# Stramonium

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

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from the whole plant of Datura stramonium, commonly known as jimsonweed or. thorn apple, a member of the Solanaceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through trituration. and serial dilution to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material toxicity, in accordance. with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for psychological, neurological, and. respiratory  disorders,  particularly  those  involving  intense  fear,  delirium,  convulsions,  and. spasmodic  cough.  It  is  noted  for  symptoms  such  as  violent  agitation,  hallucinations,  and. aggravation  from  darkness,  often  worsened  by  darkness,  solitude,  or  being  looked  at,  and. ameliorated by light, company, or warmth. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  psychological  conditions (e.g.,  acute  stress  disorder,. schizophrenia),  neurological conditions  (e.g., epilepsy, delirium),  respiratory conditions  (e.g.,. asthma, whooping cough), and  pediatric conditions  (e.g., night terrors, behavioral disorders). It. suits  patients  with  acute  or  chronic  symptoms  characterized  by  intense  fear,  delirium,. convulsions,  spasmodic  cough,  or  darkness  sensitivity,  typically  exacerbated  by  darkness,. solitude, being looked at, or stress, and often seen in individuals with highly reactive, excitable. constitutions. The remedy is particularly relevant for those with psychological or neurological. conditions, often presenting with symptoms like violent agitation or seizures, commonly observed. in patients with acute stress disorder, epilepsy, or asthma triggered by fear, darkness, or emotional. stress.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Darkness, solitude, being looked at, night, emotional stress, sudden stimuli. (noise, light), cold (air, drinks), fever, touch, swallowing, confinement, sleep deprivation.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Hallucinations, fixed notions, terrifying delirium etc.
- Active variable delirium, delirium tremens.
- Delirium 
with desire to escape (Bell., Bry., Rhus-t.).
- Raving mania with cold sweat.
- Maniac, curses, tears ones clothes 
with teeth.
- Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking.
- Violent and lewd speech.
- Paranoid.
- Schizophrenia.
- Manic-depression.
- Religious insanity.
- Wants to kill people or himself.
- Exposes 
himself.
- Rapid changes from joy to sadness.
- Wife thinks husband neglecting her.
- Man thinks his wife faithless.
- Stupid, imbecile.
- Fearful hallucinations that terrify  the pa tient, sees ghosts, vividly brilliant or hideous phantoms, animals, 
jumping sideways out of ground or running to him.
- Wildly excited, as in night terrors.
- Hears voices, talks with 
spirits.
- Delusions about his identity, thinks himself tall, double, a part missing.
- Terrors, cannot bear solitude or darkness, must have light and company.
- Dread of darkness  and has a 
horror of shining objects.
- Fear and anxiety on hearing water run.
- Sight of water or anything glittering brings on 
spasms.
- Anxiety when going Hallucinations, fixed notions, terrifying delirium etc.
- Active variable delirium, delirium tremens.
- Delirium 
with desire to escape (Bell., Bry., Rhus-t.).
- Raving mania with cold sweat.
- Maniac, curses, tears ones clothes 
with teeth.
- Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking.
- Violent and lewd speech.
- Paranoid.
- Schizophrenia.
- Manic-depression.
- Religious insanity.
- Wants to kill people or himself.
- Exposes 
himself.
- Rapid changes from joy to sadness.
- Wife thinks husband neglecting her.
- Man thinks his wife faithless.
- Stupid, imbecile.
- Fearful hallucinations that terrify  the pa tient, sees ghosts, vividly brilliant or hideous phantoms, animals, 
jumping sideways out of ground or running to him.
- Wildly excited, as in night terrors.
- Hears voices, talks with 
spirits.
- Delusions about his identity, thinks himself tall, double, a part missing.
- Terrors, cannot bear solitude or darkness, must have light and company.
- Dread of darkness  and has a 
horror of shining objects.
- Fear and anxiety on hearing water run.
- Sight of water or anything glittering brings on 
spasms.
- Anxiety when going

