{"id":16183,"remedy_name":"Drosera Rotundifolia","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Hot","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the whole fresh plant of Drosera rotundifolia, a carnivorous perennial in the. Droseraceae family, native to bogs and marshes in Europe, North America, and Asia, prepared for. homeopathic  use  through  maceration,  serial  dilution,  and  succussion  to  eliminate  toxicity  and. enhance therapeutic action. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  respiratory,  musculoskeletal,. psychological, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving spasmodic cough, joint pains,. and emotional sensitivity. It is noted for symptoms such as violent, paroxysmal cough, stiffness, and. paranoia, often aggravated by lying down, night, or warmth, and ameliorated by open air, motion, or. talking. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  respiratory  conditions (e.g.,  whooping  cough,  asthma),. musculoskeletal conditions  (e.g., joint pain, stiffness),  psychological conditions  (e.g., anxiety,. paranoia),  neurological conditions  (e.g., restlessness, neuralgia), and  systemic conditions  (e.g.,. fatigue,  hypersensitivity).  It  suits  patients  with  acute  or  chronic  symptoms  characterized  by. spasmodic  cough,  musculoskeletal  discomfort,  emotional  distress,  or  restlessness,  typically. exacerbated by lying down, night, or warmth, and often seen in children with respiratory infections,. individuals with chronic joint issues, or those with stress-related anxiety. The remedy is particularly. relevant for those with a chilly, sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like. cough or stiffness alongside psychological symptoms like suspicion or fear, commonly observed in. patients with pertussis, rheumatoid arthritis, or generalized anxiety disorder.","modalities":"Worse from: Lying  down,  night,  warmth  (weather,  environments,  drinks),  emotional. stress, warm stuffy rooms, rest, talking (in respiratory cases), exertion, solitude, morning (in. musculoskeletal cases), sensory stimuli (e.g., noise, light).","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Self-willed, obstinate, insists upon carrying out his plans. Pertinacity in ex ecuting resolutions. Very \n \n \nirritable. Easily angered, a trifle makes him besides himself. Impatience. Restlessness. Extremely uneasy. \nCan't concentrate on one subject, must change, changes to something else.  \nAnxiety when alone. Anxiety with flushes of heat. Anxiety respecting the future. Anxiety in evenings. Dread of \nthe night. Fear of ghosts. Fears being alone, but suspicious of friends. Great mistrust.  \nDepressed mood, with gloomy forebod ings. Homesickness. Discouraged. Sadness when alone in daytime. \nDelusions of per secution. Imagines he was being deceived by spiteful, envious people. Inclination to drown \noneself. Anxiety in evening, as if it would impel him to commit suicide by drowning. Self-willed, obstinate, insists upon carrying out his plans. Pertinacity in ex ecuting resolutions. Very \n \n \nirritable. Easily angered, a trifle makes him besides himself. Impatience. Restlessness. Extremely uneasy. \nCan't concentrate on one subject, must change, changes to something else.  \nAnxiety when alone. Anxiety with flushes of heat. Anxiety respecting the future. Anxiety in evenings. Dread of \nthe night. Fear of ghosts. Fears being alone, but suspicious of friends. Great mistrust.  \nDepressed mood, with gloomy forebod ings. Homesickness. Discouraged. Sadness when alone in daytime. \nDelusions of per secution. Imagines he was being deceived by spiteful, envious people. Inclination to drown \noneself. Anxiety in evening, as if it would impel him to commit suicide by drowning.","Vertigo":"Vertigo when walking in open air. Vertigo with inclination to fall to the left side. \nVision - Farsighted. Weakness of eyes when looking carefully at small things. Quivering before eyes. Dazzling, \nworse light, daylight or candlelight. Light or glare of fire dazzles before eyes. When reading, letters run together. \nFrequent vanishing of sight, when reading. Letters look pale and blurred. \nCOMMENTS - A strong history of use in whooping cough. Spasmodic coughing at night ending in vomiting or \nnosebleeds. Choking, suffocating cough. Coughing spasms, worse lying down. Patients hold their chest when \ncoughing (Bry.). Hoarseness. Worse after sleep, lying down, and stuffy rooms, better open air.  \nIndications in the premonitory stage by pallor, weakness, anemia. Pallor of larynx, dry cough. Loss of appetite, \nemaciation. \nChronic bronch itis, especially in the elderly. Difficulty swallowing during bronchitis or whooping cough, \nespecially solids. Spasmodic croup (Aeon., Spong., Hep.). Redness and swelling of mucus mem brane \ncovering and between the arytenoid cartilages. Speaker's sore throat (Rhus-t., Arg., Arg-n.). \nRaises the resistance against tuberculosis, useful for tuberculosis of the lungs, larynx and bones in the joints. \n \n \nLaryngeal tuberculosis. Tuberculosis with vomiting of food from coughing, with gastric irritation and profuse \nexpectoration. Tubercular glands. Tuberculosis with swollen glands, spas modic coughing, and coughing up \nblood. \nDr. Serrand of Paris maintained that Dros. has an important place in the prophylaxis of tubercle.  \nHe noted that sheep eating Drosera leaves acquire a nocturnal cough and die, and that the pleura of cats to \nwhich Drosera had been administered were found studded with tubercles. He commended it in cases of \ndeclared tuberculosis as well. He gave it in the low potencies. \nBuchmann of Alvensleben agreed with Hahnemann that Dros. in high potency should not be often repeated. \nBuchmann had a bronchial catarrh which used to attack him every spring and fall, characterized by a violent \ntickling cough, which almost drove him to distraction at night. \nBuchmann cured himself with Dros. lx. and tincture. A single dose as soon as the tickling in the larynx \ncommenced sufficed to allay it at once and allowed him to rest and it was only repeated when the tickling \nreturned.","Head":"Pressive pains in the head, espe cially in the forehead and cheekbones, sometimes with nausea and \ndizziness. Painful perplexity of the head, as after loud speaking. Pressing headache with stupefaction and \nnausea. Headache worse when stooping, better from motion and cold air. Beating and hammering in the \nforehead. Brain painfully affected by step ping. Pains, as if excoriation in the s calp. Smarting, burning pain in \nscalp. Corrosive itching on scalp. Itching, gnawing on forepart of scalp, better rubbing.  \nKidneys - Frequent, profuse urination. Frequent urging with scanty emission, often drop by drop. Emission of \nurine at night. Brownish urine of a strong smell. Watery, inodorous urine with fetid stool of white mucus. Urine \ndark and of strong smell. Pressive pains in the head, espe cially in the forehead and cheekbones, sometimes with nausea and \ndizziness. Painful perplexity of the head, as after loud speaking. Pressing headache with stupefaction and \nnausea. Headache worse when stooping, better from motion and cold air. Beating and hammering in the \nforehead. Brain painfully affected by step ping. Pains, as if excoriation in the s calp. Smarting, burning pain in \nscalp. Corrosive itching on scalp. Itching, gnawing on forepart of scalp, better rubbing.  \nKidneys - Frequent, profuse urination. Frequent urging with scanty emission, often drop by drop. Emission of \nurine at night. Brownish urine of a strong smell. Watery, inodorous urine with fetid stool of white mucus. Urine \ndark and of strong smell.","Eyes":"Eyes very dry. Prominent from coughing, during measles, in convulsions. Shooting in the eyes towards \nthe outside, especially on stooping. Severe sharp pains, from within outward, in eyes. Presbyopia and \nweakness of the eyes. Photophobia. Suspension of the sight or confusion and  paleness of the letters while \nreading. As if gauze before the eyes. Dazzling by candlelight and daylight. Contraction of the pupils. Pupils \nfirst contracted, later dilated.","Ears":"Shootings and squeezing in the ears, especially on swallowing. Right internal ear as if painfully pressed \ntogether. Sharp pain in ears. Hardness of hearing with buzzing, roaring, humming and drum ming in the ears.","Face":"Cold sweat o\u00f1 forehead. Pale with hollow cheeks and sunken eyes. Coldness of left half of face with \nstinging pains and dry heat of right half. Faceache worse pressure and touch. Burning and pricking sensation \nin the skin of the cheeks, below the eyes. Face hot and red with cold hands.  