====== DORYPHORA DECEMLINEATA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Doryphora Decemlineata.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}The Colorado Potato Bug. Coleoptera.</span>

{{anchor:s3}}"This insect belongs to the same family as the squash bug, the black potato bug, and the Cantharides-all possess the power of blistering the skin if bruised upon it. {{anchor:s4}}The Colorado potato bug has its original home in the Rocky Mountains, where it fed on a species of Solanum indigenous to that locality. {{anchor:s5}}It got a taste of the Solanum tuberosum, the common potato, and rapidly traveled East, until it reached the Atlantic". <span grade2>{{anchor:s6}}Hale's Symptomatology.</span>

{{anchor:s7}}The tincture is prepared by crushing the live beetle and covering it with alcohol. {{anchor:s8}}Provings by Ruden and Jerkings, see <span grade2>Allen's Encyclopaedia</span>, v. 4, p. 167.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s10}}- <span grade2>Parotitis</span>, Ruden; <span grade2>Gastric derangement</span>, Ruden, Hom. clin., v. 3, p. 73; <span grade2>Gonorrhea</span>, Ruden, Hom. Clin., v. 3, p. 85; <span grade2>Gleet</span>, Ruden, Hom. clin., v. 3, p. 71.

====== MIND. [1] ======

{{anchor:s12}}Stupor, with muttering and loud rumbling in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Delirious; talking and muttering about business matters.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Delirium, with red bloated face, protruding eyes, and pulse one hundred and twenty-four.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Irritable temper.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s17}}Dizziness in head, with nausea and vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Congestion of blood to head; meningitis.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s20}}Dull, heavy headache.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

{{anchor:s22}}Sight much impaired.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Sensation of dimness and blackness before eyes.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Pupils dilated.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Eyes red, congested and very much protruded.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Eyes feel sore, as from overwork.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Inflammation of the eyes.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s29}}Face bloated, red, like that of a confirmed drunkard.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Face mottled, puffed, eyes congested, staring; high fever, with delirium, vomiting and stupor.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Erysipelas of head and face.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s33}}Dark brown coating on tongue.

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s35}}Violent heat; severe pain across kidneys, agg. by pressure and motion; full, hard pulse; face red and bloated; staring eyes; constipation and retention of urine.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s36}}~</span> <span grade3>Parotitis.</span>

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s38}}Burning in throat down esophagus, with pain in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Throat feels sore, raw and constricted.

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

{{anchor:s42}}Loss of appetite; great thirst; craving for something sour; symptoms agg. by smoking.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Nausea and vomiting.</span>\\ {{anchor:s45}}Vomiting: with stupor and delirium; of dark, grumous, acrid matter; of dirty brown fluid, with diarrhea.

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s47}}Pain in stomach.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s48}}Nausea, at times vomiting; faint feeling; very tired; trembling in all her limbs, especially hands; cramp-like constriction in pit of stomach; stools hard; difficult, painful urination.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastric derangement.</span>

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

{{anchor:s51}}Pain all over body, especially in region of spleen.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s53}}Loud rumbling in abdomen, with stupor.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Abdomen feels very sore and tender.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Abdomen feels heavy, as if it were full; severe burning.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Burning pain in abdomen about umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Pain in bowels, in hypogastric region.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Violent pain in bowels in right side, passing downward to rectum.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Pain in bowels agg. by eating and drinking and taking a long breath.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s61}}Stools hard.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s62}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastric derangement.</span>\\ {{anchor:s63}}Diarrhea in morning, with intense pain in abdomen and burning in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Profuse and persistent diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Continued bloody, slimy diarrhea.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}Dysentery, with intense pain in rectum.</span>\\ {{anchor:s67}}Feeling of heaviness in rectum.

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s69}}Retention of urine.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s70}}Difficult urination.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Dysuria, with burning, stinging pain.</span>\\ {{anchor:s72}}Profuse dark red urine, with dirty sediment, and voided with much pain.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Itching and burning in glans penis, which is swollen and bluish-red; urethra inflamed, with excruciating pain, especially when urinating.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s75}}~</span> <span grade3>Gonorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s76}}Gleet and gonorrhea.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s78}}Soreness and oppression of chest.

