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exhaustion., Now this occurs almost without any provocation. This hemorrhage occurs also inconnection with abortion. Belladonna is a great remedy to check the hemorrhage in connection withabortion or from any cause whatever where the symptoms of sensitiveness are present.sensitive to touch, sensitive to a jar; the patient herself is in that state of irritable sensitiveness,great nervous excitement manifested both when awake and in sleep; often with fever.Hemorrhage, with febrile conditions, but usually the hemorrhage takes the place of the fever,and commonly if there is hemorrhage it will relieve the fever.It is also a great remedy for hemorrhage after confinement.The blood feels hot. Hemorrhage, with hour-glass contraction. It is not an uncommon thing forthe placenta to be grasped in its middle by a contraction like an hour-glass tearing it loose here andthere, and from below comes the bleeding; a copious flow of blood. Bell. relieves this hour-glasscontraction.It has also the most violent dysmenorrhoea. Pains like labor- pains. Spasmodic labor-pains.Circular contractions are the commonest forms in Bell. All of the fibers should take part uniformly anddo their work uniformly, and thereby gradually bring to bear a tightening upon the contents. In Bell. itis just like a cord going around the body of the uterus, tightening it, and it interferes with labor. That isthe way it is in its dysmenorrhoea. Violent contraction of the circular fibers, and hence, a woman willoften describe it as feeling as if the uterus was clutched with a string. As if it were tightened. Bell. isrich in spasmodic conditions, in hemorrhagic conditions, in states of irritation, and in soreness;, and theparts are sensitive to pain, and the woman herself is dreadfully wrought up and shocked by pain. Inaddition to that, pains in the ovary.Belladonna acts in many instances on the right side. It is common for the right ovary to be morepainful than the left or the right to be, entirely affected and the left not at all, in Belladonna.So it is with the right side of the throat. So it is some times in the right side of the body. "Painsin the ovaries with the appearance of the menses. Pains in the pelvic region, which come on suddenly,and cease as suddenly". The characteristic Belladonna pains come on suddenly, sometimes stay a fewseconds, sometimes a few minutes, and leave suddenly. Pains from uterine congestion. Acuteinflammation of the uterus. "Enlargement of the uterus, and periodically spasmodic bearing down". Ithas a relaxation in the parts as well. The uterus has been congested and is enlarged, and heavy, and thelittle suspensory attachments have become relaxed, and tired, and weak, and have stretched andelongated, and the already distended and overweighted uterus keeps pulling on them, and this createsthe sensation that women so often describe, a bearing-down sensation as if the uterus would escape. Itis sometimes described as a funneling sensation.These are the expressions of women when they suffer from prolapsus. That relaxation iscommon in a great number that have been poisoned with Ergot. The uterus comes down and is partlyexposed between the labiae. Prolapsus as if the whole inner parts were coming out is a commonfeature, and with this she is worse from a jar. There is a great sensitiveness in the parts. There is a greatsoreness in the uterus, and a sensation of heaviness. I have seen women sit with their limbs wide apart,so sensitive is the neck of the uterus that is protruding from the vulva. "Must sit; cannot lie down".Many of the Bell. cases cannot lie down, because of the stretching of the abdominal muscles. Whenthey lie down they must draw up the limbs to relax those muscles. Must sit, or take a flexed posture.Great sensitiveness in the parts.Pressing and urging towards the genitals. There are all sorts of positions, and aggravations, andameliorations in Belladonna, in accordance with what particular muscles are involved. Some patientscan lie better than they can sit. Almost all are worse standing. Some are made better by sitting with thelimbs wide apart. Most are aggravated by bending forward too much. Sitting in a chair she cannot bendforward too much, neither can she bend backwards without increasing the suffering. So sensitive, andso much swelling in these parts. She is worse from motion, worse from jar, worse from excitement,worse from the slamming of the door, because that makes the muscles twitch. All this illustrates howsensitive the irritated parts are. Then in the external and internal genitals and ovaries there is burning,and twitching, and much heat. Often tearing pains; the tearing pains are generally an exaggeration ofthose clutchings and constrictions, and such are known as spasms especially of the circular fibers.Belladonna is well suited to pregnant women who are extremely sensitive, who are plethoric,who have congestion from taking cold, who have soreness, where there is threatened abortion, orduring or after abortion when there are hemorrhages. Then again Bell. is useful in red-faced plethoric,vigorous women who have married late in life and become pregnant, and when the day of deliverycomes the muscular fibers are in .a state of tension.The uterus will not relax. She is flushed and has heat, and is in a state of excitement, sensitive totouch, sensitive to jar.