Stramonium
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Stramonium
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Keynotes
Stramonium
Thorn Apple. SolanacecB.
Adapted to : ailments of young plethoric persons (Acon., Bell.); especially children in chorea; mania and fever delirium.
Delirium ; loquacious, talks all the time, sings, makes verses, raves; simulates Bell, and Hyos., yet differs in degree.
The delirium is more furious, the mania more acute, while the congestion, though greater than Hyos., is much less than Bell., never approaching a true inflammation.
Disposed to talk continually (Cic., Lach.) ; incessant and incoherent talking and laughing; praying, beseeching, entreating ; with suppressed menses.
Desires light and company ; cannot hear to he alone (Bis.) ; worse in the dark and solitude; cannot walk in a dark room.
Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the first object seen.
Hallucinations which terrify the patient.
Desire to escape, in delirium ( Bell., Bry., Op., Rhus).
Imagines all sorts of things; that she is double, lying crosswise, etc. (Petr.).
Head feels as if scattered about (Bap.).
Eyes wide open, prominent, brilliant; pupils zvidely dilated, insensible.; contortion of eyes and eyelids.
Pupils dilate when child is reprimanded.
Face hot and red with cold hands and feet; circumscribed redness of cheeks, blood rushes to face; risus sardonicus.
Stammering ; has to exert himself a long time before he can utter a word ; makes great effort to speak ; distorts the face (Bov., Ign., Spig.).
Vomiting: as soon as he raises head from pillow; from a bright light.
Convulsions: with consciousness (Nux — without, Bell., Cic., Hyos., Op.) ; renewed by sight of bright light, of mirror or water (Bell, Lys.).
Twitching of single muscles or groups of muscles, especially upper part of body; chorea.
Hydrophobia : fear of water, with excessive aversion to liquids (Bell., Lys.) ; spasmodic constriction of throat.
No pain with most complaints ; painlessness is characteristic (Op.).
Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell., Cham., Op.).
Relations. — Stramonium often follows; Bell., Cup., Hyos., Lys.
In metrorrhagia from retained placenta with characteristic delirium. Sec. often acts promptly when Strain, has failed (with fever and septic tendency, Pyr.).
After overaction, from repeated doses of Bell, in whooping-cough.
Aggravation. — In the dark; when alone; looking at bright or shining objects; after sleep (Apis, Lach., Op., Spong.) ; when attempting to swallow.
Amelioration. — From bright light; from company; warmth.
What the other books say about Stramonium
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Stramonium in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Stramonium in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Stramonium in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Stramonium in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Stramonium — Keynotes, pp. 274–276. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/stramonium. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.