Materia Medica de A a Z

DAPHNE INDICA = DAPHNE ODORA (daph)

Acts on lower tissues, muscles, bones and skin. Sudden, lightning jerks in different parts of the body. CRAVING FOR TOBACCO. Burning in stomach. Parts of the body feel separated. [Bapt] FETID breath, urine, sweat.

Head

Feels as if skull would burst; AS IF HEAD WERE SEPARATED FROM BODY. Heat in head, especially in vertex. TONGUE COATED ON ONE SIDE ONLY. [Rhus-t] Foul-smelling, ptyalism hot.

Urine

Thick, turbid, yellowish, like rotten eggs.

Extremities

Right toe swollen, painful. Pain shoots upward into abdomen and heart. Rheumatic pains in thighs and knees. Cold feeling on buttocks. Shooting pains, shift rapidly; worse, cold air.

Sleep

Entire inability to sleep; sometimes caused by aching in bones. Dreams, with nightmare. Dreams of cats, black cats. Starting on falling to sleep with chilliness and clamminess.

Relationship

Antidotes: Bry; Rhus-t.

Compare: Fl-ac; Aur; Mez; Staph.

Dose

First to sixth attenuation.