Hyoscyamus Niger hyos.

MIND. Brain. Nerves. Muscles: Face. Eyes.

EMOTIONS: Fright. Jealousy. TOUCH. Lying. Cold. Sleep.

Sitting up.

Congested nerve centers; with pale face. Spasm, tremor, jerks, cramps, etc., or active mania; alternating with, or ending in depressive narcosis, with angular or clutching motions, CARPHOLOGY, subsultus, etc. Picks fingers. Zymoses. Eclampsia.

Many bewildering aberrations. Confusion. Delirium. MANIA, erotic, exposes genitals; riotous; laughing, singing, talking, babbling, quarreling, etc.; silly, with comical acts; plays with fingers. Fumbles the genitals. Lascivious (females). Jealousy. Suspicious; fears being alone, being pursued, water, etc.; wants to escape. Speaks each word louder. First, can't think, then can barely be aroused, then relaxation; with muttering, the lower jaw drops, he slides down in bed, has involuntary stools - bloody or yellow watery. Typhoid states. Vertigo, then spasm. Waves of pulsation in head. Pulsating headaches. Head shakes to and fro; < bending forward. Squint. Averse to light. Spasmodic closure of eyelids. Grimaces. Sordes on teeth. Stiff, dark, red, cracked tongue. Elongated uvula. Stools involuntary, although hard. Frequent, scanty, painful, nightly urination or retained urine. Spasms of dry, hacking, night cough; from a dry spot in larynx; < lying, eating or talking. Nervous wakefulness. Starts out of sleep. Low fever; with hot, pale skin. Warm sweat. Sexuality excited by Hyoscine is antidoted by Platina.

Related: Bell. Pho. Stram.

Persons of sanguine temperament; who are irritable, nervous, hysterical. Convulsions: of children, from fright or the irritation of intestinal worms (Cina); during labor; during the peurperal state; after meals, child vomits, sudden shriek, then insensible. Diseases with increased cerebral activity, but non-inflammatory in type; hysteria or delirium tremens; delirium, with resplessness, jumps out of bed, tries ot escape; makes irrelevant answers; thinks he is in the wrong place; talks of imaginary doings, but has no wants and makes no complaints. In delirium, Hyoscyamus occupies a place midway between Belladonna and Strammonium; lacks the constant cerebral congestion of the former and the fierce rage and maniacal delirium of the latter. Spasms: without conciousness, very restless; every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes (with conciousness, Nux). Fears: being alone; poison; being bitten; being sold; to eat or drink; to take what is offered; suspicious, of some plot. Bad effects of unfortunate love; with jealousy, rage, incohorent speech or inclination to laugh at everything; often followed by epilepsy. Lascivious mania; immodesty, will not be covered, kicks off the clothes, exposes the person; sings obscene songs; lies naked in bed and chatters. Cough; dry, nocturnal, spasmodic; < when lying down, relieved when sitting up (Dros.); < at night, after eating, drinking, talking singing (Dros., Phos., - > when lying down,, Mang. m.). Intense sleeplessness of irritable, excitable persons form business embarrassments, often imaginary. Paralysis of bladder; after labor, with retention or incontinence of urine; no desire to urinate in lying-in women (Arn., Op.). Fever: pneumonia, scarlatina, rapidly becomes typhoid; sensorium clouded, staring eyes, gasping at flocks or picking bed clothes, teeth covered with sordes, tongue dry and unweildly; involuntary stool and urine; subsultus teninum.

Compare: Bell., Stam., Verat. Phos. often cures lasciviousness when Hyos. fails. Nux or Opium in haemoptysis of drunkards. Follows: Bell. well in deafness after apoplexy.

At night; during menses; mental affections; jealousy, unhappy love; when lying down.

The general sphere of action of this remedy is found in spasmodic affections.

Amativeness; affections of the intellect; delirium; in which the patient may jump out of bed, throw off the bedclothes, or take off the clothes and go naked; nymphomania. Patients with fever will often throw the bed-clothes entirely off, not because they are too warm, but they will not remain covered; madness; imbecility of the intellect; memory weak or lost.

Pupils dilated; blindness; amaurosis; ocular illusions; diplopia; momentary loss of sight.

Menstrual blood pale; spasmodic labor pains (particularly when accompanied by spasmodic affections of other parts of the body); complaints at beginning of menstruation, also during.

Epilepsy without consciousness; great restlessness of the body; all convulsive motions where every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes; spasms in general; spasms clonic.

Light-haired people; hardness of hearing from paralyzed auditor nerves; bleeding of the nose, blood pale; sensation of smell too feeble; bluish color of face; painless diarrhœa; troubles of the bladder; expectoration mixed with pale blood; hydrophobia; hard; full pulse; inflammation of blood vessels.

In the evening; from mental affections; from jealousy; unhappy love; sufferings of children; from taking cold; from cold air; from approaching menstruation, and at beginning of, also during menstruation.

On stooping.

Bellad., Pulsat., Stramon., Veratr.

Bellad., Stramon.

Involuntary loud laughter with silly actions, convulsive trembling Lascivious furor without modesty, she wishes to uncover and expose herself. Picking of the bed-covers, or of the face. Inclined to be vexed, ailments from vexation. Jealousy, quarrelsome, scolding. Ailments from disappointed love. Fear of being poisoned or sold, complains of Imaginary wrongs. Fearfulness, anxiety, ailments from fright. Aversion to light and company. Delirium, murmuring, untelligible chattering, incoherent talk of business, fears, etc. Does not know anybody, has no wants, closed eyes, answers when spoken to, sinking back into apparent unconsciousness. Mania, rage, running about the room, tears clothes, scolding, swearing, striking, etc. The brain feels loose, sensation of water swashing around in it. Spasmodic, dry cough, always worse when lying down at night, relieved by sitting up. Has no desire to urinate, especially during childbed. Retention of urine.

Henbane (HYOSCYAMUS)

Disturbs the nervous system profoundly. It is as if some diabolical force took possession of the brain and prevented its functions. It causes a perfect picture of mania of a quarrelsome and obscene character. Inclined to be unseemly and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions. Very talkative, and persists in stripping herself, or uncovering genitals. Is jealous, afraid of being poisoned, etc. Its symptoms also point to weakness and nervous agitation; hence typhoid and other infections with coma vigil. Tremulous weakness and twitching of tendons. Subsultus tendinum. Muscular twitchings, spasmodic affections, generally with delirium. Non-inflammatory cerebral activity. Toxic gastritis.

Very suspicious. Talkative, obscene, lascivious mania, uncovers body; jealous, foolish. Great hilarity; inclined to laugh at everything. Delirium, with attempt to run away. Low, muttering speech; constant carphologia, deep stupor.

Feels light and confused. Vertigo as if intoxicated. Brain feels loose, fluctuating. Inflammation of brain, with unconsciousness; head is shaken to and fro.

Pupils dilated, sparkling, fixed. Eyes open, but does not pay attention; downcast and dull, fixed. Strabismus. Spasmodic closing of lids. Diplopia. Objects have colored borders.

Tongue dry, red, cracked, stiff and immovable, protruded with difficulty; speech impaired. Foams at mouth. Teeth covered with sordes. Lower jaw drops.

Stinging dryness. Constriction. Cannot swallow liquids. Uvula elongated.

Hiccough, eructations empty, bitter. Nausea, with vertigo. Vomiting, with convulsions; hæmatemesis; violent cramps, relieved by vomiting; burning in stomach; epigastrium tender. After irritating food.

Colic, as if abdomen would burst. Distention. Colic, with vomiting, belching, hiccough screaming. Tympanites. Red spots on abdomen.

Diarrhœa, colicky, pains; involuntary, aggravated by mental excitement or during sleep. Diarrhœa during the lying-in period. Involuntary defecation.

Involuntary micturition. Bladder paralyzed. Has no will to urinate (Caust).

Impotence. Lascivious; exposes his person; plays with genitals during fever.

Before menses, hysterical spasms. Excited sexual desire. During menses, convulsive movements, urinary flux and sweat. Lochia suppressed. Spasms of pregnant women. Puerperal mania.

Suffocating fits. Spasm, forcing bending forward. Dry, spasmodic cough at night (worse lying down; better sitting up), from itching in the throat, as if uvula were too long. Hæmoptysis.

Picking at bed-clothes; plays with hands; reaches out for things. Epileptic attacks ending in deep sleep. Spasms and convulsions. Cramps in calves and toes. Child sobs and cries without waking.

Intense sleeplessness. Sopor, with convulsions. Starts up frightened. Coma vigil.

Great restlessness; every muscle twitches. Will not be covered.

Worse, at night, during menses, after eating, when lying down. Better, stooping.

Antidotes: Bell; Camph.

Compare: Bellad; Stram; Agaric; Gels.

