Materia Medica
Daphne Indica
Spurge Laurel
Spurge Laurel Acts on lower tissues, muscles, bones and skin. Sudden, lightning jerks in different parts of the body. Craving for tobacco. Burning in stomach. Parts of the body feel separated (Bapt). Fetid breath, urine, sweat.
Head
Feels as if skull would burst; as if head were separated from body. Heat in head, especially in vertex. Tongue coated on one side only (Rhus). Foul-smelling, ptyalism hot.
Urinary
Thick, turbid, yellowish, like rotten eggs.
Extremities
Right toe swollen, painful. Pain shoots upward into abdomen and heart. Rheumatic pains in thighs and knees. Cold feeling on buttocks. Shooting pains, shift rapidly worse, cold air.
Sleep
Entire inability to sleep; sometimes caused by aching in bones. Dreams, with nightmare. Dreams of cats, black cats. Starting on falling to sleep with chilliness and clamminess.
Relationships
Antidotes: Bry; Rhus. Compare: Fluor ac; Aur; Mez; Staph.
Dose
First to sixth attenuation.