DULCAMARA.
Solanum Dulcamara, Linn.
Natural order
, Solanaceæ.
Common names
, Woody Nightshade (not Deadly Nightshade,
Belladonna), Bittersweet (not Climbing Bittersweet, Celastrus). German,
Bittersuss. French, Douce-amère, Morelle.
Preparation
, Tincture of plant above woody portion, gathered
just before flowering.
Authorities.
1, Hahnemman,
Chronische Krank.; 2, Ahner, ibid.; 3, Cubitz, ibid.; 4, Gross,
ibid.; 5, Muller, ibid.; 6,
Neuning, ibid.; 7, Hartlaub and Trinks, ibid.; 8, Rückert, ibid.; 9, Stapf,
ibid.; 10, Wagner, ibid.; 11,
Wahle, ibid.; 12, Althof, ibid., from Murray, Appar.
Med., statement from observation; 13, Carrère. Traité
des Propriétées, Usages, et Effets de la Douce-amère. Paris. 1787. Effects of Dulcamara
when given for chronic rheumatism, suppressed secretions, and cutaneous diseases. [The
author says that he has, after seventeen years’ experience with the drug, seen no
inconvenience result from full doses, save those described in S. 83, 112, and 347; S. 256,
408, 451 (sometimes the precursors of a new eruption, and then associated with S. 413 and
414, S. 27 and 88, and S. 141.) -Hughes.] 14, Gowan,
Mem. de la Soc. de Montpell., not obtainable, ibid.; 15,
De Haen, Rat. Med., iv, p. 228, Observation in Disease, ibid.; 16,
Linné, Diss. de Dulcam., not accessible, ibid.; 17,
Piquot, Samml. br. Abhandl., statement from observation, ibid.; 18,
Starke, Translation of Carrère into German; Roth says that his symptoms are of the same
kind, ibid.; 19, Tode ibid., not found; 20, Fritze, Annal. des Klin. Inst. in Berlin, statement from
observation, ibid.; 21, Dr. Rockwith, proving with 5
drops of tinct. taken at 9 P.M., Am. J. Hom. M. M., N. S., 1, 289; 22,
Knorre, symptoms from juice and first dil., A. H. Z., 6, 35; 23,
Berridge. Mr. — took one dose of 3m. (Jenichen), N. Y. J. of Hom., 2, 460; 24, Robinson, proving with tinct., and 24b, with the 1000th dil. of Jenichen, B. J. of Hom., 24, 513; 25, Prof. Hoppe, effects of 2 1/2 drs. of infusion of Herba
Dulcamara daily for three days, on a woman suffering from uterine trouble and affections of
both hip-joints, A. H. Z., M. B., 2, 14; 26, ibid., a
boy, aged 20 suffering from “coxarthrocace,” took a tea of Dulcamara; 27, Dr. J. S. Douglas, symptoms, Am. Hom. Obs., 1867, p. 32; 28, Dr. Bodenmuller, Frank’s Mag., 2, p. 80, a boy ate a quantity
of the berries; 29, Schlegel, Frank’s Mag., 2, 720, a
man took an infusion of the herb and also half an ounce of the extract; 30, Plætschke, Caspar’s Wochenschrift (Am. J. of M. Sc, 1851), a
man took one forenoon, for a cough, three to four quarts of an infusion of a peck of the
stalks; 31, Journ. de Chim. Méd., 6, 143 (from Orfila,
Toxicologie), poisoning of three children by the berries; 32,
Heintz (from Orfila), poisoning of two children by the berries.
MIND.
► Emotional. ► Delirium, [15]. ► Delirium at night, with increased pains, [13]. (Not found. -Hughes.) ►
Delirious fantasies and delirium, [18]. ► She awakes early, as if called, and sees the form of a ghost,
which keeps enlarging until it disappears, [1]. ► Constant picking in the air and at his clothes, [28]. ► Restlessness of
mind, [21]. ►
Screaming, as in hydrocephalus, [32]. ► Anxiety and fear of the future after midnight, [1]. ► Very ill-humored,
discontented with everything, for several days, [6]. [10.] ► *Quarrelsome mood
in the afternoon, without, however, being vexed thereby, [6].