Scopolamine hydrobromide (Paralysis agitans); tremors of disseminated sclerosis. Sleeplessness and nervous agitation. Dry cough in phthisis. Similar in its effects to alcohol, both recent and remote. Corresponds to the effects of strong poisons introduced into or generated within the body. Symptoms of uræmia and acute nervous exhaustion. A remedy for shock. Third and fourth dec trituration. In physiological dosage (1-200 gr) mania and chorea; insomnia. Scopola (Japanese Belladonna)-chemically identical with Hyoscine (Joyous delirium, licking of lips and smacking of mouth; sleepless; tries to get out of bed; sees cats, picks imaginary hairs, warms hands before imaginary fire, etc).

Sixth, to 200th potency.

High-grade delirium, similar to that of Stramonium and Belladonna; alternating with low-grade, delirium, with stupor, equal to that of Opium. Face pale.

Grasping at flocks, picking the bed clothes and subsultus tendinum.

Persistent cough, worse lying down, relieved on sitting up, especially in elderly people.

Dementia senilis; fears imaginary things, being poisoned, etc.; sees persons and things that are not present; foolish laughter.

General twitching of all the muscles of the body; in spasms or convulsions.

The mania often takes on the lascivious form. The patient uncovers and exposes himself, sings and talks amorously.

Fears being poisoned; Suspicious and jealous.

Constant staring at surrounding objects, self-forgetful (fevers). Pupils dilated; insensible; small objects seem very large. Sordes on teeth; grating the teeth. Alternates well with Rhus tox. (fevers).

Hyoscyamus is as delirious as Belladonna, but the high grade of delirium alternates with the low. With Belladonna the violent form predominates, while the quiet or stupid form is the exception. With Hyoscyamus it is just the other way. The stupid muttering form predominates, with occasional outbreaks of the violent form. The face of the Belladonna patient is red, that of Hyoscyamus pale and sunken. The Hyoscyamus patient is weak and the weakness increases. His violent outbreaks of delirium cannot keep up long on account of weakness. This is not so much so with either Belladonna or Stramonium. The Hyoscyamus patients may begin with the violent form or outbreaks of delirium, but they grow more mild and less frequent, and the low or stupid form increases until there is total unconsciousness; so much so that it sometimes becomes difficult to choose between it and Opium.

The case takes on typhoid symptoms fast. The tongue gets dry and unwieldy, the sensorium so cloudy that even if you can arouse the patient to answer questions correctly he immediately lapses right into stupor again. This unconscious condition may continue even with the eyes wide open, staring around the room, but seeing nothing but flocks, at which the patient reaches and grasps; picks the bed clothes, indistinctly muttering, or not saying a word for hours. The teeth are covered with sordes; the lower jaw drops; stools and urine pass involuntarily; thus presenting the most complete picture of great prostration of mind and body. This is a picture of Hyoscyamus as we find it often in typhoid fever, or typhoid pneumonia (where it is the best remedy I know of), scarlatina and other diseases. It is a wonderful remedy, but not of wide range like Belladonna.

Hyoscyamus is not only a great remedy in the acute affections of which we have written, but it is also one of the most useful in chronic manias. If acute delirium passes on into the settled form, called mania, this remedy is still one of our chief reliances. It is much oftener of use here than Belladonna. Again, if the mania comes on after an acute disease it is still one of our leading remedies. In these forms of mania there are certain very marked symptoms calling for its use, such as, the patient is very suspicious; will not take the medicine because he thinks you are trying to poison him, or thinks some plot is being laid against him. He is jealous of others, or the first cause of the attack is jealousy. Again, the mania often takes on the lascivious form.

The patient uncovers and exposes himself, sings and talks amorously. Hyoscyamus leads all the remedies for this form of mania.

The patient, like the one in acute delirium of this remedy, is liable to alternate between the mild and violent manifestations; at one time so mild and timorous as to hide away from every one, and again so violent that she will attack, beat, fight. scratch, and try to injure anyone within reach.

The Hyoscyamus maniac is generally weak, and so this remedy is found particularly adapted to mania consequent upon the infirmities of age. Of course it is useful in all ages if indicated by the symptoms.

The nervous manifestations of this remedy are not confined to the cerebral symptoms; but seem to involve the whole system.

As H. N. Guernsey says: "Every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes." This is one of his chief indications for its use in convulsions, whether epileptic or not. The spasms are generally of the clonic, not the tonic order, as in Nux vomica or Strychnia. Nor are they so violent as those under Cicuta virosa; but the general twitching is characteristic in convulsions, as is the subsultus tendinum in typhoids.

Hyoscyamus is very useful in a form of dry cough which is aggravated when lying down and relieved by sitting up. Here, too, it is particularly useful in old people. I have already referred to its great usefulness in pneumonia. I wish to emphasize it, and believe it to be the leading remedy in the typhoid form of the disease. At least it has performed wonders for me.

It is also very useful in scarlatina of the typhoid form, and is complementary to Rhus tox. in those cases. I never alternate the two, but if the depressed sensorium and delirium goes beyond the power of Rhus to control I suspend the Rhus for a day or two and give Hyoscyamus, which will so improve the case that Rhus may again come into use and carry it to a successful termination. This is the only alternation I am even guilty of. It is like that of Hahnemann when he alternated Bryonia and Rhus in fevers.

Jealousy, with rage and delirium. Fright, followed by convulsions ; and starts from sleep. Unfortunate love with jealousy, with rage and incoherent speech. Delirium without consciousness ; does not know any body and has no wants (except thirst). Unconscious delirium, with closed eyes ; ; talks of business ; fears to be poisoned or to be sold ; scolds, raves. Melancholy from unfortunate love, with rage or inclination to laugh at every thing. Delirium tremens, with clonic spasms ; unconsciousness and aversion to light and company. When spoken to, the answer is properly given, but immediately unconsciousness and delirium return. Indomitable rage. Mania with lasciviousness ; and occasional muttering ; sings amorous and obscene songs ; uncovers his whole body.

Loss of memory. Vertigo, with obscuration of sight, as from intoxication. Unconsciousness, from congestion of blood to the head, with delirium ; answering all questions properly ; pupils dilated. Congestion of blood to the head ; red, sparkling eyes ; face purple-red ; worse in the evening. Inflammation of the brain, with unconsciousness ; heat and tingling in the head ; violent pulsations in the head, like waves ; the head shakes ; worse from becoming cold and after eating ; relieved by bending the head forward (stooping) and from heat. The brain feels as if it were loose. Hydrocephalus, with stupor ; the head is shaken to and fro ; sensation of swashing in the head. Pressing, stupefying pain in the forehead. The head is shaken or is drawn to one side, with loss of consciousness and red, sparkling eyes. Heat of the head and face, with general coldness of the body, without thirst. Liability to catch cold in the head, principally from dry, cold air.

Red, sparkling eyes. Spasmodic closing of the lids ; inability to open the eyelids. Staring, distorted eyes. Squinting. Contortion of the eyes. Pupils dilated. Quivering in the eye. Optical illusions ; every thing looks ; red as ; fire ; things look too large ; dim-sightedness ; double vision. Night-blindness.

Heat and redness of the face. Swollen, brown-red face. Distorted, bluish face, with the mouth wide open. Lock-jaw.

Soreness ; sensation as ; if bruised in the soft parts between the gums and the cheeks. Toothache, with congestion to the head. Pulsating toothache, as from inflammation of the periosteum. He closes the teeth tight. Foam at the mouth. Constriction of the throat with inability to swallow, especially fluids. Saliva tasting salt ; bloody saliva. Tongue red. Loss of speech ; utters inarticulated, sounds. Paralysis of the tongue. Parching dryness of the fauces. Elongation of the palate.

Voracious ; appetite and thirst, with inability to swallow. Thirst, with drinking but little at a time. After drinking, convulsions ; dread of drink. Hiccough (with spasms and rumbling in the abdomen). Bitter eructations. Vomiting of blood and bloody mucus. Vomiting and retching after coughing. Sensitiveness and tenderness of the pit of the stomach to the touch. Burning in and inflammation of the stomach. Colic relieved by vomiting. Distention of the abdomen, with pain when touched. Pain, as from soreness in the abdominal walls, when coughing.

Frequent urgent desire for stool, with but small discharge. Involuntary stools, from paralysis ; of the sphincter ani. Watery, painless diarrhœa. Diarrhœa of lying-in women. The stool is small-shaped. Hæmorrhoids profusely bleeding.

Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharges. Involuntary micturition, as from paralysis ; of the bladder. Retention of urine, with pressure in the bladder. Frequent emission of urine (as clear as water).

Menstruation too profuse (with delirium). Before menstruation, hysterical spasms ; uninterrupted loud laughing. During the menses, convulsive tremblings of the hands and feet ; seven, headache ; profuse perspiration. Metrorrhagia, the blood pale, with convulsions. Suppressed menstruation ; suppressed lochia. Spasms of pregnant women, especially during parturition. Puerperal fever.

