Dulcamara

► Cannot find the right word. ► Mental confusion, cannot concentrate his thoughts. ► Delirium at night, with pain. ► Asks for one or another thing, rejecting it when proffered. ► Depressed. ► Inclination to scold, without being angry. ► Restless, quarrelsome.

► On awaking, morning, dizzy, dark before the eyes, trembling and weakness. ► Dulness of senses.

► Boring, burning, in forehead, with digging in brain ; worse from motion, even talking ; head heavy. ► Dull headache, continuous ; pain in head, chest and stomach, with great uneasiness, depressed spirits, labored respiration, mental confusion, cannot concentrate his thoughts. ► Congestion to head, buzzing in ears, dull hearing ; worse from getting feet wet. ► Sensations of a board pressing against the forehead. ► Chilliness in cerebellum, and over the back, returning every evening ; cerebellum and whole head as if enlarged ; worse cold damp ; damp weather ; worse until 2 P.M. ; better lying down.

► Sensation of chilliness in cerebellum and over the back ; feeling as if the hair stood on end ; recurs every evening. ► Ringworm of scalp ; glands about throat swollen. ► Thick crusts on scalp, causing hair to fall out.

► Aching in eyes when reading ; sight dim ; scintillations ; worse at rest. ► Threatened amaurosis in scrofulous children. ► Dim sight, sees as through a gauze. ► Ophthalmia ; scrofulous, from every exposure to cold. ► Paralysis of the upper lids.

► Buzzing in the ears. ► Dull pains, humming in ears, obtuse hearing. ► Earache ; nausea ; buzzing ; worse at night and when still. ► Swelling of parotids ; also after measles.

► Nosebleed, hot, clear blood ; pressure above nose ; worse after getting wet. ► Coryza, dry ; better during motion ; worse during rest ; renewed by the slightest exposure. ► Severe coryza, skin hot, dry ; limbs cold, stiff, numb and painful ; general offensive sweat. ► Nasal catarrh dry, in a dry atmosphere.

► Complexion pale, watery or milky. ► Face pale, with circumscribed red cheeks. ► Faceache and asthma, after disappearance of tetters in face. ► Humid eruptions on cheeks. ► Face bloated. θ Dropsy. ► Thick brown-yellow crusts on face, forehead and chin ; crusta lactea.

► Twitching of lips when in the cold air. ► Mouth distorted ; drawn ; to one side.

► Toothache from cold, especially with diarrhoea ; confusion in head ; profuse salivation ; teeth feel blunt, or as if asleep. ► Scurvy ; from cold. ► Receding, spongy gums ; ptyalism.

► Bitter taste. ► Itching, crawling on tip of tongue. ► Mouth and tongue dry. ► Dry, swollen tongue. ► Inarticulate speech from a swollen tongue, but talks incessantly. ► Tongue and jaws become lame, if cold air or water chills him. ► Tongue paralyzed cold.

► Saliva tenacious soap-like ; gums spongy. ► Increased flow of saliva. ► Mouth dry, without thirst. ► Stomachache : rheumatic ; also after abuse of mercury, with ptyalism and swollen cervical glands.

► Much mucus in fauces. ► Tonsillitis, from every cold change. ► Pressure, a if uvula were to long.

► Hunger without appetite. ► Hunger, after the fever. ► Great thirst for cold drinks.

► Cold drinks : 16.

► Nausea, loss of appetite ; cholerine. ► Great chilliness during the vomiting. ► Vomiting early in the morning, of tenacious mucus. ► Vomiting of greenish, yellow, slimy substances, together with the liquid drank ; after cold drinks.

► Retraction and burning in the epigastric region.

► Cutting pain above navel. ► Colic after a cold ; griping, nausea, followed by diarrhoea. ► Dropsy of the abdomen. ► Swelling of inguinal glands a cold.

► Stool : whitish, watery ; with flocculi ; slimy, watery, yellow-green ; worse at night, in wet weather ; changeable, white, yellow or green ; watery ; sour-smelling ; nausea, with desire to evacuate. ► Diarrhoea ; from cold ; or, change from warm to cold, especially cold, damp weather ; in the morning, profuse thin stools ; of rheumatic origin ; during dentition. ► Dysentery from cold, damp weather ; increased flow of saliva ; burning, itching of itching of rectum, heat of skin, thirst.

► Constant desire to urinate, felt deep in abdomen. ► Painful pressing about bladder and urethra, and discharge of a few drops of urine, with mucous sediment. ► Urine : Scanty, fetid, turbid ; on standing, oily, containing a tough, jelly-like, white or red mucus mixed with blood ; milky ; fetid of or muco-purulent. ► Bright disease from exposure to cold and dampness. ► Retention of urine ; strangury from a cold or from cold drinks. ► Urine passed involuntarily ; paralysis of bladder.

► Impotence ; herpes on genitals. θ Herpes praeputialis.

► Menses suppressed by cold. ► Rash before menses. ► Menses too late, too short ; blood watery, thin. ► Mammae engorged, hard ; amenorrhoea.

► Suppressed milk, from taking cold. ► After weaning, mother has eruption on the skin. ► Herpes on mammae ; nursing women. ► Lochia suppressed by cold or damp.

