forgetfulness of what had taken place.

His memory, for two or three days after, was very defective.

Memory very poor for two or three days; he remembered nothing which took place after the doctor came.

Very weak memory; he forgets, in a moment what he was about to do, and cannot recollect anything.

Absence of mind; he is apt to do his business wrong, and forgets things which he had just intended to do.

During the headache, disappearance of the thoughts; she forgets what she has just thought, and cannot recollect herself.

He did not know his own relations.

The boy does not recognize his parents.

Insensibility.

Insensibility, loss of consciousness.

Insensibility to all external objects.

Insensibility, rattling breathing, and convulsive movements in the face and hands.

Entire insensibility, stiffness of the lower limbs, extreme distension of the superficial blood vessels, with strangely red, swollen countenance, very full and rapid pulse, and excessive sweat.

Complete loss of consciousness.

Consciousness disappears; he no longer recognize his surroundings, and begins to rave (after half an hour).

Loss of the senses, (after two hours).

Loss of the senses, with convulsions of the limbs.

Loss of consciousness and convulsions of the arm, at night, (Case 14).

Senselessness, as in intoxication, and a kind of active delirium.

(After a little time, loss of consciousness, with stertorous respiration.

He lay four days without taking an nourishment, motionless, like a dead person; he could not be roused.

Lethargic, apoplectic condition; for a day and a night they lay without any motion of the limbs; if pinched by the bystanders, they opened their eyes, but uttered no sound.

The patient’s manner was apoplectic, and severe engorgement of the vessels was present.

This state of partial coma was alternated by paroxysms of uncontrollable tendency to motion and rapid automatic movement, attended with convulsive laughter.

No well-marked convulsions made their appearance, although, during the brief intervals of sleep, a slight subsultus of the muscles of the face and extremities was noted.

A sort of coma, with small, weak, unequal pulse.

Comatose condition, with rattling in the throat, very red face, dilated pupils convulsions of the upper extremities, very hot skin, with red spots on neck and chest, and feverish pulse (after half an hour).

Stupor and loss of consciousness.

Slight stupor or lethargy.

Persistent stupor (after five and a half hours).

Stupor, with violent convulsions of the extremities.

Stupefaction.

Well-marked state of stupefaction.

Very great stupefaction.

Profound stupefaction, which, at times, is interrupted by a shrill scream, betraying great anxiety.

Stupefaction and vertigo, from congestion of the head.

He lies was if stupefied; rattling in the throat; twitchings of face and hands (after half an hour).

Stupefaction; she;lost consciousness, became restless, and struck about her forcibly (after four hours).

Head

Confusion and Vertigo.

The whole head is muddled for many days.

Bewildered feeling in the head Confused and muddled head (after five minutes).

Confusion of the head, aggravated by movement.

Confusion of the head on moving it, but still more on walking; even when relieved, it returns immediately on walking (after five minutes).

In the evening, he complains of confusion of the head; with extraordinary garrulity.

Confusion of the head, as in incipient intoxication, with continually increasing dulness.

Confusion of the head, with cloudiness and feeling of intoxication, as from smoking tobacco and drinking spirits.

Head confused, with pain in forehead.

Vertigo.

Vertigo, he staggers as if drunk.

Vertigo, impossible for her to stand, everything turns around (after three hours).

Vertigo, as if everything turned in a circle (after one hour).

Vertigo; it appears to him as if objects around him swayed to and fro.

Vertigo, mostly at night on turning over in bed, or when getting up in the morning, also when walking, and on every change of position.

Vertigo increased on any movement of the body.

The confusion of the head gradually increases to real vertigo, which is aggravated on motion.

Vertigo, with perceptible pulsation in the head, dilated pupils with nausea (after one day).

Vertigo, with rush of blood to the head, roaring in the ears, and slight mistiness of vision (after one day).

Vertigo, with headache and drowsiness, relieved after sleeping (after one hour).

Vertigo, with dimness of vision; he saw snow-flakes, etc., before his eyes, and the pupils were much dilated (after one day).

Immediately after, vertigo and dimness of vision, recurring three days afterwards at the same hour.

Vertigo, and a feeling as if intoxicated; gait was tottering, face red and turgid; he was in good humor and remarkably talkative (after half an hour).

Vertigo, with nausea; dazzling of the eyes, reeling, dulness, trembling, and anxiety.

Vertigo, with lassitude, anguish, and fainting.

Vertigo and pain in all the limbs.

Vertigo, and trembling of the hands.

Vertigo, and trembling of the hands, so that they could not perform any work with them.

Vertigo, with trembling of the hands and contraction of the fingers.

Attacks of vertigo during rest and motion.

Attacks of vertigo, with dulness of sense, lasting a few minutes (after twelve hours).

Vertiginous reeling.

A vertigo-like sensation of reeling in the whole head while sitting.

He attempted to get out of bed with a reeling, drunken motion; his speech was thick and indistinct.

He reeled in walking, held on by the walls, complained of anguish and vertigo, and often spoke irrationally like a drunken man.

Vertiginous staggering.

The first effect was vertigo, increasing to such and extent as to render it impossible to walk without staggering.

He staggers when walking like a drunken man.

On rising in the morning, she staggered about as if drunk.

She rose early from her bed, and staggered to and fro like one intoxicated, (Case 14).

While walking, he staggered and spoke senselessly as if drunk.

It seems as though everything about him was turning round.

Feeling as if he was turning round like a ball, and as if waltzing from right to left.

Turning round in the head, vertigo with nausea, as after turning quickly in a circle, or as on waking from the morning sleep after a night of revelling.

Such violent turning in the head that he was unable to distinguish objects, much less be serviceable in his occupation.

Turning in the head, and at the same a similar turning in the scrobiculus cordis; after rising up it became so bad in walking, that she could not longer distinguish anything; everything vanished from before her eyes.

Swimming of the head, as in a state of intoxication.

Dizziness (after five hours).

Dizziness with sensation as if a board were before her forehead.

Sensation sometimes of dizziness, sometimes like the vibration of a pendulum, in the head.

In General.

Swelling of the head.

Head swollen to double its size.

Great swelling of the head and redness over the whole body (in two boys).

Trembling of the head and limbs.

Unsteadiness of the head and hands.

Throwing the head hither and thither, even to shaking; then again, convulsive bending forwards of head and trunk.

Violent shaking of the head.

(Case 6).

Violent shaking of the head, frothing from the mouth and loss of consciousness, (Case 14).

After hiccough, slight convulsions of head and limbs, followed by nausea and lassitude.

Her head is drawn backwards; she bores deep into the pillow at night.

Unconsciously, he often scratches his head and rubs his nose.

A kind of cerebral apoplexy seized one of them, causing her to fall down insensible.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.