HYOSCYAMUS NIGER

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Remedy Origin / Source
Natural

Clinical Applications

Antidotes: Bell; Camph .

Related Remedies
Bellad Stram Agaric Gels. Hyosc hydrobrom.--Scopolamine hydrobromide (Paralysis agitans) tremors of disseminated sclerosis . Sleeplessness and nervous agitation. Dry cough in phthisis. Similar in its effects to alcohol, both recent and remote. Corresponds to the effects of strong poisons introduced into or generated within the body. Symptoms of uræmia and acute nervous exhaustion. A remedy for shock. Third and fourth dec trituration. In physiological dosage (1-200 gr) mania and chorea insomnia. Scopola (Japanese Belladonna)-chemically identical with Hyoscine (Joyous delirium, licking of lips and smacking of mouth sleepless tries to get out of bed sees cats, picks imaginary hairs, warms hands before imaginary fire, etc).

Key Symptoms & Indications

  • Disturbs the nervous system profoundly. It is as if some diabolical force took possession of the brain and prevented its functions. It causes a perfect picture of mania of a quarrelsome and obscene character. Inclined to be unseemly and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions. Very talkative, and persists in stripping herself, or uncovering genitals. Is jealous, afraid of being poisoned, etc. Its symptoms also point to weakness and nervous agitation; hence typhoid and other infections with coma vigil. Tremulous weakness and twitching of tendons. Subsultus tendinum. Muscular twitchings, spasmodic affections, generally with delirium. Non-inflammatory cerebral activity. Toxic gastritis.

Mental & Emotional Symptoms

Very suspicious . Talkative, obscene, lascivious mania, uncovers body; jealous, foolish . Great hilarity; inclined to laugh at everything . Delirium, with attempt to run away. Low, muttering speech; constant carphologia, deep stupor .

Physical Symptoms

Head

Feels light and confused. Vertigo as if intoxicated. Brain feels loose, fluctuating. Inflammation of brain, with unconsciousness; head is shaken to and fro.

Eyes

Pupils dilated, sparkling, fixed. Eyes open, but does not pay attention; downcast and dull, fixed. Strabismus. Spasmodic closing of lids. Diplopia. Objects have colored borders.

Mouth

Tongue dry, red, cracked, stiff and immovable, protruded with difficulty; speech impaired. Foams at mouth. Teeth covered with sordes. Lower jaw drops.

Throat

Stinging dryness. Constriction. Cannot swallow liquids. Uvula elongated .

Stomach

Hiccough, eructations empty, bitter. Nausea, with vertigo. Vomiting, with convulsions; hæmatemesis; violent cramps, relieved by vomiting; burning in stomach; epigastrium tender. After irritating food .

Abdomen

Colic, as if abdomen would burst. Distention. Colic, with vomiting, belching, hiccough screaming. Tympanites. Red spots on abdomen.

Stool

Diarrhœa, colicky, pains; involuntary , aggravated by mental excitement or during sleep. Diarrhœa during the lying-in period. Involuntary defecation.

Urine

Involuntary micturition. Bladder paralyzed. Has no will to urinate ( Caust ).

Male

Impotence. Lascivious; exposes his person; plays with genitals during fever.

Female

Before menses, hysterical spasms. Excited sexual desire. During menses, convulsive movements, urinary flux and sweat. Lochia suppressed. Spasms of pregnant women. Puerperal mania.

Chest

Suffocating fits. Spasm, forcing bending forward. Dry, spasmodic cough at night ( worse lying down ; better sitting up), from itching in the throat, as if uvula were too long. Hæmoptysis.

Extremities

Picking at bed-clothes ; plays with hands; reaches out for things. Epileptic attacks ending in deep sleep. Spasms and convulsions. Cramps in calves and toes. Child sobs and cries without waking.

Sleep

Intense sleeplessness. Sopor, with convulsions. Starts up frightened . Coma vigil.

Nerves

Great restlessness; every muscle twitches . Will not be covered.

Modalities (Better / Worse)

Worse (Aggravation)

, at night, during menses, after eating, when lying down

Better (Amelioration)

, stooping

Remedy Relationships

Follows Well

Bell., Puls., Stram., Verat.

Antidotes

Acet-ac., Bell., Chin., Cit-ac., Stram.

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HYOSCYAMUS NIGER

Henbane (HYOSCYAMUS)

Disturbs the nervous system profoundly. It is as if some diabolical force took possession of the brain and prevented its functions. It causes a perfect picture of mania of a quarrelsome and obscene character. Inclined to be unseemly and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions. Very talkative, and persists in stripping herself, or uncovering genitals. Is jealous, afraid of being poisoned, etc. Its symptoms also point to weakness and nervous agitation; hence typhoid and other infections with coma vigil. Tremulous weakness and twitching of tendons. Subsultus tendinum. Muscular twitchings, spasmodic affections, generally with delirium. Non-inflammatory cerebral activity. Toxic gastritis.

Mind

Very suspicious. Talkative, obscene, lascivious mania, uncovers body; jealous, foolish. Great hilarity; inclined to laugh at everything. Delirium, with attempt to run away. Low, muttering speech; constant carphologia, deep stupor.

Head

Feels light and confused. Vertigo as if intoxicated. Brain feels loose, fluctuating. Inflammation of brain, with unconsciousness; head is shaken to and fro.

Eyes

Pupils dilated, sparkling, fixed. Eyes open, but does not pay attention; downcast and dull, fixed. Strabismus. Spasmodic closing of lids. Diplopia. Objects have colored borders.

Mouth

Tongue dry, red, cracked, stiff and immovable, protruded with difficulty; speech impaired. Foams at mouth. Teeth covered with sordes. Lower jaw drops.

Throat

Stinging dryness. Constriction. Cannot swallow liquids. Uvula elongated.

Stomach

Hiccough, eructations empty, bitter. Nausea, with vertigo. Vomiting, with convulsions; hæmatemesis; violent cramps, relieved by vomiting; burning in stomach; epigastrium tender. After irritating food.

Abdomen

Colic, as if abdomen would burst. Distention. Colic, with vomiting, belching, hiccough screaming. Tympanites. Red spots on abdomen.

Stool

Diarrhœa, colicky, pains; involuntary, aggravated by mental excitement or during sleep. Diarrhœa during the lying-in period. Involuntary defecation.

Urine

Involuntary micturition. Bladder paralyzed. Has no will to urinate (Caust).

Male

Impotence. Lascivious; exposes his person; plays with genitals during fever.

Female

Before menses, hysterical spasms. Excited sexual desire. During menses, convulsive movements, urinary flux and sweat. Lochia suppressed. Spasms of pregnant women. Puerperal mania.

Chest

Suffocating fits. Spasm, forcing bending forward. Dry, spasmodic cough at night (worse lying down; better sitting up), from itching in the throat, as if uvula were too long. Hæmoptysis.

Extremities

Picking at bed-clothes; plays with hands; reaches out for things. Epileptic attacks ending in deep sleep. Spasms and convulsions. Cramps in calves and toes. Child sobs and cries without waking.

Sleep

Intense sleeplessness. Sopor, with convulsions. Starts up frightened. Coma vigil.

Nerves

Great restlessness; every muscle twitches. Will not be covered.

Modalities

Worse, at night, during menses, after eating, when lying down. Better, stooping.

Relationship

Antidotes: Bell; Camph.

Compare: Bellad; Stram; Agaric; Gels.

Hyosc hydrobrom.--Scopolamine hydrobromide (Paralysis agitans); tremors of disseminated sclerosis. Sleeplessness and nervous agitation. Dry cough in phthisis. Similar in its effects to alcohol, both recent and remote. Corresponds to the effects of strong poisons introduced into or generated within the body. Symptoms of uræmia and acute nervous exhaustion. A remedy for shock. Third and fourth dec trituration. In physiological dosage (1-200 gr) mania and chorea; insomnia. Scopola (Japanese Belladonna)-chemically identical with Hyoscine (Joyous delirium, licking of lips and smacking of mouth; sleepless; tries to get out of bed; sees cats, picks imaginary hairs, warms hands before imaginary fire, etc).

Dose

Sixth, to 200th potency.

Hyoscyamus.