Slow, rattling breathing. Spasms of the chest, with arrest of breathing, compelling one to lean forward. Stitches in the sides of the chest. (Inflammation of the lungs). Violent, spasmodic cough ; short consecutive coughs, caused by a tickling sensation in the throat, as if some mucus were lodged in it ; during the day, expectoration of saltish tasting mucus, or of bright-red blood, mixed with clots. Dry, spasmodic cough at night (in old persons), from continuous ; tickling in the throat (as if the palate were too long). Hæmoptysis, blood bright-red, with spasms. The cough is worse, at night (after midnight), when at rest, during sleep, in the cold air, from eating and drinking. The cough is re eyed by sitting up. Rough voice, from mucus in the trachea and larynx.

Upper. Painful numbness of the hands. Trembling of the arms. Rigor of the hands. Swelling of the hands. Hands closed, with clenched thumb. Floccillation -picking of the bed-cover or of the face. Lower. Cramps in the anterior pad of the thigh.

Coma vigil. Deep, heavy sleep with convulsions. Nightly sleeplessness, with convulsions and concussions, as if by fright ; starting from sleep. Sleeplessness from nervous irritation.

Spasms and convulsions ; (with watery diarrhœa). Epileptic attacks, ending with deep, heavy sleep. Apoplexy with snoring. Uncommon sinking of strength. Fainting, repeated attacks of. Subsultus ; tendinum.

Pulse full, hard, accelerated ; distended arteries. Chilliness over the whole body, with heat in the face, ascending from the feet. Nightly coldness, extending over the back from the small of the back. Burning heat of the body every evening. Heat (in the evening) with congestion of blood to the head and putrid taste. Debilitating perspiration during sleep. Cold, sour-smelling perspirations. Perspiration, principally on the legs. Intermittent fever, quartan, with short, dry, hacking cough at night. Afternoon fever ; coldness predominates, with pain in the back.

Hot, dry, brittle skin. Brown or gangrenous spots on the body (as in typhus). Frequent large blood-boils. Rash, from the abuse of Belladonna. The ulcer is very painful and bleeds.

Bad effects from getting cold and cold air ; from the abuse of Belladonna; from jealousy, unhappy love. Aggravation in the evening ; after eating and drinking ; during menstruation. Amelioration by stooping (head, breathing).

Hyoscamus niger. Henbane. N. O. Solanaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant.

Amaurosis. Angina pectoris. Bladder, paralysis of. Bronchitis . Chorea. Coma vigil. Cough. Delirium tremens . Diarrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Enteric fever . Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Erotomania. Eyes, affections of . Hæmoptysis. Hæmorrhages. Hiccough. Hydrophobia. Hypochondriasis . Lochia, suppressed. Mania . Meningitis. Mind, affections of . Neuralgia. Night-blindness. Nymphomania. Paralysis . Paralysis agitans. Parotitis. Pneumonia . Puerperal mania. Rage. Sleep, disordered. Stammering . Tetanus. Toothache. Urine, retention of. Vision, disorders of.

Hyoscyamus ("Hog-bean") is nearly allied to Belladonna botanically, and in pathogenetic action the two drugs are much alike in their main features. But when examined closely, their differences are sufficiently well marked to render their distinction easy. Though sometimes growing near rivers, Bell . flourishes best in a chalky soil. Hyo . is found growing on old rubbish heaps, near ruins, on roadsides, and sometimes by the seashore. The flower of Bell. is of a dull, purplish brown; of Hyo . a dirty yellow, with claret-coloured streaks. Bell . is a smooth plant, whilst Hyo . is densely covered with thickly woven hairs, and by a sticky, heavy-smelling exudation. A case of poisoning by Hyoscyamus seeds, put into soup instead of celery seeds, communicated to the Times (May 14, 1892), by Mr. F. Mackarness, one of the sufferers, gives a good general idea of the drug's action. "About ten minutes after taking the soup I began to feel quite dizzy, and could hardly swallow the food I was eating, which tasted as if it was nothing but dust and ashes. At the same time my wife became so faint that she asked me to help her up to her room at once. This I did with some difficulty, having to hold on to the bannister with one hand while I supported her with the other. At the same time, also, our sight became blurred, our mouths and throats parched, and we began to feel cold. I tried in vain to get warm by sitting over the drawing-room fire, but only felt intensely drowsy. . . . When Dr. Martin arrived I had great difficulty not only in getting up to receive him, but in making him understand what had happened, so indistinct was my articulation. However, from the dilatation of our eyes, the parched condition of our tongues, and the state of our pulse (my wife's having gone up to 140), he, of course, saw that we had been badly poisoned, and prescribed drastic remedies which saved us probably from very serious consequences; for even the next day our sight was still defective, and my wife's hands were slightly paralysed." Dr. W. S. Mills communicated to N. A. J. H. , November, 1899, an experience of his own. A patient had objected to the taste of water in which Hyo . Ø had been mixed, so Dr. Mills took a teaspoonful just to taste it. "A few moments later I found that it produced a queer feeling throughout the body. I felt as though without weight, as though I walked through and on air. My head felt light. I had an insane desire to laugh and shout. It was only by the utmost use of my will-power that I could keep myself from doing something ridiculous. Even when I forced myself to think of my position of responsibility as medical attendant on this very sick man, and the absolute necessity of keeping my wits about me, it was hard for me to restrain my hilarity. I can liken the condition only to one of mild hilarious intoxication — a "funny drunk." I knew I was silly, but I could not help it. To keep myself from losing my dignity before the nurses and the family, I locked myself in the bathroom for a few minutes and made faces at myself in the mirror." The condition passed off in half an hour. These two experiences, brief as they were, cover a large share of the ground occupied by Hyo . The delirium of Hyo . is more of the low, muttering type, whilst that of Bell . tends to be violent and furious. Hyo . also has fits of ungovernable rage, but the violence is not so sustained as that of Bell . The face of Bell . is red, of Hyo . pale or bluish. Hyo . corresponds to a greater variety of cases of melancholia than Bell ., and here one great characteristic is "suspicion," so frequently met with in cases of insanity or of those on the borderland. A patient of mine, a clever lawyer, suffering from nervous breakdown, had had to abandon his business entirely some time before he came under my care. He had improved considerably, when I heard from his wife in the country that he had had a kind of a fit, and became cold and senseless, his face working much. After that he fell asleep, and had another attack an hour and a half later. After this he was suspicious, and said that his wife was poisoning him. I sent a single dose of Hyo . 1m, to be given in food or in drink without his knowing. It was repeated once a week. He began to improve forthwith, and in a few months was perfectly restored to health; though some other medicines were given later on. In this case there was an additional indication for Hyo . in the working of the muscles of the face. Twitching is one of the grand characteristics of Hyo . "Every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes," clonic spasms: twitching of groups of muscles; spasms in general; with unconsciousness. Another feature of the Hyo . insanity is uncovering. This is not because the patient feels too warm (for Hyo ., like the other Solanids, is a chilly remedy), but because they will not remain covered: nymphomania; lascivious mania; lies naked in bed and chatters. There are violent outbreaks in the delirium of Hyo ., but they cannot be kept up (as are those of Bell .), on account of the weakness. Hyo . corresponds to the typhoid state: tongue dry and unwieldy, sensorium so clouded that if the patient be aroused to answer he falls back into a stupor again. The sight is disordered; sees things too large or too near and grasps at them; picks the bed-clothes and mutters. Twitchings, subsultus tendinum, and picking at the bed-clothes. Teeth covered with sordes. Involuntary passage of urine and fæces. When influenza takes the typhoid form it often finds its remedy in Hyo , (I rapidly cured a boy in whom influenza attacked the meninges of the brain with pains in the head, especially forehead, piercing to the brain.) Parotitis with metastasis to brain. Hyo . is suited to many pulmonary conditions. The characteristic cough is < on lying down, almost completely removed by sitting up, < at night, < after eating, drinking or talking. Cough from elongated uvula. The drowsiness of Hyo . has another side in restlessness. The patient lies awake for hours; children twitch in sleep, cry out, tremble, and awake frightened. Hyo . is one of our best remedies in toothache, having well-defined symptoms. It is also an ancient domestic remedy for toothache, the application being peculiar. A penny is made hot in the fire, and when taken out a pinch of Henbane seeds is dropped on it and fumes come away. A wineglass is inverted over it, and this is soon filled with the fumes, and applied to the mouth, when the fumes are inhaled. The popular idea is that the fumes expel the "worms" of toothache, but, as Lauder Brunton has shown ( H. W ., xxv. 286), the supposed "worms" are the embryos of the seeds forcibly expelled on the rupture of the seed coats by the heat. Hyo . 30 is one of the most useful remedies in restlessness and sleeplessness. Hyo . is suited to nervous, irritable, excitable, sanguine people; to light-haired people. The symptoms of Hyo . are < by touch; the abdomen is sore to touch; < evening and night < lying, down; < from cold and cold air. > From sitting up; motion; walking; warmth. < From mental affections; jealousy unhappy love; approaching menstruation; commencing menstruation; during menstruation.

