Drosera

The chief feature of the Drosera effects is a spasmodic cough resembling

whooping-cough, in which affection it is one of the leading remedies, as it is also in the

spasmodic cough of phthisis. The characteristic cough is: Frequent spells of barking cough; <

evening and after midnight; patient holds his side; vomits if he cannot get up phlegm; every

effort to raise a little phlegm ends in retching and vomiting; there may be bloody stools. Teste,

who places Drosera in his Zincum group of medicines, mentions that it grows in damp prairies,

along the border of marshes, and is avoided by animals. Barrich states that when eaten by sheep

it gives them a cough which is fatal to them. Curiously enough, it was recommended by German

physicians of the eighteenth century as a panacea for hoarseness, chest affections, and even for

• ▸phthisis.
• ▸Serrand, of Paris (translated H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, vi.
• ▸153) maintains that Drosera has an important rd/e

in the prophylaxis of tubercle. He refers to the fact that sheep eating Drosera leaves acquire a

nocturnal cough and die, and that the pleuree of cats to which Drosera had been administered

were found studded with tubercles. The indications calling for it in the premonitory stage are:

pallor, weakness, loss of appetite, dry cough, emaciation. Three laryngoscopic indications are:

(7) Anemia and pallor of larynx; (2) vocal cords not sufficiently approximated from functional

impairment of crico-arytenoid muscles; (3) redness and swelling of mucous membrane covering

• ▸and between the arytenoid cartilages.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸Serrand commends Dros.
• ▸in cases of declared phthisis

as well. He gives it in the low attenuations. Buchmann of Alvensleben agrees with Hahnemann

that Dros. in high attenuation should not be repeated. He cured himself of a bronchial catarrh

which used to attack him every spring and fall, characterised by a violent tickling cough, which

• ▸almost drove him to distraction at night, with Dros.
• ▸1x.
• ▸and ©.
• ▸A single dose as soon as the

tickling in the larynx commenced sufficed to allay it at once and allowed him to rest, and it was

only repeated when the tickling returned. Among the characteristics of Drosera are: Spasmodic

and constricting pains in abdomen; larynx; throat; chest; hypochondria. Crawling in larynx;

feeling as if a soft substance were lodged in larynx, as a feather. Difficult swallowing of solids.

Voice fails. Stitching pains in chest and all parts; lancinations in brain. Stitches from left loin

into penis; itching stitches in glans. Heemorrhages of bright red blood, from nose; mouth (bloody

saliva); with vomit; with stool; expectoration. Gnawing stinging pains in joints and long bones.

Dros. has many pains about the hip-joints and has cured sciatica with the following characters:

"Pressing pains, < from pressure, from stooping, from lying on painful part, > after rising from

bed." Eruption like measles; prickling burning itching; < undressing; > by scratching; bleeding,

burning ulcers, cutting pains. Epileptic attacks: with rigidity; with twitching of limbs; after

attack, hemoptysis and sleep. Symptoms are < towards evening and after midnight. < By

warmth; by warm drinks; > in open air. Many symptoms are < at rest and when lying in bed.

Supporting the part > pains in head and chest. Stooping <; walking >; singing and talking <.

Motion of eye < head pains. Motion > stitching in chest and joints, and shivering. < From acids.

Mental dejection, caused by ideas of imaginary enmity——Anxiety, esp. (in the

evening) in solitude, with fear of ghosts—Great mistrust—Restlessness, which does not allow

prolonged attention to the same object.—Inquietude respecting the

• ▸future.
• ▸-—Discouragement.
• ▸—Inclination to drown oneself.
• ▸—Pertinacity in executing

resolutions.—The least thing puts the sufferer beside himself.

Vertigo when walking in open air, with inclination to fall to the left side. Coldness of left half of face, with stinging pains and dry heat of right half.

Painful perplexity of the head, as after loud speaking.—Vertigo on walking in the open

• ▸air, which occasions falling (to the |.
• ▸).
• ▸—Pressive pains in the head, esp.
• ▸in the forehead and in the

cheek-bones, sometimes with nausea and dizziness.—Pressing headache (temples), with

stupefaction and nausea (morning); worse when stooping and from heart; better from motion and

in the cold air——Beating and hammering in the forehead from the inside outwards.—Pains, as of

excoriation in the scalp.

Shootings in the eyes towards the outside, esp. on stooping.—Suspension of the sight,

or confusion and paleness of the letters while reading.—Gauze before the eyes.—Presbyopia and

weakness of the eyes.—Contraction of the pupils.—Dazzling by candle-light and daylight.

Shootings and squeezing in the ears, esp. on swallowing.—Hardness of hearing, with

buzzing and roaring in the ears—Humming and drumming in the ears.

Bleeding at the nose, esp. in the evening.—Discharge of blood on blowing the

• ▸nose.
• ▸—Black pores on the nose.
• ▸—Constant dryness of the nose.
• ▸—Great sensibility to acid

smells.—Fluent coryza with sneezing.

Paleness of the face, with cheeks hollow, and eyes sunken.—Small pustules here and

there on face, with fine stitching sensation < when touched.—Burning and pricking sensation in

the skin of the cheeks, below the eyes.—Lips cracked and constantly dry.—Pressure in the cheek-

bones towards the outside, aggravated by pressure and contact.—Black pores in the chin.

Shooting pains in teeth, after taking hot drinks.—Ulcers on tongue.—Bleeding of the

mouth.—Ulceration of velum palati.

Rough, scraping dryness deep in fauces, and in region of soft palate, inducing short

and hacking cough, with yellow mucous expectoration, hoarse deep voice, oppression in chest as

if breath could not be expelled when coughing or talking.—Shootings in the throat, after eating

anything salt.—Stinging in the throat during deglutition.—Difficulty in swallowing solid food, as

from contraction of the throat.—Sensation of dryness in the throat.—Sensation in the throat, as if

crumbs of bread had been stopped in it—Hawking of yellowish or greenish mucus.

Nausea. Aversion to and bad effects from acids.

Thirst, esp. in the morning (during the hot stage of the fever and not during the

• ▸cold stage).
• ▸—Insipidity of food.
• ▸—Aversion to pork.
• ▸—Bitter taste of food and esp.
• ▸of bread.

Bitter risings—Frequent hiccough.—Water-brash.—V omiting at night, and after

dinner.—Vomiting of bile, in the morning —Vomiting of blood.—Nausea after eating fat

food.—Vomiting of slimy matter and of food during the cough.—Shootings and beatings in the pit

of the stomach.—Clawing sensation in the pit of the stomach.

