Dolichos Pruriens

The most characteristic symptoms of Dolichos are—a general intense itching

without eruption, < by scratching; and a pain in the throat on right side below angle of jaw as if a

splinter were embedded vertically in it. It is mainly a right-side medicine, and hence its relation

to the liver. It corresponds to exalted nervous sensibility, as in dentition. Gums intensely

• ▸sensitive; seem to itch.
• ▸Kraft has recorded (N.
• ▸A.
• ▸J.
• ▸H.
• ▸, 1890, p.
• ▸20) a striking cure with Dolichos

1,200 (Kent) of a woman who had symptoms of jaundice, white stools, and desperate itching,

preventing sleep at night. There was, in addition, enormous distension of abdomen with

continuous rattling of wind, intolerance of anything tight round neck or body; intense

• ▸restlessness, unable to sit still a minute.
• ▸The symptoms of Dol.
• ▸are < at night.
• ▸Warmth < itching

at night. Cold water burns on the itching skin. Colic from getting feet wet.

Neuralgic pains following herpes zoster—Twitching of the muscles.—Clonic

spasms of the extremities, with loss of consciousness; eyes motionless; eyelids open.

Gums (upper) irritated, tumid, excessively painful; can scarcely take food or drink in

the mouth.—Pain in the gums prevents sleep.—Soreness and tenderness of gums in teething

children—Gums swollen; neuralgic pains in them; < at night.

Painful sensation of the throat below the angle of the lower jaw onr. side; it was as

if a splinter three-quarters of an inch in length was imbedded vertically in that spot; pain < by

swallowing.

Pain in throat, worse swallowing, below right angle of jaw, as if splinter were imbedded vertically. Pain in gums prevents sleep.

• ▸Colic from getting feet wet.
• ▸Constipation, with intense itching; bloated abdomen.
• ▸White stools.
• ▸Swelling of liver.
• ▸Haemorrhoids, with burning sensation.

Cough most troublesome about bed-time and for awhile after going to

bed.—Cough, with wheezing and dyspncea.

• ▸Intense itching, with no swelling or rash; worse across shoulders, also about elbows and knees and hairy parts.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Yellow in spots; itching excessively at night.
• ▸Herpes zoster (Ars).

Intolerable itching all over the body; < at night, preventing sleep; scratching < the

itching; there is nothing perceptible on the skin —Jaundice, with itching of the skin.—Dry, tettery

eruptions on arms and legs, resembling zona.—Pain under |. axilla for three days, when an

herpetic eruption breaks out on axilla of affected side, spreading in rings forward to sternum and

backward to spine with burning and smarting.

• ▸Cough.
• ▸Dentition.
• ▸Gums, neuralgia of.
• ▸Herpes zoster.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Jaundice, irritation of.

• ▸Jaw, pain in.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Pruritus.
• ▸Sore throat.

Aconite antidotes it, and in "cases of dentition with fever Aconite should be given

before Dolichos to prevent convulsions" (Hering). Dolichos fo//ows Rhus in herpes. Compare:

• ▸Bell.
• ▸(dentition); Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(throat).

Compare: Rhus; Bell; Hep; Nit ac; Fagopyr.

Sixth potency. Tincture, drop doses, in haemorrhoids.