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Stupor, unconsciousness ; does not reply to questions ; does not recognize any one ; answers properly, but immediately stupor returns.
Stupefaction : depressing mental influences ; hypochondriacal ; from smell of flowers, gas, etheric oils, etc.
Imbecility, or illusions of imagination and senses.
Inability to think ; cannot direct or control thoughts.
Loss of memory.
Quiet, reflective mood ; no complaints ; no wants.
Answers no questions ; cannot bear to be talked to.
Makes irrelevant answers.
While reading, interpolates improper words and sentences.
Raises head from pillow and gazes about.
Thinks he is in the wrong place.
Sees persons who are not and have not been present.
Does not know whether or not to take what is offered.
Dread of drinks ; of water.
Anxious apprehension ; chronic fearfulness.
Fears : being left alone ; poison, or being bitten ; being poisoned or sold ; being betrayed, or injured ; wishes to run away.
Complains of having been poisoned.
Horrid anguish, fits of anxiety.
Very suspicious.
Reproaches others, complains of supposed injury done him.
Quarrelsomeness ; indomitable rage.
Impatience, precipitate liveliness, talkativeness, tells everything.
Picking at bedclothes ; mutters and prattles.
Mutters absurd things to himself.
Makes abrupt, short answers to imaginary questions.
Cries out suddenly.
While awake talks irrationally, as if a man were present.
Talks more than usual, and more animatedly and hurriedly.
Constant unintelligible chattering.
Lies naked in bed and prattles.
Delirium : talks of business of imaginary wrongs.
Loves smutty talk.
Frequently breaks out into a loud laugh.
Scolds ; raves ; abuses those about him.
Cries and laughs alternately, gesticulations lively.
Whines, but knows not why.
Silly, smiling, laughs at everything, silly expression.
Foolish laughter.
Talks in an absurd way.
Does foolish things, behaves like one mad.
Comical alienation of mind ; ludicrous actions like monkeys ; makes ridiculous gestures like a dancing clown ; like one intoxicated.
Plays with his fingers (not picking bedclothes).
Catches at air, or at some imaginary appearance, and pulls bedclothes about.
Carphologia and muttering.
Sings constantly and talks hastily, but indistinctly.
Sings amorous and obscene songs.
Excessive animation, restless hurry.
Insulting, shouting, brawling, ungovernable rage, with exhibition of unusual strength.
Insane passion for work.
Tendency to action ; wants to kill somebody or himself.
Is violent, and beats people.
Bite, scratch and nip everyone interfering with them.
Child makes violent exertions to get out of bed, tries to bite, and raves.
Tries to injure those around him ; convulsions after trying to swallow.
Working and clutching of hands, strikes his attendants ; movements very quick, with difficulty held upon lap ; wants to fight, attempts to bite ; at intervals would sing and at times burst out laughing ; when anything is offered him clinches hold of it with both hands
greedily.
Delirium : with physical restlessness ; would not stay in bed ; moves from one place to another ; complete ; lively ; wild ; busy, with constant muttering or talking, and meddling with hands ; about usual
employments ; wants to get up and attend to business or go home ; without apparent heat ; face pale, limbs cold, though temperature is high ; with jerking of limbs, and diarrhœa, red face, wild, staring look, and throbbing of carotids ; comes back to consciousness
when spoken to ; continued while awake ; from jealousy or vexation ; murmurings ; incoherent talk ; from pain.
Delirium tremens : with clonic spasms ; averse to light and company ; visions, as if persecuted preceded by an epileptic attack ; constant talking at night ; seeks to escape from men by whom he imagines himself surrounded and who are
trying to capture him ; does not recognize his wife who is standing by his side, but imagines he sees her under a distant bed.
Insanity brought on by drinking ; will neither eat nor drink ; face flushed, expression wild ; tears clothes ; wanders up and down room during night ; strikes at keepers, and can scarcely be restrained.
Trembling all over, looking very wild, and constantly pointing to serpents which she saw creeping up towards her, and fancied they were in bed approaching her ; had to be held to be kept quiet ; metrorrhagia. θ Delirium
tremens.
Epileptiform fit precedes the attack ; continuous talking at night ; wants to run away for fear of being persecuted by police ; tremor of limbs. θ Delirium tremens.
Loquacious and quarrelsome mania, especially inclined to unseemly and immodest acts, gestures and expressions.
Jealousy : with rage and delirium ; with attempt to murder.
Erotic mania accompanied by jealousy.
Serious illness from jealousy and grief about a faithless lover ; fever < after midnight ; high redness of face, with constant delirium and desire to run away ; continual throbbing toothache.
Violent and threatening nervous symptoms, even spasms ; hectic fever ; sleepless nights ; mind nearly deranged ; disturbed by unfounded jealousy.
A gentle, lovable woman became extremely jealous of her husband, and although fully realizing that she did him injustice, she was so filled with grief that she found no rest day nor night, and could neither eat nor drink.
Amativeness ; nymphomania ; erotomania.
Onanism since childhood ; has always been greatly attracted by opposite sex and prematurely busied himself with thoughts of marriage ; for last half year has been very ill humored and irritable ; memory impaired ; reserved ; secretly wrote his love affairs ;
speech incoherent ; restlessness and sleeplessness ; attacks of mania with profuse sweating, hasty and vehement talking, one idea rapidly following another, all in some way concerning love ; masturbates at every opportunity, and is full of obscene talk ; constant walking
about ; strikes at and destroys everything ; spits in face of attendant and raves ; face pale and sunken ; eyes wild, piercing, shining ; severe pain in nape of neck and small of back.
Lascivious mania, uncovers body, especially sexual parts ; sings amorous songs.
Goes about nearly naked ; will not be covered.
Constantly throwing off bedcovers or clothes ; entire loss of modesty.
He lies in bed nude and chatters ; walks about insane, naked, wrapped in a skin during summer heat.
Desires to be naked (hyperesthesia of cutaneous nerves).
Disappointed love followed by : epilepsy ; melancholy ; rage or inclination to laugh at everything ; despair and propensity to drown himself.
Morose dejection, despair.
After a fit of passion, melancholia, gradually developing into true madness ; appetite gone ; nights restless ; continual delirium attended with timorousness ; loss of strength ; complains of frequent shudderings and rigors in spine going
up into head during lucid intervals ; hard, constipated stool.
After fit of passion and sudden fear, became so melancholy and timorous as to hide himself in every corner, and even to dread and run away from flies ; speechless, could not get a word out of him ; no appetite ; sleepless ; loss of strength ; seemed as one out of
his senses.
Groundless suspicion of being watched by members of family with whom he had some slight misunderstanding ; to avoid being recognized by them, clothed himself differently every day, and seldom left his house ; this monomania gradually developed into insanity ; recognized
his physician but at once went off again into delusions ; uncovered and exposed himself ; continually counting, at one time in French, at another in English, and at another in both ; continually fixing himself to correspond with the points of the compass and looking through
his fingers ; tracing the pattern of carpet with his feet and twisting his legs till he nearly fell down ; grasping at imaginary objects ; watching his relations suspiciously and imagining he might be poisoned ; talking to himself. θ Insanity.
After being harshly accused of theft, continual delirium ; fancies herself surrounded by objects of a terrifying nature ; not a moment quiet, continual calling out that she saw the devil ; denies herself guilty of theft, or that she has any concern with witches ;
tremor all over body ; struggles with such violence to escape, that she must be tied to bed ; pulse and respiration shift according to the various phantoms which offer themselves to her imagination ; tongue extremely moist ; eyes stern, grim, wrathful ; involuntary
stool and urine in bed.
Mania during lactation ; extreme irritability ; raving ; when thwarted in anything scolds and strikes indiscriminately at persons ; talkative, irrational speech ; crying, alternating with a merry humor ; anxiety with trembling in limbs ; very profuse
secretion of milk.
Great restlessness, piercing, staring look ; jerking motion of head with rapid glances here and there ; face pale ; pulse slow and soft ; attempts to escape from room ; frightful hallucinations of figures coming to seize him, hens bound with chains, numbers of
large crabs being driven into room ; general epileptic convulsions. θ Insanity.
Raving, scolding, singing ; chatters day and night ; will not eat, drink or sleep ; seeks to escape ; breaks the window ; use of straight-jacket necessary. θ Mania.
Restless, talking delirium, yet when spoken to answering rationally ; imagining that her deceased sister was sitting by her bedside, and talking to this imaginary person ; pulse 80, full ; head ached, but not hot ; hearing decreased ; loquacious. θ Hallucinations.
Face earthy pale ; wild, strange expression ; constant talking, particularly on religious subjects ; believes himself poisoned, or that there is a stinking odor from his mouth ; occasionally scolds and cries, and declares that he hears loud noises. θ Insanity.
Could not bear the light, nor to be spoken to ; repelled with rage and seeming disgust his mother, of whom, in his natural state, he was doatingly fond, did not know her, said she was not his mamma ; talked wildly and could with difficulty be kept covered. θ Maniacal
fury.
Face red and hot ; wild expression of eye ; respiration quick and impeded ; constant scolding and cursing ; tears her clothes ; walks about room at night ; strikes viciously at those about her and can scarcely be restrained ; will neither eat nor drink.
θ Mania.
Refused to rise from bed and dress herself ; assigned no reason ; after a few hours insisted on rising, but would not wear a single garment of any kind ; received her physician without any apparent consciousness of her singular condition, conversed intelligently, but would
not admit that she needed any advice to clothe herself ; refused medicine, and cunningly evaded all stratagems to give it ; escaped from room, went through house, and sought to escape into street. θ Mania.
Frequent looking at hands because they seem too large.
Considers the stove a tree and wants to climb it.
Looks at men as hogs.
Does not know her relatives.
Puerperal mania, with desire to be uncovered and nude.
Nervous irritability without hyperemia.
Consequences of fright.
Syphilophobia.

