Stramonium

Mace

Occurrence: Datura Stramoniun belongs to the family Solanaceae - that Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Mandragora, Dulcamara, tabacum and capsicum. Originally from the Americas but is now spread over all the earth. For tincture used the flowering herb.

Toxicology: Huvudalkaloiden is hyoscyamine as in the preparation of a part is converted to atropine. In Mexico stramonium is used as an intoxicant. The drug induces a strong feeling of indifference and deep sleep with erotic dreams then madness that never ends in violence. The result is a strong "hangover" with weakness, tremors and difficult asthma. As homeopathic stramonium seem mainly to the nervous and mental life.

Etiology: Effect of hjärnhinneretning, mania, suppressed measles and scarlet fever. Result of fear mixed anger, humiliation, reproach.

Modalities: Worse: the darkness, but also by the bright lights, being alone, of sleep, cold, repressed secretions, at the sight of water and shiny objects.

Constitution: Light red, hot, highly agitated with wild delirium, scared, confused, with auditory and visual hallucinations, talking, laughing, singing, screaming, scared easily.

Indications: Remarkable freedom from pain despite heavy symptoms, delirium tremens, lactation psychosis, hysteria, hjämhinneretning with anxiety, stuttering, svalgkrarnp, bronchitis, asthma, nymphomania.

Potency: D12 - M,

Comparison: Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Veratrum, Zincum, Helleborus, tabacum.