Stramonium

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What is Stramonium ?

It is called the Thorn apple, or Jamestown weed, and it grows about towns on deserted piles of rubbish and in waste places; the tincture is made from the seeds. Alkaloid Daturin.

What is its general action ?

Acts mainly on the sensorium, giving rise to delirium and hallucinations and picturing acute mania. In other respects its action is also similar to Belladonna and Hyoscyamus, from which it differs by its greater sensorial perversion. It has less congestion than Belladonna, never approaching a true inflammatory condition.

What are its mental symptoms ?

Wild delirium, with bright red face, eyes bright, wild and suffused; horrible hallucinations, objects start from every corner, animals spring up to terrify; there is great loquacity, the patient talks all the time, laughs, plays, sings, and prays; he desires light and fears dark; bright objects cause delirium, spasms and convulsions.

How does the loquacity of Lachesis compare ?

In Lachesis the patient continually jumps from one subject to another.

When is Stramonium indicated in Erysipelas?

When there are brain complications, such as violent delirium, screaming out, terrified.

What are the indications for Stramonium in Asthma ?

In nervous asthma, where the voice suddenly gives out and takes on a higher pitch. Great sense of suffocation with tight feeling across chest; face becomes blue.

What effect has Stramonium upon the urinary secretion ?

It causes suppression of the urine, and has been found of use in suppression of urine in typhoid fever.