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Datura Ferox

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Datura Ferox · Fierce Thorn Apple · "The Fierce Thorn Apple"

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🎯 It acts primarily as a potent hallucinogen causing acute, violent mental derangement and physical dryness.

📖 Clarke writes:

Chinese datura. N. O. Solanaceae. Trituration of seeds. Tincture of unripe fruit.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Poisoning causes raving madness

•Mental alienation

•Dryness of mouth (similar to Belladonna and other Solanaceae)

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Completely out of her mind

•Dizzy

•Sleepy

•Slept with eyes open

•If disturbed, sprang up raving and uttered unintelligible words

•If one sang, she began to dance in the Javanese fashion

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Raving madness and complete loss of mental clarity.

Clarke

Dizziness accompanied by extreme sleepiness.

Clarke

Sleeping with eyes wide open.

Clarke

Sudden, violent springing up from sleep when disturbed.

Clarke

Uttering unintelligible words during delirious states.

Clarke

Compulsive dancing in response to music or singing.

Clarke

Extreme dryness of the mouth.

Clarke

Rapid onset of symptoms, appearing within fifteen minutes of ingestion.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

⚙️Generals

After a quarter of an hour she was completely out of her mind, was dizzy, sleepy

•at last fell into a sleep, in which the eyes remained more or less open, and if disturbed she sprang up raving, and uttered unintelligible words ;
•if one sang she began to dance in the Javanese fashion, [1] ..

Pulse was slow and full, [1] .

Mouth very dry, [1] . Buchner's Toxicologie, 1827, states that if the lips are held for a short time to a glass rubbed with a leaf, one is made to rave. Gmelin, Reise, etc., state that beer poisoned with the seeds of this plant causes ravings.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Disturbance

raving

springing up

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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