Datura ferox
Plant · Solanaceae
Datura Ferox suits conditions of acute mental alienation with raving delirium, dancing, and unintelligible speech. The peculiar keynote of dancing when music is heard may guide prescribing in certain maniacal states. It resembles Belladonna in dryness of mouth and Solanaceae mental features.
Key symptoms
- Raving madness from poisoning
- Complete loss of mind within a quarter of an hour
- Dizziness and sleepiness with eyes open
- Springs up raving and utters unintelligible words when disturbed
- Begins to dance in Javanese fashion when someone sings
- Dryness of mouth as with Belladonna
Chinese datura. N. O. Solanaceæ. Trituration of seeds. Tincture of unripe fruit.
Clinical
Delirium. Mania.
Characteristics
Poisoning with this drug causes raving madness. A girl who ate half an unripe fruit manifested the following: Completely out of her mind in a quarter of an hour, dizzy, sleepy; slept with eyes open; if disturbed, sprang up raving and uttered unintelligible words; if one sang she began to dance in the Javanese fashion. This symptom may prove a keynote in certain cases of mental alienation. Dryness of mouth was also noted in this case, as with Bell. and other Solanaceæ.
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