Schizophrenia medication linked to graveyard

The Miraculous Power of Allah: Stramonium, the Mysterious Plant of the Graveyard

By Classical Homoeopathic Doctor Sohail Ahmed, popularly known as Nawab Ahmed Mirza

One cannot help but marvel at the power of Allah, who causes a plant associated with the treatment of patients suffering from schizophrenia and madness to grow in the eerie surroundings of graveyards.

Friends, Homoeopathy has several world-renowned remedies that, according to homoeopathic practice, are used for patients suffering from schizophrenia and severe mental disturbances. However, the final decision to prescribe or withhold a remedy rests with the treating physician. One of the fundamental principles of Homoeopathy is the Law of Similars: like cures like. Just as iron is said to cut iron, or light can overcome darkness, only light can dispel darkness.

Today, I am going to tell you the story of a terrifying plant that grows abundantly in graveyards. I have used the homoeopathic medicine prepared from this plant in numerous cases involving patients with schizophrenia and severe mental disturbances, and I have witnessed remarkable improvements in some of them. Let us understand the nature of such patients by exploring the resemblance between their symptoms and the characteristics attributed to this mysterious plant.

Why does this plant seem to grow around the walls and gateways of graveyards? Why has it been described as the devil among devils?

To understand this remedy, you would have to visit a graveyard in the darkness of night. Some medicines take an entire lifetime to understand. When a person is possessed by a passion for learning and blessed by Allah, hidden secrets begin to unfold. Stramonium is one such remedy.

Come along, and let me take you on a midnight tour of a graveyard, when the full moon floats across the sky and dogs and cats howl in fear and terror.

In rural areas, young and beautiful girls who were devastated by failed love affairs would sometimes attempt suicide by consuming the petals of this very flower. Just as the flower is poisonous, its fruit is poisonous as well. In Urdu and Hindi, it is called Dhatura, while it is referred to in English in this article as the Devil’s Tree.

Its characteristics are all reminiscent of the devil. Lesser devils supposedly avoid crossing its path, while even the greater ones lack the courage to look it in the eye.

Remember, it is claimed that around 70% of cases attributed to black magic and jinn-related influences can be addressed with this remedy. From a physiological perspective, disturbances in the balance of neurotransmitter activity in the brain may be associated with altered mental states. Otherwise, there is hardly any greater devil or demon than this plant, given the terrifying reputation attributed to it. It grows in the very environment in which, according to popular supernatural beliefs, jinn and devils are said to dwell.

This plant is highly poisonous, which is precisely why it holds such an important place in Homoeopathy. It is even said that the fragrance of its flowers can profoundly affect the human mind.

This plant does not merely grow in remote forests, wildernesses, or deserts. It can also appear spontaneously around the gates and boundary walls of graveyards.

A graveyard far from the city is already an eerie place at night. Under the light of a full moon, when the moon hangs high in the sky, the atmosphere can become even more unsettling. The silence is often interrupted by the cries, howls, and whimpering sounds of dogs and cats.

If you have the courage to visit the boundary wall of a deserted graveyard on a moonlit night, carrying a camera and a flashgun, and carefully observe the flowers and leaves of this plant, you may learn a great deal. Each of its characteristics may become clearer to you.

At one moment, you might imagine that something resembling a divine light has flashed over a grave; at another, you might feel as though a dark shadow is hovering over it. This plant, in my interpretation, absorbs every movement and influence of its surroundings.

When dogs, cats, and wolves venture out into the darkness of night in search of food, the leaves of this plant fold inward. Even when these animals howl in fear under the full moon, the branches and leaves continue to move.

Why are these animals—dogs, cats, and wolves—so frightened of the full moon, especially on the fourteenth night of the lunar month? I shall discuss that later.

This is the dance of life and death, the diabolical cycle of existence. Fear, terror, and what people describe as spiritual influences—all these are believed to leave their mark on this plant.

It seems to connect the world of the living with the imagery of the Hereafter. Some of its roots may penetrate the soil within the graveyard, while others extend into the world beyond its boundary walls. In this symbolic interpretation, the plant carries a mixture of associations with both this world and the world to come.

I once came across several clinical cases in the book Meri Nakamiyaan (My Failures) by my respected teacher, Mirza Anwar Baig Sahib, a renowned Indian surgeon and homoeopath.

One of the cases was as follows:

A fifteen-year-old boy went to a graveyard with some friends on the night of Shab-e-Barat to offer prayers for the deceased. Something frightened him there. The following morning, he developed a high fever and entered a state of mental confusion. He began rapidly reciting verses from the Holy Quran, even though he did not know how to read the Quran.

Whenever a religious scholar or spiritual practitioner recited a Quranic passage, the boy would immediately begin repeating the same verses, even faster than the person reciting them.

After taking the case, Stramonium was prescribed. According to the account, the boy’s mental as well as physical condition improved.

The religious scholars who were treating him were uncomfortable with my presence. One of them even said, “Doctor Sahib, leave. This is beyond your capabilities.”

The deepest action attributed to this remedy is on the brain.

More than 220 years ago, Samuel Hahnemann, the great physician who founded Homoeopathy, experimented with this drug on healthy human beings. During these provings, he reported that it produced similar symptoms of mental disturbance and altered consciousness in several individuals.

