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ATROPINUM

Atropinum
atroPlantUncommonPsoric✨ Exclusively from Hering

Exclusively Documented in Hering

This remedy is documented exclusively in Hering's Guiding Symptoms. It does not appear in Boericke's Materia Medica or other standard texts.

🎯 A powerful alkaloid that acts primarily on the nervous system, eyes, and kidneys, often used for intense congestive or spasmodic states.
About: Atropinum is a potent remedy derived from the Belladonna plant, primarily indicated for acute, violent conditions. It is frequently used for severe eye inflammations, neurological spasms like tetanus, and congestive kidney disorders.
👤 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
Hering Exclusive
👤Head
Dull pain in temples, at intervals, and transitory.
Sticking pains in back of skull and over eyes, < 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
  • > moving in open air..
Sensation as if head was screwed up
  • < walking ;
  • < towards 11 A. M. ;
  • > 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, aged 32, nervous temperament
  • headache once a month, not with catamenia..
Hering Symptom Grade:
Keynote (Grade 3)
Important (Grade 2)
Minor (Grade 1)
🔑 Modalities
Hering Exclusive
Worse from
Damp Bedacute rheumatism
Better from
Eveningsensation as if head were screwed up
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
BELLADONNA
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's KeynotesPhatak's Concise MM

Compiled from classical homeopathic texts in the public domain. Click any active source badge to open the original text. For educational and reference purposes only. Always consult a qualified homeopath for treatment.