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

 Generalities

 – Common salt, profoundly affects the nutrition.

 – Its excessive intake produces symptoms of salt retention, such as dropsies and oedema: but it also affects the blood causing anaemia and leucocytosis.

 – Mind, Heart, liver and spleen come under its influence.

 – The patient is thin, thirsty, poorly nourished on account of digestive disturbances, and his Mental Behaviour and physical symptoms are hopeless or awkward in nature.

 – Emaciation; descending, of neck or abdomen.

 – Mucous Membranes and skin may be Dry or may produce thick, white or clear, watery, acrid discharges.

 – Dryness of mouth, throat, rectum, vagina etc.

 – Numbness of one side; parts lain on; with paralysis; fingers, parts seem too short.

 – Easy exhaustion.

 – Contraction of muscles, tendons.

 – Neuralgic pains with tears.

 – Trembling.

 – Prostration.

 – Hysterical debility.

 – Emaciation even while living well.

 – Great weakness and weariness.

 – Tendency to take cold.

 – Coldness.

 – Children talk late; cross, irritable, cry from slightest cause.

 – Cachexia; malarial.

 – Oversensitive to all sorts of influences.

 – Goitre; hyperthyroidism.

 – Addison’s disease.

 – Diabetes.

 – Twitching in muscles.

 – Frequent starts in upper part of the body.

 – Chorea; jumping; after fright.

 – Ill effects of disappointment; fright, grief, fit of passion; loss of fluids, masturbation; injury to head; silver salts; salt.

 – Young girls become love lorn and fall in love with married men.

 – Paralysis; from emotions, sexual excess.

 – Likes to be covered but does not amel..

 – Trembling of the whole body from smoking tobacco.

 Worse

 – Exact periodicity.

 – 9 to 11 a.m. ; with the sun.

 – Alternate days.

 – After menses.

 – Heat; of sun, summer; dampness.

 – Exertion – of eyes, mental, talking, reading, writing.

 – Violent emotions.

 – Sympathy.

 – Puberty.

 – Quinine.

 – Bread, fat, acid food.

 – Coition.

 – Sea shore.

 – Chronic sprains.

 – Noise; music.

 – Touch.

 – Pressure.

 – Full moon.

 Better

 – Open air.

 – Cool bathing.

 – Sweating.

 – Rest.

 – Going without regular meals.

 – Tight clothing.

 – Deep breathing.

 – Before breakfast.

 – Rubbing.

 – Lying on right side.

 – Talking long.

 Mind

 – Hateful; to persons who had offended him.

 – Detests consolation or fuss.

 – Sad : during menses; without cause.

 – Reserved.

 – Easily angered agg. if consoled.

 – Company distresses.

 – Hypochondriac.

 – Weeps bitterly; or wants to be alone to cry.

 – Weeps involuntarily, without cause or can not weep.

 – Cheerful, laughs, signs, dances, alternating with sadness.

 – Boisterous grief.

 – Dwells on past unpleasant memories.

 – Anxiety.

 – Apprehension.

 – Fear or dreams of robbers.

 – Awkward; in talking; hasty; drops things from nervous weakness.

 – Absent-minded.

 – Scattered thoughts.

 – Revengeful.

 – Thinks he is pitied for his misfortunes and weeps.

 – Immoderate laughter with tears.

 – Abrupt.

 – An idea clings, preventing sleep, inspires revenge.

 – Alternating mental conditions.

 – Extremely foregetful.

 – Aversion of men (females).

 Head

 – Vertigo; as if falling; agg. standing near a window, on closing eyes; amel. lying, with head high.

 – HEADACHES; bursting; on coughing; maddening; hammering; heavy; over eyes; on vertex, with partial numbness or disturbed vision; agg. on awakening; from sunrise to sunset; during, before or after menses; motion; even of eyes; frowning, reading; amel. sleep; pressure on eyes, lying with head high, sitting still.

