• Belladonna has marked action on the vascular system, skin, and glands.

• Belladonna presents with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids.

• It shows an excited mental state, hyperesthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, and convulsive movements.

• It presents with dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water.

• It features neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly.

• Belladonna presents with heat, redness, throbbing, and burning sensations.

• Belladonna is a great children's remedy.

• Indicated in epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting.

• Belladonna is a scarlet fever remedy and prophylactic (use thirtieth potency).

• It addresses exophthalmic goiter.

• Belladonna corresponds to the symptoms of "air-sickness" in aviators (give as preventive).

• The patient experiences no thirst, anxiety, or fear.

• It stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset.

• It addresses the extreme of thyroid toxemia (use 1x - Beebe).

• Belladonna is suitable for full-blooded, plethoric constitutions inclined to congestion.

• Symptoms appear and disappear suddenly.

• Great sensitiveness to touch, noise, and light.

• Indicated in convulsions without consciousness.

• It presents with a tendency to suppuration.

• Belladonna is a right-sided remedy.

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• Belladonna presents with delirium, violent, furious, with biting, striking, and tearing things.

• The patient imagines hideous things; sees ghosts, monsters, and various frightful images.

• The patient experiences great restlessness; cannot remain in one position.

• The patient experiences loss of consciousness; stupor.

• The patient exhibits sudden changes of mood; alternating laughter and weeping.

• The patient experiences ill humor, irritability, and is easily angered.

• The patient has a desire to escape or run away.

• The patient experiences great fear, especially of imaginary things, black animals, or being touched.

• The patient experiences forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating.

• The patient is sensitive to reprimands.

• The patient exhibits loquacity, talks rapidly and incessantly.

• The patient experiences mania with great excitement and violence.

• The patient has a violent temper.

• The patient exhibits impulsive behavior.

• The patient experiences unconsciousness.

• The patient experiences dullness.

• The patient has an aversion to company.

• The patient experiences screaming and shrieking.

• The patient experiences throbbing, bursting headache, as if the head would fly to pieces.

• The headache is worse from light, noise, and motion.

• The headache is relieved by pressure or tight bandaging.

• The patient experiences congestion to the head, with hot face and red eyes.

• The scalp is sensitive to touch; hair feels dry and crisp.

• The headache extends from occiput to forehead.

• The headache occurs with nausea and vomiting.

• The head feels large.

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• Headache par excellence due to intensity and variety of head pains.

• Congestion of blood to the head.

• Vertigo, mostly at night, turning over in bed, getting up in the morning, walking, or every change of position.

• Headache with flushed face, brilliant eyes, and dilated pupils.

• Feeling in the brain like swashing of water.

• Throbbing, pulsating headache, with beating arteries and violent palpitation of the heart.

• Headache triggered by tobacco smoke.

• Head feels too large; throbbing in temples.

• The pupils are dilated, staring, and glistening.

• The patient experiences photophobia; sensitive to light.

• The patient experiences blurred vision; objects appear distorted or double.

• The eyes are red, injected, and burning.

• The patient experiences dryness of the eyes.

• The patient experiences twitching of the eyelids.

• The patient experiences pain in the eyes, as if sand in them.

• The patient experiences lachrymation.

• The patient experiences styes.

• The patient experiences hyperacusis; sensitive to noise.

• The patient experiences tinnitus; ringing in the ears.

• The patient experiences pain in the ears, throbbing or shooting.

• The patient experiences swelling and redness of the ears.

• The patient experiences otorrhea.

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• Sensitive to slight noises.

• Throbbing in the ears.

• Hearing impaired.

• Pain in the ears.

• The patient experiences dryness of the nose, with epistaxis (nosebleeds).

• The nose is red, swollen, and shiny.

• The sense of smell is very acute.

• The patient experiences coryza with dry, burning sensation.

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• Nosebleed; bright red blood.

• Dryness of the nasal passages.

