Dulcamara

Solanum Dulcamara, Linn.

Natural order , Solanaceæ.

Common names , Woody Nightshade (not Deadly Nightshade, Belladonna), Bittersweet (not Climbing Bittersweet, Celastrus).

German , Bittersuss.

French , Douce-amère, Morelle.

Preparation , Tincture of plant above woody portion, gathered just before flowering.

Authorities.

1 , Hahnemman, Chronische Krank.; 2 , Ahner, ibid.; 3 , Cubitz, ibid.; 4 , Gross, ibid.; 5 , Muller, ibid.; 6 , Neuning, ibid.; 7 , Hartlaub and Trinks, ibid.; 8 , Rückert, ibid.; 9 , Stapf, ibid.; 10 , Wagner, ibid.; 11 , Wahle, ibid.; 12 , Althof, ibid., from Murray, Appar. Med., statement from observation; 13 , Carrère. Traité des Propriétées, Usages, et Effets de la Douce-amère. Paris. 1787. Effects of Dulcamara when given for chronic rheumatism, suppressed secretions, and cutaneous diseases. [The author says that he has, after seventeen years' experience with the drug, seen no inconvenience result from full doses, save those described in S. 83, 112, and 347; S. 256, 408, 451 (sometimes the precursors of a new eruption, and then associated with S. 413 and 414, S. 27 and 88, and S. 141.) -Hughes.]

14 , Gowan, Mem. de la Soc. de Montpell., not obtainable, ibid.; 15 , De Haen, Rat. Med., iv, p. 228, Observation in Disease, ibid.; 16 , Linné, Diss. de Dulcam., not accessible, ibid.; 17 , Piquot, Samml. br. Abhandl., statement from observation, ibid.; 18 , Starke, Translation of Carrère into German; Roth says that his symptoms are of the same kind, ibid.; 19 , Tode ibid., not found; 20 , Fritze, Annal. des Klin. Inst. in Berlin, statement from observation, ibid.; 21 , Dr. Rockwith, proving with 5 drops of tinct. taken at 9 P.M., Am. J. Hom. M. M., N. S., 1, 289; 22 , Knorre, symptoms from juice and first dil., A. H. Z., 6, 35; 23 , Berridge. Mr. --- took one dose of 3m. (Jenichen), N. Y. J. of Hom., 2, 460; 24 , Robinson, proving with tinct., and 24 b , with the 1000th dil. of Jenichen, B. J. of Hom., 24, 513; 25 , Prof. Hoppe, effects of 2 1/2 drs. of infusion of Herba Dulcamara daily for three days, on a woman suffering from uterine trouble and affections of both hip-joints, A. H. Z., M. B., 2, 14; 26 , ibid., a boy, aged 20 suffering from "coxarthrocace," took a tea of Dulcamara; 27 , Dr. J. S. Douglas, symptoms, Am. Hom. Obs., 1867, p. 32; 28 , Dr. Bodenmuller, Frank's Mag., 2, p. 80, a boy ate a quantity of the berries; 29 , Schlegel, Frank's Mag., 2, 720, a man took an infusion of the herb and also half an ounce of the extract; 30 , Plætschke, Caspar's Wochenschrift (Am. J. of M. Sc, 1851), a man took one forenoon, for a cough, three to four quarts of an infusion of a peck of the stalks; , Journ. de Chim. Méd., 6, 143 (from Orfila, Toxicologie), poisoning of three children by the berries; , Heintz (from Orfila), poisoning of two children by the berries.

MIND

• Emotional.
• Delirium, 15.
• Delirium at night, with increased pains, 13 . (Not found. -Hughes.)
• Delirious fantasies and delirium, 18.
• She awakes early, as if called, and sees the form of a ghost, which keeps enlarging until it disappears, 1.
• Constant picking in the air and at his clothes, 28.
• Restlessness of mind, 21.
• Screaming, as in hydrocephalus, 32.
• Anxiety and fear of the future after midnight, 1.
• Very ill-humored, discontented with everything, for several days, 6. [10.]
• Quarrelsome mood in the afternoon, without, however, being vexed thereby, 6.*
• Impatient in the morning; he stamps the feet, throws everything away from him, begins to rave, and at last to cry, 18.*
• Intellectual.
• Patients did not seem to know what was going on about them, 32.
• Took not notice of his surroundings, and heard nothing when spoken to, 28.