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, worse walking in dark or with eyes closed.
- Head bent backwards in vertigo, supports head 
with hands while bending or rising after sunstroke.
- COMMENTS - J.
- Emmons Briggs recorded a case of poisoning.
- Briggs had an urgent call to see James M., 4, 
in “convulsions.” He found him lying on the bed in a state of wild delirium, requiring the constant combined 
efforts of two people to keep him in bed.
- Face was exceedingly flu shed, expression rapidly alternated between pleasant and anxious.
- Pupils widely 
dilated, iris scarcely visible, giving the eye a very brilliant appearance.
- Marked convergent strabismus, skin hot and dry, resembling scarlatina erup tion.
- Abdomen tense.
- The  most 
alarming symptom was rapidly recurring convulsions with twitching of the arms and lower limbs.
- Clonic spasms 
and contractions.
- Grasped at imaginary objects before the eyes, when expression frequently became anxious, as if the patient 
was trying to wa rd off imaginary foes.
- At times the mind was very active and the patient talked rapidly and 
incoherently.
- Between the spasms, laughter and crying frequently occurred.
- The boy, it transpired, had been chewing a thorn apple.
- When he came home he seemed rathe r dazed, and 
vomited.
- He then threw himself on the sofa and slept very soundly until he awoke in the convulsions.
- The boy 
recovered under Kali-br.
- in five-grain doses, though it was with great difficulty that he was made to swallow.
- Schizophrenia (Lach., A nae.).
- Paranoid schizophrenia.
- Religious mania.
- Insanity, mania, and dementia.
- Violent mania (Lach., Hyos.
- has a passive mania), rages, and wild violence.
- Loquacious (Lach.).
- Characteristic wild, animal-like look in the eyes.
- Clinical possession, they talk in other languages, other voices, 
violent speech, rag es and ravings.
- Primitive instincts and fears.
- Vithoulkas described it as an “uncontrolled 
eruption of the unconsciousness.” 
May have a history of frights, strokes, head injuries or meningitis leading to mania.
- Fear of dogs and wolves, 
often hallucinate that they see dogs attacking them.
- Visions of animals.
- Claustrophobia.
- Fear of the dark, of 
tunnels.
- Fears of mirrors and crosses.
- Afraid of shiny objects, fire.
- Hydrophobia, rabies (Bell., Lyss.).
- Cries as 
if from sight of hideous objects.
- Terrifying delirium.
- Delirium tremens.
- Delirium with high fever, hallucinations.
- High fevers with sudden onset, 
flushed face, dilated pupils, rashes, hallucinations (Bell.).
- Scarlet like scarlatina, petechiae, vésications, and 
spots on the arms like flea bites.
- Burns and scalds.
- Mania after exposure to the sun (Bell.).
- Absence of pain.
- Epilepsy and convulsions.
- Extreme muscular mobility.
- Movements are generally gyratory and 
graceful when they occur in the arms.
- Continually jerks head up from pillow, head bent back, boring head into 
pillow.
- Twitchings of single muscles, squint.
- Chorea.
- Moving fingers as if searching for something.
- Coxalgia 
and morbus coax, with severe pain.
- Characteristic difficulty swallowing, with in tense thirst, delirium and hallucinations.
- Suppressed secretions, 
menses, lochia, sweat, or eruptions.
- Discharges are foul, even cadaverous.
- Congestions without actual inflammation, but with high mental exaltation and furious delirium and little or no 
fever without pain but with some coma.
- Constriction of the chest, asthmatic symptoms and cough of the 
whooping cough type.
- The common practice of smoking stramonium leaves for asthma is roughly 
homeopathic.
- Clarke had a case of severe pleuropneumonia of right side, supervening on scarlatina, in which the patient, a 
young man, said he saw a large black dog about the room.
- This led Clarke to give Stram.,  
which rapidly altered the whole case for the better including the pneumonia, and resolved the situation.
- Nash reported a case or a woman, 30, with acute mania after being overheated in the sun.
- She called Nash 
for 6 days straight to come watch her die.
- She imagined herself eternally lost and begged everyone to pray for 
her.
- Talked day and night.
- Thought her head was as big as a bushel, her legs as large as a church.
- Nash 
cured with Stram.
- 6c after Glon., Lach., and Nat -c.
- failed.
- All symptoms and any traces of mania were gone 
after 24 hours.
- S.
- A.
- Jones related the case of a little girl with brain symptoms for who m he had prescribed aremedy.
- The 
report was brought late at night that the patient was much worse.
- “She vomits,” said the father, “if she even 
raises her head from the pillow.” 
The vomit was green.
- Jones found this under Stram., which he gave, and the next  morning the case was 
entirely changed for the better.
- Acting on this analog, Jones also cured a “vomiting of green stuff always 
induced by bright light.”

