Daphne indica

Spurge Laurel

Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 251

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.] 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 eats. Starting on falling to sleep with chilliness and claminess.

Relationship

Antidotes: Bry.; Rhus.

Compare: Fluor. ac.; Aur.; Mez.; Staph.

The book’s Dose section is left out: Samepath quotes the books but gives no dosing advice.

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