HEAD

• Confusion and Vertigo.
• Stupefaction of the head, 12.
• Violent stupefaction, 18.
• Vertigo, 12, 31 , etc.
• Vertigo in the morning on rising from bed, so that he almost fell, with trembling of the whole body and general weakness, 5.*
• Vertigo while walking at noon, before eating; it seems as though all objects in front of him stood still, and it became black before his eyes, 1.
• Momentary vertigo, 17. [20.]
• Slight, very transient vertigo, 6.
• Dizziness of the head, with rising warmth in the whole of the face, 6.
• She staggers and reels, 24.
• General Head.
• Dulness in the head, as after intoxication, disappearing in the open air, 10.
• Dulness in the head, with drawing in the frontal eminences, 6.
• Dull and confused in the head in the evening, 6.
• Dulness and painful stupefaction of the head, 13.*
• Heaviness of the head, 13.*
• Heaviness of the head, with a boring-out pain in the temples and forehead, as after a debauch, 40.
• Heaviness of the whole head throughout the day, as if the scalp were tense, especially in the nape of the neck, where the sensation became a crawling, 11. [30.]
• Heat in the head, 13.
• Head hot, dizzy, with obscuration of vision, which changed to flickering of black spots before the eyes on waking in the morning, 29.
• Pressive tensive pain in the head, above the right eye (after three hours), 10.
• Headache, 31.
• Headache in the morning in bed, aggravated on rising, 5.
• Headache, making him stupid, lasting ten days, 6.
• Headache, with indolence, icy coldness of the whole body, and inclination to vomit, .

EYE

• Objective.
• Eyes wide open, moist, and glittering, 32.
• Inflammation of the eyes, 18, 19.
• Subjective.
• Feeling of dryness and tension in the eyes, 29.
• Feeling as though fire darted from the eyes, while walking in the sun, and in the room, 1. [80.]
• Pressure in the eyes, very much aggravated by reading, 8.
• Sensation as though his eyes would be pressed out and be protruded from the orbits, 29.
• Orbit.
• Contractive pain in the border of the orbit, 4.
• Lids.
• Twitching of the lids in the cold air, 13.
• A kind of paralysis of the upper lid, as if it would fall down, 5.
• Pupil.
• Pupils very much dilated, 28, 29.
• Pupils extremely dilated, 31, 32.
• Pupils alternately contracted and dilated, 31.
• Vision.
• Dimness of vision, 13 . [With S. 27. -Hughes.]
• Scarcely able to see, 31. [90.]
• Commencing amaurosis, and so much dimness of vision that he seemed to see only through a veil, 5.
• Sparks before the eyes, 17.

EAR

• Earache the whole night, so that he was unable to sleep ; in the morning the pain suddenly disappeared, except some continued rushing noise, 7.
• A transient drawing in the external meatus auditorius, 4.
• Stitches in the meatus auditorius and parotid gland, 8.*
• A pinching stitch in the left ear, extending towards the drum, 11.
• Twinging in the right ear, with small stitches, 11.
• Twinging pain in the left ear, with great nausea, 7.
• Tearing in the left ear, with stitches from within outward, with drumming and bubbling, so that he could not hear distinctly, and with crackling on opening the mouth, as if something snapped asunder, 7.
• Prickling in the ears, as if cold air were in them, 11.
• Hearing. [100.]
• Ringing in the ears, 1, 8.
• Clear ringing in the ears (after four and eight days), 9.

NOSE

• Sneezing, 11.
• Stopped coryza, with confusion of the head, and sneezing, 6.
• Bleeding of the nose, 18.
• Bleeding of the nose, with profuse discharge of bright red very warm blood, and pressure in the region of the longitudinal sinus, which continued even after the bleeding, 6.
• Very dry nose, in the evening, 6.

