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Belladonna

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

Open remedy: Bell.

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

Region:

Nerve centers

Brain

Blood-vessels

Capillaries

Mucous membranes: Eyes, Mouth, THROAT

Skin

Organs

Right side

Worse:

Heat: of sun; if heated

Afternoon (3 PM)

DRAFTS; on head; hair cut (Glo)

Washing head

After taking cold

CHECKED SWEAT

LIGHT

NOISE

JARRING

Touch

Company

Pressure

Motion

Hanging down

Better:

Light covering

Bending backward

Rest in bed

Plethoric, brainy SUDDEN, VIOLENT EFFECTS DRYNESS, BRIGHT REDNESS -streaked (Pho)- AND BURNING HEAT; WITH GREAT PAIN; FULLNESS OR SWELLING CONGESTION: TO HEAD. Dilated arteries. Inflammation Heat in body, parts, discharges, etc. CONSTRICTIONS. Parts are hot, swelled, red and dry THROBBING, SHARP CUTTING, SHOOTING or clawing PAINS; of maddening severity; coming and going, in repeated attacks (Nit-ac). Scant or hot discharges. JERKS. Shocks. TWITCHINGS SPASM; of throat, vagina, etc. Over-active. Excited. WILDLY DELIRIOUS; ferocious, noisy, cries out RESTLESS and talks fast. Tries to escape. Furibund. Biting mania. Violent delirium. THROBBING HEAD; < temples; < motion; > letting hair down. Brain rises and falls in waves. Rolls head. Pains go downward from head. HEAD SENSITIVE TO DRAFTS AND COLD, or washing hair. HAMMERING THROB. Pulls her hair. Meningitis. Sunstroke. DILATED PUPILS. Prominent, sparkling eyes. Red sclerotic. Lurid, red, terrifying hallucinations; on closing eyes. Blind attacks; then yellow vision. Sees red. Flashes before vision. PHOTOPHOBIA. Red nose. Fiery RED, turgid, hot FACE, or alternately pale and red. DRY, HOT MOUTH AND THROAT (Pho Rhus-t). Toothache, > biting Swelled tongue. Strawberry tongue. Urging to swallow, with choking. Drinks in sips. Must drink to swallow. Craves lemonade. Pain from stomach or liver to shoulder and throat, < lying on it. Cutting epigastric colic, > bending backward. Distended transverse colon. Clawing or downward forcing in abdomen. Acute prolapsus ani (Ars). Stools contain chalky lumps. Enuresis on lying down; nocturnal. Fiery red urine. Early, profuse, hot (Sabi), red, gushing menses. Rigid os. Metritis. Bearing down > standing < lying. Red streaked mammae. Dry cough. Barking voice. Stiff r neck and shoulder in afternoon. Back feels broken. BRIGHT, RED, GLOSSY SKIN. Intense dermatitis. Scarlatina. Erysipelas. Sleepy, but can't sleep. Heavy, hot sleep. JERKS DURING SLEEP. Frightful dreams; of quarrels, fire, etc. Internal coldness with external, pungent, burning heat. HOT HEAD, with cold limbs (Sul). Hot sweat. Skin hot, but moist and dry alternately. Spasm, then prolonged unconsciousness.

Relations:

Complementary: Calc-c, Hep, Merc

Related: Glo, Hyo, Stram.

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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