Dirca palustris

 Leatherwood. Moosewood. Wicopy. N. O. Thymelaceae. Tincture of inner bark of branches.

 Colic. сonstipation. сough. Debility. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Eyes, affections of. Flatulence. Headache. Heart, affections of. Neuralgia. Rheumatism.

 Dirca belongs to the same family as Daphne Indica and Mezereum, and is the only American member of the family. Its symptoms show its relationship to the other two, but it has not been used extensively in practice. It produces much vital depression; neuralgic pains in the head, trunk, and extremities, many of the pains proceeding from without inward. Digestion is disordered, there is weight at the stomach, and a peculiar white tongue, the coating being moist and even. Rumbling of flatulence. сolic by bending forward, diarrhoea and tenesmus, later constipation. Oppression and pains in the chest, sweetish expectoration, and excitability of the heart s action from the slightest motion. Hot and restless at night; cannot sleep; dreams of dead bodies. Motion by bending forward; headache by pressure. Pains in the bowels are by stool.

 Compare: сan. i. (time passes slowly); Ant. c. (tongue); Lyc. (constipation and flatulence); вry., Puls., Abies. n., &c. (weight at stomach); Stan. (sweet expectoration).

 Time seemed to pass slowly. Absent-minded.

 Vertigo on walking; seems as if he would fall to left-Pains all through the head, vertex, and occiput, extending down into spine. Sensation as if lobes of cerebrum were drawn forward towards frontal sinuses. Headache in temples extending inwards; by hard pressure. Headache, throbbing, and beating in left half of head,.
 Eyes sore; and painful to touch. Sensation as if brows corrugated; and as if brain were also drawn down. Lids heavy. Much photophobia; on waking and continuing all day; especially from gaslight.
 Face red, full, and bloated in morning.

 Tongue coated smoothly and evenly white. Smooth, dirty, white coat. Sour taste.
 Throat red, raw; acrid feeling; hurts to swallow food or liquids.

 No thirst. Empty eructations. Uneasy feeling as if a lump or weight in stomach.
 Several lancinations in left hypochondrium with tympanites. - вurning below umbilicus. Rumbling in bowels. - сolic bending forward; and by stool, but smarting in anus remains. - вurning and uncomfortable sensation in bowels. Pain in bowels on walking, also painful on pressure. Dull ache low down in pelvis; bearing down, not by sitting or lying, but when headache .
 Throbbing, stitching pains in anus. Soreness and smarting,.

 Pain and soreness in region of bladder.
 Uterus seems too low, and as if it would prolapse during stool. Menses two days too early; less copious and prolonged than usual.

 Stinging pains in larynx from without inwards; very sharp pricking pain and sensation of suffocation. - сough.

 Excitability of heart s action from least motion. Palpitation on going up slight elevation. Pulse suddenly becomes weak and irregular.

 Heavy pain across back and through loins; in region of kidneys.
 Dull, neuralgic pain in both shoulders, cannot keep them still.
 Muscles of thighs sore and stiff. Neuralgic pains in legs.

 Sleepy but unable to sleep. Dreams of dead bodies.

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