Belladonna Cured Cases


Clinical cases which were cured by the homeopathic medicine Belladonna in Constantine Hering’s practice. Published in the book Model Cures….


19. Pressing, stupefying pain in forehead, particularly after mental exertion and emotions. Towards evening restless, anxious and fidgety. Sleep disturbed by dreams; twitching of the whole body; sits up in bed with anxious gestures; weeps, cries out mournfully and wants to run away. Next morning does not remember what occurred : Bellad.- BICKING

20. Fear and mistrust of everyone, great anxiety by day and night, no rest in any place, seeks to fly. Her only pleasure is to look into the sun or the fire. She fled into a forest, built a large fire and remained there four or five days without nourishment. Seeks to be alone, flees society; when alone she cuts up queer antics, screws her mouth in all directions, throws money to of the window. Taciturn; after repeated questioning, she screams her answer loudly and angrily: Ballad.- SONNENBURG

21. She has a fixed idea that there is a strange odour in the room, and asks to have it removed. Feels very unhappy, fearful and anxious; despair of her salvation. Easily hides when persons come into the room. Does not recognize her son or her physician. Constipation, with congestion to the head and flushed face: Bellad.- ENGELHARDT

22. With each return of the menses wildness and foolishness changing to mania. Talking, laughing, weeping, scolding, hiding herself, or attacks of rage in which she spits at people and tears her clothes. Pulse slow but accelerated during an attack. Abdomen hard and distended. Passes urine involuntarily: Ballad.- KIESSELBACH

23. Screaming “hold me, hold me, the storm whirls me deeper and deeper into the fire, I burn. I burn!” Clings nervously to her bed or friends. Appears like one stricken with fright or terror; not furious and raving. Sweat over the whole body; throat and face bloated; throbbing carotids; distended jugular veins; eyes injected; pulse very request, large not hard; Bellad.- LINDNER

24. Toward evening she suddenly fails to recognize her friends, screams out loud, laughs, weeps, talks disconnectedly, now as if in fright, then of the her death; thinks she is surrounded by strange persons who insult her, seeks to fly. Twitching in the face and all the limbs, wrings her hands and throws them wildly about in the air. Bellad.- BICKING.

25. Headache gets worse before the chill, with stinging in temples, red eyes, over sensitiveness, complains about dazed feeling in forehead, and becomes passionate and quarrelsome: Bellad.- BAERTL.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.