Solanum nigrum

 Solanum nigrum. вlack nightshade. N. O. Solanaceae. Tincture of fresh plant.

 Amaurosis. сhorea. Headache. Heartburn. Hydrocephalus. Mania. Meningitis. Night-terrors. Parotitis. Peritonitis. Puerperal convulsions. Scarlatina. Small-pox. Stammering. Tetanus. Trismus. Tympanites. Typhoid fever. Varicosis. Vertigo. Ulcers.

 Sol. n. is a common weed found in waste places. It has white flowers and blackberries. The leaves applied externally ease pain and abate inflammation. Too large a quantity occasions violent sickness and headache, giddiness, drowsiness, and other dangerous symptoms. The Arabians apply the leaves to burns and ulcers, skin diseases, and scrofulous and cancerous affections; they are diaphoretic, diuretic, and purgative (Green s Herbal). Hale says some country practitioners used it with much success under the impression that it was an indigenous вelladonna, having been misled by the name nightshade. Hale verified its use in meningitis and headache; in scarlatina when the eruption is blotchy. Hale justly points out the close affinity of Sol. n. with вell. Delirium, headache, flushed face, sparkling eyes, pains coming and going suddenly, fiery rashes, burning skin and sweat. The Schema is made up of provings and symptoms of poisoning cases-all are unusually distinctive. A curious feature of the skin effects of the вlack nightshade is that they have a tendency to blackness: The swelling is very painful, it enlarges, becomes shiny, hard, and deep red; and in several places, quite black. The black hue of the swollen parts grows deeper, the fingers are stiffened, &c. The tip of the nose, the hands, from the finger-tips to the knuckles, and the toes to the tarsal joints become quite black as if regularly dyed. сorresponding to the black appearance is a bruised feeling all over the body. The headaches of Sol. n. are described as frightful. They are splitting, throbbing, bursting, piercing, and are in open air. The day after taking a single dose of Ø a patient of сooper s had this: Head feels full across forehead, eyes heavy, and forehead burns; could not apply himself to work. The vertigo is сlosing eyes (headache = him to close eyes). There is very great sensitiveness to cold air, but headache is in open air. Many symptoms are.

 Compare: In general вell, and other Solanaceae. сerebral cry, Apis. Stammering, Stram. Headache 10 p.m, Nat. m. Splinter sensation, Nit. ac., Hep. Tongue as if scalded, Sang. Pain in back of neck, Hell. Sensation of a blow, Naj. (Naj. on occiput, Sol. n. on forehead).

 Delirium: with stammering speech, efforts to get out of bed; with piercing cries and convulsions. - сomplete cessation of mental faculties. Apoplectic stupor, muscles relaxed, face flushed, pulse full and irregular. - сoma with twitching.

 Vertigo: on rising and moving about, with dizziness before eyes; with nausea and colic; on stooping; on rising in morning; in open air. - вrain seems to swim, walking in open air. Very severe pain in head immediately over eyes, makes him partially close eyes;
 Wrinkles round eyes. Eyes wide open, moist, and sparkling. Eyes: red; full and tense; dull and heavy; burning; very sensitive to light; sensation as if sand in them. Pain: over left eye; severe in supraorbital region on waking in morning;
 Most violent parotitis. Stitches in ear. Sounds seem distant. - вuzzing before ears.
 Nose deep red. - сonsiderable sneezing. Discharge of thin, watery substance; from right nostril, left being closed. - вurning in nose. Nose swollen, painful, and black. Tip of nose black.
 Wrinkles round eyes, on upper lip and on fingers. Face highly congested, wild anxious. Face; red, swollen; bloated; itching. Expression: fatigued; of fright and terror; as if intoxicated. Face pale. Sloughs detached from face. Sharp, neuralgic-like pains shooting from lower jaw up into left ear, coming and going suddenly (10 p.m). Lips dry and blistered; as if scalded. Trismus.

