DULCAMARA


DULCAMARA signs and symptoms from the Characteristic Materia Medica by William Burt of the homeopathic medicine DULCAMARA …


SPHERE OF ACTION

Through the cerebro-spinal system, acts especially upon the mucous membranes, producing catarrhal inflammations, similar to those produced in damp, rainy weather; and if used as a prophylactic after exposure to damp, rainy weather, it will ward off all bad effects; also affects the skin, medulla oblongata, and pneumogastric nerve. It paralyzes the action of the vagi filaments of the lungs.

It also produces in the system and kidneys a state closely resembling Bright’s disease.

GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.

Especially adapted to catarrhal and rheumatic diseases in damp cold weather.

The symptoms are aggravated when the weather suddenly becomes colder, especially if the weather is damp.

The child gets worse at every cold change in the weather, or from exposure to cold air.

All her symptoms are aggravated by a cold change in the weather; even the sexual desire is greatly increased.

Retrocession of the eruption from exposure to damp cold air.

The skin is delicate and sensitive to cold, and liable to eruption from being long exposed to the cold.

Every time she takes cold, has urticaria or some other eruption.

Dropsical affections, after suppression of sweat, by damp cold air.

From taking cold, the necks stiff; the back painful; the bones lame.

Digestive Organs.-If cold air chills him, his tongue gets lame, and even the jaws.

Diarrhoea in cold damp weather; stools mucous, green, watery and whitish; may be caused from repelled eruptions, chills or teething.

Dysentery caused by cold and damp, and becomes worse as the weather grows colder.

Generative Organs of Women.-Suppression of the menses, by damp cold weather.

Always as a forerunner of the catamenia a rash appears on the skin.-GOSEWICH.

Lochia suppressed by cold or dampness; and the quantity of milk much diminished.

Lungs.-They have to cough a long time to expel phlegm, especially in infants and old people, from threatened paralysis in the vagi.

Oppression of the chest from mucus.LIPPE.

Cough with expectoration of bright blood.

Skin.-Tetters, oozing watery fluid; bleed after scratching.

Thick brown herpetic crusts on the face, forehead, temples, and chin, with reddish borders, bleeding when scratched.

Small furuncles on places formerly hurt by concussion.- JEANES.

Nettle-rash with much itching; after scratching, it burns, increases in warmth, disappears in cold, with gastric fever.

Exostosis on the upper part of the right tibia, with bluish- red spots, suppurating lumps.

After the disappearance of tetters in the face, face-ache, and violent asthma.

Head.-On awaking in the morning giddy, and dizzy; dark before the eyes; trembling and weakness.

Inclination to scold without being angry.

Cannot find the right word for a thing.

Inarticulated speaking from a swollen tongue, but talks incessantly.

Increased secretion of the mucous membranes and glands; those of the skin being suppressed.

Symptoms worse in the evening and during rest, and always aggravated by cold damp weather.

William Burt
William H. Burt, MD
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881