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BELLADONNA. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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► Confusion and Vertigo.
[270.] ► The whole
head is muddled for many days, [13a]. ► Bewildered feeling in the head, [219]. ► Confused and muddled head
(after five minutes), [91]. ►►
Confusion of the head
, aggravated by movement,
[7]. ► Confusion of
the head on moving it, but still more on walking; even when relieved, it returns immediately
on walking (after five minutes), [88]. ► In the evening, he complains of confusion of the head; with
extraordinary garrulity, [128]. ►
Confusion of the head, as in incipient intoxication, with continually increasing dulness, [88]. ► Confusion of the
head, with cloudiness and feeling of intoxication, as from smoking tobacco and drinking
spirits, [215]. ►
Head confused, with pain in forehead, [195]. ►► *Vertigo, [20],
[30], [43], [71], [81], [227], [237]. [280.] ► Vertigo, he staggers
as if drunk, [91]. ►
Vertigo, impossible for her to stand, everything turns around (after three hours), [220]. ► Vertigo, as if
everything turned in a circle
(after one hour), [7].
► *Vertigo; it appears to him as if objects around him swayed
to and fro
, [14]. ►
*Vertigo, mostly at night on turning over in bed, or when getting up in the morning, also
when walking, and on every change of position
, [215].
► *Vertigo increased on any movement of the body, [195]. ► The confusion of
the head gradually increases to real vertigo, which is aggravated on motion, [18]. ► *Vertigo, with perceptible
pulsation in the head, dilated pupils, with nausea
(after one day), [89]. ► *Vertigo, with rush
of blood to the head, roaring in the ears, and slight mistiness of vision
(after
one day), [89]. ►
Vertigo, with headache and drowsiness, relieved after sleeping (after one hour), [98], [131]. [290.] ► Vertigo, with dimness
of vision; he saw snow-flakes, etc., before his eyes, and the pupils were much dilated
(after one day), [139]. ►
Immediately after, vertigo and dimness of vision, recurring three days afterwards at the
same hour, [207]. ►
Vertigo, and a feeling as if intoxicated; gait was tottering, face red and turgid; he was in
good humor and remarkably talkative (after half an hour), [136].
► Vertigo, with nausea; dazzling of the eyes, reeling,
dulness, trembling, and anxiety, [215]. ► Vertigo, with lassitude, anguish, and fainting, [215]. ► Vertigo and pain
in all the limbs, [86]. ►
Vertigo, and trembling of the hands, [107]. ► Vertigo, and trembling of the hands, so that they could not
perform any work with them, [17]. ► Vertigo, with trembling of the hands and contraction of the
fingers, [215]. ►
Attacks of vertigo during rest and motion, [3], [215]. [300.]
► Attacks of vertigo, with dulness of sense, lasting a
few minutes (after twelve hours), [1]. ► Vertiginous reeling, [55].
► A vertigo-like sensation of reeling in the whole head
while sitting, [8]. ►
He attempted to get out of bed with a reeling, drunken motion; his speech was thick and
indistinct, [190]. ►
He reeled in walking, held on by the walls, complained of anguish and vertigo, and often
spoke irrationally like a drunken man, [17]. ► Vertiginous staggering, [55],
[52], [50]. ► The first effect was vertigo, increasing to such an extent as
to render it impossible to walk without staggering, [128].
► He staggers when walking like a drunken man, [210]. ► On rising in the
morning, she staggered about as if drum, [25], [40]. ► She rose early
from her bed, and staggered to and fro like one intoxicated, [40]
(Case 14), [25]. [310.]
► While walking, he staggered and spoke senselessly as if
drunk, [107]. ► It
seems as though everything about him was turning round, [215].
► Feeling as if he was turning round like a ball, and as
if waltzing from right to left, [215]. ► Turning round in the head, vertigo with nausea, as after
turning quickly in a circle, or as on waking from the morning sleep after a night of
reveling, [4]. ►
Such violent turning in the head that he was unable to distinguish objects, much less be
serviceable in his occupation, [237]. ► Turning in the head, and at the same time a similar turning
in the scrobiculus cordis; after rising up it became so bad in walking, that she could no
longer distinguish anything; everything vanished from before her eyes, [9]. ► Swimming of the head, as in
a state of intoxication, [227]. ►
Dizziness (after five hours), [217]. ► *Dizziness with sensation as if a board were before her forehead,
[90]. ► Sensation
sometimes of dizziness, sometimes like the vibration of a pendulum, in the head, [215]. ► In General.
