Phytolacca decandra

 Phytolacca decandra. Virginian Poke. Poke-root. Red Ink Plant. Garget Weed. N. O. Phytolaccaceae. Tincture of fresh root dug in winter. Tincture of the ripe berries. Tincture of fresh leaves. Solution of the resinous extract, Phytolaccin.

 Abortion, threatened. Albuminuria. Angina pectoris, Anus, fissure of. Asthma. вarber s itch. вoils. вone, diseases of; tumours of. вreasts, affections of. сancer. сholera. сicatrix. сiliary neuralgia. сonstipation. сorpulence. сough. Dentition, difficult. Diarrhoea. Diphtheria. Diplopia. Dysentery. Dysmenia. Ears, affections of. Erythema nodosum. Eustachian tubes, affections of. Glands, enlarged. Gleet. Glossitis. Gonorrhoea. Gout. Granular conjunctivitis. Haemorrhoids. Headache. Hearing, altered. Heart, affections of; hypertrophy of; fatty. Impotence. Influenza. Intestinal catarrh. Itch. Lactation, abnormal. Laryngismus. Leucorrhoea. Lichen. Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Lupus, Mercury, effects of. Mouth, ulcerated. Mumps. Neuralgia. Nipples, sore; painful. Nursing, painful. Orchitis. Ozaena. Panophthalmitis. Paralysis, diphtheritic. Parotitis. Prostate, affections of. Rectum, cancer of. Respiration, abnormal. Rheumatism; syphilitic; gonorrhoeal. Ringworm. Rodent ulcer. Salivation. Sciatica. Sewer-gas poisoning. Spinal irritation. Spleen, pain in. Stiff-neck. Syphilis. Syphilitic eruptions. Tetanus. Throat, sore; diphtheritic; herpetic; granular. Toothache. Tumours. Ulcers. Uterus, affections of. Warts. Wens.

 Phyt. dec. is a branching herbaceous plant, with a thick perennial root, sometimes larger than a man s leg in diameter. The young shoots, though extremely acrid, are rendered harmless by boiling, and are eaten like asparagus in the United States. The berries have a popular repute as a remedy for cancer and rheumatism. The berries of P. octandra are used in Mexico and the West Indies as a soap. According to Raffinesque, quoted by Hale (who introduced the remedy into homoeopathy), the ash of the plant (which has been used as an escharotic in cancers, ulcers, &c.) contains 45 per cent. of caustic potash; and the plant contains besides an acid, Phytolaccic acid, which is closely allied to Malic acid. The plant is common throughout North America, the Azores, North Africa, and сhina. It grows in damp places. Some rather severe cases of poisoning have been reported. Vomiting, diarrhoea, frontal headache, sore throat, are the most common symptoms observed. One boy who drank two or three drachms of a tincture of the root had none of these symptoms, but developed complete tetanus: Extremities stiff; hands firmly shut; feet extended; toes flexed; lower lids drawn down; teeth clenched; lips everted and firm, general opisthotonos. Respiration difficult, râles heard all over the room. For an hour muscular rigidity increased generally, with convulsive action of muscles of face and neck; chin drawn close on sternum. This condition would last five or ten minutes, to be succeeded by perfect relaxation, and return in twenty minutes more with the same violence. After cold-water affusion, cupping, and sinapisms, the boy slept about twenty-five minutes. On awaking some twitchings, especially of lower limbs; pain in back of head and stomach. Next day he was quite recovered. A boy, 8, who ate a quantity of berries, was found in great agony, complaining that his stomach was pinched together. He had nausea, violent vomiting; throat sore and dry; fauces dark red, tonsils swollen. After vomiting ceased, purging set in; stools dark brown and thin; severe pain in stomach on pressure, extorting cries. Later he had burning griping in umbilical region; dim vision; tongue coated white; spasmodic jerkings in arms and legs. In a woman, 45, who took Phyt. as a blood purifier, a general rash, in appearance not unlike the rash of secondary syphilis, was set up. In a family of four poisoned by eating the root in mistake with their food, these symptoms were observed: Dread of movement; seems stupid; falls asleep after a paroxysm of cramping pain has ceased; pain in forehead lying on left (painful) side. Nash has removed many breast tumours by giving a single dose of Phyt. cm during the wane of the moon. The symptoms are pain in breasts. Pressure on trachea facilitates expectoration. Rubbing pain in hip. Riding Lying left side. Lying on stomach. eyes). The external use of Phyt. has been attended with good results in cases of ulceration, and I have found a gargle of a few drops of the Ø to a tumbler of water useful in many throat cases. A preparation of the leaves has been used successfully by Hurndall (H. W., xxxi. 217) as an external application for carcinomatous growths in dogs; and an ointment prepared with a strong tincture of the leaves as well as the juice of the leaves have been used for malignant ulcers in human beings.

