Hyoscyamus niger

Henbane. Solanacece.

Keynotes

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 noninflammatory 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 wrongs, but has no wants and makes no complaints.

In delirium, Hyoscyamus occupies a place midway between Belladonna and Stramonium; 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 he 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 by sitting up (Dros.) ; < at night, after eating, drinking, talking, singing (Dros., Phos. — > when lying down, Mang. m.).

Intense sleeplessness of irritable, excitable persons from 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, grasping at flocks or picking bed clothes, teeth covered with sordes, tongue dry and unwieldy, involuntary stool and urine; subsultus tendinum.

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. — Compare : Bell., Stram. and Verat. Phos. often cures lasciviousness when Hyos. fails. Nux or Opium in haemoptysis of drunkards. Follows : Bell, well in deafness after apoplexy. Aggravation., — At night; during menses; mental affections; jealousy, unhappy love; when lying down.