Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active
congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It
has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands. Belladonna always is associated
with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state,
hyperćsthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth
and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that
come and go suddenly (Oxytropis). Heat,
redness, throbbing and burning. Great children’s remedy. Epileptic spasms followed
by nausea and vomiting. Scarlet fever and also
prophylactic. Here use the thirtieth potency. Exophthalmic goitre.
Corresponds to the symptoms of “air-sickness” in
aviators. Give as preventive. No thirst, anxiety or fear.
Belladonna stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset. Bell for the extreme of thyroid toxćmia.
Use 1x (Beebe).
Mind.–
Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by
specters and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities. While the retina is insensible to
actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within.
He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of subjective
visual impressions and fantastic illusions. Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces.
Delirium; frightful images; furious; rages, bites,
strikes; desire to escape. Loss of consciousness.
Disinclined to talk. Perversity, with tears. Acuteness of all senses.
Changeableness.
Head.–
Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards.
Sensitive to least contact. Much throbbing and heat. Palpitation reverberating in head with
labored breathing. Pain; fullness, especially in forehead,
also occiput, and temples. Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow. Sudden outcries. Pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon;
better by pressure and semi-erect posture. Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and
rolls from side to side. Constant moaning. Hair splits; is dry and comes out. Headache worse
on right side and when lying down; ill effects, colds, etc; from having hair cut.
Face.–
Red, bluish-red, hot,
swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face. Swelling of upper lip. Facial
neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face.
Eyes.–
Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. Pupils dilated (Agnus). Eyes
feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry,
burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmus. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids. Sensation as if eyes were
half closed. Eyelids swollen. Fundus congested.
Ears.–
Tearing pain in middle and external ear. Humming noises.
Membrana tympani bulges and injected. Parotid gland swollen. Sensitive to loud tones. Hearing
very acute. Otitis media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in
sleep; throbbing and beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat.
Hematoma auris. Acute and sub-acute conditions of Eustachian tube. Autophony-hearing one’s
voice in ear.
Nose.–
Imaginary odors. Tingling in tip of nose. Red and
swollen. Bleeding of nose, with red face. Coryza; mucus
mixed with blood.
Mouth.–
Dry. Throbbing pain in teeth. Gumboil. Tongue red on
edges. Strawberry tongue. Grinding of teeth. Tongue
swollen and painful. Stammering.
Throat.–
Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion (Ginseng); red, worse on right side.
Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition;
worse, liquids. Sensation of a lump. Śsophagus dry; feels contracted. Spasms
in throat. Continual inclination to swallow. Scraping sensation. Muscles of deglutition very
sensitive. Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.
Stomach.–
Loss of appetite. Averse to meat and milk. Spasmodic
pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to spine. Nausea and vomiting. Great thirst for cold water. Spasms of stomach. Empty retching.
Abhorrence of liquids. Spasmodic hiccough. Dread of drinking.
Uncontrollable vomiting.
Abdomen.–
Distended, hot. Transverse colon protrudes like a pad.
Tender, swollen. Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure. Cutting pain across;
stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching it. Extreme
sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, etc (Laches).
Stools.–
Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk.
Shuddering during stool. Stinging pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture. Piles more sensitive
with backache. Prolapsus ani (Ignatia; Podoph).
Urine.–
Retention. Acute
urinary infections. Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm. Urine scanty, with tenesmus;
dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates. Vesical region sensitive. Incontinence, continuous
dropping. Frequent and profuse. Hćmaturia where no
pathological condition can be found. Prostatic hypertrophy.
Male.–
Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed. Nocturnal sweat of
genitals. Flow of prostatic fluid. Desire diminished.
Female.–
Sensitive forcing downwards, as
if all the viscera would protrude at genitals. Dryness and heat of vagina. Dragging
around loins. Pain in sacrum. Menses increased; bright red, too
early, too profuse. Hćmorrhage hot. Cutting pain from hip to hip. Menses and lochia very offensive and hot. Labor-pains come and
go suddenly. Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks
radiate from nipple. Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red. Tumors of breast, pain worse lying
down. Badly smelling hćmorrhages, hot gushes of blood. Diminished lochia.
