Belladonna Homeopathic Medicine

 Generalities

 – Belladonna acts upon nerve centres producing twitching, convulsions and pain.

 – Its action upon the brain causes furious excitement and perversion of special senses.

 – Circulation in blood vessels and capillaries becomes active causing congestion, throbbing, and dilatation of arteries.

 – Mucous membranes become dry.

 – Its effects are sudden and violent.

 – Burning Heat, Bright Redness and Dryness are very marked.

 – HOT; body, part, discharges etc.

 – Redness occurs, in streaks.

 – Severe Neuralgic Pain, that comes and goes suddenly.

 – Fulness; Congestion esp. to head and SWELLING are other characteristic features.

 – PAIN ARE THROBBLING; SHARP; CUTTING; SHOOTING; or clawing; of maddening severity; coming and going in repeated attacks.

 – Discharges are hot and scanty.

 – Spasms; Shocks; Jerks and Twitchings.

 – Constrictions occur in parts of the body like throat, vagina etc. or in whole body.

 – Sensitive to LIGHT, NOISE; JARRING.

 – Epileptic attacks are followed by nausea and vomiting.

 – Convulsions commence in the arm.

 – Spasms are followed by prolonged unconsciousness.

 – Throws body forwards and backwards; chorea.

 – Acts as a prophylactic in scarlet fever.

 – Exophthalmic goitre, with extreme thyroid toxaemia.

 – Hydrophobia.

 – Useful in airsickness.

 – Its influence is felt more in intelligent and plethoric persons who are jovial and entertaining when well, but violent when sick, therefore a great children’s remedy.

 – Ill effects of hair cutting, head getting wet.

 – Sausages.

 – Sun.

 – Walking in wind or draft.

 – Haemorrhages, hot.

 – Heat in body; parts are hot, swollen, and dry.

 – Right sided symptoms.

 Worse

 – Heat of Sun; if heated.

 – Drafts – on head; haircut; washing head.

 – After taking cold.

 – Light; noise; jarring.

 – Checked Sweat.

 – Touch.

 – Company.

 – Pressure.

 – Motion.

 – Hanging down affected part.

 – Afternoon.

 – Lying down.

 – Looking at shining objects or running water.

 Better

 – Light covering.

 – Bending backward, semi-erect.

 – Rest in bed.

 – Standing.

 – Leaning head against something.

 – Bending or turning the affected part.

 Mind

 – Acuteness of senses.

 – Wildly Delirious.

 – Excited ferocious; noisy; cries out.

 – Talks fast; VERY RESTLESS.

 – Biting, striking; tearing mania.

 – Spits on faces of other persons.

 – Sees monsters, hideous faces.

 – Fear of imaginary things.

 – Desire to escape or hide himself.

 – Perversity, with tears (children).

 – Excitable, easily weeps.

 – Quarrelsome.

 – Tendency to dance, laugh, sing, whistle.

 – Starts in fright at the approach of others.

 – Constant moaning.

 – Craving for snuff.

 – An angel when well and a devil when sick.

 – Sits and breaks pins.

 – Mental symptoms amel. taking light food.

 – Patient lives in his own world.

 Head

 – THROBBING, HAMMERING HEADACHE agg. temples; agg. motion; amel. letting hair down; laying the hand on head; bending head backwards.

 – Feeling in the brain like swashing of water.

 – It rises and falls in waves.

 – Cold sensation in head at the middle of the forehead.

 – Vertigo agg. stooping and rising from stooping.

 – Hydrocephalus, with boring and head in the pillows.

 – Hairs split, are dry and come out.

 – Rolls head.

 – Pulls her hair.

 – Meningitis.

 – Sunstroke.

 – Pains go downward from head.

 – Head sensitive to drafts and cold, or washing hair.

 Eyes

 – Pupiles Dilated.

 – Eyes, sparkling, prominent, staring.

 – Red conjunctiva.

 – Fiery, red, vivid hallucinations; even on closing the eyes.

 – Attacks of blindness, then yellow vision.

 – Sees red flashes before vision.

 – PHOTOPHOBIA.

 – Diplopia.

 – Triplopia.

 – Moon light blindness.

 – Sensation as if eyes were half closed.

 – Eyelids; feel sore, congested and swollen.

 – exophthalmos.

 – Lachrymation like brine.

 – Lines appear crooked when reading.

 Ears

 – Pain causes delirium; child cries out in sleep.

 – Otitis media.

 – Autophony – hearing one’s voice in the ear.

 – Haematoma.

 – Noises in ears.

 Nose

 – Red; swollen.

 – Imaginary odours; odour of tobacco intolerable.

 – Bleeding from nose, with flushed face.

 Face

 – Fiery; Red; turgid and hot; or becomes pale and red alternately.

 – Semilateral swelling of the face.

 – Spasmodic distortion of mouth (risus sardonicus).

 – Convulsive motions of muscles of face.

 – Facial neuralgia, with twitching of muscles and flushed face.

 – Lower jaw as if drawn backwards.

