Dolichos pruriens

Dolichos pruriens
(cowhage)
* A right-sided medicine, with pronounced liver and skin symptoms.
* A general intense itching without eruption.
* Exalted nervous sensibility.
* Senile pruritus.
* Haemorrhoidal diathesis.
Throat
- Pain in throat, worse swallowing, below right angle of jaw, as if splinter were imbedded
vertically.
- Pain in gums prevents sleep.
Abdomen
- Colic from getting feet wet.
- Constipation, with intense itching; bloated abdomen.
- White stools.
- Swelling of liver.
- Haemorrhoids, with burning sensation.
Skin
- Intense itching, with no swelling or rash; worseacross shoulders, also about elbows and
knees and hairy parts.
- Jaundice.
- Yellow in spots; itching excessively at night.
- Herpes zoster. [Ars.]
Modalities
- Worse, at night, scratching, right side.
Relationship
- Compare : Rhus; Bell.; Hep.; Nit. ac.; Fagopyr.
Dose
- Sixth potency.
- Tincture, drop doses, in haemorrhoids.