FACE

• Face puffy, anxious, distorted, 32.
• *Face puffy, burning hot, 31.
• Cramplike contraction in the face beneath the left ear, extending to the ramus of the lower jaw (J. R., from Hahnemann).
• Cheeks. [110.]
• Drawing and tearing in the whole cheek, 1.
• Painless pressure upon the left malar bone (immediately), 4.
• Lips.
• Twitching movements of the lips, in the cold air, 13.
• Chin.
• Trismus, 32.
• Pinching in a small spot on the lower portion of the chin, 1.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• The teeth are dull and seem insensible, 5.
• Gums.
• The gums are loose and spongy, 1.
• Tongue.
• Tongue very white, 28.
• Tongue is swollen stiff, and seems paralyzed; was unable to articulate a word, and has to make his desire known by writing, 29.
• Paralysis of the tongue, 14, 27. [120.]
• Paralysis of the tongue, after long use, 16 . [Only a citation from Gowan (S. 119), according to Murray. -Hughes.]
• Paralysis of the tongue, in the evening; this symptom increased so much in the course of three or four hours that he could scarcely move his tongue, 30.
• Paralysis of the tongue, hindering speech (in cold damp weather), 13.
• Tongue could not be protruded, 32.
• Dry tongue, 13.*
• [Dry, rough tongue], 13 . [See S. 489.]
• Itching crawling on the tip of the tongue, 11.
• General Mouth.
• Pimples and ulcers in the mouth, on the inside of the upper lip, on the anterior portion of the palate, with tearing pain on moving the parts, 1.
• Mouth dry, 28.
• Saliva.
• Accumulation of saliva, 13 . [Not found. -Hughes.]* [130.]
• Accumulation of saliva, with loose, spongy gums, 18.
• Constant grasping at the mouth, as though he would take something out of it; constantly spitting about, 28.
• Saliva tenacious and soaplike, 27.
• Tenacious, soapy saliva is discharged in large quantities, 18.
• Taste.
• Flat, soapy taste in the mouth, with loss of appetite, 18.
• Speech.

THROAT

• Constant hawking of very tough mucus, with much scraping in the pharynx, 6. [140.]
• Dryness of the throat, in the evening, 30.
• Pains in the throat, 13.
• Pressure in the throat, as if the uvula were too long, 1.
• Pharynx.
• Feeling of increased warmth in the pharynx, 8.
• Swallowing.
• Inability to swallow, 28.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Good appetite and natural taste to the food, though soon satiated and full, with much rumbling and roaring in the abdomen, 4.
• Hunger, with aversion to every kind of food, 1.
• Aversion to food , with shivering as though he would vomit, 6.*
• Thirst.
• Very great thirst, but drink was immediately vomited, 31.
• Unquenchable thirst, 31.*
• Eructation and Hiccough. [150.]
• Eructations, accompanied by hiccough, 4.
• *Many eructations, 5.
• Repeated eructations, while eating, so that the soup just swallowed rose again into the throat, 4.
• Frequent eructations, with scraping in the œsophagus and heartburn, 6.
• Empty eructations, with shuddering as from nausea, 6.
• Frequent empty eructations, 4.
• Waterbrash, 1.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea, 12, 16 , etc.*
• Nausea and qualmishness, 13.
• Nausea, with inability to bring up anything, 24. [160.]
• Great qualmish nausea, with chilliness, 7.
• Retching, 12.
• Frequent but ineffectual efforts to vomit, 28.
• Vomiting, 16.*
• Vomiting, with nausea, heat, and anxiety, 18.
• Vomiting of only tenacious mucus, 6.
• Vomiting of mucus, in the morning, preceded by warm uprisings in the pharynx, 1.
• Vomiting, first of mucus, afterwards of a thick blackish-green liquid, 31.
• Stomach.
• Feeling of distension in the pit of the stomach, with an unpleasant sensation of emptiness in the bowels, .

