Materia Medica

Daphne Indica

Spurge Laurel

Acts on lower tissues, muscles, bones and skin. Sud- den, lightning jerks in different parts of the body. C'raving 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 ver- tex. Tongue coated on une side only. [Rhus.] Foul- smelling, ptyalism hot. Urine.— Thick, turbid, yellowish, like rotten eggs.

Extremities

Right toe swollen, painful. Pain shoots upward into abdomen and heart. Rhoumatic pains in thighs and knees. Cold feeling on buttocks. Shooting pains, shift rapidly; worse, cold air.

Sleep

Entire inalility 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.; Mes.; Staph.

Dose

First to sixth attenuation.