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Phytolacca Decandra
Phytolacca decandra · PHYT
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Origin Plant · Phytolaccaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh root dug in winter. Tincture of the ripe berries. Tincture of fresh leaves. Solution of the resinous extract, Phytolaccin.
Sources 18 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
3X, Ø
Tincture, to third potency. Externally for mastitis

By regionHering
Mind ► Delirious. ► Indisposition to mental exertion. ► Disgust for business of day, on waking early in morning. ► Melancholy, gloom. ► Great fear, is sure will die. ► Indifference to life. ► Complete shamelessness and indifference to exposure of her person. ► Irritability. ► Restlessness. ► Oversensitiveness to pain.
Inner Head ► Pain in back of head and neck. ► One-sided headache. ► Pain extending back from the frontal region. ► Shooting pain from left eye to top of head. ► Heavy aching feeling in the head, at 1-3 P.M. ► Sensation of soreness deep in brain. ► Painful pressure on forehead and upper part of both eyes. ► Pain in top of head, and a feeling as if the brain were bruised, when stepping from a high step to the ground. ► Sick headache, worse in forehead ; with backache and bearing down ; comes every week.
Eyes ► Photophobia. ► Pupils contracted ; tetanus. ► Dimness of vision. ► Burning, smarting, tingling pain in eyes ; itching aggravated by gaslight ; abundant flow of tears. θ Catarrhal ophthalmia. ► Feeling of sand in eyes, with soreness and burning. ► Sharp pain goes through ball of eye on reading or writing. ► Reddish-blue swelling of eyelids, worse on left side, and in morning ; hard, unyielding cellulitis. ► Motions of one eye independent of the other. ► Circumorbital pains in syphilitic ophthalmia.
Stomach ► Bruised and sore feeling at pit of stomach. ► Heat in stomach. ► Pain in pit of stomach, as from a heavy blow or concussion there, followed by cramps in abdomen, and coolness. ► Pain in region of pylorus.
Female Sexual Organs ► Menses too frequent and too copious ; mammae painful. ► Painful menstruation in barren women ; costive. ► Ovaritis.
Lungs ► Pains and suffocating feeling in throat and lungs. ► Aching pains in chest and side, with cough. ► Pain through mid-sternum, with cough.
Neck And Back ► Convulsive action of muscles of face and neck. θ Tetanus. ► Glands of right side of neck, hard. ► Stiff neck ; tonsils swollen. ► Rheumatism in lumbar muscles. ► Aching pain in lumbar region, day and night, with sore throat. ► Pain streaking up and down the spine. ► Aching in sacrum.
Limbs In General ► Severe pains in arms and legs from elbows and knees to fingers and toes ; worse from motion and contact ; syphilis.
Sleep ► Frequent gaping. ► Drowsiness. ► Restlessness at night ; pains drive him out of bed. ► On waking, feels wretched.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Coldness, faintness, dyspnoea ; chill every morning. ► Limbs cold, head and face hot. ► Sweat cold on forehead ; toes sweat. ► Night-sweat.
Skin ► Cool, shriveled, dry, lead-colored. ► Barber's itch, local application of tincture. ► Ringworm. ► Boils, especially near the ulcers. ► Black looking, tettery, suppurative eruption. ► Ulcers, with an appearance as if punched out ; lardaceous bottom ; syphilitic ulcerations. ► Cancerous ulcers (also, on breast). ► Erythematous blotches, irregular, slightly raised, pale red, ending in dark red or purple spots. ► Rash. ► Red spots, with syphilitic persons. ► Scarlatina, with angina ; acrid coryza ; delirium ; non-appearing eruption.

Books*
Antidoted by Belladonna 2, Coffea Cruda 2, Mezereum 2 +6
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Rhus Toxicodendron, Arum Triphyllum, Bryonia Alba +27

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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