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Hyoscyamus is hill of convulsions, contractions, trembling, quivering and jerkings of the muscles. Convulsions in vigorous people, coming on with great violence. Convulsions that involve the whole economy, with unconsciousness, coming on in the night. Convulsions in women at the menstrual period; and then the lesser convulsions of single muscles, and contractions of single muscles.

Little jerkings and twitchings. In low forms of the disease it takes on the latter, jerkings and twitchings of muscles. In low typhoid states where there is great prostration with twitching. He feels it himself if conscious, enough to realize it, but others see it. An evidence of great prostration of the nervous system. Sliding down in bed, twitching of the muscles.

All the muscles tremble and quiver, a constant state of erethism throughout the economy. A state of irritability and excitability. Convulsive jerks of the limbs, so that all sorts of angular motions are made, automatic motions. Choreic motions.

But angular motions of the arms, and picking at the bedclothes. Picking at something in delirium. Gradually increasing weakness, whether it be in a continued fever where there has been a delirium or excitement, or in a case of insanity with erethism, of the nerves and mind; excitability and gradually increasing weakness.

Complete prostration, so that the patient slides down in bed, until the jaw drops. So the intermingling of jerkings and quiverings and tremblings and weakness and convulsive action of muscles are all striking features. Infants go into convulsions.

"Falls suddenly to the ground with cries and convulsions. Convulsions of children, especially from fright. Convulsions after eating."

The child becomes sick after eating, vomits and goes into convulsions.

"Shrieks and becomes insensible."

Goes into convulsions, such as the old books used to say, from worms; and the mother goes into convulsions soon after the child is born, called puerperal convulsions.

"Convulsions during sleep.

Suffocating spells and convulsions during labor.

Toes become spasmodically cramped."

The mental state is really the greatest part of Hyoscyamus. Talking, passive delirium, imaginations, illusions, hallucinations; talking, rousing up and talking with a delirious manifestation, and then stupor. These alternate through complaints. And during sleep talking, crying out in sleep; but, talking and mumbling and soliloquizing. Then, there are wakeful periods, in which there are delirium and illusions and hallucinations all mingled together.

Sometimes the patient is in a state of hallucination, and the next minute in a state of illusion. Which means that a part of the time what he sees as hallucinations he believes to be so; and then these hallucinations become delusions.

Again, the things he sees he knows are not so, and then they are illusions. But he is full of hallucinations. He sees all sorts of things, indescribable things in his hallucinations. He imagines all sorts of things concerning people, concerning himself, and he gets suspicious. Suspicion runs through acute sickness; it runs through the mania in insanity. Suspicion that his wife is going to poison him; that his wife is untrue to him. Suspicious of everybody.

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Persons of sanguine temperament; who are irritable, excitable, nervous, hysterical.

Diseases with increased cerebral activity but of a non-inflammatory type, as in hysteria or delirium tremens.

Convulsions: of children from fright or the irritation of intestinal worms (Cina); during labor or the puerperal state; after eating, child vomits, sudden shriek then insensible.

Spasms: without consciousness, very restless; every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes (with consciousness, Nux).

Delirium: with restlessness, jumps out of bed, tries to escape; makes irrelevant answers; thinks he is in the wrong place; talks of imaginary wrongs, but has no wants, makes no complaints.

In delirium, Hyoscyamus occupies a place midway between Belladonna and Stramonium; it lacks the constant cerebral congestion of the former, and the fierce rage and maniacal delirium of the latter.

Fears: being left alone; poisoned; bitten; sold; to eat; to take what is offered.

Bad effects of unfortunate love; with jealousy, rage, incoherent speech, or inclination to laugh at everything; followed by epilepsy.

Lascivious mania; immodesty, will not be covered, kicks off the clothes, exposes the person; sings obscene songs, lies naked in bed and chatters.

Cough: dry, nocturnal, spasmodic; < when lying down, relieved by sitting up (Dros.); < at night, after eating, drinking, talking, singing (Dros., Phos. — > when lying down, Mang. m.).

Paralysis of bladder; after labor, with retention or incontinence of urine; no desire to urinate in lying-in women (Arn., Op.).

Spasmodic affections are apt to be epileptoid in character.

Intense sleeplessness of irritable, excitable persons; from business embarrassments; often imaginary.

Compare Bell., Stram. and Verat.

Phos. often cures lasciviousness when Hyos. fails.

Evenings; night; during menses; mental affections; jealousy, unhappy love; when lying down.

Stooping (head); sitting up (cough).

Tertian; quartan. Remittent, malarial, typhoid.

11 A. M.—alternate days.

Without thirst. Commencing in the feet and running up the spine to nape of neck. Coldness runs from small of back to the nape of the neck (commencing in hands and feet, and running up the spine to nape of neck, Gels.). Chill from feet upward. Shivering over the whole body, with burning redness of face and cold hands. Whole body cold, with burning redness of face; chill alternating with heat (Bell.); cannot bear to be talked to (Cina, Sil.), or hear the least noise (Caps., Gels.). Sudden chilliness; coldness of spine; body cold and stiff, cannot get warm in bed; congestive chills with cold extremities.

With thirst. Burning heat all over, skin hot and dry to touch, with distended veins (Bell., Cinch.). Heat over whole body; much thirst, lips sticky. Burning heat without external redness; the blood burns in the veins (Ars., Rhus). The skin burning hot to the examining hand, which leaves a burning in place touched (Bell.). Heat along the whole spine, which runs up the back. Epileptiform convulsions (Stram.). Sleeplessness. Throw bed clothes off, not because they are warm, but will not remain covered. Heat, dry, nocturnal, disturbs sleep.

Profuse, general perspiration, mostly on legs. Sweats during sleep. Sweat on back and pit of the stomach. Sweat cold, sour.

Coated brown or red, partially paralyzed, protrudes it with difficulty (Lach.). Taste bad, putrid, offensive. Thirst, drinks but little at a time. Dread of water (Lys.).

Extreme weakness; illusions of vision, spots before the eyes; mouth dry, difficult to swallow liquids, hiccough, nausea; vertigo and pressure in the head. Short, dry hacking cough at night.

The mental symptoms and the delirium, in all fevers, are the peculiar guides.

Restless, sleepless, desire to escape.

Lascivious mania; jealousy; rage; fear.

Spasms and convulsions.

Fever: pneumonia, scarlatina, rapidly becomes typhoid; sensorium clouded, staring eyes, grasping at flocks or picking bed clothes, teeth covered with sordes, tongue dry and unwieldly, involuntary stool and urine; subsultus tendinum.

Stupor, unconsciousness; does not reply to questions; does not recognize any one.
Answers properly but immediately stupor returns.
Makes irrelevant answer.
Inability to think; thoughts cannot be directed or controlled.
Stupid, or illusions of the imagination and senses.
Sees persons who are not and have not been present.
Thinks he is in the wrong place.
Delirium continued while awake.
Delirious without apparent heat; the face is pale and the limbs are cold, though the temperature is high.
Delirium: talks of business; complaints of imaginary wrongs.
Delirium tremens, with clonic spasms; averse to light and company; visions, as if persecuted.
Insane passion for work.
Indistinct, muttering loquacity.
Silly, smiling laughs at everything, silly expression.
Cried and laughed alternately, gesticulated lively.
Lascivious mania, uncovers body, especially sexual parts; sings amorous songs.
Cries out suddenly.
Whines, but knows not why.
Muttering, picking at bedclothes.
Plays with his fingers (not picking bedclothes).
Wants to go from one bed to another.
Restless, jumps out of bed, tries to turn away.
Does foolish things, behaves like one mad.
Abuses those about him.
Tries of injure those around him; convulsions after trying to swallow.
Scolds; raves.
Answers no questions.
Cannot bear to be talked to.
Anxious apprehension.
Fears: being left alone; of poison, or being bitten; being poisoned or sold.
Makes no complaints; has no wants.
Does not know whether or not to take what is offered.
Jealousy.
Fright, followed by convulsions.
Unfortunate love, with rage, and incoherent speech.
Disappointed love, followed by epilepsy.