► *Impatient in the morning; he stamps the feet,
throws everything away from him, begins to rave, and at last to cry, [18]. ► Intellectual. ► Patients did not seem to know what was going on about them, [32]. ► Took not notice
of his surroundings, and heard nothing when spoken to, [28].
HEAD.
► Confusion and Vertigo.
► Stupefaction of the head, [12]. ► Violent stupefaction, [18]. ► Vertigo, [12], [31], etc. ► *Vertigo in the morning on rising from bed, so that he almost fell,
with trembling of the whole body and general weakness, [5]. ► Vertigo while walking at
noon, before eating; it seems as though all objects in front of him stood still, and it
became black before his eyes, [1]. ► Momentary vertigo, [17].
[20.] ► Slight, very
transient vertigo, [6]. ►
Dizziness of the head, with rising warmth in the whole of the face, [6]. ► She staggers and reels, [24]. ► General Head.
► Dulness in the head, as after intoxication,
disappearing in the open air, [10]. ► Dulness in the head, with drawing in the frontal eminences, [6]. ► Dull and confused
in the head in the evening, [6]. ► *Dulness and painful stupefaction of the head, [13]. ► *Heaviness of the
head, [13]. ►
Heaviness of the head, with a boring-out pain in the temples and forehead, as after a
debauch, [40]. ►
Heaviness of the whole head throughout the day, as if the scalp were tense, especially in
the nape of the neck, where the sensation became a crawling, [11].
[30.] ► Heat in the
head, [13]. ► Head
hot, dizzy, with obscuration of vision, which changed to flickering of black spots before
the eyes on waking in the morning, [29]. ► Pressive tensive pain in the head, above the right eye (after
three hours), [10]. ►
Headache, [31]. ►
Headache in the morning in bed, aggravated on rising, [5].
► Headache, making him stupid, lasting ten days, [6]. ► Headache, with
indolence, icy coldness of the whole body, and inclination to vomit, [5]. ► Dull headache, especially
in the left frontal eminence, [6]. ► Boring headache from within outward, before midnight, [11]. ► Drawings in the
head, extending from both temples inward, [11]. [40.] ► Slow drawing pain
through the whole brain, especially in the evening (after quarter of an hour), [1]. ► Pressure, as with
a dull instrument internally, only upon very small places of the head, [4]. ► Pressing-out headache on
walking in the open air towards evening, [11]. ► Dull pressive headache, becomes worse in the evening, with
increasing coryza, [6]. ►
Stitches in the head, so that she became angry about them, mostly in the evening, relieved
by lying down, [1]. ►
Forehead. ► Heaviness in the forehead (after
twelve hours), [11]. ►
Heaviness in the forehead for several days, with stitches in the temporal region from within
outward, [11]. ►
Bursting pains extending from the forehead to the bridge of the
nose (after third day), [24b]. ► Dull headache in the forehead and root of the nose, as if he
had a board in front of the head, [4]. ► Boring pain from within outward, now in the forehead, now in
the temples, [10]. [50.]
► Boring pain from within outward in the right half of
the forehead, above the superciliary ridge, [11]. ► Burrowing and pressure over the whole of the forehead, [4]. ► Burrowing headache
deep in the forehead, with gloominess and feeling of distension in the brain, in the
morning, in bed, worse after rising, [6]. ► Rapid, jerking drawings in the frontal eminences down to the
tip of the nose, [4]. ►
Drawing in the left frontal eminence, especially on stooping, [6].
► Pressive drawing in the left frontal eminence, [6]. ► Pressing-out pain
in the left frontal eminence very late in the evening, [6].
► Jerklike pressing outward in the forehead, worse on
motion, [6]. ►
Violent stitches in the forehead, deep in the brain, with nausea, [5]. ► Painful, pressive throbbing
in the left side of the forehead, with dizziness, [6].
► Temples. [60.]
