Stramonium stram.

Dulness of sense; also before a rash.
Coma, spasms; later, snoring, unconscious, jaw hangs, hands and feet twitch, eyes roll; pupils dilated; automatic grasping of hands towards nose, ears, etc.; difficult to swallow liquids.
Unconscious, stupid.
Awakens terrified, knows no one, screams with fright, clings to those near (child).
Feels stupid, with indifference to everybody and everything.
Memory weak; loses thoughts before she can give them utterance; weeps about her weak mind also after sunstroke.
Hallucinations, which terrify the patient sees ghosts, hears voices back of his ears sees strangers or imagines animals are jumping sideways out of ground, or running at him.
Strange, absurd ideas; thinks herself tall, double, or lying crosswise; one-half of body cut off, etc.
Says he converses with spirits; prays fervently; sermonizes.
Ecstatic.
Delirium with grand ideas; general paralysis.
Delirium; shy, hides himself; tries to escape; conscious of her condition; full of fear; talks incessantly, absurdly, laughs, claps her hands over head, wide-open eyes; great sexual excitement, during night.
Lies on the back, knees and thighs flexed, hands, joined; delirium alternating with tetanic convulsions.
Mania: for light and company; cannot bear to be alone; runs about; rage; proud, haughty; merry, exaltation.
Hydrophobia; water, a mirror or anything bright excites convulsions; screams; bites; mouth dry; pupils large; unconscious. (Best drug, change dose till cure certain).
Talks in a foreign tongue. θ Typhus.
Loquacious; talks all the time, sings, makes verses.
Melancholic, fears death; weeps all the time.
Pangs of conscience; thinks he is not honest.
Alternate exaltation and melancholy.
Alternation of delirium and somnolence.
On being reprimanded, pupils dilate immediately (child).
After fright: St. Vitus dance; epilepsy; mania; melancholia.

Vertigo: cannot walk in dark, or with eyes closed; staggering, obscuration of vision, red face; reeling as if drunk.

Tormenting sensation of heat in whole head, mostly vertex, with great dullness; after sunstroke.
Pressure on forehead when rising, could only half open eyes, could not look up.
Headache congestive, morning; worse toward noon, gradually decreasing, toward evening; pains terrible, fears going mad, would run or press head against a wall.
Pulsating in vertex; fainting.
Heat, pulsating about vertex, attacks of fainting, loss of sight and hearing, face bloated, turgid; convulsive motions of head, frequently raising head from pillow, or bending it backward; better lying still.
Sensation of lightness of head.
Pain in head; nausea, delirium, eyes wild, starting, inflamed; frenzy, convulsive spasms and twitchings of nerves, hands and feet become cold, pulse sinking. θ Meningitis.
Headache, with loss of sight and hearing.
Rheumatic headache, with dullness; difficult thinking; worse on vertex or forehead; worse evening and night.
Tearing in neck and over head, shunning light; better from warmth; worse from cold; worse on getting up in morning.

Jerks head up from pillow.
Boring head into pillow.
Head bent backward.
Moves head, thrusts it in all directions: in spasms, mostly to the right.
Supports head with hands while bending or rising; after sunstroke.

Light dazzles; shuns light; convulsions from bright or brilliant objects.
Hemeralopia.
Illusions in colors, often dark, less often blue and red.
Double vision, obliquely.
Vision cloudy, as through a veil.
Total blindness. θ Typhus.
Pupils dilated; sometimes immovable and insensible to light.
Eyes: wide open, staring; brilliant; wild and red; protrude; vacillate; vessels injected; contorted; rolling; squinting; half open, in sleep; inflamed.

Very sensitive to noises; least noise startles him.
Hardness of hearing.
Sensation as of wind rushing out of ear.
Otalgia, left side, violent pains, remitting somewhat at night, better when covering head warmly.

Nose feels stopped, yet he breathes freely.
Nasal discharge yellow, bad smelling.
Nosebleed: dark, in lumps; with whooping-cough.

Red, bloated, hot; red, eyes wild; hot and red, with cold hands and feet; circumscribed redness of cheek; pale.
Forehead wrinkled, frowning often in brain diseases.
Thinks face elongated. θ Hysteria.
One-sided erysipelas, with meningitis; spasmodic symptoms alternately with paralytic.
Prosopalgia nervosa, pains maddening, spasmodic starts and shocks through body, throws arms upward; skin of forehead wrinkled.
Pain in cheek, near left ear, as if sawing the bone; muscle in oscillating motion.

Moves lips back and forward.
Lips: red; with yellow streak on vermilion border, as in malignant fevers; dry; or sore and cracked.
Lock-jaw after convulsions.
Mouth spasmodically closed.
Lower jaw hangs.

Grinding the teeth.
Sordes on teeth.

