Henbane (Solanaceae)
- Persons of sanguine temperament; who are irritable, nervous, hysterical.
- Convulsions: of children, from fright or the irritation of intestinal worms (Cina); during labor; during the puerperal state; after meals, child vomits, sudden shriek, then insensible.
- Diseases with increased cerebral activity, but non-inflammatory in type; hysteria or delirium tremens; delirium, with restlessness, jumps out of bed, tries to escape; makes irrelevant answers; thinks he is in the wrong place; talks of imaginary doings, but has no wants and makes no complaints.
- In delirium, Hyoscyamus occupies a place midway between Belladonna and Strammonium; lacks the constant cerebral congestion of the former and the fierce rage and maniacal delirium of the latter.
- Spasms: without consciousness, very restless; every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes (with consciousness, Nux).
- Fears: being alone; poison; being bitten; being sold; to eat or drink; to take what is offered; suspicious, of some plot.
- Bad effects of unfortunate love; with jealousy, rage, incoherent speech or inclination to laugh at everything; often followed by epilepsy.
- Lascivious mania; immodesty, will not be covered, kicks off the clothes, exposes the person; sings obscene songs; lies naked in bed and chatters.
- Cough; dry, nocturnal, spasmodic; < when lying down, relieved when sitting up (Dros.); < at night, after eating, drinking, talking singing (Dros., Phos., - > when lying down,, Mang. m.).
- Intense sleeplessness of irritable, excitable persons form business embarrassments, often imaginary.
- Paralysis of bladder; after labor, with retention or incontinence of urine; no desire to urinate in lying-in women (Arn., Op.).
- Fever: pneumonia, scarlatina, rapidly becomes typhoid; sensorium clouded, staring eyes, gasping at flocks or picking bed clothes, teeth covered with sordes, tongue dry and unwieldly; involuntary stool and urine; subsultus tendinum.
Relations
- Compare: Bell., Stam., Verat.
- Phos. often cures lasciviousness when Hyos. fails.
- Nux or Opium in hemoptysis of drunkards.
- Follows: Bell. well in deafness after apoplexy.
Aggravation
- At night; during menses; mental affections; jealousy, unhappy love; when lying down.
