Dulcamara
dulcaBitter-sweet Hot days and cold nights towards 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 diarrhœa. 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
Dulcamara — Materia Medica
Dulcamara — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Excessive secretion of mucus. Catarrhal-rheumatic-herpetic tendency. Stiff, numb, achy and sore from every exposure to damp cold. Tearing. Paralytic effects. Griping in bowels, testes, etc. .................... Confusion. Depression. Scolding. Difficult speech. Easily becomes delirious. Occiput feels large. Ringworm of scalp. Aching in nose. Coryza; stuffed; summer colds, with diarrhœa. Nose obstructed by the least fresh air. Nosebleed; replaces menses. Thick, brown- yellow crusts on face. Swelled tongue. Tenacious, soapy saliva. Cutting at navel; then painful, green, slimy stools. Sour, watery stools, < night. Every cold settles in eyes, throat or affects bladder (Pul.), bowels or respiration (Sul.). Frequent urination. Cloudy, slimy or foul urine. Cystitis. Dropsy. Enlarged testes, with griping pains. Watery menses. Cough: caused by tickling in back of throat; in prolonged fits; with much loose, easy expectoration. Eruptions; scaly, thick, crusty, moist, bleeding or herpetic; < before menses. Urticaria. Pruritus. Large, smooth, fleshy, flat warts. Coldness; in occiput; lumbar region; in bowels; icy, of paralyzed part. Chilliness starts from back; not > warmth; < evening. Chill with urging to stool and urinate. Foul sweat.
Dulcamara — mind · H.C. Allen
Mental confusion; cannot find the right word for anything.
Dulcamara — general · H.C. Allen
Adapted to persons of phlegmatic scrofulous constitutions; restless, irritable. Patients living or working in a damp, cold basement, or a milk dairy (Aran., Ars., Nat-s.). Catarrhal rheumatism or skin affections, brought on or aggravated by exposure to cold, damp, rainy weather, or sudden changes in hot weather (Bry.). Increased secretion of mucous membranes; perspiration being suppressed from cold. Anasarca; after ague, rheumatism, scarlet fever. Dropsy: After suppressed sweat; suppressed eruptions; exposure to cold.
Dulcamara — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
From Hahnemann, Allen’s Encyclopedia, and Hering Scald head, thick brown crusts with reddish borders, on forehead, temples and chin ; bleeding when scratched. Humid eruptions on cheeks. Thick, brown-yellow crusts on face . . . crusta lactea. Thick crusts all over body. Warts and eruptions on face. Warts on hands and backs of fingers. Warts, fleshy or large, smooth, on dorsa of hands and on face. Tongue paralysed from cold, yet talks incessantly. Inarticulate speech from swollen longue. Colic : as from taking cold ; as if diarrhoea would occur. Colic such as is usually caused by wet cold weather. Yellow, watery diarrhoea, with tearing and cutting colic before 'jery evacuation. ■ Mucous diarrhoea, alternately yellow and greenish. Diarrhoea fror.i cold, or change from warm to cold, especially cold damp weather. . . . Catarrhal troubles caused by cold damp weather. Cough from damp cold atmosphere, or from getting wet. Must cough a long time to expel phlegm. . . . A very acute Pain . darts through the left side of the chest in fits. Great oppressive pain of the whole chest, especially on inspiration and expiration. Pain in small of back, as after long stooping. In the loin, above left hip, a digging, shooting pain. A drawing, tearing pain in both thighs. Lameness in small of back, as if from a cold. Eruptions like nettlerash all over the body, without fever. Chill, commencing in, or spreading from back, not better for warmth, mostly towards evening. Ill-smelling perspiration. We have often successfully employed Dulcamara for pain, or eruptions in the region of the umbilicus—“ The hole ”, as a wee girl graphically described her pain-spot. One first discovered this tip in Bcenninghausen years ago. Localities can be important. * * * Yet one more Black Letter Symptom. Earache ; nausea ; buzzing : worse at night. Earache the whole night, preventing sleep.
Dulcamara — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(Solanum dulcamara. Woody nightshade. Bitter sweet) Another of the invaluable medicines whose indications for exact and scientific use we owe to Samuel Hahnemann. It was, for him, “ a very powerful plant ”, and he says that its duration of action is a long one. He used it in the 30th potency. He was aided in his proving by a dozen doctors, and he quotes a number of authorities in regard to the various symptoms recorded. Hale White, the Old School text-book for Materia Medica (in my edition, anyway) knows it not. Even Culpepper (1578-1662) has not a great deal to say abolit this plant, whose uses, for him, were rather occult than practical. He says, " It is good to remove witchcraft both in men and beast, as all sudden diseases whatsoever. Being tied about the neck, it is a remedy for the vertigo or dizziness of the head ; and that is the reason that the Germans hang it about their cattle’s neck, when they fear any such evil hath betided them : country people com monly used to take the berries of it, and having bruised them, they applied them to felons, and thereby soon rid their fingers of such troublesome guests.” Dulcamara affects subversively and curatively all mucous membranes, besides glands, and skin, and muscles. The provers of Dulcamara suffered especially in cold wet weather : and worse cold wet weather is the grand keynote for the employment of this remedy. Catarrh—from cold wet weather : diarrhoea—from cold wet weather : urinary troubles— from cold wet weather ; even skin troubles—fronj cold wet weather : and so on. Dulcamara affects the entire length of the respiratory mucous membrane. Nose—dry coryza, or profuse discharges. Nose bleed of clear hot blood, worse after getting wet. . . . Throat —tonsillitis from every cold change: hawking up of tough mucus, with rawness. . . .
Dulcamara — modalities · James Tyler Kent
The Dulcamara patient is disturbed by every change in the weather, from warm to cold, from dry to moist, and from suddenly cooling the body while perspiring. He is ameliorated in dry, even weather; cold and damp aggravate all the conditions. He is worse evening and night and during rest. Diarrhea: Dulcamara produces catarrh of the stomach, intestines, nose, eyes, cars, and inflammatory conditions of the skin with eruptions. If you go through any of these in detail, you will be astonished to find how disturbed is the constitutional state of this patient by weather changes. It is a medicine wonderfully useful in diarrhoea, at the close of the summer, hot days and cold nights, with changeable stool; diarrhoea of infants. There seems to be no digestion; yellow, slimy stool; yellow-green stool, with undigested stool; frequent stool, blood in the stool and quite a mass of slime, showing a marked catarrhal state. This gets better and worse; this gets better under ordinary remedies; it will often get better from Pulsatilla, because Pulsatilla symptoms seem to predominate, and sometimes it is relieved by Arnica; but every time the child takes cold, it comes back again, and soon the physician will realize that he has not struck the remedy belonging to all the symptoms. It is very often an annoying condition, because the symptoms are not recognized until two or three attacks have come.
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