HYOSCYAMUS.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► Distended
veins over the whole body, [14], [31]. ►
Obstinate dropsy, [6]. ► Apoplectic and cramped condition (after
one hour), [78]. [950.] ►
He gropes about without knowing whither, [24].
► Tremors, startings, and
convulsions, [24]. [Original
revised by Hughes.] ► Tremors
extended to the muscles, and they shook violently; horripilation and
perfect rigors (after two hours), [81].
► Nervous trembling and jerking of
the muscles, [91]. ► Twitchings of all kinds, [67]. ► *Muscular
twitching, [57]. ► Frequent jerkings, [11]. ► *Subsultus
tendinum, [24]. ► *Frequent subsultus tendinum, and a furious
delirium, so that he became uncontrollable; during the periods of
remission he was engaged in catching at flocks in the air, or pulling at
the bed-clothes, [96]. ► [Spasms, diarrhœa, and coldness of the
whole body], [20]. (Case 28). [960.] ►
[Spasms, with watery diarrhœa and flow of urine], [20]. (Case 28). ►
*The spasms flex the limbs, and the bent body is tossed upward,
[12]. ►
*Convulsive movements, [27].
►► *Convulsions, [14], [28],
[68], etc. ►
Convulsions lasting five days, [28].
► Convulsions, with frothing from the
mouth, [12]. ►
The whole body was convulsed, [96].
► *The body is frightfully tossed
about by the convulsions, [12]. ► After every drink, sometimes he fell into
convulsions, sometimes he did not recognize the bystanders, [24]. ►
Hands, feet, and muscles of the face were every now and then twitched,
with convulsions; and so strongly did they struggle that is was no easy
task to restrain them, or take away anything they took hold of (after
eight hours), [72]. [970.] ►
On attempting to make the child walk, it was remarkable that she walked
with the body bent backward, as if the head and trunk were acted upon by
an invisible force; at the same time, if she spontaneously attempted to
walk, she did so with the feet wide apart, with involuntary motions of
the hands, with which she felt about her, sometimes closing them as
quick as lightning, and again opening them, [66]. ►
Epilepsy, [38]. [In two boys from
the seeds, one of whom died after a few hours. -Hahnemann. The following
is added by Hughes: No such observation occurs here, but the author
relates how a fomentation of the seeds applied for menstrual headache
caused epileptic symptoms to come on.] ►
Slight attacks of epilepsy alternate with paroxysms of apoplexy, [33]. ►
*She is rigid all over, as in tetanus, [27]. ► [He is
extremely powerful in his rage], [20].
(Case 7). ► Excessive activity; he
thought himself more active and vigorous than he really was (after two,
four and eight hours), [2]. ► Disinclination for mental and physical
labor, [59a]. ► Aversion to and dread of motion and work,
[1b]. ►
Quiet lying down, [23]. [Eight
hours after. -Hughes.] ► Some
weariness, [60]. [980.] ►
Weariness, weakness of the whole body, [24].
[In half an hour. -Hughes.] ► Unusual
sinking of strength (after four hours), [48].
► *Weakness, [20]. (Case 21), [32],
[33], [36]. ►
Weakness; he is scarcely able to stand upon his feet, and it constantly
seems as though he would fall, [8].
► Exhaustion, [62]. ► [He is
exhausted, and talks to himself], [20].
(Case 16). ► General exhaustion until
faintness was imminent, with trembling of the whole body and
extraordinary coldness of the surface of the limbs, [41]. ► When
he became quiet, he seemed very much exhausted and snored deeply until
the convulsions recommenced, [96].
► Prostration and heaviness of the
limbs, [59a]. ► Prostration, stupor, and overpowering
sleepiness, [77]. [990.] ►
Prostration amounting to such a degree that it caused an unsteady gait,
as from vertigo, [60]. ► General prostration and discomfort, [59]. ►
The ground seemed to give way under their feet, [95]. ► The
child was unable to stand, and lost all power of holding up the body, [71]. ►
Inability to maintain the erect posture, and reeling when an attempt was
made to stand, [57]. ► The child began to reel and fell to the
ground (soon), [67]. ► The man staggered to the bed, whereon he
fell and remained completely immovable, [93].
