BELLADONNA



SKIN

Creeping or crawling itching; prickling biting; the skin is painful to the touch. Watery vesicles (on the palm of the hand and tibia), so painful that he would like to scream; *pemphigus; red, scaly eruption on the lower parts of the body, extending as far as the abdomen; red spots, as if occasioned by flea-bites, or like bloody spots or petechiae, on the chest, abdomen, face, and neck; *eruption resembling measles; *purple-rash (giving first Aconite); *rubeolae; *scarlet spots and scarlet redness, particularly on the face, neck, chest, abdomen, and hands, sometimes with the swelling of the parts, and with small, quick pulse, asthma, violent cough, delirium, increase of memory, rubbing of the nose, and dilatation of the pupils; *natural small-pox, when metastasis to the brain threatens to set in; *blisters occasioned by a burn, with white margin, black scurf, and oedematous swelling of the parts. *Erysipelatous inflammation, with swelling, or even mortification of the parts:- redness inflammation, and swelling of the whole skin; *red, hot swelling of the affected parts, *vesicular erysipelas (giving Belladonna before Rhus. when the fever is violent). Cold and hit gangrene; *ulceration occasioned by a burn. *Boils; *chilblains; *bites of insects. Cold, painful blotches and swellings. *Glandular swellings, painful or suppurating. *Scirrhous indurations; cancerous affections; *scrofulous and mercurial ulcers. In the ulcers; burning when touching them; soreness around the ulcer; black crust of blood on the ulcer; secretion of bloody ichor. *Bleeding soreness in the bends of the joints. *Jaundice.

SLEEP

*Drowsiness; *continual, or more particularly in the evening, with desire to stretch the limbs. *Somnolence; *stupor, lethargy, deep sleep with snoring, he lies motionless, sometimes he raises his eyes, with wild looks, or subsultus-tendinum, pale, cold face, cold hands, and hard, quick, small pulse; also with thirst after waking, or hunger, with burning heat, dryness of the mouth and breath. Stupor at night. Sleeplessness at night; *even with drowsiness; *sleeplessness from anguish; sleeplessness occasioned by thinking about a business which requires to be attended to. Symptoms at night: *restless and tossing about; *frequent waking, with great difficulty to fall asleep again; *starting as in affright, particularly when on the point of falling asleep, sometimes with sweat on the forehead and in the pit of the stomach, or with dry heat and fear; *anguish, hindering sleep, with drawing in the limbs; intermittent breathing with forcible expirations, when sleeping or waking. During sleep: *tossing about (in children), they stamp with their feet and scold; *screaming, *moaning, *starts, which wake him even when on the point of falling asleep; aggravation of the pains, making sleep intolerable; singing and loud talking; suffocative snoring when taking an inspiration. In the evening, when on the point of falling asleep, he feels as if floating in bed; *frightful visions and convulsions after scarcely closing his eyes. *Dreams; after having scarcely fallen asleep; *anxious, frightful, terrifying, rendering sleep intolerable. Symptoms in the morning when waking: unrefreshed, languid; he finds it very difficult to rouse himself, and is ill-humored; weariness and reeling vertigo; headache with great languor; heaviness in the head, above the eyes, these are painful when touched. Symptoms after sleeping: *aggravation of the symptoms and *headache.

FEVER

Coldness: of the whole body, generally with pale face; particularly of the feet, sometimes with bloated red face and congestion of blood to the head. Chilliness *in the back, or in the pit of the stomach, or commencing on the arms and spreading thence over the whole body; *particularly on the arms, when taking off his clothes, with goose-flesh, and redness and heat of the ears and nose; creeping chilliness, in the evening. Shuddering: when the least current of air blows upon him. *Fever, * particularly quotidian, also double quotidian, *or tertian; *commencing with a shaking-chill or shivering, mostly in the evening, sometimes in bed or at night; *less frequently early in the morning, *succeeded by heat, sometimes after a very short time, or on the left side only, or a mere flush of heat, *with or without sweat; *alternation of chilliness and heat; external coldness with internal burning heat. Symptoms during the fever. *absence of thirst during the chilly and hot stage, or else burning thirst in the hot stage: drowsiness; vertigo; dullness of the head. During the chilly stage: *nausea; drawing in the back and limbs, with sensation as if bruised. *Heat: *violent burning: *internal or external, or both at the same time; *dry; particularly of the hands and feet, also with paleness of face and absence of thirst; *principally of the head and face, with redness (and sometimes sweat) of the face; especially after dinner or every noon; *at night, with pain on removing the cover of the bed, as he feels when he is attacked with chilliness; in the evening, particularly in the hands and feet; during slight movement. Symptoms during the hot stage: *delirium; *redness of the face; *obscuration of sight; *violent burning thirst, or else absence of thirst burning in the stomach; *rage; *dullness of the head; *restlessness; *redness and puffiness of the face. *Inflammatory fever; *typhoid fever, especially when accompanied with an excited state of the circulation, with furious delirium, violent aching in the forehead, visions, frightful startings, and violent burning heat: *lentescent fevers; *gastric. Pulse: *strong and quick; *full and slow; large and frequent; *hard and tight. Sweat: *during or after the heat; from the least movement, over the whole body, especially in the f ace and on the nose; cold sweat on the forehead.