Pains in the hypochondria, on coughing and on being touched (he has to press

on them with the hand when he coughs).—Colic after taking acids.

Frequent evacuations of sanguineous mucus, with cutting pains; after the

stool, pain in abdomen and small of the back.

Frequent want to make water, with scanty emission, often drop by

drop.—Emission of urine at night—Brownish urine of a strong smell—Watery, inodorous urine

(with fetid stool of white mucus).

Catamenia suppressed.—Catamenia retarded.—Leucorrheea, with

pains like those of childbirth, spasmodic pains in the abdomen.

• ▸Spasmodic, dry irritative cough, like whooping-cough, the paroxysms following each other very rapidly; can scarcely breathe; chokes.
• ▸Cough very deep and hoarse; worse, after midnight; yellow expectoration, with bleeding from nose and mouth; retching. Deep, hoarse voice; hoarseness; laryngitis.
• ▸Rough, scraping sensation deep in the fauces and soft palate.
• ▸Sensation as if crumbs were in the throat, of feather in larynx.
• ▸Laryngeal phthisis, with rapid emaciation.
• ▸Harassing and titillating cough in children-not at all through the day, but commences as soon as the head touches the pillow at night.
• ▸Clergyman's sore throat, with rough, scraping, dry sensation deep in the fauces; voice hoarse, deep, toneless, cracked, requires exertion to speak.
• ▸Asthma when talking, with contraction of the throat at every word uttered.

Tingling in the larynx, which excites a slight cough, and shootings

extending to the throat.—Sensation, as if there were a soft body, such as a feather, in the

larynx.—Sensation of dryness, or roughness, and of scraping in the bottom of the gullet, with

inclination to cough.—Hoarseness, and very low voice.—Oppressed breathing when talking;

mostly while sitting.—Sensation of oppression in the chest, as if the voice and breath were

retarded when speaking and coughing.—Fine stitches in larynx extending down to r. side of

cesophagus.—Cough without much sound.—Cough as soon as the head touches the

pillow.—Accumulation of slimy matter, alternately hard and soft, yellowish, greyish or

greenish.—Cough and hoarseness.—Cough, proceeding from the depth of the chest, with pains in

the hypochondria and in the chest, mitigated by pressing the hand upon them.—Cough at night,

and in the evening, immediately after lying down.—Dry, spasmodic cough, with

retching.—Fatiguing cough like whooping-cough (attacks, every one to three hours, with barking

or dull-sounding coughs, choking the breathing, caused by tickling or dryness of the throat;

yellow and bitter expectoration; has to swallow this mucus down) with bluish face, wheezing

respiration, attacks of suffocation, bleeding from the nose and mouth, and anxiety.—The cough is

excited by laughter, weeping and mental emotions; after having had the measles; aggravation

after lying down, and still more increased after midnight; when at rest; when lying in bed; from

heat; from drinking; from singing —Vomiting of food during the cough, and afterwards.—Cough,

with fetid breath—Singing, tobacco-smoke, and drinking, excites the cough —Cough, with

expectoration of a bright red blood, or of blackish clots ——Cough, in the morning, with bitter and

nauseous expectoration.—Cough, with expectoration of purulent matter, and shootings in the

lower part of the chest.—Greenish expectoration.—Laryngeal and tracheal phthisis.

Restricted respiration on speaking, as if the throat were contracted, chiefly when

seated.—Oppression of the chest, as if something stopped the voice on coughing or on speaking,

or, as if the breath could not be expelled —Tightness of the chest on coughing.—Pains in the chest

on coughing and on sneezing; he has to press his chest with the hand.—Pains, as from

subcutaneous ulceration in the sternum, on pressing upon it.—Black pores on the chest and

shoulder.

Stiffness at the nape of the neck, with pains during movement.—Bruise-

like pains in the back, particularly early in the morning.

Twitchings in r. shoulder, only when at rest.—Pains, as from a bruise, in the

joints of the arms and of the hands.—Cramp and stiffening of the fingers, on grasping an

object.—Nocturnal pains in the bones of the arm, going off during motion in the day.

Paralytic pains in the coxo-femoral joint, and in the thighs, on walking,

which occasion limping.—Incisive shootings in the legs.—Violent stitch in the os ischium, on

rising from a seat.—Tearings in the joints of the foot, as if they were dislocated, only when

walking.—Stiffness in the joints of the feet—Cold sweat in the feet, which are constantly cold.

24. Generalities—Rapid emaciation (with acute laryngitis).—Gnawing shootings in the cavities

of the bones of the arms and of the legs, exceedingly violent, with violent shootings in the joints,

during repose, rather than during movement.—Shooting and painful pressure in the muscles (of

the limbs), mitigated in no position.—Pains as from a bruise, excessively distressing

sensitiveness, paralytic weakness in all the limbs.—AIl the limbs feel sore, as from too hard a

bed.—Weakness in the whole body, with cheeks and eyes hollow.—Epileptic convulsions, with

sleep and spitting of blood, after the fit—The majority of the sufferings appear at night and in the

morning, as well as in a warm atmosphere, and during repose.—Gnawing-stinging in the long

bones; worse during rest.

• ▸Paralytic pains in the coxo-femoral joint and thighs.
• ▸Stiffness in joints of feet.
• ▸All limbs feel lame.
• ▸Bed feels too hard.

Violent itching while undressing; when scratching, the skin readily peels off.—Black

pores on chest and shoulder.

Snoring during sleep, and when lying on the back.—Frequent starts with fright,

during sleep.—Nocturnal waking, on the breaking out of perspiration.—Frequent waking with

perspiration, or as if too wakeful—Sleep at noon and in the evening at sunset.

Internal chilliness; shivering, with hot face, cold hands, no thirst. Is always too cold, even in bed.

Shuddering over the whole body, with heat of the face, icy coldness of the hands and

absence of thirst, or shiverings with coldness and paleness of the hands, the feet, and the

• ▸face.
• ▸—In the morning hours, coldness of one side (1.
• ▸) of the face, while the other side (r.
• ▸) is

hot.—Chilliness and chill while at rest, finds it everywhere too cold, even in bed. —Chilliness

during the day, heat during the night.—Heat almost exclusively in the face and on the

head.—Warm perspiration at night, esp. after midnight and during the morning hours, mostly in

the face.—Heat, with headache and convulsive cough.—(Intermittent) fever, with nausea, and

inclination to vomit, and other gastric sufferings, or with sore throat.

