Hyoscyamus Niger

► Stupor, unconsciousness ; does not reply to questions ; does not recognize any one. ► Answers properly but immediately stupor returns. ► Makes irrelevant answer. ► Inability to think ; thoughts cannot be directed or controlled. ► Stupid, or illusions of the imagination and senses. ► Sees persons who are not and have not been present. ► Thinks he is in the wrong place. ► Delirium continued while awake. ► Delirious without apparent heat ; the face is pale and the limbs are cold, though the temperature is high. ► Delirium : talks of business ; complaints of imaginary wrongs. ► Delirium tremens, with clonic spasms ; averse to light and company ; visions, as if persecuted. ► Insane passion for work. ► Indistinct, muttering loquacity. ► Silly, smiling laughs at everything, silly expression. ► Cried and laughed alternately, gesticulated lively. ► Lascivious mania, uncovers body, especially sexual parts ; sings amorous songs. ► Cries out suddenly. ► Whines, but knows not why. ► Muttering, picking at bedclothes. ► Plays with his fingers (not picking bedclothes). ► Wants to go from one bed to another. ► Restless, jumps out of bed, tries to turn away. ► Does foolish things, behaves like one mad. ► Abuses those about him. ► Tries of injure those around him ; convulsions after trying to swallow. ► Scolds ; raves. ► Answers no questions. ► Cannot bear to be talked to. ► Anxious apprehension. ► Fears : being left alone ; of poison, or being bitten ; being poisoned or sold. ► Makes no complaints ; has no wants. ► Does not know whether or not to take what is offered. ► Jealousy. ► Fright, followed by convulsions. ► Unfortunate love, with rage, and incoherent speech. ► Disappointed love, followed by epilepsy.

► Vertigo, with drunkenness ; also from smell of flowers, from gas, etc. ► Sudden falling, with a shriek ; sopor. ► Rolls head, stertor, hiccough ; concussion of brain. ► Apoplexy, snoring ; involuntary stool and urine. ► Repeated attacks of fainting.

► Pain and heat in head, after a meal. ► Headache, better walking. ► Congestion to head. ► Cerebral hyperaemia, delirious, unconscious, blue-red face ; red, sparkling eyes. ► Heaviness, vacant feeling, confusion, severe pain ; pains in meninges ; pressure in left side of forehead, changing to shooting. ► Heat and tingling in head ; pulsations, like waves, head shakes ; worse becoming cold, after eating ; better bending head forward, and from heat. ► Brain feels as if loose. ► Stupor ; shakes head to and fro ; swashing sensation in brain.

► Catches cold in head, especially from dry, cold air. ► Rolling the head. ► Head sinks on one or other side.

► Farsighted, clearsighted ; pupils dilated. ► Illusions ; objects look red as fire, or too large. ► Amblyopia ; epilepsy. ► Double sight. ► Night blindness. ► Constant staring at surrounding objects, self-forgetfulness. ► Eyes protrude. ► Eyes red, sparkling, staring ; rolling about in orbits ; squinting. ► Tearing, beating in right eye, which waters and seems projected. ► Pupils altered, dilated or contracted ; slow respiration. ► Eyes open ; distorted. ► Quivering in the eye. ► Spasmodic closing of eyelids ; cannot open eyelids. θ Spinal meningitis. ► Rending pains in angles of eyes, disappearing when touched.

► Buzzing, singing, rushing in ears. ► Deafness. ► Hard hearing, as if stupefied, especially after apoplexy.

► Sense of smell weak, or lost. ► Nosebleed, bright red, with salivation. ► Sudden jerks at root of nose. ► Cramp-pressure at root of nose and malar bones. ► Nostrils sooty, smoky.

► Face : flushed ; dark red, bloated ; cold and pale ; distorted ; stupid expression ; muscles twitch, makes grimaces ; bluish, mouth wide open ; approaching cerebral paralysis in typhus. ► Paralysis in typhus. ► Lockjaw ; fully conscious.

► Foam at the mouth. ► Lips dry.

► Closes the teeth tightly. ► Toothache, driving to despair ; tearing, throbbing, extending to the cheeks and along lower jaw. ► Tearing in teeth as if blood was forced into them, flushes of heat, congestion to head ; worse from cold air, morning. ► Teeth feel loose when chewing ; also, too long. ► Intense pain in gums after extraction of a tooth. ► Sordes on teeth and in the mouth. ► Grating the teeth.