Hyoscamus niger. Henbane. N. O. Solanaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical

Amaurosis. Angina pectoris. Bladder, paralysis of. Bronchitis. Chorea. Coma vigil. Cough. Delirium tremens. Diarrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Enteric fever. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Erotomania. Eyes, affections of. Hæmoptysis. Hæmorrhages. Hiccough. Hydrophobia. Hypochondriasis. Lochia, suppressed. Mania. Meningitis. Mind, affections of. Neuralgia. Night-blindness. Nymphomania. Paralysis. Paralysis agitans. Parotitis. Pneumonia. Puerperal mania. Rage. Sleep, disordered. Stammering. Tetanus. Toothache. Urine, retention of. Vision, disorders of.

Characteristics

Hyoscyamus ("Hog-bean") is nearly allied to Belladonna botanically, and in pathogenetic action the two drugs are much alike in their main features. But when examined closely, their differences are sufficiently well marked to render their distinction easy. Though sometimes growing near rivers, Bell. flourishes best in a chalky soil. Hyo. is found growing on old rubbish heaps, near ruins, on roadsides, and sometimes by the seashore. The flower of Bell. is of a dull, purplish brown; of Hyo. a dirty yellow, with claret-coloured streaks. Bell. is a smooth plant, whilst Hyo. is densely covered with thickly woven hairs, and by a sticky, heavy-smelling exudation. A case of poisoning by Hyoscyamus seeds, put into soup instead of celery seeds, communicated to the Times (May 14, 1892), by Mr. F. Mackarness, one of the sufferers, gives a good general idea of the drug's action. "About ten minutes after taking the soup I began to feel quite dizzy, and could hardly swallow the food I was eating, which tasted as if it was nothing but dust and ashes. At the same time my wife became so faint that she asked me to help her up to her room at once. This I did with some difficulty, having to hold on to the bannister with one hand while I supported her with the other. At the same time, also, our sight became blurred, our mouths and throats parched, and we began to feel cold. I tried in vain to get warm by sitting over the drawing-room fire, but only felt intensely drowsy. . . . When Dr. Martin arrived I had great difficulty not only in getting up to receive him, but in making him understand what had happened, so indistinct was my articulation. However, from the dilatation of our eyes, the parched condition of our tongues, and the state of our pulse (my wife's having gone up to 140), he, of course, saw that we had been badly poisoned, and prescribed drastic remedies which saved us probably from very serious consequences; for even the next day our sight was still defective, and my wife's hands were slightly paralysed." Dr. W. S. Mills communicated to N. A. J. H., November, 1899, an experience of his own. A patient had objected to the taste of water in which Hyo. Ø had been mixed, so Dr. Mills took a teaspoonful just to taste it. "A few moments later I found that it produced a queer feeling throughout the body. I felt as though without weight, as though I walked through and on air. My head felt light. I had an insane desire to laugh and shout. It was only by the utmost use of my will-power that I could keep myself from doing something ridiculous. Even when I forced myself to think of my position of responsibility as medical attendant on this very sick man, and the absolute necessity of keeping my wits about me, it was hard for me to restrain my hilarity. I can liken the condition only to one of mild hilarious intoxicationa "funny drunk." I knew I was silly, but I could not help it. To keep myself from losing my dignity before the nurses and the family, I locked myself in the bathroom for a few minutes and made faces at myself in the mirror." The condition passed off in half an hour. These two experiences, brief as they were, cover a large share of the ground occupied by Hyo. The delirium of Hyo. is more of the low, muttering type, whilst that of Bell. tends to be violent and furious. Hyo. also has fits of ungovernable rage, but the violence is not so sustained as that of Bell. The face of Bell. is red, of Hyo. pale or bluish. Hyo. corresponds to a greater variety of cases of melancholia than Bell., and here one great characteristic is "suspicion," so frequently met with in cases of insanity or of those on the borderland. A patient of mine, a clever lawyer, suffering from nervous breakdown, had had to abandon his business entirely some time before he came under my care. He had improved considerably, when I heard from his wife in the country that he had had a kind of a fit, and became cold and senseless, his face working much. After that he fell asleep, and had another attack an hour and a half later. After this he was suspicious, and said that his wife was poisoning him. I sent a single dose of Hyo. 1m, to be given in food or in drink without his knowing. It was repeated once a week. He began to improve forthwith, and in a few months was perfectly restored to health; though some other medicines were given later on. In this case there was an additional indication for Hyo. in the working of the muscles of the face. Twitching is one of the grand characteristics of Hyo. "Every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes," clonic spasms: twitching of groups of muscles; spasms in general; with unconsciousness. Another feature of the Hyo. insanity is uncovering. This is not because the patient feels too warm (for Hyo., like the other Solanids, is a chilly remedy), but because they will not remain covered: nymphomania; lascivious mania; lies naked in bed and chatters. There are violent outbreaks in the delirium of Hyo., but they cannot be kept up (as are those of Bell.), on account of the weakness. Hyo. corresponds to the typhoid state: tongue dry and unwieldy, sensorium so clouded that if the patient be aroused to answer he falls back into a stupor again. The sight is disordered; sees things too large or too near and grasps at them; picks the bed-clothes and mutters. Twitchings, subsultus tendinum, and picking at the bed-clothes. Teeth covered with sordes. Involuntary passage of urine and fæces. When influenza takes the typhoid form it often finds its remedy in Hyo, (I rapidly cured a boy in whom influenza attacked the meninges of the brain with pains in the head, especially forehead, piercing to the brain.) Parotitis with metastasis to brain. Hyo. is suited to many pulmonary conditions. The characteristic cough is < on lying down, almost completely removed by sitting up, < at night, < after eating, drinking or talking. Cough from elongated uvula. The drowsiness of Hyo. has another side in restlessness. The patient lies awake for hours; children twitch in sleep, cry out, tremble, and awake frightened. Hyo. is one of our best remedies in toothache, having well-defined symptoms. It is also an ancient domestic remedy for toothache, the application being peculiar. A penny is made hot in the fire, and when taken out a pinch of Henbane seeds is dropped on it and fumes come away. A wineglass is inverted over it, and this is soon filled with the fumes, and applied to the mouth, when the fumes are inhaled. The popular idea is that the fumes expel the "worms" of toothache, but, as Lauder Brunton has shown (H. W., xxv. 286), the supposed "worms" are the embryos of the seeds forcibly expelled on the rupture of the seed coats by the heat. Hyo. 30 is one of the most useful remedies in restlessness and sleeplessness. Hyo. is suited to nervous, irritable, excitable, sanguine people; to light-haired people. The symptoms of Hyo. are < by touch; the abdomen is sore to touch; < evening and night < lying, down; < from cold and cold air. > From sitting up; motion; walking; warmth. < From mental affections; jealousy unhappy love; approaching menstruation; commencing menstruation; during menstruation.

Relations

Antidoted by: Vinegar, Citric acid, Bell., Chi., Stram. It antidotes: Ether, Bell., Stram., Merc. Is followed well by: Bell., Puls., Stram., Ver., Phos. Follows well: Bell., Nux, Op., Rhus. Compare: Suppression of lochia, Nux, Secal., Con., Col., Pul.; loquacity, Stram., Lach., Op., Cup., Ver.; gossiping, babbling, Ver. (religious subjects, Ver.); difficult swallowing of liquids, Hydrob., Bell., Caus., Con., Ign., Lach., Lyc., Pho. Convulsions from fright or worms, Cin. Every muscle of the body twitching, Nux (but Nux retains consciousness, Hyo. has unconsciousness); cough < lying down, Dros.; (> lying down, Mang., Fer.); cough < at night, after eating, drinking, talking, singing, Dros., Phos.; hæmoptysis of drunkards, Nux, Op.; meningitis, Bell. (Bell. has < from shaking head; from sitting with head bent forward; Hyo. has > from both); tickling cough > in warm air, Rumex; convulsions, spasms, twitchings, Cic. v.; chorea, Stram., Ver., Agar; jealousy, Apis, Ign.; waves through head, Act. r.; mania, Stram. (Stram. has desire for light and company, Hyo. aversion to both; Stram. uncovers whole body, Hyo. especially the genitals; sexual mania, Grat., Calc. ph.; Stram. sees objectsmice, dogs, &c.rise from every corner and come towards him); sees ghosts and demons, Plat., Kali bro.; fears being poisoned, Glo., Rhus, Kali bro., Bapt.; hiccough, Ign. (Ign. after emotions, Hyo. after abdominal operations); spasms, twitchings, Ign., Tarent.; levitation, Phos. ac., Sticta pul., Hyp.; fits of ungovernable rage, Staph. Teste puts Hyo. in the Mur. ac. group with Viol. od. He also puts it in the Bell. group.