• ▸Amblyopia.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Consumption.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Coxalgia.
• ▸Epilepsy.

• ▸Hemorrhage.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Laryngitis.
• ▸Measles.
• ▸Nausea.
• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Vomiting.
• ▸Whooping-

cough.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸Complementary: Nux.
• ▸Compatible: Calc c.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Verat.
• ▸,

• ▸Gnaph.
• ▸Compare: Bell.
• ▸, Coral.
• ▸, Cup.
• ▸, Hyo.
• ▸, Ip.
• ▸, Sambuc.
• ▸, Meph.
• ▸, Op.
• ▸, Coc.
• ▸cact.
• ▸In inability to

• ▸expectorate Caust.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Arn.
• ▸, Kali c.
• ▸Teste considers Meny.
• ▸the closest analogue.

Antidote: Camph.

Compare: Fluoroform (2 per cent watery solution, 2-4 drops, after paroxysms, considered specific for whooping-cough). Ouabain from leaves of Carissa schimperi-arrow poison (Respiratory spasm-Whooping cough is cut short in first stage and reduced in frequency of attacks and hastens convalescence). Chelid; Corall; Cupr; Castanea; Argent; Menyanth.

First to twelfth attenuation.

the mouth. Difficulty in swallowing solid foods. Constriction of

the throat and of the larynx and constriction of the cesophagus preventing swallowing. Cramping constriction runs all through the

Temcdy. Cramping of the hands upon undertaking to hold on to

something. When grasping the broom handle. In the throat there

is burning and scraping. Stitching pains in the throat. The throat

is dark red or purple. I believe that Drosera has a clinical symptom

of great value. Scraping in the larynx and cough after eating. In

its proving it has cough after drinking. It has especially cough alter

eating and drinking cold things. This cough comes from tickling in

the larynx and constrictions in the larynx. Nausea and vomiting.

Vomiting of blood and bile in the morning and vomiting of mucus

and food when coughing. Coughing until he retches and vomits.

Constricting pains in the pit of the stomach. Constricting pains in

the sides of the abdomen. Colic after sour food. Perhaps the most

troublesome irritation found in this remedy is in the larynx, where

there will be found clutching, cramping, constricting, and burning.

Hoarseness and continued irritation causing coughing and continued

irritation and scraping of the larynx. Accumulation of mucus in the

larynx, dryness in the larynx, spasms of the epiglottis. Violent spasmodic cough from tickling in the larynx. Violent tickling in the

larynx brings on cough, rousing him from wsleep, coming on every few

hours with increasing intensity making the remedy resemble whooping

cough, in which it has been very useftil. Sensation in the larynx like

a feather. Spasms of the larynx. Spasms of the extremities when

coughing. The cough is brought on fronx tickling, from accumulation of mucus in the larynx. These conditions are found in phthisis

of the larynx, in whooping cough, in laryngitis, and in catarrh of the

larynx.

Spasmodic difficulties of the chest and larynx cause difficult breathing and suffocation. Sensation as of something in the chest preventing breathing when talking or coughing. Difficult breathing and

cough coming after midnight. Difficult breathing especially on waking.

• ▸Not able to utter a sound.
• ▸Difficult breathing and suffocating sensation, The face becomes purple from spasms in the larynx.
• ▸Compression of the chest.
• ▸These attacks of suffocation come on with the

cough or come upon lying dowm. Asthmatic breathing from talking

and constriction in the larynx. Deep sounding, hoarse cough, rough

scraping cough, loud whooping cough, spasmodic whooping cough.

Violent constriction of the chest and muscles of the throat and larynx

wdth whooping cough. Whooping cough coming in paroxysms of two

or three hours, hut violently worse after lying down at night and

toward 3 o’clock in the morning. Most tormenting tickling in the

larynx urging to cough. Paroxysmal dry cough from tickling in the

DtJLCAMARA — ^BITTER SWEET.

The throat comes in for its share of trouble. Persons who in every

cold damp spell have a sore throat, from getting overheated, throwing

off the wraps, getting into a cold place. The Dulcamara patient says :

“Well now, I know I am fixed : I am now chilled ; I begin to feel

hoarseness in my throat.” On comes the sore throat ; it fills with

mucus, with yellow slime ; the tonsils become inflamed ; even quinsy

comes on. Or it may affect the throat uniformly ; it may become red

and inflamed and dry at times, and at other times filled with mucus,

and at night the throat fills with thick, yellow, tough mucus, which

is hawked up in great quantities. These colds that settle first in the

nose and throat, post-nasal catarrh, of the very worst sort, gradually

creep on until the wiiolc respiratory apparatus is in a state of catarrhal

dnflammation. Every cold that he takes aggravates his catarrh

wherever that may be. If it be in the nose, then the nose is aggravated ; if in the chest, then those parts are aggravated. A continual

rousing up. Every experienced physician must have met with many

cases where for a time he felt unable to cope with the case because

of his inability to reach the constitutional state that underlies this

continual taking cold. So he puzzles, for a long time, and prescribes

on the immediate attack and palliates it. For instance, the immediate

attack might look like Belladonna or Bryonia, Ferrum phos, or Arsenicum, etc.: he treats that attack without taking into consideration the

underlying constitutional state of the patient. It is quite a profitable

OULC4NURA— BITTEK SWEET

business for one who has not much conscience and not much intelligence. But a conscientious physician feels worried and knows he is

not doing what he ought to do by his patient, unless he reaches out

for the remedy which touches the constitution. It is far more useful

to keep people from taking colds than to cure colds.

There is a form of acute Bright's disease that Dulcamara cures.

You can probably now surmise from what we have said of the nature

of the remedy, that in cases of Bright's disease following scarlet

fever, or from malaria, or in any acute disease that has ended badly,

i e., the patient has been exposed to the cold too soon, and has taken

‘"cold,” or from sudden change of weather, damp and cold, the feet

commence to swell, there is albumin in the urine, the limbs are waxy,

the face becomes waxy and sallow, and there is constant urging to

urinate. Dulcamara, with other constitutional symptoms, will be

suitable.

In bladder catarrh, where there is a copious discharge of mucus, or

muco-pus in the urine ; when the urine stands, a thick, purulent sediment, yellowish-white, and a constant urging to urinate ; every time

he takes a little cold, the urine becomes bloody, the frequency of

urination is increased, the urine becomes irritating, the catarrh of the

bladder rouses up like a flame, all the symptoms are worse in cold,

damp weather, and from getting chilled ; better from becoming warm.

