Atropinum
Atropine (alkaloid from Atropa belladonna) · Plant · Solanaceae
Atropinum is indicated where the Belladonna picture is present with a more pronounced effect on vision, speech, and the pancreas. The remedy suits conditions of mania, epilepsy, and wryneck with dry mucous membranes, visual distortions, and hyperaesthesia of multiple sensory nerves, especially on the right side.
Key symptoms
- Visual illusions; everything appears large, elongated, or in a cloud; motes, stars, flashes
- Spectral illusions; sees insects and crawling things, tries to catch them
- Mania with tendency to escape; frenzied excitement; delirium with headache
- Mouth and throat dry; tongue thick and semi-paralysed; speech stuttering and chattering
- Sticking pains in head worse on every motion and stepping
- Head very hot; headaches of epileptics
- Epilepsy; convulsions; spinal irritation; wryneck
Worse (aggravation)
- Every motion and stepping (sticking headache worse)
Better (amelioration)
- Moving in open air (sticking temple pain relieved)
- After vomiting (stomach pains relieved)
Atropine. An alkaloid of Belladonna. C17 H23 NO3. The effects of the Sulphate of Atropine, the preparation most in use, are included. Solution.
Clinical
Blepharospasm. Convulsions. Enuresis. Epilepsy. Eyes, affections of. Gastric ulcer. Locomotor ataxy. Mania. Neuralgias. Pancreatitis. Spinal irritation. Stammering. Tetanus. Vision, disorders of. Wryneck.
Characteristics
Atropine, as the most active principle in Belladonna, produces, as we should expect, most of the characteristic effects of that drug; but at the same time the two are not identical. Atrop. produces hyperæsthesia of the sensory nerves. The most numerous symptoms have been observed in the eyes. All kinds of illusions of vision. Everything appears large. Motes over everything. I once cured with it a lady who had an appearance of shadows passing over whatever she looked at. It has shown an affinity for the pancreas, which relates it to Iod., Kali iod., and Iris. A case of chronic wryneck, of three years' standing, was relieved and …
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