► He wants to get away, but cannot stand
alone; he attempts to walk and falls upon his face; repeats
the effort, and invariably falls upon his face; when raised upon his
feet can hardly stand; limbs seem weak, almost paralyzed; acts as if
intoxicated, [91]. ► She soon fell from her seat and lay
immovable, and slept, with the head sunk upon the chest, the face very
red, deep respiration, warm skin, small rapid pulse, eyes, closed and
much injected, [64]. ► He suddenly falls to the earth, [12], [27].
[1000.] ► *He falls suddenly to the ground, with cries and
convulsions (after a few minutes), [34]. [From fomentations of Hyoscyamus applied to
the head. -Hahnemann.] ► Fell down
unconsciousness, with the whole body cold and stiff like a piece of wood,
face pale, eyes closed, pupils greatly dilated, conjunctiva injected,
anterior cervical muscles so much contracted that it was impossible to
lay his head back upon the pillow; pulse small, thready, rapid;
respiration stertorous and extremely difficult, with apparent spasms of
the pectoral muscles, [65]. ► Faintness, [27].
► Attacks of faintness, [43]. ►
Repeated faintness, [32]. ► Deathlike faintness, [16]. ► He is
in danger of becoming senseless, [15].
► [Senseless, with diarrhœa], [20]. (Case 12). ►
She became senseless and lost her speech, [27].
► Completely insensible (after five
hours), [87]. [1010.] ►
Hemiplegia, [22]. ► Restlessness and confusedness in their
speech and conduct, [72]. ► Restlessness and violent tossing,
amounting almost to convulsions, [89].
► Very restless (soon after half an
hour), [86]. ► Excessive animation, restless, hurry,
[4]. ►
Uneasiness, [23]. [Omit Greding.
-Hughes.] ► Extreme uneasiness; he
cannot be restrained, [42].
[Original revised by Hughes.] ► They
constantly move from place to place, for two days, [36]. ►
Constantly changing his position (five hours after first dose), [92]. ►
They were unable to remain in one position, [77]. [1020.]
► In bed, at one time he drew the
knees up, at another stretched them out, at another turned over, turned
the head back and forth, at another raised the head and beat the bed
with it, at another picked the straws from his mattress, groped about
himself and did not speak; he was neither peevish nor out of humor
(after three hours and a half), [1].
► Tosses about the bed and screams
incessantly, [94]. ► He was throwing himself about in bed,
incessantly screaming, and constantly rubbing his hot head with both
hands (after several hours), [86].
► Subjective. ► Loss of sensation; he is insensible to
pinching, [24]. ► Loss of sense of touch (after two hours),
[81]. ►
*Blunted sensibility, insensible sluggishness, [24]. ►
Sensibility was extinct, [95]. ► He is bereft of all his senses; he sits
immovable in bed like a statue, [39].