So you see whether it is a catarrh of the kidney or a catarrhal state

of the bladder, or an attack of dysentery, or an attack of sudden diarrheea, every cold spell of the weatbet brings on an increase of the

trouble.

There is another Dulcamara symptom which will often be expressed

suddenly in the midst of a lot of other symptoms. After you have

been hunting for a long time, the patient will say: ‘‘Doctor, if I get

chilled, I must hurry to urinate ; if I get into a cold place, I have to

go to stool, or to urinate.” So we see that the symptoms come on

when the patient is cold, and are better when he is warm. Any

catarrhal trouble of the bladder that is better in the summer and worse

in the winter.

In dry, teasing coughs that are winter "'colds," that go away in the

summer and return in the winter. Psorinum has a dry, teasing,

winter cough. Arsenicum has a winter cough.

"Rash comes out upon the face before the menses.” "As a forerunner of catamenia, with extraordinary sexual excitement, herpetic

eruptions.” Its "cold” sores are very troublesome. The patients

are subject to these "cold” sores upon the lips and upon the genitals.

Every time he takes “cold,” herpes labialis, herpes preputialis.

"Catarrhal ailments in cold, damp weather.” "Mammae engorged,

hard, sore and painful.” "Mammary glands swollen, inactive, pain-

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less, itching, in consequence of a ‘cold’ which seems to have settled

in them.”

“Cough, from damp, cold, atmosphere, or from getting wet.”

“Cough, dry, hoarse and rough, or loose, with copious expectoration

of mucus and dull hearing ; catarrhal fever." The cough is worse

lying and in a warm room and better in the open air.

Rheumatic lameness and stiffness in the back from taking cold

better by motion. Drawing pain in the lumber region extending to

the lower limbs during rest. Stiff neck from every exposure to cold.

Stitching, tearing, rheumatic pains in limbs after exposure to cold, better

by motion, worse at night or in the evening, with some fever. Sore,

bruised feeling all over the body. Warts on hands, fingers and face.

EUPATORIUM PERJFOLIATUM (BONESET)

Every time 1 take up one of these old domestic remedies I am

astonished at the extended discoveries of medical properties in the

household as seen in their domestic use. All through the Eastern

States, in the rural districts, among the first old settlers, Boneset-tea

was a medicine for colds For every cold in the head, or running

of the nose, every bone-ache or high fever, or headache from cold,

the good old housewife had her Boneset-tea ready. Sure enough it

did such things, and the provings sustain its use. The proving shows

that Boneset produces upon healthy people symptoms like the colds

the old farmers used to suffer from.

The common winter colds through the Eastern States and the North

arc attended with much sneezing and coryza, pain in the head, as if

it would burst, which is aggravated from motion, chilliness with the

desire to be warmly covered ; the bones ache as if they would break ;

there is fever, thirst, and a general aggravation from motion. Such

common everyday colds correspond sometimes to Eupatorium and

sometimes to Bryonia. These two remedies are very similar, but the

aching in the bones is marked in Eupatorium. If this state goes on

for a few days the patient will become yellow, the cold will settle in

the chest, a pneumonia may develop, or an inflammation of the liver,

or ah attack commonly called a bilious fever. Such fevers frequently

call for Bryonia and Eupatorium, each fitting its own cases. These

remedies are especially useful throughout New England, New York,

Ohio, the North and Canada. They do not have this kind of a cold

very frequently in the warmer climates, but Eupatorium is often indicated in the warmer climates for fevers, yellow fever, bilious fever,

break-bone fever and intermittent fever. It seems to be useful in

one kind of complairits in one climate and in another kind of complaints in another climate.

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In the Southwest and the West, in the valleys of the great rivers,

Eupatorium cures complaints beginning as if the back would break,

great shivering from head to toot spreading from the back, great

sensitiveness to cold, congestive headaches, ilushed face, yellow skin

and yellow eyes, pain in the abdomen, and in the region of the liver,

inability to retain any food, nausea from the sight and smell of food ;

the bones ache as if they would break, the fever runs high, the urine

is of a mahogany color, the longue is heavily coated yellow, and there

is nausea and vomiting of bile, riiat gives the picture of Eupatorium

in the Mississippi Valley, in the Ohio Valley, in Florida and Alabama,

and all through the Southern States. The most prominent symptoms

are the vomiting of bile, the aching of the bones as if they would

break, the pains in the stomach after eating, and the nausea from the

thought and smell of food. The stomach is very irritable ; the thought

of food gags him. The patient desires to keep still, but the pain is so

severe that he must move and so he appears restless. These are

among the acute manifestations, and arc things only veiy general that

we must take up and apply to sick people.

Eupatorium has been a very useful remedy in intermittent fever,

when epidemic in the valleys. Among the first signs is nausea some

time before the attack, and there are sometimes spells of vomiting of

bile. About seven or nine o’clock in the forenoon, he commences to

shudder, the shivering runs down back and spreads from the back

to the extremities ; he has violent t^iirst, but the shiverings are made

w^orsc from drinking so that he cfeiie not drink cold water. There is

soreness and pulsation in the back of the head, violent pain in the

occiput and back before and during the chill. During the chill he

wants to cover up and the clothing needs to be piled on. The thirst

extends through all the stages. At the close of the chill there is

vomiting ; often it docs not occur until the heat, but before the sweat

fairly sets in he vomits copiously, first the contents of the stomach and

then bile. When the heat is on he seems to burn all over, sometimes

as though with electric sparks. Intense heat, burning in the top of

the head, his feet burn and his skin burns. The burning is more

intense than the heat would justify. It is characteristic of this remedy

for the sweat to be scanty ; a violent chill, intense fever which passes

off slowly, and very scanty sweat. The bones ache as if they would

break. During the chill his head aches as if it would burst, it throbs,

it tears, it stings, it burns ; he describes the headache in terms expressive of violence, as if probably a congestive headache. One would

think after the fever subsides and he commences to sweat a little that

he would get relief, which is true excepting the headache, which often

gets worse clear through to the end of the attack, and sometimes it

win last all day and night; then he will have a whole day free from

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the headache, but on the third day at seven or nine o'clock on will

come the same trouble with increasing violence. At times these

attacks are prolonged, the one will extend into the other, that is

enter into a sort of remittent charactei with no intermission. The

longer this runs the more the liver becomes engorged, and finally the

urine is loaded with bile, the stool becomes whitish, the fever increases,

the nausea increasing, the tongue becomes pointed and elongated, and

is dry, the headache is extremely painful, and a state of masked fever

comes on.

