Solanum Nigrum

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Solanum Nigrum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
GENERAL
  • Hale said some country practitioners used Sol-n with much success under the impression that it was “an indigenous Belladonna,” having been misled by the name “nightshade.” Hale verified its use in meningitis and headache.
  • Also in scarlatinaScarlet fever bacterial infectionAnother term for scarlet fever, an acute contagious bacterial disease causing a red rash. when the erup tion is blotchy.
  • He justly pointed out the close affinity of Sol-n with Bell.: Delirium, headache, flushed face, sparkling eyes, pains coming and going suddenly, fiery rashes, burning skin and sweat.
  • “Frightful” headaches.
  • Splitting, throb bing, bursting, piercing headaches, worse by least movement of head, least movement after sitting, light, noise, stooping.
  • Headache is worse in a warm room and better in open air.
  • Great sensitiveness to cold air.
  • Marked action on head and eyes.
  • Brain irritation during dentition.
  • Restlessness of a violent and convulsive nature.
  • Formication with contract ion of limbs.
  • Ergotism with tetanic spasms and stiffness of whole body with mania.
  • Black appearance, bruised feeling all over the body.
  • Chronic intestinal toxemia
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better closing eyes.
  • Worse by touch, motion.
  • Worse moving head, beginning to move after sitting.
  • Worse walking (inclines to left), misstep.
  • Worse swallowing.
  • Worse morning on waking, light.
  • Worse bright sunshine (eyes).
  • Nose - Acute coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge., profuse, watery dis charge from right nostril, left stopped up with chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. sensation, alternating with heat
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Bell. (2) Sol- m. - pain in left hip joint. (3) Sol-t. - cramps in calves and contraction
of fingers, spitting through closed teeth. (4) Sol -v. recommended in facial paralysis . (5) Sol -a. - threatening
paralysis of the lungs in the course of bron chitis in the aged and children must cough a long time before able
to raise expectoration. (6) Sol-ps. - acute pains in lower abdomen, Sol -t. (7) Aegrotans - diseased potato. (8)
Sol-t. Potato berries - cramps in the calves of the legs and fingers.

MIND
  • Mania.
  • Furious deliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations., characterized by the cephalic cry, efforts to escape and stammering speech.
  • Night-terrors.
  • Complete cessation of the mental faculties due to headaches.
  • Mania.
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with a terrible headache and complete cessation of the mental faculties.
  • The vertigo is worse on moving the head.
  • Sensation as if the bed was being rapidly turned in a circle.
  • Inclines to left on walking.
  • COMMENTS - The provings and symptoms of poisoning cases are unu sually distinctive.
  • Tendency to blackness of the skin.
  • Painful swelling, it enlarges, becomes shiny, hard and deep red and in several places, quite black.
  • Marked dilatationStretching or widening of a vessel or organThe state of being dilated or stretched beyond normal dimensions (e.g., dilatation of the heart). of the pupils (Bell.).
  • Dryness of mouth and throat.
  • Spasms, convulsions and tetanic rigidity of the whole body.
  • “In the midst of these convulsions the children frequently stretch out their little hands, then carry them eagerly to their mouths and go through the motions of chewing and swallowing.” A patient of Cooper’s, after one dose of the tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water., patches of psoriasisSkin disease causing scaly red patchesA skin disease that causes red, itchy, scaly patches, most commonly on the knees, elbows, trunk, and scalp. on the knees, elbows and forehead, scaly with red irritating spots at roots of hair disappeared.
  • The day after taking a single dose of tincture, another patient of Cooper’s had, “Head feels full across forehead, eyes heav y and forehead burns, could not apply himself to work.”
HEAD
  • Terrible headaches and complete cessation of the mental faculties.
  • Congestive headaches (Bell.).
  • Splitting, throb bing, bursting, piercing pains.
  • Headaches at 10 a.m.
  • Headache causes him to close eyes.
  • Headaches, worse by least movement of head, light, noise, stooping.
EYES
  • Pain over both eyes.
  • Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils, weak sight, floating spots
CHEST
  • Pain in left side, sore to touch.
  • Constrictive feeling in chest with difficult breathing, cough with tickling in throat.
  • Expectoration thick, yellow
SLEEP
  • Night terrors.
  • Temperature - Alternation of coldness and heat.
  • Scarlet fever, eruption in spots, large and vivid
GENERALITIES
  • Brain as if swimming.
  • As if things moving in a circle, when stooping.
  • As if brain shaking about in skull, on moving head.
  • As if head would split.
  • As from a blow on forehead.
  • As if sand in eyes.
  • As if splinter in right tonsil.
  • Tongue as if scalded.
  • Pai ns come and go suddenly.
  • Symptoms extend upward.
  • Right upper, left lower.
  • Alternate coldness and heat

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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