Daphne Indica

Daphne Indica, Linn. (Daphne odorata, W. (?).)

Natural order , Thymelaceæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the bark of the branches.

Authority.

Symptoms from Dr. Bute, Corresp. Blatt., etc., 1837.

MIND

• Despondency.
• Fearfulness.
• Very peevish and thoughtless; he walked back and forth in the room, and could not make up his mind to do anything.

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Vertigo.
• General Head.
• The head feels too thick , with dull sticking in the left temple.
• Feeling of fulness in the head, as if there were not enough room in it.
• The head feels as if screwed together from below upward, as if the chin and vertex were put into a vise, with great heat in the head.
• Headache, extending from the nape of the neck to the forehead.
• Feeling as if the external portion of the brain were inflamed and beat painfully against the skull. [10.]
• Every attempt to think caused pain in the brain.
• A pain in the brain, as from a soreness long since past, is renewed by continued thinking, even after many weeks.
• Temples.
• Violent pain in the left temple.
• A sore pain, with painful pulsation of the bloodvessels, on pressing upon the temples.
• Pulsation in the temples and in the gum.
• Vertex.
• Pain in the vertex.
• Pain in the vertex, extending towards the forehead.
• Parietals.
• Sharp momentary pains in the left side of the head and beneath the left scapula.
• Occiput.
• Pain in the posterior portion of the head.
• External Head.
• Itching on the scalp.

EYE. [20.]

• Indescribable sensation about the eyes and lids; the latter feel heavy the next morning; they have a dry look.
• The eyes feel weak and are somewhat inflamed.
• Feeling as if the eyes were forcibly pressed upon, with pain in them.
• Itching of the left eye.
• Brow.
• Pain above the right eye.
• Lachrymal Apparatus.
• Watery, dim eyes, as if they had burst.
• Ball.
• Violent pain in the eyeballs, in the evening, with great nervous excitement.
• Pupil.
• Very contracted pupils.
• Vision.
• Black points float before the eyes.

EAR

• Roaring in the ears.

NOSE. [30.]

• Nostrils scurfy, with some heat.

FACE

• Crackling in the swollen jaw, on pressing on it, as from the accumulation of fluid or pus.
• Feeling of stiffness in the articulation of the jaw on chewing.
• Feeling of swelling and tension in the region of the articulation of the jaw, with violent burning in the skin.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Toothache, with and without salivation.
• Toothache after coition.
• Toothache, with erection.
• Toothache, with attacks of chilliness.
• Toothache, with inclination to sweat.
• Tearing-gnawing toothache in all the teeth. [40.]
• Pulsation in the roots of the teeth, in the gum. Tongue.
• Tongue coated on one side.
• Saliva.
• Salivation with the toothache.
• Saliva hot.

THROAT

• Sore pain, on pressing upon the left side of the throat.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Great desire for tobacco.
• Loss of appetite.
• Thirst.
• Moderate drinking.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea and vomiting after breakfast; vomiting with cough.
• Qualmishness in the stomach.
• Stomach. [50.]
• Pressure in the stomach, after drinking.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• Feeling as if something smooth slipped from the right across to the left hypochondrium, while lying on the back.
• Sudden stitch in the region of the spleen.
• General Abdomen.
• Sudden occurrence of goutlike pains in the intestines.
• Colic, with chilliness.

URINARY ORGANS

• Urethra.
• Discharge of prostatic fluid, after urinating.
• Sore pain in the urethra, on beginning to urinate.
• Frequent inclination to urinate, with forcible passage of a large clear stream.
• Micturition.
• Nocturnal enuresis.
• Urine.
• Reddish-yellow urine. [60.]
• Offensive urine.
• Urine becomes turbid.
• Urine very thick, yellow, turbid, like bad eggs.
• A red sediment accumulates on the sides of the urinal.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Voice.
• Weak voice.
• Expectoration.
• Expectoration, with some blood.
• Thin, slimy, copious expectoration.
• Respiration.
• Offensive breath.

CHEST

• Pain beneath the left short ribs.
• Pain in the pectoral muscles.

HEART AND PULSE. [70.]

• Very slow pulse (in two attacks).

