Universal debility with trembling of the whole body, and coldness of the extremities.
Burning of the skin while laying the hand on any part of body.
Sweating with great weakness and stupidity.
Arms tremble in evening and after exercise.
Fingers look and feel too thick.
Numbness of hands.
Trembling of arms and hands.
Cold hands and feet.
Throws arms about, misses what is reached for.
Jerks of single muscles or sets of muscles.
Restless, turns from one place to another.
Clenched thumbs.
Sleep: Stupid and drowsy, or excitable and sleepless;.
Falls asleep while answering (Bapt.).
Constant slumber with picking.
Sleep with outcries.
Sleepless or constant sleep, with muttering.
Lying on back, suddenly sits up, then lies down again.
Starts in sleep.
A wakening with screams.
Coma vigil.
Sleeplessness or profound sleep.
Either awake or asleep, there may be muttering.
Jerks in sleep and cries out.
Laughing during sleep.
Grates the teeth during sleep.
Pulse: Small and weak.
Small and thready.
Rapid and intermittent.
Very small.
Hardly perceptible.
Weak and irregular.
Hard and strong.
Slow and small.
Skin: Hot, dry, brittle, want of sensation.
Skin often pale with delirium; body hot.
Skin red.
Want of sensation.
Sensation of picking all over.
Generalities: Light haired people, hardness of hearing, bleeding of nose, blood pale; bluish colour of face; painless diarrhoea; expectoration mixed with pale blood.
Results of unhappy love.
Snoring and rattling breathing.
Restless, sleepless, desire to escape.
Grasping at flocks or picking bed clothes.
Teeth covered with sordes; tongue dry and unwildly.
Involuntary stool and urine.
Sweat cold, sour.
Skin hot and dry, distended veins.
Lips sticky.
The skin burning hot to the examining hand (Bell) which leaves a burning in place touched.
Throws bed clothes off, will not remain covered.
Cannot bear to be talked to or hear least noise.
Whole body cold with burning redness of face.
Lies naked in bed and chatters.
Sings obscene songs.
Every muscle in the body twitches from the eyes to the toes.
Jerkings of muscles.
Jerkings and twitchings of muscles.
Great prostration with twitching.
Complete prostration, the patient slides down in bed, the jaw drops.
Aggravation: Touch. Evening. Night. Lying down; from cold; from cold air; Jealousy. Unhappy love.
Amelioration: From sitting up. Motion. Walking. Warmth.
Compare: Bell. Stram. Op. Arn. Lyc. Apis. Mur.ac. Bapt. Rhus.T.
N.B.; When Hyosc. is indicated but fails, study Lach. Lyc. Mur- ac. Ars-a.
Dose: 30th, 200th, 1000th.
STRAMONIUM.
Leaders.
(1) Terrifying delirium with visions of animals.
(2) Aggravation by bright light, mirror or surface of water.
(3) Continually jerks head up from pillow.
(4) Sees objects which seem to rise in every corner of the room and move towards him.
(5) Wants light and company.
(6) Desire to escape.
(7) Awakens from sleep in fright and terror, not knowing those around him.
(8) Body is bathed in hot sweat which does not give any relief.
(9) Desire to uncover (Hyosc).
(10) Tongue often soft, taking imprint of teeth.
(11) Screaming in sleep often with hiccough.
(12) Face bright red.
(13) Fine red dots on tongue.
(14) Constantly spits saliva.
(15) Dry throat with great thirst, yet dreads water.
(16) Putrid, dark painless involuntary diarrhoea.
(17) Grasps the genitals.
(18) Delusion as to size and distance.
(19) Loquacious.
(20) Violent and lewd.
(21) Cannot bear solitude or darkness.
(22) Talks with spirits.
Mind: Most widely loquacious.
Wildly delirious with red face and great loquacity. Loquacity.
Wants light and company (Hyos).
Fears to be alone.
Wants hand held.
Awakens with a shrinking look; frightened; afraid of the first object seen.
Awful raving.
Singing, laughing, grinning, whistling, screaming, praying piteously or swearing hideously.
Throws himself into all shapes corresponding to his changeable delirium, crosswise, lengthwise, rolled up like a ball; or stiffened out by turns or especially repeatedly jerks up suddenly his head from the pillow.
Terror or hallucinations of small black objects which are likened to snakes, bugs or roaches, or to small black animals such as cats, dogs and rabbits.
Often terrified by bright objects.
Seeks to fight those whom he constantly wishes to have in his presence.
Hallucinations of sight, during which horrible images are conjured up and horrible animals are seen jumping out of the ground and running at their affrighted victim.