[320.] ► *Swelling of the
head
, [9], [46],
[60]. ► *Head swollen
to double its size
, [46]. ► *Great swelling of the head and redness over the whole body
(in two boys), [60]. ►
Trembling of the head and limbs, [215]. ► Unsteadiness of the head and hands, [1]. ► *Throwing the head hither and
thither, even to shaking
; then again, convulsive bending forwards of head and
trunk, [119]. ►
[Violent shaking of the head], [40] (Case 6). ► [Violent shaking of the head, frothing from the mouth and
loss of consciousness], [40] (Case 14). ► [After hiccough, slight convulsions of head and limbs,
followed by nausea and lassitude], [40]. ► *Her head is drawn backwards; she bores deep into the pillow at
night
, [2]. ►
Unconsciously, he often scratches his head and rubs his nose, [125].
[330.] ► A kind of
cerebral apoplexy seized one of them, causing her to fall down insensible, [207]. ► Determination of blood to
the head; red cheeks, [20]. ►►
*Rush of blood to the head; pulsation of the cerebral arteries, and a throbbing in the
interior of the head
(after five minutes), [88].
► *Strong rush of blood to the head, with beating in the
temples, and burning in the eyes
, [215]. ► *Congestion of blood to the head, with danger of apoplexy,
[215]. ► Congestion of
blood to the head
, with bleeding of the nose and extreme dulness, [215]. ► A shepherd died comatose
twelve hours after eating the berries. At the autopsy the bloodvessels of the head were
gorged, [197]. ►
Ebullition of the blood towards the head, without internal heat of the head; when he leaned
the head backwards it appeared to him as if the blood rushed into it, [4]. ► *Confusion as if intoxicated,
[13], [44], [56], [70], [16]. ► Confusion of the
head as though from much brandy and tobacco, [4]. [340.] ► Confused head and
intoxication, as from wine-drinking, with bloated, red countenance, [16]. ► During a sudden rigor,
great confusion of the head and sight, red eyes and swollen face, which is covered with very
small, irregularly shaped, dark-red spots, especially on the forehead, [40] (Case 19). ► Constant
confusion of the head and drowsiness (after four hours), [3].
► Confusion of the head, with swelling of the glands in
the nape of the neck (after six hours), [1]. ► Dull uneasy sensation all over the head (after half an hour),
[217]. ► Sense of
dulness and turning in the head; she felt better in the open air, worse in a room (after
quarter of an hour), [13a]. ►
Dulness of the head, with fatigued, torpid, besotted feeling, [215].
► Weariness of the head; inability to raise the head
after stooping, [198]. ►
Head heavy (second day), [218]. ►
Heavy, pressing feeling in whole head (after five and a half hours), [218]. [350.] ► Head heavy all day (first day), [218]. ► He feels his whole head
heavy, as if from intoxication, [13a]. ► His whole head feels so heavy that he seems about to fall
asleep; he is not disposed to do anything, [1]. ► Head felt heavy on rising in morning (after eight and a half
hours), [218]. ► On
stooping, the blood mounts to the head, which becomes heavy as if giddily, [1]. ► Feeling of heaviness and
fluctuation in the head, as if there was a vessel of water in it, [215]. ► Heaviness of the head and
vertigo, [106]. ►
Weight in the head as though he would fall, [10]. ► Weight on the head, with dull shootings (after fourteen
hours), [207]. ►
*Inclination to lean the head against something hard and cold
, [215]. [360.] ► Headache, [240]. ► Headache all day (second day), [217].
► Slight headache, [239].
