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Article Stramonium Belladonna
Article Stramonium Belladonna
Belladonna, on the other hand, looks anything but a beautiful lady. The plant is rather duller in appearance than Stramonium, with small bell-shaped purple blossoms that eventually develop into shiny black berries approximately one centimeter in diameter (and have the look of a large, black, dilated pupil). The leaves have an oily feel to them and can cause vesicular eruptions if carelessly handled. Belladonna can grow to five meters with leaves up to 18 centimeters long. Considered a perennial branching herb, it is not known for hardiness and is quite sensitive to transplanting. Germination generally requires several weeks in warm, moist, absolutely sterile
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Datura stramonium is known by the common names Jimson Weed, Gypsum Weed, Ditch Weed, Stink Weed, Loco Weed, Korean Morning Glory, Jamestown Weed, Thorn Apple, Angel's Trumpet, Devil's Trumpet, Devil's Snare, Devil's Seed, Mad Hatter, Crazy Tea, Malpitte, Hells Bells, and The Devil's Balls. Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), is also known as Belladonna, Banewort, Devil's Cherries, Naughty Man's Cherries, Divale, Black Cherry, Devil's Herb, Great Morel, and Dwayberry.
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soil (significantly different than the trashy places in which Stramonium can be found growing!). See Belladonna Image, Appendix A-2. Characteristic themes common to the Solanaceae family are (Sankaran): Jerking, shooting, spasms, constriction, choking, twitching, convulsions, violence. Fainting, unconsciousness, stupor, rage, fear of murder, black objects, jovial, vivacious, and kisses. The affects of members of this family are sudden, spasmodic, convulsive, and violent with common expressions of delirious laughing, desire for company, talking, and cheerfulness polarized by fear, rage, darkness, being alone, being startled, screaming, blackness, and death. Belladonna and Stramonium are both placed in the acute miasm (rapid pace, great immediacy) in Sankarans Sensations method. In Synthesis Treasure Edition, Belladonna is found in plain type in the general rubrics for Psora and Syphilis, and Stramonium is found in plain type for Sycosis and Syphilis. Looking specifically at the two remedies in question, it is easy to see how much they share in common with their family likeness. The two remedies can be found together in over 2600 rubrics, 671 in the MIND section and 443 GENERALS. Appendix B provides a sorted list of rubrics shared between the two remedies (MIND Ailments, Deliriums, Delusions, Fears, and shared DREAMS). A quick browsing of the list and it is very easy to see the Solanaceae description above come to the surface along with the fever and delirium of the alkaloids they share in common. Delirium is fast in pace: wild, vivid, rabid, and violent. Their delusions are terrifying (dogs, rats, cats, animals, ugly faces), and behaviors range from snatching, biting, laughing, crying, to unconsciousness. The two remedies share a great deal, including the fear of water or the sound of running water and fear of the dark. Physically, they share the same feverish rolling head motions, photophobic dilation of the pupils, paralysis of the optic nerve, red discoloration of the eyes and face, congestion of the face, difficult speech, gyrations and twitching of extremities, convulsions, and elevated or rapid and quite strong pulse. But, like all families, each member is really quite unique, even when they may look very much alike on the surface. Just as the two plants present themselves quite differently, so the single symptoms of the remedies quickly distinguish them as do a look at the remedies keynotes and modalities. Although Belladonna is often thought of as remedy for acute illness, it also has action as a constitutional medicine. When all is put together, one can readily see that Stramonium is a remedy for neurological disorders that manifest with violent, raging, murderous and terrified symptoms and while Belladonna may appear to have many of the same symptoms, it is a remedy more suited for illnesses that are perhaps as acute in their symptoms, but not as psychologically deep-seated. Gibson offers this description of Stramonium: That it is a menacing and repulsive plant is evident by its names devils apple, devils trumpet, stinkweed. Its pallid blanched funnel-shaped flowers instill fear. Its ragged untidy leaves suggest wildness. Its spiky fruit could scarcely be more hostile, both in appearance and also when it explodes like a hand-grenade, scattering black seeds of death. Its dark somber leaves enwrapping pale flowers at night are suggestive of the black cloud of nightmarish nonsense that envelopes the befuddled mind of its victim. And of Belladonna: It is the berries which arrest the eye and may prove all too alluring to the unwary. They are large, globose, shiny black in color and seem to stare at the passerby to challenge and entice. The plant resembles a remarkable picture of violent growth, springing into intense activity in the early part of the year from its underground root, bearing leaves, flowers, and both ripe and unripe berries all at the same time in a furor of growth,
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attaining in one short season perhaps to the height of a manthere always was a sinister aura of lethality associated with this plant. Hyoscyamus, Stramonium, and Belladonna are referred to as the sinister sisters of the Solanaceae family.
