Dr Willmar Schwabe India Dulcamara Dilution

Dulcamara(Dilution)

Tincture prepared from fresh green stems and leaves, gathered just before flowering.

Common Name: Bitter-sweet

Causes & Symptoms for Dulcamara 

• It affects the mucous membranes, Dryness of mucous membranes strongly indicate Dulcamara.
• The Dulcamara patient is disturbed by every change in the weather, from warm to cold, from dry to moist, and from suddenly cooling the body while perspiring.
• Dulcamara produces catarrh of the stomach, intestines, nose, eyes, ears, and inflammatory conditions of the skin with eruptions.
• It has a specific relation also to the skin, glands, and digestive organs, mucous membranes secreting more profusely while the skin is inactive.
• Headache relieved by conversation indicates Dulcamara. Convulsions begin in the face.
• Red rash with itching worse in damp weather is relieved with Dulcamara.
• Cough, with expectoration of bright red blood.

Mind and Head 

• Great impatience and restlessness, Buzzing in head, Impatient desire for different things.
• Back part of head chilly, heavy, aching, during cold weather.
• Piercing and burning pain in the forehead, with digging from the inside outwards.
• Boring headache, from within to without is relieved with Dulcamara.
• Thick crusts on the scalp, causing the hair to fall off. Sensation of heaviness in the head.

Eyes, ear, Nose

• Itching of the eyelids in the cold air. Aching in the eyes, especially when reading.
• Acute pullings, with shootings in the ears.
• Coryza, dry, with stoppage of the nose, worse in cold air is relieved with Dulcamara.

Mouth and Throat

• Itching, crawling on the tip of the tongue. Pimples and ulcers in the mouth.
• Continual hawking up of very tough saliva, rawness in the fauces.

Stomach and Abdomen

• Cramp-like contraction in the stomach with sensation of emptiness. Aching in the stomach with sensation of emptiness in the abdomen.
• Burning Pain in the abdomen as from the effects of cold is relieved with Dulcamara.
• Distension of the abdomen and epigastrium after eating moderately indicates Dulcamara.
• Shooting, pinchings, and cuttings in the umbilical region, especially at night. Swelling of the inguinal glands.