In those intermittent fevers that begin with violent shaking, and the

headache continues without sweat, or, if with sweat the headache is

made worse, thirst during all stages, vomiting of bile at the close of

the heat or during the heat, with the awful boneaches, the Western

men, who study their Materia Medica, know that they have a sure

cure in Eupatorium. The time for the administration of this dose is

at the close of the paroxysm. You get the best effect when reaction

is at the best, and that is when reaction is setting in, after a paroxysm

has passed off. That is true of every paroxysmal disease, where it

is possible to wait until the end. You cannot mitigate them very

much during the attack, indeed, if the medicine is given then it very

often increases the difficulty, but if you wait until the close of the

paroxysm you get the full benefit of your medicine, and the next

paroxysm will not develop, or will be lighter, or, if another attack is

brought on immediately you may rest assured there will be no more.

It is not an uncommon thing in intermittent fever, when the remedy

has been administered at the close of the paroxysm, for the next

paroxysm to come within twenty-four hours after the administration

of the medicine ; these mixed cases are often in a state of disorder.

One who does not know this would immediately show the white

feather, would be alarmed, would be afraid the patient was getting

worse, but you have only to wait for ihe subsidence of the attack and

you will see that you have broken its cycle and periodicity.

When this remedy has been apparently indicated by intermittents,

and it has not proved of sufficient depth to root out the intermittent,

there arc two remedies, either of which is likely to follow it, and these

arc Natrum muriaticum and Sepia, These two remedies are very

closely related to Eupatorium and take up the work where it leaves

off, when the symptoms agree.

This medicine has also a chronic constitutional state, viz. : its gouty

nature. It is a very useful medicine in gout. It has gouty soreness

and inflamed nodosities of the finger joints, of the elbow joint, pain

and gouty swelling of the great toe, red tumefaction of the joint of

the great toe. It establishes, in persons who are subject to chalk

stone, deposits around the finger joints. These gouty subjects take

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cold, the bones ache, the joints become inflamed, the patient will say

he is chilly, the skin becomes yellow, the mine is charged with bile,

the stool becomes whitish, and he becomes weak. In many instances

these patients have been for years resorting to Burgundy for relief

of their gouty joints and the weakness. Some one of our homoeopathic remedies will relieve the suffering, but in those old gouty subjects who have been always drinking wine, you cannot take the wine

away from them at once ; you cannot do it while they are having the

attack, because they have become so accustomed to it. Burgundy is

the kind of wine very commonly used by the gouty, but the Scotchman with his gout thinks he must always have a little Scotch whiskey

and in the attack it is quite impossible to take it away from him. What

has been his custom must be followed out for a while because he

would grow weaker, but it is damaging him, and hence it is difficult

to contend with gouty subjects who have been taking stimulants. You

do not get the full ^nefit of Homoeopathy and you cannot stop his

stimulants because weakness will follow. Persons who have not

taken wine as a regular beverage can and should do without it, as it

interferes with the action of the homoeopathic remedy.

These gouty patients have terrible sick headaches. Pain in the base

of the brain and back of the head, associated with gouty joints. These

are often referred to as arthritic headaches, that is, gouty headaches,

headaches associated with painful joints. Or the headaches may

alternate with pains in the joints. Congestive headaches, the pain

being in the base of the brain, more or less throbbing ; the pain

spreads up through the head and produces a general congestive

attack. Sometimes these headaches come on when the joints are feeling better, and the more headache he has the less pain he has in the

extremities ; and again, when the gout affects the extremities, then the

headaches diminish. Headaches, having a third and seventh-day

aggravation, coming with more or less periodicity. With the headache there will be nausea and vomiting of bile, nausea at the thought

and smell of food. This gouty individual is also subject to vertigo,

and the sensation as if he would fall to the left is especially noted

with the coming on of the headache. The vertigo comes on in the

morning ; when he gets up he feels as if he would sway to the left,

and he has to guard himself in turning to the left. Sometimes in

intermittent fever this symptom of swaying to the left and vertigo

ending in nausea and vomiting, violent pain in the back of the head

and pain in the bones, are the first threatenings.

Wc have in this remedy also other gouty manifestations: shooting

through the temples, shooting from the left to the right side of the

head ; shooting ^ through the head ; stitching, tearing pains in the

limbs as well as the bone aches. The headaches are so violent that

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they make him sick at the stomach. In gouty headaches, in intermittents at the close of the intense heat, in periodical headaches, the

course is the same, the pain is so intense that nausea is soon brought

on and then he vomits bile. Eupatorium has not been used on its

symptoms in gouty states as often as it might have been. In intermittent fever it is well known ; in headaches it is only occasionally

used. Only occasionally does a man realize its great benefit in headaches and in remittent fevers. In gouty and rheumatic affections it

may be suited to the symptoms and is more useful than is generally

known. It is not the purpose of our talks to point out ultimates of

disease. I do not look upon gout as a disease, but as a great class of

symptoms of a rheumatic character that occur in the human family ;

a great mass of symptoms that may be called gouty, a tendency to

enlargement of the joints and gouty deposits in the urine. The ordinary so-called lithaemia is a gouty constitution. The gouty state of

the economy is the superficial or apparent cause ; the real cause rests

in the miasm. So when I speak of gout I do not mean the name of

a disease, but a class of manifestations that are met in large cities

especially, less frequently in the country where the people live on

farms and take plenty ot exercise and have wholesome food and are

not housed up. It is supposed to be due to wine drinking. Often

when I say to patients that the symptoms arc somewhat gouty, they

reply, “I am not in the habit of drinking wine. I have not been a

high liver.’’ Such conditions of course bring on a tendency to gout.

Painful soreness in the eyeballs like Bryonia and GeUemium. The

eyeballs are very senstive to touch and sore to pressure ; feel as If

he had been struck a blow in the eye ; sore, bruised, pain in the eye.

Coryza w^tih aching in every bone.

With the bilious attacks there often may be an ending m a diarrhoea ; copious green discharges, green fluid or semi-fluid stools, but

after the attack has lingered until there is one grand emptying out of

the bowels, this vsymptom will disappear and the secondary state

comes on in which tliere is constipation and a light-colored stool, or

bilelcss stool.