DATURA STRAMONIUM Violence in action and thought Rage, capacity to commit murder Mania w/red face Fear of death, dark, water Fear to be alone Fear of animals, mirrors, reflecting or shiny objects Night terrors Convulsions, violent delirium Neurological disorders from head injury, meningitis Violent jerking of the head Craving for sweets Violent sexual desires Vulgar language Masturbation Enuresis esp w/fright Worse 4p to midnight Company, warmth, light ameliorates Aversion to water w/thirst Sensory illusions Vague, sick feeling Twitching, uncontrollable motions Seizure and sexual disorders Touch is resented, confrontation with shiny objects have a most adverse affect.
ATROPA BELLADONNA Explosive Anger Violent Delirium w/Superhuman Strength Vivid Hallucinations Fear of Dogs Desire to strike, spit, bite Markedly affected by temperature changes Aggravations 11am to 3pm Aggravations due to hormonal imbalances Aggravations from being jarred, motion Aggravations from light, noise Pain ameliorated by pressure Convulsions, esp. febrile Twitches, jerking Intense heat in affected parts High blood pressure Right-sided complaints Head pain ameliorated by cold applications, lying in the dark, pressure, or from binding the head Vertigo worse for motion, turning, stooping, bending Craving for lemons, lemonade Constipation w/rectal dryness Cold hands/feet with hot face Sleeps on abdomen Cutting hair aggravates
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Bibliography
Allen, H. C. Allens Key Notes and Characteristics. New Delhi: 2001, pp 275 276. Gibson, Douglas. Studies of Homeopathic Remedies. Beaconsfield, Bucks: Beaconsfield Publishers, 2000, pp 487 492. Kent, James Tyler. Materia Medica of Homeopathic Remedies. Sittingbourne: Homeopathic Book Service, 2000, pp 915 918. Kent, James T. Repertory of the Materia Medica and a Word index. Sixth American Edition. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 1927. Morrison, Roger. Desktop Guide to Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms. Grass Valley: Hahnemann Clinic Publishing, 1993, pp 363 365. Nash, E. B. Leaders in Homeopathic Therapeutics. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 2002, pp 109 110. Phatak, S. R. Materia Medica of Homeopathic Medicines. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 2002, pp 667 670. Sankaran, Rajan. The Soul of Remedies. Mumbai: Homeopathic Medical Publishers, 1997, pp 191 193. Sankaran, Rajan. An Insight into Plants. Volumes II and III. Mumbai: Homeopathic Medical Publishers, 2002, 2007, Solanaceae Family description. Tyler, M. L. Homeopathic Drug Pictures. Saffron Walden, Essex: The C. W. Walden Company, LTD, 1989, pp 768 780. Vermeulen, Frans. Prisma. Second Edition. Haarlem: Emryss bv Publishers, 2002, pp 1278 1291. Wikipedia, Stramonium Article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium, and Belladonna Article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_nightshade, viewed December 21, 2007.
