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Belladonna

30C / 200CBelladonna

Deadly Nightshade · Atropa Belladonna · "The Red Hot Throbbing Remedy"

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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.

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Great children's remedy.

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Exophthalmic goitre.

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No thirst, anxiety or fear.

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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.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

30C

Centesimal

🕒repeated frequently in acute diseases

📝Scarlet fever and prophylactic

Primary Dosage

Decimal

📝General use

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Calcarea Carbonica →

🚫 Antidotes

Coffea Cruda →Opium →Aconitum Napellus →

⏭️ Similar

Calcarea Arsenicosa →Platinum Metallicum →

🔄 Compare With

Hyoscyamus Niger →Podophyllum →Stramonium →Mandragora

⚠️ Inimical

Aceticum Acidum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Belladonna is listed in 1,134 rubrics across 25 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 545 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System127 Nervous System107 Head102 Abdomen78 Respiratory System73 Eyes73 Urinary System61 Mind58 Fever50 Locomotor System43 Modalities40 Throat40 Generalities39 Skin31 Stomach30 Nose29 Ears29 Face27 Male Sexual System25 Circulatory System23 Teeth21 Tongue15 Mouth9 Gums3 Taste1

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