Materia Medica
Solanum Nigrum
Black Nightshade
Used with success in ergotism, with tetanic spasms and stiffness of whole body, with mania. Marked action (on head and eyes. Meningitis. Chronic iuitestinal toxemia. Brain irritation during dentition. Restless- ness of a violent and convulsive nature. Formication with contraction of extremities.
Head
Furious delirium. Vertigo; terrible head- ache and complete cessation of the mental faculties. Night terrors. Congestive headache.
Eyes
Pain over both eyes. Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils; weak sight; foating spots.
Nose
Acute coryza; profuse, watery discharge from righit nostril; left stopped up, with chilly sensation, alternating with heat.
Respiratory
Constrictive feeling in chest, with difficult breathing; cough with tickling in throat. Expec- toration thick, yellow. Pain in left chest, sore to touch.
Fever
Alternation of coldness and heat. Scarlet fever; eruption in spots, large and vivid.
Relationships
Compare: Bellad.; Solanum Car- lincnse (convulsions 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, mam- (pain in left hip-joint); Solan. oleraceum mosum (swelling of mammary gland, with profuse secretion of milk) ; Solan. tuberosum (cramps in calves and con- traction of fingers; spitting through closed teeth); Solan. vesicarium (recommended in facial paralysis) ; Solanum aceticum (threatening paralysis of the lungs in the course of bronchitis in the aged and children); Solan. pscudocaps. (acute pains, in lower abdomen); Solan. tubcros. egrotans (prolapse of the rectum, patulous anus; offensive breath and odor of body; tumors of rectum look like decayed potato).
Dose
Second to thirtieth potency.