Daphne indica
Plant · Thymelaeaceae
Daphne Indica suits individuals with offensive secretions, fetid breath and urine, and a peculiar sensation of body parts being separated. There is a strong craving for tobacco and sudden jerking pains in various parts. Sleep is severely disturbed by bone aching and dreams of black cats.
Key symptoms
- Sudden lightning jerks in different parts of the body
- Craving for tobacco
- Burning in stomach
- Parts of the body feel separated
- Fetid breath, urine, and sweat
- Head feels as if skull would burst or separated from body
- Tongue coated on one side only
- Rheumatic pains in thighs and knees
- Entire inability to sleep with aching in bones
Worse (aggravation)
- Cold air worsens shooting pains in extremities
Spurge Laurel
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 cats. Starting on falling to sleep with chilliness and clamminess.
Relationship
Antidotes: Bry; Rhus.
Compare: Fluor ac; Aur; Mez; Staph.
Dose
First to sixth attenuation.
Daphne odora. Sweet-scented Spurge Laurel. N. O. Thymelaceæ. Tincture of fresh bark.
Clinical
Amaurosis. Amblyopia. Constipation. Cough. Eyes, affections of. Exostosis. Fever. Gastralgia. Gonorrhœal rheumatism. Gout. Leprosy. Mercurio-syphilis. Prostatorrhœa. Rheumatism. Splenitis. Sleeplessness. Toothache.
Characteristics
Daph. ind. was proved by G. Bute. It is like its relative D. mezereon in producing affections of muscles, bones, and skin, hence its relation to syphilis and the anti-syphilitic remedies Aur., Merc., Staph. Its pains are erratic and electric-like. It is like Jambos in the craving for tobacco. The skin is clammy. Red rash in spots on legs in evening. Itching. Daphne oleoides is credited by Hering with relieving leprosy. A peculiar symptom of Daphne is─tongue coated on one side only (Rhus has the same, only the Rhus coating is specified as white). Other symptoms are: Foul-smelling tongue. Ptyalism with hot saliva. Cold feeling on buttocks. Sudden stitch in region of spleen. …
Phatak's chapter on Daphne indica is available in the app.
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