► Boring in the right temple, [11]. ► Pressure as with a dull
instrument, now in the right, now in the left side, in the temples, [4]. ► Tearing in the left temple
at intervals, [4]. ►
Pressive drawing in the left temporal region in the afternoon, [6]. ► Pressive tearing in the
temples at intervals, [4]. ►
Vertex. ► Drawing pain on the vertex,
extending to the nasal bones, where it became a constriction, in the evening while eating, [11]. ► Pressure as with
a dull instrument, by paroxysms, on the left side of the vertex, from without inward, [4]. ► Pressive
stupefying pain in the left side of the top of the head, [6].
► Tearing pressing together in the top of the head, [4]. ► Parietals. ► Stupefying headache just above the left ear, as if something
blunt were pressed into the head, [4]. ► Occiput. [70.] ► Heaviness in the occiput, lasting three days, [11]. ► Sensation as though the
occiput was enlarged, [11]. ►
Headache in the occiput in the evening, in bed, [11]. ► Pressive pain in the left occipital bone, [11]. ► Pressive stupefying pain
in the occiput, rising up from the nape of the neck, [8].
► Slow sticking in the occiput, as with a needle
constantly drawn in and out, [11].
EYE.
► Objective. ► Eyes wide open, moist, and glittering, [32]. ► Inflammation of the eyes,
[18], [19]. ► Subjective. ► Feeling
of dryness and tension in the eyes, [29]. ► Feeling as though fire darted from the eyes, while walking in
the sun, and in the room, [1]. [80.] ► Pressure in the eyes,
very much aggravated by reading, [8]. ► Sensation as though his eyes would be pressed out and be
protruded from the orbits, [29]. ► Orbit. ► Contractive
pain in the border of the orbit, [4]. ► Lids. ► Twitching of
the lids in the cold air, [13]. ►
A kind of paralysis of the upper lid, as if it would fall down, [5]. ► Pupil. ► Pupils very much dilated, [28],
[29]. ► Pupils
extremely dilated, [31], [32]. ► Pupils alternately
contracted and dilated, [31]. ►
Vision. ► Dimness of vision, [13]. [With S. 27. -Hughes.] ►
Scarcely able to see, [31]. [90.]
► Commencing amaurosis, and so much dimness of vision
that he seemed to see only through a veil, [5]. ► Sparks before the eyes, [17].
EAR.
► Earache the whole night,
so that he was unable to sleep; in the morning the pain suddenly disappeared,
except some continued rushing noise, [7]. ► A transient drawing in the external meatus auditorius, [4]. ► *Stitches in the
meatus auditorius and parotid gland, [8]. ► A pinching stitch in the left ear, extending towards the
drum, [11]. ►
Twinging in the right ear, with small stitches, [11]. ► Twinging pain in the left ear, with great nausea, [7]. ► Tearing in the
left ear, with stitches from within outward, with drumming and bubbling, so that he could
not hear distinctly, and with crackling on opening the mouth, as if something snapped
asunder, [7]. ►
Prickling in the ears, as if cold air were in them, [11].
► Hearing. [100.]
► Ringing in the ears, [1],
[8]. ► Clear
ringing in the ears (after four and eight days), [9].
NOSE.
► Sneezing, [11]. ► Stopped coryza,
with confusion of the head, and sneezing, [6]. ► Bleeding of the nose, [18].
► Bleeding of the nose, with profuse discharge of bright
red very warm blood, and pressure in the region of the longitudinal sinus, which continued
even after the bleeding, [6]. ►
Very dry nose, in the evening, [6].
FACE.
► Face puffy,
anxious, distorted, [32]. ►
*Face puffy, burning hot, [31]. ►
Cramplike contraction in the face beneath the left ear, extending to the ramus of the lower
jaw (J. R., from Hahnemann). ► Cheeks. [110.] ► Drawing and tearing
in the whole cheek, [1]. ►
Painless pressure upon the left malar bone (immediately), [4].
► Lips. ►
Twitching movements of the lips, in the cold air, [13].
► Chin. ►
Trismus, [32]. ►
Pinching in a small spot on the lower portion of the chin, [1].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► The teeth are dull and seem insensible, [5]. ► Gums. ► The gums are loose and spongy, [1].