Causation

Jealousy. Lochia, suppressed. Milk, suppressed.

1. Mind

Melancholy.Melancholy from unfortunate love, with rage or inclination to laugh at everything.Anthropophobia.Suspicious.Anguish and fear.Fright followed by convulsions and starts from sleep.Desire to run away from the house at night.Fear of being betrayed or poisoned.Disposition to make a jest of everything.Loquacity.Talks more than usual, more animatedly and hurriedly.Jealousy; with rage and delirium.Unfortunate love with jealousy, with rage and incoherent speech.Peevish and quarrelsome humour.Rage, with desire to strike and to kill.Stupor, with plaintive cries, esp. on the slightest touch, and complete apathy.Loss of memory.Delirium without consciousness; does not know anybody, and has no wants (except thirst).Loss of consciousness, with eyes closed, and raving about business.Delirium tremens, with clonic spasms; unconsciousness and aversion to light and company.Delirium, sometimes with trembling, and fits of epileptic convulsions.Delirium, sees ghosts, demons, &c.Wandering thoughts.Perversion of every action.Mania, with loss of consciousness; or with buffoonery and ridiculous gestures.Lascivious mania, and occasional mutterings; uncovers his whole body.

2. Head

Confusion and heaviness of the head.Vertigo, as from intoxication, or with obscuration of the sight.Attacks of cerebral congestion, with loss of consciousness and snoring (with delirium; answering all questions properly; pupils dilated).Headache, as from concussion of the brain.Congestion of blood to the head; red, sparkling eyes; face purple-red; < in the evening.Pressive and numbing pain in the forehead, esp. after a meal.Headache as if brain shattered and shaken, when walking.Pressive, stupefying headache, esp. in forehead, occurring in alternation with needle-like stitches, particularly on l. side.Forehead feels as if screwed inward.Sticking in head over r. eye, when coughing.Violent throbbing headache, waking him at night; with throbbing carotids.Headache in base of brain.Brain feels as if loose.Constrictive obstruction in the forehead.Sensation of fluctuation, or of commotion in the brain, esp. on walking.Heat, and tingling in the head.Inflammation of the brain, with unconsciousness; heat and tingling in the head; violent pulsation in the head, like waves; the head shakes; < from becoming cold and after eating, > by bending the head forward (stooping) and from heat.Hydrocephalus, with stupor; the head is shaken to and fro; sensation of swashing in the head.Heat of the head, with general coldness of the body, without thirst.Liability to catch cold in the head, principally from dry, cold air.Headache, alternately with pain in the nape of the neck.Waving or shaking of the head from one side to the other; with loss of consciousness and red sparkling eyes.

3. Eyes

Eyes downcast and dull.Eyes red, fixed, convulsed, and prominent.Spasmodic movement of the eyes.Redness of the sclerotica.Swelling of the eyelids.Strabismus.Staring, distorted eyes.Contortion of the eyes.Quivering in the eye.Spasmodic closing of the eyelids.Inability to open the eyelids.Pupils dilated.Dimness of sight.Myopia, or presbyopia.Errors of vision.Diplopia.Objects seem to be much larger than they are in reality, or else of a red colour.Objects have coloured borders, chiefly yellow.Nocturnal blindness.Weakness of sight, as from incipient amaurosis.

4. Ears

Buzzing in the ears.Hardness of hearing, as if stunned.

5. Nose

Epistaxis.Cramp-like pressure at the root of the nose and the zygomata.Dryness of nose.Nostrils sooty.Loss of smell.

6. Face

Face: cold, pale bluish, or puffed and blood-red.Face flushed, excited; bloated; dark-red.Twitching of muscles of face.Distorted, bluish face, with mouth wide open.Cramp-like pressure on the cheek-bone.Dryness of the lips.Cramps in the jaw.Lock-jaw.Heat and redness of the face.

7. Teeth

Pulsative and tearing pains in teeth, from cheek to forehead, esp. after a chill in the cold air, or in the morning, and often with congestion of the head, heat and redness of the face, swelling of the gums, and spasms in the throat.Toothache driving to despair; in sensitive, nervous, excitable persons; causing spasmodic jerks of fingers, hands, arms, and face muscles.Teeth feel too long.Toothache < from cold air, morning.Dentition.Pulsating toothache, as from inflammation of the periosteum.Painful drawing in a single tooth, here and there, as if a tooth were becoming pithy.Toothache during sweat.Tearing in the gums, with buzzing and sensation as if the teeth were loose.Clenching of the teeth.Grating teeth.Teeth covered with mucus.

8. Mouth

Dryness in the mouth.Salivation of a salt taste.Sanguineous saliva.Foam at the mouth.Fetid exhalations from the mouth, perceptible to the patient.Heat and numbness of the tongue, as if it had been burned.Tongue dry, and loaded with a brownish coating Redness of the tongue.Utters inarticulate sounds.Paralysis of the tongue.Loss of speech.

9. Throat

Dryness and burning heat of the throat.Stinging dryness of fauces.Constriction in the throat, and inability to swallow liquids.Elongation of the uvula.

10. Appetite

Loss of taste.Bulimy, with violent thirst, with inability to swallow.Thirst with drinking but little at a time.Dread of drinking.Hiccough, esp. after a meal (with spasms and rumbling in the abdomen).After a meal, headache, intoxication, great anguish, and sadness.After drinking, convulsions.

11. Stomach

Nausea, on pressing the epigastrium.Bitter eructations.Retching and vomiting, with cutting pains which extort cries.Vomiting and retching after coughing.Aqueous vomiting, with vertigo.Vomiting of mucus (sanguineous) and of blood, of a deep red, sometimes with convulsions, choking, pains in the pit of stomach, great exhaustion, and coldness in the limbs.Vomiting of aliments, immediately after a meal, and sometimes with violent pain at the pit of the stomach.Cramps (colic) in the stomach in periodical attacks, and > by vomiting.Painful sensitiveness of the epigastrium to the touch.Inflammation of the stomach, with burning pain.

12. Abdomen

Dull pains in the hepatic region.Abdomen tight, inflated, painful when touched.Cramp-like pains in the abdomen, and cuttings, sometimes accompanied by vomitings, pains in the head, and cries.Shootings in the umbilical region, on walking and breathing.Pain, as from excoriation in the abdominal muscles, on coughing.Spasms and rumbling in the abdomen, with hiccough.

13. Stool and Anus

Constipation.Frequent want to evacuate, with scanty and unfrequent relief.Watery diarrhœa.Painless diarrhœa.Mucous diarrhœa.Diarrhœa of lying-in women.The stool is small in size.Involuntary evacuations, from paralysis of the sphincter ani.Hæmorrhoids; profusely bleeding.

14. Urinary Organs

Retention of urine, with pressure in the bladder.Retention of urine in child-bed.Frequent want to make water, with scanty emission.Urine copious and clear, like water.Involuntary emission of urine, as from paralysis of the bladder.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Increase of sexual desire, lascivious; exposes his person.Impotence.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Lascivious, uncovers sexual parts.Lascivious furor, without modesty.Excited sexual desire without excited fancy.Catamenia more abundant.Suppression of the catamenia.Suppressed lochia.Spasms of pregnant women, esp. during parturition.Puerperal fever.Metrorrhagia, of a bright-coloured blood.Metrorrhagia, the blood pale, with convulsions.During the catamenia, delirium, flux of urine, sweat and convulsive trembling.Before the catamenia, hysterical cramps and fits of laughter.During the menses, convulsive trembling of the hands and feet; severe headache; profuse perspiration.

17. Respiratory Organs

Catarrh, with accumulation of mucus in the larynx and in the trachea, rendering the speech and the voice indistinct.Constant cough when lying down, which ceases on rising up.Fits of coughing, as in the whooping-cough.Cramp-like cough at night, esp. when lying down, sometimes with redness of the face, and vomiting of mucus.The cough is < at night (after midnight), when at rest, during sleep, in the cold air, from eating and drinking.Dry, shaking, sobbing cough, with pain, as of excoriation, in the abdominal muscles.Dry, spasmodic cough at night (in old persons) from continuous tickling in the throat (as if the palate or uvula were too long).Greenish expectoration with the cough.Cough, with expectoration of blood, and convulsions.Violent spasmodic cough; short consecutive coughs, caused by a tickling sensation in the throat, as if some mucus were lodged in it; during the day, expectoration of saltish-tasting mucus, or of bright-red blood, mixed with clots.Hæmoptysis, blood bright-red with spasms.Hæmoptysis of drunkards.