### Head
- Headache with tendency to speak incoherently.
- Pain in forehead and over eyebrows, beginning at 9 
a.m., worse until noon.
- Boring pain, preceded by obscure vision.
- Headache from sun.
- Rush of blood to head, 
staggers with tendency to fall forward and to the left.
- Meningitis irom suppressed ear discharge.
- Raises head 
frequently from the pillow and drops it again during unconsciousness, delirium, puerperal fever.
- Headache with tendency to speak incoherently.
- Pain in forehead and over eyebrows, beginning at 9 
a.m., worse until noon.
- Boring pain, preceded by obscure vision.
- Headache from sun.
- Rush of blood to head, 
staggers with tendency to fall forward and to the left.
- Meningitis irom suppressed ear discharge.
- Raises head 
frequently from the pillow and drops it again during unconsciousness, delirium, puerperal fever.

### Eyes
- Fixed, sparkling, staring wide open.
- Half open in sleep.
- Pupils dilated.
- Lach rymation with headache, 
fever, otalgia.
- Diplopia.
- Nigh t-blindness.
- Green vision.
- Hallucinations in which everything looks jumbled.
- An 
 
 
objects look black, crooked, small, large.
- Parts of the body seem enormously swollen.
- Small objects look 
large.
- Loss of vision, complains that it is dark and calls for more light.
- All objects look black.
- Squint in brain 
disorders during convulsions, worse terror, fear.
- Strabismus.

### Ears
- Sensation as if air rushing out of ear.
- Deafness.
- Hallucinations of hearing.

### Face
- Pale face.
- Red, bloated, hot, circum scribed redness of cheeks.
- Blood rushes to face, distorted.
- Expression of terror.
- Expression rapidly changing, now flushed, now pale, a sardonic grin, then expression 
of terror.
- Thinks face elongated.
- Forehead wrinkled, frowning in brain diseases.
- Lips, dry, glued together.
- Chewing motion.
- Lockjaw.

### Mouth
- Dry, dribbling of viscid saliva.
- Constantly spits saliva.
- Cannot swallow on account of spasm.
- Chewing 
motion.
- Grinding of the teeth.
- Fine red dots on tongue.
- Tongue, dry, parched, swollen, hangs out of the mouth.
- Stammering.
- Aphasia.
- Risus sardonicus.
- Nose - Alae nasi white with a red face.
- Obstruction of the nose.
- Nasal discharge yellow, bad -smelling.
- Nose 
feels obstructed and dry, though she is able to breathe through it.

### Throat
- Dry with great thirst, yet dreads water, it chokes him.
- Spasms, twitching of larynx.
- Up and down 
 
 
movement of larynx as in swallowing.
- Swallowing, difficult, hasty.
- As if boiling water risi ng in throat.
- Voice 
hoarse and croaking, suddenly fails in higher tones.

