STRAMONIUM

Source indications

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Suppressed secretions and excretions
  • Sensation as if limbs were separated from body
  • Delirium tremens
  • Absence of pain and muscular mobility
  • Gyratory and graceful motions
  • Parkinsonism
  • Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking
  • Loquacious, garrulous, laughing, singing, swearing, praying, rhyming
  • Sees ghosts, hears voices, talks with spirits
  • Rapid changes from joy to sadness
  • Violent and lewd
  • Delusions about his identity
  • Religious mania
  • Cannot bear solitude or darkness
  • Sight of water or anything glittering brings on spasms
  • Delirium, with desire to escape
  • Raises head frequently from the pillow
  • Pain in forehead and over eyebrows
  • Boring pain, preceded by obscure vision
  • Rush of blood to head
  • Staggers, with tendency to fall forward and to the left
  • Auditory hallucinations
  • Eyes seem prominent, staring wide open
  • Pupils dilated
  • Loss of vision
  • Complains that it is dark, and calls for light
  • Small objects look large
  • Parts of the body seem enormously swollen
  • Strabismus
  • All objects look black
  • Hot, red face
  • Circumscribed redness of cheeks
  • Blood rushes to face
  • Distorted face
  • Expression of terror
  • Pale face
  • Dry mouth
  • Dribbling of viscid saliva
  • Aversion to water
  • Stammering
  • Risus sardonicus
  • Cannot swallow on account of spasm
  • Chewing motion
  • Food tastes like straw
  • Violent thirst
  • Vomiting of mucus and green bile
  • Suppression of urine, bladder empty
  • Sexual erethism, with indecent speech and action
  • Hands constantly kept on genitals
  • Metrorrhagia, with loquacity, singing, praying
  • Puerperal mania, with characteristic mental symptoms and profuse sweatings
  • Convulsions after labor
  • Awaken terrified, screams with fright
  • Deep snoring sleep
  • Sleepy, but cannot sleep
  • Graceful, rhythmic motions
  • Convulsions of upper extremities and of isolated groups of muscles
  • Chorea, spasms partial, constantly changing
  • Violent pain in left hip
  • Trembling, twitching of tendons, staggering gait
  • Shining red flash
  • Effects of suppressed eruption in scarlatina, with delirium
  • Profuse sweat, which does not relieve
  • Violent fever