DEPARTMENT OF MATERIA MEDICA

SESSION 2014-15

SUBMITED ByDeepti Gautam

BELLADONNA

BELLADONNA• Common name: deadly night

shade• Prover: Hahnemann• Family:solanaceoe

INTRODUCTION• Bella-beautiful, Dona-lady• Venetian ladies use it as cosmetic to

brighten the eyes and flush their cheeks due to the property of two alkaloids atropine &belladonna.

• Hahnemann was the first one who discover its therapeutic value

• It was Hahnemann’s deep sight which could find out the immense curative value of these alkaloids and transformed them into a marvelous medicines through the process of potentiating.

• Belladonna is one of the CLARKE’S A .B.C NURSERIES others being aconite and chamomilla

• WHILE BELLADONNA CAUSES TURMOIL IN BRAIN, ACONITE AND CHAMOMILLA CAUSE TURMOIL IN CIRCULATION AND TEMPERAMENT RESPECTIVELY.

SPHERE OF ACTION • Its chief centre of action is cerebrum

from where it radiates . Influence upon the entire organism.

• Brain and its membrane cardio-vascular system ,heart lungs and mucous membrane of eyes.

• mouth,throat,skin,glandular structure are also not spared

PATHOGENESIS• Its action on brain & its mucous

membranes &various organ produces a state of congestion every where in the body leading to inflammation, delirium, illusion, delusion and hallucination and mania.

• General hyperesthesia of both sensory and motor nerve.

• Resulting in congestion of blood vessels heart and consequently reflects symptoms are produced.

CONSTITUTION • Physical make up: since it is a acute

remedy ,there is no serious importance ,however it is adapted to bilious plethoric person with red face and to a condition in them of local plethora

• And also to those having lymphatic constitution with fine complexion and delicate skin

TEMPERAMENT• Bilious, lymphatic • and nervous temperament • Relation with heat and cold• Chilly• Miasma:Psora in back ground• Diathesis: tubercular

GUIDING SYMPTOMS

• Right sided medicine• Acute ,sudden and violent onset is

very characteristic of these drugs.• this aspect of the symptoms

• “Congestion” is the key not of belladonna. Its action on the brain a state of active congestion is produced resulting in furious excitement irriitability,convulsion delirium, and pain. Consequently there is flushed face, throbbing carotids, heart and bounding pulse rush of blood to head wild delirium

• Congestion cause redness of face and eyes. Rush of blood to head and face throbbing of brain and carotids.

REDNESS• Redness of belladonna is very characteristic

arising from this congestion there is great redness of the inflamed part in particular and in general, all over.

• The skin is very red and shiny. Smooth redness of the surface occur over the whole body.

HEAT

• Heat is yet another peculiarity. due to the congestion there is great heat specially at the congested and inflamed part.

• The heat is so severe that the affected part imparts a burning sensation to the examining hand and the physician is reflexly compelled to withdraw is hand.

BURNING

• Burning sensation is another characteristic of belladonna.

• There is intense burning anywhere and every where, both internal and external such as in skin brain mouth throat tonsil stomach liver etc

sensitivity

• Sensitiveness to the touch of affected part is very well marked.

• Can not bear to be touched anywhere.

DRYNESS

• Great dryness runs through whole of this remedy.

• The dryness is often associated with heat, redness burning and throbbing

• Along with all of these symptoms , sign of inflammation, swelling or oedema are also found.

• The affected part is swollen shiny very red and hot and sensitive to touch.

PAIN

• GREAT PAIN REMEDY, character of which are :a) Pain comes suddenly, last indefinitely

or goes away suddenlyb) Pain occurs usually in short attacks c) Burning and throbbing in character of

the PAIN WITH REDNESS OF THE FACE AND EYES, Flushes of the head and throbbing of carotids

d) Pain runs from above

• The patient is very much sleepy, but cannot sleep.

• Belladonna patients are very much entertaning,jolly,well behaved and social when they are well, becomes very violent and often delirious when they fall sick.

• In belladonna patient, sweat, if at all found, is only on the covered part

THIRST

• Generally belladonna patient is not thirsty specially in female

• The complaint of belladonna patient are aggravated by touch jar and motion, draught of air and heat of sun; after 3: p.m

• Lying down and uncovering and ameliorated by rest, standing or sitting erect and in a warm room.

MIND

• Excellent remedy for delirious condition bought on by cerebral congestion.

• Great excitement and violence run through the whole remedy.

• The patient is very delirious with constant cerebral congestion

• Belladonna is one of the Trio’s of delirious remedies; other being hyoscyamus and stramonium.

• The most characteristic feature of belladonna is upsurge of blood to the brain.

• When throbbing of carotids ,the heat, redness and congestion of face and conjunctiva passes away, the delirium also subsides in proportion.

