Henbane-Solanaceae
General
Persons of sanguine temperament; who are irritable, nervous, hysterical. Convulsions: of children, from fright or the irritation of intestinal worms [Cina]; during labor; during the puerperal state; after meals, child vomits, sudden shriek, then insensible. Diseases with increased cerebral activity, but non-inflammatory in type; hysteria or delirium tremens; delirium, with restless, jumps out of bed, tries to escape; makes irrelevant answers; thinks he is in the wrong place; talks of imaginary doings, but has no wants and makes no complaints. In delirium, Hyoscyamus occupies a place midway between Belladonna and Stramonium; lacks the constant cerebral congestion of the former and the fierce rage and maniacal delirium of the latter. Spasms: without consciousness, very restless; every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes [with consciousness, Nux]. Fears: being alone; poison; being bitten; being sold; to eat or drink; to take what is offered; suspicious, of some plot. Bad effects of unfortunate love; with jealousy, rage, incoherent speech or inclination to laugh at everything; often followed by epilepsy. Lascivious mania: immodesty, will not be covered, kicks off the clothes, exposes the person; sings obscene songs; lies naked in bed and chatters. Cough: dry, nocturnal, spasmodic; (<). when lying down, relieved by sitting up [Dros.]; (<). at night, after eating, drinking, talking, singing [Dros. , Phos. -(>). when lying down, Mang. m.]. Intense sleeplessness of irritable, excitable persons from business embarrassments, often imaginary. Paralysis of bladder: after labor, with retention or incontinence of urine; no desire to urinate in lying - in women [Arn. , Op.]. Fever: pneumonia, scarlatina, rapidly becomes typhoid; sensorium clouded, staring eyes, grasping at flocks of picking bed clothes, teeth covered with sordes, tongue dry and unwieldy; involuntary stool and urine; subsultus tendinum.
Relations
Compare: Bell. , Stram. and Verat. Phos. often cures lasciviousness when Hyos. fails. Nux or Opium in haemoptysis of drunkards. Follows: Bell. well in deafness after apoplexy.
Aggravation
At night; during menses; mental affections; jealousy, unhappy love; when lying down.