• Dulcamara's action is especially favorable during the close of summer.

• Dulcamara corresponds to symptoms arising from damp weather and colds after exposure to wet, especially diarrhea.

• Dulcamara has a specific relation to the skin, glands, and digestive organs.

• Mucous membranes secrete more profusely while the skin is inactive.

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• are aggravated by every cold change and somewhat relieved by moving about.

• Results from sitting on cold, damp ground.

• Icy coldness is present.

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• occur.

• Paralysis of single parts manifests.

• is experienced.

• Dulcamara is suited to patients living or working in damp, cold basements.

• Eruptions appear on hands, arms, or face around the menstrual period.

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• arise.

• Great sensitiveness to drafts of air is observed.

• Catarrhal and rheumatic affections develop.

• Complaints appear every time the weather changes to cold and damp.

• A tendency to glandular swellings.

• Pains are aching, drawing, and tearing.

• General stiffness occurs.

• Glandular indurations follow inflammation.

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• Anxious and restless.

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• Dullness of mind, difficulty in thinking occurs.

• Apprehensive, especially at night.

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• Children are cross, fretful, and disobedient.

• Weeping mood is observed.

• Forgetful.

• Confusion of mind occurs.

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• Impatient.

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• Headache from cold, damp weather is present.

• Scalp sensitive to touch.

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• Headache is better from warmth and wrapping up.

• Dim vision.

• Inflammation of the eyes from cold.

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• Photophobia.

• Lids agglutinated.

• Sticking pains in the ears.

• Swelling of the parotid glands.

• Ringing in ears.

• Coryza, with thick, yellow mucus.

• Nasal catarrh aggravated by cold, damp weather.

• Epistaxis.

• Loss of smell.

• Sore throat, with swelling of the tonsils.

• Rawness and scraping sensation in the throat.

• Hoarseness.

• Difficult swallowing.

• Throat feels constricted.

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• Bronchitis, with profuse expectoration.

• Cough is dry, hacking.

• Shortness of breath.

• Difficult breathing.

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• Palpitations.

• Rapid pulse.

• Weak heart action.

• Oppression of chest.

• Sensation of constriction in chest.

• Pain in chest.

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• Loss of appetite.

• Thirst increased.

• Aversion to food.

• Vomiting, nausea.

• Sour eructations.

• Heartburn.

• Pain in stomach after eating.

• Abdomen distended and painful.

• Colic.

• Rumbling in abdomen.

• Watery stools.

• Greenish stools.

• Bloody stools (dysentery).

• Stools smell sour.

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• Tenesmus.

• Prolapsus ani.

• Burning in rectum.

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• Increased urination, especially at night.

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• Involuntary urination.

• Scanty urine.

• Burning during urination.

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• Eruptions on the genitals.

• Leucorrhea.

• Suppressed menstruation.

• Painful menstruation.

• Stiffness of the back.

• Pain in the small of the back.

• Lumbago from damp weather.

• Weakness in the back.

• Weakness in the limbs.

• Coldness of the extremities.

• Gouty pains.

• Swelling of joints.

• Itching of the skin.

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• Restless sleep.

• Sleeplessness.

• Dreams vivid, anxious.

• Frequent waking.

• Drowsiness during the day.

• Before menses.

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• From warmth.

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• Complementary: Baryta Carbonica.

• Incompatible: Belladonna, Lachesis.

• Compare: Pimpinella (Bibernell): Respiratory mucous membrane sensitive to draughts, pain and coldness in occiput and nape. Whole body weak; heavy head and drowsiness; lumbago and stiff neck; pain from nape to shoulder; chilliness.

• Similar to: Rhus Toxicodendron, Cimicifuga, Calcarea Carbonica, Pulsatilla, Bryonia, Natrum Sulphuricum.

• Antidotes: Camphor, Cuprum.

• Dulcamara (Solanum dulcamara) - Woody Nightshade, Bitter-sweet

• Family: Solanaceae

• Tincture prepared from fresh green stems and leaves, gathered just before flowering.

• Differentiate from Belladonna ("Deadly Nightshade") and Celastrus ("Climbing Bitter-sweet").

• [Details to be added regarding causative factors]

• [Specific symptoms related to various body parts/systems to be added, including:]

• Anus

• Back

• Limbs

• Sexual Organs