► (Violent headache), [40]
(in several cases). ►► *Very intense headache,
[239]. ► Pain in
the head shifting to the scapulæ, [40] (Case 8). ► The pains in the eyes are correspondingly felt in the head,
and often even in the heart, [215]. ► Violent dull headache (soon after), [237]. ► Headache as if the brain
were numb, [1]. ►
Complains of intense pain in the head, and says that it feels enormously large, [185]. [370.] ► Headache, with confusion and dulness of the senses, [99]. ► *Headache, with
dizziness, aggravated by stooping
, and, if relieved, immediately reproduced on
motion, [90]. ►
*Violent headache, chiefly in the orbital region, with redness of the eyes and face

(after one hour), [117]. ►
Violent headache, and feeling of pressure in the eyes, which were much injected, [199]. ► *Pain in the head
and eyeballs, which felt as if starting from their sockets
, [187]. ► Headache, with transient
blindness, [40]. ►
Violent pains in the head, with swelling of the lids, heat in the face, and lachrymation
(after three-quarters of an hour), [93]. ► Headache and weariness, the face red, [186]. ► Headache and great
lassitude on awaking, [1]. ►
Stupefying headache, with painful lassitude, bad temper, and inclination to lie down, [215]. [380.] ► Headache, with burning miliary eruption over the whole body, [215]. ► Headache is
worse after dinner and in the evening, [215]. ►► The pains in the head are aggravated by noise, motion, when
moving the eyes, by shocks; contact
, the least exertion,
and in the open air
, [215]. ► Continuous distension of the whole brain, [10]. ► Sensation of swelling and
extraordinary expansion in the brain, [215]. ► *The feeling in the head was that of violent congestion, a full,
tense, and throbbing state of the cerebral vessels, identically the same sensation as would
be produced by a ligature thrown round the neck, and impeding the return of the venous
circulation
, [178]. ► *Violent pressing in the whole head from within outwards, as if it
would burst
(after three hours), [8]. ► *Headache as if the sutures of the skull were being torn open, and
as if a lever were being applied, whereby the head was forced asunder
, [10]. ► *In the open air, the
sensation of bursting in the head is very violent
, and
he is afraid to cough on account of the increase of pain it causes
(after three
and a half to four hours), [8]. ►
Headache, as if the head were screwed together on both sides, and thereby rendered narrower,
[2]. [390.] ► Feeling of burning and swelling in the cranial bones, [215]. ► Burning in the
brain, with sensation as if the bones of the head had become soft, and fallen apart, [215]. ► Burning,
pressive, lancinating, painful, or crampy pains in the head, chiefly in the forehead, along
the orbital vault, at the nape of the neck, and on the right side of the head, [215]. ► Boring and
pressing headache during the day, in different places; in the evening, shooting, [9]. ► *Incessant drawing and
expansive pain in the head, as if something in it rocked or swayed in a jerking manner
,
[1]. ► Oppressive
pain in the head (mother and child, third day), [228].
► Sensation of hard pressure over the whole head, [215]. ►► Pressure in
the head, now here, now there, which occupies each time large areas
, [7]. ► Drawing-pressive
headache, [4]. ►►
*Pressive headache, especially in the forehead
(after two days), [7]. [400.] ► *Pressure deep in the brain over the whole head, during and after
walking in the open air
, [1]. ►► *Painful pressure in the head, especially in the lower part
of the forehead directly above the nose, intolerable on steeping or treading
, [13]. ► Pressure and
pulsation in the head, felt mostly in the forehead and eyebrows, [215]. ► Lancinating headache,
causing vertigo, and extending to the eyes, [215]. ► Cutting-tearing pain in the head, which moves about from one
part to another, [7]. ►
*Stabbing through the head, as if with a double-edged knife, in the evening
, [9]. ► *Three violent severe
stabs through the head, from the forehead to the occiput
, whereupon all previous headache suddenly disappears, [13a]. ► Painful shooting
in the whole head, especially in the forehead, [13a]. ► Terrible headache, made up of dull or pressive shootings,
which dart through the brain from all sides, [1]. ► Throbbings in the head, [230].
[410.] ► Violent
throbbing of the brain, [215]. ►► *Violent throbbing in the brain from behind forwards, and
towards both sides; the throbbing ends on the surface in painful shootings
, [14]. ► Throbbing
sensation, which for a short time alternated between the head and chest. He compared it to
the movement of a pendulum (after half an hour), [239].
