homoepathic medicine

1. DEPARTMENT OF
MATERIA MEDICA
SESSION 2014-15
SUBMITED By
Deepti Gautam

2. BELLADONN
A

3. BELLADONNA
• Common name: deadly night shade
• Prover: Hahnemann
• Family:solanaceoe

4. INTRODUCTION
• Bella-beautiful, Dona-lady
• Venetian ladies use it as cosmetic to brighten the eyes
and flush their cheeks due to the property of two
alkaloids atropine &belladonna.

5. • Hahnemann was the first one who discover its
therapeutic value
• It was Hahnemann’s deep sight which could find out
the immense curative value of these alkaloids and
transformed them into a marvelous medicines through
the process of potentiating.

6. • Belladonna is one of the CLARKE’S A .B.C
NURSERIES others being aconite and chamomilla
• WHILE BELLADONNA CAUSES TURMOIL
IN BRAIN, ACONITE AND CHAMOMILLA
CAUSE TURMOIL IN CIRCULATION AND
TEMPERAMENT RESPECTIVELY.

7. SPHERE OF ACTION
• Its chief centre of action is cerebrum from where it
radiates . Influence upon the entire organism.
• Brain and its membrane cardio-vascular system ,heart
lungs and mucous membrane of eyes.
• mouth,throat,skin,glandular structure are also not
spared

8. PATHOGENESIS
• Its action on brain & its mucous membranes
&various organ produces a state of congestion every
where in the body leading to inflammation, delirium,
illusion, delusion and hallucination and mania.

9. • General hyperesthesia of both sensory and motor
nerve.
• Resulting in congestion of blood vessels heart and
consequently reflects symptoms are produced.

10. CONSTITUTION
• Physical make up: since it is a acute remedy ,there is
no serious importance ,however it is adapted to
bilious plethoric person with red face and to a
condition in them of local plethora
• And also to those having lymphatic constitution with
fine complexion and delicate skin

11. TEMPERAMENT
• Bilious, lymphatic
• and nervous temperament
• Relation with heat and cold
• Chilly
• Miasma:Psora in back ground
• Diathesis: tubercular

13. • Right sided medicine
• Acute ,sudden and violent onset is very characteristic
of these drugs.
• this aspect of the symptoms

14. • “Congestion” is the key not of belladonna. Its action
on the brain a state of active congestion is produced
resulting in furious excitement irriitability,convulsion
delirium, and pain. Consequently there is flushed face,
throbbing carotids, heart and bounding pulse rush of
blood to head wild delirium
• Congestion cause redness of face and eyes. Rush of
blood to head and face throbbing of brain and carotids.

15. REDNESS
• Redness of belladonna is very characteristic arising
from this congestion there is great redness of the
inflamed part in particular and in general, all over.
• The skin is very red and shiny. Smooth redness of the
surface occur over the whole body.

16. HEAT
• Heat is yet another peculiarity. due to the congestion
there is great heat specially at the congested and
inflamed part.
• The heat is so severe that the affected part imparts a
burning sensation to the examining hand and the
physician is reflexly compelled to withdraw is hand.

17. BURNING
• Burning sensation is another characteristic of
belladonna.
• There is intense burning anywhere and every where,
both internal and external such as in skin brain
mouth throat tonsil stomach liver etc

18. sensitivity
• Sensitiveness to the touch of affected part is very well
marked.
• Can not bear to be touched anywhere.

19. DRYNESS
• Great dryness runs through whole of this remedy.
• The dryness is often associated with heat, redness
burning and throbbing

20. • Along with all of these symptoms , sign of
inflammation, swelling or oedema are also found.
• The affected part is swollen shiny very red and hot
and sensitive to touch.

21. PAIN
• GREAT PAIN REMEDY, character of which are :
a) Pain comes suddenly, last indefinitely or goes away
suddenly
b) Pain occurs usually in short attacks
c) Burning and throbbing in character of the PAIN WITH
REDNESS OF THE FACE AND EYES, Flushes of
the head and throbbing of carotids
d) Pain runs from above

22. • The patient is very much sleepy, but cannot sleep.
• Belladonna patients are very much
entertaning,jolly,well behaved and social when they
are well, becomes very violent and often delirious
when they fall sick.
• In belladonna patient, sweat, if at all found, is only
on the covered part

23. THIRST
• Generally belladonna patient is not thirsty specially
in female

24. • The complaint of belladonna patient are
aggravated by touch jar and motion, draught of
air and heat of sun; after 3: p.m
• Lying down and uncovering and ameliorated by
rest, standing or sitting erect and in a warm
room.

26. • Excellent remedy for delirious condition bought
on by cerebral congestion.
• Great excitement and violence run through the
whole remedy.
• The patient is very delirious with constant
cerebral congestion

27. • Belladonna is one of the Trio’s of delirious
remedies; other being hyoscyamus and
stramonium.
• The most characteristic feature of belladonna is
upsurge of blood to the brain.

