This document provides information on the plant Datura stramonium and its uses as a homeopathic remedy. It includes the plant's scientific classification, spheres of action including the nervous system and mind, clinical applications for conditions like mania and fever, and detailed descriptions of symptoms it can treat involving the mind, fears, delusions, aggression, and specific parts of the body like the head, face and mouth. Key characteristics of Stramonium include fears of darkness, bright lights and water, violent outbursts, hallucinations, and aggravation of symptoms when waking or in dark environments.
5. MIND
• Stramonium persons need constant support from their social environment.
They are persons that grew up dependent on an overprotective mother,
who often feels ambivalent about her parental role.
• Therefore these persons have not developed the adaptability needed to
confront the stress of their environment.
• The patient always wants and desire light and company ,yet cannot tolerate
shining bright object and reflected or dazzling light such as from a mkirror or
flowing water.
6. BABY
They need support to bear any external change. They behave like
babies rather than like grown-ups. Babies are attached to their
mothers and if left alone, they feel lonely and helpless. They need
their mothers to satisfy every need they have. This is the situation
corresponding to this remedy.
Of course being an adult and having the emotional needs of a baby
causes problems. It is difficult to provide constant support to
persons who – considering their biological and social standards
– should be independent. Thus these persons experience constant
frustrations that provoke an intense aggressiveness. It is the aggressiveness
babies feel towards a bad breast, because it does not satisfy their
needs.
Expression of aggressiveness however is not the rule in this remedy.
These persons show their aggressiveness further and the environment
becomes a threat. Therefore not only they feel abandoned but threatened
as well. They feel like being a man of the city lost in the jungle.
Behind every foliation movement there might be a wild animal ready
to tear them into pieces – illusion of being alone in a wild
place. Thus they adapt a frightened attitude.
7. • Stramonium person has an inadequately constituted Ego; this is
a syphilitic characteristic. An inadequately constituted Ego, as
it is the case with propsychotic personality, maintain a certain
confusion concerning his dissociation from the environment. This
happens because there is a fluidity of the Ego boundaries (destruction
of structure), which allows the syphilitic person to attribute some
of his own thoughts, intentions, qualities to other persons and
vice-versa through constant and primordial.
• Identifications without demarcation from reality facilitate segmental
projection and introjection of various elements; as a result of
that a Stramonium personality may show contrasting qualities at
a certain time. The contrasting elements make the person take a
position with ambivalence on various subjects. There is a fluidity
of the Ego boundaries, there is no basic framework on which basic
information will be built and elaborated. A person like that has
doubts about his very own existence, he doubts his identity
8. ILLUSION
• The illusions mentioned above, related to this remedy about dogs
and fear of being bitten and torn into pieces, have to do with
expression
of the person’s own aggressiveness towards other people who
deny their support. Various fears in Stramonium persons such as
fear of darkness, of tunnels, of water, of shiny items e.t.c have
to do with their aggressive impulses too
9. DELUSION
• DELUSION body alive on one side, buried on the other
• DELUSION body is divided
• DELUSION body scattered about bed, tossed about to get the pieces
together
• DELUSION cut through, in two
• DELUSION divided into two parts
• DELUSION divided, cut in two parts, or
• DELUSION identity, errors of personal
• DELUSION light incorporeal, he is
• DELUSION side, he is alive on one and buried on the other
• DELUSION feet separated from body, are
• DELUSION hand separated from body, is
• DELUSION hat is a pair of trousers which he tries to put on
10. • DELUSION divine, being
• DELUSION devils, he is a d.
• DELUSIONS devils, possessed of a devil is
• DELUSION devils, sees
• DELUSION God communication with, he is in
• DELUSION influence, is under a powerful
• DELUSION power over all disease, has
• DELUSION talking dead people, with
• DELUSION talking with spirits
• EXALTATION religious
• GOSSIPING
11. VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSIVENESS
• Stramonium is like an earthquake in violence. They simply switch from rage mode to normal
mode, as if nothing happened. They are very controlled and very nice and can be very sweet
when they are in consultation room. But then they will say from time to time or when time
comes, the fit comes, the anger comes, the violence comes and violence is hitting, striking,
killing. It is not the desire to kill, they kill. They have to complete the action of violence. They
go ahead and detonate their anger by doing something very violent. They will really take knife
and there will be aggression. They hit children, their mother, their father. They will attack, they
are tremendously aggressive and violent in their fit of anger.
