Phytolacca Decandra
PHYTOLACCA · Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 1,302 chars
Head
Crusta lactea, moist, fearful itching, with little raw tubercles on scalp, face, and arms.
Headache with nausea; right side; in forehead; running backward.
Tongue blistered, red tip, great pain at root of.
Stool
Constipation habitual; patient says the bowels will not move without aid of purgatives; feeling of fulness in the abdomen before stool, which remains after stool, as if all had not passed; constipation from torpor of the rectum.
Sexual.-- Female : 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. 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; dysmenorrhoea accompanying erosion or ulceration of the cervix. Menses too often; too profuse, with corresponding increase of the tears, saliva, bile and urine.
Generalities
Patient is subject to rheumatic pains on change of weather especially in hips and thighs; rheumatic muscular pains or chronic rheumatism. Burning heat in throat, as from coal on fire : throat red sore; catarrh in; diphtheria.