ABDOMEN

• Umbilical.
• Pinching pain about the umbilical region, as if he should go to stool, though without desire, 2.
• Pinching pain in the umbilical region and above the left hip, which obliges him to go to stool, although only a little hard fæces is passed with difficulty, after the passage of some flatus, with relief of the pains, 2.
• Twisting, burrowing, and griping about the umbilical region (after ten hours), 2.
• Forcing-out pain beneath the umbilicus on the left side, as if a hernia would occur, 9. [180.]
• Sticking pain in the umbilical region (after one hours), 2.
• Griping-sticking pain on the right side near the umbilicus (after four days), 2.
• Dull short stitches on the left side near the umbilicus, in the evening, 6.
• Gnawing throbbing just above the umbilicus, 4.
• General Abdomen.
• Abdomen large and moderately hard, 28.
• Distension of the abdomen, immediately after a moderate meal, 1.
• Distension of the abdomen, as if he would burst, after a moderate meal, 4.
• Rumbling in the bowels, immediately, 1.
• While eating, distension of the abdomen, with repeated griping, 4.
• Rumbling in the bowels, pain in left inguinal region, with a sensation of coldness in the back, 6. [190.]
• Rumbling in the bowels, with urging to stool, 1.
• Rumbling in the bowels, as if stool should follow, with some pain in the small of the back, 7.
• Much emission of flatus, 11.
• Flatulence of the odor of asafetida, 5.
• Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, 1.
• Almost directly, coldness in the abdomen (internally), which went off on walking in open air, 23.
• Feeling of distension and uneasiness in the bowels, with frequent eructations of gas, 6.
• A sudden cutting contraction in the left side of the abdomen, 4.
• Dull pinching in the bowels, as if diarrhœa would occur, .

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Some pressing, with the usual stool (after three-quarters of an hours), 6.
• Sudden excessive pressure upon the rectum, so that he could scarcely retain the stool, yet only after some time very hard fæces were slowly passed, with great pressure and transient griping and cutting here and there in the bowels, 4. [230.]
• Desire for stool, in the evening, with griping in the whole lower abdomen, followed by a large, moist, at last very thin, sour-smelling stool, after which he was relieved, but felt weak ; in the afternoon he had already had his usual stool, though very hard and difficult, 4.*
• Urgent desire for stool that could hardly be retained, though only small hard fæces passed (after half an hour), 2.
• Urging to stool, with griping in the abdomen, yet he is very constipated and evacuates but little with great pressure (after eight hours), 5.
• Ineffectual urging to stool, the whole day, with nausea (after half an hour), 5.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa.
• *Yellow watery diarrhœa twice in a day, with tearing-cutting colic before every evacuation, as after taking cold (from 1 drop of the juice), 22.
• [Slimy diarrhœa, with weakness], 13 . [Critical. -Hughes.]
• [White slimy diarrhœa], 13 . [Critical. -Hughes.]
• Slimy, alternately yellow and greenish diarrhœa, 13 . [Critical. -Hughes.]*
• Thin stool, several afternoons in succession, with flatulence , (after three days), 1.*
• Soft stool, immediately, 1. [240.]
• Soft stool, in small pieces, 11.
• Constipation.
• Difficult, dry, infrequent stool, 13.
• Stool infrequent, sluggish, hard; even when the stool is necessary the urging in the rectum is wanting, and very thick hard fæces are only passed slowly, with great exertion, 4.
• Suppression of the stool, 28.

URINARY ORGANS

• Bladder.
• Catarrh of the bladder, 27.*
• Burning in the meatus urinarus, while urinating, 1.*
• Pulsating (stitches?) in the urethra, from within outward, 11.
• Micturition.
• Copious discharge of urine, at first clear and limpid, then thick, milky white, 13 . [Critical. -Hughes. Original revised by Hughes.]
• Involuntary passage or urine, 28.
• Strangury painful micturition, 18.
• Urine. [250.]
• Urine reddish, burning, 13 . [See S. 489]
• Urine turbid, 13 . [Critical. -Hughes.]*
• Urine turbid and whitish, 13 . [Critical. -Hughes.]*
• Urine turbid, offensive, with offensive perspiration, 13 . [Critical. -Hughes.]
• Slimy, at one time red, at another white sediment in the urine, 13 . [Critical. -Hughes.]
• Urine at first clear and limpid, then white, then turbid, then clear, with white, glutinous sediment, 13 . [Critical. -Hughes.]

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Heat and itching of the genitals, with desire for coition, 13.
• Menstruation hastened and increased, 13 . [Curative effect. -Hughes.]
• Menstruation delayed even twenty-five days, 13 . [Ascribed to abundant evacuations. -Hughes.]
• Increased menstruation, 13. [260.]
• Diminished menstruation, 13 . [Ascribed to abundant evacuations. -Hughes.]

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Short, hacking cough, as if caused by deep inspiration, 4.
• Cough, with expectoration of tenacious mucus, and sticking in the sides of the chest, 5.
• Hæmoptysis, 13 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
• Respiration rapid, 32.