There is no holding back when Sramonium “loses it.” The rage is quite insane, and
accompanied by definite desire to kill. The Stramonium people were not angry most of the
time. Rather they would suddenly be prone to bouts of rage with which they would struggle
for few hours, and then they will be calm again, or enter a different emotion, such as lust or
terror.
Stramonium is the violence of the mental state. It is very active, agitated, driven state. The
person is out of control, destructive, even malicious in behaviour. It is destructiveness of all
kinds- against other persons or oneself. Striking, biting, tearing, shrieking, cursing- but most
specially smashing things. Such a state may erupt rather suddenly, then subside after a
while, but the person is not free of it. Typically it is the chronic mania or relapsing frequently
over a period of time, rather than just a simple paroxysm of rage.
It might be indicated in mass killer who suddenly begins killing many people indiscriminately.
Stramonium would have to be at least thought of in such cases.
12. FEAR OF DARKNESS–
Stramonium individuals are subject to all manner of terrors, delusions and hallucinations and they usually
dread the night, because it is that they become haunted by the horrors of their own subconscious mind.
They will tell you that they hate sunset, because it heralds the beginning of the dark time.
If you have Stramonium and you sleep in dormitory and you switch off the light in night, even if he is asleep
he will awake in terror and will jump to on the lights.
They sleep with lights on, and if they awake in darkened room, they will see monsters in dark and will
scream long after their parents have arrived and tried to soothe them.
KENT: HE SEES ANIMALS, GHOSTS, ANGELS, DEPARTED SPIRITS.
13. HALLUCINATI
ONS
• They will have a lot of hallucinations and are usually related to frightful things such as
animals.
• They will see dogs, wolves, etc. but they see animals wanting to see them. Usually delusion
is related to something dangerous, especially animals, dark or black things.
• They imagine dark, black things, black ghosts. One of the characteristic fear and delusion is –
“always worse on waking.” (Whereas belladonna is usually worse before going to
bed.) Stramonium has great fear of darkness and being alone.
14. FEAR OF SHINNING
OBJECTS
Stramonium patients will report that they feel panicky in a moving car if sunlight is flickering in
between a row of trees, or through a fence. One woman said she hated to look at sunlight
upon water. When I asked why? She said – she said it was “one of those horrible shiny things.”
it is very interesting that this violent remedy, which is so violent that it can
kill, they themselves are afraid of injured. Either the same person has
both the violence.
FEAR OF BEING INJURED
15. DESIRE TO
KILL
• It is not the desire to kill, they kill.
• They have to complete the action of violence. Stramonium will really
take a knife and will charge and will charge and hit and then you see
the aggression.
• They hit children, the mother, the father.
• They will attack, they are tremendously aggressive and violent in their
fit of anger.
Children usually that develop Stramonium symptoms have been
terrified by parents.
• There is a little one here, 5 year old and he plays, he does this, they say, “shut
up.” He continues. The father grasp him and goes to balcony and says, “I am
going to throw you down. So you shall stop. Yes or no?” great fright and then
slowly that child develops symptoms of aggression. Eventually you enter the
house it does not matter who you are, he looks at you and goes and hits you.
16. MANI
A
Mental symptoms;-The mania or delirium is of wild character, the face being
of bright red, the eyes have wild and suffused look, although they are not so
thoroughly congested as under belladonna. The hallucinations terrify the
patient, he sees objects springing up from every corner, animals of every kind
and grotesque creatures arise and terrify him. The patient, if child, cries out
for his mother even when she is near. The eyes are open and the pupils
widely dilated. If an adult, he is decidedly loquacious in his delirium. At times
he manifests a merry mood in his loquacity, and at others he has horrors. At
one moment he will be laughing, singing, and making faces, and at another
moment praying, crying for help etc. he often has photomania or desire for
light. The mania assumes a silly character. The loquacity differs from
Lachesis. In Stramonium the loquacity consists of a simple garrulity, whereas
in Lachesis it is jumping from one subject to another. During delirium
of Stramonium, as under many narcotics the patient frequently attempts to
escape
17. WILDNESS, DESTRUCTIVENESS,
STRIKING
• There is wildness in delirium, they will be more furious and more like a wild animal. It will go
to that point.
• His whole situation including his ailments frighten him so much that he doesn’t want it to ever
surface again.