### Chest
- Spasmodic cough, with a sensation of tightness or suffocation, resembling whooping.
- cough, worse with darkness, cold air, emotional stress, or night, often with wheezing.
- or stridor.
- Asthma  or  dyspnea,  with  a  tendency  to  oppression  or  constriction,  resembling.
- asthma, aggravated by darkness, emotional stress, or lying down, often with rattling.
- or cyanosis.
- Throat spasms or choking, with a sensation of constriction or dryness, resembling.
- laryngospasm,  worse  with  darkness,  swallowing,  or  emotional  stress,  often  with.
- hoarseness or voice loss.
- Tendency to respiratory hypersensitivity, with aggravation in dark or emotionally.
- stressed states.
- Pediatric:.
- Night terrors or nightmares, with a sensation of fear or panic, resembling night.
- terrors, worse with darkness, solitude, or night, often with screaming, thrashing, or.
- sleepwalking.
- Stramonium (Datura stramonium) 1875.
- Hyperactivity or aggression, with a tendency to impulsivity or tantrums, resembling.
- attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, aggravated by darkness, emotional stress, or.
- confinement, often with restlessness or defiance.
- Convulsions or behavioral issues, with a sensation of agitation or rigidity, resembling.
- pediatric epilepsy, worse with darkness, fever, or fear, often with staring or frothing.
- Tendency to pediatric hypersensitivity, with aggravation in dark or stressed states.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Hiccough obstinate.
- Nausea.
- Vomiting of m ucus andgreen bile.
- Watery vomiting with colic and 
diarrhea.
- Temperature - Profuse sweat which does not relieve.
- Cold sweat during spasms.
- Violent fever.
- Heat over 
whole body 
with red face and perspiration.
- Heat with anxiety and redness of cheeks or else with thirst and vomiting.
- Retention of urine in any fever.
- Abdomen inflated, hard, distended.
- Contusive pain in abdomen during movement.
- Violent pains 
in abdomen, as if navel were being torn out.
- Hysterical spasms in abdomen.
- Borborygmi with fer mentation in 
abdomen.
- Expulsion of much flatus.
- Swelling of inguinal glands.
- Food tastes bitter, like straw.
- Aversion to all fluids.
- Violent thirst.
- Great desire for acids, citric acid 
better.
- Lemon juice ameliorates.

### Urinary & Genital
- Sexualpassion exalted with indecent speech and action.
- Hands constantly kept on genitals.
- Excessive menstrual flow, preceded by sexual excitement.
- Menses have strong smell as of semen.
- Loquacity and singing during menses.
- Sobs and moans after menses.
- Uterine bleeding with 
loquacity.
- Hands constantly kept on geni tals.
- Nymphomania, lewd talking, sings obscene songs.
- Puerperal, 
convulsions, mania with mental symptoms and profuse sweating.
- Convulsions after childbirth.

### Extremities
- Chorea, spasms partial, constantly changing.
- Convulsions of upper limbs and of isolated groups of 
muscles.
- Graceful and rhythmic motions.
- Clasps hands over head.
- Hands open and shut.
- Wringing of 
hands.
- Staggering gait.
- Misses step of stairs while descending.
- Heels numb, sometimes painful.
- Violent pain 
in left hip.
- Abscess of left hip joint with violent pain.
- Trembling of limbs.
- Inside of right thigh red and swollen.
- Hemiplegia with convulsions in unparalyzed parts.

### Neck & Back
- Neck stiff, cannot bend it backwards.
- Drawing pain in the back.
- Spine sensitive, slightest pressure 
causes outcries and ravings.
- Opisthotonos.
- Causations - Ill effects of shock, fright, sun, childbirth.
- Dog bites.
- High fever.
- Head injury.
- Hydrophobia.

### Skin
- Fiery red patches on skin.
- Shining red flush.
- Burns and scalds.
- Crawling as of many bugs .
- Chronic 
abscesses, fistulae.
- Abscesses and tumors with severe pain.
- Non -appearance of exanthemata.
- Effects of 
suppressed eruption in scarlatina with delirium.

### Sleep
- Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell.).
- Sleepless in darkness.
- Deep snoring sleep.
- Lies on ba ck with thighs 
and knees flexed.
- Frightful dreams.
- Weeping in dreams.
- Laughs, screams, starts during sleep.
- Awakes 
terrified, knows no one, screams with fright, clings to those near him (child).
- Comatose.

### Generalities
- As if spinning or weaving.
- As if objects were smaller than they really are.
- As if dizzy.
- As if drunk.
- As if he was seeking something.
- As if he had no limbs.
- As if bones were sawed throu gh.
- Head as if drawn 
backward.
- As if pins and needles were in forehead.
- As if nose were shifted.
- As if front teeth would fall out.
- Teeth as if pressed together.