Doryphora

Doryphora decemlineata. The Colorado Beetle. Potato Bug. N. O. Coleoptera Tincture prepared by covering the crushed Kve beetles with alcohol. (UinlealDiarrhoea. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Erysipelas. Fevers. Gastric affections. Gleet Gonorrhoea. Myxoedema. Parotitis. Spleen, pain in. Typhoid. Ulceration. Urethritis.

Characteristics

Doryphora in its general effects bears a strong resemblance to Cantharis. An extensive proving has been made, and to this have been added the effects of poisoning from handling the insects, and from inhaling the vapour when they have been burned or scalded. Like Canih. Doryph, produces burning in mouth, throat, gullet, stomach, abdomen, rectum, and urinary passages ; strangury, urethritis, and itching burning and inflammation of glans penis. It has been successfully used in urethritis in children under ten, provoked by local irritation. A feeling of weight or heaviness is common. Fainting, weakness, prostration, collapse ; great trembling of extremities. Prostration after typhoid and diphtheria has been cured. The weakness is < by talking. Local application causes ulceration. The blood will not coagulate ; blood globules disorganised ; enormous swelling of whole body ; swelling of feet with burning ; elastic swelling of whole body which will not pit on pressure (suggesting its applicability in myxoedema). The symptoms are < by motion ; < from smoking ; < in warm room ,* > in open air ; pressure < (pain in kidneys).

Relations

The local effect is antidoUd by : Earth ; other antidotes are : Vinegar and other vegetable acids, Stramon. Compare : Agar., Ailanth., Apis, Bellad., Canth., Crotal, Laches., and with the Solanaceae generally, as the beetle partakes of the properties of the plants it infests. In non-coagulation of the blood, Sanguisuga.

Mind

Stupor; with muttering and loud rumbling in bowels.— Delirium ; talkative ; red, bloated face, protruding eyes. — Irritability.

Eyes

Eyes red, sore ; protruding ; pupils much dilated ; sight much impaired.

Face

Face bloated and red, giving appearance of a confirmed drunkard.

Mouth

Dark brown coating on tongue. — Offensive taste.— Violent heat in mouth ; severe pain across kidneys ; face red and bloated ; constipate* tion and retention of urine.— (Parotitis.)

Throat p. 679

-Dry feeling in throat with desire to swallow. — Throat raw and constricted. — Burning in throat and down oesophagus, with stomachache and cough.

Stomach p. 679

Loss of appetite, great thirst. — Craving for something sour; symptoms < by smoking. — Nausea and vomiting; vomits dark, grumous acrid matter ; of dirty brown fluid with diarrhoea.

Abdomen p. 679

Pain in spleen. — Rumbling in bowels (with stupor). — Pain in bowels, < by eating and drinking and by deep inspiration. — Abdomen feels heavy ; sore and tender ; burning.

Stool and Anus p. 679

Morning diarrhoea, with pain in abdomen and burning in rectum.— Bloody, slimy stools. — Heaviness ; intense pain in rectum.

Urinary Organs p. 679

Retention of urine.— Dysuria, with burning, stinging pain.

Male Sexual Organs p. 679

Itching and burning of glans penis, which is swollen and bluish red ; urethra inflamed, with excruciating pain, esp. when urinating.

Chest p. 679

Soreness and oppression of chest with sore throat.

Neck and Back p. 679

Pain in lumbar region.

Limbs p. 679

Great trembling in extremities ; in r. arm and leg.

Skin p. 679

An abraded surface on the wrist of one engaged in picking the bugs became painful, a deep sloughing ulcer developed, and the bones were laid bare.

Sleep p. 679

Tossing about all night. — Sleepless till 12, then restless sleep with terrifying dreams. — While sleeping, wild dreams, screams as if in great distress.

Fever p. 679

Skin alternately cold, clammy, and hot with fever. — Coldness of hands and feet. — High fever during night, restless and sleepless. — Violent fever 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Of children who inhaled vapour from a kettle in which some beetles had been placed, one died and the other recovered after a serious illness resembling typhoidfever.