Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Dulcamara dulc.

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General

We think of this remedy especially for disease brought on, or particularly aggravated, by exposure to damp, cold weather or air, such as being in a damp, cold cellar, or in a milk dairy, etc.

Sexual

Female: Menstruation too late; too scanty; suppressed; blood pale. Milk decreased.

Skin

Dryness of; blotches on, which may be brought on by the least and every exposure to damp, cold air, which itch exceedingly, and are very troublesome; exanthema like nettle-rash tetters in general; warts.

Generalities

In epistaxis, uterine hæmorrhage, etc. blood is always very pale; affections of left side of abdomen; fetid urine; expectoration bloody; blood pale; disposition to catch cold; paralyzed organs caused by sitting on damp, cold ground; paralysis of the inner parts; digging up or rooting pain; want of perspiration; stinking perspiration.

Worse

In the night; from cold in general; in cold air; in cold, wet weather; from suppressed menstruation; after lying down and rising again; while resting; when sitting; in wet weather.

Better

from moving; from moving the affected part; on rising from bed; after rising from a seat; when walking; from warmth in general; in warm air; in dry weather.

Remedies following

Bellad., Calc. carb., Lycop., Rhus tox., Sepia.

Antidote

Camphor.