Stramonium homeopathic medicine by dr. shubham patel

description of homeopathic medicine stramonium

1. STRAMONIUM

2. Nomenclature Kingdom Plantae Subkingdom Tracheobionta Superdivision Spermatophyta Division Magnoliophyta Class Magnoliopsida Subclass Asteridae Order Solanales Family Solanaceae Genus Datura L. Species Datura stramonium L. Common Names: Jimson weed, Jamestown weed, Thorn Apple, Mad Apple, Zombie Cucumber, Angel’s Trump

3. SPHERE OF ACTION NERVOUS SYSTEM BRAIN MIND SKIN MUCOUS MEMBRANE

4. CLINICAL  Anasarca (after scarlatina Aphasia.       Apoplexy.       Burns.       Catalepsy.       Chordee.       Chorea.       Delirium tremens.       Diaphragmitis .       Ecstasy.       Enuresis.       Epilepsy.       Erotomania.       Eyes, affections of.       Headache, from sun.       Hiccough.       Hydrophobia.       Hysteria.       Lochia, offensive.       Locomotor ataxy .       Mania.       Meningitis.       Nymphomania.       Oesophagus, spasm of.       Scarlatina.       Stammering.       Starting.       Strabismus.       Sunstroke.       Tetanus.       Thirst.       Tremors.       Trismus.       Typhus.

5. mind Stramonium persons need constant support from their social environment. They are persons that grew up dependent on an overprotective mother, who often feels ambivalent about her parental role. Therefore these persons have not developed the adaptability needed to confront the stress of their environment. The patient always wants and desire light and company ,yet cannot tolerate shining bright object and reflected or dazzling light such as from a mkirror or flowing water.

6. baby They need support to bear any external change. They behave like babies rather than like grown-ups. Babies are attached to their mothers and if left alone, they feel lonely and helpless. They need their mothers to satisfy every need they have. This is the situation corresponding to this remedy. Of course being an adult and having the emotional needs of a baby causes problems. It is difficult to provide constant support to persons who – considering their biological and social standards – should be independent. Thus these persons experience constant frustrations that provoke an intense aggressiveness. It is the aggressiveness babies feel towards a bad breast, because it does not satisfy their needs. Expression of aggressiveness however is not the rule in this remedy. These persons show their aggressiveness further and the environment becomes a threat. Therefore not only they feel abandoned but threatened as well. They feel like being a man of the city lost in the jungle. Behind every foliation movement there might be a wild animal ready to tear them into pieces – illusion of being alone in a wild place. Thus they adapt a frightened attitude.

7. Stramonium person has an inadequately constituted Ego; this is a syphilitic characteristic. An inadequately constituted Ego, as it is the case with propsychotic personality, maintain a certain confusion concerning his dissociation from the environment. This happens because there is a fluidity of the Ego boundaries (destruction of structure), which allows the syphilitic person to attribute some of his own thoughts, intentions, qualities to other persons and vice-versa through constant and primordial. Identifications without demarcation from reality facilitate segmental projection and introjection of various elements; as a result of that a Stramonium personality may show contrasting qualities at a certain time. The contrasting elements make the person take a position with ambivalence on various subjects. There is a fluidity of the Ego boundaries, there is no basic framework on which basic information will be built and elaborated. A person like that has doubts about his very own existence, he doubts his identity

8. ILLUSION The illusions mentioned above, related to this remedy about dogs and fear of being bitten and torn into pieces, have to do with expression of the person’s own aggressiveness towards other people who deny their support. Various fears in Stramonium persons such as fear of darkness, of tunnels, of water, of shiny items e.t.c have to do with their aggressive impulses too

9. DELUSION DELUSION body alive on one side, buried on the other DELUSION body is divided DELUSION body scattered about bed, tossed about to get the pieces together DELUSION cut through, in two DELUSION divided into two parts DELUSION divided, cut in two parts, or DELUSION identity, errors of personal DELUSION light incorporeal, he is DELUSION side, he is alive on one and buried on the other DELUSION feet separated from body, are DELUSION hand separated from body, is DELUSION hat is a pair of trousers which he tries to put on

10. DELUSION divine, being DELUSION devils, he is a d. DELUSIONS devils, possessed of a devil is DELUSION devils, sees DELUSION God communication with, he is in DELUSION influence, is under a powerful DELUSION power over all disease, has DELUSION talking dead people, with DELUSION talking with spirits EXALTATION religious GOSSIPING

