Stramonium

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

Stramonium

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Keynotes

passing neither urine nor stool (Led.). Very mobile states. Tremor; nervous. Disorderly, graceful or rhythmic motions (Elap.), < head or arms. Chorea. Spasms, < night. .................... DREADS DARKNESS, and has a horror of glistening objects. Fearful, desires company or wants to escape. Active, variable delirium; talks incessantly; sees many, vividly brilliant or hideous phantoms, more to one side. Wildly excited, as in night terrors or delirium tremens, or does all sorts of crazy things. Raving mania, with cold sweat, cursing and praying. Religious insanity. The talk of others is intolerable. Self accusation. Loss of reason or speech. Stupid. Imbecile. Vertigo, < in dark. Jerks head up and drops it again. Fixed sparkling stare. Squint. Diplopia. Night blindness. Green vision. Crowding, visual hallucinations. Sees black. Delusions as to size and distance. Red, bloated or rapidly changing face; now flushed, now pale; a sardonic grin, then expresses terror. Frowning. Fine red dots on tongue. Stammering. Constantly spits saliva. Dry throat, with great thirst, yet dreads water; it chokes him. Hydrophobia. Putrid, dark, painless, involuntary diarrhœa. Sexual excitement (in males). Excessive menses, preceded by sexual excitement. Grasps the genitals. Nymphomania. Spasmodic cough. Spasm of larynx. Voice suddenly fails, in higher tones. Nervous asthma. Drawing in back. Sensitive spine. Violent pain in hip. Unilateral paralysis, with twitchings. Crawlings, as of many bugs. Non-appearing exanthema. Fiery scarlatinous rash. Sopor. Weeping, in dreams. Awakes in fear or screaming. Frightful visions.

Worse

Glistening objects. Fright. AFTER SLEEP. Dark, cloudy days. Suppression. Intemperance.

Better

LIGHT. Company. Warmth. A remedy of TERRORS, BUT LACKING IN PAIN; with suppressed excretions (Ver-a.),

Region

BRAIN. Circulation: Throat. Skin. Spinal nerves: Arms. Hip (L). Genitals.

Relationships

Antidotes: Cof. Nux-v. Related: Bell. Hyo. Op.

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Stramonium — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/stramonium. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.