► Tongue. ►
Tongue very white, [28]. ►
Tongue is swollen stiff, and seems paralyzed; was unable to articulate a word, and has to
make his desire known by writing, [29]. ► Paralysis of the tongue, [14],
[27]. [120.] ► Paralysis of the tongue, after long use, [16]. [Only a citation from Gowan (S. 119), according to Murray.
-Hughes.] ► Paralysis of the tongue, in the evening; this
symptom increased so much in the course of three or four hours that he could scarcely move
his tongue, [30]. ►
Paralysis of the tongue, hindering speech (in cold damp weather), [13]. ► Tongue could not be
protruded, [32]. ► *Dry
tongue, [13]. ►
[Dry, rough tongue], [13]. [See S. 489.] ► Itching crawling on the tip of the tongue, [11]. ► General Mouth. ► Pimples and ulcers in the mouth, on the inside of the upper
lip, on the anterior portion of the palate, with tearing pain on moving the parts, [1]. ► Mouth dry, [28]. ► Saliva. ► *Accumulation of saliva, [13].
[Not found. -Hughes.] [130.] ►
Accumulation of saliva, with loose, spongy gums, [18].
► Constant grasping at the mouth, as though he would take
something out of it; constantly spitting about, [28]. ► Saliva tenacious and soaplike, [27].
► Tenacious, soapy saliva is discharged in large
quantities, [18]. ►
Taste. ► Flat, soapy taste in the mouth, with
loss of appetite, [18]. ►
Speech. ► Stammering from time to time, as if
delirious or intoxicated, [32]. ►
Indistinct articulation, although he constantly endeavored to speak, [28]. ► Loss of speech, [29]. ► Speech
impossible, followed by rattling respiration, cramps, tetanic stiffness, and death, [31].
THROAT.
► Constant hawking
of very tough mucus, with much scraping in the pharynx, [6].
[140.] ► Dryness of
the throat, in the evening, [30]. ► Pains in the throat, [13].
► Pressure in the throat, as if the uvula were too long, [1]. ► Pharynx. ► Feeling of increased warmth in the pharynx, [8]. ► Swallowing. ► Inability to swallow, [28].
STOMACH.
► Appetite.
► Good appetite and natural taste to the food, though
soon satiated and full, with much rumbling and roaring in the abdomen, [4]. ► Hunger, with aversion to
every kind of food, [1]. ►
*Aversion to food, with shivering as though he would vomit, [6]. ► Thirst. ► Very great thirst, but drink was immediately vomited, [31]. ► *Unquenchable thirst,
[31]. ► Eructation and
Hiccough. [150.] ►
Eructations, accompanied by hiccough, [4]. ► *Many eructations, [5].
► Repeated eructations, while eating, so that the soup
just swallowed rose again into the throat, [4]. ► Frequent eructations, with scraping in the œsophagus and
heartburn, [6]. ►
Empty eructations, with shuddering as from nausea, [6].
► Frequent empty eructations, [4]. ► Waterbrash, [1]. ► Nausea and Vomiting.
► *Nausea, [12],
[16], etc. ► Nausea
and qualmishness, [13]. ►
Nausea, with inability to bring up anything, [24]. [160.] ► Great qualmish
nausea, with chilliness, [7]. ►
Retching, [12]. ►
Frequent but ineffectual efforts to vomit, [28]. ► *Vomiting, [16]. ► Vomiting, with nausea, heat, and anxiety, [18]. ► Vomiting of only tenacious
mucus, [6]. ►
Vomiting of mucus, in the morning, preceded by warm uprisings in the pharynx, [1]. ► Vomiting, first of mucus,
afterwards of a thick blackish-green liquid, [31]. ► Stomach. ► Feeling of
distension in the pit of the stomach, with an unpleasant sensation of emptiness in the
bowels, [6]. ►
Tensive pain in the region of the pit of the stomach to the right side, as if the had
strained himself, or received an injury, [11]. [170.] ► Griping in the
stomach, even to taking away the breath, [1]. ► Constant griping in the epigastric region, in the evening
after lying down, lasting till falling asleep, [6]. ► Pressure in the stomach, extending up into the chest, [1]. ► Sensitive pressive
pain in the pit of the stomach, as from a thrust, worse from pressure, [2]. ► Sticking pain in the pit of
the stomach, [2]. ►
Dull sticking in the region of the pit of the stomach to the left, [2].
