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BELLADONNA<\/span>
\n<\/span>Deadly Nightshade<\/b><\/p>\n

Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands. Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyper\u00e6sthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water,\u00a0neuralgic pains<\/i><\/span>\u00a0that come and go suddenly (Oxytropis<\/i><\/span>).\u00a0Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great children’s remedy<\/i><\/span>. Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting.\u00a0Scarlet fever<\/i><\/span>\u00a0and also prophylactic. Here use the thirtieth potency.\u00a0Exophthalmic goitre<\/i><\/span>. Corresponds to the symptoms of “air-sickness<\/i><\/span>” in aviators. Give as preventive.\u00a0No thirst, anxiety or fear<\/i><\/span>. Belladonna stands for\u00a0violence<\/i><\/span>\u00a0of attack and\u00a0suddenness<\/i><\/span>\u00a0of onset. Bell for the extreme of thyroid tox\u00e6mia. Use 1x (Beebe).<\/p>\n

Mind.–<\/b><\/span>Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by specters and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities. While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within. He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of\u00a0subjective<\/i><\/span>\u00a0visual impressions and fantastic illusions. Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces. Delirium; frightful images;\u00a0furious<\/i><\/span>; rages, bites, strikes;\u00a0desire to escape<\/i><\/span>. Loss of consciousness. Disinclined to talk. Perversity, with tears.\u00a0Acuteness of all senses<\/i><\/span>. Changeableness.<\/p>\n

Head.–<\/b><\/span>Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards. Sensitive to least contact. Much throbbing and heat. Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing. Pain; fullness,\u00a0especially in forehead<\/i><\/span>, also occiput, and temples. Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow. Sudden outcries.\u00a0Pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon<\/i><\/span>; better by pressure and semi-erect posture. Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side. Constant moaning. Hair splits; is dry and comes out. Headache worse on right side and when lying down; ill effects, colds, etc; from having hair cut.<\/p>\n

Face.–<\/b><\/span>Red,\u00a0bluish-red<\/i><\/span>, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face. Swelling of upper lip. Facial neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face.<\/p>\n

Eyes.–<\/b><\/span>Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down.\u00a0Pupils dilated<\/i><\/span>\u00a0(Agnus<\/i><\/span>). Eyes feel swollen and protruding,\u00a0staring<\/i><\/span>,\u00a0brilliant<\/i><\/span>; conjunctiva red;\u00a0dry<\/i><\/span>, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmus. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance.\u00a0Diplopia<\/i><\/span>, squinting, spasms of lids. Sensation as if eyes were half closed. Eyelids swollen. Fundus congested.<\/p>\n

Ears.–<\/b><\/span>Tearing pain in middle and external ear. Humming noises. Membrana tympani bulges and injected. Parotid gland swollen. Sensitive to loud tones. Hearing very acute.\u00a0Otitis media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in sleep<\/i><\/span>; throbbing and beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat. Hematoma auris. Acute and sub-acute conditions of Eustachian tube. Autophony-hearing one’s voice in ear.<\/p>\n

Nose.–<\/b><\/span>Imaginary odors. Tingling in tip of nose. Red and swollen.\u00a0Bleeding of nose<\/i><\/span>, with red face. Coryza; mucus mixed with blood.<\/p>\n

Mouth.–<\/b><\/span>Dry. Throbbing pain in teeth. Gumboil. Tongue red on edges. Strawberry tongue.\u00a0Grinding of teeth<\/i><\/span>. Tongue swollen and painful. Stammering.<\/p>\n

Throat.–<\/b><\/span>Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion (Ginseng<\/i><\/span>);\u00a0red, worse on right side<\/i><\/span>. Tonsils enlarged;\u00a0throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition<\/i><\/span>; worse, liquids. Sensation of a lump. \u0152sophagus dry; feels contracted.\u00a0Spasms<\/i><\/span>\u00a0in throat. Continual inclination to swallow. Scraping sensation. Muscles of deglutition very sensitive. Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.<\/p>\n

