Daphne Indica

Poisoning with this drug causes raving madness. A girl who ate half an unripe

fruit manifested the following: Completely out of her mind in a quarter of an hour, dizzy, sleepy;

slept with eyes open; if disturbed, sprang up raving and uttered unintelligible words; if one sang

she began to dance in the Javanese fashion. This symptom may prove a keynote in certain cases

of mental alienation. Dryness of mouth was also noted in this case, as with Bel/. and other

Solanacec.

Datura Metel.

• ▸Indian Datura.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Solanaceé.
• ▸Trituration of seeds.

Mental dejection.—Timidity.—Irritability, over-excitement, and trembling, during the

pains.—Irascibility, absence of mind, and indecision.

Shooting pains, as from blows, in different parts of the body, passing rapidly

from one part to the other, < by cold air, and by taking brandy.—Rheumatic and arthritic pains as

well in the muscles as in the bones (esp. after suppressed gonorrhcea).—Exostosis, with shooting,

or with aching and dull pains.—Pain, resembling excoriation, in the exostosis.—The majority of

symptoms exhibit themselves on the left side of the body, and are < chiefly by fresh air, also

while the moon is waning, in the morning, or towards the evening, and esp. in bed.—Great

lassitude and painful weariness in all the limbs.—Necessity to remain lying down.

• ▸Feels as if skull would burst; as if head were separated from body.
• ▸Heat in head, especially in vertex.
• ▸Tongue coated on one side only (Rhus).
• ▸Foul-smelling, ptyalism hot.

Headache, provoked by all kinds of intellectual labour.—Pain behind the eyes, from

one temple to the other.—Sensation of fulness in the head, as if cranium were going to burst, esp.

on raising oneself in the bed.—Sensation, as if the head were too thick, with shootings in the

temples.—Sensation as if the external parts of the brain were inflamed, and were striking

painfully against the cranitum.—Violent heat in the head, esp. in the vertex, and sometimes with a

sensation as if the head were compressed.—Painful pulsation in the temples, and the gums,

sometimes with pain like excoriation on being touched.—Exostosis in the crantum.—Tuberosities

in the vertex, soft, as if there were water in them, with troublesome pains, esp. at night; the pains

hinder sleep, and are < by the touch.—Hard swelling of the whole left side of the head, as if in the

bone, with sensation of numbness, and acute, transient, shooting pain.

Scraping in the eyes.—Troublesome sensation round the eyes and eyelids, with dryness

and heaviness of eyelids.—Painful feeling in the eyes, as if pressed into the head.—Painful

sensation as if the eyes were pushed outwards from the head.—Violent pains in the eyeballs, in

the evening, with great nervous excitement.—Con traction of the pupils —Eyes inflamed, weak,

dull, as it were swimming in tears.—Sensation as if a membrane were placed before the

eyes.—Weak sight, with confusion of the letters when reading —Diplopia.—Pupils very much

contracted.

Heat and burning sensation in the cheeks, round the ears, and in the vertex, sometimes

with constant inclination to yawn.—Sensation of swelling, of stiffness and of tension in the

temporo-maxillary joint, with burning smarting in the skin.

Tongue loaded, on one side only.—Dryness of the tongue after sleep, as if it had been

• ▸burned.
• ▸—Fetor of the tongue.
• ▸—Salivation; with toothache.
• ▸—Hot saliva.
• ▸—Craving to smoke

tobacco.

Pulsation in the teeth and gums.—Acute drawing pains in all the teeth —Toothache,

with and without salivation—Toothache with erections, or after coition—Toothache with fits of

shivering, or disposition to perspire.

Pyrosis and sour vomiting.—Vomiting with nausea, after breakfast.—Sensation of

fulness and ebullition in the precordial region.—Aching in the stomach after drinking.—Frequent

cramps in the stomach.—After each meal, burning pain and sensation of excoriation in the

stomach, with frequent risings of flatus; the pains extend to the left hypochondrium and to the

back.