• He wants to finish it off, to eradicate, to destroy, and exterminate it.
• His problems trouble and scare him and he wants to finish them.
• His actions are always total.
18. PARTICULARS
Fever
Stramonium is an excellent homeopathic remedy for fever accompanied with an intense thirst. People requiring this medication may
experience night frights, be afraid of darkness, have hallucinations, delirium or even feverish seizures. In addition, they may experience
involuntary shuddering of the limbs, while their heart and pulse may possibly be in chaos.
Chorea
People suffering from chorea need Stramonium. In this case, the symptoms may include involuntary jerking and shuddering of the face, limbs or
trunk, usually accompanied with stammering. These symptoms may be a result of tremendous fear, an awful effect of vaccination, any head
injury or even meningitis. In severe instances, the patient may also experience facial contortion, seizure and/ or epilepsy.
19. HEAD
• Intoxication and dizziness.
• Vertigo, cannot walk in the dark, falling to left or backward.
• Vertigo, with giddiness and staggering, or with clouded sight, headache (red face, colicky pain and diarrhoea).
• Vertigo, head feels drawn backward.
• Stupefaction with vanishing of vision and hearing, and convulsive movements of head.
• Headache, with clouded sight and dysecoia.
• Headaches with tendency to speak incoherently (much relieved.R.T.C.)
• Anemia of the brain in old people (relieved. R.T.C.).
• Distressing sensation of lightness and weakness in head.
• Woke up with fearful headache and extreme sickness, got up at noon but could hardly speak to any one all day, this went on for three days and then left (produced in
a woman, 60, fourth day after single dose of ø.
R.T.C.).
• Head feels empty, hollow, sensitive to very sound.
• Throbbing pains in vertex, with syncope.
• Congestion of blood to head, with heat.
• Congestion of blood to head, pulsation in vertex, loss of sight and hearing, bloated, turgid face, total loss of consciousness, and painlessness.
• Inflammation of brain, with heat and pulsation of vertex, attacks of fainting, loss of sight and hearing, convulsive movements of head, frequently raising head up or
bending it backward, better while lying still.
• Hydrocephalus with convulsive movements of head, sensation of lightness of head, and frequently raising, head up.
• Painful dark-red swelling of the highly congested head and turgid face, with convulsive movements, delirium, and desire for light and company.
• Retraction and convulsive movements of head
• Lifting head frequently from pillow when lying down.
• Bores head into pillow.
• Bends head backward.
• Left side of head numb.
• Head perspires more than usual.
20. FACE
• Dull and bewildered air, with timid behavior.
• Stupid, distorted countenance
• Anxiety and fear is expressed in the countenance.
• Sardonic grin.
• Painful distortion of features.
• Facial muscles in constant play during delirium.
• Twitching in muscles of face, frowns on forehead.
• Left side of face for moments distorted with painless convulsions, contraction of zygomatic muscles draws cheeks and mouth from below up, and from face backward to temples.
• Face deeply furrowed and wrinkled.
• Face bloated, puffed with blood, sometimes with an idiotic expression.
• Circumscribed redness of cheeks.
• Hot cheeks.
• Blood rushing to face.
• Deep red, or very pale color of face.
• Fainting with paleness of face, dryness in throat, and subsequent red face.
• Erysipelas on one side of face and nose.
• Boils come out on face while taking Stram. (R.T.C.)
• Lips dry and glued together.
• A yellow streak in red part of lips.
• Quivering in lips.
• Distortion of the mouth.
• Crawling sensation on chin.
• Chewing motion with mouth.
• Mouth spasmodically closed.
• Lock-jaw.
21. MOUTH
• Dryness of mouth (dry fauces and dry, sticky lips).
• Dribbling of glairy saliva from mouth.
• Copious salivation.
• Saliva decreased.
• Sanguineous froth before mouth.
• Hemoptysis.
• Tongue swollen and paralysed.
• Tongue felt stiff, dry, and parched to the very root, as if edges rolled up as hard and dry
as leather.
• Tongue paralysed, trembles when put out.
• Imperfect speaking and stammering (with distortion of face).
• Continued murmurs.
• Complete loss of speech.
• A trembling tongue.
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23. GENERAL MODALITIES
Aggravation ; in dark ,when alone ,looking at bright or shining objects ,after sleep
,when attempting to swallow and in forenoon
Amelioration ; from bright red , from company and warmth bed