28. • When throbbing of carotids ,the heat, redness and
congestion of face and conjunctiva passes away, the
delirium also subsides in proportion.
• Belladonna may have delirium with pale face also, as
it alternate but that is an exceptional case.

29. RAGE
• The patient has furious rage and anger.
• He spits, bites and strikes those around him.
• He picks up the bed clothes, tears them to pieces and
through them off.
• He breaks into fits of laughter and gnashes his teeth
presenting a picture of absolute and violent insanity.

30. • The patient imagines seeing various things, such as
ghost monsters, hideous faces,various,black animals
dogs wolves and dangerous wild animals.
• There is great fear of unusual and imaginary things;
wants to run away from them; strange delusion
illusion and hallucination with loss of consciousness.

31. • He uses absurd language; anxiety with desire to flee
escape and height

33. Ailments
• Exposure to draught of cold air ,cold wind haircut
uncovering the head getting wet, summer complaints,
taking sausage and wine

35. HEADACHE
• CAUSATION: Exposure to cold or heat of sun; from
hair cut; congestion and suppuration of catarrhal
flow .
• Mode of onset: sudden and violent.
• Location: Right side, supra-cilary region and
forehead.

36. sensation
• As if the brain were pushed through the
forehead.
• Sensation of stabbing as by a knife from one
temple to the another.

37. • CHARATER OF PAIN: there is intense periodical
nerves and congestive headache.
• accompanied by tensive pressive on vertex forehead
and rush of blood to the head with pulsation of
cerebral arteries and throbbing in brain.

38. • MODALITIES: Aggravation: from slight motion
jar,noise,light,touch,least exertion or leaning
forwards, bending downwards or lying down
;anything that takes the patient out of the
perpendicular position.
• Amelioration ; by tight bandage and during menses .

39. CONCOMITANTS
• RED FACE ,THROBBING OF CAROTID ;often
with pain in the eyeballs ,boring head into the pillow
.
• REDNESS OF EYES with burnning and great
intolerance of light.
• Double vision, dim vision objects appear upside down

40. VERTIGO
• CAUSATION: stooping or rising after stooping or
change of position .
• Vertigo with falling to the left side or backward ;as if
objects turns in a circle or sway to and frown .
• Scalp is very sensitive to touch with much throbbing
heat .

41. GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
• MOUTH :
• Mouth is very dry with or without thirst .
• Tongue and palate are dark red and dry; tremor and
stammering speech.
• Sub maxillary gland are swollen. Putrid taste in the
mouth.

42. THROAT
• There is a great dryness of the throat and fauces, with
REDNESS AND BURNING.
• Worse on the right side.
• Throat feels very much constricted with consequent
difficulty in deglutition.
• tonsillitis, worse on the right side.
• Uvula is red and swollen very painful and burning.

43. STOMACH AND ABDOMEN
• Loss of appetite
• Aversion from meat, milk
• Spasmodic pain in epigastric region
• Nausea and vomiting ;great thirst of cold water .
• Dreads drinking.
• Uncontrollable vomiting.

44. ABDOMEN
• Distended hot, tender swollen, pain as if clutched by
a hand; worse from jars and pressure.
• Stitching and cutting pain on left side, when
coughing sneezing

45. STOOL
• Thin green , in lumps like a chalk,
• Piles more sensitive with backache,prolapse of
ani.

46. URINARY
• Retention, acute urinary infection ,urine scanty with
tenesmus;dark and turbid with loaded phosphate
,haematuria where no pathological condition can be
found .

47. MALE
• Testicles:hard ,inflamed (orchits)
• Nocturnal seat on genitals flow of prostatic fluid
• Desire diminished

48. FEMALE
• Menorrhagia ,dysmenorrhea
• MENSES and LOCHIA very offensive and hot
• Menses increased; bright red ;to early to profuse
• Dragging pain around loins

49. RESPIRATORY
• tickling short dry cough worse at night hoarseness
;aphonia
• Cough with pain in left hip, larynx are very painful
feels as if a foreign body.
• Barking , whooping cough, moaning at every breath

50. FEVER
• CAUSATION :draught of cold air , uncovering the head,
haircut summer, sun
• MODE OF ONSET: sudden and violent
• SYMPTOMS:
• High fever state
• Burning pungent steaming heat
• Feet icy cold, no thirst with fever.

51. SKIN
• Dry and hot
• Swollen sensitive, burns scarlet smooth eruption like
scarlatina,suddenly spreading.
• Glands swollen,tender,red,boils.
• Alternate redness paleness of the skin.

52. GENERAL MODALITIES
• AGGRAVATION: worse motion, touch, noise, lying
down, looking at bright shining objects ,ater3p.m
night, after midnight ,while drinking ,uncovering
headstrong smell
• AMELIORATON:rest standing or sitting erect in
warm room

53. RELATION
• COMPLEMENTORY: to calcarea
• FOLLOWS WELL:Ars.alb
Camphora,heparsulph,merc.sol
• FOLLWED WELL BY :
Dulcamra,hepar.sulph,hyoscyamus,lachesis,rhus.tox.
• ANTIDOTE:coffea.cruda,hyoscyamus.