Condensed Materia Medica

Dulcamara dulc.

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Mind

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.

Sensorium

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

Inner Head

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.

Outer Head

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.

Eyes

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.

Ears

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.

Nose

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.

Face

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.

Lower Face

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

Teeth

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

Tongue, etc

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.

Mouth

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.

Throat

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

Desires and Aversions

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

Eating and Drinking

Cold drinks: 16.

Nausea and Vomiting

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.

Stomach

Retraction and burning in the epigastric region.

Abdomen

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

Stool, etc

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.
Diarrhœa; 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.

Urine

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.

Male Sexual Organs

Impotence; herpes on genitals. θ Herpes præputialis.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses suppressed by cold.
Rash before menses.
Menses too late, too short; blood watery, thin.
Mammæ engorged, hard; amenorrhœa.

Pregnancy

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

Larynx

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

Breathing

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

Cough

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.

Lungs

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; diarrhœa.
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.
Hæmoptysis, 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.

Heart and Pulse

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

Neck and Back

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.
Hyperæmia 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.

Upper Limbs

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

Lower limbs

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.

Limbs in General

Cold limbs.
Rheumatism after acute eruptions, or when chronic forms alternate with attacks of diarrhœa.
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.

Position, etc

Rest: 5, 6, 7, 28, 34. Motion: 3, 7, 31, 34, 44. Lying down: 3, 27. Worse lying on back, better on side. Worse when stooping; better when erect. Worse when bending diseased part backwards. Worse dancing.

Nerves

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.

Sleep

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.

Time

Morning: 2, 16, 40; 2 P.M.: 3. Evening: 3, 4, 37, 40. Night: 6, 20, 28, 29, 40. After midnight: 37. 3 A.M.: 37.

Temperature and Weather

Warmth: 40, 46. Warm weather: 20, 28. Warm room: 27. Cold: 34, 44, 46. Cold air: 9, 11. Cold, damp weather: 3, 13, 20, 21, 24, 28, 44, 46. From warm to cold: Taking cold.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

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 axillæ and palms.
Sweat suppressed and entirely wanting.

Sides

Left: 28. Right: 33. Left to right: 33. Above downward: 31.
Rending pains upwards. θ Rheumatism.

Sensations

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

Tissues

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.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Pressure. 7, 31. Scratching: 46. Touch: 46.

Skin

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.

Stages and States

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

Relationship

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