Stomach.–<\/b><\/span>Loss of appetite. Averse to meat and milk. Spasmodic pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to spine. Nausea and vomiting.\u00a0Great thirst for cold water<\/i><\/span>. Spasms of stomach. Empty retching. Abhorrence of liquids. Spasmodic hiccough.\u00a0Dread of drinking<\/i><\/span>. Uncontrollable vomiting.<\/p>\n

Abdomen.–<\/b><\/span>Distended, hot. Transverse colon protrudes like a pad. Tender, swollen. Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure. Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching it. Extreme sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, etc (Laches<\/i><\/span>).<\/p>\n

Stools.–<\/b><\/span>Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk. Shuddering during stool. Stinging pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture. Piles more sensitive with backache. Prolapsus ani (Ignatia; Podoph<\/i><\/span>).<\/p>\n

Urine.–<\/b><\/span>Retention<\/i><\/span>. Acute urinary infections. Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm. Urine scanty, with tenesmus; dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates. Vesical region sensitive. Incontinence, continuous dropping.\u00a0Frequent and profuse<\/i><\/span>. H\u00e6maturia where no pathological condition can be found. Prostatic hypertrophy.<\/p>\n

Male.–<\/b><\/span>Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed. Nocturnal sweat of genitals. Flow of prostatic fluid. Desire diminished.<\/p>\n

Female.–<\/b><\/span>Sensitive forcing downwards,\u00a0as if all the viscera would protrude at genitals<\/i><\/span>. Dryness and heat of vagina. Dragging around loins. Pain in sacrum. Menses increased;\u00a0bright red, too early, too profuse. H\u00e6morrhage hot<\/i><\/span>. Cutting pain from hip to hip.\u00a0Menses and lochia very offensive and hot<\/i><\/span>. Labor-pains come and go suddenly.\u00a0Mastitis<\/i><\/span>\u00a0pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple. Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red. Tumors of breast, pain worse lying down. Badly smelling h\u00e6morrhages, hot gushes of blood. Diminished lochia.<\/p>\n

Respiratory.–<\/b><\/span>Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea.\u00a0Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night<\/i><\/span>. Larynx feels sore. Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes respiration (Cocaine; Opium<\/i><\/span>). Hoarse; loss of voice. Painless hoarseness. Cough with pain in left hip. Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of blood. Stitches in chest when coughing.\u00a0Larynx very painful<\/i><\/span>; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough.\u00a0High, piping voice. Moaning at every breath<\/i><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Heart.–<\/b><\/span>Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored breathing. Palpitation from least exertion. Throbbing all through body. Dichrotism. Heart seemed too large. Rapid but weakened pulse.<\/p>\n

Extremities.–<\/b><\/span>Shooting pains along limbs. Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating. Tottering gait. Shifting rheumatic pains. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Jerking limbs. Spasms. Involuntary limping.\u00a0Cold extremities<\/i><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Back.–<\/b><\/span>Stiff neck.\u00a0Swelling of glands of neck<\/i><\/span>. Pain in nape, as if it would break. Pressure on dorsal region most painful. Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.<\/p>\n

Skin.–<\/b><\/span>Dry and\u00a0hot<\/i><\/span>; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth. Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading. Erythema; pustules on face.\u00a0Glands swollen, tender<\/i><\/span>, red.\u00a0Boils<\/i><\/span>. Acne rosacea. Suppurative wounds.\u00a0Alternate redness and paleness of the skin<\/i><\/span>. Indurations after inflammations. Erysipelas.<\/p>\n

Fever.–<\/b><\/span>A high feverish state with comparative absence of tox\u00e6mia.\u00a0Burning, pungent, steaming, heat<\/i><\/span>. Feet icy cold. Superficial blood-vessels, distended. Perspiration dry only on head.\u00a0No thirst with fever<\/i><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Sleep.–<\/b><\/span>Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth. Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels. Screams out in sleep. Sleeplessness, with drowsiness.\u00a0Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep<\/i><\/span>. Sleeps with hands under head (Ars; Plat<\/i><\/span>).<\/p>\n

