# Hyoscyamus Niger

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from the whole plant of  Hyoscyamus niger , an annual or biennial herb in the. Solanaceae family, native to Europe and Asia, prepared for homeopathic use through maceration,. serial dilution, and succussion to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  neurological,  psychological,. respiratory, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving delirium, mania, convulsions,. and spasmodic coughs. It is noted for symptoms such as agitation, loquacity, hallucinations, muscle. twitching, and dry, hacking cough, often aggravated by touch, lying down, or night, and ameliorated. by sitting up, motion, or warmth. Modern Context: Indicated for neurological conditions (e.g., delirium, epilepsy), psychological. conditions (e.g.,  mania,  psychosis),  respiratory  conditions (e.g.,  whooping  cough,  spasmodic. bronchitis), and systemic conditions (e.g., fever, restlessness). It suits patients with acute or chronic. symptoms  characterized  by  agitation,  delirious  behavior,  spasms,  or  emotional  volatility,. typically exacerbated by touch, lying down, or night, and often seen in individuals with acute. psychosis, neurological disorders, or spasmodic respiratory conditions. The remedy is particularly. relevant for those with a sensitive, excitable constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms. like  convulsions  or  dry  cough  alongside  psychological  symptoms  like  paranoia,  inappropriate. behavior, or mania, commonly observed in patients with bipolar disorder, delirium tremens, or. pertussis triggered by emotional, sensory, or infectious stressors.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Touch, lying down, night, cold (air, drinks, weather), emotional stress, noise,. light, confinement, rest, sensory overload, eating, menstruation.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Confused mind, as if intoxicated.
- Alcoholism, drug addictions.
- Bouts of drinking or intoxicated rages.
- Sings, recites poetry, talks, babbles, quarrels.
- Great hilarity, inclined to laugh at everything.
- Obscene gestures, 
exposes himself.
- Does foolish things, behaves like a mad person.
- Muttering delirium.
- Low, speech with constant carphologia, deep stupor.
- Violent outbreaks of delirium with 
weakness.
- Very suspi cious, jealous.
- Restless, jumps out of bed, wants to escape.
- Hallucinations and 
delusions.
- Rage with desire to strike, bite, fight insult, scold and to kill.
- Tendency to maniacal activity.
- Erotic mania, exposes genitals.
- Exagger ated sexual behavior, espec ially touching and petting themselves 
constantly (Plat.).
- Entire loss of modesty.
- Fondles the genitals.
- Nymphomania, lascivious mania.
- Talkative, 
obscene.
- Sings amorous songs.
- Senility.
- Alzheimer's disease with bizarre, ludicrous behavior.
- Passive insanity.
- Mental confusion.
- Picking at 
the air, the bedclothes.
- Chewing the lips.
- Incessant talking to themselves.
- Talks with imaginary persons to dead ones.
- Imagines things 
are animals.
- Thinks he is in the wrong place but doesn't want to go home.
- Fear with delirium.
- Fears to eat or drink, of being poisoned.
- Fears being alone, being bitten by wild animals, 
being pursued.
- Hydrophobia, anxiety on hearing running water.
- Syphilophobia.
- Speechless from fright.
- Ailments from grief, disappointed love.
- Manic depression after grief.
- Unconsciousness, 
can barely be aroused.
- Involuntary passage of urine and feces.
- Coma.
- Confused mind, as if intoxicated.
- Alcoholism, drug addictions.
- Bouts of drinking or intoxicated rages.
- Sings, recites poetry, talks, babbles, quarrels.
- Great hilarity, inclined to laugh at everything.
- Obscene gestures, 
exposes himself.
- Does foolish things, behaves like a mad person.
- Muttering delirium.
- Low, speech with constant carphologia, deep stupor.
- Violent outbreaks of delirium with 
weakness.
- Very suspi cious, jealous.
- Restless, jumps out of bed, wants to escape.
- Hallucinations and 
delusions.
- Rage with desire to strike, bite, fight insult, scold and to kill.
- Tendency to maniacal activity.
- Erotic mania, exposes genitals.
- Exagger ated sexual behavior, espec ially touching and petting themselves 
constantly (Plat.).
- Entire loss of modesty.
- Fondles the genitals.
- Nymphomania, lascivious mania.
- Talkative, 
obscene.
- Sings amorous songs.
- Senility.
- Alzheimer's disease with bizarre, ludicrous behavior.
- Passive insanity.
- Mental confusion.
- Picking at 
the air, the bedclothes.
- Chewing the lips.
- Incessant talking to themselves.
- Talks with imaginary persons to dead ones.
- Imagines things 
are animals.
- Thinks he is in the wrong place but doesn't want to go home.
- Fear with delirium.
- Fears to eat or drink, of being poisoned.
- Fears being alone, being bitten by wild animals, 
being pursued.
- Hydrophobia, anxiety on hearing running water.
- Syphilophobia.
- Speechless from fright.
- Ailments from grief, disappointed love.
- Manic depression after grief.
- Unconsciousness, 
can barely be aroused.
- Involuntary passage of urine and feces.
- Coma.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, before spasms, from smell of flowers, gas etc.
- Vertigo as if intoxicated.
- Vertigo, as if water 
swashing in head.
- Vertigo, worse walking, usually 
Hyoscyamus niger with obscured vision.
- Vision - Diplopia.
- Farsighted.
- Incipient amaurosis.
- Dim vision, as if veil were before eyes.
- Night blindness.
- Perversion of vision.
- Deceptive vision.
- Objects have colored borders.
- Objects appear smaller or larger.
- When 
 