► Rough hoarse voice ; catarrh. ► Hoarse after measles. ► Influenza. ► Trachea full of mucus.

► Labored respiration. ► Asthma, with faceache after disappearance of tetters in face. ► Asthma humidum, dyspnoea, loose, rattling cough, copious sputa ; worse during wet weather. ► Oppression of chest, from mucus.

► Dry, hoarse, rough cough ; or, loose, with copious expectoration of mucus ; dull hearing ; catarrhal fever. ► Chronic mucous cough after measles. ► Panting cough, like whooping-cough : worse with each deep inspiration. ► Expectoration of pure blood. ► Cough worse when lying down, warmth of the room, or deep inspiration ; better in the open air. ► Whooping-cough : excited by excessive secretion of mucus in larynx and trachea.

► Bronchitis ; offensive-smelling night-sweats. ► Tuberculosis in scrofulous subjects ; also worse in changes from warm to cold ; sputa touch, green ; cough moderate ; stitches here and there in chest ; diarrhoea. ► Phthisis mucosa. ► Rheumatic pleuritis and pleuro-pneumonia, with tough, difficult, discolored sputa. ► Hydrothorax, worse wet weather. ► Mucus on the chest, must cough long before raising it ; suffocative catarrh. ► Haemoptysis, bright red ; tickling in larynx ; worse it rest ; caused by a cold or loose, protracted cough. ► Pain in left chest, as if lung moved in waves.

► Palpitation at night. ► Pulse : small, hard and tense, especially at night ; collapsed.

► Neck stiff, back painful, loins lame, after taking cold. ► Spinal meningitis during scarlatina or measles, eruption does not develop. ► Myelitis after taking cold during menstruation. ► Hyperaemia of the spinal cord. ► Drawing pain from small of back down thighs, during rest ; stitches when moving, relieved by pressure. ► Coldness is small of back. ► Sacrum feels cold.

► Herpes on arms and hands. ► Exostosis on the arm, from suppressed itch. ► Warts on hands. ► Sweat in palms.

► Herpetic eruption on knee. ► Exostosis on upper part on right tibia, with bluish-red spots ; suppurating lumps. ► Swelling of the calf of the leg ; scrofula. ► Gout in the big toe ; first left, then right. ► Tingling in the feet. ► Erysipelas of feet ; skin peels off ; itching.

► Cold limbs. ► Rheumatism after acute eruptions, or when chronic forms alternate with attacks of diarrhoea. ► Pains in the joints on exposure to cold. ► Rheumatism after exposure to wet ; parts as if beaten severe pains when remaining in one position, subside only when he moves about.

► Great general uneasiness. ► Convulsions beginning in the face. ► One-sided spasms speechless. ► Prostration, languor. ► Paralysis from suppressed eruptions, from cold ; paralysis of upper and lower limbs and tongue ; the paralyzed arm feels icy-cold.

► Falling asleep, evening starts as if in affright. ► During sleep, mouth open snoring. ► Sleep restless after 12 P.M. ► Uneasy sleep, confused dreams, frequent sweat ; tosses from side to side. ► Sleep worse after 3 P.M.

► Chill commencing in or spreading from the back, not relieved by warmth ; mostly towards evening. ► Chill with pains. ► Chill with violent thirst. ► General dry burning heat all over. ► Heat and burning in the back. ► Heat with delirium, without thirst. ► Fetid sweat, with skin diseases ; with copious limpid urine. ► Offensive sweat, night and morning, over the whole body ; during day more over back, in axillae and palms. ► Sweat suppressed and entirely wanting.

► Pains in many parts, as if from cold. ► Bruised feeling.

► Hemorrhages : blood watery, or bright red. ► Skin inactive ; mucous surfaces overactive, especially from suppressed eruptions by cold. ► Cold swelling of glands, also inflammation and induration of cervical and inguinal glands ; tensive pains. ► Anasarca after fever and ague, scarlatina, rheumatic fever. ► Dropsy after suppressed sweat, by damp, cold air. ► Scrofula. ► Exostosis. ► Emaciation.

► Skin hot dry. ► Tetter oozing a watery fluid, bleeds after scratching. ► Thick brown herpes, red border ; glands swollen. ► Red spots, as if from flea bites. ► Eruption of itching pustules, ceasing to itch after scabbing over ; sensitive to touch ; worse washing. ► Impetiginous eczema of scrofulous children. ► Suppressed itch. ► Painful ulcers ; discharge scanty. ► Nettle-rash, with much itching ; after scratching it burns ; increases in warmth, better in cold. ► Small furuncles on places formerly injured by concussion. ► Warts, fleshy or large, smooth ; on dorsa of hands and on the face. ► Retrocession of eruptions, from exposure to damp, cold air : 26. ► Skin callous.

► Phlegmatic, torpid, scrofulous patients, who are restless and irritable ; take cold in cold changes.

► Abuse of Mercur. ptyalism ; glandular swellings ; canker ; bronchitis ; diarrhoea ; susceptible to changes in weather. ► Complementary to Baryt. carb. ► Antidotes to Dulcam : Camphor., Cuprum, Ipec., Mercur. ► Incompatible : Bellad., Laches.