ABDOMEN.
► Umbilical.
► Pinching pain about the umbilical region, as if he
should go to stool, though without desire, [2]. ► Pinching pain in the umbilical region and above the left hip,
which obliges him to go to stool, although only a little hard fæces is passed with
difficulty, after the passage of some flatus, with relief of the pains, [2]. ► Twisting, burrowing, and
griping about the umbilical region (after ten hours), [2].
► Forcing-out pain beneath the umbilicus on the left
side, as if a hernia would occur, [9]. [180.] ► Sticking pain in the
umbilical region (after one hours), [2]. ► Griping-sticking pain on the right side near the umbilicus
(after four days), [2]. ►
Dull short stitches on the left side near the umbilicus, in the evening, [6]. ► Gnawing throbbing just
above the umbilicus, [4]. ►
General Abdomen. ► Abdomen large and
moderately hard, [28]. ►
Distension of the abdomen, immediately after a moderate meal, [1].
► Distension of the abdomen, as if he would burst, after
a moderate meal, [4]. ►
Rumbling in the bowels, immediately, [1]. ► While eating, distension of the abdomen, with repeated
griping, [4]. ►
Rumbling in the bowels, pain in left inguinal region, with a sensation of coldness in the
back, [6]. [190.] ► Rumbling in the bowels, with urging to stool, [1]. ► Rumbling in the bowels, as
if stool should follow, with some pain in the small of the back, [7]. ► Much emission of flatus, [11]. ► Flatulence of the
odor of asafetida, [5]. ►
Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, [1]. ► Almost directly, coldness in the abdomen (internally), which
went off on walking in open air, [23]. ► Feeling of distension and uneasiness in the bowels, with
frequent eructations of gas, [6]. ► A sudden cutting contraction in the left side of the abdomen,
[4]. ► Dull
pinching in the bowels, as if diarrhœa would occur, [6].
► Griping pain in the abdomen just below the navel, on
sitting bent, relieved and disappearing on becoming erect, [2].
[200.] ► Transient
griping and jerking cutting here and there in the bowels, [4].
► Transient griping and cutting in the bowels and chest,
as from incarcerated flatus, [4]. ► Transient griping and cutting in the bowels, with distension
of the abdomen, even in the morning, fasting, [4]. ► Violent griping in the bowels, as if a long worm were
crawling up and down in them, gnawing and pinching, [2].
► Fine griping in a small spot in the bowels, to the left
above the umbilicus, [4]. ►
Burrowing, griping cutting, and moving in the bowels, as if diarrhœa would follow, [4]. ► Pressive pain in
the abdomen, with rumbling before and after the stool, [8].
► Dull stitches in the right side of the abdomen beneath
the ribs, arresting the breathing, [4]. ► Dull stitches in the left side of the abdomen at intervals,
aggravated by pressing the finger upon the painful spot, [4].
► Dull stitches in a small spot in the left side of the
abdomen, in rapid succession from within outward, arresting the breathing, and with a
sensation as if something would force itself out; the spot was painful on pressure, [4]. [210.] ► Colic, immediately, [1].
►► *Colic, as from taking cold, [1], [11]. ►► *Colic, such as is usually caused by wet and cold weather,
[11], [27]. ► Colic and urging to stool, [31].
►► *Colic, as if diarrhœa would occur, [1]. ► *Colic, as if stool
should follow, with rumbling in the bowels and pain in the small of the back, [6]. ► Colic, like an
inclination to diarrhœa, disappearing on emitting flatus, [11].
► Colic, as after a purge moving about in the intestines,
always on stooping, [6]. ►
Violent colic, [32]. ►
Violent pricking in the abdomen, as if worms were crawling up and down in it, and were
gnawing and pinching the parts, [27]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. [220.]
► Griping in the whole lower abdomen, with desire for
stool, in the evening, [4]. ►
Burrowing pain above the left crest of the ilium, disappearing on pressure, [2]. ► Tension in the groin, in
the region of the pubis, on rising from sitting, [1]. ► |Swelling of the inguinal glands], [13]. [During treatment of scrofula by Dulcamara there supervened S.