Boneset has a dry, hacking, teasing cough, that seems to rack the

whole frame, as if it would break him up, it is so sore, and he so

much disturbed by motion. A great amount of tribulation is found

in the respiratory tract, in the bronchial tubes. We find a cough in

capillary bronchitis that shakes the whole frame, analogous to Bryonia

and Phosphorus. The subject is extremely sentitive to the cold air,

as much so as in Nux vomica. Nux vomica havS aching in the bones

as if they would break ; he wants the room hot, and wants to be covered with clothing which relieves ; often the slightest lifting of the

covers increases the chilliness, which is true also of Eupatorium, so

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they run close together. In Nux vomica wc have the dreadful irritability of temper ; in Eupatorium wc have overwhelming sadness. The

Nux vomica patient is nor likely to say much about dying, he is too

irritable to go into the next world : not so with Kupaiorium, he is full

of sadness.

There are other states that comes on secondarily in this medicine.

After malarial attacks and in gouty affections, etc., there is bloating

of the lower limbs, oedematous swelling. It is not an uncommon thing

for a malarial fever that has lingered a long time to he attended with

swelling of the lower limbs. Eupatorium very strongly competes

with Natrum rriuriaticum, China ^ and Arsenicum in such lingering

malaria. When the symptoms have largely subsided and left only

this state of anaemia and dropsy of the lower extremities, in the badly

treated cases, it is very difficult to find \vhat medicine to administer,

and the course that the homoeopath must pursue is to go back and

examine the patient to find the symptoms he had at the time of the

intermittent fever, before he was meddled with. If now there is

swelling of the extremities, and you get symptoms to show you that

he needed Eupatorium in the beginning, Eupatorium will still cure

the dropsy of the extremities. It may bring back the chill, it may

bring back an orderly state that you can prescribe on. If in the

beginning he needed Arsenicum, that remedy will bring back the chill,

turn it right end to and cure his symptoms. The trouble is that the

symptoms were only suppressed, had not been cured. So the medicine he needed, but has never had for the chill, may be the medicine

that he needs now. Then think of; Eupatorium in dropsical sw^ellings

of the feet and ankles, and in gouty swellings also. The gouty sw^elliiigs are all of an inflammatory character. Very commonly these arc

closely related to hydrarthrosis, and here Eupatorium is to be compared with Arsenicum. Gouty inflammation of the knee. All the

way through this remedy you read about bone-aches and bone pains.

It is peculiar that medicines come around on time wdth an exactitude. Diseases do the same thing, and wc must see that it is also

peculiar that they come with a regular cycle, a regular periodicity.

We meet with headaches that come every seven days, headaches also

that come once in tw^o weeks, and there are remedies that have sevenday aggravations and fourteen-day aggravations and three-day aggravations, remedies that bring out their symptoms just in this form.

Do not be surprised when your patient is prcfectly under the influence

of Aurum if he has a characteristic aggravation every rvventy-onc

days. There are quite a number of remedies having fourteen-clay

aggravations, e, g., CJiina and Arsenicum. Again, there arc autumnal

aggravations, spring aggravations, winter aggravations, aggravations

from cold weather and aggravations in the summer from heat. Some

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remedicB have both the latter.

larynx. Spasmodic cough, sympathetic cough from spinal irritation.

Violent spasmodic cough in young girls going into consumption.

Cough with expectoration of bright red or black clotted blood. Bloody

expectoration. These spasmodic coughs come often during measles

or after an attack of measles. An irritation in the larynx remains.

It is one of the most frequently indicated remedies for measles. Like

Carbo veg. Severe attacks of stitching in the chest when sneezing

or coughing. He must press on the chest with the hand for relief.

Makes an effort to hold chest with the hand when coughing, the cough

is so violent. Compression of the chest, burning sensation in the

chest, stitching pains in the chest. It is a very useful remedy in

chronic bronchitis with spasmodic cough. It is a great palliative for

the spasmodic cough that occurs in consumption and all along the

course of tuberculosis of the lungs. In these chest complaints, pains

between the shoulders, pains in the back as if bruised from coughing.

Coldness in the hands and feet and blueness of the extremities.

Cramps in the extremities with the cough. The cough becomes so

violent that the patient goes into convulsions. Along with these

spasmodic coughs especially in phthisical conditions there are febrile

attacks. Chill and chilliness and one-sided chill. Chill and fever

with whooping cough. Chill and fever with inflammation of the

larynx. The heat as well as the cough is worse after midnight.

Cold sweat on the forehead and on the extremities. Sweat over the

whole body following the fever. Copious sweat all over the whole

body with the cough. The cough ends in great exhaustion. Whooping

cough with fever.

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This medicine seems especially to affect the mucous membranes.

It appears to have a tendency to establish or ultimate discharges, both

acute and chronic.

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. He is ameliorated in dry, even weather; cold

and damp aggravate all the conditions. He is worse evening and

night and during rest.

Dulcamara produces catarrh of the stomach, intestines, nose, eyes,

ears, and inflammatory conditions of the skin with eruptions. If you

go through any of these in detail, you will be astonished to find how

disturbed is the constitutional state of this patient by weather changes.

It is a medicine wonderfully useful in diarrhoea, at the close of the

summer, hot days and cold nights, with changeable stool; diarrhoea

of infants. There seems to be no digestion ; yellow, slimy stool ;

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yellow-green stool, with undigested stool ; frequent stool, blood in

the stool and quite a mass of slime, showing a marked catarrhal state.

This gets better and worse ; this gets better under ordinary remedies ;

it will often get better from Pulsatilla, because Pulsatilla symptoms

seem to predominate, and sometimes It is relieved by Ariiica ; but

every time the child takes cold, it comes back again, and soon the

physician will realize that he has not struck the remedy belonging to

all the symptoms. It is very often an annoying condition, because the

symptoms are not recognized until two or three attacks liave come.

It is not easy to discover that the attacks come on from cold.

