Stramonium

Mental.--The principal range of this remedy is found in the mental affections. In young people who are sometimes hysterical showing the following condition: praying and singing devoutly, beseeching, entreating, etc. Young women with suppressed menses may be affected in this manner. In some kinds of fevers, where the patient can't bear solitude or darkness, if they are left alone or are in a dark room, the mental affections are very much aggravated; also in unconscious delirium when the patient will every now and then jerk the head up from the pillow, then let it fall again--this being kept up without intermission for a long time; women in puerperal fever or convulsions have many absurd notions--that they are double, that some one is in bed with them, and other strange and unmeaning fancies. Affections of the intellect in general; madness.

Eyes.--Dilated pupils; blindness; amaurosis; momentary loss of sight. Diplopia.

Pulse.--Pulse full; irregular; hard; slow; small.

Generalities.--Face red and bloated. Cannot walk or keep on the feet in a darkened room, is sure to fall. Saliva decreased; painless diarrhœa having a cadaverous odor; retention of urine in any fever; menses profuse; sighing respiration; restlessness of the body; staggering when walking; pithy, numb feeling of outer parts. Complaints concomitant to morbid sleep.

Epilepsy; spasms in general, especially clonic puerperal convulsions; involuntary motions; hydrophobia.

Worse.--During perspiration; after sleep, when first awakens from sleep will shrink away as if in fear; in the dark; in solitude.

Better.--In company.

Remedies following:--Bellad., Bryon., Hyosc., Nux vom., sometimes, Acon.

Antidotes:--Bellad., Nux vom., sometimes, Hyosc., Tabac.