BELLADONNA


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Belladonna from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions;

persons who are jovial and entertaining when well, but violent and often delirious when sick.

Women and children with light hair, blue eyes, fine complexion, delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions.

Great liability to take cold, sensitive to draft of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut; tonsils swell after riding in a cold wind.

Over-excitability of all the senses; convulsions during dentition; spasms of single muscles or the whole body chorea epilepsy.

pains come on suddenly last indefinitely, cease suddenly.

pains usually in short attacks; cause redness of face and eyes; throbbing of carotids and head.

Head hot and painful, face flushed, eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated, pulse full and bounding, mucous membrane of mouth dry, stool tardy urine suppressed.

Inclination to bite and strike those about her.

Such fury that she had to be held constantly lest she should attack some one; and when thus held so that she could not move she spat continually at those about her.

Head and face hot the rest of the body cold.

Face livid, eyes injected and protruding, the pupils strongly dilated; the carotid arteries pulsating most violently; a full, hard, and frequent pulse, with loss of power to swallow.

Great intolerance of light and noise.

Tries to get out of bed.

Rush of blood to the head pulsation of the cerebral arteries, and a throbbing in the interior of the head.

Very intense headache.

The pains in the head are aggravated by noise, motion, when moving the eyes by shocks contact the least exertion, and in the open air.

pressure in the head now here, which occupies each time large areas.

Violent throbbings in the brain from behind forwards and towards both sides the throbbing ends on the surface in painful shootings.

Jerking headache, extremely violent on walking quickly, or ascending stairs rapidly at every step a jolt downwards, as if weight were in the occiput.

Frequently obliged to stand still in walking, from the violence of the pain in the forehead; pain relieved by pressing strongly on forehead.

Stabbing as if with a knife, from one temple to the other.

Head so sensitive externally that the least contact, even pressure of the hair causes pain.

Eyes protruding, sparkling; pupils dilated, staring look.

Eyes red, swollen distorted.

Eyes dry; feel stiff; heat and burning.

Dilated, immovable pupils.

Tearing at the internal and external ear, in a downward direction. Great sensitiveness of smell.

Face glowing red and hot; swollen and hot.

Convulsive movements of the muscles of the face and mouth.

Dull drawing in upper right; worse at night and from cold air.

Tongue and palate dark red, and dry.

Dryness of mouth tongue, and throat interferes with speech and deglutition.

Slimy mouth in morning when waking with pressive headache.

Sore throat; fauces and pharynx deep red, soft palate and tonsils swollen swallowing painful, particularly fluids; speech like a lump in throat which induces hawking; throat swollen outside and sensitive to the touch.

Painfully distended abdomen, very sensitive to touch.

Violent cutting pressure in abdomen now here now there.

Tenderness of the abdomen is aggravated by the least jar of the bed or the chair on which she sits; obliged, in walking, to step with great mucous; white, papescent faecal as white as lime.

Retention of urine, which only passes drop by drop.

Great pressing downwards in the genitals as if contents of abdomen would protrude through the vulva.

Menses too early and too profuse; bright red blood; thick, decomposed, dark red blood; hot the discharge feels hot as it passes.

Voice husky and hoarse, and a dry cough from dryness of larynx.

Sensation as if larynx was inflamed swollen and constricted.

Short dry cough from tickling in the larynx.

Dry, spasmodic or hollow cough worse at night.

Barking cough, awaking after midnight with pain in larynx and threatened suffocation.

Violent palpitation of the heart reverberating through the head.

Pulse much increased in force and frequency.

Throbbing of the carotid and temporal arteries.

pain in small of back as if it would break.

Shooting pressure on top of left shoulder.

Paralytic pains in upper extremities.

Cutting stitches in the outer muscles of right thigh just above the knee, only when sitting.

Pain in thighs and legs as if beaten and as if carious; fine shooting and gnawing along the bones with violent tearing in the joints pain gradually rises from the tarsal joints to the hips, necessitating, while sitting constant motion and shifting of the feet; milder when walking.

Redness of the whole body, with quick pulse.

Smooth scarlet redness of the surface of the whole body.

Pustules break out in the cheek and nose, which rapidly fill with pus and become covered with a crust.

Starts as in a fright from sleep or on just falling asleep.

Sleep with moaning and tossing about, with half-closed eyes.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.