STRAMONIUM

Source indications

ailments of young plethoric persons; especially children in chorea; mania and fever delirium
delirium: loquacious, talks all the time, sings, makes verses, raves
disposed to talk continually; incessant and incoherent talking and laughing; praying, beseeching, entreating; with suppressed menses
desires light and company; cannot bear to be alone; 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
description to escape, in delirium
imagines all sorts of things; that she is double, lying crosswise, etc
head feels as if scattered about
eyes wide open, prominent, brilliant; pupils widely 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
vomiting: as soon as he raises head from pillow; from a bright light
convulsions: from consciousness; renewed by sight of bright light, of mirror or water
twitching of single muscle or groups of muscles, especially upper part of body; chorea
hydrophobia: fear of water, with excessive aversion to liquids; spasmodic constriction of throat
no pain with most complaints; painlessness is characteristic
sleepy, but cannot sleep