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DULCAMARA   Bitter-sweet 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 diarrhœa. 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. Icy coldness. One-sided spasms with speechlessness. Paralysis of single parts. Congestive headache, with neuralgia and dry nose. Patients living or working in damp, cold basements ( Nat sulph ). Eruptions on hands, arms or face around the menstrual period. Head Mental confusion. Occipital pain ascending from nape of neck. Headache r...

DUBOISIA MYOPOROIDES   Corkwood Elm (DUBOISIA) Acts chiefly on the nervous system, eyes, upper respiratory tract. Recommended in pharyngitis sicca, with black, stringy mucus. It dilates the pupil, dries the mouth, checks perspiration, causes headache and drowsiness. On the eye it acts more promptly than Atropia, much stronger as a mydriatic.   Red spots floats in the field of vision . Sensation as if stepping on empty space.   Vertigo with pale face ; not gastric in origin. Scarlet fever; locomotor ataxia. Palliative in exophthalmic goitre. Mind Absent-minded, incoherent,   silly and nonsensical , memory impaired. Head Impossible to stand with eyes shut, tendency to fall backwards. Eyes Conjunctivitis , acute and chronic.   Mydriasis . Paralysis of accommodation. Hyperæmia of retina with weakness of accommodation, fundus red, blood-vessels full and tortuous; pupils dilated, with dim vision.   Pain over eye , betw...

DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA   Sundew (DROSERA) Affects markedly the respiratory organs and was pointed out by Hahnemann as the principal remedy for whooping-cough. Drosera can break down resistance to tubercle and should therefore be capable of raising it (Dr. Tyler). Laryngeal phthisis is benefited by it. Phthisis pulmonum; vomiting of food from coughing with gastric irritation and profuse expectoration. Pains about hip-joint. Tubercular glands. Head Vertigo when walking in open air, with inclination to fall to the   left   side. Coldness of left half of face, with stinging pains and dry heat of   right half . Stomach Nausea. Aversion to and bad effects from acids. Respiratory Organs Spasmodic, dry irritative cough, like whooping-cough,   the paroxysms following each other very rapidly ; can scarcely breathe; chokes. Cough very deep and hoarse; worse, after midnight; yellow expectoration,   with bleeding from nose ...

DORYPHORA DECEMLINEATA   Colorado Potato-bug (DORYPHORA) The center of this drug's action seems to be in the urinary organs, and hence its employment in gonorrhœa and gleet. Urethritis in children from local irritation and gleet. Great trembling in extremities. Prostration. Swelling of body.   Burning sensation . Urinary Difficult micturition. Urethra inflamed, with excruciating pain when urinating. Pain in back and loins. Severe trembling in limbs. Relationship Antidote:   Stram . Compare:   Agar; Apis; Canth; Lach; Coccion . Dose Sixth to thirtieth potency.

DOLICHOS PRURIENS   Cowhage (DOLICHOS PURIENS - MUCUNA) A right-sided medicine, with pronounced liver and skin symptoms. A general   intense itching   without eruption. Exalted nervous sensibility. Senile pruritus. Hæmorrhoidal diathesis. Throat Pain in throat, worse swallowing, below right angle of jaw, as if splinter were imbedded vertically . Pain in gums prevents sleep. Abdomen Colic from getting feet wet.   Constipation, with intense itching; bloated abdomen . White stools. Swelling of liver.   Hæmorrhoids , with burning sensation. Skin Intense itching , with no swelling or rash; worse across shoulders, also about elbows and knees and hairy parts. Jaundice. Yellow in spots; itching excessively at night. Herpes zoster ( Ars ). Modalities Worse , at night, scratching, right side. Relationship Compare:   Rhus; Bell; Hep; Nit ac; Fagopyr . Dose Sixth potency. Tincture, drop doses, i...

DIPHTHERINUM   Potentized Diphtheritic Virus Adapted to patients prone to catarrhal affections of respiratory organs, scrofulous individuals. Diphtheria, laryngeal diphtheria,   post-diphtheritic paralysis . Malignancy from the start. Glands swollen; tongue red, swollen; breath and discharge very offensive. Diphtheritic; membrane thick, dark. Epistaxis; profound prostration. Swallows without pain, but fluids are vomited or returned by the nose. Relationship Compare:   Diphtherotoxin   (Cahis) (Chronic bronchitis with rales. Cartier suggests it in the vago-paralytic forms of Bronchitis of the aged or in toxic bronchitis after grip). Dose Thirtieth, two hundredth or C. M potency. Must not be repeated too frequently.