Taste: bitter, all food tastes like straw to her.
Stammering; distorts face; makes great effort to speak; mouth drawn now to right again to left.
Speechless; sometimes with spasmodic laughter at night, weeping during day.
Tongue: whitish, with fine red dots; point redder than usual; dry, red; dry and parched; pale red, in constant motion; swollen, coated dry; yellow in centre, dry; swollen, hangs out of the mouth.

Mouth and throat so dry they glisten; thirst.
Saliva increased; dribbling.
More saliva with chills and fever.
Viscid slime in mouth.
Whole inner mouth as if raw.

Difficult swallowing, with stinging, pressing pain in submaxillary glands.
Averse of fluids; shrinks from the proffered cup.
Averse to water, even sight of it causes spasm; constriction of throat, froth, spitting; hydrophobia: 36.
Feeling as of boiling water rising in throat.
Spasm of œsophagus, worse trying to swallow.

Appetite either increased or decreased.
Violent thirst.
Troublesome thirst even with much saliva.
Thirstless, sometimes with cold or hot stage and sweat; averse to water during fever.
Averse to water: 13.

Hiccough; restless at night, screaming in sleep.
Nausea: flow of very salt saliva; but cannot vomit.
Vomiting: dark green, mixed with food; in evening; vomits bile.
Diaphragmitis, delirium; burning along diaphragm; short-breathed; spasms, struggles against water offered.

Drawing in back part of stomach.
Inflammation, burning; anxiety.
Intense pain, vomits nearly all food.
Cardialgia, eructations, vomiting all food; emaciation.
Epigastrium tense, hard, painful.

Heat, anxiety in abdomen.
Wind in abdomen awakens her; screams, thinking herself full of creeping things.
Abdomen hard, tense; tympanitic; distended, but not hard.
Colic: with rumbling; violent, coming on suddenly, in evening with faint sensation and cold shivers.

Stools: black preceded by writhing in bowels, and delirium; smelling like carrion, blackish; painless, diarrhœic.
Cholera infantum; foul-smelling stools; strabismus; awakes with fright; pale face.
Constipation: with convulsions; cardialgia; alternating with diarrhœa.
Hemorrhoids: painful; bleeding.
Coagulated blood passes from the anus.

Kidneys secrete less or none, in acute diseases, especially of children.
Urine: clear, profuse, passed suddenly at night; also after delirium; copious with spasms; passed involuntarily; suppressed, especially in cerebral diseases; dribbles slowly, feebly; despite urging no stream forms, no pain.
During urination: rigors, rumbling in belly.

Exalted sexual passion.
Child constantly has hand on the genitals with spasms.
Onanism causing epilepsy.

Nymphomania; lewd talking; sings obscene songs; has smell of semen.
Excessive menstrual flow; drawing in thighs, abdomen and upper limbs.
Menstrual flow very watery.
During menses loquacity; strong smell as of semen.
After menses; sobbing, whining.
Dysmenorrhœa.
Metrorrhagia, loquacity, singing, praying; sometimes passing large coagula.

During pregnancy: mania; faceache; full of strange ideas.
Threatened abortion; unceasing talking, singing, imploring.
Puerperal convulsions, with copious sweating.
Scanty lochia; puerperal mania, milk still copious; many hallucinations; talks foolishly.

Voice: higher and finer; screeching; indistinct.
Constriction of larynx and thoracic muscles.

Rattling breathing: toward 12 P.M.; in whooping-cough; in chill or sweat.
Frequent inspiration and expiration; breath oppressed.
Breathing: short, difficult; anxious during heat or sweat.
Spasms of muscles of chest; single parts twitch; spasmodic motions of arms; sometimes chest fixed; breathes only with diaphragm and abdominal muscles.
Inspiration slow, expiration quick.

Of drunkards.
Periodical, painless, spasmodic cough, shrill screeching tone; worse morning; from touching throat; from walking in wind; in vaulted rooms; after debauch; after fright; from looking at bright objects; from drinking water.
Whooping-cough, barking, croup-like, with suffocating contraction of chest, violent beating of heart, rattling, anxiety, congestion, blood-spitting; convulsions.

Pain in breast, cough and other pre-pneumonic symptoms during recovery from meningitis.

Palpitation.
Beating of heart, so increased by motions he cannot speak for hours; trembling, twitching as in chorea; murmurs instead of regular sounds; consequent on fright.
Pulse: full, strong; frequent, hard; irregular; small and spasmodic; slow, in typhus; sometimes trembling or imperceptible; sometimes double and very quick, with quiet respiration.

Red rash on chest. θ Typhus.

Constant pain in cervical and upper dorsal vertebræ.
Bending backward.
Drawing pain in spine.
Spot in back pains when touched.
Put right arm often to small of back and draws mouth, as if he had severe pain.

Raises arm above head, claps hands, makes graceful, gyratory motions.
Grasping about with hands, as if reaching for things; searching for things; picking.
Grasps the throat; sighing, groaning.
Hands and arms tremble.
Clapping hand over head.
Hands clenched (not thumbs) but they can be opened.
Difficult to bring hand to tumbler or carry latter to mouth.
Panaritium, pain intolerable, drives to despair; relieves pain of suppuration.