Every year women bring their babies back from the mountains, at

the end of the season, and then we get some Dulcamara cases. One

needs to be in the mountains at the close of the summer season to

know what the condition is. If you go into the mountains at such a

time, either in the North or West, you will notice that the sun's rays

beat down during the day with great force, but along towards sunset

if you walk out a draft of cold air comes down that will chill you to

the bone. This will make the baby sick ; it is too warm to take the

child out in the middle of the day, and so he is taken out in his carriage in the evening ; he has been overheated in the house during the

day, and then catches this draft in the evening. Dulcamara is suitable for conditions that would arise from just such a state. So with

an adult who has been out in the heat of the sun and catches the cold

draft by night, which means hot days and cold nights, such as occur

in the fall of the year, at the close of the summer and coming in of

the winter ; this intermingling of hot air and cold drafts. You go up

towards the foot of the hills after a hot day, you will walk through

a stratum of air that will make you perspire and the next minute a

cold air that will make you want your overcoat on, and then again a

stratum of hot air and so on. Such a state will bring out a sweat

and then suppress it. The symptoms that come from Dulcamara

seem to be like symptoms that airse from just such causes. And we

are free, then, to infer from such an experience that Dulcamara cures

these cases. I have been puzzled in times past over these babies that

have been brought home from the mountains, and have prescribed

upon the visible symptoms, until I thought about the matter carefully

and figured it out that they had come from these hot and cold regions.

Babies have to be hurried home at times, because of the diarrhoeas

that cannot be cured in the mountains, but a dose of Dulcamara will

enable them to stay there and live right in that same climate. Chronic

recurrent dysentery from cold. If they have a dose of Dulcamara

it fortifies them against the continual taking of cold.

There are people in a certain kind of business that really constitute

a Dulcamara state. Suppose we look at our ice-cream men and our

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ice handlers and cold storage men ; in a cold room they are handling

ice; the summer weather is hot, they must go out and take some of

the heat, and then they go back into their cold rooms and handle the

ice, I have seen these things and have had occasion to follov/ them

out. These men are subject at times to bowel troubles, and othei

catarrhal affections, but generally to diarrhoeic affections. Their

business cannot stop because it is their means of living. Dulcamara

cures such chronic diarrhoeas when the symptoms agree. Arsenicum

is a medicine that would be suitable for such patients if the symptoms

agreed, but the symptoms at times agree with Dulcamara, for that is the

nature of the remedy, to take cold from cold, damp places, from sup*

pressing a sweat, from going out of a hot atmosphere into an icc house,

into icy rooms ; into cold rooms ; in this climate such complaints as come

on from overexertion, overheating, and then throwing off the clothing

and becoming chilled, suppressing the sweat ; fevers may come on,

aching in the bones, trembling with the aching, trembling in the

muscles, and as the fever goes on, he is in a distressed state, cannot

remember, forgets what he was about to speak of, forgets the word

that would naturally express his idea, and he enters into a dazed

state, a state of confusion. It suits these colds that have this sluggish circulation of the brain, with trembling and chilliness, coldness

as if in the bones.

Dulcamara is full of rheumatism, full of rheumatic pains and aches,

sore and bruised all over, the joints are inflamed, become red, sensitive to touch and are swollen. It is suitable in cases of inflammatory

rheumatism, due to suppressed perspiration, induced by changing

from a high to low temperature, or from cold, wet weather. Worse

evening and night and during rest.

Now, it has many chronic complaints. A catarrhal condition of the

eyes, purulent discharges, thick, yellow discharges, granular lids ;

eyes become red every time he takes cold ; ‘‘every time he takes cold

it settles in the eyes,'" is a common expression of the patient. The

patient will often ask the question, “Why is it, doctor, that every time

I take cold it settles in my eyes? If I get into a cold atmosphere, or

take off my coat after being heated, 1 have to look out.” If it becomes cold in the night and he has thrown the clothes off, he takes

cold, or, if a cold rain comes on, he takes cold and then has sore eyes.

Such eyes are very often effectually cured by Dulcamara. As to the

eye itself, it is only an ordinary catarrhal state, but the manner in

which it comes on is the important thing. That is the nature of the

patient to have sore eyes whenever he takes cold ; it belongs to some

other remedies as well, but this one particularly.

Dulcamara has also catarrhal discharges from the nose, with bloody

crusts ; blowing out thick, yellow mucus all the time. In infants and

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W

children who have sniffles, they are always worse in cold, damp

weather. When the patient says: “Doctor, in cold, damp weather

I cannot breathe through my nose ; my nose stuffs up or, “1 must

sleep with my mouth open/* Dulcamara is a very uselul remedy to

know in catarrhal cases that always stuff up w^hen there is a cold rain.

It is markedly an autumnal remedy. The Dulcamara patients go

through the summer very comfortably ; their catarrhal condiiicns to a

great extent pass away ; the warm days and warm nights, because of

the even temperature, seem to agree with them, bur as soon as the cold

nights come on and the cold rains come, all their difficulties return ;

there is an increase of the rheumatism and of the catarrhal discharges.

This medicine has been used a long time by our mothers. They used

to make ointments out of Dulcamara. You will find that the old

ladies, in almost any rural district in which Dulcamara growls, gather

it and make it into a salve for ulcers. Well, it is astonishing how

soothing it is when applied externally to smarting wounds, whether in

solution or salve or any other way. But it is a better medicine, of

course, when indicated by symptoms of the constitutional state ; it is

a better medicine if used internally. It produces ulcers and a tendency to ulceration of the mucous membranes and this condition will

become phagedenic. Sometimes it starts as nothing more than an

herpetic eruption, but it spreads and finally yellow pus forms and then

the granulations that should come, do not come : an eating condition

appears and the surface does not heap. Kspecially along the shin bone

there will be raw places, which even' extend to the periosteum, to the

bone, producing necrosis and caries ; so we have affections of the

mucous membranes or skin, first becoming vesiculated and then breaking open and eating. It is especially related to very sensitive, bleeding

ulcers with false granulations, phagedenic ulcers. This is not generally known ; it is a matter of experience with those that have watched

this medicine ; and again, strange to say, Arseiiiciini, which I have

already mentioned once or twice, has this state. Arsenicum leads all

other medicines for ulcers that eat, phagedenic ulcers. Arsenicum is

a typical remedy for spreading sores, for spreading ulcers, and especially those that conic from a bubo that has opened and will not heal.

