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Stramonium

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Stram.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Region:

BRAIN

Circulation: Throat, Skin

Spinal nerves: Arms, Hip (L), Genitals

Worse:

Glistening objects

Fright

AFTER SLEEP

Dark, cloudy days

Suppression

Intemperance

Better:

LIGHT

Company

Warmth

A remedy of TERRORS, BUT LACKING IN PAIN; with suppressed excretions (Ver-a), passing neither urine nor stool (Led). Very mobile states. Tremor; nervous. Disorderly, graceful or rhythmic motions (Elap), < head or arms. Chorea. Spasms, < night. DREADS DARKNESS, and has a horror of glistening objects. Fearful, desires company or wants to escape. Active, variable delirium; talks incessantly; sees many, vividly brilliant or hideous phantoms, more to one side. Wildly excited, as in night terrors or delirium tremens, or does all sorts of crazy things. Raving mania, with cold sweat, cursing and praying. Religious insanity. The talk of others is intolerable. Self accusation. Loss of reason or speech. Stupid. Imbecile. Vertigo, < in dark Jerks head up and drops it again. Fixed sparkling stare. Squint. Diplopia. Night blindness. Green vision. Crowding, visual hallucinations. Sees black. Delusions as to size and distance. Red, bloated or rapidly changing face; now flushed, now pale; a sardonic grin, then expresses terror. Frowning. Fine red dots on tongue. Stammering. Constantly spits saliva. Dry throat, with great thirst, yet dreads water; it chokes him. Hydrophobia .Putrid, dark, painless, involuntary diarrhoea. Sexual excitement (in males). Excessive menses, preceded by sexual excitement. Grasps the genitals. Nymphomania. Spasmodic cough. Spasm of larynx. Voice suddenly fails, in higher tones. Nervous asthma. Drawing in back. Sensitive spine. Violent pain in hip. Unilateral paralysis, with twitching. Crawlings, as of many bugs. Non-appearing exanthema. Fiery scarlatinous rash. Sopor. Weeping, in dreams. Awakes in fear or screaming. Frightful visions.

Relations

Antidotes: Cof, Nux-v

Related: Bell, Hyo, Op.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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