► Pulsating headache, with pressure at vertex, [219]. ►► *Jerking
headache, which becomes extremely violent on walking quickly or on going rapidly upstairs,
and where at every step there is a jolt downwards, as if a weight were in the occiput

(after forty-eight hours), [14]. ►
Shocks and balancing sensation in the head, mostly when walking fast and going upstairs, [215]. ► Feeling in the
brain as of the swashing of water, [21]. ► Forehead. ► Confusion
of the head about the forehead, and at times a reminder of vertigo (after half an hour), [95]. ► Cloudiness in the
forehead, as if an oppressive cloud moved to and fro, especially under the frontal bone, [3]. ► A sensation
externally, as of contraction of the muscles of the forehead and eyes, [10]. [420.] ► Cold sensation in the brain, at the middle of the forehead, [1]. ►► *He was
frequently obliged to stand still in walking, from the violence of the pain in the forehead;
at every step it seemed as if the brain rose and fell in the forehead; the pain was
ameliorated by pressing strongly on the part
(after six days), [4]. ► Dull frontal headache on
the left side, [195]. ►
*Headache above the orbits, as if the brain were compressed, so that he was obliged to close
the eyes
, [4]. ►
Violent crampy pain in the frontal eminence, which extends down over the zygoma to the lower
jaw, [14]. ► Early
in the morning, headache, as if something in the forehead over the eyebrows sank down and
hindered the opening of the eyes (after four hours), [11].
► *Boring pain under the right frontal eminence, early in the
morning, soon after waking
, [3]. ► Drawing in the head towards the forehead, as if the brain
would dilate, [10]. ►
*Drawing pain in the frontal bone and in the nape of the neck, both when at test and during
motion
, [3]. ►
Gnawing pain externally in the frontal eminences, [14].
[430.] ► Oppressive
frontal headache, [91]. ►
*Pain in stooping forwards, as if everything would issue at the forehead
, [13a]. ► A weight at the
top of the forehead, which causes vertigo, and a sense as if intoxicated (after fourteen
days), [1]. ►
Pressive pain behind and above the eyebrows in the forehead, [211].
► *Headache, as if the brain would be pressed out, in the
forehead, just above the orbits, which prevents the eyes being opened, and obliges him to
lie down
(with excessive contraction of the pupils and very weak voice), (after
five and twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Violent pressive pain in the left frontal eminence, from
within outwards, [8]. ►
*Tensive pressure in the right side of the forehead
, [7]. ► Pressive pain below the
right frontal eminence, which soon occupies the entire forehead (after ten minutes),
decreases at intervals, but only to return with greater violence, [3]. ► Pressive pain under the
frontal eminences, soon after waking, on rising, [3]. ► Headache above the eyes only, like a weight in the head,
early on waking; when touching the eye he feels pain, [1].
[440.] ► *Headache, as if
a stone were pressing the forehead, relieved by laying the head down, and stooping, with
dilated pupils, and whining ill-humor about trifles
(after three hours), [1]. ► *Sensation as if the
brain were pressed towards the forehead, which disappeared directly on bending the head a
little backwards
(after one and a quarter hours), [8].
►► *Pressive pain in the forehead, so severe during
motion that it caused him to close his eyes
; easier in
sitting; he was obliged to lie down, upon which it disappeared; it returned immediately on
rising, for two days, and was not aggravated by eating or drinking; but as soon as he went
into the open air, the forehead seemed to be pressed in as if a heavy stone lay on it
;
on the third day, the pain disappeared entirely, while he was sitting in the room, [4]. ► Sharp shootings in
both frontal eminences, from within outwards (after two hours), [14]. ► Tearing shootings in the
head over the right orbit, [7]. ►
Fine shooting, burning pain in the left frontal eminence (after a quarter of an hour), [8]. ► Severe shooting in
the right frontal eminence, increased by bending forwards, ameliorated by pressure (after
five minutes), [13a]. ►
Tearing in the forehead, [4]. ►
Tearing in the forehead, externally, [1]. ► Violent pains of a tearing character in the anterior part of
the head, [3]. [450.]
► Burning-tearing pain in the left frontal eminence
(after four hours), [8]. ►
Strong pulsation of the bloodvessels in the forehead, and pain as if the bones were lifted
up, [4]. ► Temples.
► Severe pain through temples, [227]. ► At 3 P.M., slight
headache in left temple (second day), [217]. ► Cramplike compression at the temples and forehead, [215]. ► Dull, darting
pain in right temple, affecting the eye (after five minutes), [218].
► *A drawing-down in the temples and in the right orbit,
[1]. ► Drawing and
pressive pains in the right temple, with sensation as if it would burst, [215]. ► Cutting pressure in the
temples, from within outwards, which increases in violence, spreads through the brain, and
there passes into a strong throbbing, constant in all positions, [14]. ► A pressive feeling of
weight from the centre of the brain towards the temples, with diminution of hearing in both
ears, [12]. [460.]
