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Dulcamara

30CDulcamara
Bittersweet · Solanum Dulcamara · "The Cold Damp Warts Remedy"
dulc.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
Source
🎯 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 theskin, glands, and digestive organs,mucous membranes secreting more profusely while the skin is inactive. Therheumatic 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
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Second to thirtieth
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Baryta Carbonica →
🚫 Antidotes
Camphora →Cuprum Metallicum →
🔄 Compare With
Pulsatilla Pratensis →Pimpinella →Natrium Sulphuricum →Rhus Toxicodendron →Bryonia Alba →Calcarea Carbonica →Cimicifuga Racemosa →
⚠️ Inimical
Belladonna →Lachesis Mutus →
📚 Sources & References

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