These observations were recorded in Fragmenta de Viribus Medicamentorum Positivis in 1805. Subsequently, Hahnemann’s colleagues also conducted further experiments on dozens of healthy volunteers, many of whom reportedly experienced similar symptoms.

The proving of Stramonium was later included in Materia Medica Pura. Hering also conducted a proving of this drug, and its symptoms were recorded in Hering’s Guiding Symptoms.

What Was the Chemical Mechanism of Stramonium During Drug Proving?

Stramonium contains chemical constituents that block specific receptors for acetylcholine, a chemical messenger involved in communication within the brain and nervous system.

Under normal circumstances, acetylcholine plays an important role in attention, memory, the processing of sensory information, and the brain’s ability to interpret its surroundings accurately.

When the constituents of Stramonium block these receptors, the normal processing and interpretation of sensory information can become significantly disturbed.

According to the accounts of healthy individuals who participated in drug provings, a number of striking symptoms were observed.

The most prominent feature was overwhelming fear accompanied by delirium. Patients were described as experiencing wild, continuous, and incoherent speech, shouting, and delirious behaviour.

Other symptoms included visual and auditory hallucinations, repeatedly offering prayers, seeing terrifying objects, hearing voices or perceiving things that were not actually present, sudden anger, violent behaviour, muscular spasms or jerking movements, a flushed red face, and bright, glaring eyes.

Such individuals might lie down in different positions while talking, repeatedly change their location, and constantly look for an opportunity to escape.

They might fear being alone and therefore seek the company of other people. Darkness and anything shiny or brightly illuminated might frighten them. They might also experience fear of water, rain, thunder and lightning, dogs, cats, and mirrors.

Some might speak abusively about themselves, plead desperately, or repeatedly beg for help.

According to the symptom picture described in classical homoeopathic literature, a person experiencing an intense and disturbed emotional state following a failed love affair may exhibit extreme anger or destructive behaviour towards the person they believe has rejected them. In the most disturbing situations, this may include acid attacks or arson, followed in some cases by suicide.

The patient may tremble violently with fear and cling tightly to others for protection.

On one side there is terror; on the other, madness. On one side there is helplessness and cowardice; on the other, an intense fear of light.

One moment the person laughs, the next they cry, and moments later they begin making desperate promises or swearing oaths. In one instant they become enraged; in the next, they whimper and plead.

In short, the picture appears to contain contradictory and rapidly changing states.

Why does this happen?

I have already explained the symbolic association of this plant with the graveyard. One side represents death within the graveyard, while the other represents life beyond its walls.

Thus, the dance between life and death, love and hatred, fear and aggression becomes a central theme in this interpretation of Stramonium.

We encounter numerous patients in our societies whose symptoms may resemble aspects of this picture.

Alhamdulillah, this medicine has made a significant contribution to my professional recognition and reputation.

Dear readers, the purpose of today’s article was to introduce the general public and patients to the Homoeopathic Law of Similars and to explain how this principle is understood in homoeopathic practice.

The basic idea is that a patient whose symptoms closely resemble the symptom picture associated with a particular medicine may, according to homoeopathic theory, be prescribed that medicine in a potentised form.

The objective is to address the illness through the principle of similarity, rather than administering the crude substance in its original toxic form.

In Homoeopathy, drug provings are conducted to investigate the effects of medicinal substances and identify the symptoms associated with them. These provings are traditionally described as having been carried out on healthy human volunteers rather than being restricted to a single patient.

The volunteers recorded their sensations, thoughts, dreams, fears, and even the precise locations of their physical complaints.

Different age groups and groups of men and women were included in these investigations. Particular attention was also given to symptoms associated with sex-specific conditions.

The records of these drug provings have been preserved in the form of Materia Medica, which continues to serve as a fundamental source of reference for homoeopathic practitioners.

Approximately two and a half centuries of homoeopathic literature have accumulated, and its classical remedy descriptions remain an important part of the tradition. This, in my view, represents the enduring character of the system.

Dear readers, an individual homoeopath can make a mistake, but Homoeopathy itself, in my understanding, is a creation of nature and spirituality and cannot be wrong.

Just yesterday, a respected female doctor was discussing the frightening and astonishing effects of a particular plant, which can cause memory loss in human beings.

Her discussion immediately reminded me of the extraordinary power of Allah’s creation.

The same plant, when investigated through drug proving, may produce symptoms such as delirium, convulsions, and memory loss. Yet, according to the Homoeopathic Law of Similars, that same substance, when prepared in homoeopathic potency, may be prescribed for a patient presenting with a similar symptom picture.

Friends, can you now appreciate the deeper lesson?

Allah has not created anything without purpose. Every plant may hold secrets waiting to be explored and understood.

When I searched the name of the plant mentioned in the curious post shared by that female doctor, I discovered in my homoeopathic literature that its proving had already been documented in Homoeopathy approximately two and a half centuries ago.

SubhanAllah!

This reminds us of the saying that Allah has not created a disease without also creating its remedy. We simply need to explore nature and uncover its hidden secrets.

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Written and researched by: Classical Homoeopathic Doctor Sohail Ahmed, popularly known as Nawab Ahmed Mirza.