 
reading, the letters move about, from mydriasis.
- Momentary loss of sight.
- COMMENTS - Low, muttering delirium (Bell, tends to be violent and furious).
- Fits of ungovernable rage (less 
sustained than Bell.).
- Face is pale or bluish (Bell, is red).
- Hyos.
- corresponds to a great variety of cases of 
melancholia than Bell., with the characteristic “suspicion,” so frequently met with in cases of insanity (Lach.).
- One patient, a clever lawyer, suffered from a nervous breakdown and had to abandon his business entirely.
- He then had a kind of fit and became cold and senseless, his face working much.
- After that he fell asleep, and 
had another attack an hour and a half later.
- After this he was suspicious and said that his wife was poisoning him.
- He took a single dose of Hyos.
- 1,000c, 
given in food or drink without his knowledge.
- It was repeated once a week.
- He began to improve and in a few 
months was restored to health, though some other medicines were given later on.
- Characteristic twitching throughout the body.
- Clonic spasms, twitching of groups of m uscles.
- Twitchings, 
subsultus tendinum and picking at the bedclothes.
- Chorea.
- Spasms with unconsciousness.
- Convulsions 
followed by coma and stupor.
- Convulsions in children from frights, worms.
- Epilepsy with erratic behavior and 
gestures before the attack.
- Sensoriumsoclouded that if the patient!
- s roused to answer he falls back into a stupor again.
- Sight is 
disordered, sees things too large or too near and grasps at them.
- Picks the bedclothes and mutters.
- Drowsy, 
but restless.
- Insomnia, patient lies awake fo r fours.
- Children twitch in sleep, cry out, tremble and awake 
frightened.
- Dry and unwieldy tongue.
- Teeth covered with sordes.
- Pulmonary conditions.
- Cough is worse on lying down, almost completely removed by sitting up, worse at night, worse after eating, 
drinking ortalking.
- Cough from elongated uvula.
- Parotiditis with metastasis to brain.
- Useful for influenza when it takes the typhoid form.
- Clarke rapidly cured a boy in whom influenza attacked the 
meninges of the brain with pains in the head, especially forehead, piercing to the brain.

### Head
- Aching, lightness and confusion of head.
- Rolls or shakes the head to and fro, when bending forward, 
in stupor, after concussion of the brain.
- Heaviness of head and violent pains, alternating with pains i n nape of 
neck.
- Constrictive, stupefying pain in forehead.
- Pulsating headache.
- Violent pulsations, like waves, head 
shakes.
- Pressure in vertex, better heat.
- Aching, lightness and confusion of head.
- Rolls or shakes the head to and fro, when bending forward, 
in stupor, after concussion of the brain.
- Heaviness of head and violent pains, alternating with pains i n nape of 
neck.
- Constrictive, stupefying pain in forehead.
- Pulsating headache.
- Violent pulsations, like waves, head 
shakes.
- Pressure in vertex, better heat.

### Eyes
- Pupils dilated, sparkling, fixed and insensible.
- Tearing pain in right eye, which waters.
- Shooting pain 
from eyes into nose and head.
- Eyes roll about in orbits.
- Q uivering of eyeball.
- Strabismus.
- Eyelids open and 
close with a sudden force.
- Spasmodic closing of lids.
- Eyes open but does not pay attention.
- Constantly stares 
at surrounding objects.
- Diplopia, hemeralopia, myopia.
- Objects, seem red, large or with colored  borders 
(yellow).
- Aversion to light.

### Ears
- Deafness from paralysis of auditory nerve.
- Impaired h earing, as if stupefied, especially after apoplexy.
- Buzzing, singing, rushing noises.

