Belladonna

COMMON NAME:

      DEADLY NIGHTSHADE.

Symptoms

      Adapted to persons who are lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delirious when sick (A.).

Bad effects of fear and charging (Ignatia).

Loss of consciousness (Aconite, Bar-C., Cannabis indica, Cocc., Helleborus, Hydr-Ac., Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Lachesis, Mosch., Nux-M., Opium, Acid phosphoricum., Pulsatilla).

FANTASTIC ILLUSIONS AND BITING RAGE (HYOS., Stramonium).

FURIOUS DELIRIUM (Baptisia, Bryonia, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Stramonium, Veratrum).

FURIOUS DELIRIUM, WITH A WILD LOOK; WISHES TO STRIKE, BITE OR QUARREL; FACE FLUSHED AND EYES RED (Bt.).

Hallucinations: sees monstrous, hideous faces (Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Stramonium) (Br.).

ALMOST CONSTANT MOANING (Aconite, Apis, Arsenicum, Bryonia, Cannabis indica, Chamomilla, Cina, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Ipecac., Kali-Br., Kali carb., Mur-Ac., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Stramonium, Zincum met.) (Bt.).

BREAKS INTO FITS OF LAUGHTER AND GNASHES THE TEETH (A.).

The child cries suddenly, and ceases just as suddenly (Bt.).

Desire to escape, with restlessness and anxiety (Aconite, Agaricus, Arsenicum, Bryonia, Cuprum, Gloninum, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Nux vomica, Opium, Stramonium, Veratrum) (Bt.).

Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects (Stramonium); black animals, dogs, wolves, etc. (A.).

Crying, laughing, dancing, or muttering delirium, with phantasms (Bt.).

Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow (Bryonia, Kali bichromicum, Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum, Stict.) (Br.).

OVERSENSITIVENESS OF ALL THE SENSES (Coffea, Nux vomica, Stramonium, Strych.).

Plethora (Aconite, Ferr-P., Gloninum, Verat-V.).

Burning in inner parts (Apis., Arsenicum, Camph., Lachesis, Phosphorus, Secale Sulph.).

Sensation, as if inner organs were distended, or as if they would burst.

Tearing in inner parts (from below upwards.).

CONGESTION OF THE HEAD (Aconite, Amyl. nitrosum, Bryonia, Ferr-P., Gelsemium, Lachesis, Meli., Nat- M., Opium, Sulphur, Verat-V.).

SWELLING AND PULSATION IN THE BLOOD. VESSELS (Gloninum, Natrum muriaticum, Stramonium).

Carotids throb violently: jugulars swollen; face bloated and red (Bt.)

Light and noise intolerable (Coffea, Nux vomica, Sulphur((Bt.).

Vertigo, with vanishing of sight, stupefaction and debility (China).

Squinting (Apis, Cicuta, Cyclamen, Gelsemium, Stramonium) (D.).

Things look red; seems sparks of fire (Bt.).

Diplopia (Gelsemium, Hyoscyamus, Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Stramonium) (Br.).

BLEEDING FROM INNER PARTS (Aconite, China, Ferr-P., Millefolium, Sabina).

Pricking on the muscles or bones.

Pressing and tearing rheumatic pains, which wander from one place to the other.

Sensation as if a mouse was running in the muscles (Illusion of a mouse running from under her chair-Actea racemosa, AEth., Lac-C.).

VERY ACUTE HEARING (Coffea, Nux vomica, Opium). (Br.).

OTITIS MEDIA (Calcarea, Hepar, Mercurius, Silicea) (Br.).

Severe, boring pains in the ears, which come on suddenly and shoot from one ear into the other (D.).

CONTORTION OF THE LIMBS (Aconite, Arsenicum, Cuprum, Magnesia phos., Secale, Stramonium).

SPASMS OF SINGLE LIMBS, OR OF THE WHOLE BODY (AEth., Apis, Helleborus, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Stramonium, Strych., Veratrum).

Loss of sensation and motion of one side of the body (Causticum, Cocc., Phosphorus, Plb., Rhus toxicodendron, Zincum met.).

Grinding of teeth during sleep (Aconite, Arsenicum, Bryonia, Calcarea, Cannabis indica, Cina, Mercurius, Plb., Podophyllum, Sant., Stramonium) (K.).

THROAT: DRY, AS IF GLAZED; ANGRY LOOKING CONGESTION; RED, WORSE ON RIGHT SIDE (Br.).

The child bores its head into the pillow, and rolls it from side to side (Stramonium) (D.).

Inflammation of inner parts (mucous membranes) with a tendency to suppuration or with nervous symptoms (Asafoetida, Hepar, Silicea).

Induration after inflammations (Graphites, Mercurius, Silicea, Sulphur).

Parotid glands hard, red and swollen (Bromium, Phytolacca, Stramonium) (Bt.).

A white tongue with the papillae showing through it; the so-called “strawberry tongue” (D.).

SLEEPINESS, BUT CANNOT SLEEP (G.).

The child remains in a drowsy, sleepy state, with starting and jumping while sleeping (Bt.).

PULSE FULL AND HARD (Aconite, Ferr-P., Verat-V.).

NERVOUS FEVERS, WITH LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS OR DELIRIUM (Hyoscyamus, Kali-P., Opium, Acid phosphoricum.).

INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN (Apis, Helleborus, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Mur-Ac., Opium, Phosphorus, Stramonium).

Sleeplessness with drowsiness, or sleep which is stupor-like (Gelsemium, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis).

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)