Solanum mammosum
Plant · Solanaceae
A remedy affecting the mind and respiratory system, characterized by mental confusion with inability to concentrate, paradoxical sleep disturbance with sleepiness yet inability to sleep, and hemorrhagic mucus from the throat. The remedy shows lunar influence with symptoms worse at high tide and flood moon.
Key symptoms
- Irritability and inability to think
- Sleepiness without ability to sleep
- Hawking of blood-streaked mucus
- Sensitiveness to tobacco
- Sticking pain in hip-joint causing lameness
- Twitching of muscle below scapula
- Exasperation at thoughts of what may happen
Worse (aggravation)
- At time of flood tide and full moon
- Tobacco smoke
Better (amelioration)
- With ebb tide
- After long sleep
Apple of Sodom. N. O. Solanaceæ. Tincture of fresh ripe fruit.
Clinical
Coxalgia. Hæmoptysis. Irritability. Sleep, abnormal. Thought, difficult. Tobacco, effects of.
Characteristics
Hering is the authority for Sol. mam. The chief symptoms were: Irritability and inability to think; sleepiness, without being able to sleep; a kind of stupor < at time of flood tide, at the full moon, > with ebb tide; hawking of blood-streaked mucus; sensitiveness to tobacco.
1. Mind
Becomes exasperated at what he thinks may happen.─Inability for continuous thought, though with perfect comprehension of his subject; he could, when writing, only express himself in short, broken sentences.
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