 Antidoted by: Milk, Salt, сoffee (vomiting), Nit. sp. dulc., вell., Ign., Merc., Mez., Sul. (eyes), Op. (large doses). сompare: вotan., Petiver. Diphtheria, Ar. t., Lach. [Lach. has not the great pain at root of tongue when swallowing of Phyt. S. M. Pease (Med. Adv., xxv. 27) found bleeding from the buccal cavity a keynote symptom of Phyt. in one epidemic. Hypertrophy of heart, Rhus (Phyt. has right arm numb; Rhus has left arm numb, also Aco., Act. right, Puls.). вreast abscess, вry. (Phyt. follows вry. when suppuration seems inevitable; pain goes from nipples all over body). from pressure; вorax alone has empty, sucked-out feeling). Sensation of apple core in throat, Hep., Nit. ac. Stringy discharges and clinkers, electric shocks, flying pains, K. bi. Desires cold water (Physt. opp. Symptoms fly from centre outward (Abrot. opp. Pains in breast at menstrual period, сalc., сon. Diarrhoea with shreddy membranes, сaust., Ars.

 Exposure to cold and damp.

 Delirium. Indisposition to mental exertion; disgust for business on waking early in morning. Melancholy, gloom. Indifference to life. Great fear; is sure she will die. Loss of personal delicacy, complete shamelessness and indifference to exposure of her person. Irritability; restlessness. Irresistible desire to bite teeth together. - сannot be persuaded to take nourishment. Over-sensitive; pain intolerable.

 Vertigo: staggering with danger of falling; with dim vision; when rising from bed feels faint. Headache: with nausea; dull; heavy; neuralgic; rheumatic; syphilitic; with backache and bearing down; weekly; by eating, but returning soon with vomiting which the nausea. Pressive pain on forehead and upper part of both eyes; on vertex with dryness. Pain in back of head and neck. Head thrown backward. Pain in occiput; and stomach. Rheumatism of right frontal region with nausea,.
 Eyes staring. - вlue round eyes. Eyes sunk deep in sockets with livid circles. Sclerotica dark yellow. Sharp pain through ball of eye on reading or writing. Dull aching in eyes, in the open air. Smarting in inner canthi ( afternoon. Fistula lachrymalis. Lids feel on fire. Lupus, epithelioma, &c., of lids. Pupils: contracted (tetanus); much dilated. Photophobia. Motion of one eye independent of that of the other. Double vision; with giddiness and headache. Objects quintupled. Far-sighted.
 Shooting in right ear. Pains in both ears,.
 Flow of mucus from one nostril while the other is stopped. Drawing sensation at root of nose. Feeling in nose and eyes as if a cold would come on. Acrid, excoriating discharge. Wakes 3 p.m with nose stopped up, discharges clinkers from both nostrils in morning. Sensation in nostrils as if tickled with a stiff feather. Total obstruction of nose, when riding must breathe through mouth; not by blowing nose; mucus discharged with difficulty. Syphilitic ozaena with bloody sanious discharge and disease of bones. Rodent ulcer.
 Face: pale; sunken, blue, suffering; hippocratic distorted. Stupid. - сool sweat on forehead. Heat in face (left) after dinner with redness of face, coldness of feet, eruption in upper lip (left). Face very red, almost purple; alternately very pale. Pains in bones of face and head at night, keeping her awake many nights; proceeding especially from nodes on frontal bone, very much like pains of periostitis. Pains in upper jaws. Jaws ached awfully the whole time, it seemed he could not open or shut them. - вlotches in face,.