► Putrid taste. ► Very talkative, or loss of speech. ► Tongue : red or brown, dry, cracked, hard ; looks like burnt leather ; clean, parched ; white. ► Paralysis of tongue ; speech embarrassed. ► Tongue protruded with difficulty, can hardly draw it in.

► Salivation ; saliva saltish ; bloody. ► Cadaverous smell from mouth, worse morning and evening.

► Elongated palate. ► Throat and mouth dry, parched and red, inability to swallow. ► Throat dry, burning ; shooting ; pricking pains, difficult swallowing, as from constriction ; dread of liquids. ► Constriction of the throat, impeded deglutition. ► Spasmodic contraction of oesophagus after injury ; solid and warm food swallowed best ; fluids cause spasm ; hiccough, nausea, stiff neck. ► Difficult to swallow liquids, an attempt to swallow renews spasm.

► Hungry gnawing : 36. ► Thirst, drinks but little at a time. ► Dread of water.

► After eating : 3, 36. Great thirst : 21.

► Hiccough, with spasms and rumbling in abdomen. ► Eructations : empty ; incomplete ; bitter. ► Nausea : with vertigo ; and vomiting. ► Retching and vomiting, with colic, extorting cries. ► Vomiting : of food and drink ; of blood, with convulsions ; of bloody mucus, with dark red blood.

► Pit of stomach tender to touch. ► Cramps in stomach, with loud shrieks, vomiting, convulsions ; cramps better after vomiting. ► Burning and inflammation of the stomach. ► Haematemesis, pit of stomach sensitive ; dull aching about liver ; abdomen bloated.

► Stitches or dull pain in region of liver.

► Colic as if abdomen would burst ; presses the fists into sides ; cutting, vomiting, belching, hiccough, screaming. ► Abdomen distended, sore to touch, tympanitic. ► Umbilicus open, urine oozing through. ► Enteritis or peritonitis, with typhoid symptoms. ► Abdominal muscles sore. ► Roseola on abdomen.

► Paralysis of rectum, or sphincter ani. ► Frequent urging, with small discharges. ► Stool small in size. ► Diarrhoea, colicky pains, frequent urging to stool ; or sphincter weak, can hardly retain the feces ; worse by least mental excitement or trouble. ► Diarrhoea of lying-in women. ► Yellow, watery stools, involuntary during sleep ; old men. ► Involuntary stool at night. ► Hemorrhoids bleeding profusely. ► Constipation, with epilepsy.

► Micturition : frequent, scanty ; difficult, from spasmodic or inflammatory condition of neck of bladder ; involuntary ; has no will to urinate. ► Urine : scanty ; retained or suppressed ; turbid, with muco-purulent deposit ; with red, sandy sediment.

► Sexual desire excessive ; lascivious, exposes his person. ► Impotence.

► Lascivious, uncovers sexual parts. ► Uterine cramps, with pulling in loins and small of back ; irritable uterus. ► Metritis, typhoid state. ► Continuous bright red flow, with spasmodic jerking, great vascular excitement, θ Metrorrhagia. ► Pale flow, with convulsions. ► Menses preceded by hysterical or epileptic spasms ; laughing loud, uninterrupted ; profuse sweat and nausea. ► During menses, convulsive trembling of hands and feet, headache, profuse sweat ; lockjaw ; enuresis.

► Painless diarrhoea of lying-in women. ► Hemorrhage after labor, after miscarriage ; spasms, twitchings of single muscles. ► Puerperal spasms, shrieks, anguish ; chest oppressed, unconscious. ► Children at the breast have singultus. ► Umbilicus open, urine oozing through.

► Voice husky, as from mucus. ► Constriction of the larynx. ► Hysterical aphonia.

► Loss of breath, as from rapid running. ► Mucous rales during stupor or furious delirium. ► Rattling breathing. ► Oppression of the chest, with internal stinging, worse during inspiration.

► Dry, hacking or spasmodic cough, worse lying, better sitting up ; worse at night, also, after eating ; drinking talking, or singing ; velum palati usually elongated. ► Expectoration of saltish mucus, or bright red blood, mixed with coagula. ► During cough : spasms of the larynx ; painful epigastrium and hypochondria.