Vertigo, with drunkenness; also from smell of flowers, from gas, etc.
Sudden falling, with a shriek; sopor.
Rolls head, stertor, hiccough; concussion of brain.
Apoplexy, snoring; involuntary stool and urine.
Repeated attacks of fainting.

Pain and heat in head, after a meal.
Headache, better walking.
Congestion to head.
Cerebral hyperæmia, delirious, unconscious, blue-red face; red, sparkling eyes.
Heaviness, vacant feeling, confusion, severe pain; pains in meninges; pressure in left side of forehead, changing to shooting.
Heat and tingling in head; pulsations, like waves, head shakes; worse becoming cold, after eating; better bending head forward, and from heat.
Brain feels as if loose.
Stupor; shakes head to and fro; swashing sensation in brain.

Catches cold in head, especially from dry, cold air.
Rolling the head.
Head sinks on one or other side.

Farsighted, clearsighted; pupils dilated.
Illusions; objects look red as fire, or too large.
Amblyopia; epilepsy.
Double sight.
Night blindness.
Constant staring at surrounding objects, self-forgetfulness.
Eyes protrude.
Eyes red, sparkling, staring; rolling about in orbits; squinting.
Tearing, beating in right eye, which waters and seems projected.
Pupils altered, dilated or contracted; slow respiration.
Eyes open; distorted.
Quivering in the eye.
Spasmodic closing of eyelids; cannot open eyelids. θ Spinal meningitis.
Rending pains in angles of eyes, disappearing when touched.

Buzzing, singing, rushing in ears.
Deafness.
Hard hearing, as if stupefied, especially after apoplexy.

Sense of smell weak, or lost.
Nosebleed, bright red, with salivation.
Sudden jerks at root of nose.
Cramp-pressure at root of nose and malar bones.
Nostrils sooty, smoky.

Face: flushed; dark red, bloated; cold and pale; distorted; stupid expression; muscles twitch, makes grimaces; bluish, mouth wide open; approaching cerebral paralysis in typhus.
Paralysis in typhus.
Lockjaw; fully conscious.

Foam at the mouth.
Lips dry.

Closes the teeth tightly.
Toothache, driving to despair; tearing, throbbing, extending to the cheeks and along lower jaw.
Tearing in teeth as if blood was forced into them, flushes of heat, congestion to head; worse from cold air, morning.
Teeth feel loose when chewing; also, too long.
Intense pain in gums after extraction of a tooth.
Sordes on teeth and in the mouth.
Grating the teeth.

Putrid taste.
Very talkative, or loss of speech.
Tongue: red or brown, dry, cracked, hard; looks like burnt leather; clean, parched; white.
Paralysis of tongue; speech embarrassed.
Tongue protruded with difficulty, can hardly draw it in.

Salivation; saliva saltish; bloody.
Cadaverous smell from mouth, worse morning and evening.

Elongated palate.
Throat and mouth dry, parched and red, inability to swallow.
Throat dry, burning; shooting; pricking pains, difficult swallowing, as from constriction; dread of liquids.
Constriction of the throat, impeded deglutition.
Spasmodic contraction of œsophagus after injury; solid and warm food swallowed best; fluids cause spasm; hiccough, nausea, stiff neck.
Difficult to swallow liquids, an attempt to swallow renews spasm.

Hungry gnawing: 36.
Thirst, drinks but little at a time.
Dread of water.

After eating: 3, 36. Great thirst: 21.

Hiccough, with spasms and rumbling in abdomen.
Eructations: empty; incomplete; bitter.
Nausea: with vertigo; and vomiting.
Retching and vomiting, with colic, extorting cries.
Vomiting: of food and drink; of blood, with convulsions; of bloody mucus, with dark red blood.

Pit of stomach tender to touch.
Cramps in stomach, with loud shrieks, vomiting, convulsions; cramps better after vomiting.
Burning and inflammation of the stomach.
Hæmatemesis, pit of stomach sensitive; dull aching about liver; abdomen bloated.

Stitches or dull pain in region of liver.

Colic as if abdomen would burst; presses the fists into sides; cutting, vomiting, belching, hiccough, screaming.
Abdomen distended, sore to touch, tympanitic.
Umbilicus open, urine oozing through.
Enteritis or peritonitis, with typhoid symptoms.
Abdominal muscles sore.
Roseola on abdomen.

Paralysis of rectum, or sphincter ani.
Frequent urging, with small discharges.
Stool small in size.
Diarrhœa, colicky pains, frequent urging to stool; or sphincter weak, can hardly retain the feces; worse by least mental excitement or trouble.
Diarrhœa of lying-in women.
Yellow, watery stools, involuntary during sleep; old men.
Involuntary stool at night.
Hemorrhoids bleeding profusely.
Constipation, with epilepsy.

Micturition: frequent, scanty; difficult, from spasmodic or inflammatory condition of neck of bladder; involuntary; has no will to urinate.
Urine: scanty; retained or suppressed; turbid, with muco-purulent deposit; with red, sandy sediment.

Sexual desire excessive; lascivious, exposes his person.
Impotence.

Lascivious, uncovers sexual parts.
Uterine cramps, with pulling in loins and small of back; irritable uterus.
Metritis, typhoid state.
Continuous bright red flow, with spasmodic jerking, great vascular excitement, θ Metrorrhagia.
Pale flow, with convulsions.
Menses preceded by hysterical or epileptic spasms; laughing loud, uninterrupted; profuse sweat and nausea.
During menses, convulsive trembling of hands and feet, headache, profuse sweat; lockjaw; enuresis.

Painless diarrhœa of lying-in women.
Hemorrhage after labor, after miscarriage; spasms, twitchings of single muscles.
Puerperal spasms, shrieks, anguish; chest oppressed, unconscious.
Children at the breast have singultus.
Umbilicus open, urine oozing through.

Voice husky, as from mucus.
Constriction of the larynx.
Hysterical aphonia.

Loss of breath, as from rapid running.
Mucous rales during stupor or furious delirium.
Rattling breathing.
Oppression of the chest, with internal stinging, worse during inspiration.

Dry, hacking or spasmodic cough, worse lying, better sitting up; worse at night, also, after eating; drinking talking, or singing; velum palati usually elongated.
Expectoration of saltish mucus, or bright red blood, mixed with coagula.
During cough: spasms of the larynx; painful epigastrium and hypochondria.

Tight feeling across chest, as from overexertion, running.
Spasms of chest, arrest of breathing; must lean forward.
Exhausted from long talking; body, and especially chest, weak; green sputum, weak pulse.
Stitches in side of chest.
Hæmoptysis, bright red, with spasms, also, in drunkards.
Pneumonia: cerebral symptoms, delirium, sopor; dry, fatiguing night cough, or rattling in chest.

Pulse: accelerated, full, hard and strong; rapid, intermitting; slow and small; weak and irregular; small, weak, scarcely perceptible.
Carotids beat violently.

Muscles sore.
Roseola on chest.

Spinal meningitis, with convulsions, jerks of muscles; after injury.

Arms tremble, especially in the evening and after exercise.
Painful numbness of hands.
Rigor of hands.
Fingers look and feel too thick.

Cramps in anterior part of thigh.
Swelling of the feet.
Toes spasmodically contracted in walking or going up stairs.

Trembling of arms and hands.
Lancinating pains in almost all joints, especially on motion.
Cold hands and feet.

Motion: 34, 40. Walking: 3, 28, 32, 33. Ascending stairs: 33. Exertion: 32. Sitting up: 27, 46. Leaning forward: 28. Bending head forward: 3.

Throws arms about, misses what is reached for, gait tottering; chorea.
Convulsions after meals: child sickens after eating, vomits or shows distress at the stomach, sudden shriek, and then insensible.
Convulsive jerks; long-lasting spasms.
Angular motions; jerks of single muscles or sets of muscles.
Subsultus tendinum.
Epilepsy. Before the attack: vertigo, sparks before eyes, ringing in ears, hungry, gnawing. During attack: face purple, eyes projecting, shrieks, grinding teeth; urination. After attack: sopor, snoring.
Suffocating spells and convulsions during labor.
Convulsions of children, especially from fright.
Restless, turns from one place to another.
Paralysis after spasms, or after diphtheria.