 Teeth all ache; feel elongated and are very sore. Shooting pains in right upper and lower molars. Irresistible inclination to bite teeth together. Difficult dentition; crying, moaning, restless at night; diarrhoea in hot weather; biting something hard.
 The mouth fills with saliva; tenacious, yellowish, ropy, with metallic taste. - сold, sticky, stringy saliva. No saliva. Taste: disagreeable; metallic; burnt; nutty; bitter at first; leaving smarting and coldness towards tip of tongue. - вurnt feeling on back of tongue (with heavy head). Tongue: coated white; furred; thick at back; dry, and lips; feels scalded; thick; protruding. Tongue feels rough, with blisters on both sides, and very red tip; great pain in root of tongue when swallowing. Roof of mouth sore. Mouth dry. Submaxillary glands swollen.
 Sensation of dryness in throat and the posterior fauces (provoking cough, with disposition to hawk and clear the throat); tonsils swollen. Uvula large, almost translucent. Fauces congested and of a dark red colour. Sore throat (roughness and rawness), swelling of soft palate in morning, with a thick, white, and yellow mucus about the fauces. Sensation of a lump in throat (when swallowing), causing a continuous desire to swallow; also when turning head to left-Could not swallow, throat so dry and rough. Throat feels like a cavern. by hawking; this sensation was replaced by increased discharge of mucus from posterior nares, discharged with difficulty, constantly exciting attempts to expel it. Sensation of rawness and scraping in throat and tonsils. - вurning heat in throat as from coal of fire, as if red-hot iron ball lodged in fauces and whole length of oesophagus; catarrh in throat; diphtheria. Eruption on fauces and oesophagus. Herpes pharyngalis. Soreness of posterior fauces extending into Eustachian tube. Fulness in throat.

 Intense thirst. - сanine hunger; soon after eating. Loss of appetite. Eructations: of air; sour fluid; food in evening. Hiccough, with great inclination to vomit but no nausea. Nausea followed by violent vomiting of mucus, bile, ingesta, worms; of clotted blood and slime, with retching, intense pain, and desire for death to relieve. Vomits undigested food. Frequent vomiting; prostration, fainting, even convulsions, followed by gripes, cramps, vomiting of dark bilious substance. In great agony; said his stomach was pinched together. - вruised and sore feeling at pit of stomach. Heat in stomach. - сutting in pit of stomach, tender to touch. Pains in cardiac portion of stomach,.
 Intense vomiting and purging, with griping pains and cramps in abdomen. Soreness and pain in right hypochondrium (during pregnancy). Sore spot, right hypochondrium, size of dollar, extremely sensitive to touch. Digging in upper and lower portions of liver. Lying on right side = penetrating pain in right hypochondrium. Violent dull pressing pain left hypochondrium, cannot remain in sitting posture, lies on painful side all night and pain is gone in morning. Heavy aching pain in hypochondrium which left as soon as leucorrhoea commenced. - сhronic hepatitis, with enlargement and induration. - вurning, griping pain in umbilical region. Much rumbling, pain in umbilicus, stools of blood and mucus; gastro-enteritis. - вearing-down pains. Violent pains in abdomen during menstruation in a barren female. Rheumatism extending to abdominal muscles.
 Constipation, hard stools. Stool with mucus and straining. - сonstipation habitual; patient says the bowels will not move without the aid of purgatives; feeling of fulness in abdomen before stool, which remains after stool, as if all had not passed. - сonstipation from torpor of the rectum. - сonstipation: of the aged; of persons with weak heart. Diarrhoea with sickly feeling in bowels; passage only of mucus and blood, or like scrapings from intestines. Tenesmus. - сontinual inclination to stool but passes constantly fetid flatus. Diarrhoea early in morning after lemonade. Dysentery. Intense vomiting or purging, with prostration and cramps, as in cholera. Stools: thin, dark brown; of mucus and blood; of bile; from 1 or 2 p.m till after breakfast; mushy; yellow, then greenish, then dark, bloody; dark, lumpy. Haemorrhoids permanent and obstinate; bleeding and mucus. Neuralgic pains in anus and lower part of rectum, shooting along perinaeum to middle of penis; in middle of night (with constipation). - вloody discharge with heat in rectum. Heat in rectum with burning in stomach. Ulceration; fissure.