Another feature of this medicine is its tendency to throw out eruptions over the body. It is a wonderfully eruptive medicine, producing

vesicles, crusts, dry, brown crusts, humid crusts, herpes. Dulcamara

produces eruptions so nearly like impetigo that it has been found a

useful remedy in that condition, i.e., multiple little hoiUike eruptions ;

it produces little boils, and the boils spread* Enlargement and hardness of the glands. Eruptions upon the scalp that look so much

like crusta lactea that Dulcamara has been found a very useful medicine. Extreme soreness, itching, and the itching is not relieved by

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scratcJling, and the scratching goes on until bleeding and rawness take

place. Eruptions that come out upon the face, upon the forehead, all

over the nose, but especially on the cheeks, which become completely

covered with these crusts ; eczema of infants. Children only a few

weeks old break out with these scalp eruptions, and Dulcamara is one

of the medicines that you will need to know. It is about as frequently

indicated as any of the medicines. Sepia, Arsenicum, Graphites, Dulcamara, Petroleum, Sulphur and Calcarea are about equally indicated,

but of these, in this climate at least, I think Sepia is probably more frequently indicated.

All of these catarrhal symptoms, the rheumatic symptoms, the eruptions upon the skin, are subject to the peculiar aggravations of the constitutional state. No matter what the symptoms are. the constitutional

state is worse in cold, damp weather.

‘‘Catarrhal and rheumatic headaches in cold, damp weather." When

the headache is the main trouble, the catarrh takes a different course

from what it does when the catarrh is the principal ailment. There

are two ways in which that conducts itself. In some Dulcamara patients, whenever he takes cold from the cold, damp weather, he commences to sneeze, and to get a coryza, and soon comes a copious, thick,

yellow flow from the nose. On the other hand. Dulcamara has a dry

catarrh in its first stage, and a fluid catarrh only in the second stage.

One who is subject to Dulcamara headaches, has the dry catarrh ;

whenever he takes cold instead of the usual catarrhal flow with it, he

at first sneezes and then feels a dryness in the air passages, a slacking

up of the usual discharge, which would give him relief, and then he

knows that he must look out, for along will come the neuralgic pains,

pains in the occiput, and finally over the whole head. Congestive headaches, with neuralgic pains and dry nose. Every spell of cold, damp

weather will bring on that headache. The catarrh is not always acute

enough for him to pay attention to it. He does not say very much

about it. The Dulcamara headache is very severe, is accompanied by

tremendous pains, and he may go to the doctor with the idea of getting rid of the headache, but it is a catarrhal state that is suppressed,

that has slackened up, and the nose becomes dry. As soon as the flow

starts up his headache is relieved. Then headache of this catarrhal

kind that comes on from every cold, damp spell, or from getting overheated, from getting into a cold draft after being overheated, or get

ting overheated with too much clothing, and then throwing the coat

off, will also belong to the Dulcamara state.

A form of eruption that is very likely to be a Dulcamara eruption

is the ringworm, herpes circinatus. It comes sometimes upon the face

and scalp. Children sometimes have ringworms in the hair. Dulcamara will nearly always cure these ringworms in the hair.

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The Dulcamara child is very susceptible to earache.

‘'Coryza dry, relieved by motion, worse during rest, and renewed by

the slightest exposure, and worse in cold air.’* Some coryzas cannot

• ▸tolerate the warm room, and others want a warm room.
• ▸The Dulcamara coryza is worse going out in the open air and better from motion.
• ▸The Nux vomica coryza is better in the open air.
• ▸The patient

feels much aching distress in the nose. The Nux vomica patient ordinarily wants warmth and warm air and a warm room, but with the

coryza he is the very opposite ; he wants motion in the open air, he

looks for coo] air, for it relieves the distressing sensation. In the

warm room there is a tickling sensation in the nose, and the nose will

drip, night and day. The Nux vomica coryza is w’orse in the house,

and worse in the night, and worse in the warm bed, so that the discharge will run all over the pillow. In Dulcamara it is more fluent in

the house, in the warmth, and less fluent in the cold air in a cold room.

With the Dulcamara coryza, if the patient should go into a cold room

pain will commence in the nasal bones and he will begin to sneeze, and

water will be discharged from the nose. That very state would relieve a Nux vomica patient. Allium cepa is made tvorse in a warm

room ; like Nux vomica, is better in cold, open air. Commences to

sneeze as soon as he gets into a warm room. So that we see the meaning of such things, the necessity of going into particulars and examining every case.

• ▸Here is a state that you will often!
• ▸find in the fall of the year, somewhere about August 20th.
• ▸They soiiietimes call it hay fever.
• ▸Every

year as the nights become cold, and there is cold, damp weather and

fall rains, he has a stuffing up of tl-e nose with constant sneezing and

wants the nose kept warm. I have known these cases at times to sit in

a warm room with cloths, wrung out of hot water, over the face and

nose to relieve the distress, the catarrhal state of the eyes and the

stuffing up of the nose. Heat relieves the stuffing up of the nose . These

patients can sometimes breathe with these hot cloths over the nose, but

if they go out into the night air, or a cold place, and especially if there

is a damp, fall rain, they suffer much. Other cases of hay fever suffer

during the day, and they go to as cold a place as they can find, and are

even driven to the mountains for a cool place. These things arc indicative of a state of the constitution ; the state gives out signs and

symptoms to lead the intelligent physician to cure. If that state had no

means of making itself known by signs and symptoms, there could be

no curing it by remedies.

“Profuse discharge of water from the nose and eyes, worse in the

open air,^’ “better in a closed room, on awakening in the morning,

etc. The Dulcamara patient is so sensitive to newly mown grass and

drying weeds, that he is obliged to absent himself from the country

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where they are found. For hay fever we have especially to look up

such remedies as have complaints worse in the fall of the year. There

are other conditions that are just as much hay fever, for instance,

“rose cold’' that comes on in June. There arc other conditions that

come on in the spring, sometimes cured by Naja and Lachesis, So

that we have to observe the time of the year, the time of the day, night

or day aggravations ; the wet and the dry remedies, the hot and the

cold remedies. We have to study the remedy by circumstances.

The Dulcamara patient often becomes a sickly patient, with threatening of the catarrhal discharges to centre in the bronchial tubes, z.e.,

in the mucous membrane of the breathing apparatus. Many adults

die of acute phthisis that might have been cured by Dulcamara, and

you will find very commonly among this class of patients those that

are worse from every cold, damp spell of w^eather. Such enter right

into the Dulcamara sphere. They are better by going South where

there is a continuously wann climate. The Dulcamara patient is a

sickly patient, threatened with acute phthisis ; pallid face, sickly yellow

and sallow. This shows tliat it goes deeply into the life, creating such

disorders as are found in very sick patients, i. c\y those chronically

sick, in persons whose vital economy is so much disordered that it

cannot keep the body in repair.