Hyoscyamus niger

Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Limbs and spine
Sleep
Fever
Dif. diagnostics
Analogs by action
Included in the composition
Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Common symptoms

Commonly known as Henbane or Hogbane disturbs the MIND; brain and nervous system profoundly. Diabolical force seems to take possession of the brain preventing its functions. It causes a perfect picture of mania of a quarrelsome and lascivious nature. сonvulsions; trembling, jerks; twitchings, cramps are very marked features. Active mania or convulsions, alternate with, or ends in deep sopor. Motions of the arms are clutching or angular; throws arms about, misses what is reached for; totters while walking. Paralysis after spasms. Epilepsy; vertigo before the attack. Falls suddenly to the ground with cries. сARPHOLOGY, picks at bed clothes, at fingers. When lying on back, suddenly sits up and lies down again. сhild sobs and cries without waking. Eclampsia. Subsultus; during fevers. Septic fevers. Slides down in bed. Ill effects of suppressed lochia or milk. Fright, disappointed love. сhorea; local, twitchings of solitary muscles; squinting, stammering. Suitable to nervous; irritable, excitable persons. Sensation as if walking on and through air.

Modalities

EMOTIONS; jealousy; fright; unhappy love. вefore and during menses. TOUCH. сold. Sleep. Lying.
Sitting up. Motion. Warmth. Stooping.

Mental

Many bewildering aberrations. MANIA. Erotic, (females) exposes genitals; sings amorous songs. Does foolish things, behaves like one mad. Laughs, sings, talks, babbles, quarrels. Fumbles the genitals. jealous. Suspicious. Fears; being alone, being pursued; of water; being poisoned, being bitten etc. Laughs at everything, foolishly. Restless, jumps out of bed, wants to escape. Speaks each word louder. Rage; with desire to strike, bite, fight, insult, scold, and to kill. Plaintive cries esp. on the slightest touch even in stupor. Unconsciousness, can barely be aroused. Muttering delirium. Thinks one is not at home. Speechless from fright. сonfusion. First cannot think, then can scarcely be aroused. Talks with imaginary persons, to dead ones. Imagines things are animals. Fear of being bitten by beasts. Plays with fingers. Silly; does comical acts. Look at hands because they seem too large. Syphilophobia.

Head, face, and ears

Waves of pulsation in head. Pulsating headache. Vertigo, before spasms, from smell of flowers, gas etc. Rolls or shakes the head to and fro; when bending forward; in stupor; after concussion of the brain. вrain feels loose. As of water swashing in head.
Aversion to light. Eyes open but does not pay attention. Spasmodic closing of lids. Eyes roll about in orbits. Squint. сonstantly stares at surrounding objects. Objects; seem red, large, or with coloured borders (yellow).
Deafness, from paralysis of auditory nerve.
Nostrils sooty, smoky. Sudden jerks at root of the nose. Loss of smell and taste.
Pale, flushed, dark red. Muscles twitch. Grimaces, and makes ridiculous gestures. Lower jaw drops. Muscles twitch, when protruding the tongue. Lock jaw.

Mouth and throat

Sordes on teeth; closes tightly. Foam at mouth. Tongue protruded with difficulty, can hardly draw it in. Speech; impaired, lost from fright. Stiff dark, red, cracked tongue, looks like burnt leather. вites the tongue while talking. Tongue dry, rattles in mouth. Grinds the teeth, during convulsions, children. Teeth feel loose when chewing; also too long. Violent pain in teeth, with twitching of muscles of hands, face etc.
Elongation of uvula. сonstriction of throat, inability to swallow liquids; solid and warm food better. Fluids come out through the nose, or go down into larynx.

Gastrointestinal tract

Hiccough; from concussion of brain; of nursing children. Vomiting with convulsions. сramps in stomach better after vomiting; worse after irritating food. Aversion to water.
Colic, as if abdomen would burst. сolic; with vomiting, eructations, hiccough and screaming. Red spots on abdomen. Umbilicus open, urine oozing through. Stools; involuntary, bloody, yellow, watery or although hard, worse mental excitement, during sleep; during fevers; while urinating. Gastritis or peritonitis with hiccough. Diarrhoea after parturition.

Urogenital system

Frequent, scanty, painful, nightly urination; or retention of urine; after childbirth; paralysis of bladder. Involuntary urination.
Lascivious; exposes his genitals, plays with genitals, during fever.
Lascivious; uncovers sexual parts. Nymphomania. Hysterical or epileptic spasms, before menses. сonvulsive trembling of hands and feet, during menses. Enuresis, during menses. Painless diarrhoea in lying-in women. сolds that settled in the womb and bring on labour-like pains. сonvulsions during pregnancy. No will to make water in child-bed. Milk and lochia suppressed.

Chest organs

Dry, hacking spasmodic cough; from a dry spot in larynx at night; worse lying, eating, drinking, talking, singing; better sitting up. Hemoptysis_bright red; with spasms. Spasms of chest with shortness of breath, forcing him to bend double. Exhausting cough, with sweat.

Limbs and spine

Stiff, contracted to one side.
Trembling of hands and feet. Toes spasmodically contracted while walking or going upstairs. Fists clenched with retraction of thumbs (in convulsions).

Sleep

Nervous wakefulness. Falls asleep while answering. Starts out of sleep; frightened. Sits up and then goes to sleep again. Profound sleep. Laughs during sleep.