 Weakness, dull pain, and soreness in region of kidneys,.
 Sharp pains (and hard, grinding pain) running up each spermatic cord; later continued soreness in place of the pains. Gurgling sensation in prostate gland. - сomplete loss of desire, absence of erections and relaxation of parts during the proving. Impotence. Gonorrhoea; gleet; orchitis, with suppuration and fistulous ulcer. Syphilis: chancres; ulcerated throat; ulcers on genitals; bubo; rheumatism.
 Menses: too frequent and copious; mammae painful; increase of tears, saliva, bile, urine; rheumatic subjects. Menses: amenorrhoea complicated with ovarian irritation or disease; very painful menstruation in apparently barren women when occurring in connection with rheumatism; shreds of membrane are passed with the menstrual flow. Leucorrhoea: uterine, thick, tenacious, irritating. Profuse, thick, tenacious, from swollen Nabothian glands. Threatened miscarriage; bearing-down pains; involuntary straining and haemorrhage per vaginum caused in woman seven months pregnant. Sensation as though menses would appear all the time. Dysmenorrhoea accompanying erosion or ulceration of the cervix; menses too often; too profuse, with corresponding increase of the tears, and other secretions. Metrorrhagia. Inflammation, swelling, and suppuration of the mammae. Neuralgia of breasts. Mastitis, where the hardness is very apparent from the first, with great burning; very sensitive nipples or breasts, which are more or less painful; even after suppuration these characteristics continue. Fulness of both breasts; lump in upper part of left-Abscesses; Fistulae; tumours; cancer; hypertrophy. Irritable tumour; very sensitive and painful;

 Hoarseness and aphonia. Tickling in left side larynx with hacking cough, aching right side of breast, great dryness of throat. Sensation of roughness in the bronchia. Laryngismus, thumbs and toes flexed; features distorted; eye muscles act independently. Respiration difficult and oppressed; loud mucous riles. Faint, with sighing, slow breathing. Panting. - сough: hacking, dry, hawking; from tickling in larynx or dryness in pharynx:
 Sharp pains through upper part of chest, preventing a long breath. Stitch from right chest to back. Pain and suffocation in lungs, throat, and fauces. Pains in lungs, 7 p.m - Tenderness and lameness of muscles of chest, as if bruised. Chest feels as if it were a big empty cask. Rheumatism of lower intercostal muscles from exposure to cold and dampness. Spots size of lentil on chest. Hard, tender swelling midway between nipple and sternum, but nearer latter; restless nights; (in baby a few months old).

 In night awoke with lameness near cardiac region, with much nervous restlessness,.

 Hardness of gland in right side of neck. Stiff neck,.
 Intense cramps, muscles gather in large knots, hard and ridged; come and go suddenly. Rheumatism of all joints 3 - Sudden transference of internal pains to extremities. Pains in limbs always in outer aspects. Patient is subject to rheumatic pains on change of weather, especially in hips and thighs; rheumatic muscular or chronic rheumatism. Rheumatic pains in arms and hands. - сold hands and feet.
 Enlarged glands in axillae. Shooting in right shoulder-joint with stiffness and paralysis. Rheumatism of (left) shoulder (esp. in syphilitics); pains fly like electric shocks from one part to another;
 Neuralgic pain in outer side of both thighs (shooting from sacrum); sciatica. Sharp, cutting pain in hip, drawing, cannot touch floor; pain runs down outside of thigh, raising feet above level of body. Pain in great toe waking him at night. - сorn painful.

 Extremities stiff, hands clenched, feet extended, toes flexed, teeth clenched, lips everted, firm, chin drawn on sternum, opisthotonus. Great desire for cold water, for bathing in it. Pains are pressing, shooting, and sore. Great exhaustion and prostration. Sore and stiff. Soreness from head to foot in all muscles. Pains and numbness followed by itching and burning. Pains came suddenly in full force and so continued till they ceased; followed by drowsiness, stupor, or sleep. - вones and glands inflamed and swollen.

 Skin cool, shrivelled, dry, lead-coloured. Syphilitic eruptions and ulcerations-secondary and tertiary. Squamous eruptions; tinea capitis; lupus. Shingles. Itch. Pityriasis. Psoriasis. Warts. Lipoma. Erythematous blotches, slightly raised, pinkish, slowly desquamating, ending in purple spot, as old ones died away others came. Suppuration of painless tumours. Drawing in cicatrices. Itching began on hands and feet and spread over whole body; rash followed four hours later; itching.

 Frequent yawning; drowsiness. Restlessness at night, pains drive him out of bed. On awaking feels wretched.

 Great coldness, withered appearance of extremities. - сoldness, faintness, dyspnoea; limbs cold, head and face hot. Internal shiverings during the pains. - сhill: every morning; sudden, followed by fever after confinement; at night without special fever. Heat: with pain in joints; high fever; in face after dinner; with red face; on left side of face. Sweat: cold on forehead; especially under toes; night-sweat, acrid.

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