Stramonium
stramThorn-apple The entire force of this drug seems to be expended on the brain, through the skin and throat show some disturbance. Suppressed secretions and excretions. Sensation as if limbs were separated from body. Delirium tremens. Absence of pain and muscular mobility especially of muscles of expression and of locomotion. Gyratory and graceful motions. Parkinsonism.
Stramonium — Materia Medica
Stramonium — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Stramonium — mind · James Tyler Kent
When considering Stram. the idea of violence comes into mind. One cannot look upon a patient who needs Stram., or who has been poisoned with it, without wondering at the tremendous turmoil, the great upheaval taking place in mind and body. Full of excitement, rage, everything is tumultuous, violent; the face looks wild, anxious, fearful; the eyes are fixed on a certain object; face flushed, hot raging fever with hot head and cold extremities, violent delirium. In his anxiety he often turns away from the light, wants it dark, is aggravated especially if the light is bright. High fever with delirium; the heat is so intense that it may be mistaken for Bell., but it is usually a continued fever, only at times remittent, while the intense fever of Bell. is remittent always. Stram. is like an earthquake in its violence. The mind is in an uproar; cursing, tearing the clothes, violent speech, frenzy, erotomania, exposing of the person. These symptoms are found in continued fevers, insanity, cerebral congestion. It is useful in violent typhoids. It is useful in mania that has existed for some time; attacks of mania coming on in paroxysms, appearing with more or less suddenness, so that a single attack would look like Bell., but the history differentiates. Bell. would hardly be more than a palliative in the first attack, and the second exhibition of it would do nothing. When the delirium is not on, the patient has the appearance of great suffering, forehead wrinkled, face pallid, sickly, haggard.
Stramonium — general · H.C. Allen
Adapted to: Ailments of young plethoric persons (Acon., Bell.); especially children in chorea; mania and fever delirium. No pain with most complaints; painlessness is characteristic (Op.). Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell., Cham., Op.).
Stramonium — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Maniacal delirium : symptoms resembling h y d r o p h o b i a. Delirium of fear, as though a dog were attacking him. Impression of danger : clings to person who had him in her lap. Noisy D E L IR IU M with H A L L U C IN A T IO N S. Appearance of patient suggested mania. “ There are those bugs, help me catch them." “ There, a long trail of bedbugs, and after them a procession of beetles, and here come crawling over me a host of cockroaches." He shrank back in alarm : then suddenly, “ I believe I know they are not really bugs : but except once in a while, they seem real to me." (.Biting a man’s hand), sometimes crying out that she saw cats,dogs and rabbits, at the top, sides and middle of the room. (Speaking) the sound resembled a squeak more than the natural tone of the voice. Manifested great aversion to fluids of every kind. When a cup of water was put to her lips, she would start from it, and sometimes relapse into her paroxysm : such great aversion to it, that it was with the utmost difficulty that any liquid could be forced down her throat. Hydrophobia : Aversion—even rage, when it was attempted to administer any liquid. Had even spasmodic irritation of pharyngeal muscles, and anything taken choked him and.
Stramonium — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
powerful and valuable drug, is that of a palliative to relax the muscular coat of the bronchial tubes—more powerfully than Belladonna. He describes a powder, which, burnt, gives off dense fumes, and affords great relief in asthma ; and he adds that “ Himrod's, Bliss’s and other ‘ cures ’ for asthma, are of similar composition He wisely puts cutes in inverted commas, because palliatives do not cure : they relieve pro tem. ; and as we know, such powders may have to be burnt again and again in one night. And yet Stramonium should cure some cases of asthma, because it has caused difficult breathing : especially in connection with spasm of diaphragm. * * * Culpepper (Herbal, 1653) mentions Stramonium for epileptic disorders, convulsions and madness:—its ancient reputation, as we see, amply confirmed from the homoeopathic standpoint by poisonings, provings and practice. * * * To get an all-round knowledge of the uses of any drug, one has to get the impressions of many prescribers and their experience in regard to its usefulness. B oger (Synoptic Key) stresses : “ A rem edy o f t e r r o r s , but lack in g in pain. . . . Disorderly, graceful, or rhythmic movements. .' . . D read s d ark n ess, and has a horror of glistening objects. . . . Great thirst, but dreads water. . . . Putrid, dark, painless, involuntary diarrhoea. . . . Awakes in fear, or screaming.” * * * Guernsey (Keynotes), who has a talent for going straight at the main features of a drug, says, of Stramonium : " The principal range of this remedy is found in the mental affections. In young people, sometimes hysterical, praying, singing devoutly, beseeching, entreating, etc.
Stramonium — modalities · H.C. Allen
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.
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