DULCAMARA. CHEST

• Tension of the chest on deep inspiration, 11.
• Pinching pain in the whole chest, aggravated by inspiration, 2.
• Digging pain in the chest, or a sensation as though he had strained himself, 4.
• Oppression of the chest, 11.
• Oppression of the chest, as after sitting bent over, 11. [270.]
• Transient cutting and pinching in the chest, as from incarcerated flatus, 4.
• Dull, benumbing stitch, extending into the chest, beneath the right clavicle, 4.
• Front.
• Intermitting squeezing in a small spot beneath the upper part of the sternum, 4.
• Drawing and tension externally over the forepart of the chest, 6.
• Pressure beneath the whole surface of the sternum at intervals, 4.
• Great oppressive pain in the whole chest, especially on breathing, 2.
• Sticking pain on the sternum, 2.
• Dull stitch, similar to a thrust, on the sternum, 2.
• Sticking-tearing pain from the middle of the sternum through to the spine, while sitting, disappearing on rising, 2.
• Jerking and drawing beneath the sternum, 4.
• Sides. [280.]
• Feeling as if something would be forced out of the left side of the chest, 4.
• Digging pain in the right side of the chest, disappearing on pressure, 2.
• Dull, painful pressure on the left side above the ensiform cartilage, on sitting bent over, afterwards when in an upright position, at intervals, like thrusts penetrating deep into chest, 4.
• Surging, tearing-pressing pain drawing through the whole left side of the chest at intervals, 4.
• Deeply cutting pain in the left side of the chest, just beneath the clavicle, disappearing on pressure, 2.
• Sticking pain in the left side of the chest, as from a dull knife, in the region of the fifth and sixth ribs, 2.
• Dull, sticking pain in the right side of the chest, in the region of the third rib, on pressing upon it; thereupon it extended into the small of the back and to between the scapulæ, where it became sticking on the margin of the left scapula, on inspiration, .

HEART AND PULSE

• Heart's Action.
• Great cardiac excitement, 21.
• Palpitation, especially at night, violent and perceptible externally, 1.
• Violent palpitation, as if he felt the heart beating outside of the thorax, 9.
• Pulse.
• Pulse accelerated, moderately full, 28.
• Pulse small, very rapid, 32.
• Pulse slow, intermitting, 29.
• Frequent irregular pulse, 31.
• Pulse quiet, but small and rather hard, in the evening, 30.

NECK AND BACK

• Neck.
• Stiffness of the muscles of the nape of the neck, 4, 8.* [300.]
• Pain, as from stiffness in the muscles of the nape of the neck, on turning the head to one side, 4.
• Pain in the nape, as if the head had been lying in an uncomfortable position, 11.*
• Constrictive pain in the muscles of the nape of the neck, as if the neck would be twisted about, 4.
• Drawing pain in the right cervical muscles, 5.
• Back.
• Dull, throbbing stitches in the left side, near the spine, at intervals, 4.
• Dorsal.
• Intermitting pressure on the left side of the upper part of the spine, in the nape of the neck, while lying on the back in the morning in the bed, 4.
• Tearing thrusts on the outer side of the right scapula at intervals, 4.
• Painful stitches in the middle of the spine on breathing, 2.
• Tickling stitch in the middle of the right scapula, 2.
• Drawing-tearing on the external margin of the right scapula (sixth day), 2.
• Lumbar. [310.]
• Burrowing sticking in the left loin, disappearing while walking, returning while sitting, 2.
• Dull stitch from within outward in the left loin, just above the hip, on every inspiration, 4.
• Deeply cutting pain in the right loin, just above the hip, inspiration, 4.
• Deeply cutting pain in the right loin, transiently disappearing upon pressure , afterwards disappearing of its own accord, 2.*
• Dull sticking, lie a forcing out in both loins, on every inspiration, while sitting bent (after a short walk), 4.
• *Pain in the small of the back, as after stooping a long time, 11.
• Sacral.
• Burrowing sticking on the left side near the sacrum, .

