Dirca palustris
Plant · Thymelaeaceae
Dirca Palustris suits individuals with pronounced vital depression, disordered digestion, neuralgic pains, and heart excitability from slight exertion. The white, moist, even tongue coating and sweetish expectoration are characteristic. Time seems to pass slowly and the patient is absent-minded.
Key symptoms
- Vital depression with neuralgic pains in head, trunk, and extremities
- Pains proceeding from without inward
- Weight at stomach with disordered digestion
- White tongue with moist even coating
- Colic relieved by bending forward
- Diarrhea and tenesmus, later constipation
- Heart excitable from the slightest motion
- Sweetish expectoration with chest oppression
- Hot and restless at night, cannot sleep, dreams of dead bodies
Worse (aggravation)
- Motion worsens most symptoms
- Walking worsens vertigo and pain in bowels
Better (amelioration)
- Bending forward relieves colic
- Pressure relieves headache
- Stool relieves pains in bowels
Leatherwood. Moosewood. Wicopy. N. O. Thymelaceæ. Tincture of inner bark of branches.
Clinical
Colic. Constipation. Cough. Debility. Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Eyes, affections of. Flatulence. Headache. Heart, affections of. Neuralgia. Rheumatism.
Characteristics
Dirca belongs to the same family as Daphne Indica and Mezereum, and is the only American member of the family. Its symptoms show its relationship to the other two, but it has not been used extensively in practice. It produces much vital depression; neuralgic pains in the head, trunk, and extremities, many of the pains proceeding from without inward. Digestion is disordered, there is weight at the stomach, and a peculiar white tongue, the coating being moist and even. Rumbling of flatulence. Colic > by bending forward, diarrhœa and tenesmus, later constipation. Oppression and pains in the chest, sweetish expectoration, and excitability of the heart's action from the slightest motion. Hot and restless at night; cannot sleep; dreams of dead bodies. Motion …
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