Homeopathy Remedy Dirca Palustris


Dirca Palustris homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Dirca Palustris……


      A tincture is made of the fresh inner bark of the twigs of Dirca palustris, L.

Generalities and Mind

      Inability to sit quietly in one position. Uneasiness and sensation as if something unpleasant were to happen. Full sensation through the body, with sluggishness. Weakness; at 1.45 P.M., with desire to lie down; towards evening; at 9 P.M.; so that walking was difficult. necessity to lie down at noon, feeling as if my senses were leaving me. Aggravation every four days, later every two days. Time passed too slowly. Expecting bad news constantly in the daytime., worried and annoyed by everything. Dullness; of mental powers and inertia with indisposition to talk. Inability to think or study, dull and bewildered condition. Difficulty in thinking of what word to use in writing. Absent minded often writing the wrong words.

Head

      Aching l; with sore pain in temples and vertigo. Dullness. Congestion, with fulness of head, neck and chest. Fulness, (<) temples and in front; Fulness in morning, with heaviness; in morning, with pain in temples and in front; at night, with heaviness. Vertigo on waking, as if he would fall to the left; Vertigo, with inclination to the left and with lightness of head. Sensation as if lobes of cerebrum were drawn forward towards frontal sinuses. Pain in forehead and temples in afternoon. congestive pain in forehead, with darting inwards from each temple. Sensation as if brows were corrugated and as if brain were drawn downward. Congestion to forehead in morning, with pressure. Dullness in forehead at 9.30 A.M. Sticking in r. temple, (<) motion. Darting pain in. temple before noon. sharp pain in temples, (<) tending inward, (<) hard pressure; at 7 P.M., extending towards centre; in I. toward evening, extending towards centre. Pain in vertex after dinner, (>) pressure; pain in vertex and occiput and all through head, extending into spine. Throbbing pain in I. half of head, (<) coughing or moving, could not have anything touch occiput, felt better with the hair down or high up on head. Intermittent pain high up in occiput, extending inwards. Pain low down in occiput in morning on waking, (<) raising up or moving head, (<) towards noon, when it extended over vertex to forehead, where it was a congestive pain, gradually (>) evening, with throbbing of carotids. Scalp felt dry and tight.

Eyes, Ears and Face

      Haziness of retina. Eyes sore and painful to touch. Lids heavy. Photophobia; (<) gaslight. Roaring in one ear, then in the other. Face pale; and sunken. Face red and bloated in morning.

Mouth and Throat

      Tongue coated white; thicker at base; dirty white, thicker towards centre and far back. Tongue light and smooth. Taste sour. Throbbing of carotids. Fauces red and raw; rose-red towards evening, and dry, pain on swallowing. Acidity in throat at 9.30 P.M. Swallowing painful.

Stomach

      Appetite diminished. No thirst. Eructations; empty; of sour – tasting gas., Nausea, (<) afternoon. Uneasy feeling, as of a lump.

Abdomen

      Distention; and tenderness on pressure; tympanitic; tympanitic at 9 P.M., with pain. Rumbling. emission so flatus with pain in abdomen, (<) about umbilicus, (>) bending forward and by a consistent stool, soreness and smarting of anus during stool, the smarting continuing after the stool; frequent emissions of fetid. Occasional griping at 9.20 A.M. sharp pain about every fifteen minutes before going to bed and afterwards. Pain on waking at 6 A.M., with urging of stool, stool dark and thin, coming but little at a time, relieving the pain, which soon returned, to be followed by another stool, after passing all that was possible, had the cramping pain every few minutes; in afternoon; at 9 P.M. on walking and on pressure; at 10 P.M. with desire for stool, partly (>) diarrhoea.

Discomfort; in evening, with burning; like ‘stomachache; in evening, with passage of flatus. Uneasiness as before stool, but no satisfactory stool. Soreness of muscles. Lancinating pain in I. hypochondrium with tympanitis, the pain spreading over abdomen. Griping about umbilicus; below U. at 1.P.M., with aching. Biting above U., (<) 10 P.M. Pain above U. at 9 P.M. with flatus; sore pain in and below umbilical region. Burning about umbilicus at 7.30 P.M.; below U. at 12.30 P.M. Bearing down in lower part of abdomen as if muscles were relaxed, (>) when the head ached less. Aching low down in pelvis.

Anus and Stool

      Throbbing sticking in anus at 10 P.M., with pain in abdomen. Soreness of anus. Tenesmus and straining at stool, remained half an hour at stool. Desire for stool;, but only scanty passage of mucus but only scanty passage of frothy mucus; ineffectual desire. Violent purging, with tenesmus. Frequent and profuse diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, with flatus. Watery stool in evening, with tenesmus, only partially (>) by stool; W., partially relieving the colic; W. yellowish; and gushing; and bubbling, with flatus, preceded by rumbling; and mucous towards evening, with pain in abdomen; and frequent. Passage of faecal mucus before rising, with flatus. Still at first consistent, then thin, faecal, slimy, with flatus. Constipation after catamenia: c. and no desire for stool. Stool small and insufficient; three times a day, and pastry; and sticky; and dry., sticky, with apparently no power to expel it. Stool scanty and soft. Stool, with colic and griping.

Urinary and Sexual Organs

      Pain in region of bladder, with soreness. Urine diminished and high colored; diminished and with white, sometimes reddish sediment. Uterus feels as if too low and as if it would come out while at stool. menses sooner that usual, not so profuse or long- lasting as usual.

Respiratory Organs and Chest

      Stinging from without inward in larynx, with suffocating sensation. Cough, (<) morning, and appearance of a cold. Expectoration of offensive sweetish mucus. Dyspnoea; from slightest exertion; on ascending stairs; with oppression of chest, desire to clear throat and much spitting. Out of breath on ascending slight elevation, chest, extending into abdomen and I. shoulder, Soreness of chest as from a cold.

Heart and Pulse

      Hearts action excited by the least motion. Pulse rapid; and full and strong, then suddenly weak and irregular; then slow and weak Pulse slow and weak. but excited by the least exertion; slow and soft. Pulse weak.

Back and Extremities

      Pain in back and loins; in small of back and in side before going to bed, running around into r. side, in the night sharp pain in the latter spot, low down in r. side, waking her three times, and a hard lump. Heavy pain in. region of kidneys, with crawling sensation and occasional darting pain. Extremities weak and trembling on standing Neuralgic pain in arm before noon: N. pain in shoulders and arms, making it difficult to keep them still. Soreness of muscles of thighs extending to knees. with stiffness, making it difficult to rise from the bed extending down I. leg.

Sleep

      Sleepiness and dullness; S. but inability to sleep. But little sleep at night. Sleep delayed restless and disturbed. Sleep full of dreams Dream of dead bodies.

Fever

      Cold feet. heat at night, with restlessness and inability to sleep. Feverishness on going to bed at 10 P.M., then sweat. Sweat on hands.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.