18. Chest

Slow, rattling breathing.Oppression, and embarrassed and rattling respiration.Pressure on r. side of chest, with great anxiety and shortness of breath, on going up stairs.Spasms in the chest, with shortness of breath, which forces the patient to bend forward.Shootings in the sides of the chest.(Inflammation of the lungs.)

19. Heart

Pressure, tightness, and anxiety in precordial region.Oppression of heart with transient stitches.Tearing, sticking in heart.Violent stitch in precordial region.Soreness in spots to l. of nipple alternating with stitches.Soreness, tightness of heart region.Heart's action violent; tremulous; irregular.Palpitation, unable to move body without greatest anxiety; apprehension of suffocation, or swooning; unquenchable thirst in morning; frequent copious discharge of limpid urine.Pulse: full, hard, strong; rapid, intermitting; slow, small; scarcely perceptible.

20. Neck and Back

Tettery spots on the nape of the neck.Pains in the back, and esp. in the lumbar region, with swelling of the feet.Lancinations in the loins, and shoulder-blades.

22. Upper Limbs

Trembling of the arms and of the hands, esp. in evening, after movement.Painful numbness and stiffness of hands.Swelling of hands.Fists clenched, with retraction of the thumbs (in convulsive fits).Carphologia (picking of the bed cover or of the face).Fingers look and feel too thick.Hands slightly paralysed.

23. Lower Limbs

Painful cramps in the (anterior part of the) thighs, and calves of the legs, which contract the legs.Gangrenous spots and vesicles on the legs.Stiffness and lassitude in the joint of the knee.Coldness and swelling of the feet.Contraction of the toes when walking and ascending.

24. Generalities

Incisive tearing, and dull pulling in the limbs and joints.Limbs, cold, trembling and numbed.Convulsive movements and shaking of some of the limbs, or of the whole body, sometimes on making the slightest effort to swallow liquid.Spasms and convulsions (with watery diarrhœa).Jerking of the feet and of the hands.Epileptic fits, sometimes with bluish colour and puffing of the face, involuntary emission of urine, foaming at the mouth, drawing back of the thumbs, sensation of hunger and of gnawing at the pit of the stomach, eyes prominent, cries, grinding of the teeth, &c.Epileptic convulsions, alternately with attacks of cerebral congestion (apoplectic fit).Convulsions resembling St. Vitus' dance.Convulsions with cries, great anguish, oppression of the chest and loss of consciousness.After the epileptic convulsions, profound sleep, with snoring.Uncommon sinking of strength.Fainting fits (repeated attacks).Great weakness and debility.Sensation of levitation; as if walking on and through air.Paralysis.Jerking of the tendons (subsultus).The majority of, and the principal symptoms, manifest themselves after eating or drinking, as well as in the evening.

25. Skin

Skin dry and rough.Hot, dry, brittle skin.Miliary eruption.Eruption of dry pimples, like confluent small-pox.Brownish (or gangrenous) spots on the body, from time to time (as in typhus).Frequent, large furunculi.Spots and gangrenous vesicles on different parts.Rash from the abuse of Belladonna.Bleeding of ulcers.

26. Sleep

Somnolency, like coma vigil.Retarded sleep, or sleeplessness caused by excessive nervous excitement, or by great anguish, sometimes with convulsions and starts.Nightly sleeplessness.Child sobs and cries in sleep without waking.Profound, comatose sleep, with convulsions and involuntary movements of the limbs, esp. the hands.When sleeping, carphologia; or smiling countenance; or starts with fright.

27. Fever

Shuddering from head to foot.Burning heat of the body, and esp. of the head.Fever, with fits of epilepsy, great weakness, flames before the eyes, and congestion in the head, quartan or quotidian type.Pulse quick (full hard), with swelling of the veins (arteries).Universal coldness over the whole body, with heat of face, ascending from the feet.Nightly coldness, extending over the back from the small of the back.Heat in the evening, with thirst (congestion of blood to the head), and putrid taste.Debilitating perspiration during sleep.Cold, sour-smelling perspiration.Perspiration, principally on the legs.

Hyoscyamus niger

Hyoscyamus niger

Generalities

• Commonly known as Henbane or Hogbane disturbs the MIND; brain and nervous system profoundly.

• Diabolical force seems to take possession of the brain preventing its functions.

• It causes a perfect picture of mania of a quarrelsome and lascivious nature.

• Convulsions; trembling; jerks; twitchings, cramps, are very marked features.

• Active mania or convulsions, alternate with, or ends in deep sopor.

• Motions of the arms are clutching or angular; throws arms about,misses what is reached for; totters while walking.

• Paralysis after spasms.

• Epilepsy; vertigo before the attack.

• Falls suddenly to the ground with cries.

• CARPHOLOGY, picks at bed clothes; at fingers.

• When lying on back, suddenly sits up and lies down again.

• Child sobs and cries without waking.

• Eclampsia.

- Subsultus; during fevers.

• Septic fevers.

• Slides down in bed.

• Ill effects of suppressed lochia or milk.

• Fright, disappointed love.

• Chorea; local, twitchings of solitary muscles; squinting, stammering.

• Suitable to nervous; irritable, excitable persons.

• Sensation as if walking on and through air.

Worse

• EMOTIONS; jealousy; fright; unhappy love.

• Before and during menses.

• TOUCH.

• Cold.

• Sleep.

• Lying.

Better

• Sitting up.

• Motion

• Warmth.

• Stooping.

Mind

• Many bewildering aberrations.

• MANIA.

- Erotic (females) exposes genitals; sings amorous songs.

• Does foolish things, behaves like one mad.

• Laughs, sings, talks, babbles, quarrels.

- Fumbles the genitals.

- Jealous.

• Suspicious.

- Fears; being along, being pursued; of water; being poisoned, being bitten etc.

• Laughs at everything, foolishly.

• Restless, jumps out of bed, wants to escape.

• Speaks each work louder.

• Rage; with desire to strike, bite, fight, insult, scold, and to kill.

• Plaintive cries esp. on the slightest touch even in stupor.

• Unconsciousness, can barely be aroused.

• Muttering delirium.

• Thinks one is not at home.

• Speechless from fright.

• Confusion.

• First can not thick, then can scarcely be aroused.

• Talks with imaginary persons, to dead ones.

• Imagines things are animals.

• Fear of being bitten by beasts.

• Plays with fingers.

• Silly; does comical acts.

• Looks at hands because they seem too large.

• Syphilophobia.

Head

• Waves of pulsation in head.

• Pulsating headache.

• Vertigo, before spasms, from smell of flowers, gas etc.

• Rolls or shakes the head to and fro; when bending forward; in stupor; after concussion of the brain.

• Brain feels loose.

• As of water swashing in head.

Eyes

• Aversion to light.

• Eyes open but does not pay attention.

• Spasmodic closing of lids.

• Eyes roll about in orbits.

• Squint.

• Constantly stares at surrounding objects.

• Objects; seem red, large, or with coloured borders (yellow).

Ears

• Deafness, from paralysis of auditory nerve.

Nose

• Nostrils sooty, smoky.

• Sudden jerks at root of the nose.

• Loss of smell and taste.

Face

• Pale, flushed, dark red.

• Muscles twitch.

• Grimaces, and makes ridiculous gestures.

• Lower jaw drops.

• Muscles twitch, when protruding the tongue.

• Lock jaw.

Mouth

• Sordes on teeth; closes tightly.

• Foam at mouth.

• Tongue protruded with difficulty, can hardly draw it in.

• Speech; impaired, lost from fright.

• Stiff dark, red, cracked tongue, looks like burnt leather.

• Bites the tongue while talking.

• Tongue dry rattles in mouth.

• Grinds the teeth, during convulsions, children.

• Teeth feel loose when chewing; also too long.

• Violent pain in teeth, with twitching of muscles of hands, face etc.

Throat

• Elongation of uvula.

• Constriction of throat, inability to swallow liquids; solid and warm food amel.

• Fluids come out through the nose, or go down in larynx.

Stomach

• Hiccough; from concussion of brain; of nursing children.

• Vomiting with convulsions.

• Cramps in stomach amel. after vomiting; agg. after irritating food.

