Sources 4 entries across 4 books: Boericke, Clarke, Lippe, T. F. Allen
Dose Boericke
1X–6X
First to sixth attenuation
Reason for useClarke
Daph. ind. was proved by G. Bute. It is like its relative D. mezereon in producing affections of muscles, bones, and skin, hence its relation to syphilis and the anti-syphilitic remedies Aur., Merc., Staph. Its pains are erratic and electric-like. It is like Jambos in the craving for tobacco. The skin is clammy. Red rash in spots on legs in evening. Itching. Daphne oleoides is credited by Hering with relieving leprosy. A peculiar symptom of Daphne is—tongue coated on one side only (Rhus has the same, only the Rhus coating is specified as white). Other symptoms are: Foul-smelling tongue. Ptyalism with hot saliva. Cold feeling on buttocks. Sudden stitch in region of spleen. Fetidity is a marked feature-breath, urine, sweat. The pains are apt to be sudden. They wander suddenly from extremities. Ball of right great toe swollen and very painful; the pain suddenly shoots into the body to region of heart, or some other part of body to abdomen. It is probable that a sensation of parts of the body being separated from one another is characteristic of Daphne. The symptoms of sensation as if the head were separated appeared in the proving (see 20); and Erastus E. Case has recorded the cure of a man, 45, obese, rheumatic, who presented these symptoms: "Swaying sensation in the head when walking. Constant sensation as if the head were separated from the body. Sensation as if the vertex were screwed up in a vice. While driving a horse, sensation as if the arias were detached from the body, yet they are under complete control of the will." The gastric symptoms are < from alcohol; prostatorrhoea < from tobacco. Most symptoms are < evening and night (which further marks its appropriateness in syphilis). < While moon is on the wane. Pains are < from warmth of bed. Cold air < wandering gout. < From touch and pressure. Lying down < gouty pains; backache. Stooping or bending < pains in spinal cord. Walking < rheumatic pains in thighs.
By regionClarke
Mind Mental dejection.—Timidity.—Irritability, over-excitement, and trembling, during the pains.—Irascibility, absence of mind, and indecision.
Head Headache, provoked by all kinds of intellectual labour.—Pain behind the eyes, from one temple to the other.—Sensation of fulness in the head, as if cranium were going to burst, esp. on raising oneself in the bed.—Sensation, as if the head were too thick, with shootings in the temples.—Sensation as if the external parts of the brain were inflamed, and were striking painfully against the cranium.—Violent heat in the head, esp. in the vertex, and sometimes with a sensation as if the head were compressed.—Painful pulsation in the temples, and the gums, sometimes with pain like excoriation on being touched.—Exostosis in the cranium.—Tuberosities in the vertex, soft, as if there were water in them, with troublesome pains, esp. at night; the pains hinder sleep, and are < by the touch.—Hard swelling of the whole left side of the head, as if in the bone, with sensation of numbness, and acute, transient, shooting pain.
Eyes Scraping in the eyes.—Troublesome sensation round the eyes and eyelids, with dryness and heaviness of eyelids.—Painful feeling in the eyes, as if pressed into the head.—Painful sensation as if the eyes were pushed outwards from the head.—Violent pains in the eyeballs, in the evening, with great nervous excitement.—Con traction of the pupils.—Eyes inflamed, weak, dull, as it were swimming in tears.—Sensation as if a membrane were placed before the eyes.—Weak sight, with confusion of the letters when reading.—Diplopia.—Pupils very much contracted.
Stomach Pyrosis and sour vomiting.—Vomiting with nausea, after breakfast.—Sensation of fulness and ebullition in the precordial region.—Aching in the stomach after drinking.—Frequent cramps in the stomach.—After each meal, burning pain and sensation of excoriation in the stomach, with frequent risings of flatus; the pains extend to the left hypochondrium and to the back.
Respiratory Organs Voice weak.—Breath fetid.—Expectoration thin, slimy, and copious.—Sanguineous expectoration.—Cough, with vomiting, and yellowish frothy expectoration, mixed sometimes with streaks of blood; the cough fatigues and hinders sleep.
Neck And Back Pain in the nape of the neck with headache.—Screwing pain from the ear to the shoulder.—Sensation as though the cervical glands were much swollen and the arteries excessively distended, with a feeling of suffocation, as if the head were separated from the body, at night.—Sharp pain beneath l. scapula.—Burning itching in the back.—Painful pulling along the spinal marrow, < by stooping.
Lower Limbs Itching miliary eruption on the legs.—Rheumatic pains in the thighs and in the knees.—Cold in the knees and in the feet.—Pain as from contusion in the toes.—Painful swelling of the ball of the great toe, with pains which often pass rapidly into other parts of the body.
Sleep Complete sleeplessness, caused, sometimes, by aching in the bones.—Inclination to sleep, with inability to accomplish it.—Dreams of fire; or of black cats, with nightmare.—Agitated, unrefreshing sleep.—Starts with fright, on going to sleep, accompanied by shivering, with viscid sweat.
Fever Fever, similar to typhus, with excessive shivering, followed by continued heat, by viscid sweat over the whole body, and complete loss of appetite.—Fever, with gastric and nervous suffering.—Clammy sweat, of a putrid smell.
Books*
Antidoted by Bryonia Alba 2, Rhus Toxicodendron 2, Digitalis Purpurea +2
Complementary—
Follows well—
Compare Arsenicum Album, Aurum Metallicum, Baptisia Tinctoria +10
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works. homeopathylibrary.com/remedy/daphne-indica
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