Dirca Palustris
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General EN
Dirca Palustris.
Leatherwood. Moosewood. Wicopy. N. O. Thymelaceae. Tincture of inner bark of branches.
Clinical EN
Colic. Constipation. Cough. Debility. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Eyes, affections of. Flatulence. Headache. Heart, affections of. Neuralgia. Rheumatism.
Characteristics EN
Dirca belongs to the same family as Daphne Indica and Mezereum, and is the only American member of the family. Its symptoms show its relationship to the other two, but it has not been used extensively in practice. It produces much vital depression; neuralgic pains in the head, trunk, and extremities, many of the pains proceeding from without inward. Digestion is disordered, there is weight at the stomach, and a peculiar white tongue, the coating being moist and even.
Rumbling of flatulence. Colic > by bending forward, diarrhoea and tenesmus, later constipation. Oppression and pains in the chest, sweetish expectoration, and excitability of the heart's action from the slightest motion. Hot and restless at night; cannot sleep; dreams of dead bodies.
Motion < most symptoms; walking < vertigo and pain in bowels. Colic is > by bending forward; headache > by pressure. Pains in the bowels are > by stool.
Relations EN
Compare: Can. i. (time passes slowly); Ant. c. (tongue); Lyc. (constipation and flatulence); Bry., Puls., Abies. n., &c. (weight at stomach); Stan. (sweet expectoration).
Mind EN
Time seemed to pass slowly.—Absent-minded.
Head EN
Vertigo on walking; seems as if he would fall to l
Pains all through the head, vertex, and occiput, extending down into spine
Sensation as if lobes of cerebrum were drawn forward towards frontal sinuses
Headache in temples extending inwards;
> by hard pressure
Headache, throbbing, and beating in l. half of head, < by coughing or moving
Pain high up in occiput extending inwards
Awoke with pain low down in occiput, much < on raising or accidentally moving head in morning;
< towards noon, and went up over vertex to forehead, and there had a strong congestive headache, with throbbing of carotids, lasting till evening and gradually disappearing
Scalp feels dry and tight.
Eyes EN
Eyes sore; and painful to touch
Sensation as if brows corrugated; and as if brain were also drawn down
Lids heavy
Much photophobia; on waking and continuing all day; esp. from gaslight.
Face EN
Face red, full, and bloated in morning.
Mouth EN
Tongue coated smoothly and evenly white
Smooth, dirty, white coat
Sour taste.
Throat EN
Throat red, raw; acrid feeling; hurts to swallow food or liquids.
Stomach EN
No thirst
Empty eructations
Uneasy feeling as if a lump or weight in stomach.
Abdomen EN
Several lancinations in l. hypochondrium with tympanites
Burning below umbilicus
Rumbling in bowels
Colic > bending forward; and > by stool, but smarting in anus remains
Burning and uncomfortable sensation in bowels
Pain in bowels on walking, also painful on pressure
Dull ache low down in pelvis; bearing down, not > by sitting or lying, but > when headache >.
Stool And Anus EN
Throbbing, stitching pains in anus
Soreness and smarting, < after stool
Tenesmus and straining
Diarrhoeic stools; sudden, gushing, watery; thin, yellowish faecal
Constipation; urgent desire, but passes only frothy mucus
Dry, sticky feces.
Urinary Organs EN
Pain and soreness in region of bladder.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Uterus seems too low, and as if it would prolapse during stool.—Menses two days too early; less copious and prolonged than usual.
Respiratory Organs EN
Stinging pains in larynx from without inwards; very sharp pricking pain and sensation of suffocation
Cough < morning
Raising sweetish-tasting mucus quite offensive
Great dyspnoea from exertion; from walking up a slight elevation
Sharp pain in r. thorax running down into abdomen and up into l. shoulder.
Heart EN
Excitability of heart's action from least motion
Palpitation on going up slight elevation
Pulse suddenly becomes weak and irregular.
Back EN
Heavy pain across back and through loins; in region of kidneys.
Upper Limbs EN
Dull, neuralgic pain in both shoulders, cannot keep them still.
Lower Limbs EN
Muscles of thighs sore and stiff.—Neuralgic pains in legs.
Sleep EN
Sleepy but unable to sleep.—Dreams of dead bodies.