Drosera Rotundifolia

General

DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA. [Droser.] Roundleaved Sundew. Hahnemann. Droseraceae.

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.

Sensorium

► Dullness of the head. ► Vertigo when walking in open air, tendency to fall to left. ► Heaviness of the head.

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.

Outer Head

► Smarting, burning pain in the scalp. ► Sore feeling in skin of right temple. ► Itching, gnawing on the forepart of scalp, relieved by rubbing. ► Corrosive itching on the scalp.

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.

Ears

► Difficult hearing, with increased humming before the ears. ► Stitches in the ears. ► Pain in right internal ear, as if pressed together.

Nose

► Nosebleed. ► Frequent sneezing, with or without fluent coryza. ► Profuse fluent coryza, particularly in the morning.

Face

► Face puffed and livid. ► Cheeks and eyes sunken. ► One (left) side of face cold, the other (right) hot, during morning hours. ► Heat of face, with cold hands. ► Small pustules, here and there, on the face, with fine, stitching sensation when touched. ► Prickling, burning pain in skin of cheek below left eyelid.

Lower Face

► Stitching, tearing pain on left inferior maxilla, as in the periosteum. ► Lower lip cracked in the middle. ► Dryness of the lips and little sense of taste. ► Burning in the skin, at right angle of mouth.

Teeth

► Cold sensation in the body of an incisor. ► Stitching toothache, mornings, after warm drink.

Tongue, Etc

► Food seems tasteless. ► Bread tastes bitter. ► Taste : bitter, in throat, after eating ; putrid. ► Small, round, painless swelling in the middle of tongue. ► Fine prickings on dorsum of tongue. ► Stitching, smarting pain in right side and tip of tongue. ► Whitish ulcer on tip of tongue.

Mouth

► Smarting pain on inside of left cheek like from pepper. ► Profuse flow of watery saliva. ► Water brash.

Throat

► Rough scraping, dry sensation on soft palate and in fauces exciting cough.

Desires And Aversions

► Aversion to pork.

Eating And Drinking

► Right after dinner burning raw feeling. ► After eating : 11, 16. Warm drink : 10. Drinking : 16, 27, 37.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Frequent hiccough. ► Eructations tasting bitter or sour. ► Nausea after fatty food ; worse after midnight still morning. ► Vomiting of bile, in the morning ; of mucus or food when coughing ; after drinking especially at night or before dinner. ► Worse after eating.

Stomach

► Contractive tension of pit of stomach as if everything would be drawn inwards, especially during deep inhalation.

Hypochondria

► Painful to touch and when coughing. ► Must support the hypochondria with the hands when coughing.

Abdomen

► Bellyache after sour food. ► Stitches in right side of abdomen while sitting. ► Dull stitch from right to left across the abdomen almost taking the breath while walking. ► Stitch from the left loin into the penis.

Stool, Etc

► Outward pressing pain, independent of stool. ► Frequent stool, with colic. ► Stools : soft fluid ; white, slimy and stinking with the watery odorless urine. ► With the stool, discharge of bloody mucus ; afterwards pains in abdomen and small of back. ► After stool, constant inclination to stool.

Urine

► Frequent urging to urinate with scanty discharge frequently only by drops. ► Frequent profuse urination. ► Urine dark and of strong smell.

Male Sexual Organs

► Itching stitches in the glans.

Female Sexual Organs

► Delay of the first menses. ► Menses too late ; too scanty. ► Blood dark. ► Leucorrhoea, with labor-like pain.

Larynx

► Voice hoarse, deep, requires exertion to speak husky ; hollow, toneless. ► Epiglottis in constant motion to and fro. ► Constriction of the larynx when talking. ► Sensation as from a feather in larynx exciting cough. ► Mucus in larynx either hard or soft. ► Chest and throat symptoms worse from talking or singing. ► The sick involuntarily support the larynx on swallowing or coughing.

Breathing

► Oppression, with every word he speaks the throat contracts ; not so when walking. ► Difficult breathing, worse after midnight. ► Sensation as if something in the chest prevented exhalation when talking or coughing.

Cough

► Whooping, in periodically returning paroxysms in such frequent succussions that he can scarcely get his breath ; with ringing sound ; evening after lying down ; at night ; wakes at 2 A.M. ; with drawing in of the abdomen. ► During cough : efforts to vomit vomiting of water, mucus and food stitches in the muscles of the chest ; or, bleeding at nose or mouth. ► Cough aggravated ; by warmth drinking ; tobacco smoke ; laughing ; weeping ; after lying down ; after midnight or in the morning. ► Expectoration yellow bitter or offensive also bloody or pus-like.

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.

Outer Chest

► Stitches in muscles of chest, when breathing or coughing.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Quivering on right shoulder only when at rest. ► Inclination of the fingers to contract spasmodically, with rigidity when grasping anything. ► Coldness of the hands.

Lower Limbs

► Pressing pain in the posterior muscles of thigh, worse from pressure and stooping ; could not lie thereon at night, passes off after rising. ► Laming pain in right hip-joint and thigh, with pain in the ankle as if sprained ; when walking must limp. ► Occasional single stitches in the middle of left thigh anteriorly. ► Fine, cutting stitch in the right calf, coming on when sitting passing off when sitting off when walking. ► Tearing pain in right ankle, as if sprained, only when walking. ► Stiffness of the ankles. ► Feet feel chilly covered with a cold sweat.

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.

Position, Etc

► Rest : 32, 34, 40. Motion : 28, 31, 34. Moving eyes : 3. Walking : 19, 26, 33. Walking in open air : 2. Sitting : 19, 31, 33. Lying : 27, 33 ; on back : 37. Rising : 33. Stooping : 3, 33. Every position : 34. Supporting head on hand : 3.

Nerves

► Torpidity. ► Attacks with numbness. ► Weakness of whole body with sunken eyes and cheeks.

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.

Time

► Morning : 7, 8, 10, 16, 27, 31, 40. Forenoon : 40. Evening : 1, 27, 40. Night : 1, 16, 27, 33, 37, 40. After midnight : 26, 40. Till morning : 16. 2 A.M. : 27.

Temperature And Weather

► Open air : 2. Getting cold : 27. Warmth : 27.

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.

Sides

► Right : 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 19, 32, 33. Left : 2, 3, 8, 9, 12, 19, 31, 33. Right to left : 19. ► Within outwards : 3, 5, 20. Without inwards : 17. Above downwards : 31.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 8, 18. Pressure : 18, 25, 28, 33. Rubbing : 4, 46. Scratching : 46. Wiping with hand : 46.

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.

Relationship

► Sulphur and Veratr. are the most appropriate intercurrents in whooping-cough. Conium follows well in dry cough of phthisis. ► Complementary to Nux vom. ► Closely allied to Ipec. in affections of the larynx. ► Antidote to Drosera : Camphor.