Thorn Apple (Solanaceae)
- Adapted to: ailments of young plethoric persons (Acon., Bell.); especially children in chorea; mania and fever delirium.
- Delirium: loquacious, talks all the time, sings, makes verses, raves; simulates Bell. and Hyos., yet differs in degree.
- The delirium is more furious, the mania more acute, while the congestion, though greater than Hyos., is much less than Bell., never approaching a true inflammation.
- Disposed to talk continually (Cic., Lach.); incessant and incoherent talking and laughing; praying, beseeching, entreating; with suppressed menses.
- Desires light and company; cannot bear to be alone (Bis.); 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.
- Desire to escape, in delirium (Bell., Bry., Op., Rhus).
- Imagines all sorts of things; that she is double, lying crosswise, etc. (Petr.).
- Head feels as is scattered about (Bap.).
- 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 (Bov., Ign., Spig.).
- Vomiting: as soon as he raises head from pillow; from a bright light.
- Convulsions: from consciousness (Nux - without, Bell., Cic., Hyos., Op.); renewed by sight of bright light, of mirror or water (Bell., Lys.).
- Twitching of single muscle or groups of muscles, especially upper part of body; chorea.
- Hydrophobia: fear of water, with excessive aversion to liquids (Bell., Lys.); spasmodic constriction of throat.
- No pain with most complaints; painlessness is characteristic (Op.).
- Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell., Cham., Op.).
Relations
- Stramonium often follows: Bell., Cup., Hyos., Lys.
- In metrorrhagia from retained placenta with characteristic delirium, Sec. often acts promptly when Stram. has failed (with fever and septic tendency, Pyr.).
- After overaction, from repeated doses of Bell., in whooping cough.
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.
