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Dulcamara

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Dulc.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Region:

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Bronchi, Bladder, Eyes

BACK: Muscles, LOINS

SKIN

Umbilicus

Lymphatics

Worse:

BEING CHILLED: WHILE HOT, Sudden change of temperature, Uncovering, COLD WET; feet, ground, cellars, beds, etc.

Suppressed discharges, sweat, eruptions, etc.

Autumn

Night

Rest

Injuries

Mercury

Before storms

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 diarrhoea. 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.

Relations:

Complementary: Bar-c, Nat-s

Related: Rhus-t.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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