• Aversion to water.

Abdomen

• Colic, as if abdomen would burst.

• Colic; with vomiting, eructations, hiccough and screaming.

• Red spots on abdomen.

• Umbilicus open, urine oozing through.

- Stools; involuntary, bloody, yellow, watery or although hard, agg. mental excitement, during sleep; during fevers; while urinating.

• Gastritis or peritonitis with hiccough.

• Diarrhoea after parturition.

Urinary

• frequent, scanty, painful, nightly urination; or retention of urine; after childbirth; paralysis of bladder.

• Involuntary urination.

Male

• Lascivious; exposes his genitals, plays with genitals, during fever.

Female

• Lascivious; uncovers sexual parts.

• Nymphomania.

• Hysterical or epileptic spasms, before menses.

• Convulsive trembling of hands and feet, during menses.

• Enuresis, during menses.

• Painless diarrhoea in lying-in-women.

• Colds that settled in the womb and bring on labour-like pains.

• Convulsions during pregnancy.

• No will to make water in childbed.

• Milk and lochia suppressed.

Respiratory

• Dry, hacking spasmodic cough; from a dry spot in larynx; at night; agg. lying, eating, drinking, talking, singing; amel. sitting up.

• haemoptysis - bright red; with spasms.

• Spasms of chest with shortness of breath, forcing him to bend double.

• Exhausting cough, with sweat.

Neck

• Stiff, contracted to one side.

Extremities

• Trembling of hands and feet.

• Toes spasmodically contracted while walking or going upstairs.

• Fists clenched with retraction of thumbs (in convulsions) Sleep

- Nervous wakefulness.

• Falls asleep while answering.

• Starts out of sleep; frightened.

• Sits up and then goes to sleep again.

• Profound sleep.

• Laughs during sleep.

Fever

• Low fever with hot, pale skin.

• Warm sweat.

Related

• Bell; Phos; Stram.

HYOSCYAMUS

  1. Involuntary loud laughter with silly actions, convulsive trembling
  2. Lascivious furor without modesty, she wishes to uncover and expose herself.
  3. Picking of the bed-covers, or of the face.
  4. Inclined to be vexed, ailments from vexation.
  5. Jealousy, quarrelsome, scolding.
  6. Ailments from disappointed love.
  7. Fear of being poisoned or sold, complains of Imaginary wrongs.
  8. Fearfulness, anxiety, ailments from fright.
  9. Aversion to light and company.
  10. Delirium, murmuring, untelligible chattering, incoherent talk of business, fears, etc. Does not know anybody, has no wants, closed eyes, answers when spoken to, sinking back into apparent unconsciousness.
  11. Mania, rage, running about the room, tears clothes, scolding, swearing, striking, etc.
  12. The brain feels loose, sensation of water swashing around in it.
  13. Spasmodic, dry cough, always worse when lying down at night, relieved by sitting up.
  14. Has no desire to urinate, especially during childbed. Retention of urine.

Hyoscyamus

Mind:

Entire loss of consciousness; sees persons who are not, and have not been present; loss of sight and hearing.

Mind:

Involuntary loud laughter, with silly actions, convulsive trembling.

Mind:

Muttering, with picking of the bed-clothes.

Mind:

Lascivious furor, without modesty; wishes to uncover and expose herself.

Hearing and Ears:

Hardness of hearing, as if stupefied, especially after apoplexy.

Male Sexual Organs:

Sexual desire excessive; lascivious; exposes his person.

Female Sexual Organs:

Lascivious furore without modesty; tries to uncover and expose herself.

Respiratory Organs:

Dry spasmodic cough at night, < on lying down, > by sitting up.

Causes and Modalities:

Bad effects from jealousy or unhappy love.

Hyoscyamus

Nervous system

: Hyoscyamus is hill of convulsions, contractions, trembling, quivering and jerkings of the muscles. Convulsions in vigorous people, coming on with great violence. Convulsions that involve the whole economy, with unconsciousness, coming on in the night. Convulsions in women at the menstrual period; and then the lesser convulsions of single muscles, and contractions of single muscles.

Little jerkings and twitchings. In low forms of the disease it takes on the latter, jerkings and twitchings of muscles. In low typhoid states where there is great prostration with twitching. He feels it himself if conscious, enough to realize it, but others see it. An evidence of great prostration of the nervous system. Sliding down in bed, twitching of the muscles.

All the muscles tremble and quiver, a constant state of erethism throughout the economy. A state of irritability and excitability. Convulsive jerks of the limbs, so that all sorts of angular motions are made, automatic motions. Choreic motions.

But angular motions of the arms, and picking at the bedclothes. Picking at something in delirium. Gradually increasing weakness, whether it be in a continued fever where there has been a delirium or excitement, or in a case of insanity with erethism, of the nerves and mind; excitability and gradually increasing weakness.

Complete prostration, so that the patient slides down in bed, until the jaw drops. So the intermingling of jerkings and quiverings and tremblings and weakness and convulsive action of muscles are all striking features. Infants go into convulsions.

"Falls suddenly to the ground with cries and convulsions. Convulsions of children, especially from fright. Convulsions after eating."

The child becomes sick after eating, vomits and goes into convulsions.

"Shrieks and becomes insensible."

Goes into convulsions, such as the old books used to say, from worms; and the mother goes into convulsions soon after the child is born, called puerperal convulsions.

"Convulsions during sleep.

Suffocating spells and convulsions during labor.

Toes become spasmodically cramped."

Mind

: The mental state is really the greatest part of Hyoscyamus. Talking, passive delirium, imaginations, illusions, hallucinations; talking, rousing up and talking with a delirious manifestation, and then stupor. These alternate through complaints. And during sleep talking, crying out in sleep; but, talking and mumbling and soliloquizing. Then, there are wakeful periods, in which there are delirium and illusions and hallucinations all mingled together.

Sometimes the patient is in a state of hallucination, and the next minute in a state of illusion. Which means that a part of the time what he sees as hallucinations he believes to be so; and then these hallucinations become delusions.

Again, the things he sees he knows are not so, and then they are illusions. But he is full of hallucinations. He sees all sorts of things, indescribable things in his hallucinations. He imagines all sorts of things concerning people, concerning himself, and he gets suspicious. Suspicion runs through acute sickness; it runs through the mania in insanity. Suspicion that his wife is going to poison him; that his wife is untrue to him. Suspicious of everybody.

"Refuses to take medicine because it is poisoned."

"Imagines, that he is pursued, that the people have all turned against him, that his friends are no longer his friends.

He carries on conversations with imaginary people."

Talks as if he were talking to himself, but he really imagines that some one is sitting by his side, to whom he is talking.

Sometimes he talks to dead folks; recalls past events with those that have departed. Calls up, a dead sister, or wife, or husband, and, enters into conversation just as- if the per son were present.

Hyoscyamus has another freak in this peculiar mental state. Perhaps, there may be a queer kind of paper on the wall, and he lies and looks at it, and if he can possibly turn the figures into rows he will keep busy at that day and night, and lie wants a light there so he can put them into rows, and he goes to sleep and dreams about it, and wakes up and goes at it again; it is the same idea.

Sometimes, he will imagine the things are worms, are vermin, rats, cats, mice, and he is leading them like children lead around their toy wagons - just like a child. The mind is working in this; no two alike; perhaps you may never see these identical things described, but you will see something like it that the mind is reveling, in strange and ridiculous things.

One patient had a string of bedbugs going up a wall, and he had, them tied with a string, and was irritated because he could not make the last one keep up. Hyoscyamus did him a great deal of good. You do not find that expression in the text, but I will speak of it as analogous to the things that belong to the text. He is in alternate states. One minute he raves, and another he scolds in delirium, in excitement; the next he is in a stupor.

Stupor

: Finally, in a typhoid state, after he has progressed some time, he passes into quite a profound stupor. Early in the case he can be roused, and he answers questions correctly, and he seems to know what you have said to him; but the instant he finishes the last, answer he appears to be sound asleep.

Then you shake him and ask him another question, he answers that, and again he is sound asleep. The delirium that belongs to typhoid grows more and more profound, more and more passive, more and more muttering, until he passes into a complete unconsciousness front which he cannot be roused; in which he will lie for days sometimes, and weeks, becoming more and more emaciated; lying there in profound stupor unless this remedy is administered.

