Daphne indica

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

This is one author on one remedy. The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full. Read Daphne indica in every book at once →

General

Spurge Laurel Acts on lower tissues, muscles, bones and skin. Sudden, lightning jerks in different parts of the body. Craving for tobacco. Burning in stomach. Parts of the body feel separated (Bapt). Fetid breath, urine, sweat.

Head

Feels as if skull would burst; as if head were separated from body. Heat in head, especially in vertex. Tongue coated on one side only (Rhus). Foul- smelling, ptyalism hot.

Urinary

Thick, turbid, yellowish, like rotten eggs.

Extremities

Right toe swollen, painful. Pain shoots upward into abdomen and

heart. Rheumatic pains in thighs and knees. Cold feeling on buttocks. Shooting pains, shift rapidly worse, cold air.

Sleep

Entire inability to sleep; sometimes caused by aching in bones. Dreams, with nightmare. Dreams of cats, black cats. Starting on falling to sleep with chilliness and clamminess.

Relationships

Antidotes: Bry; Rhus. Compare: Fluor ac; Aur; Mez; Staph.

Dose

First to sixth attenuation.

What the other books say about Daphne indica

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Daphne indica in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

Search every book at once, take rubrics from Kent and Bönninghausen, and practise on a patient who answers back — free account.

Create a free account

← Every remedy in Boericke

Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Daphne indica — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/daphne-indica. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.