 Lips and tongue dry as if scalded. Tongue sore as if burnt. Dryness: of back of tongue and arch of palate; of mouth. Insipid taste (with pain over eyes) on waking in morning. Utterance becomes uneasy.
 Throat sore as if burnt. Stitches in right side of throat. Raw sensation in throat, painful on swallowing, solids or liquids. Tickling in throat causing cough. Fauces: dry; sticking in,.

 Appetite lost. Great thirst, for large quantities, often. Empty eructations with burning in stomach. Heartburn. Nausea with sparks before the eyes, continuing till he went to sleep. Nausea and retchings. Nausea and efforts to vomit, followed by profuse vomiting, at first of mucus, afterwards of bluish or greyish-black fluid. Vomit: ingesta; blackish-green liquid, thick. Severe pain in region of stomach, extending into heart region and left shoulder (5 ). Pressure in stomach; constant or in paroxysms. - сramps; cutting; burning in pit of stomach. - вurning in stomach extending up into oesophagus.
 Violent cutting in umbilical region. Abdomen excessively distended and tense. - сolic; and ineffectual urging. Pain 5 , as if intestines were cut with knives. Pains in abdomen and desire to lie down.
 Tenesmus in anus. Stools: natural but more frequent; semi-fluid; yellow, watery. Stools followed by burning pain in stomach, extending up, with nausea. - сonstipation, small, dry, hard stools.

 If a sweat did not break out an extraordinary discharge of urine occurred, frequently followed by purging.

 Respiration: rapid; difficult; quick but easy; stertorous.
 Chest: oppression of; constriction of. Pressure on sternum and at tenth dorsal vertebra. - сutting pains in left side. On upper part of sternum a large round blotch, deep red.

 Anxious feeling in region of heart. Pulse: rapid, scarcely perceptible; irregular; slow, small, soft.

 Neck sore, stiff, as if bruised;
 Restlessness in limbs and carphologia. Wandering pains, first in shoulders, then down arm, then in lower limbs. Severe pains in all the limbs, 8 - Painful drawing in arms and feet.
 Arms heavy, prostrated,.
 Gait unsteady, heavy, insecure. Trembling of lower limbs, especially of muscles of thighs, like small successive jerks. Lower limbs prostrated,.

 Coma, convulsive agitation, plaintive cries. In midst of convulsion the children stretch out their hands, as if to grasp something, carry them eagerly to their mouths, and go through the motions of mastication and swallowing. Most violent, convulsive agitation. - сonvulsions, tetanic rigidity and death. Lies on back in entire prostration, disturbed at intervals by spasmodic movements. Increased distension and prominence of varicose veins. All muscles sore to touch. - вruised feeling of whole body. Great sensitiveness to cold air.

 Red blotches like scarlatina; irregularly dispersed over whole surface. Great swelling and intolerable itching of face, eyelids, lips, hands, and feet. Hands, feet, and nose painful, swollen, and black. - вlack line of swollen parts; shiny, painful. The swelling and black discoloration diminish together, and are followed by desquamation. Itching burning of extremities. Vesicles on back of hands; sloughing on fingers; blisters discharge acrid fluid over arms. Sloughs are detached from face, but right hand swells up again. Face cleans off, but hands are again covered with hard and very painful crusts, which fall off and are soon replaced by new ones. Swelling of feet, arms, abdomen, scrotum, and penis.

 Sleepiness; during forenoon; all day. Deep sleep. Night very restless, sleepless, with hallucinations and carphologia. In middle of night he wakes up uttering groans, which are wrung from him by violent headache. Feeling on waking as if he had lost several nights sleep. Dreams: waking him in terror, with sensation of falling from a great height; of snakes.

 Alternation of coldness and heat. Flushes across face, 3 - High fever followed by profuse sweat. High fever, 12 , with great pain in back of neck, shoulders, and lower limbs. Heat, redness of face. Fever, painfulness in praecordia, distension of abdomen with at times screaming and grasping at abdomen, and constipation. - вurning dry heat. Skin burning, sweating. Heat in face, hands, and along back. Flashes of heat run up and down back. Frequent sweats. Whole body bathed in profuse sweat.

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