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Datura Metel
6XDat-mDatura Metel · Indian Datura · "The Indian Datura"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system, inducing states of deep stupor, delirium, and involuntary muscular spasms.
📖 Clarke writes:
Indian Datura. N. O. Solanaceae. Trituration of seeds.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Causes a soporose condition
•Soporose state may be absent
•Later delirium and spasms
•Pulse and temperature undergo extremes of exaltation and depression
Temperament & Physical Profile
•Patient usually manifests excessive timidity
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
•Delirium may be vociferous, or merely garrulous
•Picks at real or imaginary objects
•Performs ridiculous antics
•After the delirium, patient remembers nothing of what has occurred
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Several movements appear due to perverted vision
•Inability to judge distances
•Extreme dilatation of pupils
•Flickering before eyes with sensitiveness to light
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Deep, soporose condition often followed by delirium.
Clarke
Excessive timidity and fearfulness.
Clarke
Delirium characterized by vociferous or garrulous speech.
Clarke
Picks at real or imaginary objects.
Clarke
Extreme dilatation of the pupils.
Clarke
Performs ridiculous antics due to perverted vision.
Clarke
Inability to judge distances correctly.
Clarke
Complete memory loss regarding events during delirium.
Clarke
Flickering before the eyes with sensitivity to light.
Clarke
Pulse and temperature fluctuate between extremes of high and low.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use for acute states of intoxication, delirium, or coma where the patient exhibits picking motions, timidity, and total amnesia of the episode.
Delirium, [1] .
Intoxication, loss of sensibility, and spasms, [2] .
In many cases, three stages of symptoms are observed: Primary delirium, sopor, or even coma, and secondary delirium-a single stage, that of delirium only, occurring in mild cases.
The primary delirium may be vociferous or merely garrulous, the patient usually manifesting excessive timidity. In both this and the soporific stage, he is constantly engaged in picking at real or imaginary objects, and sometimes in performing such antics as to render laughter on the part even of friends unavoidable. Several of the movements seem to depend upon perverted vision, which destroys the power of judging of the distance of objects, and which may be due to the widely dilated pupil, a persistent symptom. In the majority of cases, the soporose stage is absent, the delirium subsisting for from six to ten hours, [4] .
On recovery, the person usually recollects nothing since the meal at which he was poisoned, so rapid are its effects, [4] .
📚 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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