Doryphora decemlineata
Leptinotarsa decemlineata · Animal
Doryphora Decemlineata centers its action on the urinary organs, making it useful in gonorrhoea, gleet, and urethritis. The remedy resembles Cantharis with burning from mouth through to urinary passages and strangury. Great prostration and trembling accompany the inflammatory conditions.
Key symptoms
- Burning sensations throughout the body, especially urinary passages
- Difficult micturition with excruciating pain when urinating
- Urethra inflamed; urethritis in children from local irritation
- Great trembling in extremities
- Prostration and swelling of body
- Pain in back and loins
- Gonorrhoea and gleet
Colorado Potato-bug (DORYPHORA)
The center of this drug's action seems to be in the urinary organs, and hence its employment in gonorrhœa and gleet. Urethritis in children from local irritation and gleet. Great trembling in extremities. Prostration. Swelling of body. Burning sensation.
Urinary
Difficult micturition. Urethra inflamed, with excruciating pain when urinating. Pain in back and loins. Severe trembling in limbs.
Relationship
Antidote: Stram.
Compare: Agar; Apis; Canth; Lach; Coccion.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.
Doryphora decemlineata. The Colorado Beetle. Potato Bug. N. O. Coleoptera. Tincture prepared by covering the crushed live beetles with alcohol.
Clinical
Diarrhœa. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Erysipelas. Fevers. Gastric affections. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Myxœdema. 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 Canth., 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 …
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