• Acute sense of smell.

• The throat feels dry, constricted, and burning.

• The patient experiences difficulty swallowing; aversion to liquids.

• The tonsils are enlarged, red, and inflamed.

• The patient experiences a sensation of a lump in the throat.

• The uvula is elongated and swollen.

• The patient experiences hawking of mucus.

• The sore throat is worse on the right side.

• The patient is affected by diphtheria.

• The patient experiences laryngitis with hoarseness and dry, hacking cough.

• The patient experiences spasmodic cough, worse at night.

• The patient experiences difficulty breathing; sensation of suffocation.

• The patient experiences whooping cough with violent paroxysms.

• The patient experiences croup.

• The patient experiences dry, tickling cough.

• The patient experiences palpitations, rapid and violent heartbeat.

• The patient experiences angina pectoris with sharp, shooting pains.

• The patient experiences congestion to the chest.

• The patient experiences a feeling of constriction in the chest.

• The patient is affected by endocarditis.

• The patient experiences thirstlessness; aversion to liquids, especially water.

• The patient experiences nausea and vomiting.

• The patient experiences epigastric tenderness.

• The patient experiences eructations.

• The patient experiences hiccough.

• The abdomen is distended and sensitive to touch.

• The patient experiences colic with violent pains.

• The patient experiences griping pains.

• The patient experiences enlarged liver and spleen.

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• The patient experiences constipation, with urging and straining.

• The patient experiences spasmodic contraction of the anus.

• The patient experiences involuntary stool.

• The patient experiences hard, dry stools.

• The patient experiences hemorrhoids.

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• The patient experiences difficulty urinating; retention of urine.

• The patient experiences frequent urging to urinate, with scanty or no discharge.

• The patient experiences involuntary urination, especially at night.

• The patient is affected by cystitis.

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• The patient experiences menses too early, profuse, and bright red.

• The patient experiences metrorrhagia with bright red blood.

• The vagina is dry and sensitive.

• The patient experiences leucorrhea.

• The patient experiences ovarian pain.

• The patient experiences mastitis.

• The patient experiences stiffness of the neck.

• The patient experiences pain in the back, especially in the lumbar region.

• The patient experiences opisthotonos.

• The patient experiences pain in the limbs, throbbing or shooting.

• The patient experiences jerking and twitching of the muscles.

• The patient experiences coldness of the extremities.

• The patient experiences convulsions in the extremities.

• The patient experiences swelling of the joints.

• The patient experiences sciatica.

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• Cold extremities.

• Jerking of limbs during sleep.

• Pain in limbs, worse from motion.

• The skin is hot, red, dry, and swollen.

• The patient experiences scarlet fever rash, smooth and uniformly red.

• The patient experiences erysipelas with intense redness and swelling.

• The patient experiences boils and carbuncles with intense burning pain.

• The patient experiences vesicular eruptions with red areolae.

• The patient experiences urticaria.

• The patient experiences dryness and itching of the skin.

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• Skin dry, hot, and red.

• Scarlet fever-like rash.

• Erysipelas with a shiny, red appearance.

• Boils and carbuncles with intense burning pain.

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• The patient experiences restless sleep with frequent waking.

• The patient experiences sleeplessness.

• The patient experiences night terrors.

• The patient experiences twitching during sleep.

• The patient starts during sleep.

• The patient experiences dreams that are vivid and frightful.

• Touch, motion, noise, and light.

• Jarring.

• Afternoon and night.

• Lying down.

• Draft of air.

• When ceasing to move.

• Sun.

• Warm room (in some cases).

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• Touch, motion, jar.

• Noise, light.

• Draughts of air, cold air.

• Afternoon, night.

• Lying down.

• Heat of sun or fire.

• Tobacco smoke.

• Being uncovered.

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• Bending backward.

• Pressure.

• Warm room.

• Rest.

• Dark room.

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• Warmth.

• Wrapping up warmly.

• Rest.