NECK AND BACK

• Pain in the nape of the neck, with headache.
• Beating in the nape of the neck, where it is painful to touch.
• Screwing pain from the ear to the shoulder.
• Sensation as though the cervical glands were much swollen and the arteries excessively distended, with a feeling of suffocation, as if the head were separated from the body, at night.
• Pain and a drawing downward in the spinal cord, aggravated by stooping or bending.
• Sharp pain beneath the left scapula.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Sticking-shooting pains, first in one, then in the other arm, which seem to go into the hands and feet, where they end suddenly with a slight electric shock.
• When he thinks they have passed by, he suddenly feels the same pain in the left foot, which, however, remain in no one place; in the great toe (in which he formerly had gouty pains) he feels as if there were an emptiness, then lightning-like, shooting pains in the left great toe, in the balls of the toes, and soles of the feet; the same in the right foot, but less; after the pains have been very violent, the left foot is quite insensible to touch, and feels as large as the whole body (after third dose).
• Cold air caused violent pains in the limbs.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Shoulder.
• Lightning-like pain in the right shoulder.
• Hand. [80.]
• Goutlike, pinching pain on the back of the left hand, mostly on the side of the little finger; after five minutes the pain jumped to the right hand, also to the outer half; the pain alternated every four or five minutes in the two hands, for several hours.
• Then the pain suddenly changed to the ball of the left great toe, soon passed to the back of the toe, extended along the back of the right great toe, and then to the left.
• After several minutes passing from one foot to the other, it changed to the muscles of the right upper arm, just above the elbow, then went to the inner side of the left thigh, just above the knee, thence to the abdomen, below the præcordial region (second hour after the dose).
• Fingers.
• Sudden, violent, painful boring in the bones of the fingers.
• Sticking-tearing in the thumb and fingers of the right hand.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Hip.
• Sharp pain above the right hip, extending towards the back, lasting about ten minutes.
• Screwing pain in the right hip, and extending from the hip to the knee.
• Thigh.
• Pain in the thighs and knees.
• Dull pain in the thighs.
• Rheumatic pain in the muscles of the left thigh, just above the knee, as after taking cold, worse on walking.
• Toes.
• Feeling of bruised pain in the left toes.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Objective.
• Febrile stretching, with yawning and chilliness. [90.]
• Great weakness, a bruised feeling in the limbs (in all the provers).
• Uneasiness.
• Very uneasy, with nervous headache; sharp pains sweep over the whole body; sometimes it seems as though they stopped in the joints, then he felt them in the neighborhood of the heart, which caused trembling and fearfulness.
• Subjective.
• Pains shoot suddenly; startings from the foot up to the shoulder, and thence along both sides to the breast.
• Sudden, lightning-like, dull jerkings in different parts of the body.*
• Most of the pains were on the left side.

SKIN

• Small vesicles on the hands and arms, itching violently.
• Burning and itching externally down the back.
• Itching on the limbs every evening; they are covered with spots of red rash.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness.
• Much slumbering, with complaints that he is unable to sleep.
• Sleeplessness. [100.]
• Complete loss of sleep.
• Starting up in sleep from fright, with chilliness and clammy sweat.
• Dreams.
• Dreams of fire.
• Nightmare; he dreamed that an evil black cat seized him by the hand.

FEVER

• Coldness.
• Violent shaking chill, lasting twelve hours, followed by moderate heat, as in typhus, with clammy sweat over the whole body, then some thirst, together with complete loss of appetite.
• Feeling of coldness in the knees.
• Cold knees, cold feet.
• Toes and forepart of the foot extremely cold.
• Heat.
• Heat and sweat at short intervals.
• Gastric nervous fever. [110.]
• Feeling of glowing heat of the cheeks, soon after taking, which after half an hour changed into a burning sensation, burning about the ears and on the vertex, with constant inclination to yawn. After the second dose this extended to the hands and tips of the fingers; in the evening chill.
• Sweat.
• Inclination to sweat.
• Offensive clammy sweat.
• Clammy skin.
• Sweat on the scrotum.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), The symptoms.
• ( Evening ), Pain in eyeballs.
• ( Night ), Sensation in cervical glands.
• ( After breakfast ), Nausea, etc.
• ( After coition ), Toothache.
• ( Cold air ), Pains in limbs.
• ( After walking in cold air ), Return of symptoms that had long disappeared.
• ( After drinking ), Pressure in stomach.
• ( Stooping ), Pain, etc., in spinal cord.
• ( Thinking ), Pain in brain.
• ( Walking ), Pain in muscles of thigh.