Common names, Black nightshade; (Fr.), Morelle noir.
Introduction
Solanum nigrum, Linn.
Natural order, Solanaceae. Preparation: Tincture of plant.
Mind
Delirium, with stammering speech, efforts to escape and to get out of bed. Delirium. Delirium, cries and convulsions. Piercing cries, such as are heard in cases of hydrocephalus (third hour).
Dull drowsy feeling, with indisposition to study (twenty-third day). The understanding seems lost; the patients do not appear to comprehend what is passing around them; but every now and then they utter indistinct words, like delirious or intoxicated persons (in three hours). Complete cessation of mental faculties. She was found entirely insensible, lying in a deep apoplectic stupor, all the muscles relaxed, the face flushed, and the pulse full and irregular; she continued in this state about six hours, then gradually recovered. A state of stupor and coma, attended with fever. Coma with twitching. Comatose sleep.
Head
Vertigo. Vertigo,. Vertigo, nausea, and colic. Vertigo on rising and moving about, with dizziness before the eyes (fifth day).
Brain seems to swim; vertigo worse on moving the head (twentieth day). Sensation as if the bed was turning rapidly in a circle, within ten minutes after going to bed (twenty-first day). Feeling on stooping, as if everything was moving around in a circle (twenty-third day). Great vertigo, on rising in the morning, somewhat relieved on going out into the open air (twenty-fourth day). While talking the body seems to reel in various direction (after 50 drops). While walking the body inclines to the left (after 50 drops). General Head. Dulness of the head, followed by dilatation of the pupils (after 10 drops),. Dulness of the head with slow pulse and contracted pupils (ten minutes after 25 drops). Dull pain in the head, at 11 A.M. (fifth day). Dull heavy headache, at 8 P.M. (twenty-fourth day). Dull heavy headache, continuing without intermission (twenty-fifth day). Dull throbbing headache, during the forenoon (twenty-fourth day).
Heavy sensation in the head, on waking in the morning, as if he had not had enough sleep (twenty third day). The head seems too heavy (after 35 drops). Fullness and heaviness of the head.
Slight fullness in the head (after about an hour). Feeling of lightness in the head (twenty-first day). Headache. Violent headache, which wakes him up at night. Constant and violent headache. Violent headache, at 11 A.M. (twenty-third day).
Horrible headache. Frightful headache. Very severe pain in head immediately over the eyes; so severe as to make him partially close his eyes; light seems to aggravate it, and it is worse on stooping over; it lasts about an hour, very severe, at 10 A.M.
(eighteenth day). Headache increased when first beginning to move after sitting, but after walking for a time in the open air, somewhat relieved (twenty-fourth day). Headache worse in a close room (twenty-third day). Feeling as if the head would split (twentieth day). On moving the head, the brain feels as if it were shaking about in the skull, at 10 A.M. (eighteenth day).
Feeling, on the least motion after sitting, as if the brain would burst from the forehead (twenty-third day). Forehead. Dull feeling in forepart of the head, all the afternoon (fifth day).
Heaviness in the forehead (after 35 drops). Heaviness and pressure in the forehead (after 40 drops). Violent headache in the front part of the head, at 8 P.M. (twentieth day). Sensation as from a blow, in the forehead (fifth day). Slight pain in the forepart of the head, on waking, going off in the course of the morning (twentieth day). Slight pain in the forepart of the head, on waking in the morning (twenty-second day). Pressure deep in the forehead (after 25 drops). Pressure and dulness in the forehead (after 35 drops). Pressive pains in the forehead.
Violent throbbing pain in the forepart of the head, during the whole afternoon (twenty-third day). Temples. Tensive drawing pain in the region of the temples. Severe pain through the temples, as if the head would split, at 12 M. (fifth day). Severe pain in the left temple, of a throbbing beating character, worse on the slightest misstep, and worse on stooping, at 1 P.M. (twenty-third day). Pressure in the temples, extending toward the forehead deep in the brain, repeated several times (after 50 drops). Sharp gnawing pain in the right temple, at 9 P.M., causing him to grasp his hand and shut his eyes from the severity of the pain (twenty- third day). Stitches in the temple (twenty-third day). Throbbing of temporal and carotid arteries, at 11 A.M. (twenty-third day).