• Darkness.

• Standing or sitting erect.

• Belladonna is antagonistic to Opium and Morphine (internally or hypodermically).

• It addresses renal colic (1-200 of a grain hypodermically).

• It addresses intestinal obstruction threatening life (Atropin injected subcutaneously in doses from a milligram upwards).

• It addresses night sweats in phthisis (Hypodermically 1-80 gr).

• Atropia 1-20 gr is antagonistic to 1 gr Morphine.

• It acts as a local anesthetic, antispasmodic, and to dry up secretions, milk, etc.

• Camph; Coff; Opium; Acon.

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• Aconitum, Camphora, Coffea, Hepar sulphuris, Hyoscyamus, Opium.

• Calc Bell (contains lime), especially in semi-chronic and constitutional diseases.

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• Calcarea carbonica, Hepar sulphuris, Hyoscyamus, Stramonium.

• Acet ac.

• Acon, Gels, Hyos, Stram, Calc Carb.

• Belladonna is differentiated from Aconite by its predominantly right-sided symptoms and more intense violence.

• Belladonna Atropa (Deadly Nightshade)

• Source: Tincture of whole plant when beginning to flower.

• Family: Solanaceae

• Origin: Greece, Italy, Britain

• to external impressions.

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• are prominent features.

• Face is purple, red, and hot, or yellow; redness and pallor may alternate.

• Mouth is exceedingly dry, often without thirst.

• Sweat on covered parts of the body only.

• Chilly medicine; sensitive to changes from warm to cold, draughts of air, and damp weather.

• Chilling from having the head uncovered or hair cut.

• Better from being wrapped up warmly in a room.

• Convulsions, with loss of consciousness.

• Right-sided complaints are common.

• Great weakness and prostration.

• Symptoms are often accompanied by fever, intense heat, and throbbing.

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• Dull and sleepy; half asleep and half awake.

• Irritable and desponding; easily offended.

• Delirium with wild expressions, talking rapidly, and incoherently.

• Loss of consciousness, especially during convulsions.

• Fear of imaginary things; fears dogs and dark objects.

• Absence of thirst, even during fever.

• Sudden changes of mood; from laughter to tears.

• Restlessness; cannot remain still.

• Loquacity; talkative and excitable.

• Photophobia; sensitive to light.

• Sparks before eyes.

• Blurred vision; double vision.

• Redness and inflammation of the eyes.

• Stinging in esophagus, worse from swallowing or talking.

• Esophagus feels contracted.

• Dryness and burning sensation in the throat.

• Red and inflamed throat.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Cough: short, dry, tickling; similar to cough of Rumex and Phos.

• Whooping-cough: crying or pains before the attack; flushed face; nose-bleed and bloody expectoration; sparks before eyes; stitches in spleen; involuntary stool and urine.

• Paralysis of lungs and heart (vagus nerve).

• Laryngitis with hoarseness.

• Violent palpitation of heart.

• Throbbing sensation throughout the body, synchronous with the heartbeat.

• Rapid pulse.

• Stitches in chest.

• Swelling of breast with bright red streaks radiating from the center of inflammation.

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• Frequent urging to urinate.

• Retention of urine.

• Involuntary urination, especially at night.

• Menstrual flow: hot, light color, bad smell.

• Suppressed menstruation.

• Painful menstruation.

• Inflammation of the ovaries.

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• Rheumatism worse by motion.

• Joints are red, swollen, and painful.

• Convulsions; twitching and spasms of muscles.

• Worm-fever symptoms: Awakened, or sits up at night in bed screaming, cannot be pacified. Wets bed at night. Passes worms. Cheeks and ear-tips brilliant scarlet, other parts of face, especially round mouth, white as snow. Eyes brilliant, staring. Pupils dilated. Skin dry and hot like fire. Flies into a violent rage when spoken to coaxingly.

• Teething problems; irritable and restless.

• High fever.

• Convulsions.