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Drosera Rotundifolia
Drosera rotundifolia · DROS
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Origin Plant · Droseraceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of active fresh plant.
Sources 17 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
1X–12X
First to twelfth attenuation

By regionHering
Mind ► Mental restlessness ; when reading cannot dwell long on one subject ; must change always to something else. ► Anxiety : with flushes of heat ; when alone, especially in the evening, also when awaking at night ; especially the evenings, as if it would impel him to commit suicide by drowning. ► Very irritable ; a trifle will disturb. ► Distrust.
Inner Head ► Pressive pain in forehead and zygoma, from within outward. ► Drawing pain in left side of head. ► Lancinating, tensive, frontal headache, worse from stooping. ► Lancinating pain in forepart of brain, worse moving eyes, better from supporting the head on the hands.
Eyes ► Farsighted, weakness of the eyes when looking carefully at small things ; quivering before the eyes ; dazzling ; worse from light, daylight or candlelight. ► Like gauze before eyes ; when reading, letters run together. ► Pupils first contracted, later dilated. ► Severe stitches, from within outward, in the eyes.
Stomach ► Contractive tension of pit of stomach as if everything would be drawn inwards, especially during deep inhalation.
Female Sexual Organs ► Delay of the first menses. ► Menses too late ; too scanty. ► Blood dark. ► Leucorrhoea, with labor-like pain.
Lungs ► Constriction of chest and hypochondria. ► Severe stitches in the chest when sneezing or coughing must press on chest with the hands for relief. ► Burning sensation in centre of chest. ► Violent oppressive, stitching pain across the chest passing off during motion.
Neck And Back ► Neck stiff and painful on motion. ► Pain between the scapulae drawing to the small of back. ► Stitching-tearing from the spine to the anterior spinous process of left ilium, when sitting. ► Back pains as if bruised, in the morning.
Limbs In General ► Limbs feel as if beaten and are outwardly painful. ► All the limbs feel lame. ► Gnawing and stitching pain in the bones of the limbs, especially severe at the joints severe stitches in the joints ; less painful during motion than during rest. ► Painful stitching pressure in the muscles of upper and lower limbs, in every position.
Sleep ► Frequent yawning and stretching. ► Frequent starting from sleep, at tight as from fright ; yet when awake is not fearful. ► Sleeplessness. ► Snoring when lying on the back, asleep. ► Vivid dreams : partly pleasant, partly anxious ; vexatious, over the wrong-doings of others ; of thirst and drinking, awakes, is thirsty and must drink.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill with coldness and paleness of face and cold extremities. ► Chill in forenoon. ► Internal chill at night, in bed and during rest. ► Chill and shivering when at rest, seems to be too cold everywhere even in bed. ► Chill during the day, heat at night. ► Heat almost exclusively on face and head. ► Increased warmth of upper body, evening. ► Heat worse after midnight. ► Cold sweat : on the forehead ; feet. ► Warm sweat at night, particularly after midnight and in the morning hours, most profuse in face. ► Sweat over the whole body, with a cough which brought on violent retching.
Skin ► Prickling, stinging, itching, gnawing in the skin. ► Itching generally relieved by scratching, rubbing or wiping with the hand. ► Eruption, like measles. ► Eruption, with painful soreness or stinging.

Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 3, Carbo Vegetabilis
Complementary Nux Vomica, Ipecacuanha
Follows well Calcarea Carbonica, Pulsatilla Pratensis, Sambucus Nigra +2
Compare Belladonna, Chelidonium Majus, Cina Maritima +19

* 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.
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