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Dulcamara

30CDulcamara

Bittersweet · Solanum Dulcamara · "The Cold Damp Warts Remedy"

dulc.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric

🎯 It acts primarily on the mucous membranes and skin, specifically addressing conditions triggered by exposure to damp, cold weather.

📖 Boericke writes:

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 diarrhoea. 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.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who are sensitive to dampness and cold, often showing skin eruptions or mucous membrane issues when the weather turns cold after a hot summer.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Scaldhead, thick brown crusts, bleeding when scratched.

head

Stuffs up when there is a cold rain.

nose

Tearing in cheek extending to ear, orbit, and jaw, preceded by coldness of parts, and attended by canine hunger.

face

Facial neuralgia; worse, slightest exposure to cold.

mouth

Aversion to food.

stomach

Burning thirst for cold drinks.

stomach

Cutting pain about navel.

abdomen

Green, watery, slimy, bloody, mucus, especially in summer, when the weather suddenly becomes cold; from damp, cold weather and repelled eruptions.

stool

Must urinate when getting chilled.

urine

Before appearance of menses, a rash appears on skin, or sexual excitement.

female

Cough after physical exertion.

respiratory

Adenitis.

skin

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for headaches and scalp conditions that are aggravated by cold, damp weather.

Mental confusion.

Occipital pain ascending from nape of neck.

Headache relieved by conversation.

Rejects things asked for.

Back part of head chilly, heavy, aching, during cold weather.

Ringworm of scalp.

Scaldhead, thick brown crusts, bleeding when scratched.

Buzzing in head.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Second to thirtieth

Centesimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Baryta Carbonica →

🚫 Antidotes

Camphora →Cuprum Metallicum →

🔄 Compare With

Pulsatilla Pratensis →PimpinellaNatrium Sulphuricum →Rhus Toxicodendron →Bryonia Alba →Calcarea Carbonica →Cimicifuga Racemosa →

⚠️ Inimical

Belladonna →Lachesis Mutus →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Dulcamara is listed in 282 rubrics across 21 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 93 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Skin36 Respiratory System31 Locomotor System30 Urinary System29 Abdomen21 Generalities17 Face16 Modalities16 Fever14 Female Sexual System14 Head10 Nose10 Eyes8 Stomach6 Nervous System6 Ears5 Mouth4 Tongue4 Mind2 Male Sexual System2 Throat1

See all 282 rubrics for Dulcamara →