Remedy

Dulcamara

Bitter-sweet

17 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • 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 diarrhoea.
  • 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 change and somewhat relieved by moving about.
  • Results from sitting on cold, damp ground.
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  • Icy coldness.
  • One-sided spasms with speechlessness.
  • Congestive headache, with neuralgia and dry nose.
  • Patients living or working in damp, cold basements.
  • Rashes on hands, arms or face around the menstrual period.

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What makes it better or worse

Worse

At nightFrom cold in generalDampRainy weather

Better

From moving aboutExternal warmth

Symptoms by body part

Head

Mental confusion. Occipital pain ascending from nape of neck. Headache relieved by conversation. Rejects things asked for. Back part of head chilly, heavy, aching, during cold weather. Ringworm of scalp. Scaldhead, thick brown crusts, bleeding when scratched. Buzzing in head.

Nose

Dry runny nose (cold). Complete stoppage of nose. Stuffs up when there is a cold rain. Thick, yellow mucus, bloody crusts. Profuse runny nose (cold). Wants nose kept warm, least cold air stops the nose. Runny nose (cold) of the new born.

Eyes

Every time he takes cold it settles in eyes. Thick, yellow discharge; granular lids. Hay-fever; profuse, watery discharge, worse in open air.

Ears

Earache, buzzing, stitches, and swelling of parotids. Middle-ear mucus discharge.

Face

Tearing in cheek extending to ear, orbit, and jaw, preceded by coldness of parts, and attended by extreme hunger. Humid rash on cheeks and face generally.

Mouth

Saliva tenacious, soapy. Dry, rough tongue, rough scraping in throat, after taking cold in damp weather. Cold-sores on lips. Facial neuralgia; worse, slightest exposure to cold.

Stomach

Vomiting of white, tenacious mucus. Aversion to food. Burning thirst for cold drinks. Heartburn. Nausea accompanies the desire for stool. Feeling cold during vomiting.

Abdomen

Colic from cold. Acts prominently on umbilical region. Cutting pain about navel. Swelling of inguinal glands.

Stool

Green, watery, slimy, bloody, mucus, especially in summer, when the weather suddenly becomes cold; from damp, cold weather and repelled rashes.

Urine

Must urinate when getting chilled. Painful, drop-by-drop urination, painful micturition. Mucus discharge of bladder from taking cold. Urine has thick, mucous, purulent sediment. Ischuria from wading with bare feet in cold water.

Female

Suppression of menses from cold or dampness. Before appearance of menses, a rash appears on skin, or sexual excitement. Painful periods, with blotches all over; mammae engorged and sore, delicate, sensitive to cold.

Respiratory

Cough worse cold, wet weather, with free phlegm coughed up, tickling in larynx. Cough, hoarse, spasmodic. Whooping-cough, with excessive secretion of mucus. Winter coughs, dry, teasing. Loose, rattling cough; worse wet weather. Must cough a long time to expel phlegm. Cough after physical exertion.

Back

Stiff neck. Pain in small of back, as after long stooping. Stiffness and lameness across neck and shoulders, after getting cold and wet.

Extremities

Warts on hands. Perspiration on palms of hands. Pain in shin-bones. Joint and muscle pain alternates with diarrhoea. Rheumatic symptoms after acute skin rashes.

Skin

Adenitis. Itching, always worse in cold, wet weather. Herpes zoster, pemphigus. Swelling and indurated glands from cold. Vesicular rashes. Sensitive bleeding ulcers. Little boils. Red spots, hives, brought on by exposure, or sour stomach. Humid rashes on face, genitals, hands, etc. Warts, large, smooth, on face and palmar surface of hands. Anasarca. Thick, brown-yellow crusts, bleeding when scratched.

Fever

Dry burning heat all over. Feeling cold towards evening, mostly in back. Icy coldness, with pains. Dry heat and burning of skin. Feeling cold with thirst.

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