Lying there picking the bedclothes, and muttering. Even when he is in a stupor and realizes nothing apparently, that is going on, he makes passive motions, mutters, talks to himself, and once in a while utters a shrill scream. Picking his fingers, just as if he had something in his fingers when there is nothing there. He picks at the bedclothes the same way. Picking at his nightshirt, or picking anything he get his fingers on. Or, picking in the air, grasping as if he were grasping at flies.

This passive delirium goes on until he is in a profound stupor, and lies as one dead. In an insane state it sometimes takes on something of wildness, but not often. It is more passive, talking and prattling, sitting still in one corner and jabbering, or lying down, or going about.

"Undertaking to do the usual things, the usual duties."

That is, the housewife will want to get up and do the things she is used to doing in the house; the cooper will want to make barrels and the unusual things belonging to that business. Wants to carry on the usual occupation in his mind, talks about it, carries on the things of the day, and he keeps busy about it, so it is a busy insanity. Also, the delirium takes on the type of a busy delirium.

Now, to give you something of an idea as to the grading of this general type of insanity it should be compared with Stram. and Bell. You heard in the lecture on Bell. that it is violent, its fever most intense. There is much excitement. In Stram., when we reach that you will see that his delirium, his insanity, is expressed in terms of extreme violence.

These three run so close together that something can be brought out by associating them together. When considering Hyoscyamus in its mental state it is well to realize that it seldom has much fever in its insanity. It has a fever sometimes in the low form, but when Hyoscyamus is thought of in relation to a febrile state the intensity of the heat would be this order:

Bell., Stram., Hyoscyamus. Now, Bell. is very hot in its mental states. Stram., most violent and active, murderously violent, is moderately hot in its fever, as a rule. Hyoscyamus has a low fever, not very high, sometimes none at all, with its insanity. When one comes to take into consideration the violence of its delirium, or the maniacal actions, then it changes the order.

The order as to violence of conduct would be: Stram., Bell., Hyoscyamus. That brings you to see that even when associated with those medicines that look most like it, it is at the bottom of the list. It goes as a passive medicine, while the upper ones are more active. Hyoscyamus has a passive mania. Does not go into violence.

That is, the patient will sometimes become murderous, but it is more likely to be suicidal. Sometimes the patient will talk and prattle, sometimes sit and say nothing.

"Full of imaginations and hallucinations when asleep and when awake.

Religious turn of mind" with women who have been unusually pious; they take on the delusion that they have sinned away their day of grace. They have done some awful things.

"She imagines that she has murdered, that she has done some dreadful thing.

She cannot apply the promises that she reads in the Word of God to herself."

She will say:

"They do not mean me, they do not apply to me, they mean somebody else."

"Thinks he is in the wrong place.

Thinks he is not at home.

Sees persons who are not and who have not been present.

Fears being left alone.

Fears poison or being bitten."

These phases sometimes take on fear in the sense of fear, but it comes from that suspicion that was spoken of; he suspicions or fears these things will take place. He imagines these things are to take place, and hence he is suspicious of all his friends.

Another thing running through the remedy, in insanity and in the delirium of fevers, is a fear of water, fear of running water. Of course, hydrophobia, which is named because of that symptom being a striking feature, has fear of water, but some remedies also have that fear of water.

"Anxiety on hearing running water.

A fear of water."

That runs through Bell., Hyoscyamus, Canth., and, of course, the nosode Hydrophobinum. Stram. has the fear of water. Stram. has the fear of anything that might look like water, shining objects, fire looking-glass. Fear of things that have in any manner whatever the resemblance of fluids, and hence the sound of fluids. Hydrophobinumhas cured

"involuntary urination on hearing running water.

Involuntary discharge from the bowels on hearing running water."

It has cured a chronic diarrhea when that symptom was present. Hyoscyamus "makes short, abrupt answers to imaginary questions."

Imagines that somebody has asked a question, and he answers it; hence, you will find a patient with typhoid fever answering questions that you have not asked. He imagines that persons are in the room and asking him questions. You hear nothing but his answers; he is in delirium or insane.

"Mutters absurd things to himself.

Cries out suddenly."

There is another form of his delirium, and there are two phases of this. He wants to go naked; wants to take the clothing off, and this must be analyzed. At first you might not understand that. Hyoscyamus has such sensitive nerves all over the body in the skin that he cannot bear the clothing to touch the skin, and he takes it off. That occurs in insanity and sometimes in delirium, and he has no idea that he is exposing his body. He appears to be perfectly shameless, but he has no thought of shamelessness, no thought that he is doing anything unusual, but he does it from the hyperesthesia of the skin.

There is another phase running through the insanity, which is salacity, and it is violent at times, so violent that nobody but the old doctor can form any conception of the awfulness of it, and the dreadfulness of its effects upon those in the room. With a woman, a wife or a daughter, this state of salacity is manifested in this way: she exposes her genitals to the view of everybody coming into the room. There are instances where in these violent attacks of salacity a woman has gathered her clothing up under her arms to expose her genitals to the doctor as he walked into the room.

"Violent sexual excitement and nymphomania.

Obscene things.

Speech illustrated by urine, faeces and cow dung," and all sorts of things come out in this state of insanity and delirium - and yet - this is only sickness.

"He is violent and beats people.

Strikes and bites.

Sings constantly and talks hastily.

Erotic mania, accompanied by jealousy.

Lascivious mania.

Sings amorous songs.

Lies in bed naked, or wrapped in a skin during summer heat."

Not because he is cold, but because of a fancy. Complaints involving any of these mental phases may come on in a young woman from disappointed affections, from coming to the conclusion that the young man in whom she has reposed her confidence has become wholly unworthy of her. It drives her insane, and she may take on any of these phases.

Eyes

: Patients who have come out of continued fevers, convulsions, or insanity have paralytic condition of the eyes, of the muscles of the eyes.

"Disturbances of vision.

Far-sightedness.

Drawing tension in some of the muscles, and paralysis in others. Strabismus."

This is one of the most frequently indicated remedies. The strabismus that comes on from brain disease should be cured with a remedy.

In the Hyoscyamus fevers there is so much brain trouble, and there is left behind a tendency to muscular weakness of the eyes, disturbances of the eyes, and congestion of the retina, and disturbances of vision. Double sight.

"Obscuration of vision.

Night-blindness.

Distorted appearance of the eyes.

Spasmodic action of the internal recti."

"Pupils dilated and insensible to light."

Sometimes contracted, but in these low unconscious states of typhoid it is likely to be dilated. Then again, after he recovers from these low forms of disease there is quivering of the lids, and jerking of the lids, jerking of the muscles of the eye, so that the eyeball is unsteady. It moves from little spasms of the various muscles of the globe of the eye.

All of these symptoms occur either along with the fever, or afterwards. The child goes into convulsions, or has periods of convulsions, where, during the course of a week or ten days, there have been from fifteen to fifty convulsions, and it may be the convulsions have been remedied with Bell. or Cuprum, or any one of a number of remedies, and afterwards these eye troubles, strabismus and disturbances of vision.

"An object looked at jumps."

The letters jump while reading. Spasmodic complaints, periodical complaints, paroxysmal complaints of a nervous character will run through the remedy in various regions, and especially in its coughs, its stomach troubles and abdominal conditions.

Mouth and tongue

: The mouth brings forth a lot of symptoms. The mouth is very dry, "as dry as burnt leather."

The tongue tastes like sole leather. because of dryness. Sometimes the patient will say,

"My tongue rattles in my mouth, it is so dry."'

Very great dryness of the mouth, throat and nose, wherever the mucous membranes are. Dry, cracked, red, will bleed in low forms of typhoid. About the second week, going into the third, the teeth are covered with black blood, lips cracked and bleeding.

"Tongue cracked and bleeding.

Patient unconscious, except by much shaking or repeated calling be is roused" and slowly puts out that trembling tongue, which is covered with blood, cracks, and is dry.

"Sordes on the teeth" in low forms of fever.

"Twitching of the muscles of the face upon attempting to put out the tongue."

It trembles like it does in Lach., catches on to the teeth from its great dryness, and the jaw hangs down, relaxed, the mouth wide open.

The whole mouth is dry and offensive. Sometimes during fever the jaw becomes fixed as if it were locked, and it is with great difficulty that it can be moved.

"Closes the teeth tightly together.

Pulsating pains in the teeth.

Jerking, throbbing, tearing in the teeth.

