- 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 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,.
- 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🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.),.
- Musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., joint pain, stiffness), psychological conditions (e.g., anxiety,.
- Paranoia), neurological conditions (e.g., restlessness, neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves.), 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 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 stiffness alongside psychological symptoms like suspicion or fear, commonly observed in patients with pertussis, rheumatoid arthritis🩺 Rheumatoid ArthritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., or generalized anxiety disorder🩺 Generalized Anxiety DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- COMMENTS-A strong history of use in whooping cough.
- Spasmodic coughing at night ending in vomiting or nosebleeds.
- Choking, suffocating cough.
- Coughing spasms, worse lying down.
- Patients hold their chest when coughing (Bry.🌿 Bry.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Hoarseness.
- Worse after sleep, lying down, and stuffy rooms, better open air.
- Indications in the premonitory stage by pallor, weakness, anemiaLack of healthy red blood cells or hemoglobinA condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness..
- Pallor of larynx, dry cough.
- Loss of appetite, emaciation.
- Chronic bronchitis🩺 Chronic BronchitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., especially in the elderly.
- Difficulty swallowing during bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing. or whooping cough, especially solids.
- Spasmodic croup🩺 CroupClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. (Aeon., Spong., Hep.🌿 Hep.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Redness and swelling of mucus mem brane covering and between the arytenoid cartilages.
- Speaker's sore throat (Rhus-t.🌿 Rhus-T.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Arg-n.).
- Raises the resistance against tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., useful for tuberculosis of the lungs, larynx and bones in the joints.
- Laryngeal tuberculosis with vomiting of food from coughing, with gastric irritation and profuse expectoration.
- Tubercular glands.
- Tuberculosis with swollen glands, spas modic coughing, and coughing up blood.
- Dr. Serrand of Paris🌿 ParisMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. maintained that Dros has an important place in the prophylaxis of tubercle.
- He noted that sheep eating Drosera leaves acquire a nocturnal cough and die, and that the pleura of cats to which Drosera had been administered were found studded with tubercles.
- He commended it in cases of declared tuberculosis as well.
- He gave it in the low potencies.
- Buchmann of Alvensleben agreed with Hahnemann that Dros in high potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration. should not be often repeated.
- Buchmann had a bronchial catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane. which used to attack him every spring and fall, characterized by a violent tickling cough, which almost drove him to distraction at night.
- Buchmann cured himself with Dros lx.
- And tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water..
- A single dose as soon as the tickling in the larynx commenced sufficed to allay it at once and allowed him to rest and it was only repeated when the tickling returned.
- Temperature-Too cold, even in bed.
- Chilliness during the day, heat during the night.
- Shivers when at rest, better mov ing.
- Fever with headache and convulsive cough.
- Fever with whooping cough.
- Measles.
- Intermittent fever with nausea and inclination to vomit and other gastric sufferings, or with sore throat.
- Hot face and cold hands with shivering.
- Thirst in the morning during the hot stage of the fever and not during the cold stage.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. after taking acids, sour foods.
- Anxious feeling in hypochondria.
- Pains in the hypochondria, on coughing and on being touched.
- Must press on pain with the hand when he coughs.
- Food seems tasteless.
- Bitter🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. taste of food, especially of bread.
- Bitter taste of all food during pregnancy.
- Aversion to pork.
- Aversion to acids and sour foods.
- Thirst in the morning.
- Worse acids and sour foods.
- Worse after fatty food.
- Worse tobacco smoke