Respiratory.–
Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea. Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night. Larynx feels sore.
Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes respiration (Cocaine;
Opium). Hoarse; loss of voice. Painless hoarseness. Cough with pain in left hip.
Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of
blood. Stitches in chest when coughing. Larynx very painful;
feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough. High, piping
voice. Moaning at every breath.
Heart.–
Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored
breathing. Palpitation from least exertion. Throbbing all through body. Dichrotism. Heart
seemed too large. Rapid but weakened pulse.
Extremities.–
Shooting pains along limbs. Joints swollen, red,
shining, with red streaks radiating. Tottering gait. Shifting rheumatic pains. Phlegmasia alba
dolens. Jerking limbs. Spasms. Involuntary limping. Cold extremities.
Back.–
Stiff neck. Swelling of glands
of neck. Pain in nape, as if it would break. Pressure on dorsal region most
painful. Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.
Skin.–
Dry and hot; swollen,
sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth. Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading. Erythema;
pustules on face. Glands swollen, tender, red. Boils. Acne rosacea. Suppurative wounds. Alternate
redness and paleness of the skin. Indurations after inflammations. Erysipelas.
Fever.–
A high feverish state with comparative absence of
toxćmia. Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy cold.
Superficial blood-vessels, distended. Perspiration dry only on head. No
thirst with fever.
Sleep.–
Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth. Kept awake by
pulsation of blood-vessels. Screams out in sleep. Sleeplessness, with drowsiness. Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep. Sleeps with
hands under head (Ars; Plat).
Modalities.–
Worse, touch,
jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying down. Better,
semi-erect.
Relationship.–
Compare: Sanguisorba
officinals 2x-6x, a member of the Rosaceć family, (Profuse,
long-lasting menses, especially in nervous patients with congestive symptoms to
head and limbs. Passive hćmorrhages at climacteric. Chronic metritis. Hćmorrhage from lungs.
Varices and ulcers). Mandragora–(Mandrake). A narcotic of
the ancients-Restless excitability and bodily weakness. Desire for sleep. Has antiperiodic
properties like China and Aranea. Useful in epilepsy and hydrophobia, also Cetonia (A. E. Lavine). Hyos
(less fever, more agitation); Stram (more sensorial
excitement, frenzy); Hoitzia-A Mexican drug, similar in
action to Bellad (Useful in fever, scarlatinal eruption, measles, urticaria, etc. High fever
with eruptive fevers. Dry mouth and throat, red face, injected eyes, delirium). Calcar is
often required after Bell; Atropia. Alkaloid of Belladonna
covers more the neurotic sphere of the Belladonna action (Great
dryness of throat, almost impossible to swallow. Chronic stomach affections, with
great pain and vomiting of all food. Peritonitis. All kind of illusions of sight. Everything
appears large. Platina opposite). Hypochlorhydria;
pyrosis. Motes over everything. On reading, words run together;
double vision, all objects seem to be elongated.
Eustachian tube and tympanic congestion. Affinity for the pancreas. Hyperacidity of stomach.
Paroxysms of gastric pain; ovarian neuralgia.
Non-Homeopathic Uses.–
Atropia
and its salts are used for ophthalmic purposes, to dilate the pupil and paralyze the
accommodation.
Given internally or hypodermically, it is antagonistic to Opium and
Morphine. Physostigma and Prussic Acid. Narcotic poisons and mushroom poisoning. Renal colic
1-200 of a grain hypodermically.
Atropin injected subcutaneously in doses from a milligram upwards for
intestinal obstruction threatening life.
Hypodermically 1-80 gr night sweats in phthisis.
Atropia 1-20 gr is antagonistic to 1 gr. Morphine.
Also used as a local anćsthetic, antispasmodic, and to dry up secretions,
milk, etc. Hypodermically 1-80 gr night sweats in phthisis.
Dose.–
Atropia Sulph, 1-120
to 1-60 grain.
Antidotes to Belladonna: Camph; Coff; Opium; Acon.
Complementary: Calc. Bellad (contains
lime). Especially in semi-chronic and constitutional diseases.
Incompatible: Acet ac.
Dose.–
First to thirtieth potency and higher. Must be repeated
frequently in acute diseases.