“Stramonium is wild and cowardly”.
Belladonna is fierce and brace”.
“Hyoscyamus is jolly and companionable.”.
“Loquacity of Stram. is confined to one subject and he is inclined to imagine that he is talking to spirits or to absent people.
Abnormal sense of proportions of the body, he imagines that certain parts of unnatural size, or that they are double.
Fear of the dark.
Complaints that it is dark.
Calls for light.
Convulsions at sight of lighted candle, at sight of mirror, or of water.
Loss of consciousness with involuntary motions of limbs.
Earnest and ceaseless talking.
Constant and repeated jerking of head up from pillow.
Loquacious delirium with a desire to escape from bed.
Disposed to talk continually.
Imagines all sorts of things that she is double, lying crosswise, etc.
Indomitable rage and desire to bite.
Dreads darkness and has a horror of glistening objects.
Fearful, desires company or wants to escape.
Active variable delirium, talks incessantly, sees many, vividly brilliant or hideous phantoms, more to one side.
Does all sorts of crazy things.
Cursing and praying.
Self accusation.
Loss of reason or speech.
Stupid.
Imbecile.
Delusions as to size and distance.
Weeping in dreams.
Awakes in fear of screaming.
Frightful visions.
Praying and singing devoutly; beseeching, entreating.
Fever, cant bear solitude or darkness.
Unconscious delirium, every now and then jerk the head up from the pillow, then left it fall again.
Delirium: noisy, frightened by strange objects; under impression of danger, clinging to the persons; sees horrifying things more at his side than in front of him; either chasing or fleeing from imaginary objects; usually black bugs, dogs and beasts which see to spring out of the floor or dropping from the ceiling; rage on attempt to administer liquids, spasms of the pharynx so that anything taken choked him or regurgitated; aversion to fluids.
Apprehension, starting up in fright; shuddering as from fright.
Delirium is always wild, full of frightful hallucinations and delusions.
The patient screams from fright, clings to the mother, will not be left alone.
The objects of stramonium are black, of Belladonna red, like Hyosc. the objects are very large.
Attacks of rage with beating and striking persons.
Very changeable disposition; alternate; anticipations of death and rage; laughable gestures and melancholy department; affected haughtiness and inconsolableness; loud laughing and groaning.
Coma, spasms; later snoring, unconscious, jaw hangs, hands and feet twitch, eyes roll, pupils dilated; automatic grasping of hands towards nose, ears, etc.; difficult to swallow liquids.
Unconscious, stupid.
Awakens terrified, knows no one (Hyosc.) screams with fright, clings to those near.
Feels stupid, with indifference to every body and everything.
Hallucinations which terrify the patient; sees ghosts, hears voices back of his ears; sees strangers or imagines animals are jumping sideways out of ground or running at him.
Strange absurd ideas, thinks herself tall, double, lying crosswise, one half of body cut off, etc.
Says he converses with spirit; prays fervently; sermonizes.
Ecstatic.
Delirium: shy: hides himself; tries to escape; full of fear; talks incessantly, absurdly, laughs, claps her hands over head, wide open eyes.
Talks in a foreign tongue.
Loquacious, talks all the time, sings, makes verses.
Fears death, weeps all the time.
Thinks he is not honest.
Alternation of delirium and somnolence.
Lies on his back, knees and thighs flexed, hands joined.
Delirium alternating with tetanic convulsions.
Crazy fit, he tries to bite, scratch, uses lewd language; desires to escape from bed, takes no notice of surrounding objects, everything appears changed.
Constant involuntary odd motions of the limbs and body.
“Everything is tumultuous, violent.”.
“Full of excitement, rage.”.
“The face looks wild, anxious, fearful.”.
“Violent delirium.”.
“Aggravated especially if the light is bright.”.
“High fever with delirium, continued fever, only at times remittent. (Bell always remittent).
“Stram, is like on earthquake in its violence.”.
“Exposing of the person.”.
“It is useful in violent typhoids.”.
“All sorts of illusions and hallucinations.”.
“He sees animals, ghosts, angels, departed spirits, devils and knows they are not real, but later he is confident of it (worse in the dark).”.
“Sings amorous songs and utters obscene speech.”
“Screams until he is hoarse or loses his voice.”.
“Violent laughter with sardonic expression on his face.”.
“In cerebral congestions the delirium subsides into unconsciousness; the patient has the appearance of profound intoxication; pupils dilated or contracted. Marked stupor, stertorous breathing (Op. Hyosc) lower jaw dropped (Hyosc).”.
Calcutta