### Face
- Red, hot and swollen face (Bell.).
- Flushed, dark red.
- Face cold and pale.
- Distorted face.
- Stupid 
expression.
- Dry lips.
- Muscles twitch, when protruding the tongue.
- Grimaces and makes ridiculous gestures.
- Lower jaw drops with mutter ing.
- Lockjaw with consciousness.
- Face dark colored and bloated after epileptic 
attack.
- Face becomes red during paroxysms of cough.

### Mouth
- Foams at mouth.
- Offensive odor from mouth.
- Putrid or salt taste.
- Saliva, bloody with salty taste.
- Dryness of mouth, fauces and lips.
- Soreness of soft parts between gums and cheeks.
- Sordes on teeth, closes 
tightly.
- Mouth closed tightly.
- Lower jaw drops.
- Neck - Tettery spots on the nape of the neck.
- Stiff, contracted to one side.
- Nose - Dryness of nose.
- Cramp-like pressure at the root of the nose and the zygomata.
- Sudden jerks at root 
of the nose.
- Pressing pinching pain at root of nose and malar bones.
- Nostrils sooty, smoky.
- Nosebleed, bright 
red, with salivation.
- Colds from dry, cold air.
- Loss of smell and taste.
- Perspiration - Warm or cold sweat.
- Sour and weakening perspiration.
- Violent sweats after thirst.
- Perspires 
during short naps.
- Clammy during sleep.
- Pulse - Pulse is full, hard, strong, rapid intermitting.
- Pulse slow, small, scarcely perceptible.

### Throat
- Spasmodic constriction of throat, inability to swallow liquids, better from solid and warm food.
- Difficult 
swallowing, as from constriction.
- Elongation of uvula.
- Fluids come out of the nose or go into larynx.
- Dread of 
liquids.
- Stinging dryness.
- Throat dry, burning, shooting, pricking pains.
- Tongue - Tongue dry, red, c racked, stiff and immovable.
- Tongue clean, parched, looks like burnt leather.
- Tongue covered with blood.
- Tongue as if numb and lame.
- Tongue protruded with difficulty, can hardly draw it 
in.
- Tongue rattles in mouth.
- Tongue shaken to and fro, with a tremblin g movement.
- B ites the tongue while 
talking.
- Speech impaired.

### Chest
- Dry, spasmodic cough, with a tickling sensation or paroxysms, resembling whooping.
- cough or spasmodic bronchitis, worse with lying down, cold air, or night.
- Hoarseness  or  throat  irritation,  with  a  sensation  of  dryness  or  constriction,.
- resembling laryngitis, aggravated by talking, cold, or rest.
- Chest tightness or wheezing, with a tendency to aggravation in cold conditions,.
- resembling asthma, worse with lying flat or emotional stress.
- Tendency to respiratory hypersensitivity, with aggravation in spasmodic or infectious.
- states.
- Systemic:.
- Fever  or  chills,  with  a  sensation  of  heat  or  restlessness,  resembling  systemic.
- inflammatory response syndrome, worse with night, cold, or emotional stress.
- Restlessness  or  exhaustion,  with  a  sensation  of  nervous  energy  or  prostration,.
- resembling post-infectious fatigue, aggravated by sensory stimuli, rest, or night.
- Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., touch, noise, light), resembling sensory.
- processing disorder, worse with cold or fatigue.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in febrile or neurological states.
- Hyoscyamus niger (Henbane) 1028.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Burning in stomach.
- Cramps in stomach, better after vomiting, worse after irritating food.
- Bitter, 
empty belchings.
- Gastritis or peritonitis with hiccough.
- Hiccough from concussion of brain.
- Hiccough of nursing 
children.
- Retching and vomiting, of bloody mucus.
- Nausea, vomiting with vertigo, convulsions.
- He- matemesis, 
violent cramps, relieved by vomiting, epigastrium tender.
- Temperature - Low fever with hot, pale skin.
- Warm sweat.
- Subsultus during fevers.
- Septic fevers.
- Slides down 
in bed.
- Teeth - Children grind teeth during con vulsions.
- Grinding of teeth, so that they become loose.
- Pressing of 
gums together during dentition.
- Teeth feel loose, too long, when chewing.
- Toothaches, after taking cold or in 
open air.
- Toothac he, driving to despair.
- Violent pain in teeth with twitch ing of muscles of hands, face, etc.
- Tearing in teeth.
- Pain in gums after extraction of tooth.
- Teeth covered with sordes.
- Distention.
- Cutting pain in lower portion of abdomen.
- Colic, as if abdomen would burst, presses 
fists into sides.
- Colic with vomiting , belchings, hiccough and screaming.
- Colic better vomiting.
- Ab dominal 
muscles seem strained or bruised.
- Red spots on abdomen.
- Umbilicus open, urine oozing through.
- Gastritis or 
peritonitis with hiccough.
- Tympanites.
- Loss of taste.
- Bulimia with violent thirst with inability to swallow.
- Thirst with drinking but little at a time.
- Aversion to water.
- Fears to eat or drink  from fear of being poisoned.
- After a meal, headache intoxication, 
great anguish and sadness.
- After drinking, convulsions.
- Vomiting of food and drink.