DIOSMA LINCARIS   Buku-from Cape of Good Hope Pathogenically it produces: Somnolence; nervous insomnia; night sweats. Erratic pains, with bad humor, desire to weep or fear of sickness. Violent vertigo. Cephalalgia, chiefly frontal, radiating to the occiput. Eyes brilliant, with lachrymation or itching, the conditions accompanied by a species of stupefaction, with hardness of hearing or noises from aural pressure. Earthy face with disseminated rosaceous eruption. Nausea, fetid breath, with sensation of emptiness.   Sensation of meteorism, with stinging pains in the spleen . Painful sensation in the abdomen, with pubic pressure-the pressure of the clothing becomes insupportable, with emission of high-colored, bloody urine. Frequent yellow diarrhœa, worse at night. Catamenia abundant, anticipating, sometimes metrorrhagic in type; crampy pains on ingesting food. Sensation of heat or of cold in the hands, with convulsive movements of the fingers. Weakness of the legs...

DIOSCOREA VILLOSA   Wild Yam As a remedy for many kinds of   pain , especially colic, and in severe, painful affections of abdominal and pelvic viscera; it ranks with the polychrests of the Materia Medica. Persons of feeble digestive powers; tea-drinkers, with much flatulence.   Gall stone colic . Mind Calls things by the wrong name. Head Dull pain in both temples; better pressure, but worse afterwards. Buzzing in head. Stomach Mouth dry and bitter in morning, tongue coated, no thirst. Belching of large quantities of offensive gas. Neuralgia of stomach.   Sinking at the pit of the stomach ; pyrosis.   Pain along sternum and extending into arms . Eructations of sour, bitter wind,   with hiccough . Sharp pain in epigastrium, relieved by standing erect. Abdomen Pains suddenly shift to different parts;   appear in remote localities, as fingers and toes . Rumbling, with emission of much flatus. Griping,...

DIGITALIS PURPUREA   Foxglove (DIGITALIS) Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved, where the pulse is   weak, irregular, intermittent ,   abnormally slow , and dropsy of external and internal parts.   Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium . Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when   auricular fibrillation has set in . Slow pulse in recumbent posture, but irregular and dicrotic on sitting up. Auricular flutter and fibrillation especially when subsequent to rheumatic fever. Heart block, very slow pulse. Other symptoms of organic heart disease, such as great weakness and sinking of strength, faintness, coldness of skin, and irregular respiration; cardiac irritability and ocular troubles after tobacco; jaundice from induration and   hypertrophy of the liver , frequently call for Digitalis. Jaundice with heart disease. Faint, as if dying.   Bluish appearance of face.   Ca...

DAPHNE INDICA   Spurge Laurel Acts on lower tissues, muscles, bones and skin. Sudden, lightning jerks in different parts of the body.   Craving for tobacco . Burning in stomach. Parts of the body feel separated ( Bapt ).   Fetid   breath, urine, sweat. Head Feels as if skull would burst;   as if head were separated from body . Heat in head, especially in vertex.   Tongue coated on one side only   ( Rhus ). Foul-smelling, ptyalism hot. Urine Thick, turbid, yellowish, like rotten eggs. Extremities Right toe swollen, painful. Pain shoots upward into abdomen and heart. Rheumatic pains in thighs and knees. Cold feeling on buttocks. Shooting pains, shift rapidly worse, cold air. Sleep Entire inability to sleep; sometimes caused by aching in bones. Dreams, with nightmare. Dreams of cats, black cats. Starting on falling to sleep with chilliness and clamminess. Relationship Antidotes:   Bry; ...

DAMIANA   Turnera (TURNERA) Said to be of use in sexual neurasthenia; impotency. Sexual debility from nervous prostration. Incontinence of old people. Chronic prostatic discharge. Renal and cystic catarrh;   frigidity of females . Aids the establishment of normal menstrual flow in young girls. Dose Tincture and fluid extract-ten-to forty-drops doses.