 – Nodding motions of the head.

 – Headaches of school children.

 – Migraine.

 – Falling hair.

 – Injured part tender to touch.

 Eyes

 – Painful, on looking down.

 – Letters run together while reading.

 – Stricture of lachrymal duct, escape of mucous when pressing on the sac.

 – Lachrymation; with redness; burning; acrid; from affected side, from sneezing; coughing; laughing etc.

 – Eyes feel drawn together.

 – Itch and burn, must wipe them.

 – Ptosis on lying down.

 – Vision blurred, wavering.

 – Hemiopia then headache.

 – Eye lids close with headache; spasmodically.

 – Can not read by artificial light.

 – Sparks, black spots, fiery zigzag before eyes.

 – Incipient cataract.

 – Protruding eyes; due to goitre.

 – Retinal images are retained too long.

 – Eyes give out in reading and writing.

 Ears

 – Noises, buzzing, humming, ringing.

 – Painful cracking in the ear when masticating.

 – Itching behind ears.

 Nose

 – Violent fluent coryza; lasts one to three days then stoppage of nose high up, making breating difficult.

 – Sneezing early in the morning.

 – Alternate fluent and dry coryza; cold commences, with sneezing, gushing of fluid.

 – Little ulcers in nose.

 – One side numb.

 – Loss of smell and taste.

 – Nose bleed; on stooping or when coughing, at night.

 Face

 – Pale, muddy, or shiny as if greased.

 – HERPES; about the lips or at the edge of hair; pearly.

 – Crack in the middle of the lower lip.

 – Lips tingle, feel numb.

 – Throbbing in lower jaw agg. biting; heat and cold.

 – There is down on the face in hysteria but passes away as the patient improves.

 – Upper lip swollen.

 – Prosoplagia.

 – Falling of whiskers and beard.

 Mouth

 – Tongue; Mapped; beaded or striped along edges.

 – Aphthae.

 – Loss of taste and smell.

 – Numbness and stiffness of one side of tongue.

 – Tingling of the tongue.

 – Tongue, heavy; difficult speech.

 – Children learn to talk slowly.

 – Fistula dentalis.

 – Epulis or small tumour on the gums.

 – Sensation of a hair on the tongue.

 – Tongue feels dry but is not dry.

 – Vesicles and ulcers in mouth and on tongue, smart and burn when touched by food.

 – Teeth sensitive to air or touch; pain agg. on chewing.

 – Toothache with tears or salivation.

 Throat

 – Hawks much mucus, bitter, salty.

 – Uvula hangs to one side.

 – A dry, sore spot in the throat, tickles and causes cough etc.

 – Food goes down the wrong way; post diphtheritic paralysis.

 – Only fluids can be swallowed.

 – Solids reach a certain point and then are violently ejected.

 – Throat glistens.

 – Exophthalmic goitre.

 – Sore throat; with sensation as if she has to swallow over a lump.

 – As if a plug in throat.

 – Tobacco smoker’s throat.

 Stomach

 – Desire; For Salt, bitter things; for sour things, farinaceous food, oysters, fish, milk.

 – Thirsty, drinks large quantity of water.

 – Great hunger yet emacities; with depressed mind.

 – Averse to bread, meat, coffee, tabacoo.

 – Hunger without relish.

 – Hiccough.

 – Burning eructations, after eating.

 – Sweet risings from stomach during menses.

 – Anxiety in stomach rises into head.

 – Sweats while eating; on face.

 – White slimy mucus is vomited with relief.

 – Heart burn with palpitation.

 – Feels better on an empty stomach.

 Abdomen

 – Epigastric pulsation.

 – Epigastrium swollen and painful.

 – Sudden distension.

 – Tense abdomen agg. groins.

 – Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.

 – Rigidity of the left side.

 – Colic with nausea amel. flatus.

 – Stools; dry, hard, crumbling; tears the anus or cause burning.

