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Belladonna

30C / 200CBelladonna
Deadly Nightshade · Atropa Belladonna · "The Red Hot Throbbing Remedy"
bell.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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🎯 Acts on the nervous and vascular systems to produce sudden, intense congestion, inflammation, and fever.
📖 Boericke writes:
Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands. Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperaesthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water,neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly (Oxytropis).Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great children's remedy. Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting.Scarlet fever and also prophylactic. Here use the thirtieth potency.Exophthalmic goitre. Corresponds to the symptoms of "air-sickness" in aviators. Give as preventive.No thirst, anxiety or fear. Belladonna stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset. Bell for the extreme of thyroid toxaemia. Use 1x (Beebe).
👤 Constitution
•Often indicated for children or individuals who are robust, plethoric, and prone to sudden, intense inflammatory reactions.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Heat, redness, throbbing and burning.
introduction
Great children's remedy.
introduction
Exophthalmic goitre.
introduction
No thirst, anxiety or fear.
introduction
Acuteness of all senses.
mind
Pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples.
head
Pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semi-erect posture.
head
Otitis media.
ears
Pain causes delirium.
ears
Dry.
mouth
Grinding of teeth.
mouth
Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion (Ginseng); red, worse on right side.
throat
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for acute delirium, hallucinations, and states of intense mental excitement or rage.
Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by specters and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities.
While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within.
He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic illusions.
Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces.
Delirium; frightful images; furious; rages, bites, strikes; desire to escape.
Loss of consciousness.
Disinclined to talk.
Perversity, with tears.
Acuteness of all senses.
Changeableness.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
30C
Centesimal
🕒repeated frequently in acute diseases
📝Scarlet fever and prophylactic
Primary Dosage
1X
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝General use
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Calcarea Carbonica →
⏭️ Similar
Calcarea Arsenicosa →Platinum Metallicum →
🔄 Compare With
Hyoscyamus Niger →Podophyllum →Stramonium →Mandragora →
📚 Sources & References

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