► *Pressive pain in the right temporal region, which on
supporting the head with the hand increases to a sense of bursting, and extends into the
right frontal eminence
(after eight hours), [8].
► Tearing pressure in the right temple, and in the
vertex, which extends in various directions, [7]. ► Violent pressure in the left temple, from without inwards,
which spreads itself over the entire anterior half of the brain, on that side where the head
is supported by the hand (after three-quarters of an hour), [8].
►► *Stabbing as if with a knife, from one temple to the
other
, [2]. ►
Pressive shootings in the temples, from within outwards, [14].
► *Violent shooting pain in the right temple, for
a quarter of an hour (after twenty-five hours), [13a].
► Dull shooting in the left temple, from within outwards,
[14]. ► Throbbing
and beating of temples, [228]. ► Vertex and Parietals. ►
Crampy pain, passing off rapidly, in the right side of the vertex (after eleven hours), [14]. ► Pressing in the
right vertex, shifting to the left and then back again to the right, [12]. [470.] ►► Tensive pressure in the left vertex and in the forehead
(after twenty-four hours), [7]. ► *Headache in the vertex, a kind of twisting, sometimes also digging,
sometimes tearing; the pain became much more violent on external pressure; the skull seemed
to be quite thin, as if it could be pressed through
, [9]. ► Tearing pain in the right
vertex
, increased by movement, [8]. ► Slight lateral headache (third day), [217]. ► Pain in left parietal
bone, extending to the temples (after five ours), [217].
► Headache in left parietal bone, increasing and
extending to right temple (after forty minutes), [217].
► In about three-quarters of an hour after rising, and
after stirring around quite briskly, the right side of the head ached, but without that
heavy feeling (after nine and a quarter hours), [218].
► Drawing pain in the right side of the head, and at the
same time in the right arm, when at rest after dinner, [4].
►► *Incessant, dull, pressive pain on one or other side
of the head
(after five and twenty-four hours), [1].
► Violent pressure from within outwards, in the whole
left half of the brain, especially violent in the forehead (after two and a half hours), [8]. [480.] ► Sensation as if a bar of iron was pressing on the head in the
direction of the ears, with hardness of hearing, [215].
► Darting pain under left parietal bone (after four
hours), [217]. ► *Sharp
cutting pain in the right side of the head, from the frontal to the occipital region,
becoming general, and at last settling in left parietal bone
, [217]. ► *Stabbings in the right side
of the head, as if with a two-edged knife, which next are felt in the front of the head,
then in the vertex, then in the occiput, so that she cannot lie on either side
, [9]. ► Throbbing aches in
the parietal region, lasting nearly two hours (after five and a half hours), [218]. ► Occiput and External.
► Occipital headache, [214].
► *Sensation of weight, with violent pressing, in the occiput
(after two and a half hours), [8]. ► Throbbing pressure in the left side of the occiput (after
five hours), [8]. ►
A cutting pain in the head to the left side of the occipital protuberance, [8]. ► In the evening, some severe
stabs in the occiput, immediately behind the ear, rapid as lightning, so that he could have
cried out (after six days), [1]. [490.] ► Some dull shoots in
the left side of the occiput, [10]. ► Nodosities resembling small exostoses, at several place on
the head, [215]. ►
Eruption of hard and very sensitive pimples on the scalp, [215].
► Crusty herpetic eruptions, scales and ulcers, on the
hairy scalp, [215]. ►
Sensation as if the hair on the top of the head were being pulled (after three and a half
hours), [217]. ►
Pain externally in the whole head, resembling that which remains in the integument after
strong tugging and pulling at the hair, [13]. ►► *The head externally is so sensitive that the least contact,
event the pressure of the hair, gives her pain
, [9].
► Soreness of roots of hair, [227]. ► Crampy pain on the scalp,
with feeling as if the hair was being plucked out, [215].
► Raw pain on the scalp, as if it had been burnt, [215]. [500.]
► The hair of the head, which was previously naturally
electric, is so no longer (after twenty-four hours), [1].
► Falling off of the hair, chiefly around the head, [215]. ► Hairs which
become discolored, break easily and fall off, [215].

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