# Dirca Palustris

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic 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.
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.

## 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.

### 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
- Bladder - Pain and soreness in region of bladder.
- 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.

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