465, going on to 479, and followed by swelling of the inguinal glands, and also those of the
neck and axillæ. The continued use of Dulcamara removed all. -Hughes.] ► Swelling of the left inguinal gland as large as a walnut, [1]. ► Inguinal glands
hard and swollen as large as a white bean, though without pain, [11]. ► Pressive pain in the
inguinal glands, now in the left, now in the right side, [1].
► Severe burning (and some sticking) in the bubo, on the
slightest motion and touch, [1].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► Some
pressing, with the usual stool (after three-quarters of an hours), [6]. ► Sudden excessive pressure
upon the rectum, so that he could scarcely retain the stool, yet only after some time very
hard fæces were slowly passed, with great pressure and transient griping and cutting here
and there in the bowels, [4]. [230.]
► *Desire for stool, in the evening, with griping in the
whole lower abdomen, followed by a large, moist, at last very thin, sour-smelling stool,
after which he was relieved, but felt weak; in the afternoon he had already had
his usual stool, though very hard and difficult, [4]. ► Urgent desire for stool that could hardly be retained, though
only small hard fæces passed (after half an hour), [2].
► Urging to stool, with griping in the abdomen, yet he is
very constipated and evacuates but little with great pressure (after eight hours), [5]. ► Ineffectual urging
to stool, the whole day, with nausea (after half an hour), [5].
STOOL.
► Diarrhœa. ►► *Yellow watery diarrhœa twice in a day, with tearing-cutting
colic before every evacuation, as after taking cold (from 1 drop of the juice), [22]. ► [Slimy diarrhœa,
with weakness], [13]. [Critical. -Hughes.] ► [White slimy diarrhœa], [13].
[Critical. -Hughes.] ► *Slimy, alternately yellow and
greenish diarrhœa, [13]. [Critical.
-Hughes.] ► *Thin stool, several afternoons in succession,
with flatulence, (after three days), [1]. ► Soft stool, immediately, [1].
[240.] ► Soft stool,
in small pieces, [11]. ►
Constipation. ► Difficult, dry, infrequent
stool, [13]. ►
Stool infrequent, sluggish, hard; even when the stool is necessary the urging in the rectum
is wanting, and very thick hard fæces are only passed slowly, with great exertion, [4]. ► Suppression of the
stool, [28].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Bladder.
► *Catarrh of the bladder, [27]. ► *Burning in the meatus
urinarus, while urinating, [1]. ► Pulsating (stitches?) in the urethra, from within outward, [11]. ► Micturition.
► Copious discharge of urine, at first clear and limpid,
then thick, milky white, [13]. [Critical. -Hughes.
Original revised by Hughes.] ► Involuntary passage or
urine, [28]. ►
Strangury painful micturition, [18]. ► Urine. [250.] ► Urine reddish, burning, [13].
[See S. 489] ► *Urine turbid, [13]. [Critical. -Hughes.] ► *Urine
turbid and whitish, [13]. [Critical.
-Hughes.] ► Urine turbid, offensive, with offensive
perspiration, [13]. [Critical. -Hughes.] ► Slimy, at one time red, at another white sediment in the
urine, [13]. [Critical. -Hughes.] ► Urine at first clear and limpid, then white, then turbid,
then clear, with white, glutinous sediment, [13].
[Critical. -Hughes.]
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Heat and
itching of the genitals, with desire for coition, [13].
► Menstruation hastened and increased, [13]. [Curative effect. -Hughes.] ►
Menstruation delayed even twenty-five days, [13].
[Ascribed to abundant evacuations. -Hughes.] ► Increased
menstruation, [13]. [260.]
► Diminished menstruation, [13].
[Ascribed to abundant evacuations. -Hughes.]
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Short, hacking cough, as if caused by deep inspiration, [4].
► Cough, with expectoration of tenacious mucus, and
sticking in the sides of the chest, [5]. ► Hæmoptysis, [13]. [Not
found. -Hughes.] ► Respiration rapid, [32].® 2000
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