Pressure in the cheekbones \ntowards the outsi de, aggravated by pressure and contact. Lips cracked and constantly dry. Small pustules \nhere and there on face with fine stitching sensation, worse when touched. Black pores in the chin.","Mouth":"Putrid taste. Offensive breath dur ing cough. Bleeding of t he mouth. Bloody saliva. Profuse flow of \nwatery saliva. Small round painless swelling in middle of tongue. Shooting pains in teeth from hot drinks. Fine \nprickings on dorsum of tongue. Stitching, smarting, in right side and tip of tongue. Loss of taste. Ulc eration of \nvelum palate. Ulcers on tongue. Whitish ulcer on tip of tongue. \nNose - Profuse fluent coryza, in morning. Constant dryness of the nose. Black pores on the nose. Nosebleed, \nin the evening. Bleeding from coughing, stooping, on blowing the nose. Pa inful sneezing. Fluent coryza with \nsneezing. Sensitive to sour smells. \nPerspiration - Warm perspiration at night. Copious sweat all over body. Sweats with cough bringing on violent \nretching. Cold sweat, on forehead, face, abdomen and feet. Warm sweat, at night. Sweats after midnight and \nin morning hours. Perspires immediately on waking from sleep.","Throat":"Clergyman's sore throat  with rough, scraping, dry sensation deep in the fauces . Hoarseness, \nlaryngitis. Deep, \nhoarse voice. Voice, hollow, toneless, cracked, requires exertion to speak. Difficulty swallowing solid food, as \nfrom contraction of the throat. Stinging in throat when swallowing. Sensation in the throat, as if crumbs of bread \nhad been stopped in it. Sensation as if a feather in larynx. Hawking of yellowish or greenish mucus. Ulceration \nof soft palate. Laryngeal tuberculosis with rapid emaciation.","Chest":"Spasmodic  cough,  with  violent,  paroxysmal  episodes,  often  with  retching  or. vomiting, resembling whooping cough (pertussis), worse with lying down, night, or. warmth. Dyspnea or shortness of breath, with a sensation of constriction or tickling in the. throat, resembling asthma or laryngospasm, aggravated by talking, warm rooms, or. emotional stress. Hoarseness  or  laryngeal  irritation,  with  a  dry  or  scraping  sensation,  resembling. laryngitis, worse with night or exertion. Tendency  to  respiratory  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  from  warm,  stuffy. environments or emotional triggers.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Shootings and beatings in the pit of the stomach. Clawing sensation in the pit of the stomach. \nDifficulty in swallowing solid foods. Water brash. Bitter belching. Frequent hiccough. Naus ea after fatty foods. \nNausea at night or before dinner. Nausea with stupefying pressure in forehead. Vomiting at night and after \ndinner. V omiting ofblood. V omiting ofbile in the morning. Vomiting of slimy matter and of food during the \ncough. \nTemperature - Too cold, even in bed. Chilliness during the day, heat during the night. Shivers when at rest, \nbetter mov ing. Fever with headache and convulsive cough. Fever with whooping cough. Measles. \nIntermittent fever with nausea and inclination to vomit and other gastric sufferings, or with sore throat. Hot face \nand cold hands with shivering. Thirst in the morning during the hot stage of the fever and not during the cold \nstage. Colic after taking acids, sour foods. Anxious feeling in hypochondria. Pains in the hypochondria, \non coughing and on being touched. Must press on pain with the hand when he coughs. Food seems tasteless. Bitter taste of food, especially