Sordes on the teeth;" and in sleep in these low forms of fever he is grinding the teeth. Children, either in convulsions, or between convulsions, in congestion, also grind the teeth in the night, and in this comatose state. It says in the text,

"The tongue is red, brown, dry, cracked, hard.

Looks like burnt leather.

The tongue does not obey the will.

Difficult motion of the tongue; it is stiff, protruded with great difficulty.

Biting the tongue in talking."

The tongue becomes paralyzed.

"Loss of speech.

Utters inarticulate sounds.

Speech embarrassed.

Talks with difficulty."

The muscles of the throat, of the tongue, those that take part in swallowing, the muscles of the oesophagus, of the pharynx, become stiff and paralyzed so that swallowing is difficult.

"Food taken into the throat comes up into the nose."

Fluids come out of the nose, or go down into the larynx.

"The sight of water, or the hearing of running water, or the attempt to swallow water produces spasmodic constriction of the oesophagus."

Stomach and abdominal symptoms

: The next very important feature of this medicine is its stomach and abdominal symptoms. Vomiting. Dread of water. Unquenchable thirst. Aversion to water, as it were, from the stomach; a mental fear of water.

The stomach is distended. Great pain in the stomach. Dryness evidently in the stomach like there is in the mouth, because it occurs along with it. Burning and smarting in the stomach; and when there is no inflammation there is vomiting of blood. Stitching pains, colicky pains, distension. The distension of the whole abdomen.

"Abdomen wonderfully distended, almost to bursting."

Feels like a drum, tympanitic.

"Great soreness; can hardly touch the abdomen because of the soreness.

Cannot be handled, cannot be turned except with great difficulty, very slowly, and with caution.

Cutting pains in the abdomen."

Inflammation of all the viscera of the abdomen in low typhoid state, with great distension. Petechia upon the abdomen, such as is found in a typhoid.

Then comes the diarrhoea, very much like that which is found in low forms of continued fever.

"Bleeding from the bowels; ulceration of Peyer's glands," and the yellow, cornmeal mushy stool. In Hyoscyamus there is that mushy stool that occurs in typhoid fever, pappy consistency. Again, a watery, horribly offensive, bloody fluid. Most of the time the stools and the passages are painless.

"Painless discharges from the bowels.

Watery mucus, sometimes odorless, but commonly very offensive."

Then, another part of it is that the patient has no realization of the passage. It is involuntary. Both the urine and the stool are passed without his knowledge. Watery. bloody, or mushy. Hysterical females and young girls, who are subject to attacks of diarrhoea and bloody stools. Relaxed state of the bowels connected with relaxation of the uterus.

"Diarrhoea during pregnancy.

Diarrhoea during typhoid fever.

Paralysis of the sphincter ani.

Paralysis of the bladder after labor, so that the urine remains in the bladder, with no desire to urinate."

Bladder

: The routine remedy for retention of urine after labor is Caust. Caust., like Rhus, is a great remedy for the effect of strain upon muscles and parts, and the violent effort that a woman passes through in expelling the child in many instances leaves all the pelvic muscles tired, relaxed, paralyzed.

Then comes that which was mentioned, which really belongs to the general state more than the local; violent sexual desire. Violent sexual desire in girls who never had that desire. Coming on and manifesting itself only during the inflammation of the brain.

"Labour-like pains from taking cold."

A cold settles in the uterus, bringing on painful menstruation. Hyoscyamus has various crampings; cramps in the fingers and toes and of the muscles here and there, temporary paralysis, etc. It has suppressed menstruation. There are many conditions belonging to menstruation, pregnancy and parturition that are hysterical in character.

Twitchings, cough, constipation, diarrhea, etc., that belong to a hysterical nature.

"Puerperal convulsions.

Jerks violently at the oncoming of the convulsions.

After miscarriage, haemorrhage of bright red blood, No desire of the bladder to expel the contents."

Voice

: And then comes the voice, the larynx, respiration, and cough.

Constriction of the larynx. Much mucus in the larynx and air passages, makes the speech and voice rough. Hoarseness with dry and inflamed throat. Speech difficult. Hysterical aphonia. Hyoscyamus and Veratrum are two medicines that cure and make a nervous hysterical woman a great deal more sensible.

"Difficult spasmodic respiration from spasm of the chest.

Apparently loss of breath; rattling in the chest."

Hysterical cough. Sensitive, hysterical girls, or sensitive women, with spinal irritation, have paroxysmal cough, coming on periodically, coming on from excitement. When this patient lies down in the daytime, at night, any time, on will come the spasmodic cough with contractions in the larynx, spasms in the larynx, choking, gagging, and vomiting.

"Redness of the face, and suffocation."

It is a dry, hacking, choking cough, that racks the whole body, in spinal affections.

"Tickling in the larynx.

Dry, hacking, and spasmodic cough, worse lying, better sitting, worse at night, after eating, drinking, talking and singing.

Dry, spasmodic, persistent cough."

But its characteristic cough is a dry, racking, harassing cough, worse lying down. Those young women and girls with sore spots on the spine from the coccyx to the brain, sore places that manifest themselves when leaning back against a chair.

These take a little cold in the larynx, and sometimes it is purely from a nervous attack. Sometimes spinal irritation, spinal cough in those that have curvature of the spine.

"During cough, spasms in the larynx.

Cough worse after midnight; wakes the patient from sleep.

Cough in cold air, and from eating and drinking.

Cough after measles.

Violent spasmodic cough."

The cough is most exhausting. A cough will sometimes last until the patient is covered with sweat and is exhausted, and leans forward to get a little relief; and he coughs until he is exhausted.

"Spasms of the muscles of the chest.

Contraction of the muscles of one side of the neck.

Spinal meningitis with convulsions."

Paralytic weakness of the limbs. Convulsions of the muscles. Twitching. Frequent twitchings of the muscles of the hands and feet.

Sleep

: Many complaints come on during sleep.

The sleep is a great tribulation to this nervous patient. There are times of sleeplessness. Again, profound sleep.

"Sleepless, or constant sleep."

Either awake or asleep, there may be muttering,

"Long continued sleeplessness.

Lascivious dreams.

Lying on the back he suddenly sits up and then lies down again."

That means that the patient wakes out of sleep, looks all around, wonders what terrible thing he has been dreaming about; his dreams seen real. He looks all about and sees nothing of the objects of his dream, he lies down and goes to sleep again.

He keeps doing that all night. Starts up in a fright. jerks in sleep, and cries out. Grates the teeth. Laughing during sleep. With so much brain trouble as belongs to this medicine, we would expect the dreams and the fright, the disturbances, the twitching and trembling in sleep. Its fevers are low forms of fever, the continued fever, the typhoid.

Hyoscyamus Niger.

Henbane (Solanaceae.)

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 peurperal 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 resplessness, jumps out of bed, tries ot 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 Strammonium; lacks the constant cerebral congestion of the former and the fierce rage and maniacal delirium of the latter. Spasms: without conciousness, very restless; every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes (with conciousness, 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, incohorent 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 when sitting up (Dros.); < at night, after eating, drinking, talking singing (Dros., Phos., - > when lying down,, Mang. m.). Intense sleeplessness of irritable, excitable persons form 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, gasping at flocks or picking bed clothes, teeth covered with sordes, tongue dry and unweildly; involuntary stool and urine; subsultus teninum.

Relations

. - Compare: Bell., Stam., 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.

Hyoscyamus Niger.

Mind and Disposition.

Jealousy, with rage and delirium.

Fright, followed by convulsions ; and starts from sleep.

Unfortunate love with jealousy, with rage and incoherent speech.

Delirium without consciousness ; does not know any body and has no wants (except thirst).

[5] Unconscious delirium, with closed eyes ; ; talks of business ; fears to be poisoned or to be sold ; scolds, raves.

Melancholy from unfortunate love, with rage or inclination to laugh at every thing.

Delirium tremens, with clonic spasms ; unconsciousness and aversion to light and company.

When spoken to, the answer is properly given, but immediately unconsciousness and delirium return.

Indomitable rage.

[10] Mania with lasciviousness ; and occasional muttering ; sings amorous and obscene songs ; uncovers his whole body.

Head.

Loss of memory.

Vertigo, with obscuration of sight, as from intoxication.

Unconsciousness, from congestion of blood to the head, with delirium ; answering all questions properly ; pupils dilated.

Congestion of blood to the head ; red, sparkling eyes ; face purple-red ; worse in the evening.

