Hyoscyamus niger may be used as a Homeopathic or used simply as a micro-nutritional ( botanical). Homeopathic potencies accredit their strength and efficacy to the electromagnetic signatures of the original substrate; these are scientifically created dilutions and succussions of medicines such that generally not even a molecule of the original substrate or medicine is present in the medicine.

As a Homeopathic or used simply as a micro-nutritional, Hyoscyamus niger has demonstrated effectiveness against the following symptomology: -suitable to irritable and excitable persons, especially to pregnant and parturient women; -sleep too full of dreams from cerebral excitement or from feverishness, arising from jealousy, unhappy love, fright or during the course of febrile diseases or convulsions; -insomnia of children when they twitch in sleep, cry out and tremble and awaken frightened; child wakes up hungry from sleep (Lilienthal)