► A very peculiar sensation of
lightness and mobility, [4]. ► *Hysterical pain previous to the appearance of
the menses, [20]. (Case
39). [1030.] ►
Rheumatic pains, [29]. (Case 21). ► General oppression of the whole system, [72]. ►
The most numerous and severe symptoms occur after eating, [2]. ►
Symptoms ceased the day after the medicine was omitted, [73]. ► Fell
asleep soon, but before and hour his sleep became very much disturbed,
and he was awakened by a continual fluttering and agitation about the
centre of the body, [81].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► Red skin
(after three hours), [88]. ► Skin of a bright red hue, resembling
scarlatina, [87]. ► The skin of the whole body is as if
inflamed and of a reddish cinnabar color (soon after the simple heat), [26]. [Original revised by Hughes.] ► Skin rattling like parchment, [60]. ►
Eruptions, Dry. ► Bright
scarlet redness of the whole surface, exactly resembling that of
scarlatina; it was not mere flushing of the surface produced by unusual
exertion, but well-defined papillary eruption, disappearing on firm
pressure, returning immediately when the pressure is removed; the
eruption began to fade away in about twelve hours; on the fourth day,
numerous vesicles appeared on various parts of the body, resembling
those of varicella; after remaining out about two days they dried up,
leaving scales, which peeled off along with portions of the surrounding
cuticle; the thick epidermis of the hands and feet, however, showed no
signs of desquamation; the mucous membrane partook to some extent of the
same appearance as in scarlatina, though the strawberry tongue was not,
of course, so well marked, [89]. [1040.] ►
The body all over had a purplish rash, more particularly about the neck
and face; the face was “so swollen that she thought it would
burst,” scarlet, the color more marked on the left cheek, on which
it persistently remained for four days, the rash gradually disappearing
from other parts of the body, on the second day (after four hours), [90]. ►
Felt his lips swell (soon after first dose); his nose swelled very much
(ten minutes after third dose), which swelling extended all over his
face and body, growing less severe about his waist; this was accompanied
by a prickly sensation and itching; the skin of the face was very red,
shining, and hard; the eyes were shut; there was no interval seen until
below the middle of the body, where bunches and irregular patches
appeared scattered over the surface, and some smaller ones appeared like
enlarged papillæ of the skin; he could hardly utter a word; owing to a
“stiffness of the tongue and lips,” as he expressed it; what
he did say was in a thick blundering manner, like that of a drunken man;
his mind appeared perfectly clear; the eruption began to subside in
about an hour and a half from the time that the last dose was taken, and
had almost or quite disappeared the next morning, [85]. ► Brown
spots made their appearance alternately over the whole body and then
disappeared, [20]. (Case 14). ► Erysipelatous spots and blisters break
out, mostly on the lower limbs (after twenty-four hours), [9]. ► A few
pimples on the elbow, externally, with sore painfulness when touched
(after nine hours), [5]. ► Tetterlike spots on the nape of the neck,
[20]. (Case 29). ► Eruptions, Pustular. ► Numerous large boils, [1]. ►
Eruption of large pustules grouped in many places, from the region above
the hip to the knee, looking like confluent pocks; they contain no
moisture and desquamate after four days (after third day), [14]. [On seat of dartres thought to
have been cured by Mercury. -Hughes.] ►
Thick pustules full of yellow matter break out on the cheeks and chin,
after which the nose becomes ulcerated, [20].
(Case 16). ► Pocklike pustules on the
right side of the chin, [1a]. [1050.] ►
Here and there small furuncles appear on the face (after 4 3/4 to 5 1/4
grains), [59]. ► A boil on the left thigh, [20]. (Case 39). ►
The ulcer becomes bloody and extremely painful (after twenty-four
hours), [1]. ► Subjective. ►
General itching here and there (second day), [56]. ►
Itching compels him to scratch the skin until it bleeds, [14]. ►
Tormented by itching, which obliged him to scratch himself until
bleeding, [96]. ► Skin of palms of hands seemed like stiff
thick leather, which at last seemed to be quite benumbed (after two
hours), [81]. ► Bruised pain in an ulcer, on moving the
part (after twenty-four hours), [1].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Yawning, [56]. [Not so frequent nor so deep as
when proving the 3d and 15th potencies.] ►
Yawning and stretching (after one hour), [56].
[1060.] ►
Yawning more and more frequently repeated, and becoming deeper and more
disagreeable, relieved after sleepiness came on, followed by long sleep,
[55]. ►
Frequent yawning, [59]. ► The yawning is provoked and aggravated by
reading aloud, [55]. ► Sleepiness (after two hours), [23]; (after half an hour), [56]; (after 11 1/4 grains), [59]. ►
Sleepiness, during a very interesting lecture (soon), [56]. ►
Sleepiness, and inability to think (after ten minutes), [56]. ► Great
sleepiness, but after a short nap with closed eyes, was completely wide
awake, [55]. ►
Sleepiness during the day, with restless sleep at night, not refreshing,
interrupted by dreams, [59], [59a]. ►
Great sleepiness, from noon till 3 P.M., will inability to study, and
weariness, which even troubled him when walking in the room (after two
hours, [56]. ►
Almost overpowering sleepiness, with yawning, at 5 P.M., [56]. [1070.]
