Drosera Rotundifolia

The pains of Drosera are gnawing, stitching, stinging or bruised in character, with an almost constant sense of pressure in the parts affected ; these with the aggravation from lying down, after midnight, warmth of the bed and from rest, with the ameliorations from continued motion and external pressure, make a picture seen in no other remedy and one applicable to rheumatic troubles whenever found.

Drosera is compatible with Calc. c., Puls., Sulph. ; and it is complementary to Nux vom.

NECK AND BACK . — (Drosera)

NECK STIFF AND PAINFUL ON MOTION.

Nape of neck painful to touch.

Drawing pain from between the scapulae to small of back.

When sitting stitching tearing pain from spine to anterior spinous process of ilium.

BRUISED PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK IN MORNING.

STITCHES IN COCCYX WHEN SITTING.

Painful cramp in muscles of back and abdomen on turning head or body.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Drosera)

Nightly pains in humerus, going off by day and motion.

Quivering on right shoulder when at rest.

FINGERS SPASMODICALLY CONTRACTED, RIGID IN GRASPING.

Sticking in right arm with pain extending from right shoulder to elbow during rest.

Elbow joint is painful to touch as if suppurating.

Arm is painful on motion, as if the muscles would be torn loose frolic the bones.

Bruised pain in the joints.

Violent stitches in middle of left forearm.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Drosera)

Laming pain in right hip joint and thigh, with pain in ankle as if sprained.

Violent stitch in ischium on rising from a seat.

PRESSING PAIN IN POSTERIOR MUSCLES OF THIGH, < from pressure AND STOOPING ; COULD NOT LIE ON THAT SIDE AT NIGHT ; PASSED OFF ON RISING.

Stitches in middle of left anterior thigh.

Fine cutting stitch in right calf when sitting, passes off on walking.

TEARING PAIN IN RIGHT ANKLE AS IF SPRAINED, ONLY WHEN WALKING.

STIFFNESS OF ANKLES.

PARALYTIC PAIN IN RIGHT HIP JOINT, THIGH AND ANKLE ASSOCIATED WITH A BRUISED SPRAINED SENSATION.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL . — (Drosera)

ALL THE LIMBS SEEM BRUISED AND LAME AND ARE OUTWARDLY PAINFUL.

GNAWING AND STITCHING PAINS IN BONES OF LIMBS, MORE SEVERE IN JOINTS, > FROM MOTION.

PAINFUL STITCHING PRESSURE IN MUSCLES OF LIMBS IN EVERY POSITION.

CONCOMITANTS . — (Drosera)

SPASMODIC COUGH ACCOMPANIED BY RETCHING AND VOMITING.

ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO SPEAK BECAUSE OF THE COUGH.

DROWSINESS AT NOON AND AT SUNSET.

AGGRAVATIONS . — (Drosera)

MORNING.

NIGHT.

AFTER MIDNIGHT.

LYING DOWN.