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Objective.
• *Trembling of all the limbs, 29.
• Violent trembling of the limbs, 13 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
• Jerking of the limbs, 13 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
• Slight jerking of the hands and feet, 13.
• Subjective. [320.]
• Lassitude, heaviness, and weariness of all the limbs, compelling him to sit and lie, 11.
• He was suddenly seized with numbness in his limbs, and pains in the knees and elbows, in the evening; these symptoms increased so much in the course of three or four hours, that he could scarcely move his limbs, 30.
• Heaviness of the arms and thighs, 8.
• Pain in the limbs, 1.
• Sensation of pain in all her limbs (after third day), 24b.
• Cramplike pain here and there in the limbs, especially in the fingers, 4.
• Sharp, shooting pains in left toes and thumb, 24.
• Very bruised sensation in all the limbs the whole day, 2.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Paralytic, bruised pain in the left arm , almost only during rest, less during motion, none when touched; yet the arm had the usual strength, 1.*
• Dull, violent pain in the whole of the right arm, as after a blow, with leaden heaviness, immobility, stiffness of the muscles, and coldness of the whole arm, as if paralyzed; on attempting to bend it, and even on touch, pain in the elbow-joint, as if bruised; the icy coldness of the arm returned the next morning after twenty-four hours (after half an hour), 5. [330.]
• She could bend the arm neither backward nor forward, because it caused jerkings in it, 1.
• Shoulder.
• Drawing-tearing in the right shoulder, above the right hip-joint, and above and below the right knee-joint, 7.
• Pulsating pain in the left axilla, disappearing on motion, 2.
• Jerking pain in the right axilla, 2.
• Arm.
• Paralytic sensation in the right upper arm, disappearing on violent motion, 2.
• Pain in the upper arm in the evening in bed, and in the morning after rising, 1.
• Jerking in the upper arm on bending it and drawing it backward; on stretching it out, there was no jerking, but the fingers were stiff, so that she could not close them, 1.
• Elbow.
• Corrosive gnawing on the outer side of the elbow at short intervals, 4.
• Forearm.
• Loss of power of the left forearm, with lameness, especially of the elbow-joint, 11.
• Drawing pain in the right forearm (third day), 2. [340.]
• Dull drawing from the left elbow to the wrist, especially noticed on bending it, 6.
• Sensitive drawings in the left ulna, frequently repeated, 4.
• Slow, twisting boring, drawing downward from the elbow-joint to the wrist, disappearing on moving the arm, and immediately returning during rest, 2.
• Sudden, jerking, pinching-tearing in the middle of the left forearm (twelfth day), 2.
• Wrist.
• Wakened next morning with a violent pain in the left wrist, developing what a number of physicians called an "inflammatory rheumatism." Anatomically, the centre of pain seemed to emanate from the pisiform bone, extending, forward along the branchings of the ulnar nerve to the end of the little finger, and again upward along the main tract of that nerve until it became lost near the inferior origin of the flexor carpi ulnaris muscle. The pain increased until 9 to 10 o'clock next evening. There was redness and swelling of the integuments; the little finger was flexed, and more or less involved in the inflammatory process, .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Inability to walk or stand, 28.
• Falling asleep and weakness of the legs, 13.
• Hip.
• Drawing-pinching in the right hip (after six hours), 2.
• Drawing-sticking in the left hip-joint, extending into the groin, only while walking, with a sensation on every step as if the head of the thigh-bone would be dislocated; violent stretching out of the leg relieved the pain, with a sensation as if the limb were reduced; still the bruised pain remained for some time, which obliged him to walk lame (for fourteen days), 8.
• Jerklike, isolated, severe stitches, as with a fork, just above the right hip, near the lumbar vertebræ, 2.
• Drawing-tearing in the left hip, 2.
• Pain, as from a blow above the left hip, close to the lumbar vertebræ (after half an hour), 2.
• Thigh.
• Pain in the thigh, 1. [360.]
• Drawing here and there in the muscles of the thigh, with sensitiveness to touch, 6.
• Drawing pain on the anterior portion of the right thigh, 2.
• Paralytic drawing on the anterior portion of the right thigh, 2.
• Some small stitches on the right nates, 2.
• Drawing-tearing from the middle of the posterior portion of the thigh to the knee-joint, 2.
• Drawing-tearing pain, or constant pain, at one time sticking, at another pinching, in both thighs, disappearing on walking , then changing to weariness, and immediately returning while sitting, 2.*
• Sticking as with needles, on the posterior portion of the left thigh, close to the knee, 2.
• Sticking-tearing in the whole of the thigh, not relieved by pressure, 2.
• Knee.
• Knees weary, as after a long walk, 6.
• Rhythmical, undulating pressure on the inner side of the knee, 4. [370.]
• Tearing in the knee-joints while sitting, 8.
• Sticking-tearing from the knee-joint up to the thigh while walking in the open air, .

