# Dirca Palustris

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Dire, is a gastro -intestinal irritant inducing salivation, vomiting and purgation. Cerebral 
hyperemia, neuralgic pains with depression, palpitations and dyspnea.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Colic better by bending forward, headache better by pressure. Pains in the bowels are better by 
stool. Motion aggravates most symptoms, walking aggravates vertigo and pain in bowels.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Time seemed to pass slowly.
- Absentminded.
- Time seemed to pass slowly.
- Absentminded.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo on walking, seems as if he would fall to left.
- COMMENTS - Vital depression, neuralgic pains in the head, trunk and limbs, many of the pains proceeding 
from without inward.
- Oppression and pains in the chest.
- Excit ability of the heart’s action from the slightest 
motion.
- Disordered digestion.
- Weight at the stomach.
- Moist, white coated tongue.
- Sweetish expec toration.
- Rumbling 
of flatulence, colic better by bending forward, diarrhea and tenesmus, later constipation.
- Hot and restless at 
night, cannot sleep, dreams of dead bodies.

### Head
- Pains all through the head, extending down into spine.
- Headache in temples extending inwards, better 
by hard pressure.
- Headache, throbbing and beating, worse by coughing or moving.
- Scalp feels dry and tight.
- Pains all through the head, extending down into spine.
- Headache in temples extending inwards, better 
by hard pressure.
- Headache, throbbing and beating, worse by coughing or moving.
- Scalp feels dry and tight.

### Eyes
- Eyes sore and painful to touch.
- Photophobia on waking, continui ng all day, especially from gaslight.
- Lids heavy.
- Sensation as if brows corrugated and as if brain were also drawn down.

### Face
- Face red, full and bloated in morning.

### Mouth
- Tongue coated smoothly ande venly white, dirty.
- Sour taste.

### Throat
- Stinging pains in larynx from without inwards, very sharp pricking pain and sensat ion of suffocation.
- Throat red, raw, acrid feeling, hurts to swallow food or liquids.

### Chest
- Excitability of heart's action from least motion.
- Palpitations on going up slight elevation.
- Pulse suddenly 
becomes weak and irregular.
- Sharp pain in right thorax running down into abdomen and up into left shoulder.
- Great dyspnea from 
exertion, from walking up a slight elevation.
- Cough, worse morning, raising offensive, sweetish-tasting mucus.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Empty belchings.
- Uneasy feeling as if a lump or weight in stomach.
- Burning below umbilicus.
- Lancinations in the left hypochondrium with tympanites.
- Dull ache low 
down in pelvis, bearing down, not better by sitting or lying.
- Rumbling in bowels.
- Burning and uncomfortable 
sensation in bowels.
- Colic better bending forward and better by stool, but smarting in anus remains.
- No thirst.

### Urinary & Genital
- Uterus seems too low and as if it would prolapse during stool.
- Menses two days too early, less 
copious and prolonged than usual.

### Extremities
- Dull, neuralgic pain in both shoul ders, cannot keep them still.
- Neuralgic p ains in legs.
- Muscles of 
 
 
thighs sore and stiff.

### Neck & Back
- Heavy pain across back and through loins in region of kidneys.
- Bladder - Pain and soreness in region of bladder.

### Sleep
- Sleepy, but unable to sleep.
- Dreams of dead bodies.