 – Stools, coated with glassy mucus.

 – Constipation on alternate days, from inactivity.

 – Painless watery diarrhoea; chronic; morning, on moving about; from abuse of opium.

 – Constriction of rectum.

 – Herpes about anus.

 – Abdominal viscera loose and dragging as if when walking.

 – Red spots on epigastrium.

 – Herpes ani.

 Urinary

 – Involuntary urination; on coughing; laughing; sneezing, walking, sitting.

 – Polyuria, thirst for large quantities of water.

 – Has to wait long for urine to pass in the presence of others.

 – Urine clear with red sediment.

 – Must wait before the urine will start.

 – Pain just after urination.

 Male

 – Backache and weak legs; with depression after coition.

 – Pollution shortly after coition.

 – Sexual desire, with physical weakness.

 – Suppressed gonorrhoea.

 – Weakness, even paralysis, after sexual excess.

 – Loss of hair from pubes.

 Female

 – Aversion to coition; which is painful from dryness of vagina.

 – Burning smarting in vagina during coition.

 – Delayed first menses.

 – Dymenorrhoea with convulsions.

 – Sterility; with too early too profuse menses.

 – Debilitating leucorrhoea; white thick, instead of menses.

 – Prolapse of ulcers with aching in lumbar region or with cutting urethra; agg. in the morning, amel. lying on back.

 – Hot during menses.

 – Mammary glands emaciate.

 – White leucorrhoea turns green gradually.

 – Loss of hair in children or during lactation.

 – Stitches beneath nipples.

 Respiratory

 – Cough from tickling in the pit of stomach; with asthma or palpitation; agg. winter.

 – Respiratory catarrh after suppressed sweats.

 – Sticking in live while coughing.

 – Dyspnoea on ascending.

 – Whooping cough; with lachrymation.

 – Breath; hot, offensive.

 – Exertion of arms amel. breathing.

 Heart

 – Palpitation, shaking body or alternating with beating in head.

 – Fluttering of the heart, with a weak, faint feeling agg. lying down.

 – Palpitation; anxious, agg. exertion; emotion; lying on left side.

 – Pulse; full and slow or weak and rapid; intermittent every third beat; agg. lying down.

 – Coldness, soreness at the heart.

 Neck and back

 – Painful stiffness of neck.

 – Bruised backache, early in a.m. ; agg. coughing; after coition; amel. lying on back, on something hard; or pressure.

 – Can stoop readily, but hurts to straighten.

 – Buttocks emaciated in infants.

 Extremities

 – Trembling of the hands when writing.

 – Cracked finger tips.

 – Hangnails.

 – Palms hot and sweaty.

 – Hamstrings; seem short, painful, drawing in.

 – Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities.

 – Catch in knee.

 – House maid’s knee.

 – Cracking in joints on motion.

 – Ankles weak and turn easily.

 – Legs cold.

 – Conculsive jerking of the limbs on falling asleep.

 – Scurfs, scales in axilla.

 – Bending the joints of fingers, difficult.

 – Children do not learn to walk.

 – Soreness of toes or between toes.

 Skin

 – Oily, dry, harsh, unhealthy or yellow.

 – Chaps of herpetic eruptions agg. flexures, or about knuckles.

 – Dry eruptions on margins of hair.

 – Warts of palms and hands.

 – Hives, whitish, agg. exertion.

 – Corns.

 – Scars; painful.

 – Redness of old scars.

 Sleep

 – Sobs durinng sleep.

 – Awakes feeling weak.

 – Dreams of robbers.

 – Somnabulism; rises and sits about room.

 – Starts and talks in sleep.

 Fever

 – Coldness of many parts, hands, feet, heart.

 – Morning chill with thirst.

 – Chilly but agg. in sun.

 – Sweat, scany, at edge of hair, on nose, on face while eating.

 Complementary

 – Ign; Sep.

 Related

 – Pul.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica