BELLADONNA HOMEOPATHY MEDICINE

BELLADONNA

Deadly Nightshade

Solanaceae

Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delerious when sick.       Women and children with light hair and blue eyes, find complexion, delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions; tuberculous patients.       Great liability to take cold; sensitive to drafts of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut; tonsils become inflamed after riding in a cold wind (Acon., Hep., Rhus - takes cold from exposure of feet, Con., Cup., Sil.).       Quick sensation and motion; eyes snap and move quickly; pains come suddenly, last indefinitely and       Pains usually in short attacks; cause redness of face and eyes; fulness of head and throbbing of carotids.       Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects (Stram.); black animals, dogs, wolves.       Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them; hallucinations.       Violent delirium; disposition to bite, spit, strike and tear things; breaks into fits of laughter and gnashes the teeth; wants to bite and strike the attendants (Stram.); tries to escape (Hell.).       Head hot and painful; face flushed; eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated; pulse full and bounding, globular, like buckshot striking the finger; mucous membrane of mouth dry; stool tardy and urine suppressed; sleepy; but cannot sleep (Cham., Op.).       Convulsions during teething, with fever (without fever, Mag. p.); come on suddenly, head hot, feet cold.     Rush of blood to head and face (Amyl., Glon., Mel.).       Headache, congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids (Met.); < from slight noise, jar, motion, light, lying down, least exertion; > pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses.       Boring the head into the pillow (Apis, Hell., Pod.).       Vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping (Bry.); on every change of position.       Abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even of the bed; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar.       Pain in right ileo-coecal region, < by slightest touch, even of the bed- cover.       The transverse colon protrudes like a pad.       Skin: of a uniform, smooth, shining scarlet redness; dry, hot, burning; imparts a burning sensation to examining had; the true Sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet.       Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; > standing and sitting erect; worse mornings (Lil., Mur., Sep.).     Relations. - Complementary: Calcarea. Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea, which is often required to complete a cure.       Similar: to, Acon., Bry., Cic., Gels., Glon., Hyos., Mel., Op., Stram.     Aggravation. - From touch, motion, noise, draught of air, looking at bright, shining objects (Lys., Stram.); after 3 p. m.; night, after midnight; while drinking; uncovering the head; summer sun; lying down.     Amelioration. - Rest; standing or sitting erect; warm room.