Dolichos Pruriens dol.

A tincture is made of the fuzz (hairs) of the pods of Dolichos pruriens, L. ; they are scraped off and digested in alcohol for a week or more.

▶ Pain in throat below right angle of jaw as if a splinter were imbedded vertically, agg. swallowing. ▶ Pain in the gum so that she could not sleep half the night. ▶ Twitching of muscles.

During pregnancy intolerable itching all over body at night. ▶ It has been prescribed in jaundice with white stools, also in complaints from worms and for affections of dentition. ▶ Herpes zoster beginning on left scapula, extending to axilla and then to sternum and backward to spine, with burning and smarting. ▶ It has been found valuable in the intense itching of jaundice; itching worse at night, and agg. scratching.