► Sleepy; inability to open the
eyelids, [24]. ► Excessive somnolency for three hours,
with dreaming and occasional muttering; when aroused he rubbed his
hands, gaped, and answered my questions readily, but so great was the
tendency to sleep that he could not keep the eyelids open for many
seconds, and he dozed off with a half-finished sentence on his lips, [57]. ►
Feeling as though he had not slept enough; frequent yawning in the
forenoon (second day), [53]. ► Great inclination to sleep, which after
large doses amounted to coma vigil, [23].
► Irresistible desire to sleep, [24]. [In half an hour. -Hughes.] ► Became drowsy (soon after first dose), [85]. ►
Drowsy and very restless (three hours after first dose), [92]. ►
Falling asleep against his will, [55].
► Fell asleep in her chair at the end
of the meal and sank into a lethargic state (the second woman), [93]. ►
[Sleep], [24]. [After relief of
the conditions shown in S. 205, 812, by venesection. -Hughes.] [1080.] ►
Long-continuing slumbering, [30]. ► He sleeps late, [1a]. ► Can
scarcely awake after a long sleep (second day), [56]. ►
Immoderate sleep, [27]. ► Sleep for two days, [27]. ► Sleep
for three days, [27]. ► [Gentle sleep], [20]. (Case 7). [Curative effect. -Hughes.] ► Quiet sleep, with profuse perspiration,
and frequent micturition, [12].
(Case 20). ► Deep sleep, [27]. [Greding omitted by Hughes.] ► Long-continued deep sleep, [9], [40]. [1090.] ► Very
deep slumber (after five hours), [1b]. ► Deep
sound sleep, interrupted by frightful dreams, [60]. ► In a
state of profound sleep (soon), [89].
► Profound sleep, which continued two
days and two nights (in one case), [69].
► Sleeplessness. ►► *Sleeplessness, [9]. ►►
*Long-continued sleeplessness, [33].
► Complete sleeplessness, [75]. ►
Anxious sleeplessness, [1]. ► Sleepless at night, [94]. ►
[Sleepless night], [20]. (Case 2).
[1100.] ►► *Sleepless, on account of quiet mental
activity, [4]. ► No sleep (first night), [83]. ►► *He
was unable to sleep the whole night; he tried lying upon one side and
the other, yet he was unable to get quiet; only shortly before daybreak did he sleep somewhat from
time to time; always during the short naps perspiration all over,
especially about the neck (after five hours), [3]. ► He
passed the night without sleep, and was seized alternately with tremors
and convulsive startings, [24].
[Original revised by Hughes.] ►
Complete insomnia for forty-eight hours, night and day (in spite of 2
half-grain doses of morphia), [58].
► Was unable to fall asleep for along
time; had many dreams, [53]. ► He first fell asleep long after midnight,
yet he awoke unusually early and felt very lively, and inclined to
fantasies, active and strong, [4].
► *Restless sleep (after 2
grains), [59]. ► Sleep restless (after 18 3/4 grains), [59]. ►
Sleep restless, with frequent waking and tossing about, [51]. [1110.]
► Sleep disturbed (after 10 grains);
slept more (after 14 grains); disturbed by dreams (after 18 grains), [73]. ►
Uneasy sleep; he wakes often with thoughts about the business of the
preceding day, [50]. ► *He awoke himself from sleep with a cry,
[23]. ►
Frequent waking from sleep at night, as though he had been disturbed or
had already slept enough, two nights in succession, [3]. ►►
Starts up in sleep from affright, [1b]. ► Sleep
interrupted by gnashing of the teeth, [20].
(Case 26). ► In the morning, great
hyperæsthesia, like an exhausted wakefulness; in the afternoon sleepy,
prostrated and irresolute, [2].
