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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

Reason for useKent

This is a very imperfectly proved remedy, and it is only possible to present fragments of it. The mental symptoms have not been brought out, but the remedy has some striking features. You will notice the resemblance of this drug to Mercury, and it is an antidote to mercury. In those lingering mercurial bone pains, where the patient has been salivated; the pains come on at night from the warmth of the bed; the body aches; a chronic, sore, bruised state; soreness of the periosteum where the flesh is thin, over the tibia; joints; soreness of the muscles; drawing and cramping; drawing in the muscles of the back; backache, worse at night; worse from the warmth of the bed. The patient suffers from these symptoms in cold, damp weather, as in Mercury. Tendency to ulceration, hence its usefulness in syphilis; old, chronic, syphilitic ulcers; the patient has been salivated; had Mercury rubbed in; he became saturated with it, but it no longer helps. Ulcers in the throat; on the skin; on mucous membranes anywhere. Spasmodic conditions; drawing in the muscles; this may extend to violent spasms; opisthotonos; sometimes the cervical region is affected and the head is drawn back; jerking and twitching of the muscles.


By regionKent
Skin Many eruptions. "Squamous eruptions; Pityriasis, psoriasis." "Ringworm." "Barber's itch." "Rash on body; measles; scarlet eruptions all over the body." It is not surprising that it cures scarlatina, as it has this scarlet rash, the sore throat and glandular involvement. …

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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