GENERALITIES

• Objective.
• Sudden swelling of the body and puffiness of the limbs, at times painful or accompanied with a sensation as if going to sleep, 18.* [390.]
• Emaciation, 1.
• Lassitude; he avoids motion, 1.
• Weariness, 1.*
• Great, continued weakness, 13 . [After much sweat. -Hughes.]
• Trembling, 32.
• Twitchings of the tendons, 32.
• Sudden jerkings like electric shocks though the whole body, with piteous cries; the jerkings seemed to be caused by violent pains in the abdomen; they did not last a long time, after which the boy began again to mutter, 28.
• Spasms, 32.
• Convulsions from time to time, 31.
• Convulsions, first of the facial muscles, then of the whole body, 20. [400.]
• Almost immovable, 29.
• Sudden attacks of weakness like faintness, 1.
• He is obliged to lie down, 1.
• Unrest, 13.
• Extremely restless, could scarcely be held; scratched his father, 28.
• Subjective.
• She has to get up at night and walk about the room; sinking sensation all over; she fancies she would sink through the bed, 24.
• Pain in various parts of the body, as after taking cold, 11.
• Pain as if the body would be cut off above the hip, obliging him to move back and forth, though without relief, 4.
• Dull stitches here and there in the limbs and other parts of the body, mostly from within outward, 4.
• Itching pinching stitches in various parts, 11. [410.]
• Symptoms subsided forty-eight hours from first incursion of pain, 21.
• The symptoms seem inclined to occur especially towards evening, 6.
• No relief from coffee, 29.