Vertex. Pain in a small circumscribed spot on the top of the head, which soon passed off (eighteenth day). Pressure on the vertex and forehead (soon), (after 50 drops). External Head.
During the last week, has had an eruption on forehead of small red pimples, sore to touch and very hard; when one went away another would come (twenty-fourth day). Scalp feels sore, on moving the hand through the hair (twenty-third day). Scalp very sore to touch, feeling as if the hair had been very severely pulled (twenty-fourth day).
Eyes
Wrinkles around the eyes, on the upper lip, and on the fingers (eleventh day). Eyes wide open, moist, and sparkling (in three hours). Redness of the eyes; (twenty-fourth day). Fullness and tension in the eyes. Eyes feel dull and heavy (twenty-fourth day). Burning in the eyes (twenty-fourth day). Eyes very sensitive to the light (twenty-fourth day). Eyes feel as if there were sand in them, on waking in the morning (twenty-fifth day).
Brow and Orbit. Slight pain over left eye (after on hour, second day). Severe pain in the supraorbital region, on waking in the morning; it passed off in the course of an hour, leaving a dull heavy sensation in the forepart of the head (third day). Severe pain over the eyes, aggravated by motion and stooping (third day). Violent pain in the supraorbital region, on waking in the morn-ing; worse on arising and from the slightest motion; the least misstep sends violent pains through the temples; the acute pain passed off about 10 A.M., leaving a sensation as if the forehead had been bruised (fourth day). Dull heavy pain over the eyes, with insipid taste in the mouth, on waking in the morning (sixth and seventh days). Sharp shooting pain over right eye, at 4 P.M. (eighteenth day). Violent pain over the eyes, going off in the course of an hour, at 9 P.M. (twenty-second day). Severe pain over eyes, almost unbearable when looking at a bright object (twenty-third day). Dull bruised feeling over the eyes, on waking in the morning (twenty-fifth day). Lids. Biting in the margins of the lids (after 40 and 50 drops). Burning sensation in the eyelids. Pain in inner canthus of left eye (twenty-third day).
Lachrymal Apparatus. Watering of the eyes. Pupils. Dilatation of the pupils. Increasing dilatation of the pupils. Pupils dilated (very soon after 5 drops). Pupils dilate very easily (after 10 drops). Pupils very much inclined to dilate (after 25 drops).
Pupils greatly dilated (one hour after 25 drops); returned to their normal size (two hours after 25 drops). Pupils dilated, the inner margins of the iris seems bright yellow as if illuminated, with bright spots and black objects before the eyes, intermingled with mistiness of vision (forty-five minutes after 35 drops); after another forty-five minutes the pupils were at times very small, and at other times very large. Excessively dilated pupils.
Pupils enormously dilated and insensible. Both pupils are dilated to the utmost extent (after three hours). Dilatation of the pupil alternating with contraction; (second day); (one hour after 20 drops). Vision. Great weakness of sight, aggravated by bright sunlight. Erethitic amaurosis. Mistiness before the eyes. Muscae volitantes. He can scarcely distinguish surrounding objects.
Flickering before the eyes. Black points and streaks before the eyes when reading (after 25 drops). Darkness before the eyes, with white spots and stripes and black rings and greatly dilated pupils (one hour and three-quarters after 35 drops). Black points and stripes before the eyes, with heaviness and dulness in the head and easily dilated pupils (after fifteen minutes); everything seemed too bright, as if too much light entered the eyes, with biting on the margins of the lids and pressure over the eyes and deep in the eyes, especially on look-ing at the daylight; at a distance everything seemed mixed, with pressure in the forehead (after half an hour); the pupils were contracted, yet at times everything seemed too bright, and the eye was sensitive to light (after three-quarters of an hour); sticking in the inner canthus of the right eye, pupils very much contracted, with many floating spots and points before the vision, alternating with very dilated pupils, that remained dilated (after one hour); the eyes remained very sensitive on reading all day (after 40 drops). Black points and objects before the eyes, with dilated pupils (after a quarter of an hour); everything seems dark (after half an hour); the pupils continue dilated for more than an hour (after 50 drops).
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.