MORAL SYMPTOMS

*Derangement of the will faculty; *after suppression of erysipelas, meningitis, typhoid fevers, apoplexy; *in drunkards; *in pregnant and lying-in females; *after frights, chagrin, mortification, grief; *after a cold. *Melancholy, amorous, with sexual excitement. *home-sickness; she felt as though she ought to escape. *Great anguish about the heart. *Anxiousness in the praecordial region. *Frequent moaning, especially early in the morning; at every expiration; while asleep, alternating with jumping and dancing. He suddenly screams while his hands and feet tremble. *Anguish about the heart, headache, redness of the face, and bitterness of the mouth towards noon and evening. Anxiousness when meeting people. *Uneasiness; she changes from one place to another. Unceasing movement of the body, especially the arms; the pulse remaining unchanged. Violent agitation in bed. Incoherent speech in the evening. Constant delirium. The delirium subsides after a meal. She prepares for her departure for home. He talks deliriously as in a dream. *Talk about wolves and bulls, *war and soldiers. He is beside himself; in a rage; talks much about dogs; arm and face swell. *Nightly delirium, which subsides during the day. *He mutters as if asleep. *Senseless prattle. He talks like maniac, with staring, protruded eyes. Talkative, lascivious. Dumbness succeeding the talkativeness. Merry craziness. *Inactive, sitting behind the stove. *She tries to compose songs, and sings merry, but utterly senseless songs; she whistles occasionally, but refuses either to eat or drink; at the same time she hears nothing and sees nothing, with paleness of the face and sweat upon the forehead. *He sings and warbles an air. He smiles a long while to himself. *Frequent laughter. While laughing and singing she constantly touches the things around her. *Immoderate laughter. Wild and wantonly merry, disposed to quarrel without any cause, and to offend; *extreme mirth after supper. *Foolish manners: *At times he talks ridiculously like a crazy person, at times rationally. *He demeans himself like a fool and crazy person. He imitates the gesticulations of a juggler. Craziness; they undress themselves, run through the streets in their shirts, gesticulate in a strange manner, dance, laugh aloud, and utter and demand foolish things. Violent shaking of the head, foam at the mouth, and loss of consciousness. Horrible contortion of the muscles of the face, she puts out her tongue to its full length, smacks with her tongue, and is tormented by retching, in paroxysms. At times he grasps hurriedly at those who are near him, at times he recedes from them shyly Irritated mood, she would like to weep at the slightest provocation. When walking in the open air she is attacked with anguish and a weeping mood; she is weary of life and inclines to drown himself. *Violent weeping, moaning, and howling, without any cause, accompanied with fearfulness. *Now he weeps, then he sobs; *weeping, and extreme ill-humor when waking from sleep. Despondency, dejection of spirits. *Want of disposition to attend to anything whatever, indifference, deficient physical and mental activity. *Extreme indifference, for hours. *Apathy, nothing could make an impression upon her; *want of cheerfulness. Headache, with pressure as from a stone, during which she moans and is put out of humor by trifles. *Not disposed to talk; he answers with ill-humor and screams. He desires solitude and rest. *Irritable mood, with great dryness of the mouth. *Great irritability of the senses; taste, smell, tact, sight, and hearing are more refined and keener than usual. *She is very much irritated; she gets easily vexed and then weeps. Delirium, which is either continual or returns in paroxysms, first of a merry nature, and afterwards changing to rage. *Howling and screaming on account of trifles; this is made worse by talking to him kindly, the pupils being easily dilated and contracted. *Violent quarrelsomeness, which cannot be appeased. *Delirium, with wild manners. Rage; He tosses about in his bed in a perfect rage. *He tears his shirts and clothes. He strikes his face with his fists. *Frenzy, with attempts at violence. *Rage, with gnashing of teeth and convulsions. *Instead of eating that which he had called for he bit the wooden spoon in two, gnawed at the dish, and snarled and barked like a dog. *Rage, the patient being sometimes very cunning, and alternately singing and screaming, or spitting and biting. *He acts foolishly, tears his clothes, pulls stones out of the ground and throws them at those around him. *Rage; he injures himself and others, and strikes around himself. *He wants to bite those around him, at night. *Burning heat of the body, open, staring, immovable eyes, with rage, so that she has to be held constantly, lest one should be attacked by her; when thus held and prevented from using her limbs she constantly spit at those around her. *He bites everything in his way. *He tears everything around him, bites and spits. *He attempts to jump out of bed. Anxious and confused; she apprehends death. *Shy craziness. *He tries to escape. *She tries to throttle herself, and begs those around her to kill her.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.