COMMON NAME:
HENBANE.
Symptoms
Bad effects from catching cold and cold air.
Bad effects from jealousy — (a mental modality).
Internal inflammatory states with nervous symptoms.
Great sinking of strength.
Spasms and convulsions (bell., Cicuta, Cuprum, Gelsemium, Kali-P., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mosch., Nux-v., Opium, Secale, Tarent., Veratrum).
Epileptic attacks, ending in sleep and snoring.
St. Vitus’s dance (Agaricus, Gels, Nux-v., Tarent).
Vertigo, then spasm (B.).
Cold and tumbling limbs, which go to sleep.
Insensibility of the body.
INVOLUNTARY MOTIONS AND POOR BLADDER CONTROL OF MICTURITION (Opium)
SPASMS DURING PREGNANCY, dURING PARTURITION, wHEN TRYING TO SWALLOW FLUIDS, AND FROM WORMS. (Belladonna, Stramonium).
Hydrophobia (Belladonna, Lyss.) (G.,).
Convulsions: of children, from fright or the irritation of the intestinal worms (Calcarea, Cina., Cuprum, Magnesia phos.) (A.).
After meals, the child vomits; then sudden shrieks with insensibility (A.)
SPASMS WITHOUT CONSCIOUSNESS (Arg-n., Bufo., Calcarea, Cicuta, Cocc., Cuprum, Ipecac., Lachesis, Oena., Opium, Plb., Stramonium, Sulphur, Visc.) (A.).
Every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes (A.).
Pupils dilated (Belladonna) (G.).
Incipient amaurosis and a perversion of the visual sense (Gelsemium, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla).
Diplopia (Belladonna, Gelsemium, Stramonium) (G.).
A useful remedy ion mania and inflammation of the brain.
LASCIVIOUS MANIA: IMMODESTY, WILL NOT BE COVERED; KICKS OFF THE CLOTHES, EXPOSES THE PERSON; SINGS OBSCENE SONGS; LIES NAKED IN BED AND CHATTERS (A.)
Bad effects of unfortunate love; with jealousy, rage, incoherent speech, or inclination to laugh at everything (A.).
Silly, with comical acts (B.).
Plays with fingers (B.).
FEARS: BEING ALONE; POISON; BEING BITTER; BEING SOLD; TO EAT OR DRINK; TO TAKE WHAT IS OFFERED; SUSPICIOUS OF SOME PLOT (A.).
Delirium, with restlessness; jumps out of bed, tries to escape (Belladonna, Stramonium); makes irrelevant answers; thinks he is in the wrong place; talks of imaginary doings, but has no wants and make no complaints (A.).
Typhoid fever; Sensorium clouded; staring eyes; grasping at flocks or picking bed-clothes; teeth covered with sordes; tongue dry and unwieldy; involuntary stool and urine; subsultus tendinum (A.).
Talks of business (bry.) (C.).
Speaks each word louder (B.).
With muttering, the lower jaw drops (Lycopodium) (B.)
Slides down in bed (Mur-Ac.) (B.).
Shakes head to and fro: worse bending forward (B.).
Imbecility of the intellect; memory weak or lost (G.).
Entire loss of consciousness; sees persons who are not, and have been present, loss of sight and hearing (N.).
Watery, painless diarrhoea (China, Kali-P., Podophyllum, Rici.).
Much distension of the abdomen (Carbo vegetabilis, China, Lycopodium, Opium, Terebintha) (Bt.).
Nervous wakefulness (Ambr., Coffea, Gelsemium, Nux vomica) (B.).
STARTS OUT OF SLEEP (Belladonna, Gelsemium, Stramonium) (B).
SPASMS OF DRY, HACKING, nIGHT COUGH; FROM A DRY SPOT IN THE LARYNX (Conium); WORSE FROM LYING, eATING OR TALKING (Phosphorus) (B.).
Hardness of hearing, as if stupefied, especially after apoplexy (N.).
All objects appear red, or larger than they really are, or double (Hm.).
Paralysis of the sphincter ani and vesicae, with involuntary stool and urine (Hm.).
AGGRAVATION:
In the evening; after eating and drinking; during rest; during menses; at night; from jealousy; from unhappy love; from fright; when lying down; and at the beginning of menstruation.
AMELIORATION:
From sitting up, on stooping.
RELATIONSHIP:
Compare Belladonna, Lachesis, Stramonium, and Veratrum
Phosphorus, often cures lasciviousness when Hyoscyamus fails.
ANTIDOTES: Belladonna and Stramonium
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)