STRAMONIUM


STRAMONIUM signs and symptoms from the Characteristic Materia Medica by William Burt of the homeopathic medicine STRAMONIUM …


SPHERE OF ACTION

This is a special irritant to the cerebro-spinal system.Affecting more especially the brain, sexual organs and skin.

The power it possesses of deranging the sensorium and cerebral nerves, is remarkable; it cause more furious delirium than Belladonna, but not so much congestion of blood to the head, but more congestion than that of Hyoscyamus. The irritating or neurotic powers of Stramonium seem almost wholly spent on the sensorium. Functional derangements of the abdominal organs seem to result from a sympathetic irritation, rather than from direct influence of the poison.

Upon the skin it causes, a fiery redness of the whole body, and a petechial rash on the chest and back, and likewise upon the lower extremities. This eruption is caused by irritation of the spinal nerves.

Upon the sexual organs it causes excessive excitement, even to nymphomania.

GRAND CHARACTERISTICS

Disposed to talk continually.Desires light, and company; worse in the dark or in solitude.

Imagines all sorts of things; that she is double, lying crossways.

Child is delirious; does not know where it is; calls for papa and mamma, although they may be present trying to console

it.

Furious delirium.

Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the first object seen.

Young men or women who pray, sing, or talk so devoutly and constantly, as to excite the sympathy of all in the house.

Wild thoughts when she is awake; frightful sensations, without perspiration.

Loquacious delirium, with desire to escape out of bed.

Pangs of conscience; thinks he is not honest; does not know his friends; raves about his business.

Mock laughter when looking at the picture of his father; face red; eyes wild, alternating with melancholy.

Muttering delirium, with an extreme degree of nervous erethism, trembling convulsions and restlessness.

Sight of brilliant objects, and contact, renew the spasms.

Vertigo when walking in the dark, day or night; he staggers and falls down every time he attempts to walk. The same when walking in a darkened room in the day time.

Eyes.–Dilatation of the pupils with staring eyes.

Swelling and redness of the eyes.

Great confusion of sight.

The face is bloated with blood.

Digestive Organs.–All kinds of food taste like straw; in fact she has no taste.

Tongue yellowish-brown, and dry on the centre, or swelled and dry.–NEIDHARD.

Lips sore and cracked, with sordes on the teeth.–NEIDHARD.

No desire for water, although the mouth is dry.–N.

Nausea, with flow of very saltish-tasting saliva.

Troublesome thirst even with much saliva.

Saliva tastes salty.

Diarrhoea of a cadaverous odor.

Urinary Organs.–The urine dribbles away very slowly and feebly.

Generative Organs.–Excessive loquacity during the menstrual period; face bloated with blood; with tears and prayers and earnest supplications.

Pains are unbearable; drive the patient to despair.

Puerperal fever, and nymphomania.

Extreme degree of nervous erethism; convulsions, trembling, restlessness.–P.P. WELLS.

Skin.–Scarlet rash, with furious delirium.

Abscesses with violent pain, driving one mad.–RAUE.

Caries of the left hip.–M.

In morbus coxarius, Dr. Jeanes has given it with extraordinary success, so much so, he has recommended it as a specific.

William Burt
William H. Burt, MD
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881