Materia Medica de A a Z

BELLADONNA = ATROPA BELLADONNA (Bell)

Region

Nerve centers. Brain. Blood-vessels. Capillaries. Mucous membranes (Eyes. Mouth. THROAT). Skin. Organs. Right side.

Worse

Heat (of sun; if heated). Afternoon (3 P.M.). DRAFTS; on head; hair cut (Glon). Washing head. After taking cold. CHECKED SWEAT. LIGHT. NOISE. JARRING. Touch. Company. Pressure. Motion. Hanging down.

Better

Light covering. ending backward. Rest in bed.

General

Plethoric, brainy. SUDDEN, VIOLENT EFFECTS. DRYNESS, BRIGHT REDNESS - streaked (Phos)- AND BURNING HEAT; WITH GREAT PAIN; FULNESS OR SWELLING. CONGESTION: TO HEAD. Dilated arteries. Inflammation. Heat in body, parts, discharges, etc. CONSTRICTIONS. Parts are hot, swelled, red and dry. THROBBING, SHARP CUTTING, SHOOTING or clawing PAINS; of maddening severity; coming and going, in repeated attacks (Nit-ac). Scant or hot discharges. JERKS. Shocks. TWITCHINGS. SPASM; of throat, vagina, etc..................... Over-active. Excited. WILDLY DELIRIOUS; ferocious, noisy, cries out. RESTLESS and talks fast. Tries to escape. Furibund. Biting mania. Violent delirium. THROBBING HEAD; agg. temples; agg. motion; amel. letting hair down. Brain rises and falls in waves. Rolls head. Pains go downward from head. HEAD SENSITIVE TO DRAFTS AND COLD, or washing hair. HAMMERING THROB. Pulls her hair. Meningitis. Sunstroke. DILATED PUPILS. Prominent, sparkling eyes. Red sclerotic. Lurid, red, terrifying hallucinations; on closing eyes. Blind attacks; then yellow vision. Sees red. Flashes before vision. PHOTOPHOBIA. Red nose. Fiery RED, turgid, hot FACE, or alternately pale and red. DRY, HOT MOUTH AND THROAT (Phos; Rhus-t). Toothache, amel. biting. Swelled tongue. Strawberry tongue. Urging to swallow, with choking. Drinks in sips. Must drink to swallow. Craves lemonade. Pain from stomach or liver to shoulder and throat, agg. lying on it. Cutting epigastric colic, amel. bending backward. Distended transverse colon. Clawing or downward forcing in abdomen. Acute prolapsus ani (Ars). Stools contain chalky lumps. Enuresis on lying down; nocturnal. Fiery red urine. Early, profuse, hot [Sabi. (Sabin)], red, gushing menses. Rigid os. Metritis. Bearing down amel. standing,agg. lying. Red streaked mammæ. Dry cough. Barking voice. Stiff r. neck and shoulder in afternoon. Back feels broken. BRIGHT, RED, GLOSSY SKIN. Intense dermatitis. Scarlatina. Erysipelas. Sleepy, but can't sleep. Heavy, hot sleep. JERKS DURING SLEEP. Frightful dreams; of quarrels, fire, etc. Internal coldness with external, pungent, burning heat. HOT HEAD, with cold limbs (Sulph). Hot sweat. Skin hot, but moist and dry alternately. Spasm, then prolonged unconsciousness.

Complementary: Calc. Hep. Merc.

Related: Glon; Hyos; Stram.