of bread. Bitter taste of all food during pregnancy. \nAversion to pork. Aversion to acids and sour foods. Thirst in the morning. Worse acids and sour foods. Worse \nafter fatty food. Worse tobacco smoke.","Urinary & Genital":"Itching stitches in glans. Delay of first menses. Menses too late. Menses too scanty. D ark blood. Sup pressed or retarded \nmenses. Leucorrhea with labor-like pains, spasmodic pains in the abdomen.","Extremities":"Joint pain or stiffness, with aching or soreness, particularly in the limbs or spine,. resembling  rheumatoid  arthritis  or  fibromyalgia,  worse  with  rest,  warmth,  or. morning. Muscle cramps or spasms, with sudden, painful contractions, resembling myofascial. pain syndrome, aggravated by lying down, cold, or fatigue. Back  pain  or  rigidity,  with  a  sensation  of  heaviness,  resembling  ankylosing. spondylitis, worse with rest or night. Tendency to musculoskeletal hypersensitivity, with aggravation in inflammatory or. spasmodic states. Psychological:. Anxiety or fearfulness, with a sensation of being persecuted or watched, resembling. generalized  anxiety  disorder  or  post-traumatic  stress  disorder,  worse  with  night,. warmth, or emotional stress. Paranoia  or  suspicion,  with  distrust  or  fear  of  betrayal,  resembling  delusional. disorder, aggravated by solitude, darkness, or fatigue. Irritability  or  restlessness,  with  sensitivity  to  criticism,  resembling  adjustment. disorder, worse with emotional triggers or physical symptoms. Tendency  to  emotional  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  during  respiratory  or. musculoskeletal flare-ups. Neurological:. Restlessness  or  twitching,  with  an  inability  to  stay  still,  resembling  restless  leg. syndrome, worse with lying down, night, or warmth. Neuralgia or sharp, shooting pains, particularly in the limbs or face, resembling. peripheral  neuropathy  or  trigeminal  neuralgia,  aggravated  by  rest,  warmth,  or. emotional stress. Headaches or pressure in the head, with a sensation of fullness, resembling tension-. type headaches, worse with warmth or exertion. Drosera rotundifolia (Sundew) 842. Tendency to neurological hypersensitivity, with aggravation from rest or sensory. stimuli. Systemic:. Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of heaviness or prostration, resembling chronic. fatigue  syndrome  or  post-viral  exhaustion,  worse  after  exertion,  warmth,  or. emotional stress. Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., noise, light, warmth), resembling sensory. processing disorder, aggravated by warm environments or fatigue. Chills or coldness, with aggravation in warm, stuffy conditions and a desire for open. air or motion. Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in respiratory or psychological. states.","Neck & Back":"Stiffness at the nape of the neck with pains during movement. Bruise-like pains in the back, particularly \nearly in the morning. Itching stitch in coccyx when \nsitting. Nape painful to touch. Neck stiff and painful on motion.","Skin":"Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of heaviness or prostration, resembling chronic. fatigue  syndrome  or  post-viral  exhaustion,  worse  after  exertion,  warmth,  or. emotional stress. Hypersensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., noise, light, warmth), resembling sensory. processing disorder, aggravated by warm environments or fatigue. Chills or coldness, with aggravation in warm, stuffy conditions and a desire for open. air or motion. Tendency to systemic irritability, with aggravation in respiratory or psychological. states.","Sleep":"Sleepless, feels too wakeful. Sleep at noon and in the evening at sunset. Snor ing during sleep and \nwhen lying on the back. Frequent starts with fright during sleep. Frequent waking with perspira tion. Great \nweariness on waking. Vivid dreams. Anxious dreams. Dreams, over the wrong -doings of others. Dreams of \nthirst and drinking, awakes, is thirsty and must drink."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}