11.   VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSIVENESS Stramonium  is like an earthquake in violence. They simply switch from rage mode to normal mode, as if nothing happened. They are very controlled and very nice and can be very sweet when they are in consultation room. But then they will say from time to time or when time comes, the fit comes, the anger comes, the violence comes and violence is hitting, striking, killing. It is not the desire to kill, they kill. They have to complete the action of violence. They go ahead and detonate their anger by doing something very violent. They will really take knife and there will be aggression. They hit children, their mother, their father. They will attack, they are tremendously aggressive and violent in their fit of anger. There is no holding back when  Sramonium  “loses it.” The rage is quite insane, and accompanied by definite desire to kill. The  Stramonium  people were not angry most of the time. Rather they would suddenly be prone to bouts of rage with which they would struggle for few hours, and then they will be calm again, or enter a different emotion, such as lust or terror. Stramonium  is the violence of the mental state. It is very active, agitated, driven state. The person is out of control, destructive, even malicious in behaviour . It is destructiveness of all kinds- against other persons or oneself. Striking, biting, tearing, shrieking, cursing- but most specially smashing things. Such a state may erupt rather suddenly, then subside after a while, but the person is not free of it. Typically it is the chronic mania or relapsing frequently over a period of time, rather than just a simple paroxysm of rage. It might be indicated in mass killer who suddenly begins killing many people indiscriminately. Stramonium would have to be at least thought of in such cases.

12. FEAR OF DARKNESS – Stramonium individuals are subject to all manner of terrors, delusions and hallucinations and they usually dread the night, because it is that they become haunted by the horrors of their own subconscious mind. They will tell you that they hate sunset, because it heralds the beginning of the dark time. If you have  Stramonium  and you sleep in dormitory and you switch off the light in night, even if he is asleep he will awake in terror and will jump to on the lights. They sleep with lights on, and if they awake in darkened room, they will see monsters in dark and will scream long after their parents have arrived and tried to soothe them. KENT: HE SEES ANIMALS, GHOSTS, ANGELS, DEPARTED SPIRITS.

13.   HALLUCINATIONS They will have a lot of hallucinations and are usually related to frightful things such as animals. They will see dogs, wolves, etc. but they see animals wanting to see them. Usually delusion is related to something dangerous, especially animals, dark or black things. They imagine dark, black things, black ghosts. One of the characteristic fear and delusion is – “always worse on waking.” (Whereas belladonna is usually worse before going to bed.)  Stramonium  has great fear of darkness and being alone.

14.   FEAR OF SHINNING OBJECTS Stramonium  patients will report that they feel panicky in a moving car if sunlight is flickering in between a row of trees, or through a fence. One woman said she hated to look at sunlight upon water. When I asked why? She said – she said it was “one of those horrible shiny things.” it is very interesting that this violent remedy, which is so violent that it can kill, they themselves are afraid of injured. Either the same person has both the violence . FEAR OF BEING INJURED

15. DESIRE TO KILL It is not the desire to kill, they kill. They have to complete the action of violence.  Stramonium  will really take a knife and will charge and will charge and hit and then you see the aggression. They hit children, the mother, the father. They will attack, they are tremendously aggressive and violent in their fit of anger. Children usually that develop  Stramonium  symptoms have been terrified by parents. There is a little one here, 5 year old and he plays, he does this, they say, “shut up.” He continues. The father grasp him and goes to balcony and says, “I am going to throw you down. So you shall stop. Yes or no?” great fright and then slowly that child develops symptoms of aggression. Eventually you enter the house it does not matter who you are, he looks at you and goes and hits you.

16. MANIA Mental symptoms ;-The mania or delirium is of wild character, the face being of bright red, the eyes have wild and suffused look, although they are not so thoroughly congested as under belladonna. The hallucinations terrify the patient, he sees objects springing up from every corner, animals of every kind and grotesque creatures arise and terrify him. The patient, if child, cries out for his mother even when she is near. The eyes are open and the pupils widely dilated. If an adult, he is decidedly loquacious in his delirium. At times he manifests a merry mood in his loquacity, and at others he has horrors. At one moment he will be laughing, singing, and making faces, and at another moment praying, crying for help etc. he often has photomania or desire for light. The mania assumes a silly character. The loquacity differs from Lachesis. In  Stramonium  the loquacity consists of a simple garrulity, whereas in Lachesis it is jumping from one subject to another. During delirium of  Stramonium , as under many narcotics the patient frequently attempts to escape

17. WILDNESS, DESTRUCTIVENESS, STRIKING There is wildness in delirium, they will be more furious and more like a wild animal. It will go to that point. His whole situation including his ailments frighten him so much that he doesn’t want it to ever surface again. He wants to finish it off, to eradicate, to destroy, and exterminate it. His problems trouble and scare him and he wants to finish them. His actions are always total.

