Solanum Nigrum

Solan. car. is a domestic remedy in the Southern States for "convulsions," and

• ▸it has been tested by several old-school authorities (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, xi.
• ▸20) in cases of epilepsy with some

success. Doses of from 30 to 60 drops were given three times a day, the only unpleasant effects

• ▸being a "mild diarrhoea" in some cases.
• ▸Grahn (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, xii.
• ▸462) relates a case of hysterical tetanus

in a young negro woman. She had laughed whilst holding a pin in her mouth, and the pin had

lodged in her throat. She had managed to get rid of it by coughing, but had hurt the throat, and

• ▸the tetanic spasms followed.
• ▸Passiflor.
• ▸did good, but the supply gave out, and So/.
• ▸car.
• ▸was given

instead. By error of an attendant, maximum doses (two drachms every forty minutes) were given,

and a state of dangerous stupor followed. However, all muscles were relaxed, and remained so

the rest of that day. Next day a slight return of the spasms was remedied with half-drachm doses

of Sol. car. It was several days before the disease was entirely overcome.

Weakness.—Sensitiveness to light, noise, and

• ▸touch.
• ▸—Convulsions.
• ▸—Fainting.
• ▸—[Sudden rapidity and convulsive embarrassment of respiration,

general convulsions, tetanic spasms, and strong dilatation of pupil. (Dog.)]

• ▸Furious delirium.
• ▸Vertigo; terrible headache and complete cessation of the mental faculties.
• ▸Night terrors.
• ▸Congestive headache.

Pain over both eyes. Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils; weak sight; floating spots.

Acute coryza; profuse, watery discharge from right nostril; left stopped up, with chilly sensation, alternating with heat.

Constructive feeling in chest, with difficult breathing; cough with tickling in throat. Expectoration thick, yellow. Pain in left chest, sore to touch.

Hoarseness.—Respiration: slow; superficial; difficult; oppressed;

distressed, esp. on inspiration [Decreased frequency of respiration in inverse proportion to

increase of pulse.—Moist rattle during inspiration.—Frequent violent outcry (from action on

medulla oblongata).—Masses of mucus in larger air-passages (post mortem).—Paralysis of

respiration. (Rabbits poisoned with S.)]

• ▸Superficial ulceration below |.
• ▸nipple.
• ▸—Pain at pectoralis major.
• ▸—Glandular swelling

in r, breast.—Lancinations in breasts.

Pulse: increased in rapidity; weak; thready.—Pulse and respiration

slowed.—[Increased pulse rate; respiration slowed.—Post-mortem, rigidity of heart muscle, all its

cavities full of dark, cherry-red coagulated blood. (Rabbits.)]|

Slight tonic spasms of lower limbs.—Weakness of lower limbs.—[Incapable

of moving hinder feet forward.—Hind legs quite stiff, toes stretched out; then great dejection,

retching, and signs of pain. (Rabbits, from the su/phate.)]

Suppuration of boils.—Urticaria—Paleness and greenish colour of the skin after a few

days of proving.

Alternation of coldness and heat. Scarlet fever; eruption in spots, large and vivid.

Slight fever.—Flash of heat all over.

Solanum Carolinense.

• ▸Solanum Carolinense.
• ▸Horse-nettle.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Solanacez.
• ▸Tincture of fresh ripe berries.

• ▸Compare: Dulc.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, S.
• ▸car.
• ▸, S.
• ▸nig.
• ▸, S.
• ▸tub.
• ▸, S.
• ▸t.
• ▸egrot.
• ▸(Botan).
• ▸In respiratory

• ▸paralysis, Dulc.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸Sleepy but cannot sleep, Bell.
• ▸Hypereesthesia, Nux, Tetanin.

Compare: Bellad; Solanum Carolinense-Horse-nettle--(conclusions and epilepsy, twenty to forty-drop doses; is of great value in grand mal of idiopathic type, where the disease has begun beyond age of childhood; hystero-epilepsy, also in whooping-cough); Solan mammosum-Apple of Sodom--(pain in left hip-joint); Solan oleraceum (swelling of mammary gland, with profuse secretion of milk); Solan tuberosum (cramps in calves and contraction of fingers; spitting through closed teeth); Solan vesicarium (recommended in facial paralysis); Solaninum aceticum (threatening paralysis of the lungs in the course of bronchitis in the aged and children must cough a long time before able to raise expectoration); Solan pseudocaps (acute pains, in lower abdomen); Solan tuberos aegrotans-Diseased potato--(prolapse of the rectum, patulous anus; offensive breath and odor of body; tumors of rectum look like decayed potato; dreams of pools of blood); Solanum tuberosum-Potato berries--(cramps in the calves of the legs and fingers).

Second to thirtieth potency.