DULCAMARA
Bitter-sweet
Hot days and bloodless nights in the direction of the shut of summer time are in particular favorable to the motion of Dulcamara, and is one of the redress that correspond in their signs and symptoms to the stipulations located as consequences of damp weather, colds after publicity to wet, specifically diarrhoea. It has a unique relation additionally to the skin, glands, and digestive organs, mucous membranes secreting extra profusely whilst the pores and skin is inactive. The rheumatic troubles brought on via damp cold are aggravated through each bloodless exchange and incredibly relieved with the aid of transferring about. Results from sitting on cold, damp ground. Icy coldness. One-sided spasms with speechlessness. Paralysis of single parts. Congestive headache, with neuralgia and dry nose. Patients dwelling or working in damp, bloodless basements (Nat sulph). Eruptions on hands, hands or face round the menstrual period.
Head.–Mental confusion. Occipital ache ascending from nape of neck. Headache relieved with the aid of conversation. Rejects matters requested for. Back phase of head chilly, heavy, aching, at some stage in bloodless weather. Ringworm of scalp. Scaldhead, thick brown crusts, bleeding when scratched. Buzzing in head.
Nose.–Dry coryza. Complete stoppage of nose. Stuffs up when there is a bloodless rain. Thick, yellow mucus, bloody crusts. Profuse coryza. Wants nostril stored warm, least bloodless air stops the nose. Coryza of the new born.
Eyes.–Every time he takes bloodless it settles in eyes. Thick, yellow discharge; granular lids. Hay-fever; profuse, watery discharge, worse in open air.
Ears.–Earache, buzzing, stitches, and swelling of parotids. Middle-ear catarrh (Merc dulc; Kal mur).
Face.–Tearing in cheek extending to ear, orbit, and jaw, preceded by way of coldness of parts, and attended by using dogs hunger. Humid eruption on cheeks and face generally.
Mouth.–Saliva tenacious, soapy. Dry, tough tongue, difficult scraping in throat, after taking bloodless in damp weather. Cold-sores on lips. Facial neuralgia; worse, slightest publicity to cold.
Stomach.–Vomiting of white, tenacious mucus. Aversion to food. Burning thirst for bloodless drinks. Heartburn. Nausea accompanies the want for stool. Chilliness throughout vomiting.
Abdomen.–Colic from cold. Acts prominently on umbilical region. Cutting ache about navel. Swelling of inguinal glands (Merc).
Stool.–Green, watery, slimy, bloody, mucus, specially in summer, when the climate all at once will become cold; from damp, bloodless climate and repelled eruptions.
Urine.–Must urinate when getting chilled. Strangury, painful micturition. Catarrh of bladder from taking cold. Urine has thick, mucous, purulent sediment. Ischuria from wading with naked ft in bloodless water.
Female.–Suppression of menses from bloodless or dampness. Before look of menses, a rash seems on skin, or sexual excitement. Dysmenorrhoea, with blotches all over; mammae engorged and sore, delicate, touchy to cold.
Respiratory.–Cough worse cold, moist weather, with free expectoration, tickling in larynx. Cough, hoarse, spasmodic. Whooping-cough, with immoderate secretion of mucus. Winter coughs, dry, teasing. Asthma with dyspnoea. Loose, rattling cough; worse moist weather. Must cough a lengthy time to expel phlegm. Cough after bodily exertion.
Back.–Stiff neck. Pain in small of back, as after lengthy stooping. Stiffness and lameness throughout neck and shoulders, after getting bloodless and wet.
Extremities.–Paralysis; paralyzed limbs, toes icy cold. Warts on hands. Perspiration on arms of hands. Pain in shin-bones. Rheumatism alternates with diarrhoea. Rheumatic signs after acute pores and skin eruptions.
Skin.–Adenitis. Pruritus, continually worse in cold, moist weather. Herpes zoster, pemphigus. Swelling and indurated glands from cold. Vesicular eruptions. Sensitive bleeding ulcers. Little boils. Red spots, urticaria, added on by means of exposure, or bitter stomach. Humid eruptions on face, genitals, hands, etc. Warts, large, smooth, on face and palmar floor of hands. Anasarca. Thick, brown-yellow crusts, bleeding when scratched.
Fever.–Dry burning warmth all over. Chilliness in the direction of evening, mainly in back. Icy coldness, with pains. Dry warmth and burning of skin. Chilliness with thirst.
Modalities.–Worse, at night; from bloodless in general, damp, wet weather. Better, from transferring about, exterior warmth.
Relationship.–Antidotes: Camph; Cupr.
Complementary: Baryta carb.
Incompatible: Bellad; Laches.
Compare: Pimpinello–(Bibernell).–Respiratory mucous membrane touchy to draughts, ache and coldness in occiput and nape. Whole physique weak; heavy head and drowsiness; lumbago and stiff neck; ache from nape to shoulder; chilliness. Rhus; Cimicif; Calc; Puls; Bry; Nat sulph.
Dose.–Second to thirtieth potency.
