Hyoscyamus niger
hyos-nigHenbane
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 co
Hyoscyamus niger — Materia Medica
Hyoscyamus niger — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Hyoscyamus niger — mind · James Tyler Kent
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. "Refuses to take medicine because it is poisoned." "Imagines, that he is pursued, that the people have all turned against him, that his friends are no longer his friends. He carries on conversations with imaginary people." Talks as if he were talking to himself, but he really imagines that some one is sitting by his side, to whom he is talking. Sometimes he talks to dead folks; recalls past events with those that have departed.
Hyoscyamus niger — general · James Tyler Kent
Nervous system: 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.
Hyoscyamus niger — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(Henbane) Hyoscyamus is said to be especially poisonous to fowls : hence its name. Some.animals eat it, especially the young shoots, with impunity : bpt its effects even here are more or less purgative. Hahnemann tells us that, when dried, the plant loses a great portion of its medicinal powers. But this is the case with many of the plant remedies : one needs to employ a competent homoeo pathic chemist always, in prescribing. Old school uses Hyoscyamus and Hyoscine as “ cerebral depressants, in acute mania, delirium tremens, febrile delirium and insomnia, "ometimes with good results. They are mostly used in asylum practice The drug is also “ put in to stop griping when Aloes, etc., are used for purgation Poisonings, provings and experience of Hyoscyamus show its very definite range of action, also its striking resemblances to its natural relations, Belladonna and Stramonium. But it is, all through, easily distinguished from them. In d e l i r i u m it has its own peculiar features. Like Bell, it causes and cures cases with “ increased cerebral activity ",.but with Hyos., unlike Bell., they are non-inflammatory in type. One peculiar symptom belongs pre-eminently to Hyos. : “ desire to uncover.’’ In i n s a n i t y Hyos. may act as a mountebank, grimacing and making ridiculous gestures, and displaying a “ comical alienation of mind ”--o r displaying a horrible “ lasci vious mania ”, all its own. " In f e v e r s the Hyos. patients throw the bedclothes off not because they are too warm, but because they will not remain covered.” ” A keynote for Hyoscyamus in fevers is, that the patient will not remain covered.” (Later on we will quote Kent, who discusses this question.) And here, in regard to Hyos.
Hyoscyamus niger — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: At night; during menses; mental affections; jealousy, unhappy love; when lying down.
Hyoscyamus niger — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
EMOTIONS: Fright. Jealousy. TOUCH. Lying. Cold. Sleep.
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