Phytolacca

Phytolacca
(poke-root)
* Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration, aregeneral 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.
Mind
- Loss of personal delicacy, disregard of surrounding objects.
- Indifferent to life.
Head
- Vertigo on rising.
- Brain feels sore.
- Pain from frontal region backward.
- Pressure in temples and over eyes.
- Rheumatism of scalp; pains come on every time itrains.
- Scaly eruption on scalp.
Eyes
- Smarting.
- Feeling of sand under lids.
- Tarsal edges feel hot.
- Fistula lachrymalis. [Fluor. ac.]
- Abundant lachrymation, hot.
Nose
- Coryza; flow of mucus from one nostril and from posterior nares.
Mouth
- 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.
Throat
- 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.
- Cannot swallow anything hot. [Lach.] Tension andpressure 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 burningpain; cannot swallow even water.
- Mumps. Follicular pharyngitis.
Abdomen
- Sore spot in right hypochondrium.
- Rheumatism of abdominal muscles.
- Colic at navel.
- Burning griping pains.
- Bruised feeling through epigastrium and abdomen.
- Constipation of the aged and those with weak heart.
- Bleeding from rectum.
Urine
- Scanty, suppressed, with pain in kidney region.
- Nephritis.
Female
- Mastitis; mammae hard and very sensitive.
- Tumors of the breasts with enlarged axillary glands.
- Cancer of breast.
- Breast is hard, painful and of purple hue.
- Mammary abscess.
- When child nurses, pain goes from nipple all over body.
- Cracks and small ulcers about nipples.
- Irritable breasts, before and during menses.
- Galactorrhoea. [Calc.]
- Menses too copious and frequent.
- Painful induration of testicles.
- Shooting along perineum to penis.
Heart
- Feeling as if heart leaped into throat. [Pod.]
- Shock of pain in cardiac region alternating withpain in right arm.
Respiratory
- Aphonia.
- Difficult breathing; dry hacking, tickling cough; worse at night. [Mentha; Bellad.]
- Aching pains in chest, through mid-sternum; withcough.
- Rheumatism of lower intercostals.
Back
- Aching pains in lumbar region; pains streaking up and down spine into sacrum.
- Weakness and dull pain in region of kidneys.
- Back stiff, especially in morning on rising and during damp weather.
Extremities
- 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 todamp, cold weather, rest.
Relationship
- Compare : Tincture of Phytolacca Berry (sore throats and in the treatment of obesity); Bry.;
Rhus; Kali hyd.; Merc.; Sang.; Arum triph.
- Inimical : Mercur.
- Antidotes : Milk and salt; Bellad.; Mezer.
Dose
- Tincture, to third potency