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Atropinum

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Atropine · Alkaloid of Belladonna · "The Pure Belladonna Alkaloid"
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🎯 A powerful alkaloid that acts primarily on the nervous system, eyes, and kidneys, often used for intense congestive or spasmodic states.
📖 Hering writes:
Atropinum.
Mind. Sensorium. Inner head. Outer head. Sight and eyes. Hearing and ears. Smell and nose. Upper face. Lower face. Teeth and gums. Taste, speech, tongue. Inner mouth. Palate and throat. Appetite, thirst. Desires.. Eating and drinking. Hiccough, belching, nausea..
Scrobiculum and stomach. Hypochondria. Abdomen and loins. Stools and rectum. Urinary organs. Male sexual organs. Female sexual organs. Pregnancy. Parturition.. Voice and larynx. Trachea.. Respiration. Cough. Inner chest and lungs. Heart, pulse and circulation. Outer chest. Neck and back. Upper limbs. Lower limbs. Limbs in general. Rest. Position. Motion. Nerves. Sleep. Time. Temperature and weather. Fever. Attacks, periodicity. Locality and direction. Sensations. Tissues. Touch. Injuries.. Skin. Relations.
Atro. * Full text * Red and blue only * Red only
Atropine. C17H23NO3.
Discovered in 1833 as being the alkaloid in the berries, leaves and root of Atropa Belladonna ; it was at first used in the Homoeopathic School by such as wanted something stronger, and proved years after. As it is, we have to regard all the symptoms, provings, poisonings and cures, as very uncertain. See Fehling's Dictionary, vol. i, 1871, p. 902. The only trustworthy preparation is the Atropinum sulphuricum. This may have been the drug used in many cases in which it was not considered worth while to add the name of the mineral acid.
👤 Constitution
•Nervous, but not hysterical temperaments.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Violent, sticking pains in the back of the skull and over the eyes, worsened by any motion or stepping.
Hering
Severe eye conditions including corneal opaqueness, photophobia, and blepharospasm.
Hering
Congestive states of the kidneys and liver accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and a drowsy, soporous condition.
Hering
Headache specifically associated with epilepsy.
Hering
Tetanus and other severe spasmodic nerve conditions.
Hering
Dull, transitory pain in the temples occurring at intervals.
Hering
Irritability of the eye associated with corneal ulcers.
Hering
Traumatic injury to the cornea with protrusion of the iris.
Hering
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Dull pain in temples, at intervals, and transitory.
Sticking pains in back of skull and over eyes, WORSE from every motion and on stepping.
Headache of epileptics.
Vertigo on rising in morning.
Furious delirium at night.
Fine drawing, very sensitive stitches across forehead and temples, recurring every few minutes, lasting some seconds.
Very sensible sticking in left temporal region on waking in morning, extending into ear and eye
  • •BETTER moving in open air..
Sensation as if head was screwed up
  • •WORSE walking ;
  • •WORSE towards 11 A. M. ;
  • •BETTER towards evening..
Severe headache, beginning in occiput, passing over right side, locating over eyes and in balls, followed by an epileptic attack, with unconsciousness.
Headache, with flushing of face and head, with rush of blood to head.
Periodical headache, coming on suddenly, increasing rapidly, until intensely severe, making blind and delirious.
Sudden pain soon making her blind and delirious, lasting three hours
  • •no nausea and vomiting ;
  • •no flushing of face ;
  • •pain deep in brain ;
  • •dreads attacks..
Slender married woman, aet. 32, nervous temperament
  • •headache once a month, not with catamenia..
Hering Symptom Grade:
Keynote (Grade 3)
Important (Grade 2)
Minor (Grade 1)
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Damp Bed
acute rheumatism
↑Better from
Evening
sensation as if head were screwed up
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Belladonna →
📚 Sources & References

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