Stupid and drowsy, or excitable and sleepless.
Falls asleep while answering.
Deep sleep with convulsions.
Constant slumber, with picking.
Sleep, with outcries.
Sleepless, or constant sleep, with muttering.
Sleeplessness, after violent disease, or with irritable, excited persons.
Lying on back, suddenly sits up, then lied down again.
Starts in sleep, after a fright.
Dreams: anxious; lascivious.
Awaking with screams.

Morning: 10. 11 A.M.: 40. Morning and evening: 12. Evening: 32, 40. Night: 5, 20, 27, 28, 40.

Worse in the sun: head.
Heat: 3. In bed: 40. Becoming cold: 3. Dry cold air: 3, 4. Cold air: 10.

Chill alternate days, 11 A.M.; cannot bear to be talked to, or hear the least noise.
Chill from feet upwards; shivering, heat of face.
Cold at night, up the back from small of back; cannot get warm in bed.
Whole body cold, with burning redness of face.
Chill, alternating with heat.
Burning heat all over, every evening congestion to head; putrid taste.
Heat, no desire to drink.
Skin burning hot to examining hand.
Congestive chills.
Sweat mostly on legs.
Sweat: cold; sour; weakening; during sleep.

Alternate days, at 11 A.M.: 40. Every evening: 40.

Upper right, lower left.
Right: 5, 17. Left: 3. Below upward: 40.

Sensation of pricking all over.
As if blood burned in the veins.
Want of sensation: 46.

Fulness of the veins; full pulse.
Hemorrhages usually light red.
Obesity.
Skin and muscles lax.

Touch: 2, 5, 17, 19. After injury: 2, 31.

Skin often pale, with delirium; body hot.
Hot, dry, brittle skin, want to sensation.
Brown or gangrenous spots.
Skin red, or with red rash.
Varicella; vesicles in crops, sleepless; nervous; dry cough, must sit up.
Gangrene, with nervous restlessness; itching around.
Large pustules, clustering from hips to knees.
Ulcers painful, bleeding; bruised feeling on moving the part.
Scarlatina, with marked mental symptoms.

Nervous irritable, excitable.
Sanguine temperament.
Drunkards.
Hysterical subjects.
Old men.

Hyosc. is suitable in: hard hearing after apoplexy. Bellad. failing; hæmoptysis of drunkards, after Opium or Nux vom.; congestive chills, after Bellad. and Opium fail.
Excessive lasciviousness to Phosphor., when Hyosc. fails.
Complaints from inhaling ether.
Ailments from Plumbum, or abuse of Bellad.
Antidotes: vinegar, Bellad., citric acid, Cinchon., Stramon.

A tincture is made of the whole fresh plant of Hyoscyamus niger, L.

It acts very similarly to Belladonna, but with less indication of congestion or fever; generally indicated in condition of adynamia, with involuntary discharges, muttering delirium, carphology, etc.

Stram., Bell.

Dropsy. ▶ Distension of veins of whole body; of neck, extremities, and agg. face. ▶ Clutching about her without knowing at what. ▶ If made to walk she did so with body bent backward, if she spontaneously attempted to walk she did so with feet wide apart and with involuntary motions of hands, with which she felt about her, sometimes closing them as quick as lightening. ▶ Constant change of position. ▶ Tossing about and restlessness. ▶ Tossing about the bed and screaming constantly; and rubbing his hot head with both hands constantly. ▶ In bed, at one time drew knees up, at another stretched them out, at another turned over, turned head back and forth, at another raised head and beat the bed with it, at another picked straws from his mattress, groped about him and did not speak.

Reeled, then fell; R. to the bed, fell upon it and was motionless. ▶ Fell suddenly; with cries and convulsions; fell down unconscious, whole body cold and stiff, face pale, eyes closed, pupils dilated, conjunctiva injected, anterior cervical muscles contracted so that it was impossible to lay head upon pillow, pulse small, thready, rapid, respiration stertorous and difficult, spasms of pectoral muscles; fell from her seat, lay immovable and slept with head upon chest, red face, deep respiration, warm skin, small, rapid pulse, eyes closed and injected.

Tremors, horripilation and rigors. ▶ Startings. ▶ Twitchings; frequent, with violent delirium, during the remissions catching at flocks in the air or pulling at bed-clothes. ▶ Convulsions; after every drink, sometimes he did not recognize his relatives; with frothing from the mouth (Compare Hydrocyanic acid); with twitching of hands, feet and muscles; C. flex the limbs, and the bent body is tossed high. ▶ Opisthotonos, with convulsions of limbs. ▶ Epilepsy. ▶ General rigidity as in tetanus.

Stitches come out of finger-tips and out of all parts of body. ▶ Tearing or drawing pains in limbs and testicles. ▶ Rheumatic (tearing, jerking, gnawing) pains in outer and posterior surface of left upper arm and in lower end of bones of left forearm and in scapulæ. ▶ Restlessness, with confusion of speech and conduct; R., excessive animation and hurry. ▶ Peculiar sense of lightness and mobility. ▶ Activity, thought himself more active and vigorous then he really was. ▶ Ground seemed to give way under their feet. ▶ Oppression. ▶ Aversion to motion and work. ▶ Weakness; between the convulsions, with snoring; with general trembling and external coldness of limbs; with stupor and overpowering sleepiness; causing staggering; with heaviness of limbs. ▶ Inability to maintain an erect posture and reeling on attempting to stand. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Sensibility blunted. ▶ Insensibility; to pinching; loss of sense of touch; and he sits immovable in bed. ▶ Hemiplegia. ▶ Aggravation in evening; A. after eating.

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Convulsions.
Twitchings.
Catching at things in the air or pulling at the clothes.
General weakness, with blunted sensibility.
Symptoms are generally worse in the evening, and after eating and drinking.

Raving.
Delirium, with restlessness; ludicrous actions; violent biting, striking and rage; constantly clutching with the hands; with foolish laughter; with singing and shouting; with irrational chattering and muttering; with obscene actions; with efforts to remove clothing.
Dread of drink.
Unconsciousness.
Great loquacity.

Aching and confusion of the head, generally with apparent rush of blood.
The brain seems to shake about when walking and on stooping.
Vertigo, worse when walking, usually with obscured vision.

Distorted, squinting.
Staring; wild and sparkling, brilliant: rolling about.
Red, with dilated pupils.
Spasmodic closure of the eyes.
Vision dim; double; small objects seem very large; some red.
Night blindness.

Deafness (from paralysis of the nerve).

Dryness in the nose.
Loss of smell (and taste).

Red and hot; swollen.
Distorted.
Sometimes pale, even bluish; twitching of the facial muscles.

Grinding of the teeth, so that they become loose.
Tearing toothache in the morning, with rush of blood to the head.
Toothache after taking cold, and in the open air.
Pulsating toothache.
Tongue seems paralyzed; speech is confused, difficult, as well as irrational.
General dryness of the mouth and fauces.
Frothing from the mouth.
Saliva, sometimes bloody, sometimes with salt taste.

A feeling of constriction, with inability to swallow anything, especially drinks.
Spasmodic constriction; spasms renewed on every attempt to swallow liquids.

Ravenous hunger, unquenchable thirst, but cannot swallow.
Thirst, but drinks little at a time.
Drinking causes spasms.
Hiccough.
Nausea and vomiting.
Vomiting of blood or bloody mucus.
Retching and vomiting after coughing.
Great sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to touch.
Violent cramps in the stomach, > for a time by vomiting.

Sensitiveness of the walls of the abdomen, especially when coughing.
The abdominal muscles seem strained or bruised.
Cutting pains in the lower portion of the abdomen, which is distended.

Evacuations involuntary, especially during sleep.
Diarrhœa; stools yellow, watery, usually without much odor.

Prolapsus of the bladder and retention of urine.
Involuntary micturition from loss of power of the neck of the bladder.

Menstruation suppressed.
Spasms precede the menses; labor-like pains, with drawings in the loins.

Clinical:
Nymphomania, sometimes most furious.
(Apparent nymphomania, especially of puerperal women; seems to be a sort of delirium rather than real sexual desire. The tendency to uncover is most characteristic.)

Cough incessant when lying down, > when sitting up; usually dry at night, seeming to be caused by a tickling in the trachea.
Cough frequently spasmodic, in short, rapid paroxysms, almost like whooping cough.
Voice sometimes rough on account of the collection of a little mucus in the larynx and trachea.
Paroxysms of dyspnœa, especially at night on lying: down must jump up.

Contraction of the muscles of the neck, so that the head is turned obliquely.

Tremblings; twitchings, especially of the hands and feet.
Convulsive movements with the thumbs closed in the fist.
Carphology.
Cramps of the posterior parts of the thighs and calves.
Toes spasmodically flexed by spasms, even when walking.