Modalities.–<\/b><\/span>Worse<\/i><\/span>, touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying down.\u00a0Better<\/i><\/span>, semi-erect.<\/p>\n

Relationship.–<\/b><\/span>Compare:\u00a0Sanguisorba officinals<\/i><\/span>\u00a02x-6x, a member of the Rosace\u00e6 family, (Profuse, long-lasting<\/i><\/span>\u00a0menses, especially in nervous patients with congestive symptoms to head and limbs. Passive h\u00e6morrhages at climacteric. Chronic metritis. H\u00e6morrhage from lungs. Varices and ulcers).\u00a0Mandragora<\/i><\/span>–(Mandrake). A narcotic of the ancients-Restless excitability and bodily weakness. Desire for sleep. Has antiperiodic properties like China and Aranea. Useful in epilepsy and hydrophobia, also\u00a0Cetonia<\/i><\/span>\u00a0(A. E. Lavine).\u00a0Hyos<\/i><\/span>\u00a0(less fever, more agitation);\u00a0Stram<\/i><\/span>\u00a0(more sensorial excitement, frenzy);\u00a0Hoitzia<\/i><\/span>-A Mexican drug, similar in action to Bellad (Useful in fever, scarlatinal eruption, measles, urticaria, etc. High fever with eruptive fevers. Dry mouth and throat, red face, injected eyes, delirium). Calcar is often required after\u00a0Bell; Atropia<\/i><\/span>. Alkaloid of Belladonna covers more the neurotic sphere of the Belladonna action (Great dryness of throat<\/i><\/span>, almost impossible to swallow. Chronic stomach affections, with great pain and vomiting of all food. Peritonitis. All kind of illusions of sight. Everything appears large.\u00a0Platina opposite<\/i><\/span>).\u00a0Hypochlorhydria<\/i><\/span>; pyrosis. Motes over everything. On reading,\u00a0words run together<\/i><\/span>; double vision,\u00a0all objects seem to be elongated<\/i><\/span>. Eustachian tube and tympanic congestion. Affinity for the pancreas. Hyperacidity of stomach. Paroxysms of gastric pain; ovarian neuralgia.<\/p>\n

Non-Homeopathic Uses.–<\/b><\/span>Atropia<\/i><\/span>\u00a0and its salts are used for ophthalmic purposes, to dilate the pupil and paralyze the accommodation.<\/p>\n

Given internally or hypodermically, it is antagonistic to Opium and Morphine. Physostigma and Prussic Acid. Narcotic poisons and mushroom poisoning. Renal colic 1-200 of a grain hypodermically.<\/p>\n

Atropin injected subcutaneously in doses from a milligram upwards for intestinal obstruction threatening life.<\/p>\n

Hypodermically 1-80 gr night sweats in phthisis.<\/p>\n

Atropia 1-20 gr is antagonistic to 1 gr. Morphine.<\/p>\n

Also used as a local an\u00e6sthetic, antispasmodic, and to dry up secretions, milk, etc. Hypodermically 1-80 gr night sweats in phthisis.<\/p>\n

Dose.–<\/b><\/span>Atropia Sulph<\/i><\/span>, 1-120 to 1-60 grain.<\/p>\n

Antidotes to Belladonna:\u00a0Camph; Coff; Opium; Acon<\/i><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Complementary:\u00a0Calc<\/i><\/span>. Bellad (contains lime). Especially in semi-chronic and constitutional diseases.<\/p>\n

Incompatible:\u00a0Acet ac<\/i><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Dose.–<\/b><\/span>First to thirtieth potency and higher. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.<\/p>\n

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BELLADONNA Deadly Nightshade Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands. Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyper\u00e6sthesia of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[921],"offerexpiration":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20144"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=20144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}