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MIND - DELUSIONS - dead - persons, sees MIND - DELUSIONS - faces, sees - ugly MIND - DELUSIONS - figures - seeing figures MIND - DELUSIONS - figures - seeing figures - strange MIND - DELUSIONS - images, phantoms; sees MIND - DELUSIONS - images, phantoms; sees - black MIND - DELUSIONS - images, phantoms; sees - dark, in the MIND - DELUSIONS - images, phantoms; sees - frightful MIND - DELUSIONS - specters, ghosts, spirits MIND - DELUSIONS - specters, ghosts, spirits - closing eyes, on MIND - DELUSIONS - specters, ghosts, spirits - seeing MIND - FEAR - ghosts, of MIND - DELUSIONS - talking - dead people; with MIND - DELUSIONS - talking - spirits, with MIND - FEAR - faces looking at him - hideous faces MIND - FEAR - imaginary - things; of imaginary MIND - DELUSIONS - visions, has - daytime MIND - DELUSIONS - visions, has - fantastic MIND - DELUSIONS - visions, has - horrible MIND - DELUSIONS - visions, has - monsters, of MIND - DELUSIONS - die - about to die; one was MIND - DELUSIONS - murdered - will be murdered; he MIND - DELUSIONS - injury - about to receive injury; is MIND - DELUSIONS - doomed, being MIND - FEAR - death, of MIND - FEAR - misfortune, of MIND - FEAR - high places, of MIND - DELUSIONS - falling - he is MIND - DELUSIONS - vertigo - having vertigo MIND - DELUSIONS - poor; he is MIND - FEAR - poisoned - being poisoned; fear of MIND - DELUSIONS - sick - being MIND - DELUSIONS - fire - house, on MIND - DELUSIONS - fire - visions of
MIND - DELUSIONS - great person, is a MIND - DELUSIONS MIND - DELUSIONS MIND - DELUSIONS MIND - DELUSIONS - persecuted - he is persecuted - pursued; he was - pursued; he was - enemies, by - strange - familiar things seem strange
MIND - FEAR - alone, of being MIND - FEAR - approaching; of - others; of MIND - FEAR - approaching; of - others; of - children cannot bear to have anyone come near them MIND - FEAR - noise, from - rushing water; of MIND - FEAR - liquids; of - thirst; with MIND - FEAR - water, of MIND - FEAR - starting, with MIND - FEAR - struck - approaching him; of being struck by those MIND - FEAR - thunderstorm, of MIND - FEAR - touched; of being MIND - FEAR - waking, on MIND - DELUSIONS - fancy, illusions of - sleep - during DREAMS - AMOROUS DREAMS - ANXIOUS DREAMS - FIGHTS DREAMS - FRIGHTFUL DREAMS - HORRIBLE DREAMS - MANY DREAMS - NIGHTMARES DREAMS - PLEASANT DREAMS - QUARRELS DREAMS - UNREMEMBERED DREAMS - VIVID
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Bibliography
Allen, H. C. Allens Key Notes and Characteristics. New Delhi: 2001, pp 275 276. Gibson, Douglas. Studies of Homeopathic Remedies. Beaconsfield, Bucks: Beaconsfield Publishers, 2000, pp 487 492. Kent, James Tyler. Materia Medica of Homeopathic Remedies. Sittingbourne: Homeopathic Book Service, 2000, pp 915 918. Kent, James T. Repertory of the Materia Medica and a Word index. Sixth American Edition. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 1927. Morrison, Roger. Desktop Guide to Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms. Grass Valley: Hahnemann Clinic Publishing, 1993, pp 363 365. Nash, E. B. Leaders in Homeopathic Therapeutics. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 2002, pp 109 110. Phatak, S. R. Materia Medica of Homeopathic Medicines. New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, 2002, pp 667 670. Sankaran, Rajan. The Soul of Remedies. Mumbai: Homeopathic Medical Publishers, 1997, pp 191 193. Sankaran, Rajan. An Insight into Plants. Volumes II and III. Mumbai: Homeopathic Medical Publishers, 2002, 2007, Solanaceae Family description. Tyler, M. L. Homeopathic Drug Pictures. Saffron Walden, Essex: The C. W. Walden Company, LTD, 1989, pp 768 780. Vermeulen, Frans. Prisma. Second Edition. Haarlem: Emryss bv Publishers, 2002, pp 1278 1291. Wikipedia, Stramonium Article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium, and Belladonna Article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_nightshade, viewed December 21, 2007.
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