Used with success in ergotism, with tetanic spasms and stiffness of whole body, with mania. Marked action on head and eyes. Meningitis . Chronic intestinal toxæmia. Brain irritation during dentition. Restlessness of a violent and convulsive nature. Formication with contraction of extremities.

Head

Furious delirium. Vertigo; terrible headache and complete cessation of the mental faculties. Night terrors. Congestive headache.

Nose

Acute coryza; profuse, watery discharge from right nostril ; left stopped up, with chilly sensation, alternating with heat.

Eyes

Pain over both eyes. Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils; weak sight; floating spots.

Respiratory

Constructive feeling in chest, with difficult breathing; cough with tickling in throat. Expectoration thick, yellow . Pain in left chest, sore to touch.

Fever

Alternation of coldness and heat. Scarlet fever; eruption in spots, large and vivid.

Relationship

Compare: Bellad; Solanum Carolinense -Horse-nettle--(conclusions and epilepsy, twenty to forty-drop doses; is of great value in grand mal of idiopathic type, where the disease has begun beyond age of childhood; hystero-epilepsy, also in whooping-cough); Solan mammosum -Apple of Sodom--(pain in left hip-joint); Solan oleraceum (swelling of mammary gland, with profuse secretion of milk); Solan tuberosum (cramps in calves and contraction of fingers; spitting through closed teeth); Solan vesicarium (recommended in facial paralysis); Solaninum aceticum (threatening paralysis of the lungs in the course of bronchitis in the aged and children must cough a long time before able to raise expectoration); Solan pseudocaps (acute pains, in lower abdomen); Solan tuberos ægrotans -Diseased potato--(prolapse of the rectum, patulous anus; offensive breath and odor of body; tumors of rectum look like decayed potato; dreams of pools of blood); Solanum tuberosum -Potato berries--(cramps in the calves of the legs and fingers).

Dose

Second to thirtieth potency.

Solanum Nigrum