SOLANUM NIGRUMLiquid

Solanum nigrum is a well-known homoeopathic medicine derived from the Black Nightshade plant of Solanaceae family. It acts deeply on the nervous system, brain, eyes, skin, and respiratory tract, showing marked effects in conditions involving tetanic spasms, delirium, skin eruptions, and fever states. It is particularly helpful in meningitis, brain irritation, scarlet fever, and toxic states marked by black or ulcerating skin lesions. Solanum nigrum is also used for violent restlessness, vertigo, and eye disorders with visual disturbances.

Common Name
English: Black Nightshade
Hindi: Kamuni

SBL’s Solanum nigrum can be helpful in the following conditions:

• Nervous System and Brain Complaints

• Useful in ergotism, with stiffness, spasms, and mania.
• Meningitis and brain irritation, especially in children.
• Helps in restlessness, night terrors, and violent convulsions.
• Treats apoplectic states, with stupor, flushed face, and irregular pulse.
• Addresses complete cessation of mental faculties with coma or delirium.

• Headache & Amaurosis

• Provides relief in congestive and throbbing headaches, especially above the eyes and temples.
• Treats vertigo on rising, stooping, or moving about, with nausea and dizziness.
• Eye pain, sensitivity to light, and floating spots before eyes.
• Helpful in alternate dilation and contraction of pupils, with weak sight and flickering.
• Soothes burning, red, swollen, and sore eyes and lids.

• Coryza & Bloated Face

• Relieves acute coryza, with profuse watery discharge from the right nostril.
• Treats nasal blockage and burning with chills and alternating heat.
• Face may appear bloated, swollen, or red, with painful skin or blackened patches.
• Manages sharp neuralgic pain from jaw to ear and dry, blistered lips.

• Respiratory Difficulty

• Solanum nigrum helps in chest constriction, difficult breathing, and tickling cough.
• Useful in thick yellow expectoration and cutting pain in the chest, especially left side.
• Helps in cases of scarlet fever with respiratory and skin symptoms.

• Digestive and Abdominal Complaints

• Treats loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting of blackish or greenish fluid.
• Alleviates burning pain in the stomach, colic, and ineffectual urging.
• Helps in abdominal distension, knife-like pains, and urge to lie down.
• Pressure in stomach either constant or in paroxysms.

• Stool and Bowel Issues

• Manages diarrhea, yellow watery stools, and burning sensation after passing stool.
• Relieves constipation with hard, dry stools.

• Musculoskeletal and Limb Pains

• Wandering pains moving from shoulders to arms, then lower limbs. Severe limb pain, especially in the evening. Drawing pains in arms and feet.
• Solanum nigrum aids in crawling and compression in the calf, swelling of feet with soreness in legs when walking, as if bruised.
• Unsteady gait with trembling in thigh muscles; general weakness and soreness, especially on the left.
• Treats sharp and shooting pains in left arm and wrist; discoloration of palms and fingertips with vesicular eruptions.

• Skin Disorders

• Useful in scarlet fever-like rashes, itching, burning, and painful eruptions.
• Treats vesicles, blisters, and black or desquamated patches on extremities.
• Aids healing in ulcers, crusty eruptions, and sloughing skin.

• Fever and Inflammation

• Indicated in high fever with profuse sweat, alternating chills and heat.
• Useful in burning, dry heat, flushes across the face, and disturbed sleep.
• Fever with pain in the upper chest or upper belly area, a swollen or bloated abdomen, sometimes screams or grabs at their stomach.

• Heart and Circulation

• Helps in irregular pulse, rapid or faint heartbeat, and anxious feeling in chest.
• Solanum nigrum is useful in circulatory sluggishness and varicose veins.