[15] Inflammation of the brain, with unconsciousness ; heat and tingling in the head ; violent pulsations in the head, like waves ; the head shakes ; worse from becoming cold and after eating ; relieved by bending the head forward (stooping) and from heat.

The brain feels as if it were loose.

Hydrocephalus, with stupor ; the head is shaken to and fro ; sensation of swashing in the head.

Pressing, stupefying pain in the forehead.

The head is shaken or is drawn to one side, with loss of consciousness and red, sparkling eyes.

[20] Heat of the head and face, with general coldness of the body, without thirst.

Liability to catch cold in the head, principally from dry, cold air.

Eyes.

Red, sparkling eyes.

Spasmodic closing of the lids ; inability to open the eyelids.

Staring, distorted eyes.

[25] Squinting.

Contortion of the eyes.

Pupils dilated.

Quivering in the eye.

Optical illusions ; every thing looks ; red as ; fire ; things look too large ; dim-sightedness ; double vision.

[30] Night-blindness.

Face.

Heat and redness of the face.

Swollen, brown-red face.

Distorted, bluish face, with the mouth wide open.

Lock-jaw.

Mouth and Throat.

[35] Soreness ; sensation as ; if bruised in the soft parts between the gums and the cheeks.

Toothache, with congestion to the head.

Pulsating toothache, as from inflammation of the periosteum.

He closes the teeth tight.

Foam at the mouth.

[40] Constriction of the throat with inability to swallow, especially fluids.

Saliva tasting salt ; bloody saliva.

Tongue red.

Loss of speech ; utters inarticulated, sounds.

Paralysis of the tongue.

Parching dryness of the fauces.

Elongation of the palate.

Stomach and Abdomen.

[45] Voracious ; appetite and thirst, with inability to swallow.

Thirst, with drinking but little at a time.

After drinking, convulsions ; dread of drink.

Hiccough (with spasms and rumbling in the abdomen).

Bitter eructations.

[50] Vomiting of blood and bloody mucus.

Vomiting and retching after coughing.

Sensitiveness and tenderness of the pit of the stomach to the touch.

Burning in and inflammation of the stomach.

Colic relieved by vomiting.

[55] Distention of the abdomen, with pain when touched.

Pain, as from soreness in the abdominal walls, when coughing.

Stool and Anus.

Frequent urgent desire for stool, with but small discharge.

Involuntary stools, from paralysis ; of the sphincter ani.

Watery, painless diarrhoea.

[60] Diarrhoea of lying-in women.

The stool is small-shaped.

Haemorrhoids profusely bleeding.

Urinary Organs.

Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharges.

Involuntary micturition, as from paralysis ; of the bladder.

[65] Retention of urine, with pressure in the bladder.

Frequent emission of urine (as clear as water).

Sexual Organs.

Menstruation too profuse (with delirium).

Before menstruation, hysterical spasms ; uninterrupted loud laughing.

During the menses, convulsive tremblings of the hands and feet ; seven, headache ; profuse perspiration.

[70] Metrorrhagia, the blood pale, with convulsions.

Suppressed menstruation ; suppressed lochia.

Spasms of pregnant women, especially during parturition.

Puerperal fever.

Respiratory Organs.

Slow, rattling breathing.

[75] Spasms of the chest, with arrest of breathing, compelling one to lean forward.

Stitches in the sides of the chest. (Inflammation of the lungs).

Violent, spasmodic cough ; short consecutive coughs, caused by a tickling sensation in the throat, as if some mucus were lodged in it ; during the day, expectoration of saltish tasting mucus, or of bright-red blood, mixed with clots.

Dry, spasmodic cough at night (in old persons), from continuous ; tickling in the throat (as if the palate were too long).

Haemoptysis, blood bright-red, with spasms.

[80] The cough is worse, at night (after midnight), when at rest, during sleep, in the cold air, from eating and drinking.

The cough is re eyed by sitting up.

Rough voice, from mucus in the trachea and larynx.

Extremities.

Upper. Painful numbness of the hands.

Trembling of the arms.

[85] Rigor of the hands.

Swelling of the hands.

Hands closed, with clenched thumb.

Floccillation -picking of the bed-cover or of the face.

Lower. Cramps in the anterior pad of the thigh.

Sleep.

[90] Coma vigil.

Deep, heavy sleep with convulsions.

Nightly sleeplessness, with convulsions and concussions, as if by fright ; starting from sleep.

Sleeplessness from nervous irritation.

Generalities.

Spasms and convulsions ; (with watery diarrhoea).

[95] Epileptic attacks, ending with deep, heavy sleep.

Apoplexy with snoring.

Uncommon sinking of strength.

Fainting, repeated attacks of.

Subsultus ; tendinum.

Fever.

[100] Pulse full, hard, accelerated ; distended arteries.

Chilliness over the whole body, with heat in the face, ascending from the feet.

Nightly coldness, extending over the back from the small of the back.

Burning heat of the body every evening.

Heat (in the evening) with congestion of blood to the head and putrid taste.

[105] Debilitating perspiration during sleep.

Cold, sour-smelling perspirations.

Perspiration, principally on the legs.

Intermittent fever, quartan, with short, dry, hacking cough at night.

Afternoon fever ; coldness predominates, with pain in the back.

Skin.

[110] Hot, dry, brittle skin.

Brown or gangrenous spots on the body (as in typhus).

Frequent large blood-boils.

Rash, from the abuse of Belladonna.

The ulcer is very painful and bleeds.

Conditions.

[115] Bad effects from getting cold and cold air ; from the abuse of Belladonna ; from jealousy, unhappy love.

Aggravation in the evening ; after eating and drinking ; during menstruation.

Amelioration by stooping (head, breathing).

HYOSCYAMUS NIGER

REGION:
MIND.
Brain.
Nerves.
Muscles: Face. Eyes.

WORSE:
EMOTIONS: Fright. Jealousy.
TOUCH.
Lying.
Cold.
Sleep.

BETTER:
Sitting up.

Congested nerve centers; with pale face. Spasm, tremor, jerks, cramps, etc., or active mania; alternating with, or ending in depressive narcosis, with angular or clutching motions, CARPHOLOGY, subsultus, etc. Picks fingers. Zymoses. Eclampsia. .................... Many bewildering aberrations. Confusion. Delirium. MANIA, erotic, exposes genitals; riotous; laughing, singing, talking, babbling, quarreling, etc.; silly, with comical acts; plays with fingers. Fumbles the genitals. Lascivious (females). Jealousy. Suspicious; fears being alone, being pursued, water, etc.; wants to escape. Speaks each word louder. First, can't think, then can barely be aroused, then relaxation; with muttering, the lower jaw drops, he slides down in bed, has involuntary stools - bloody or yellow watery. Typhoid states. Vertigo, then spasm. Waves of pulsation in head. Pulsating headaches. Head shakes to and fro; < bending forward. Squint. Averse to light. Spasmodic closure of eyelids. Grimaces. Sordes on teeth. Stiff, dark, red, cracked tongue. Elongated uvula. Stools involuntary, although hard. Frequent, scanty, painful, nightly urination or retained urine. Spasms of dry, hacking, night cough; from a dry spot in larynx; < lying, eating or talking. Nervous wakefulness. Starts out of sleep. Low fever; with hot, pale skin. Warm sweat. Sexuality excited by Hyoscine is antidoted by Platina.

 

REMEDY RELATION

Related: Bell. Pho. Stram.

Great sinking of strength.
Interanl inflammatory states with nervous symptoms.

Bad effects from catching cold and cold air.
Spasms and convulsions.
Spasms during pregnancy, during parturition, when trying to swallow fluids, and from worms.
Epileptic attacks, ending in sleep and snoring.
St. Vituss dance.
Cold and trembling limbs which go to sleep.
Insensibility of the body.
Involuntary motions and poor bladder control of micturition.
Incipient amaurosis and a perversion of the visual sense.

Bad effects from jealousy a mental modality.
A useful remedy in mania and inflammation of the brain.
The symptoms aggravated in the evening, and after eating and drinking and especially during rest.

Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights

"If there is any ground to fear an attack of typhus, HYOSCYAMUS and BAPTISIA are probably the best preventives, with plenty of fresh air and wholesome food."

By Dr. Ruddock, M.D. Typhoid Fever

Remedy Profile

  • Type Remedy
  • Common Name HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
  • Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency

Sixth, to 200th potency.

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