Dulcamara

▲   GENERAL

General

Hot days and cold nights toward the close of summer are especially favorable to the action of Dulcamara, and is one of the remedies that correspond in their symptoms to the conditions found as effects of damp weather, colds after exposure to wet, especially diarrhoea. It has a specific relation also to the Skin, glands, and digestive organs, Mucous membranes secreting more profusely while the skin is inactive. The Rheumatic troubles induced by damp cold are aggravated by every cold change and somewhat relieved by moving 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 living or working in damp, cold basements ( Nat-sulph.) Eruptions on hands, arms or face around the menstrual period.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, at night; from COLD in general, Damp, rainy weather.

Better

BETTER, from moving about, external warmth.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Pimpinella - (Bibernell). - Respiratory mucous membrane sensitive to drafts, pain and coldness in occiput and nape. Whole body weak; heavy head and drowsiness; lumbago and stiff neck; pain from nape to shoulder; chilliness. Rhus Tox ^Rhus; Cimicifuga Racemosa ^Cimicif.; Calc Carb ^Calc.; Pulsatilla ^Puls.; Bryonia ^Bry.; Nat-sulph.

Complementary

Complementary: Baryta Carb ^{Baryta Carb}.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Camphora ^Camph.; Cuprum Metallicum ^Cupr.

Incompatible

Incompatible: Belladonna ^Bellad.; Lachesis ^Laches.

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

▲   HEAD

Head

Mental confusion

Rejects things asked for

Back part of head chill, heavy, aching, during cold weather

Scaldhead, thick brown crusts, bleeding when scratched

Buzzing in head.

Headache

Occipital pain ascending from nape of neck

Headache relieved by conversation

Pain, headache

with catarrh

from cold (including cold parts); becoming cold

from cold (including cold parts); from cold air

rheumatic

cold weather

damp

back of head (occiput); damp weather

Scalp

Ringworm of scalp

Skin and scalp

out-break on skin; crusts, scabs

out-break on skin; crusts, scabs; brown

out-break on skin; herpes; dermatitis

▲   EYES

Eyes

Every time he takes cold it settles in eyes

Thick, yellow discharge; granular lids

Hay-fever; profuse, watery discharge, worse in open air.

Inflammation

of catarrh from cold

cold; wet weather

Pain

when using eyes; when reading

aching; while reading

stitching, sudden, sharp; movement

▲   EARS

Ear

Earache, buzzing, stitches, and swelling of parotids

Middle-ear catarrh (Merc Viv ^Merc)

Dulcamara.; Kal

mur.)

Noises in ear; buzzing; night

Pain

night

aching

stitching, sudden, sharp

▲   FACE

Face

Tearing in cheek extending to ear, orbit, and jaw, Preceded by coldness of parts, and attended by canine hunger

Humid eruption on cheeks and face generally.

Skin

out-breaks on skin

out-breaks on skin; crusty, scabby

yellow

chin

out-breaks on skin; eczema

out-breaks on skin; moist

warts

▲   NOSE

Nose

Stuffs up when there is a cold rain

Thick, yellow mucus, bloody crusts

Wants nose kept warm, least cold air stops the nose

Discharge

Dry coryza

Complete stoppage of nose

Profuse coryza

Coryza of the newborn.

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Facial neuralgia; worse, Slightest exposure to cold.

Lips

Cold-sores on lips

Saliva

Saliva tenacious, soapy

Tongue

Dry, rough tongue, rough scraping in throat, after taking cold in damp weather

Speech; difficult; from swelling of tongue

Taste

Taste; sweetish

▲   CHEST

Chest

Breast; milk; disappearing

Catarrh

Pain; digging

Perspiration; arm pit

Respiration

Cough worse cold, wet weather, with free expectoration, tickling in larynx

Cough, hoarse, spasmodic

Whooping-cough, with excessive secretion of mucus

Winter coughs, dry, teasing

Asthma with dyspnoea

Loose, rattling cough; worse wet weather

Must cough a long time to expel phlegm

Cough After physical exertion.

