Datura metel
Plant · Solanaceae
Datura Metel suits individuals with extreme timidity combined with delirium, spasms, and perverted vision. Mental symptoms are prominent with inability to judge distances and ridiculous behavior. Pulse and temperature undergo extreme fluctuations of exaltation and depression.
Key symptoms
- Soporose condition followed by delirium and spasms
- Vociferous or garrulous delirium
- Excessive timidity in the patient
- Picks at real or imaginary objects
- Performs ridiculous antics
- Extreme dilatation of pupils
- Flickering before eyes with sensitiveness to light
- Patient remembers nothing after the delirium passes
Indian Datura. N. O. Solanaceæ. Trituration of seeds.
Clinical
Convulsions. Delirium. Epilepsy. Eye, affections of. Mania. Timidity.
Characteristics
Datur. metel causes a soporose condition, and later delirium and spasms. The soporose state may be absent. Delirium may be vociferous, or merely garrulous. Patient usually manifests excessive timidity. Picks at real or imaginary objects. Performs ridiculous antics. Several movements appear due to perverted vision, and inability to judge distances. After the delirium, patient remembers nothing of what has occurred. Extreme dilatation of pupils. Flickering before eyes with sensitiveness to light. Pulse and temperature undergo extremes of exaltation and depression.
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