Doryphora Decemlineata

Stupor; with muttering and loud rumbling in bowels.—Delirium; talkative; red, bloated

face, protruding eyes.—Irritability.

Dark brown coating on tongue.—Offensive taste.—Violent heat in mouth; severe pain

across kidneys; face red and bloated; constipation and retention of urine.—(Parotitis.)

Dry feeling in throat with desire to swallow.—Throat raw and constricted.—Burning

in throat and down cesophagus, with stomachache and cough.

Loss of appetite, great thirst —Craving for something sour; symptoms < by

smoking.—Nausea and vomiting; vomits dark, grumous acrid matter; of dirty brown fluid with

diarrhoea.

Pain in spleen.—Rumbling in bowels (with stupor).—Pain in bowels, < by eating

and drinking and by deep inspiration.—Abdomen feels heavy; sore and tender; burning.

Morning diarrhoea, with pain in abdomen and burning in

rectum.—Bloody, slimy stools.—Heaviness; intense pain in rectum.

• ▸Difficult micturition.
• ▸Urethra inflamed, with excruciating pain when urinating.
• ▸Pain in back and loins.
• ▸Severe trembling in limbs.

Itching and burning of glans penis, which is swollen and bluish red;

urethra inflamed, with excruciating pain, esp. when urinating.

An abraded surface on the wrist of one engaged in picking the bugs became painful, a

deep sloughing ulcer developed, and the bones were laid bare.

Tossing about all night.—Sleepless till 12, then restless sleep with terrifying

dreams.—While sleeping, wild dreams, screams as if in great distress.

Skin alternately cold, clammy, and hot with fever—Coldness of hands and

• ▸feet.
• ▸—High fever during night, restless and sleepless.
• ▸—Violent fever 8 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸to 2 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Of children

who inhaled vapour from a kettle in which some beetles had been placed, one died and the other

recovered after a serious illness resembling typhoid fever.

• ▸Diarrhcea.
• ▸Diphtheria.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Fevers.
• ▸Gastric affections.
• ▸Gleet.

• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Myxcedema.
• ▸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 and diphtheria has been cured. The weakness

is < by talking. Local application causes ulceration. The blood will not coagulate; blood globules

disorganised; enormous swelling of whole body; swelling of feet with burning; elastic swelling

of whole body which will not pit on pressure (suggesting its applicability in myxcedema). The

symptoms are < by motion; < from smoking; < in warm room; > in open air; pressure < (pain in

kidneys).

The local effect is antidoted by: Earth; other antidotes are: Vinegar and other

• ▸vegetable acids, Stramon.
• ▸Compare: Agar.
• ▸, Ailanth.
• ▸, Apis, Bellad.
• ▸, Canth.
• ▸, Crotal.
• ▸, Laches.
• ▸, and

with the Solanacez generally, as the beetle partakes of the properties of the plants it infests. In

non-coagulation of the blood, Sanguisuga.

Antidote: Stram.

Compare: Agar; Apis; Canth; Lach; Coccion.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.