SKIN

• Eruptions, Dry.
• Red spots on the body, 13.
• Red spots like flea-bites, 13.
• Red spots like scarlet rash over the whole body, 32.
• Red, elevated spots, as from burning nettles, 13 . [On the seat of vanished dartres. -Hughes.]
• Eruption of red spots, with vesicles itching violently, 13 . [On parts affected by dartres. -Hughes.]
• Bright-red pointed pimples on the skin, which after a few days fill with pus, 18.
• *Nettle-rash over the whole body, without fever (from one drop of the 1st dil., in a child), 22. [420.]
• *Eruption like nettle-rash over the whole body, 28.
• [Tetter-like rash, especially on the hands], 13 . [Critical. -Hughes.]
• [Tetter-like crust over the whole body], 13 . [Critical. See S. 489. -Hughes.]
• Eruption of white wheals with red areolæ; sticking, itching, and with burning after rubbing, on the arms and thighs, 1.
• Elevations, lines on the forehead, with sticking pain when touched, 1.
• Pimples in the angles of the nose, 1.
• Pimple in the inner side of the left wing of the nose, with an ulcerative pain, 11.
• Pimples and ulcers about the mouth, with tearing pains on moving the parts, 1.
• Red pimples in the bend of the elbow, noticeable morning and evening, in the warmth of the room, with fine sticking itching and burning after scratching, lasting twelve days, 1.
• Itching pimples on the chin, 1. [430.]
• Small, moderately itching pimples on the chest and abdomen, 9.
• Tetter-like rash on the labia majora, 13 . [During dartrous vagina and ulcers. -Hughes.]
• Warts cover the hands, 9, 27.
• Eruptions, Moist.
• Moist eruption on the cheeks, 13 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
• Subjective.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness.
• Frequent, violent yawning, 4.
• Sleepiness the whole day, with much yawning, 2.
• Great sleepiness, indolence, and yawning, 5.
• Deep coma, 31. [450.]
• Violent snoring in his sleep, with open mouth immediately, 1.
• Sleeplessness.
• Sleeplessness , uneasiness, jerking, 13.
• Sleeplessness, orgasm of blood, sticking and itching of the skin, 13.
• Uneasy sleep, tossed about in discomfort, 9.*
• *Uneasy sleep after 4 A.M., no matter how he lay, 2.
• Restless, anxious, interrupted sleep, full of heavy dreams, 18.
• Restless sleep, with profuse sweat, and interrupted by confused dreams, 11.
• Tossing about in bed the whole night, with dulness of the head, 11.
• In the evening while falling asleep he started as from fright, 4.
• A kind of waking, with closed eyes, towards morning, 11. [460.]
• Awakened early, was unable to fall asleep again, stretched himself with great weariness, and turned from one side to the other, because the muscles of the occiput seemed lame and he could not lie upon them, 17.
• No sleep towards morning, and yet weary in all the limbs and lame, as after enduring great heat, 11.
• Dreams.
• Fearfully confused dreams, 24.
• Frightful dreams, which made him jump out of bed (first night), 11.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Skin cool, in the evening, 30.
• [Frequent chilliness, heaviness of the head and general exhaustion, after taking cold], 13 . [See note to S. 223. -Hughes.]
• Shivering as from chilliness and nausea, with sensation of coldness, and coldness of the whole body, so that he could not get warm by a hot stove, with shuddering from time to time (immediately), 5.
• Chilliness and discomfort in all the limbs, 11.
• Chilliness of the back, without thirst, in the open air, but especially in a draft, 6.
• Chilliness over the back, nape of the neck, and occiput, towards evening (with a feeling as if the hairs stood on end), lasting ten days, 6.
• Heat. [470.]
• Increased warmth of the skin, 28.
• Hot, dry skin, with orgasm of blood, 13 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
• Heat and uneasiness, 13 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
• Heat of the body, burning of the face, with constipation, 13 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
• Heat and sensation of heat over the whole body, especially of the hands, with thirst, and even, slow, full pulse, followed by chilliness, 1.
• Dry heat at night, 6.
• Dry burning heat of the whole body, 32.
• Increased warmth of the body, with sweat and great redness of the skin, annoying sensation of heat, with itching and burning, and an eruption, especially on the face, of numerous thick pimples, so that the face seemed to be decidedly swollen, 28.
• [Violent fever, with violent heat, dryness of the skin and delirium, daily, returning every fifteen or sixteen hours], 13 . [Critical. -Hughes.]
• [Double tertian fever], 13 . [See note to S. 228. -Hughes.] [480.]
• Burning in the skin of the whole back, as if he were sitting by a hot stove, with sweat in the face and moderate heat, 11.
• Sweat.
• [Sweat, lasting more than five days], 13 . [Critical in rheumatism. -Hughes.]
• Body covered with sweat, 31.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Impatient; on rising vertigo; on waking, head hot, etc.; on rising, headache; after rising, headache in forehead; vomiting of mucus; in bed, while lying on back, pressure on spine; tearing in tibia; sweat.
• ( Noon ), While walking, before eating, vertigo.
• ( Afternoon ), Quarrelsome mood; towards evening, on walking in open air, pressing out headache; drawing in temporal region; thin stool, etc.; towards evening, puffiness, etc., of leg, etc.; towards evening, the symptoms; towards evening, chilliness over back.
• ( Evening ), Dullness, etc., in head; pain through brain; headache; stitches in head; pain in frontal eminence; while eating, pain in vertex; in bed, heaviness in occiput; dry nose; paralysis of tongue; dryness of throat; griping in abdomen, etc.; desire for stool, etc.; numbness in limbs, etc.; skin cool.
• ( Night ), Delirium, etc.; palpitation; dry heat.
• ( Walking in open air ), Tearing from knee to thigh.
• ( Bending elbow ), Drawing from elbow to wrist.
• ( Coffee ), Eruption.
• ( While eating ), Eructations.
• ( Food ), Eruption.
• ( Inspiration ), Pain in chest ; stitches in spine; pains in loins.
• ( Motion ), Pressing outward on forehead.
• ( Pressure ), Pain in pit of stomach.
• ( Rest ), Pain in arm; drawing from elbow to wrist.
• ( On rising from sitting ), Tension in groin.
• ( Reading ), Pressure in eyes.
• ( Sitting ), Pain from sternum to spine; stitches beneath ribs; sticking in left loin; pain in thighs ; tearing in knee-joints.
• ( Stooping ), drawing in frontal eminences; colic.
• ( Walking ), Cramp in leg.

SUPPLEMENT: DULCAMARA. Authority.

33 , Dr. Benjamin Phillips, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1839-40 (1), p. 904, effects of daily doses of a pint and a half.

• In some cases lepra, nausea, and headache, 33.