STRAMONIUM


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


Adapted to diseases of young plethoric persons; especially in children, in chorea, mania, fever.

Delirium; simulates Belladonna and Hyoscyamus, yet differs in degree.

The delirium is more furious, the mania more acute, while the congestion, though greater than Hyoscyamus, is much less then Belladonna, never approaching a true inflammatory condition.

Convulsions with consciousness; renewed by sight of a light, a mirror, or water.

Desires light and company; worse in the dark and solitude; awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the first object seen.

Painless with most complaints.

Disposed to talk continuously.

Imagines all sorts of things; that she is double, eyeing cross-wise, etc.

Desire to escape, in delirium.

No pain with most complaints.

Twitching of single muscles or groups of muscles, especially of upper part of body.

Desire for light and company.

Child is very cross, and strikes or bites.

She talks incessantly and absurdly.

Deep, stupid sleep.

Spasms of the oesophagus.

General coldness of the whole body.

Chills, with great sensitiveness to uncovering.

Skin icy cold, and covered with cold sweat, hands and feet livid.

Face, hands, and feet blue and cold.

Coldness of the limbs.

Sweat, with thirst.

Cold sweats over whole body.

Oily sweat.

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.