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Datura Arborea

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Datura Arborea · Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) · "The Tree Datura"
PlantRarePsoricClarke only

Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 It acts primarily on the central nervous system, inducing altered states of consciousness, sensory expansion, and neurological irritation.
📖 Clarke writes:
Brugmansia suaveolens. N. O. Solanaceae. Tincture of the flowers.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Sensation as if forehead were expanded
Sensation as if ideas were floating outside the brain
Sensible confusion of ideas across the cerebrum
Drawing, nervous irritation back to cerebellum
Spinal irritation or depletion of nervous circulation in medulla oblongata
Causes spasms
Juice instilled into the eye causes amaurosis (according to Froriep)
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
Strange feeling of pleasant and easy comfort
Sensation as if he scarcely touched earth with his feet
Sensation as if he had to gather ideas from afar, as if they were floating in the clouds
Involved in a most beautiful atmosphere, bright calm as the sunlight at noon
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Symptoms induced by the odour of the flowers left in a room for two days
Symptoms induced whilst handling and cutting the flowers
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sensation as if the forehead were expanded.
Clarke
Ideas feel as if they are floating outside the brain.
Clarke
Feeling of pleasant, easy comfort and detachment from the earth.
Clarke
Sensation of gathering ideas from afar, as if floating in clouds.
Clarke
Involved in a beautiful, bright, calm atmosphere like sunlight at noon.
Clarke
Sensible confusion of ideas across the cerebrum.
Clarke
Nervous irritation drawing back to the cerebellum.
Clarke
Spinal irritation or depletion of nervous circulation in the medulla oblongata.
Clarke
Spasms caused by the odour of the flowers.
Clarke
Amaurosis (vision loss) caused by juice instilled into the eye.
Clarke
📋 Clinical Indications

Conditions Clarke associates with this remedy — no detailed symptom-by-system breakdown exists for this entry.

Brain affectionsClairvoyanceVertigo
Open in Clarke
🔑 Modalities
Clarke Exclusive
Worse from
Handling and cutting flowers
confusion of ideas
nervous irritation
spinal irritation
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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