Hyoscyamus niger

The general sphere of action of this remedy is found in spasmodic affections.

Mental.--Amativeness; affections of the intellect; delirium; in which the patient may jump out of bed, throw off the bedclothes, or take off the clothes and go naked; nymphomania. Patients with fever will often throw the bed-clothes entirely off, not because they are too warm, but they will not remain covered; madness; imbecility of the intellect; memory weak or lost.

Eyes.--Pupils dilated; blindness; amaurosis; ocular illusions; diplopia; momentary loss of sight.

Sexual.--Menstrual blood pale; spasmodic labor pains (particularly when accompanied by spasmodic affections of other parts of the body); complaints at beginning of menstruation, also during.

Spasms.--Epilepsy without consciousness; great restlessness of the body; all convulsive motions where every muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes; spasms in general; spasms clonic.

Generalities.--Light-haired people; hardness of hearing from paralyzed auditor nerves; bleeding of the nose, blood pale; sensation of smell too feeble; bluish color of face; painless diarrhœa; troubles of the bladder; expectoration mixed with pale blood; hydrophobia; hard; full pulse; inflammation of blood vessels.

Worse.--In the evening; from mental affections; from jealousy; unhappy love; sufferings of children; from taking cold; from cold air; from approaching menstruation, and at beginning of, also during menstruation.

Better.--On stooping.

Remedies following:--Bellad., Pulsat., Stramon., Veratr.

Antidotes:--Bellad., Stramon.