 Mouth

 – DRY., HOT., Tongue; red, hot, swollen.

 – Edges of tongue red.

 – Strawberry tongue.

 – Red streak in middle of tongue, wider at tip.

 – Grinding of the teeth.

 – Tongue hands out of the mouth (children).

 – Forepart of the tongue cold and dry.

 – Toothache amel. biting.

 – Chewing motions of the mouth as though chewing or sucking.

 – Stammering speech.

 – Lock-jaw.

 – Hot breath.

 Throat

 – Dry and Hot.

 – Tonsils enlarged.

 – Tonsillitis agg. right side.

 – Urging to swallow, with chocking.

 – Throat feels constricted.

 – Swallowing difficult; Drinks in sips.

 – Must take a drink to swallow solid. food.

 – When swallowing, bends the head forward and lifts up knees.

 – Clutches at, during epilepsy.

 Stomach

 – Desire for lemonade or lemons (which agree).

 – Distaste for meat, acids, coffee,milk, beer.

 – Vomits everything, with paleness and weakness.

 – Great thirst for cold water.

 – Dread of drinking.

 – Spasmodic hiccough, with sweat and convulsions.

 – Pain in stomach extending to shoulder and throat agg. pressure.

 Abdomen

 – Distended, hot agg. touch of bedclothes.

 – Cutting pain in epigastrium amel. bending backwards.

 – Transverse colon distends and protrudes, like a pad, during abdominal colic.

 – Cramp and colic, as if a hand has clutched some part.

 – Acute pain in liver region, extending to shoulder and neck agg. lying on it.

 – Clawing pain around the navel.

 – Downward forcing in abdomen as if all the viscera would protrude through genitals.

 – Acute prolapsus ani.

 – Stools; green, dyysenteric or contain chalky lumps.

 – Involuntary stools.

 – Piles, with back pain as if breaking.

 – Pain in splenic region agg. sneezing, coughing, touch.

 Urinary

 – Involuntary urination, on lying down; or when standing, or at night; when sleepy, during day.

 – Retention of urine; with paralysis of bladder; post partum.

 – Fiery red urine;frequent and profuse urination.

 – Haematuria without pathological conditions.

 – Sensation in bladder as if a worm were turning in, without desire to micturate.

 Male

 – Testicles; hard, drawn up, inflamed.

 – Sweat on genitals.

 – Soft painless tumuour on glans.

 Female

 – Menses; bright, red, with clots, too early, too profuse, hot, gushing, offensive.

 – Metritis.

 – Rigidity of the os.

 – Violent bearing down towards genitals, as if everything would fall out, amel. standing and sitting erect agg. lying down.

 – Mastitis: pain throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from the nipples.

 – Breast; heavy, hard and red.

 – Lochia; diminished, hot offensive.

 – Useful in confinement of women who have their children late in life.

 – Leucorrhoea, with colic.

 – Labour pains come and go suddenly; or ceasing.

 Respiratory

 – Tickling, short, dry cough agg. night.

 – Larynx very painful, feels as if foreign body were in it, with cough.

 – Cough agg. fine dust in air.

 – Child cries before cough.

 – Cough agg. yawninng.

 – High piping voice.

 – Barking cough or voice.

 – Whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack; with haemoptysis.

 – Cheyne-stokes respiration.

 – Moaning at every breath.

 – Difficult, short quick respiration.

 – Asthma in hot damp weather.

 Heart

 – Throbbing in carotid and temporal arteries.

 – Pulse full, hard, tense.

 – Violent palpitation, with laboured breathing.

 – Bubbling at the region of the heart.

 Neck and back

 – Stiff neck and shoulder (right).

 – Swelling of glands in the nape of the neck.

 – Back feels broken.

 – Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.

 Extremities

 – Jerks or spasms in limbs.

 – Joints, swollen, red, shining; with red streaks radiating.

 – Heaviness and paralytic feeling in limbs.

 – Cold extremities.

 – Involuntary limping.

 – Phlegmasia alba dolens.

 – Trembling of limbs.

 – Weakness and tottering gait.

 – Lies or sits with feet crossed, can not uncross them.

 Skin

 – Bright, Red, glossy.

 – Dry and hot.

 – Alternate paleness and redness of skin.

 – Intense dermatitis.

 – Scarlatina.

 – Erysipelas.

 – Boils, returning every spring.

 Sleep

 – Sleepy but can not sleep.

 – Moans and tosses about in sleep.

 – Jerks During Sleep.

 – Frightful dreams of quarrels, fire, robbers, assassins.

 – Sees frightful visions on closing eyes.

 – Sleeps with hands under the head.

 – Heavy sleep with hot skin.

 Fever

 – High fever with comparative absence of toxaemia.

 – Internal coldness, with external pungent, burning, steaming heat.

 – Hot Head, with cold limbs.

 – Skin hot; but moist and dry alternately. No thirst with fever.

 Complementary

 – Bor; Calc; Hep; Merc; Nat-m.

 Related

 – Glo; Hyo; Stram.

Source: Phatak Materia medica