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INTRODUCTION-
. • Hahnemann was the first one who discover its therapeutic value • It was Hahnemann’s
deep sight which could find out the immense curative value of these alkaloids and
transformed them into a marvelous medicines through the process of potentiating.
Belladonna is one of the CLARKE’S A .B.C NURSERIES others being aconite and
chamomilla • WHILE BELLADONNA CAUSES TURMOIL IN BRAIN, ACONITE AND
CHAMOMILLA CAUSE TURMOIL IN CIRCULATION AND TEMPERAMENT
RESPECTIVELY.
• Dr.Clark-Belladonna acts primarily on the brain, and Teste very acutely explains the
diversity of its action on men and animals by suggesting that it acts with an intensity
proportionate to the brain development. On goats and rabbits it has no poisonous
action whatever. On carnivorous animals it acts with moderate intensity. On man it
acts with highest intensity. But on idiots, as Hufeland mentions, it has no more action
than it has on some of the carnivora. An enormous number of the symptoms of Bell.
are developed in and from the head and sensorium.
• DR.KENT-Belladonna is a remedy that takes hold of the system with great violence.
It is especially suitable to plethoric, vigorous individual, and intellectual people
brainy people have complaints coming on suddenly, providing they are in a
substantial state of health, and are reasonably plethoric and vascular.
• DR.VITHOULKAS
PATHOGENESIS
• Its action on brain & its mucous membranes &various organ produces a state of
congestion every where in the body leading to inflammation, delirium, illusion,
delusion and hallucination and mania.
CONSTITUTION •
Physical make up: since it is a acute remedy ,there is no serious importance ,however
it is adapted to bilious plethoric person with red face and to a condition in them of
local plethora • And also to those having lymphatic constitution with fine complexion
and delicate skin.
TEMPERAMENT
• Diathesis: tubercular
GUIDING SYMPTOMS-
o Right sided medicine • Acute ,sudden and violent onset is very characteristic
of these drugs. • this aspect of the symptoms
o . “Congestion” is the key not of belladonna. Its action on the brain a state of
active congestion is produced resulting in furious excitement
irriitability,convulsion delirium, and pain. Consequently there is flushed face,
throbbing carotids, heart and bounding pulse rush of blood to head wild
delirium • Congestion cause redness of face and eyes. Rush of blood to head
and face throbbing of brain and carotids.
o HEAT • Heat is yet another peculiarity. due to the congestion there is great
heat specially at the congested and inflamed part. • The heat is so severe that
the affected part imparts a burning sensation to the examining hand and the
physician is reflexly compelled to withdraw is hand.
o DRYNESS • Great dryness runs through whole of this remedy. • The dryness
is often associated with heat, redness burning and throbbing.
o • The patient is very much sleepy, but cannot sleep. • Belladonna patients are
very much entertaning,jolly,well behaved and social when they are well,
becomes very violent and often delirious when they fall sick. • In belladonna
patient, sweat, if at all found, is only on the covered part
o • The complaint of belladonna patient are aggravated by touch jar and motion,
draught of air and heat of sun; after 3: p.m • Lying down and uncovering and
ameliorated by rest, standing or sitting erect and in a warm room.
o • When throbbing of carotids ,the heat, redness and congestion of face and
conjunctiva passes away, the delirium also subsides in proportion. •
Belladonna may have delirium with pale face also, as it alternate but that is an
exceptional case.
PARTICULAR-
MIND-Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by specters and visions and oblivious to
surrounding realities. While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual
hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within. He is acutely alive and crazed
by a flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic illusions.
RAGE • The patient has furious rage and anger. • He spits, bites and strikes those around
him. • He picks up the bed clothes, tears them to pieces and through them off. • He breaks
into fits of laughter and gnashes his teeth presenting a picture of absolute and violent insanity.
• The patient imagines seeing various things, such as ghost monsters, hideous
faces,various,black animals dogs wolves and dangerous wild animals. • There is great fear of
unusual and imaginary things; wants to run away from them; strange delusion illusion and
hallucination with loss of consciousness. • He uses absurd language; anxiety with desire to
flee escape and height.
AILMENTS
PARTICULAR-
HEADACHE •
CAUSATION: Exposure to cold or heat of sun; from hair cut; congestion and suppuration of
catarrhal flow . • Mode of onset: sudden and violent. • Location: Right side, supra-cilary
region and forehead.
SENSATION • As if the brain were pushed through the forehead. • Sensation of stabbing as
by a knife from one temple to the another.
VERTIGO
• Ears.–Tearing pain in middle and external ear. Humming noises. Membrana tympani
bulges and injected. Parotid gland swollen. Sensitive to loud tones. Hearing very
acute. Otitis media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in sleep; throbbing and
beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat. Hematoma auris. Acute and
sub-acute conditions of Eustachian tube. Autophony-hearing one’s voice in ear.
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
• MOUTH : • Mouth is very dry with or without thirst . • Tongue and palate are dark red and
dry; tremor and stammering speech. • Sub maxillary gland are swollen. Putrid taste in the
mouth.
THROAT • There is a great dryness of the throat and fauces, with REDNESS AND
BURNING. • Worse on the right side. • Throat feels very much constricted with consequent
difficulty in deglutition. • tonsillitis, worse on the right side. • Uvula is red and swollen very
painful and burning.
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN • Loss of appetite • Aversion from meat, milk • Spasmodic
pain in epigastric region • Nausea and vomiting ;great thirst of cold water . • Dreads drinking.
• Uncontrollable vomiting.
ABDOMEN • Distended hot, tender swollen, pain as if clutched by a hand; worse from jars
and pressure. • Stitching and cutting pain on left side, when coughing sneezing
• Extremities.–Shooting pains along limbs. Joints swollen, red, shining, with red
streaks radiating. Tottering gait. Shifting rheumatic pains. Phlegmasia alba dolens.
Jerking limbs. Spasms. Involuntary limping. Cold extremities.
• Skin.–Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth. Eruption like scarlatina,
suddenly spreading. Erythema; pustules on face. Glands swollen, tender, red. Boils.
Acne rosacea. Suppurative wounds. Alternate redness and paleness of the skin.
Indurations after inflammations. Erysipelas.
• FEVER • CAUSATION :draught of cold air , uncovering the head, haircut summer,
sun • MODE OF ONSET: sudden and violent • SYMPTOMS: • High fever state •
Burning pungent steaming heat • Feet icy cold, no thirst with fever.
GENERAL MODALITIES •
• DR.PHATAK-
• WORSE
• Heat of Sun; if heated. DRAFTS_on head; haircut; washing head. After taking
cold. Light; noise; jarring. CHECKED SWEAT. Touch. Company. Pressure. Motion.
Hanging down affected part. Afternoon. Lying down. Looking at shining objects or
running water.
• BETTER
• Light covering. Bending backward, semi-erect. Rest in bed. Standing. Leaning
head against something. Bending or turning the affected part.
RELATION
COMPLEMENTORY: to calcarea •
ANTIDOTE: coffea.cruda,hyoscyamus.
DOSE-
First to thirtieth potency and higher. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.
RUBRICS-
MIND-ANGER-cough
MIND-ANGUISH-noon
MIND-BITTING-night
MIND-CROAKING-sleep, in
MIND-DELIRIUM-arms-throws about
MIND-DELIRIUM-eating-amel.
MIND-DELIRIUM-face-livid
MIND-DELIRIUM-face-red
MIND-DELIRIUM-grimaces, with
MIND-DELIRIUM-terror, expressive of
MIND-DELIRIUM-drinking