Homeopathy Remedy Datura Ferox


Datura Ferox homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Datura Ferox…


Datura ferox, from India. Symptoms from numerous cases of poisoning. Compare Stramonium.

Symptoms on an average continued twenty-four hours, then unusually with the return of mental sensibility, on the second day contraction of pupil and in many cases an attack of fever, but in fatal cases the Tympanitis of abdomen increased, coma set in with stertorous breathing, pulse weak, at last imperceptible, cold perspiration over whole body, death. Distressed appearance and did not like to be touched.

Raving. Out of her mind, dizzy and sleepy, at last sleep, in which the eyes were more or less open, if disturbed she sprang up raving and uttered unintelligible words, and if one sang she began to dance in Japanese fashion. Delirium, Characterized by incoherent talk and by peculiar movements of hands, as if to pick up something from the ground or moving away from an imaginary thing in the air. Tried to escape whenever held, and shouted loudly and attempted to strike and kick when caught. If left alone they lay on the ground curled up, with legs drawn up on abdomen and chest bent forward groaned incessantly but did not speak nor answer. Whenever they said anything it was with reluctance. In boys a tendency to run away. Considerable strength, eight or ten persons were required to hold a patient when the stomach pump was used. Two brothers of 50 and 55 years wrestled with each other when alone in room.

Pupils always dilated and insensible to light, and in extreme cases ball insensible to touch. Conjunctivae clear or pale bluish for the first twelve hours, became bloodshot afterwards and remained so for nearly twenty-four hours,?Sight could not be fixed on any object and lids were mostly kept closed. In almost all cases the lips, inside of mouth, and throat were dry. Tongue dry, with thick fur, causing difficulty in swallowing and hoarseness. Stomach and bowels generally found loaded. Sour smell from mouth due to undigested food in stomach. Vomiting took place of itself in one case only. Tympanitis. In one case, which died on the seventh day, symptoms of enteritis, fever and constant discharge of muco-sanguineous stool, peculiar, hoarse, feeble and hesitating speech, though answers were rational and senses perfect, rapid loss of flesh, no appetite, the day before death tetanic spasms, mostly in legs. Bowels in general costive, and they took a long time to move, even with purgatives, in a few cases looseness of bowels followed after they were once opened, and one man died of enteritis, discharging blood and mucus. Answers in an undertone when recovering; answers shortly and quickly and suddenly appears to lose the string of thought, looks in another direction and wanders away as if thinking of something else. Pulse slow and full.

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.