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

{{anchor:s80}}Pulse very weak, with coldness and collapse.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Pulse 120 to 140.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s83}}Pain in back, in lumbar region.</span>

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s85}}Swelling of whole arm, very painful; abraded spot on wrist developed into a deep ulcer, angry, red, with sticking, stinging pains through arms; ulcer assumed a malignant character, eating until bones of wrist were exposed. {{anchor:s86}}(Local effects through na abraded surface).\\ {{anchor:s87}}Could not guide pen while endeavoring to write.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s89}}Swelling of feet, with burning and stinging; sensation as if full of pins.

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s91}}Great trembling in extremities.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s92}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastric derangement.</span>\\ {{anchor:s93}}Trembling in right arm and leg.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Icy coldness of hands and feet.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s98}}Lie down: inclination to.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Slightest exercise: causes fatigue.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Talking: weakness agg.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Walking: causes fainting sensation.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Motion: pain across kidneys agg.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

{{anchor:s104}}Restlessness without weariness.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Nervous restlessness; twitching and spasms.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Trembling in right arm and leg as if a galvanic battery were attached to the extremity.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s107}}Great trembling in extremities.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s108}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastric derangement.</span>\\ {{anchor:s109}}Fatigued by slightest exercise.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Weak, languid; after sleeping.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Great weakness and heaviness, with inclination to lie down, weakness agg. by talking.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Great weariness increased by talking.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Sensation as if he would fall at every step, with dimness of sight.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Fainting sensation when walking.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Great, general prostration, ending in collapse.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s117}}Restless during night; constant tossing about.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Sleeplessness until 12 at night, then restless sleep, with terrifying dreams.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Comatose slumber; wild dreams and screams as if in great distress.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s121}}From 8 A. M. to 2 P. M.: violent fever.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Morning: diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Until 12 at night: sleepless, then restless sleep.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Night: restlessness.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s126}}Coldness of hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Fever; skin alternately cold and clammy, then hot and burning.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Violent fever, with cerebral congestion, vomiting and delirium; pulse 120 to 140.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Fever of typhoid character.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Violent fever from 8 A. M. to 2. {{anchor:s131}}P. M.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s133}}At times: vomiting.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s135}}Right: pain in side of bowels; trembling in arm and leg.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s137}}Eyes feel sore, as from overwork; abdomen feels heavy, as if it were full; sensation in feet as if full of pins; trembling in right arm and leg as if a galvanic battery were attached to them; as if he would fall at every step.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Pain: in stomach; all over body; in region of spleen; in bowels; in hypogastric region; in lumbar region; in arm.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Excruciating pain: in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Intense pain: in abdomen; in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Violent pains: in bowels; in right side down to rectum.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Severe pain: across kidneys.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Burning pain: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Stinging pain: through arms.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Burning: in throat; down esophagus; in abdomen; in rectum; in glans penis; in feet.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Cramplike constriction: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Sore feeling: in throat; in abdomen; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Dull: headache.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Heavy: headache.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Constrictive feeling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Oppression: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Heaviness: feeling of, in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Trembling: in extremities.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Itching: in glans penis.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Coldness: of hands and feet.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

{{anchor:s157}}The blood will not coagulate; blood globules disorganized as after serpent poisoning.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Enormous swelling of whole body, with the mental and cerebral symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s159}}General elastic swelling of whole body, which will not pit on pressure.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s163}}Pressure: pain in kidneys agg.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s165}}TM. Joliet, little girl, aet. 5; parotitis.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Mrs. B., gastric derangement.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Robust young man, light hair, sanguine temperament; gleet.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Mrs. G. L., aet. 25, weakly constitution, single, light hair, yellow complexion; gonorrhea.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s170}}Antidoted by: earth, which absorbs and neutralizes the poison; vinegar, or other vegetable acids; <span grade2>Stramon.</span>\\ {{anchor:s171}}Compare: <span grade2>Agar., Ailanth., Apis, Bellad., Canthar., Crotal., Laches., Stramon.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 05, 1887 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r644|Doryphora Decemlineata]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r644|Doryphora Decemlineata]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1887 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}