Daphne indica.
A shrub from South-East Asia and Australia that grows to 3 metres. Related to Daphne mezereum, which is indigenous to Europe and Asia Minor. In folk medicine, the leaves of Daphne indica were used as a laxative. The high toxicity of the stem caused numerous fatal accidents. Compared with its close relative, Mezereum, the skin symptoms are fewer and the rheumatic symptoms more emphasised.
Anger, timidity
Confused from vexation. Anger with embarrassment. Irritable and trembling during pains; also from anger. Timidity. Despondent and sad. Agitated. Absent-minded and indecisive. Mental dejection. Timidity. Anxiety about the future; about pains in the heart.
Scattered
Delusion as if broken in fragments, scattered about. As if parts were separated from body (head; arms; hands).
Sensation as if cervical glands were much swollen and the arteries excessively distended, with a feeling of suffocation.
These patients suffer from great sleeplessness due to bone pains; when they do sleep, it is disturbed by horrid dreams of black cats and of fire.
Sensation of enlargement, swelling (head; eyes; face; cervical glands; feet). Erratic pains; like electric shocks (in muscles and long bones). Darting pains, like shocks, in various parts, frequently and suddenly wandering from one part to another, worse cold air. Neuralgic pains; sticking-shooting pains, first in one, then in the other arm, which seem to go into the hands and feet, where they end suddenly with a slight electric shock. Pain in eyes, as if they are pressed into the head.
Theme: Daphne feels irritability with embarressment; there is a similarity with the remorse of Mezereum; it has the sensation head, limbs are separarted (even headpain, pressing asunder, i.e. to pieces), probably due to some problem embarressement or loyality.