Solanacee

Solanaceae is a book written by Betty Wood and taken from a seminar she organised for the NEHA (New England Homeopathic Association), which lasted seven days and was held in Boston. Belladonna is a giant in our literature, certainly one of those remedies in the repertory with an exaggerated number of symptoms which, in my opinion, only correspond to it to a very small extent.
Between around 30,000 symptoms in the repertory and the approximately 300 that are truly significant for each remedy, the disproportion is enormous. We still hear colleagues argue that Belladonna is a remedy limited to acute cases: it is right to respect the opinions of others as much as we respect what is reported in our literature and, above all, the impossibility of closing our eyes and minds to the experience we have had with patients.
Belladonna, and several other similar remedies, is a very useful remedy and, as such, recognisable and usable in any circumstance, with undeniable evidence in many chronic patients.
As in my first book on methodology, Praxis, I wanted to emphasise what I have observed since the beginning of my clinical experience: how much the homeopathic relationship between remedies transcends botanical taxonomies and how, within those classifications, we find remedies that are not at all similar. Belladonna can certainly be confused with Stramonium, Hyosciamus, Mandragora, Solanum nigrum, Datura metel and other botanical solanaceae, but in my experience it has almost nothing to do with Tabacum, Capsicum, Dulcamara, Lycopersicum, Solanum tuberosum and others. On the other hand, Gallicum acidum, Lyssinum, Tanacetum, and others show extremely interesting similarities in their homeopathic profile, which are illustrated in the text through cases followed up over a long period of time.
Notes on natural history, materia medica, clinical cases with long follow-ups and authorised by the patient, repertorial additions, differential diagnoses, pathologies and syndromes successfully treated in my personal case history for the following remedies:
1) Belladonna
2) Mandragora
3) Gallicum acidum
4) Solanum nigrum
5) Lyssinum
6) Hyosciamus niger
7) Capsicum
8) Dulcamara
9) Tabacum
10) Solanum tuberosum aegrotans
11) Lycopersicum esculentum
12) Solanum tuberosum