► Tight feeling across chest, as from overexertion, running. ► Spasms of chest, arrest of breathing ; must lean forward. ► Exhausted from long talking ; body, and especially chest, weak ; green sputum, weak pulse. ► Stitches in side of chest. ► Haemoptysis, bright red, with spasms, also, in drunkards. ► Pneumonia : cerebral symptoms, delirium, sopor ; dry, fatiguing night cough, or rattling in chest.

► Pulse : accelerated, full, hard and strong ; rapid, intermitting ; slow and small ; weak and irregular ; small, weak, scarcely perceptible. ► Carotids beat violently.

► Muscles sore. ► Roseola on chest.

► Spinal meningitis, with convulsions, jerks of muscles ; after injury.

► Arms tremble, especially in the evening and after exercise. ► Painful numbness of hands. ► Rigor of hands. ► Fingers look and feel too thick.

► Cramps in anterior part of thigh. ► Swelling of the feet. ► Toes spasmodically contracted in walking or going up stairs.

► Trembling of arms and hands. ► Lancinating pains in almost all joints, especially on motion. ► Cold hands and feet.

► Throws arms about, misses what is reached for, gait tottering ; chorea. ► Convulsions after meals : child sickens after eating, vomits or shows distress at the stomach, sudden shriek, and then insensible. ► Convulsive jerks ; long-lasting spasms. ► Angular motions ; jerks of single muscles or sets of muscles. ► Subsultus tendinum. ► Epilepsy. Before the attack : vertigo, sparks before eyes, ringing in ears, hungry, gnawing. During attack : face purple, eyes projecting, shrieks, grinding teeth ; urination. After attack : sopor, snoring. ► Suffocating spells and convulsions during labor. ► Convulsions of children, especially from fright. ► Restless, turns from one place to another. ► Paralysis after spasms, or after diphtheria.

► Stupid and drowsy, or excitable and sleepless. ► Falls asleep while answering. ► Deep sleep with convulsions. ► Constant slumber, with picking. ► Sleep, with outcries. ► Sleepless, or constant sleep, with muttering. ► Sleeplessness, after violent disease, or with irritable, excited persons. ► Lying on back, suddenly sits up, then lied down again. ► Starts in sleep, after a fright. ► Dreams : anxious ; lascivious. ► Awaking with screams.

► Chill alternate days, 11 A.M. ; cannot bear to be talked to, or hear the least noise. ► Chill from feet upwards ; shivering, heat of face. ► Cold at night, up the back from small of back ; cannot get warm in bed. ► Whole body cold, with burning redness of face. ► Chill, alternating with heat. ► Burning heat all over, every evening congestion to head ; putrid taste. ► Heat, no desire to drink. ► Skin burning hot to examining hand. ► Congestive chills. ► Sweat mostly on legs. ► Sweat : cold ; sour ; weakening ; during sleep.

► Alternate days, at 11 A.M. : 40. Every evening : 40.

► Sensation of pricking all over. ► As if blood burned in the veins. ► Want of sensation : 46.

► Fulness of the veins ; full pulse. ► Hemorrhages usually light red. ► Obesity. ► Skin and muscles lax.

► Touch : 2, 5, 17, 19. After injury : 2, 31.

► Skin often pale, with delirium ; body hot. ► Hot, dry, brittle skin, want to sensation. ► Brown or gangrenous spots. ► Skin red, or with red rash. ► Varicella ; vesicles in crops, sleepless ; nervous ; dry cough, must sit up. ► Gangrene, with nervous restlessness ; itching around. ► Large pustules, clustering from hips to knees. ► Ulcers painful, bleeding ; bruised feeling on moving the part. ► Scarlatina, with marked mental symptoms.

► Nervous irritable, excitable. ► Sanguine temperament. ► Drunkards. ► Hysterical subjects. ► Old men.

► Hyosc. is suitable in : hard hearing after apoplexy. Bellad. failing ; haemoptysis of drunkards, after Opium or Nux vom. ; congestive chills, after Bellad. and Opium fail. ► Excessive lasciviousness to Phosphor., when Hyosc. fails. ► Complaints from inhaling ether. ► Ailments from Plumbum, or abuse of Bellad. ► Antidotes : vinegar, Bellad., citric acid, Cinchon., Stramon.