DULCAMARA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to persons of phlegmatic scrofulous constitutions
- restless
- irritable
- catarrhal rheumatism brought on or aggravated by exposure to cold, damp, rainy weather, or sudden changes in hot weather
- skin affections brought on or aggravated by exposure to cold, damp, rainy weather, or sudden changes in hot weather
- increased secretions of mucous membranes
- perspiration being suppressed from cold
- patients living or working in a damp, cold basement, or a milk dairy
- mental confusion
- cannot find the right word for anything
- skin is delicate, sensitive to cold, liable to eruptions, especially urticaria every time patient takes cold or is long exposed to cold
- anasarca after ague, rheumatism, scarlet fever
- dropsy after suppressed sweat
- dropsy after suppressed eruptions
- dropsy after exposure to cold
- diarrhoea from taking cold in damp places, or during damp, foggy weather
- diarrhoea from change from warm to cold weather
- catarrhal ischuria in grown-up children, with milky urine
- catarrhal ischuria from wading with bare feet in cold water
- involuntary
- rash before the menses
- urticaria over whole body, no fever
- itching burns after scratching
- urticaria worse in warmth
- urticaria better in cold
- thick, brown-yellow crusts on scalp, face, forehead, temples, chin with reddish borders, bleeding when scratched
- warts, fleshy, large, smooth on face or back of hands and fingers
- worse from cold in general
- worse from cold air
- worse from cold wet weather
- worse from suppressed menstruation
- worse from suppressed eruptions
- worse from suppressed sweat
- better from moving about