Shootings and pains in the region of the spleen.—Arthritic pains which pass

rapidly from the limbs to the abdomen.—Pain in the abdomen, with shiverings.

Contraction of the abdomen, and constipation.—Feces scanty, and

sanguineous towards the end.

Frequent and abundant emission of urine.—Frequent wetting of the bed at

night—Urine turbid, thick, yellowish, like rotten eggs.—Urine of a reddish yellow colour.—Fetid

urine.—Reddish sediment, which adheres to the side of the vessel.—Pain, as from excoriation in

the urethra, when making water.

Thick, turbid, yellowish, like rotten eggs.

Sweating of the scrotum.—Discharge of prostatic fluid, after making

water.—Erections during the toothache.—Toothache after coition.

Voice weak.—Breath fetid —Expectoration thin, slimy, and

copious.—Sanguineous expectoration.—Cough, with vomiting, and yellowish frothy

expectoration, mixed sometimes with streaks of blood; the cough fatigues and hinders sleep.

Palpitation and starting of the heart, with inability to remain lying on the left

side.—Acute pains in the region of the heart, with discouragement and trembling.—Suffocating

fits at night, with sensation as if the glands of the neck were swollen, and the arteries stiff with

blood.

Pain in the nape of the neck with headache.—Screwing pain from the ear to

the shoulder.—Sensation as though the cervical glands were much swollen and the arteries

excessively distended, with a feeling of suffocation, as if the head were separated from the body,

• ▸at night.
• ▸—Sharp pain beneath |.
• ▸scapula.
• ▸—Burning itching in the back.
• ▸—Painful pulling along the

spinal marrow, < by stooping.

Phlyctenz, excessive itching on the arms and hands.—Bone-ache, piercing

pains in the bones and acute shooting pains in the fingers.

Itching miliary eruption on the legs.—Rheumatic pains in the thighs and in

• ▸the knees.
• ▸—Cold in the knees and in the feet.
• ▸—Pain as from contusion in the toes.
• ▸—Painful

swelling of the ball of the great toe, with pains which often pass rapidly into other parts of the

body.

• ▸Right toe swollen, painful.
• ▸Pain shoots upward into abdomen and heart.
• ▸Rheumatic pains in thighs and knees.
• ▸Cold feeling on buttocks.
• ▸Shooting pains, shift rapidly worse, cold air.

• ▸Entire inability to sleep; sometimes caused by aching in bones.
• ▸Dreams, with nightmare.
• ▸Dreams of cats, black cats.
• ▸Starting on falling to sleep with chilliness and clamminess.

Complete sleeplessness, caused, sometimes, by aching in the bones.—Inclination to

sleep, with inability to accomplish it——Dreams of fire; or of black cats, with

nightmare.—A gitated, unrefreshing sleep.—Starts with fright, on going to sleep, accompanied by

shivering, with viscid sweat.

Fever, similar to typhus, with excessive shivering, followed by continued heat, by

viscid sweat over the whole body, and complete loss of appetite —Fever, with gastric and

nervous suffering —Clammy sweat, of a putrid smell.

Datura Arborea.

• ▸Brugmansia suaveolens.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Solanaceé.
• ▸Tincture of the flowers.

• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Delirium.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Eye, affections of.
• ▸Mania.
• ▸Timidity.

Characteristics——Datur. metel causes a soporose condition, and later delirium and spasms. The

soporose state may be absent. Delirium may be vociferous, or merely garrulous. Patient usually

manifests excessive timidity. Picks at real or imaginary objects. Performs ridiculous antics.

Several movements appear due to perverted vision, and inability to judge distances. After the

delirium, patient remembers nothing of what has occurred. Extreme dilatation of pupils.

Flickering before eyes with sensitiveness to light. Pulse and temperature undergo extremes of

exaltation and depression.

Antidotes: Bry; Rhus.

Compare: Fluor ac; Aur; Mez; Staph.

First to sixth attenuation.