[The excessive wakefulness (compare 1, 13, 1081, 1094, 1095, 1099, 1100,
1102, 1106, 1118, 975, 1014] alternates in Hyoscyamus with sleepiness
and sleep; still excessive wakefulness seems to be the primary action.
-Hahnemann.] ► Dreams. ► Dreams at night, [55]. ► Heavy
dreams, [55]. ► Very labored dreams at night, [56]. [1120.]
► Lascivious dreams, the first two
nights, without emissions, though with excitement of the genitals, [3]. ►
Anxious dreams, [56]. ► In the evening, shortly after falling
asleep, he had very anxious dreams of furious cats springing at him
(after forty-six hours), [5]. ► Frightful dreams, [33]. ► Talks
of war in his sleep, [1b]. ► Great flow of ideas through the mind
during partial sleep, [55]. ► During unconscious sleep (at 9 P.M.), he
began to weep, raised his sound arm, and then suddenly let it fall;
immediately afterwards he jerked the shoulder violently upward, then
tossed the head back and forth; then he raised the diseased foot, then
there was a sudden jerking in the sound foot; frequently the sound hand
was affected, when the fingers suddenly stretched out and again closed
tightly; with these symptoms he occasionally uttered moans, [1].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Diminished
temperature of the skin, [60]. ► Chilliness and shivering over the whole
body, lasting half an hour, [43]. ► Sudden chilliness, while in the house, [56]. [1130.]
► [Violent and long-continued chill
in the evening, with restless sleep, followed by copious perspiration], [20]. (Case 11). ►
The body became cold and stiff like wood (in the man), [93]. ► Fever
in the afternoon; feeling of coldness and pain, for example in the back,
[1]. ►
(He is unable to get warm in bed at night), [1]. ►
Shivering over the whole body, with hot face and cold hands, without
thirst (after one hour), returning the following day (after twenty-four
hours), [3]. ►
Coldness runs from the small of the back up to the nape of the neck, [50]. ►
Hands and feet cold, [70], [79]. ►
Chilliness in the back, worse in the house (after one hour), [56]. ►
Chilliness in the spine, in the open air (thermometer at freezing), [56]. ►
Transient chilliness in the back, on walking around the room (after one
hour), followed while visiting patients by a sensation of heat in the
back, especially in the small of the back and loins, [56]. [1140.]
► Coldness along the spine (first
day), [56]. ►
Extremities cold, [69], [93]. ►
Feet cold, [1]. ► Heat. ►
High temperature, [79]. ► Skin hot and dry to touch (after four
hours), [90]. ► Heat general, with greatly distended
veins, [51]. ►
Flushing of heat, with increased warmth of the face, [59]. ► Great
heat over the whole body, with much thirst, no taste and much mucus in
the mouth; the lips stick together, in the evening, [2]. ► Burning
heat over the whole body externally, [14].
► Burning heat over the whole body
externally, without redness, [23].
[1150.] ►
(The blood burns in the vessels), [1].
► When walking in the open air, he
very soon becomes hot and weak (after twelve hours), [5]. ► If he
lays the warm hands even for a moment on any part of the body, as for
example, on the back, arms, etc., they cause a long-continuing, very
decided sensation of warmth, like a burning in that place (after a few
hours), [4]. ►
Violent fever, [62]. ► Heat in the face and head, [51]. ► A
feeling of warmth in the back (immediately), [4]. ► Heat
rises up into the back, [56]. ► Heat along the back, [51]. ► Heat
along the whole back (soon), followed by sweat, especially on the small
of the back in the axillæ (soon), [56].
► Feeling of heat in the lumbar
region in the room, while sitting, [56].
[1160.] ►
Feeling of heat in the loins (third day), [56].
► Heat in the small of the back and
loins, while walking around the room (after two to four hours), [56]. ►
Feeling of heat in the small of the back and loins, in the open air,
even though the weather was cold, [56].
► Sweat. ►
Profuse sweat, [20]. (Cases 8,
10). [Omit Hamilton and Steadman. -Hughes.] ►
Extremely violent sweat, [20].
