HYOSCYAMUS NIGER

Hyoscyamus Niger

(Henbane)

Hyos.

Profoundly disturbs the nervous system, creating a feeling as if a diabolical force controls the brain, impairing its functions. It manifests as mania with quarrelsome and obscene behavior, and an inclination towards immodest acts, gestures, and expressions. The person becomes very talkative, often undressing or exposing genitals, and is jealous and paranoid about being poisoned. Symptoms include weakness and nervous agitation, pointing to conditions like typhoid and other infections with coma vigil. There is tremulous weakness, twitching of tendons, and muscular spasms, usually accompanied by delirium. It causes non-inflammatory cerebral activity and toxic gastritis.

Mind: Very suspicious, talkative, and exhibits obscene, lascivious mania. The individual often uncovers their body, is jealous, and behaves foolishly. They may exhibit great hilarity, laugh excessively, show delirium, and attempt to run away, with low muttering speech and deep stupor.

Head: Feels light and confused, with vertigo as if intoxicated. The brain feels loose and fluctuating, with possible brain inflammation leading to unconsciousness (meningitis) and head shaking.

Eyes: Pupils are dilated, sparkling, and fixed. Eyes are open but inattentive, downcast, and dull, often fixed in tetanus. There may be strabismus, spasmodic closing of lids, diplopia, and colored borders around objects.

Mouth: The tongue is dry, red, cracked, stiff, and immovable, with impaired speech and difficulty protruding the tongue. There may be foam in the mouth (epilepsy) and sordes-covered teeth, with the lower jaw dropping.

Throat: There is stinging dryness, constriction, and difficulty swallowing liquids, with an elongated uvula.

Stomach: Symptoms include hiccough, empty or bitter eructations, nausea with vertigo, vomiting with convulsions, hematemesis, and violent cramps relieved by vomiting. There is burning in the stomach and tenderness in the epigastrium after irritating food.

Abdomen: Feels as if it would burst, with distention and colic accompanied by vomiting, belching, hiccough, and screaming. There may be tympanites and red spots on the abdomen.

Stool: Diarrhea with colicky pains, often involuntary and aggravated by mental excitement or during sleep, especially during the lying-in period.

Urinary: Involuntary micturition (enuresis), with bladder paralysis and a lack of will to urinate (Causticum).

Male: Exhibits impotence, lasciviousness, exposure of genitals, and plays with genitals during fever.

Female: Before menses, there may be hysterical spasms and excited sexual desire (nymphomania). During menses, there are convulsive movements, urinary flux, and sweat, with possible lochia suppression and spasms in pregnant women, leading to puerperal mania.

Chest: Suffocating fits and spasms force the person to bend forward. There is a dry, spasmodic cough at night, worse when lying down and better when sitting up, often due to throat itching as if the uvula is too long, along with hemoptysis.

Extremities: The person picks at bedclothes, plays with hands, and reaches out for things. There may be epileptic attacks ending in deep sleep, spasms, convulsions, cramps in calves and toes, and a child who sobs and cries without waking.

Sleep: Intense sleeplessness, sopor with convulsions, starts up frightened, and experiences coma vigil.

Nervous System: There is great restlessness, with every muscle twitching (paralysis agitans, chorea), and the person will not stay covered.

Modalities: Symptoms worsen at night, during menses, after eating, and when lying down, but improve when stooping.

Relationship: Antidotes include Belladonna and Camphor. Compare with Belladonna, Stramonium, Agaricus, and Gelsemium.

Hyoscyaminum Hydrobromatum-Scopolaminum Bromhydricum: Useful for paralysis agitans, tremors of disseminated sclerosis, sleeplessness, and nervous agitation, with effects similar to alcohol. It corresponds to symptoms of uremia and acute nervous exhaustion, and is a remedy for shock. In physiological dosage (1-200 gr.), it treats mania and chorea, and insomnia. Scopola (Japanese Belladonna) is chemically identical to Hyoscine, causing joyous delirium, lip licking, smacking of mouth, sleeplessness, and hallucinations.

Dose: Sixth to 200th potency.