Dolichos Pruriens

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Dolichos Pruriens Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Dolichos Pruriens. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
GENERAL
  • General intense itching without eruption, worse by scratching.
  • Itching of the skin without the appearance of a rash or swelling.
  • Itching is better from cold water, but it burns the skin and causes trembling.
  • Senile pruritusSevere itching of the skinAn uncomfortable, irritating sensation of the skin that creates an urge to scratch..
  • Itching excessively at night.
  • NeuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. following herpes zoster.
  • Exalted nervous sensibility, as in dentition.
  • Gums intensely sensitive, seem to itch.
  • Pain in the throat on right side below angle of jaw as if a splinter were embedded vertically in it.
  • Yellow spots all over.
  • JaundiceYellowing of the skin and eyes from bile pigmentA medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin..
  • Hemorrhoidal diathesis.
  • A right -sided med icine with pro nounced liver and skin symptoms
HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
  • Worse at night.
  • Worse scratch ing.
  • Worse right side.
  • Warmth aggravates itching at night.
  • Cold water burns on the itching skin.
  • 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 getting feet wet
HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:

Aconite antidotes it, and in “cases of dentition with fever Aconite should be given before
Dolichos to prevent convul sions” (Hering). Dolichos follows Rhus -t. in herpes. Compare: (1) Rhus-t. cured
herpes zoster afterfailure of Rhus -t. (2) Fago., Bell, -dentition. (3) Arg -n., Hep., Nit -ac. - throat. (4) Cann -i. -
time passes slowly. Ant -c. - tongue. (5) Lyc. -constipation and flatulence. (6) Bry., Puls., Abies -n. - weight at
stomach. (7) Stann. - sweet expectoration.

EYES
  • Eyes yellow.
  • Pain in right eye.
  • Eruption on margin of eyelids
EARS
  • Sudden dart of pain in right ear, later in left
FACE
  • Face yellow.
  • Circumscribed redness of one cheek.
  • Swelling of face, especially of lips.
  • Prickling, itching of face.
  • Pain in right maxilla.
  • Kidneys - Bedwetting with gravelSmall sand-like deposits in urineSmall, sandy or stony deposits passed in the urine, causing painful urination or colic..
  • Small stonespass away.
  • Ischuria with or without gravel
MOUTH
  • Strong taste of blood in mouth with cough.
  • Gums irritated, wants them con tinually rubbed, dentition.
  • Pain in gums prevent s sleep.
  • Soreness and tenderness of gums, even in teething children.
  • Dull aching in a carious tooth, right side.
  • Pregnancy - Intolerable itching all over body in pregnant women, worse at night, preventing sleep, worse from scratching, no perceptible eruption on the skin
THROAT
  • Pain in throat, worse swallowing, below right angle of jaw, as if splinter were imbedded vertically.
  • Pain in right throat, a subdued, contraction sensation, went to left side.
  • Sudden sensation of a choking lump in throat.
  • Slight fullness just behind posterior palatine arch.
  • Roughness of throat.
  • COMMENTS - Dry skin with severe itching withou t eruption, can scratch until they bleed (Alum.).
  • Scratching increases the itching.
  • Violent itching that prevents the person from sleeping at night.
  • Restless.
  • Severe idiopathic pruritus.
  • Senile pruritus, yellow spots on the skin.
  • Shingles, and pain after s hingles (Mez., Rhus-t.).
  • Herpes zoster.
  • Itching with jaundice, hepatitisInflammation of the liverAn inflammatory condition of the liver, commonly caused by viral infections, toxins, or drugs., liver involvement.
  • Hepatitis.
  • Jaundice.
  • Gas and bloating (Lyc.), rumbling in the abdomen.
  • ConstipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass., hemorrhoidsPiles or swollen veins in the rectumSwollen, inflamed blood vessels around the anus or lower rectum, causing pain, itching, or bleeding..
  • Worms.
  • Ailments from a food allergy that aggravated the liver.
  • Hodgkin's disease.
  • Worse tight clothing (Lyc., Chin.), at night, in the heat of the bed.
  • Generally a right sided remedy.
  • Kraft recorded a striking cure with Dol.
  • 1,200c of a woman who had symptoms of jaundice, white stools and desperate itching, preventing sleep at night.
  • There was in addi tion, enormous distention of abdomen with continuous rattling of gas, intolerance of anything tight around neck or body intense restlessness, unable to sit still a minute
CHEST
  • Pains through the apices of both lungs.
  • Eruption on left axilla, spreading in rings forward to sternum and back to spine with much burning and smarting.
  • Herpes zoster.
  • Constitutions - Psoric and allergic constitutions.
  • Coughs on lying down at night, with wheezing and dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions.
ABDOMEN
  • Noisy movement of flatus in stomach.
  • Flatulent eructationBelching or burpingThe act of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth..
  • Vomits bile.
  • Bloated, swollen abdomen with constipation.
  • Colic from getting feet wet.
  • Pain in abdomen in right lumbar region.
  • Bruised pain below umbilicus.
  • Bruised pain left inguinal region.
  • Pains in spleen with gravel
GENITALS ETC
  • Impotence
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Dry, tettery eruptions on arms and legs, resembling herpes zoster.
  • Aching pain in right arm and shoulder.
  • Pain on the top of right shoulder.
  • Aching soreness in last phalanx of right middle finger.
  • Pain at root of nail of right index finger.
  • Liver - Hepatitis.
  • Jaundice.
  • Swelling of liver, pain goes through from left lobe.
  • Liver problems with itching
BACK AND NECK
  • Pain over right carotid artery, as if a splinter was sticking there.
  • Pain in muscles on right side of neck.
  • Pain under left scapula continuing until herpes zoster breaks out
SKIN
  • Violent itching all over body without any visible eruption, swelling or rash, worse across shoulders, about elbows and knees, and hairy parts.
  • Itching exces sively at night.
  • Skin burns at night in bed.
  • Herpes zoster.
  • Jaundice, skin yellow in spots or all over
SLEEP
  • Burning in skin is intolerable at night in bed.
  • Sleepless

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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This profile has been verified by the Herbalhomeo medical team in accordance with authoritative homeopathic references.

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