UPPER RESPIRATORY INFECTION AND BELLADONNA

Belladona

Cause:

Exposure to draught of cold air, uncovering the head, from hair cut, summer sun.

Symptoms indicating URI pyrexia

·         Nose red and swollen

·         Coryza; mucus mixed with blood

·         Throat dry, as if glazed; red, worse on right side

·         Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse liquids

·         Oesophagus dry, feels contracted

·         Sensation of a lump. Continual inclination to swallow.

·         Dryness in throat, fauces, larynx and trachea.

·         Tickling, dry, short cough; worse at night.

·         Larynx ver painful.

·         Fever, high, with sudden rise.

·         Fever with burning, steaming heat.

·         No thirst with fever

·         Perspiration only on covered parts or absent.

·         Skin red, hot esp. red face with throbbing of carotids.

·         Pulse strong and quick

Concomitants:

·         Acuteness of all senses.

·         Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow.

·         Headache and congestion, esp. in forehead, also in occiput and temples.

·         Headache with throbbing of carotids.

·         Pain worse light, noise, and jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure.

·         Conjunctiva red; dry, burning, with photophobia.

·         Sleeplessness, with drowsiness.

Modalities:

< Touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying down

> Semi-erect