(Case 20). ► Body covered with
profuse clammy sweat (after six hours), [87].
► The skin was sweaty and warm, [71]. ►
Perspiration, [20]. [Not found.
-Hughes.] ► Increased perspiration, [59a]. ►
General perspiration, especially on the thighs and legs; for two days
(after twenty-four hours), [14]. [1170.] ►
Perspiration during the menses, [20].
(Case 20). ► Perspiration during
sleep, [20]. (Case 40). [There is
almost no perspiration except during sleep. -Hahnemann.] ► [Perspiration with weakness and dulness
of sense], [20]. (Case 10). ► Perspiration constantly more profuse, [20]. (Case 40). ►
Profuse perspiration, following great thirst, [20]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ►
Excessive perspiration, [33]. ► Cool perspiration, [43]. ► (Sour
perspiration), [20]. (Case 37). ► Increased transpiration (after two or
three days), [60]. ► Sweat on the back and pit of the stomach,
[56]. [1180.]
► Viscid perspiration on the arms,
after the prickling sensation in them (after 11 1/4 grains), [59]. ►
Palms of hands bedewed with clammy moisture and exceedingly cold (after
two hours), [81].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Confusion, etc., of the head; mucus
on teeth, etc., toothache; on rising, offensive breath; dryness of
mouth, etc., bitterness in mouth; after rising from bed, colic;
immediately after waking, pain in abdomen. ►
(Afternoon), Pain in ankle; fever. ► (Evening),
The symptoms; nausea; fulness in epigastric region, etc.; after lying
down, colic in upper abdomen; pain in left side; after movement of
bowels, trembling of arms; when walking, pain in tibia; chill, etc.;
heat over body. ► (Night), Hiccough, etc.; diarrhœa, etc.;
cough; coldness. ► (Midnight), Hiccough. ►
(Open air), Confusion of head, etc.;
lachrymation, etc.; when walking, stiffness, etc., in knee-joints. ► (Coffee),
Vomiting. ► (Cold
air), Pain in temples; tearing in gums. ►
(After dinner), Soon, anxiety;
hiccough. ► (Drinking
water), Pressure in stomach. ►
(After eating), Headache; pressure
upon sternum; weariness in legs. ► (In hot room), All symptoms. ► (In house),
Chilliness in back. ► (Lying down), Cough. ►
(After a meal), Immediately, feels
intoxicated. ► (Movement), Throbbing, etc., in frontal
eminences; tearing in joints; drawing on margin of fingers; pains in
calf. ► (Reading
aloud), Yawning. ► (Rest), Drawing in thighs; tearing in soles of
feet. ► (In
room), Headache. ► (Sitting), Pains in abdominal muscles. ► (Stooping),
Waving in brain, etc.; heaviness in forehead; throbbing, etc., in
frontal eminence. ► (Walking), Vertigo; headache; pain beneath
umbilicus; pain in small of back; drawing in legs; pain in tarsal
joints. ► (Walking
in street), Sensitiveness of metatarsus. ► Amelioration. ►
(Coffee), Head symptoms. ► (Motion),
Pain wrists, etc. ► (Pressure), Pain in occiput. ► (In room),
Head symptoms. ► (Smoking), The symptoms. ►
(Stooping), Nausea.
SUPPLEMENT: HYOSCYAMUS.
Authority.
97,
Dr. Robert Clark, Montreal Med. Chronicle (Ranking’s Abstract, 1858 (2),
p. 159), a child, aged two years and a half, ate some seeds.►
There was flushed and excited
countenance, the restless and violent tossing, amounting almost to
convulsions, the momentary listening to imaginary sounds, and the eager
clutching at visionary phantoms; the brilliant eye, widely dilated
pupil, hurried pulse, and labored respiration. There was a bright
scarlet redness of the whole surface, exactly resembling that of
scarlatina. It was not a mere flushing of the surface, but a
well-defined papillary eruption, disappearing on firm pressure, but
returning immediately when the pressure was removed. The mucous membrane
partook to some extent of the same appearance as in scarlatina, [97].® 2000
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