• Belladonna may have delirium with pale face also, as it alternate but that is an exceptional case.

RAGE• The patient has furious rage and

anger.• He spits, bites and strikes those

around him.• He picks up the bed clothes, tears

them to pieces and through them off. • He breaks into fits of laughter and

gnashes his teeth presenting a picture of absolute and violent insanity.

• The patient imagines seeing various things, such as ghost monsters, hideous faces,various,black animals dogs wolves and dangerous wild animals.

• There is great fear of unusual and imaginary things; wants to run away from them; strange delusion illusion and hallucination with loss of consciousness.

• He uses absurd language; anxiety with desire to flee escape and height

Ailments • Exposure to draught of cold air ,cold

wind haircut uncovering the head getting wet, summer complaints, taking sausage and wine

PARTICULARS

HEADACHE• CAUSATION: Exposure to cold or heat

of sun; from hair cut; congestion and suppuration of catarrhal flow .

• Mode of onset: sudden and violent.• Location: Right side, supra-cilary

region and forehead.

sensation• As if the brain were pushed

through the forehead.• Sensation of stabbing as by a

knife from one temple to the another.

• CHARATER OF PAIN: there is intense periodical nerves and congestive headache.

• accompanied by tensive pressive on vertex forehead and rush of blood to the head with pulsation of cerebral arteries and throbbing in brain.

• MODALITIES: Aggravation: from slight motion jar,noise,light,touch,least exertion or leaning forwards, bending downwards or lying down ;anything that takes the patient out of the perpendicular position.

• Amelioration ; by tight bandage and during menses .

CONCOMITANTS• RED FACE ,THROBBING OF

CAROTID ;often with pain in the eyeballs ,boring head into the pillow .

• REDNESS OF EYES with burnning and great intolerance of light.

• Double vision, dim vision objects appear upside down

VERTIGO• CAUSATION: stooping or rising after stooping

or change of position .• Vertigo with falling to the left side or

backward ;as if objects turns in a circle or sway to and frown .

• Scalp is very sensitive to touch with much throbbing heat .

GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT• MOUTH :• Mouth is very dry with or without

thirst .• Tongue and palate are dark red and

dry; tremor and stammering speech.• Sub maxillary gland are swollen.

Putrid taste in the mouth.

THROAT• There is a great dryness of the throat

and fauces, with REDNESS AND BURNING.

• Worse on the right side.• Throat feels very much constricted

with consequent difficulty in deglutition.

• tonsillitis, worse on the right side.• Uvula is red and swollen very painful

and burning.

STOMACH AND ABDOMEN• Loss of appetite • Aversion from meat, milk• Spasmodic pain in epigastric region• Nausea and vomiting ;great thirst of

cold water .• Dreads drinking.• Uncontrollable vomiting.

ABDOMEN• Distended hot, tender swollen, pain

as if clutched by a hand; worse from jars and pressure.

• Stitching and cutting pain on left side, when coughing sneezing

STOOL• Thin green , in lumps like a chalk,• Piles more sensitive with backache,prolapse of

ani.

URINARY• Retention, acute urinary

infection ,urine scanty with tenesmus;dark and turbid with loaded phosphate ,haematuria where no pathological condition can be found .

MALE • Testicles:hard ,inflamed (orchits)• Nocturnal seat on genitals flow of

prostatic fluid• Desire diminished

FEMALE• Menorrhagia ,dysmenorrhea• MENSES and LOCHIA very offensive

and hot • Menses increased; bright red ;to

early to profuse• Dragging pain around loins

RESPIRATORY• tickling short dry cough worse at

night hoarseness ;aphonia• Cough with pain in left hip, larynx are

very painful feels as if a foreign body.• Barking , whooping cough, moaning

at every breath

FEVER• CAUSATION :draught of cold air , uncovering

the head, haircut summer, sun• MODE OF ONSET: sudden and violent• SYMPTOMS:• High fever state• Burning pungent steaming heat• Feet icy cold, no thirst with fever.

SKIN• Dry and hot• Swollen sensitive, burns scarlet

smooth eruption like scarlatina,suddenly spreading.

• Glands swollen,tender,red,boils.• Alternate redness paleness of the

skin.

GENERAL MODALITIES• AGGRAVATION: worse motion, touch,

noise, lying down, looking at bright shining objects ,ater3p.m night, after midnight ,while drinking ,uncovering headstrong smell

• AMELIORATON:rest standing or sitting erect in warm room

RELATION• COMPLEMENTORY: to calcarea• FOLLOWS WELL:Ars.alb

Camphora,heparsulph,merc.sol• FOLLWED WELL BY :

Dulcamra,hepar.sulph,hyoscyamus,lachesis,rhus.tox.

• ANTIDOTE:coffea.cruda,hyoscyamus.