BELLADONNA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions
- persons who are lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delerious when sick
- women and children with light hair and blue eyes, find complexion, delicate skin
- sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions
- tuberculous patients
- great liability to take cold
- sensitive to drafts of air, especially when uncovering the head
- from having the hair cut
- tonsils become inflamed after riding in a cold wind
- quick sensation and motion
- eyes snap and move quickly
- pains come suddenly, last indefinitely and cease suddenly
- pains usually in short attacks
- cause redness of face and eyes
- fulness of head and throbbing of carotids
- imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects
- black animals, dogs, wolves
- fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them
- hallucinations
- violent delirium
- disposition to bite, spit, strike and tear things
- breaks into fits of laughter and gnashes the teeth
- wants to bite and strike the attendants
- tries to escape
- head hot and painful
- face flushed
- eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated
- pulse full and bounding, globular, like buckshot striking the finger
- mucous membrane of mouth dry
- stool tardy and urine suppressed
- sleepy; but cannot sleep
- convulsions during teething, with fever; come on suddenly, head hot, feet cold
- rush of blood to head and face
- headache, congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids; < from slight noise, jar, motion, light, lying down, least exertion; > pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses
- boring the head into the pillow
- vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping; on every change of position
- abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even of the bed; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar
- pain in right ileo-coecal region, < by slightest touch, even of the bed- cover
- the transverse colon protrudes like a pad
- skin: of a uniform, smooth, shining scarlet redness; dry, hot, burning; imparts a burning sensation to examining had; the true sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet
- pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; > standing and sitting erect; worse mornings
- < from touch, motion, noise, draught of air, looking at bright, shining objects
- < after 3 p. m.
- < night, after midnight
- < while drinking
- < uncovering the head
- < summer sun
- < lying down
- > rest
- > standing or sitting erect
- > warm room