Skin usually hot and dry.
A scarlet-like rash spreads over the whole body, which becomes purplish.
Boils or gangrenous spots.
Ulcers bleed and become painful.

Sleeplessness all night, with restlessness, twitchings and startings.

General shivering; coldness predominates.
Heat usually localized in the face and head; sweat general, sometimes clammy, particularly during sleep.

Hyos. / (X- a twin.) / Hyson

Hyoscyamus implies
Nervous agitation,
Furor, and erotic sighs,
Manic delusion.
Spasms, twitching, screaming spells,
Wild gesticulation.
Nightly coughing, that impels
Sitting for cessation.
Sleep disturbed by starts that show
Nervous agitation.
Typhoid fever-muttering-low
Picking at the bedding.
After eating, vomiting,
Black in case of typhus,
Passages unnoticing,
Or suppressed excretions.
Hiccough, choking, hurried speech,
Pupils much distended.
Things of memory out of reach,
All sensations ended.
Aggravation after meals,
Also when reclining,
Stooping some relief reveals,
And tobacco smoking.

Hyson,-Has Night Cough.

Hyson,- Con. Lach, the red drover of Rumex, mopes for his sportive child, Belle.

This Hyson,-Who is subject to Hiccough,- Is in the cycler's Inn, at the Mine of St. Magnus.

Night Cough: Hyos., Con., Lach., Sang., Dros., Rum., Mer., Pul., Sul., Spo., Cham., Bell.

Hiccough: Hyo., Cyc., Nux m., Mer., Nux v., Ig., Mag. p. (During meals, Mer.;- after meals, Cyc., Hyo., Mer.; -of drunkards, Caps. tinc.)

Indicated in conditions of great weakness, with much nervous excitement. Mania of a quarrelsome character, with obscenity and shamelessness. In conditions of marked muscular excitement; convulsions. Hence its use in chorea, epilepsy, tetanus, hydrophobia, convulsions from fright, in all forms of delirium and mania, with obscenity, shamelessness, inclination to quarel, including puerperal mania, the delirium of low fevers (typhus, typhoid, coma vigil), nymphomania. Occasionally used in coughs (whooping cough) and in the crying-out of nervous, children twitching during sleep, awaking in a fright.

Delirium, full of idle talk about trifles; quarrelsome, obscene, with indecent gestures and actions (strips himself, shows genitals).

Marked dryness of the mouth and throat, rendering swallowing difficult.

Sleeplessness from nervous excitement.

Violent convulsions, although there is comparative absence of symptoms indicating active cerebral congestion.

Pupils dilated, sparkling, fixed.

Tongue, dry, red, cracked, protruded with difficulty; speech difficult.

Picking at bed-clothes; reaching out for things.

Dry, spasmodic cough at night, from itching in the throat.

Tympanitis.

Diarrhoea, involuntary, with colicky pains.

Urination involuntary.

Worse at night, during menses, after eating, when lying down.

Better from stooping.

Imbecile and irrational. Total unconsciousness, he does not recognize his family and has no wants except thirst. When spoken to he answers properly, but immediately talks and acts irrationally, or relapse into unconsciousness. Unconscious delirium about his business, with closed eyes. Extraordinary forgetfulness and weakness of memory. Loquacious insanity shamelessness and lasciviousness, kissing mania, furious jealousy, buffoonery and clonic spasms. Rage with striking about, murderous frenzy and uncontrollable exhibition of strength. Loquacity. Confused babbling and prattling or much chattering, scolding and quarreling. Anger, and its consequences. Anxiety and fearfulness. Fear of being poisoned. Desire to escape. Melancholy, Unhappy love with jealousy. Unsociable, averse to light and company. Immoderate or silly laughter. Phantasies.

As if intoxicated.

- Strong congestion to. Hydrocephalus. Meningitis with stupefaction. Stupefying pressive pain in forehead. Heating crawling and surging, as from strong beating of arteries in. Brain feels loose, when walking it swashes, surges and seems shattered. The head weaves and shakes to and fro, or its drawn to one side. Stitches in forehead. Takes cold in, from dry cold air. Worse: Evening: after eating and drinking, becoming cold, walking, especially in cold air, Better: Stooping, in warmth, at rest.

Red, sparkling. Dull, staring look. Protruding. Distorted or squinting. Dilated pupils. Red sclerotic. Swollen lids. Spasmodic closures of. Diplopia. Dim vision. Night blindness. Surrounding objects appear enlarged or red.

Difficult hearing as if stupefied.

Nosebleed of bright red blood. Loss of smell (and taste.)

Hot, red. Brownish red, swelled. Distorted, bluish. Feels about for with his hands. Trismus. Festering pain is soft parts between gums and cheeks.

Tearing ache early in morning, with congestion to head, Ache after taking cold and in open air. Throbbing ache, as from an inflamed periosteum. He clenches them together tightly. Affected teeth seem loose, violent pains in gums.

Foam at. Constriction of throat, with inability to swallow, especially fluids. Flow of salty saliva. Bloody saliva. Red tongue. Inability to speak, he utters inarticulate sounds.

Great sensitiveness of pit to touch. Burning and inflammation of. Spasm of, vomiting.

Appetite: Ravenous hunger and unquenchable thirst, with inability to swallow. Thirst, drinking but little at a time. Convulsions after drinking.

Hiccough: Frequent, especially at night and after eating.

Vomiting: Of blood, bloody mucus or food. Retching and vomiting after every cough.

Painful soreness in muscles when coughing. Painful distension.

Frequent urging to, with scanty, infrequent evacuations. Involuntary, from paralysis of sphincter ani. Slender. Painless diarrhoea (in childbed).

Suppressed. Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge. Involuntary urination, as from paralysis of bladder.

Menses: Too profuse. Suppressed. Hysterical spasms before. Uterine hemorrhage of brighter red blood, with spasms.

Short. Slow and rattling. Catching, rattling, wheezing. Loss of breath, as after rapid running.

Nightly, dry, shattering, spasmodic c., from continuous tickling as from adherent mucus in throat (also in aged persons). In frequent paroxysms rapidly succeeding one another, like whooping cough, during rest as well as motion. Haemoptysis of bright red blood, with spasmodic attacks. Dry at night, but with expectoration of somewhat saltish mucus or bright red blood mixed with lumps by day.

Husky voice from mucus in, and in tracheas.

Spasm of, with want of breath, necessitating leaning forward. Inflammation of lungs, with stitches in sides of. Soreness in muscles of.

Hands clenched over the flexed thumbs. Rigidity of hands. Carphology. Trembling of arms and hands. Coldness of hands and feet.

Spasm in posterior part of thigh and in calf.

Extraordinary sinking of strength. Inflammation of internal parts. Spasms and convulsions. Convulsive twitching, with threshing about of hands and feet. Effects of taking cold, and cold air. Epileptic attacks, terminating in deep, snoring sleep. Apoplexy, with snoring. Insensibility of body. Complaints are intensified in the evening and after eating and drinking. The action of Hyoscyamus is often intermittent, that of Stram, continues, Hyos. has angular motions, Stram. has graceful motions.

Hot, dry, brittle. Brown or gangrenous spots on body, as in certain forms of typhus. Numerous, large boils. Bleeding ulcers.

Deep, stupefying, with snoring. Starting up during and convulsions, especially after fright. Laughing during Coma vigil. Sleeplessness from anxiety or over - excitement.

Pulse: Accelerated, full, hard and strong, more seldom weak, slow and intermittent. Great distension of blood vessels. Chill: With shivering over whole body, and heat of face ascending from feet. Coldness at night, ascending back from lumbar region. He cannot get warm at all in bed at night. General coldness of body, with a glowing red face. Alternating with heat. Heat: Burning over entire body, every evening. Extraordinary congestion to head with a foul taste in mouth during heat. In evening, with thirst. Sweat: Continued, debilitating s. during sleep. Much and very violent. Cold and sometimes sour smelling. Most profuse on legs.

Allied Remedies: BELL., Glon., Cupr., Gel., Op., Phos-sc., Plb., STRAM., Tab., Valer., Verat-a. Hyos. often intensified the action of Bell. or Stram.

Great sinking of strength.

Interanl inflammatory states with nervous symptoms.

Bad effects from catching cold and cold air.

Spasms and convulsions.

Spasms during pregnancy, during parturition, when trying to swallow fluids, and from worms.

Epileptic attacks, ending in sleep and snoring.

St. Vitus's dance.

Cold and trembling limbs which go to sleep.

Insensibility of the body.

Involuntary motions and poor bladder control of micturition.

Incipient amaurosis and a perversion of the visual sense.

Bad effects from jealousy a mental modality.

A useful remedy in mania and inflammation of the brain.

The symptoms aggravated in the evening, and after eating and drinking and especially during rest.