Deadly Nightshade-Solanaceae
General
Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delirious when sick. Women and children with light hair and blue eyes, fine complexion, delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions; tuberculous patients. Great liability to take cold; sensitive to drafts of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut; tonsils become inflamed after riding in a cold wind [Acon. , Hep. , Rhus - takes cold from exposure of feet, Con. , Cup. , Sil.]. Quick sensation and motion; eyes snap and move quickly; pains come suddenly, last indefinitely and cease suddenly [Mag. p.]. Pains usually in short attacks; cause redness of face and eyes; fullness of head and throbbing of carotids. Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects [Stram.]; black animals, dogs, wolves. Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them; hallucinations. Violent delirium; disposition to bite, spit, strike and tear things; breaks into fits of laughter and gnashes the teeth; wants to bite and strike the attendants [Stram.]; tries to escape [Hell.]. Head hot and painful; face flushed; eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated; pulse full and bounding, globular, like buckshot striking the finger; mucous membrane of mouth dry; stool tardy and urine suppressed; sleepy, but cannot sleep [Cham. , Op.]. Convulsions during teething, with fever [without fever, Mag. p.]; come on suddenly, head hot, feet cold. Rush of blood to head and face [Amyl. , Glon. , Mel.]. Headache, congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids [Mel.]; (<). from slight noise, jar, motion, light, lying down, least exertion; (>). pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses. Boring the head into the pillow [Apis. , Hell. , Pod.]. Vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping [Bry.]; on every change of position. abdomen tender, distended (<). by least jar, even of the bed; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar. pain in r. ileo-caecal region, (<). by slightest touch, even of the bed-cover. The transverse colon protrudes like a pad. Skin: of a uniform, smooth, shining scarlet redness; dry, hot, burning; imparts a burning sensation to examining hand; the true Sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet. Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; (>). standing and sitting erect; worse mornings [Lil. , Mur. , Sep.].
Relations
Complementary: Calcarea. Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea, which is often required to complete a cure. Similar: to, Acon, Bry. , Cic. , Gels. , Glon. , Hyos. , Mel. , Op. , Stram.
Aggravation
From touch, motion, noise, draft of air, looking at bright shining objects [Lys. , Stram.]; after 3 P. M. ; night, after midnight; while drinking; uncovering the head; summer sun; lying down.
Amelioration
Rest; standing or sitting erect; warm room.