Coxalgia, left side; also for violent pains when abscesses form.
Inside of right thigh red, swollen. θ Typhus.
Spasmodic rigidity of lower limbs.
Paralysis of lower limbs; loss of speech; staring.
Constant trembling of feet.

Arms agitated, lower limbs quiet.
Drawing, laming, somewhat, spasmodic pains in muscles.
Fingers and heels numb, latter sometimes painful, rheumatic headaches.
Limbs feel as if "gone to sleep".
Cold hands and feet.

Lying: 3. Inclined to lie down: 36. Rising: 2, 4. Rising head: 3, 4. Bends backward: 3, 4. Bending: 4, 31. Motion: 4, 29.Walking: 36.

Great inclination to lie down.
Totters as if giddy, cannot make even a few steps without help.
Frequent twitching; sudden jerks through the body.
Trembling of limbs.
Convulsions, especially opisthotonic, from bright, dazzling objects, water or touch.
Child rigid as a board.
Chorea from fright; creeping in limbs, then violent movements generally crosswise; rotate arms over head; jump up, climb over tables, etc.
Hysteria preceded by great sensitiveness, weeping and laughing alternately; sexual excitement.
Spasms; abdomen puffed; alternation of clonic and tonic; body very hot; continually changes character.
Said to be very effective for hydrophobia (vary the dose even to the production of symptoms).
Epilepsy from fright; attacks sudden, with screams, afterwards drowsy; aching in stomach; periodical.
Gives warning of approach by premonitory symptoms.
Catalepsy, limbs can be moved by others.
Tonic spasms.
Muscles will not obey the will.
Paralysis of one, convulsions of other side.
Left side paralyzed, stammering, unconnected words, sheds tears.
Paralyzed limbs after apoplexy.

Drowsy by day; staggering and drowsy.
Sleepy, but cannot sleep; after the convulsions.
Snoring, deep sleep.
Coma, rattling respiration, bloody froth at mouth. θ Scarlatina.
Falls into a deep sleep; deep breathing, snoring.
Sleepless, tosses about.
During sleep: laughs; screams; starts; sexual excitement; emission; spasms; sit up, looks about, talk incoherently.
Awakens: with a solemn air of importance; all things seem new; screaming, seems frightened, knows no one, shrinks away, or jumps out of bed.

Morning: 3, 7, 27. Afternoon: 40. Evening: 3, 16, 19. Night: 1, 3, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, 28. Toward midnight: 20. Toward morning: 7. Day: 11, 37.

Warmth: 3. Warm covering: 6. Cold: 3. Vaulted rooms: 27. Sunstroke: 1, 3, 4.

Chilly, as from cold water down her back.
Chills: run down back; and general coldness, with red face and twitchings; with great sensitiveness to uncovering; with heat in head.
Fever in children; cry out in sleep; start, jerk; eyes half open, pupils large; suppressed urine.
Anxious heat with vomiting.
Afternoon, first heat of head and face, then general coldness, then general heat.
Heat: anxious, with vomiting; delirium, thirst and sweat; of whole body, face vivid red; at the same time sweat.
Covers up during heat.
Sweat: cold all over; with delirium; with impaired vision, or shunning light; oily of putrid odor.

Worse during equinoxes: 36.
Worse in summer: spasms, ecstasy.
Attacks of epilepsy come periodically: 36. Gradually decreasing: 3. Suddenly appearing: 19, 21.

Right: 4, 33. Left: 6, 8, 33, 36. Right to left: 11.

Painful sensations as if joints were loose, with anguish therefrom.
Arms and legs feel as if separated from body.

Mitigates the terrible pains of tumors, abscesses.
Plethoric, especially young persons.
Emaciated, cries day and night; cough.
Anasarca, after scarlatina.

Touch: 31, 36. Pressure: 3.

Whole skin and conjunctivæ red, like crimson.
Skin hot and dry.
Worse when eruptions are suppressed, or do not come out well.
Burns.
Entire face swollen, muttering delirium, small-pox before vesicles form.
Restless, skin itching; rash coppery-red, skin dry, hot.
Measles, before eruption, with convulsions, frightful visions of rats and mice, seem frightened, try to hide; spasms of œsophagus; body hot, face red, puffed.

Children especially; chorea, mania, fever.
Young, plethoric persons.

In metrorrhagia from retained placenta, with clapping hands, delirium, loquacity, etc.; Secale acts better than Stramon.
Ailments from: vapor of Mercur., Plumbum.
Antidotes to Stramon.: Bellad., Hyosc., Nux vom.; against large doses: lemon juice; Senna (cerebral symptoms); tobacco injections; vinegar.
Stramon.: useful in whooping-cough after Bellad., had acted too powerfully.