18. PARTICULARS Fever Stramonium is an excellent homeopathic remedy for fever accompanied with an intense thirst. People requiring this medication may experience night frights, be afraid of darkness, have hallucinations, delirium or even feverish seizures. In addition, they may experience involuntary shuddering of the limbs, while their heart and pulse may possibly be in chaos . Violence and mania People who respond best to Stramonium are those who experience excitement accompanied by confusion, stupefaction, terror of darkness and have a propensity to being aggressive. They are also likely to experience squirming, bouts of verbosity and jumbled mumbling. In addition, they may have hallucinations, hear strange imaginary voices and have weird visions. These symptoms may possibly be set off due to the ordeal of childbirth, owing to  alcoholism ,  drug abuse  or by further grave conditions, for instance schizophrenia. Chorea People suffering from chorea need Stramonium. In this case, the symptoms may include involuntary jerking and shuddering of the face, limbs or trunk, usually accompanied with stammering. These symptoms may be a result of tremendous fear, an awful effect of  vaccination , any head injury or even meningitis. In severe instances, the patient may also experience facial contortion, seizure and/ or  epilepsy .

19. Head Intoxication and dizziness. Vertigo, cannot walk in the dark, falling to left or backward. Vertigo, with giddiness and staggering, or with clouded sight, headache (red face, colicky pain and diarrhoea ). Vertigo, head feels drawn backward. Stupefaction with vanishing of vision and hearing, and convulsive movements of head. Headache, with clouded sight and dysecoia . Headaches with tendency to speak incoherently (much relieved.R.T.C .) Anemia of the brain in old people (relieved. R.T.C.). Distressing sensation of lightness and weakness in head. Woke up with fearful headache and extreme sickness, got up at noon but could hardly speak to any one all day, this went on for three days and then left (produced in a woman, 60, fourth day after single dose of ø.       R.T.C.). Head feels empty, hollow, sensitive to very sound. Throbbing pains in vertex, with syncope. Congestion of blood to head, with heat. Congestion of blood to head, pulsation in vertex, loss of sight and hearing, bloated, turgid face, total loss of consciousness, and painlessness. Inflammation of brain, with heat and pulsation of vertex, attacks of fainting, loss of sight and hearing, convulsive movements of head, frequently raising head up or bending it backward, better while lying still. Hydrocephalus with convulsive movements of head, sensation of lightness of head, and frequently raising, head up. Painful dark-red swelling of the highly congested head and turgid face, with convulsive movements, delirium, and desire for light and company. Retraction and convulsive movements of head Lifting head frequently from pillow when lying down. Bores head into pillow. Bends head backward. Left side of head numb. Head perspires more than usual.

20. face Dull and bewildered air, with timid behavior. Stupid, distorted countenance Anxiety and fear is expressed in the countenance. Sardonic grin.  Painful distortion of features. Facial muscles in constant play during delirium. Twitching in muscles of face, frowns on forehead. Left side of face for moments distorted with painless convulsions, contraction of zygomatic muscles draws cheeks and mouth from below up, and from face backward to temples. Face deeply furrowed and wrinkled. Face bloated, puffed with blood, sometimes with an idiotic expression. Circumscribed redness of cheeks. Hot cheeks. Blood rushing to face. Deep red, or very pale color of face. Fainting with paleness of face, dryness in throat, and subsequent red face. Erysipelas on one side of face and nose. Boils come out on face while taking Stram . (R.T.C.) Lips dry and glued together. A yellow streak in red part of lips. Quivering in lips. Distortion of the mouth. Crawling sensation on chin. Chewing motion with mouth. Mouth spasmodically closed. Lock-jaw.

21. mouth Dryness of mouth (dry fauces and dry, sticky lips). Dribbling of glairy saliva from mouth. Copious salivation. Saliva decreased. Sanguineous froth before mouth. Hemoptysis. Tongue swollen and paralysed . Tongue felt stiff, dry, and parched to the very root, as if edges rolled up as hard and dry as leather. Tongue paralysed , trembles when put out. Imperfect speaking and stammering (with distortion of face). Continued murmurs.   Complete loss of speech. A trembling tongue.

22. General modalities Aggravation ; in dark ,when alone ,looking at bright or shining objects ,after sleep ,when attempting to swallow and in forenoon Amelioration ; from bright red , from company and warmth bed

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