Flamboyant stage of exhibitionism or mania.
Loquacious. Jealous. Suspicious.
Sexual minded. Masturbation. Absence of morals. Shamelessness.
Restlessness. Dancing.
Depression or mania after breaking of romantic relationships.
Convulsions.
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COMMON NAME
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Henbane
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FAMILY
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Solanaceae
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PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
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- | Brain - Violent, Loquacious, Quarrelsome delirium.
Insomnia.
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- | Cord (Motor tract) - Convulsions, Paralysis.
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- | Eyes - Powerful mydriatic.
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- | Ears - Paralysis of VIII. Nerve Deafness.
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- | GIT - Paralysis of all sphincter muscles.
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- | Intestines - Involuntary diarrhoea.
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- | Urinary Organs - Diuresis.
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A/F
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- | Suppressed lochia or milk |
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MODALITIES
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< | Emotions; jealousy, fright, unhappy love
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< | Before and during menses
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< | Beginning of menstruation
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< | After eating or drinking
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MIND
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- | Ailments from disappointment in love.
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- | Talkative, obscene, lascivious mania, uncovers body. Jealous [Lach, Puls,
Nux-v, Stram].
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- | Very suspicious [Cench, Merc, Lach, Anac] of some plot.
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- | Fears to eat or drink, to take what is offered.
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- | Fear of being alone, being pursued, of water, of being poisoned [Rhus-t,
Lach, Bell, Kali-br], of being bitten, of syphilis, of being betrayed, of
being sold.
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- | Great hilarity; inclined to laugh at everything.
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- | Laughing before menses, hysterical before menses.
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- | Does foolish things, behaves like one who is mad.
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- | Silly; does comical acts, performs ludicrous actions like monkeys [Tyler].
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- | Foolish laughter, animated and hurried talk.
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- | Loquacity; speaks rapidly and changes subject frequently.
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- | Talks with imaginary persons or dead ones.
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- | Speaks each word louder.
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- | Lasciviousness [Bell, Camph, Canth, Phos, Lil-t, Stram, Sec].
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- | Erotic; exposes genitals (female); sings amorous songs.
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- | Will not be covered, kicks of clothes, lies naked in bed and chatters.
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- | Desire to curse when aroused [Morrison].
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- | Nymphomania during menses.
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- | Carphologia; picks at fingers, bedclothes. Gestures of hands; as if brushing
the face or brushing something away.
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- | Unconscious, can barely be aroused.
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- | Low muttering delirium [Bell - delirium violent and furious].
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- | When spoken to, answers properly but stupor and delirium return immediately.
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- | Delirium - attempts to run away. Restless, jumps out of bed, wants to
escape.
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- | Talks of business, complaints of imaginary wrongs.
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- | Wants to get up and attend business or go home [Bry].
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- | Attacks people with knife, embraces the stove, prepares for wedding, wraps
up in fur during summer.
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- | Delirious without apparent heat, face pale, limbs cold though temperature is
high.
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- | Delirium tremens and clonic spasms, aversion to light or company.
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- | Indifference, does not complain.
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- | Does not recognize his relatives.
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- | Thinks he is in the wrong place, thinks he is not at home.
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has
been devoured by animals
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listens
to imaginary sounds
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thinks
men are swines
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that
he is being watched.
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- | Anxiety on hearing running water.
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- | Sadness from smell of flowers. Sadness > urination, continence.
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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- | C.N.S. - Tremulous weakness and twitching of
tendons.
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- | Every muscle of body twitches from eyes to toes without consciousness [with
consciousness - Nux-v]
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- | Before attack; vertigo, sparks before eyes, ears ring, gnawing hunger.
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- | During attack; face pale, eyes protrude, shrieking, grinding of teeth, froth
at mouth and involuntary motion.
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- | Motions of arms clutching or angular, throws arms about, misses what is
reached for, totters while walking. |
- | Convulsions so violent that it seems the joints and spine will be broken to
pieces.
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- | Active mania or convulsions alternating with deep sopor or ending in deep
sopor.
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- | Convulsions < fright, menses, sleep [Morrison]
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- | Eyes - Small objects seem large [reverse of Platina].
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- | Mouth - Tongue; dry, red, cracked, stiff, immovable, protruded with
difficulty, can hardly draw it in. Tongue looks like burnt leather.
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- | Speech impaired, bits tongue while talking.
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- | Teeth covered with sordes.
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- | G.I.T. - Dysphagia; choking on swallowing liquids, solids and warm food >
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- | Fluids come out through nose or enter in larynx.
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- | Thirst but drinks little at a time, drinking causes spasms.
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- | Cramps in stomach < after irritating food > after vomiting.
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- | Umbilicus open, urine oozing through.
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- | Diarrhoea; colicky pains, involuntary < mental excitement or during
sleep, during fever, while urinating.
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- | Urinary system - Involuntary micturition.
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- | Retention of urine after childbirth [Arn, Op].
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- | Male genitalia - Desire to masturbate in public.
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- | Masturbation in children.
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- | Lewd speech or desire to curse during sex.
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- | Respiratory system - Dry spasmodic cough < night < lying down >
siting up [Dros]. From itching in throat (from dry spot in larynx), as if
uvula were elongated < eating, drinking, talking, singing [Dros, Phos]
[> lying down - Mang-m].
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- | Sleep - Nervous wakefulness, starts up frightened.
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- | Intense sleeplessness of irritable, excitable persons, from business
embarrassment often imaginary. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Immodesty, will not be covered, exposes the
person, sings obscene songs.
- Every muscle of the body twitches, from eyes to the toes.
- Intense sleeplessness of irritable, excitable persons from business
embarrasments
- Suspicious of some plot, fear of being poisoned.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Bad effects of unfortunate love.
- Lascivious mania.
- Fever rapidly becomes typhoid with clouding of the MIND.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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- | Diseases with cerebral activity but non-inflammatory
in type.
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- | Weakness and nervous agitation, hence typhoid and other conditions.
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- | Talkative, obscene, lascivious mania, uncovers body, jealous.
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- | Low muttering delirium, constant carphologia, deep stupor.
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- | Convulsions, trembling, jerks, twitchings, cramps. |
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CLINICAL
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- | Behavioural disorders, Cerebral accidents, Cough,
Fecal impaction, Mania, Meningitis, Schizophrenia, Seizures.
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- | Phos often cures lasciviousness when Hyos fails.
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- | Nux-v or Opium in haemoptysis of drunkards.
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- | Hiccoughs occurring after operations on abdomen - Dr. E. A. Farrington.
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- | Preventive in typhus with fresh air and wholesome food - Dr. Ruddock.
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- | For production of sleep, 5-10 drops of mother tincture in 1/2 glass of water
at bedtime in teaspoonful doses given 1/2 hourly - Dr.Butter.
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- | For nail biting (Sanicula, Arsenic) - Dr. Boger. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Followed Well By: Bell, Phos, Puls, Stram, Verat
Follows Well: Bell, Nux-v, Op, Rhus-t
Compare: Coloc, Con, Cupr, Lach, Nux-v, Op, Puls, Sec, Stram, Verat
Antidoted By: Bell, Chin, Stram
It Antidotes: Bell, Merc, Stram
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