- Source: Derived from the fresh green🌿 GreenMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. stems and leaves of Solanum🌿 SolanumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. dulcamara, a perennial shrub in the Solanaceae family, native to Europe and Asia, prepared for homeopathic use through maceration, serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity., and succussionVigorous shaking of homeopathic dilutionThe process of vigorously shaking a liquid homeopathic solution against a firm surface during dilution to potentize it. to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for respiratory, musculoskeletal,.
- Dermatological, urinary, and psychological disorders , particularly those triggered by cold, damp weather or environmental changes.
- It is noted for symptoms such as catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane., joint stiffness, skin eruptions, urinary urgency, and irritability, often aggravated by cold, dampness, or sudden temperature changes, and ameliorated by warmth, dry weather, or motion.
- Modern Context: Indicated for respiratory conditions (e.g., allergic rhinitis, asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.),.
- Musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., rheumatoid arthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age., muscle stiffness), dermatological conditions (e.g., eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., urticaria🩺 UrticariaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), urinary conditions (e.g., cystitisInflammation of the urinary bladderInflammation of the urinary bladder, typically caused by a bacterial urinary tract infection, causing painful urination., urinary incontinence),.
- Psychological conditions (e.g., irritability, anxiety), and systemic conditions (e.g., fatigue,.
- Hypersensitivity).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by catarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge. inflammation, stiffness, skin eruptions, or sensitivity to cold and damp, typically exacerbated by cold, wet weather, sudden chilling, or rest, and often seen in individuals with allergies, arthritis, or recurrent infections.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets., sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like cough or joint pain alongside psychological symptoms like restlessness or irritability, commonly observed in patients with seasonal allergies, chronic eczema, or generalized anxiety disorder🩺 Generalized Anxiety DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. triggered by environmental changes.
- COMMENTS-Sensitiveness to cold and damp runs through the Solanaceae and is marked in Bell, and Caps., but it is supreme in Dulc. This feature among others renders them all good antidotes to Merc. Bar-c is the complement of Dulc in “worse from cold weather, especially in scrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. children.” Every cold settles in the eyes, throat or affects the bladder, respiration or bowels.
- In poisoning cases, Dulc produces hard, griping pains in the bowels, unconscious ness, tetanic spasms, trismus, loud, rattling breathing, and death.
- One-sided spasms.
- Convulsions beginning in the face.
- Trembling, especially of the right arm.
- ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body., of the tongue, lungs, and heart (pneumogastric paralysis).
- Paralysis of the bladder.
- R heumatic paralyzes.
- Paralyzed part feels icy cold.
- “Paralysis of vocal cords (aphonia) from sleeping over a damp cellar.” Scrofulous-looking eruptions.
- Moist or dry, red, tettery eruptions, especially on the face.
- Furfuraceous, herpetic.
- UrticariaHives or itchy raised skin weltsA skin outbreak of red, itchy, swollen bumps triggered by allergic reactions, friction, or stress..
- Small furuncles appear on places hurt by con cussion.
- Skin callous.
- Warts, fleshy or large, smooth.
- Painless ulcers.
- Skin eruptions are sensitive to touch, pressure better.
- Dropsical disorders.
- Catarrhal troubles.
- Dry mucus membranes.
- Offensive sweat, effects of sudden cooling while sweating.
- Results of suppressed eruptions.
- DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day., vomiting with the stool.
- Bladder infections.
- Mucous-like sediment in the urine.
- Mucopurulent urine is often associated with general one-sided sensitiveness, especially of the abdomen.
- Dulc. 30c cured in two doses a rash like mosquito-stings appearing every month before the menses, worse when warm, compelled to sit where it is cold.
- Clarke gave Dulc. 30c with complete relief to the pain in a case of sarcoma of the bones at the base o f the skull in which there were stabbing pains in the front of the head and partial paralysis of the tongue.
- It was the latter symptom that determined the choice of the remedy.
- McLaren cured with a single dose the following case, which was the result of a wetting.
- Facial paralysis, following neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves., the eye having remained unclosed for eight months.
- Red rash with itching worse in damp weather.
- After a slight aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. improvement began in two weeks and continued steadily.
- Temperature-Chill alternating with heat.
- Icy coldness with pains.
- Coldness in different parts, icy of paralyzed parts.
- Chill starts in the back, not better by warmth, worse evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Chill with urging in stool and urination.
- Chilliness with thirst.
- Dry, burning heat all over.
- DropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues. of abdomen.
- Eruptions or pain about the navel.
- Cutting pain at navel followed by painful, green, slimy stools.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. from cold feeling in bowels.
- Cutting pain about navel, followed by painful, green, slimy stools.
- Swelling of inguinal glands (Merc.).
- Hunger without appetite.
- Hunger after fever.
- Aversion to food.
- Aversion to coffee.
- Great thirst for cold drinks