Asthma attack; cold, damp weather

Rattling

▲   COUGH

Cough

In cold air; in damp, cold air

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage); bright-red

Mucous

▲   SKIN

Skin

Adenitis

pruritus, always worse in cold, wet weather

Herpes zoster, pemphigus

Swelling and indurated glands from cold

Vesicular eruptions

Sensitive bleeding ulcers

Little boils

Red spots, Urticaria, brought on by exposure, or sour stomach

Humid eruptions on face, genitals, hands etc

WARTS, large, smooth, on face and palmar surface of hands

Anasarca

Thick, brown-yellow crusts, bleeding when scratched.

Blisters

yellow

Dry

Abnormal growths

warts

warts; flat

warts; large

warts; smooth

Out-breaks on skin

crusty

crusty; over whole body

discharging, moist

eczema

herpetic

moist

suppressed

like nettle rash

from catching cold

nodular

after scratching

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain

sore, bruised, beaten; lumbar (lower half of back)

sore, bruised, beaten; lumbar (lower half of back); from catching cold

Neck

Stiff neck

Stiffness and lameness across neck and shoulders, after getting cold and wet.

Back

Pain in small of back, as after long stooping

Pain

in cold weather; change to cold weather

damp weather

on movement

walking

lumbar (lower half of back)

from catching cold

as after long stooping

in wet weather

aching; lumbar (lower half of back)

with rigidness; from catching cold

with rigidness; lumbar (lower half of back); from catching cold

with rigidness; lumbar (lower half of back); after getting wet

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

burning thirst for cold drinks

Heartburn

Colic from cold

Dulcamara acts prominently on umbilical region

Cutting pain about navel

Swelling of inguinal glands ( Merc Viv ^Merc.)

Sensation as if diarrhoea would come on

Pain

from catching cold

as if diarrhoea would come on

cutting; before stool

Swelling; groin region; glands

Bladder

catarrh mucous-pus (see urine, sediment containing pus)

inflammation; from catching cold

paralysis

Eating

Aversion to food

Nausea

Nausea accompanies the desire for stool

Vomiting

Stomach; Vomiting of white, tenacious mucus

Chilliness during vomiting.

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea

night

after catching cold

from cold weather

cold, damp weather

while teething

cold food

after standing on damp ground

Sensation as before diarrhoea

Prolapse; during diarrhoea

Stool

Green, watery, slimy, bloody, MUCUS, especially in summer, when the weather suddenly becomes cold; From damp, cold weather and repelled eruptions.

Thin, liquid; yellow

Watery

yellow

Yellow

▲   GENITALS ETC

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 bare feet in cold water.

Copious; with perspiration

Odour; offensive

Male

Male; out-breaks on skin; scrotum; herpetic

Genitals

Dysmenorrhoea, with blotches all over; mammae engorged and sore, delicate, sensitive to cold.

Menses

Female; Suppression of menses from cold or dampness

Before appearance of menses, a Rash appears on skin, or sexual excitement

Female

period; amenorrhoea (suppression or absence of period)

period; bright-red

period; late

period; scanty

period; suppressed

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Paralysis: paralyzed limbs, Feet icy cold

Warts on hands

Perspiration on palms of hands

Pain in shin-bones

Rheumatism alternates with diarrhoea

Rheumatic symptoms after acute skin eruptions.

Pain

during chill

joints; after exposure to cold

joints; in cold weather

shoulder; damp weather

Perspiration; hand; palm

Skin

out-break on skin; hand; herpes

warts; hand

flat

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Dry burning heat all over

Chilliness towards evening, mostly in back

Icy coldness, with pains

Dry hat and burning of skin

Chilliness with thirst.

Beginning in particular area; back

With pain

Periodic, recurring; every fourth day; double

Dry heat

▲   GENERALITIES

Perspiration

From suppressed complaints

Generalities

Night

Change of weather

Eating and food; cold food

Lying down; after lying down

Movement

of affected part

Mucous secretions increased

Pain; digging up (burrowing, rooting sensation)

Paralysis

internally

of organs

Symptoms from suppression of perspiration

While sitting

Swelling; glands

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold feeling; lack of vital heat

cold in general

cold air

after becoming cold

tendency to catch cold

cold, wet weather

Wet weather

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