Stramonium Fever Symptoms


Allen gives the therapeutic indications of the remedy Stramonium in different kinds of fevers like: Continued, Bilious, Intermittent, Malarial, Remittent, Pernicious, Typhoid, Typhus, Septic fever, etc…


Fever

Characteristic – Adapted to diseases of young plethoric persons (Aconite, Belladonna, Verbascumv.), especially children, in chorea, mania, fever, delirium.

Delirium: loquacious, talks all the time, sings, makes verses, raves, 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 than Belladonna, never approaching a true inflammatory condition.

Loquacious: disposed to talk continually (Cicuta, Lachesis), incessant and incoherent talking and laughing, Praying, beseeching, entreating, with suppressed menses.

Convulsions with consciousness (Nux – without, Belladonna, Cicuta, Hyoscyamus, Opium), renewed by sight of a light, a mirror, or water (Cantharis, Belladonna, Lyssinum).

Desires light and company, cannot bear to be alone (Bismuth), worse in the dark and solitude, cannot walk in a dark room.

Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the first object seen.

Hallucinations which terrify the patient.

Desire to escape, in delirium (Belladonna, Bryonia, Opium, Rhus.).

Imagines all sorts of things, that she is double, lying crosswise, etc. (Petroleum).

Head feels as if scattered about (Baptisia).

Eyes wide open, prominent, brilliant, pupils widely dilated, insensible, contortion of eyes and eyelids.

Pupils dilate when child is reprimanded.

Face hot and red with cold hands and feet, circumscribed redness of cheeks, blood rushes to face, risus sardonicus.

Painlessness with most complaints (Opium).

Hydrophobia: fear of water, with excessive aversion to liquids (Belladonna, Lyssinum), spasmodic constriction of throat.

Stammering, has to exert himself a long time before he can utter a word, makes great effort to speak, distorts the face (Bovista, Ignatia, Spigelia).

Vomiting as soon as he raises his head from pillow, from a bright light.

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

Aggravation: In the dark, when alone, looking at bright or glistening objects, touch, after sleep (Apis, Lachesis, Opium), swallowing.

Amelioration: From company, bright light, warmth.

Type: Quotidian, double quotidian, typhoid, typhus, yellow.

Time: 6 to 7 A.M. All periods, day or night.

Fever without chill, noon and midnight (11 A.M. and 11 p.m., Cactus grandiflorus ). Chill: Without thirst. Shaking chill through whole body, with single jerks, partly of whole body or only of single limbs, elbows and knee – joints. Chilliness runs down along the back as from cold water (as if dashed with cold water, Rhus, Sabad. ). General coldness of the whole body, with red face (Arnica), hot head, and twitchings of the limbs. Chills, with great sensitiveness to uncovering (excessively sensitive to cold air, Camph. – chill through and through from the slightest uncovering in warm air, Thuja. ). Skin icy cold, and covered with cold sweat, hands and feet livid (Verbascum). Face, hands and feet blue and cold (Camph., Verbascum). Coldness of the limbs. Hands and feet extremely cold, bluish and almost immovable, coldness and paralysis of limbs ( Nux – numbness of limbs, Ced. ).

Heat: With thirst. Violent fever at noon, returning at midnight (11 A.M., returning at 11 p.m., Cactus grandiflorus ). Heat of head and face, then coldness of the whole body, then general heat, with anguish, sleeps during heat ( Apis, Ignatia – falls asleep during heat and sweats profusely, Podophyllum ). Nausea and vomiting in evening followed by violent, anxious heat. Heat over whole body from least motion (least motion relieves the heat, Caps. ). Dry, glowing heat over whole body, with redness of head and face, and coldness and paleness of rest of the body (Belladonna Opium). Skin hot and burning, with sweat at same time (Sepia). During heat, pains became violent if he put out a finger from under the cover (chilly, if she puts a limbs from under the cover, Baryta, Cantharis ). Covers up closely. During chill, heat in head and face, during the hot stage, cold feet and legs, during sweat, cannot bear to be uncovered. Vertigo, delirium, epileptiform convulsions (Hyoscyamus).

Sweat: With thirst (Arsenicum, Cinchona). Profuse sweat, with burning in he eyes and dim vision. During sweat, good appetite, diarrhea, distention of abdomen, and colic. Cold sweat over whole body. Perspiration of forehead and face, rest of body red, dry and hot. Oily sweat (Phosphorus- as if mixed with oil, Cinchona ).

Tongue: Clean or whitish coated, with red papillae, or swollen, dry and difficult to protrude. Juicy fruit tastes dry, food tastes like straw.

During fever, in children, they cry out in sleep, start suddenly, twitch and jerk, eyes half open, pupils dilated, urine suppressed.

Stramonium, like Nux vomica, cannot bear to be uncovered in any stage, but not for the same reason. The Nux patient is cold and chilly, if uncovered in the slightest, even cold on moving in bed, while the Stramonium patient is cold, and with the coldness comes immediately violent pain.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.