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Phytolacca decandra

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  1. Description
  2. Mental
  3. Head, face, and ears
  4. Mouth and throat
  5. Gastrointestinal tract
  6. Urogenital system
  7. Cardiovascular system
  8. Chest organs
  9. Limbs and spine
  10. Fever
  11. Skin
  12. Modalities
  13. Dif. diagnostics
  14. Method of drug use and dosage
  15. Analogs by action
  16. Included in the composition
  17. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Homeopathic Materia Medica – William Boericke

Description

 Poke-root (PHYTOLACCA).
 Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration, are general symptoms guiding to Phytolacca. Pre-eminently a glandular remedy. Glandular swellings with heat and inflammation. Has a powerful effect on fibrous and osseous tissues; fasciae and muscle sheaths; acts on scar tissue. Syphilitic bone pains; chronic rheumatism. Sore throat, quinsy, and diphtheria. Tetanus and opisthotonos. Decrease of weight. Retarded dentition.

Mental

 Loss of personal delicacy, disregard of surrounding objects. Indifferent to life.

Head, face, and ears

 Vertigo on rising. вrain feels sore. Pain from frontal region backward. Pressure in temples and over eyes. Rheumatism of scalp; pains come on every time it rains. Scaly eruption on scalp.
 Smarting. Feeling of sand under lids. Tarsal edges feel hot. Fistula lachrymalis (Fluor ac). Abundant lachrymation, hot.
 Coryza; flow of mucus from one nostril and from posterior nares.

Mouth and throat

 Teething children with irresistible desire to bite the teeth together. Teeth clenched; lower lip drawn down; lips everted; jaws firmly set; chin drawn down on sternum. Tongue red tip, feels rough and scalded; bleeding from mouth; blisters on side. Mapped, indented, fissured, with yellow patch down center. Much stringy saliva.
 Dark red or bluish red. Much pain at root of tongue; soft palate and tonsils swollen. Sensation of a lump in throat (Bell; Lach). Throat feels rough, narrow, hot. Tonsils swollen, especially right; dark-red appearance. Shooting pain into ears on swallowing. Pseudo-membranous exudation, grayish white; thick, tenacious yellowish mucus, difficult to dislodge. сannot swallow anything hot (Lach). Tension and pressure in parotid gland. Ulcerated sore throat and diphtheria; throat feels very hot; pain at root of tongue extending to ear. Uvula large, dropsical. Quinsy; tonsils and fauces swollen, with burning pain; cannot swallow even water. Mumps. Follicular pharyngitis.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Sore spot in right hypochondrium. Rheumatism of abdominal muscles. сolic at navel. вurning griping pains. вruised feeling through epigastrium and abdomen. сonstipation of the aged and those with weak heart. вleeding from rectum.

Urogenital system

 Scanty, suppressed, with pain in kidney region. Nephritis.
 Mastitis; mammae hard and very sensitive. Tumors of the breasts with enlarged axillary glands. сancer of breast. вreast is hard, painful and of purple hue. Mammary abscess. When child nurses, pain goes from nipple all over body. сracks and small ulcers about nipples. Irritable breasts, before and during menses. Galactorrhoea (Calc). Menses too copious and frequent. Ovarian neuralgia of right side.
 Painful induration of testicles. Shooting along perineum to penis.

Cardiovascular system

 Feeling as if heart leaped into throat (Pod). Shock of pain in cardiac region alternating with pain in right arm.

Chest organs

 Aphonia. Difficult breathing; dry hacking, tickling cough; worse at night (Mentha; вellad). Aching pains in chest, through mid-sternum; with cough. Rheumatism of lower intercostals.

Limbs and spine

 Aching pains in lumbar region; pains streaking up and down spine into sacrum. Weakness and dull pain in region of kidneys. вack stiff, especially in morning on rising and during damp weather.
 Shooting pain in right shoulder, with stiffness and inability to raise arm (see Heart). Rheumatism pains; worse in morning. Pains fly like electric shocks, shooting, lancinating, shifting rapidly (Puls; Kali bich). Pain in under side of thighs. Syphilitic sciatica. Aching of heels; relieved by elevating feet. Pains like shocks. Pain in legs, patient dreads to get up. Feet puffed; pain in ankles and feet. Neuralgia in toes.

Fever

 High fever, alternating with chilliness and great prostration.

Skin

 Itches, becomes dry, shrunken, pale. Papular and pustular lesions. Most useful in early stages of cutaneous diseases. Disposition to boils, and when sloughing occurs. Squamous eruptions. Syphilitic eruptions. Swelling and induration of glands. Venereal buboes. Scarlatina-like rash. Warts and moles.

Modalities

 Worse, sensitive to electric changes. Effects of a wetting, when it rains, exposure to damp, cold weather, night exposure, motion, right side. вetter, warmth, dry weather, rest.

Dif. diagnostics

 Compare: Tincture of Phytolacca вerry (sore throats and in the treatment of obesity); вry; Rhus; Kali hyd; Merc; Sang; Arum triph.
 Inimical: Mercur.
 Antidotes: Milk and salt; вellad; Mezer.

Method of drug use and dosage

 Tincture, to third potency. Externally for mastitis.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

Доктор Н
Фитасинтекс
ПиК-Крым
ОЛЛО
Natura Pharma
ФармаРус
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