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Stramonium

30C / 200CStramonium
Jimson Weed · Datura Stramonium · "The Terror and Darkness Remedy"
stram.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the brain, causing intense mental excitement, , and involuntary muscular movements.
📖 Boericke writes:
The entire force of this drug seems to be expended on the brain, through the skin and throat show some disturbance. Suppressed secretions and excretions. Sensation as if limbs were separated from body. . Absence of pain and muscular mobility especially of muscles of expression and of locomotion. Gyratory and graceful motions. Parkinsonism.
👤 Constitution
•Typically affects those who are highly excitable, loquacious, and prone to violent or religious , often with a fear of being alone.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking.
mind
Cannot bear solitude or darkness; must have light and company.
mind
Raises head frequently from the pillow.
head
Small objects look large.
eyes
Expression of terror.
face
Stammering.
mouth
Graceful, rhythmic motions.
extremities
Violent pain in left hip.
extremities
Effects of suppressed eruption in scarlatina, with , etc.
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for acute , intense fear, and states of extreme mental agitation.
Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking.
Loquacious, garrulous, laughing, singing, swearing, praying, rhyming.
Sees ghosts, hears voices, talks with spirits.
Rapid changes from joy to sadness.
Violent and lewd.
about his identity; thinks himself tall, double, a part missing.
Religious .
Cannot bear solitude or darkness; must have light and company.
Sight of water or anything glittering brings on spasms.
, with desire to escape (Bell; Bry; Rhus).
🔑 Modalities
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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
📝Thirtieth potency and lower.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Nux Vomica →Belladonna →Tabacum →
🔄 Compare With
Belladonna →Hyoscyamus Niger →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Stramonium is listed in 232 rubrics across 19 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 86 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Mind62Nervous System40Fever18Modalities14Female Sexual System13Head13Face11Eyes11Locomotor System10Generalities9Abdomen5Urinary System5Throat5Stomach4Tongue4Respiratory System4Mouth2Circulatory System1Male Sexual System1

See all 232 rubrics for Stramonium →