Product Description

Common name: Deadly Nightshade   

Belladonna is a chief remedy for fever, neuralgia and pain. Fever is sudden and violent in onset. Fever is caused due to drought of air, cold wind, uncovering head and exposure to summer sun. There is sudden rise of temperature with red face and throbbing of carotids. 

Pulse is strong and quick. There is intense burning heat internally and externally. Sweat only on covered parts and on head. Extremities usually cold during fever. 

There is confusion of mind, anxiety and trembling with furious delirium during fever. Belladonna is also helpful in any other inflammatory condition like tonsillitis, appendicitis, conjunctivitis, meningitis, rheumatism etc. There is stupefying stunning pain from neck to head with heat and pulsation. Head is inclined to bend backward, boring the head into the pillow. Spasmodic distortion of face and lips, grinding of teeth, with inclination to bite.

Belladonna has marked action in treating headache due to cold or heat of sun, from haircut. Sudden and violent headache. Intense periodical nervous congestive headache. Rush of blood to head with pulsation of cerebral arteries. Jerking headache worse from slight motion, jar, noise light, touch, lying down. Better by tight bandage. Belladonna also helps in vertigo caused by stooping or rising after stooping or change of position. Vertigo with tendency to fall left side or backwards. Belladonna also helps in air sickness.

Belladonna also helps in treating many gastro-intestinal problems. Mouth is dry with or with out thirst. There is tremor and stammering speech. Great dryness of throat with redness and burning, worse on right side. Cervical glands are suddenly inflamed. 

There is nausea and vomiting after eating and drinking. Vomiting of undigested food with much bile, spasmodic pain in epigastric region. Belladonna is also useful in pain due to gall stones. Tenderness of abdomen, cannot bear slightest touch. Abdomen is painful and distended.

Mind 

- Often emotionally balanced with fits of anger, etc.  

- Senses acute. Sensitive to light, noise, jar.  

- Irritability. Sudden fits of anger.  

Generalities 

- Robust, vital, plethoric.  

- Circulation: CONGESTION, flushes, PULSATING PAINS. High blood pressure.  

- Pains (esp. neuralgic) come and go suddenly.  

Acutes:

- SUDDEN onset. Violent attack.  

- HIGH FEVER.  

- BURNING HEAT; BRIGHT RED DISCOLORATION.  

- THROBBING PAINS, DRYNESS.  

Food and drinks

- Desire: LEMONADE, LEMONS.     

Head 

- Pain  especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples PULSATING, throbbing, hammering  Worse: RIGHT SIDE, LIGHT, NOISE, JAR, SUN, MOTION, bending forward Better: Cold applications, dark room, pressure, sitting, after cutting hair; due to hormonal changes. Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side.

Eye 

- Photophobia.   

- Dilated pupils.    

- Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. 

- Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burn; shooting in eyes. 

Ear 

- Otitis (ear infection) worse right side; throbbing pain. 

- Menniere’s disease: ringing right ear, Humming noises  

- Tearing pain in middle and external ear. 

- Membrana tympani bulges and injected. 

Nose 

- Epistaxis (nosebleed):  bright red; with hypertension 

- Imaginary odors. Tingling in tip of nose. Red and swollen. 

Mouth

- Dry, Throbbing pain in teeth. Gumboil. 

- Tongue red on edges. Strawberry tongue. Tongue swollen and painful.

Face 

- Red, bluish-red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face. Swelling of upper lip.

- Acne‚: fiery red, big deep painful boils,  leaving scars 

- Facial neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face.

Teeth 

- Grinding during sleep.    

Throat 

- Tonsils aggravation right side.  External throat   

- Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion; red, worse on right side. 

- Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult intake; worse, liquids. 

Stomach 

- THIRST LESS.  

- Pain ext. to back; better by lying on abdomen.

 - Loss of appetite. Averse to meat and milk. 

- Spasmodic pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to spine. 

Abdomen 

- Transverse colon: colitis; protrudes, palpable.  

- Appendicitis, pain aggravated by slight touch, jar and better by lying on abdomen. 

 - Distended, hot, Tender, swollen. Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure. 

Stools

 - Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk. Shuddering during stool. 

- Stinging pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture. Piles more sensitive with backache   

Urine

- Retention. Acute urinary infections. Urine scanty, with tenesmus; dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates.

- Incontinence, continuous dropping. Frequent and profuse. 

Male

- Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed. 

- Nocturnal sweat of genitals. 

Female genitalia 

- Affections of right ovary

- Dysmenorrhea.  

- Metrorrhagia (irregular meses): bright red blood mixed with dark cloths; feels hot. 

Cough 

- BARKING Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night

- Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea. Larynx feels sore. 

- Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes respiration

- Hoarse; loss of voice. Painless hoarseness. 

Chest 

- Mastitis (inflammation of breast glands) worse on right side. 

Heart

- Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored breathing. 

- Palpitation from least exertion. Throbbing all through body.

- Heart seemed too large. Rapid but weakened pulse.

Extremities 

- Cold extremities with congested head.    

- Shooting pains along limbs. Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating. 

Back

- Stiff neck. Swelling of glands of neck. Pain in nape, as if it would break. 

-  Pressure on dorsal region most painful. 

Sleep 

- Snoring, talking during sleep.  

- Dreams of falling; wakes suddenly. 

Skin 

- Dry and hot, swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth

- Sensitive to the sun

- Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading; pustules on face. 

- Glands swollen, tender, red. Boils. Acne rosacea. 

Fever

- A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxaemia. 

- Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy cold.

Sleep

- Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth. 

- Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels. 

Complementary

- Borax, Calcarea carbonica, Carbo vegetabilis, Hepar sulphuricum, Lachasis, Mercurius solubilis, Natrum muriaticum, Silicea, Sulphur, Variolinum.

Modalities

- Worse, touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying down. Better, semi-erect. 

Side Effect

Always keep a gap of 15 minutes before or after meals when you take medicine.

If pregnant or breastfeeding, ask a homeopathic practitioner before use. 

Follow the instructions given by the doctor.

Safety Advice

No Side Effect Known.

Dosage

Take 5 drops in half cup of water three times a day.

You can also medicate the globules and take 3 times a day or as prescribed by the physician.