### Urinary & Genital
- Impotence.
- Excessive sexual desire.
- Lasciviousness, exposes his genitals.
- Plays with genitals during 
fever.
- Desire to expose himself, take clothes off.
- Hysterical or epileptic spasms before menses.
- Irregular menses.
- Profuse flow of menses.
- Headache, 
nausea and profuse sweat during menses.
- Pale flow, with convulsions.
- Convulsive trembling of hands and feet 
during menses.
- Bedwetting during menses.
- Metrorrhagia.
- Hemor rhage.
- bright red blood.
- Colds that settled in 
the uterus and cause labor -like pains.
- Excited sexual desire, nymphomania.
- Lasciviousness, uncovers 
sexual parts.
- Convulsions during pregnancy.
- Milk and lochia suppressed.
- Spasms of pregnant women.
- Puerperal mania.
- Painless diarrhea in lying-in women.
- Fever - High fever with delirium, stupor, sopor.
- Fever with cerebral symptoms.
- Burning heat all over, without 
external redness.
- Heat in face and head, on skin.
- Blood burns in veins.
- Throw bedclothes entirely off, not 
because they are too warm, but they will not remain covered.

### Extremities
- Lancinating pains in almost all joints, worse on motion.
- Great re stlessness, every muscle twitches.
- Cold hands and feet.
- Will not be covered.
- Picking at bedclothes,  plays with hands, reaches out for things.
- Spasms and convulsions.
- Alternate convulsions of upper and lower limbs.
- Cramps in calves and toes.
- Trem -
bling of hands and feet.
- Fists clenched with retraction of thumbs during convul sions (Cupr.).
- Epileptic attacks 
ending in deep sleep.
- Child sobs and cries without waking.

### Neck & Back
- Pains in the back, especially the lumbar region, with swelling of the feet.
- Lancinations in the loins and 
shoulder blades.
- Stiff neck, contracted to one side.
- Stiffness of cervical muscles, with tension as if too short, 
on bending neck.
- Spinal meningitis, with convulsions, jerks of musc les.
- Pains after injury.
- Herpetic spots on 
nape.
- Abscesses on left side of neck.
- Bladder - Involuntary urination.
- Bladder paralyzed.
- Prolapsed bladder and reten tion of urine.
- No urge to 
urinate (Caust.).
- Frequent, scanty, painful, nightly urina tion.
- Retention of urine after childbirth.
- Enuresis, in 
children with brain troubles.
- Prostate slightly enlarged.
- Brain - Brain feels loose, fluctuating.
- Brain seems to shake about when walking and on stooping.
- Inflammation 
 
 
of brain with unconsciousness, head is shaken to and fro.
- Stupor after concussion of the brain.
- Breasts - Soreness in spots to left of nipple, alternating with stitches.
- Causations - Ill effects of suppressed lochia or milk.
- Grief, unhappy love.
- Jealousy.
- Fright, disappointed love.

### Skin
- Fever  or  chills,  with  a  sensation  of  heat  or  restlessness,  resembling  systemic.
- inflammatory response syndrome, worse with night, cold, or emotional stress.
- Restlessness  or  exhaustion,  with  a  sensation  of  nervous  energy  or  prostration,.
- resembling post-infectious fatigue, aggravated by sensory stimuli, rest, or night.
- Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., touch, noise, light), resembling sensory.
- processing disorder, worse with cold or fatigue.
- Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in febrile or neurological states.
- Hyoscyamus niger (Henbane) 1028.

### Sleep
- Sleeplessness all night, with restless ness, twitching and starting.
- Starts out of sleep,  frightened.
- Sleeplessness after seri ous disease.
- Nervous wakefulness.
- Coma vigil.
- Sopor with  convulsions.
- Epileptic 
attacks ending in deep sleep.
- Falls asleep while answering.
- Sits up and then goes to sleep again.
- Laughs 
during sleep.
- Child sobs and cries in sleep without waking.
- When sleeping, carphologia or smiling countenance 
or starts with fright.
- Profound, comatose sleep with convulsions 
and involuntary movements of the limbs.
- Sleeps days without interruption.
- Speech - Stammering and stuttering.
- Low, muttering speech.
- Speech impaired, dif ficult and unintelligible.
- Speech loss from suppression of urination or fright.