Homeopathy LibraryPhytolacca Decandra
Reason for use
Acts especially upon the glandular system, particularly of the throat and mammae, and the serous, fibrous, and mucous tissues.
It also acts prominently upon the periosteum and the skin, its effects resembling those of Mercury, the iodide of potash, or of the syphilitic poison.
The general condition produced by Phytolacca is one of inflammation, which, in the fibrous tissues, partakes of a rheumatic character ; and in mucous and glandular tissues, has a tendency to ulceration and suppuration.
It also acts prominently upon the stomach and bowels, producing emesis and purging.
Characteristic symptoms.
▲ Worse
Pains always worse at night
▼ Better
Most symptoms better while lying down
The full Cowperthwaite text, by section
Mind
(Phytolacca)
Indifference to life.
Loss of personal delicacy, complete shamelessness. (Hyos.)
Head
(Phytolacca)
Vertigo, with dimness of vision.
Sore pain over head, worse on right side.
Sensation of soreness deep in the brain.
Headache, with sick stomach (Iris, Nux v., Podo., Sang.) ; worse in forehead, or above eyebrows ; comes every week. (Sulph.)
Headache commencing in frontal region and extending backward.
Pressive pain in forehead or on top of head.
Tines capitis. ( Graph., Hep. s., Merc., Nitr. ac., Sep .)
Eyes
(Phytolacca)
Pupils contracted. (Op., Merc. Cor., Phos., Physos.)
Double vision. ( Aur ., Bell., Cic., Stram.)
Feeling of sand in the eyes, with burning and smarting. (Ars., Caust ., Ign., Natr. mur., Sulph .)
Nose
(Phytolacca)
Flow of mucus from one nostril while the other is stopped.
Drawing sensation at root of nose. (Acon.)
Feeling in nose and eyes as if a cold would come on. (Cepa, Euphr.)
Acrid, excoriating discharge.
Face
(Phytolacca)
Paleness of the face.
Pains in bones of face and head, at night.
Chin drawn closely to sternum by convulsive action of muscles of face and neck ; lips everted and firm ; tetanus.
Mouth
(Phytolacca)
Tongue feels rough ; white-coated blisters on both sides, and very red tip . ( Ars., Rhus tox .)
Great pain in root of tongue when swallowing.
Profuse saliva ; tenacious, yellowish, ropy, with metallic taste. (Cham.)
Throat
(Phytolacca)
Throat sore ; fauces congested, and of a dark-red color ( Ailanth., Arg. nit ., Bapt., Naja) ; dryness of the throat ; tonsils swollen. (Bell.)
Sore throat, swelling of soft palate in morning, with a thick, white, and yellow mucus about the fauces.
Feeling, when swallowing, as of a lump in the throat. ( Bell., Lach .)
Sensation of rawness and scraping in the throat and tonsils.(Carb. v., Caust., Phos., Puls., Rumex.)
Dryness, soreness, smarting, and roughness of the throat.
Dryness in throat, provoking cough, with disposition to hawk and clear the throat.
Difficult swallowing ; with every attempt excruciating shooting pains through both ears.
Throat and fauces covered with a dirty, dark, pseudo-membrane (Merc. iod., Nitr. ac .) ; like washed leather ; mucus hawked with difficulty from posterior nares ; hangs down in strings ; severe pain in head, neck, and back ; great prostration ; faint on rising ; diphtheria.
Cannot drink hot fluids ; choking ; ulcers on tonsils ; syphilis.
Stomach
(Phytolacca)
Violent vomiting of clotted blood and slime, with retching, intense pain, and desire for death to relieve.
Stool And Anus
(Phytolacca)
Intense vomiting and purging, with griping pains and cramps in the abdomen.
Diarrhoea of mucus and blood, or like scrapings from intestines.
Bleeding haemorrhoids. ( Ham ., Nitr. ac.)
Ulcers and fissures in rectum. (Natr. mur., Nitr. ac.)
Urinary Organs
(Phytolacca)
Chalk-like sediment in the urine.
Urine acid and albuminous. (Osm., Phos., Plumb .)
Male Organs.- (Phytolacca)
Syphilis primary and secondary. ( Merc .)
Chancres on penis. (Merc., Nitr. ac .)
Female Organs.- (Phytolacca)
Menses too frequent and too copious. (Amm. carb., Ars., Borax, Calc. c., Bell., Nux v. )
Metrorrhagia. (Acon., Bell., Ham., Ferr., Ipec., Sabin.)
Inflammation, swelling, and suppuration of the breasts. (Hep. s., Merc., Sil., Sulph.)
Abscesses or fistulous ulcers of the breasts. (Sil.)
Nipples sensitive, cracked, and excoriated. (Graph.)
Mammary gland full of hard, painful nodosities.
Respiratory Organs.- (Phytolacca)
Hoarseness.
Dryness of the larynx.
Rheumatism of lower intercostal, from exposure to cold and dampness.
Neck and Back.- (Phytolacca)
Hardness of glands in right side of neck.
Stiff neck ; worse on right side, and in bed ; after midnight.
Back very stiff, every morning.
Constant dull, heavy pain in lumbar and sacral regions.
Pains shooting from sacrum down both hips.
Limbs
(Phytolacca)
Rheumatic pains in arms and hands.
Neuralgic pain in outer side of both thighs ; sciatica.
Rheumatic pains in lower extremities.
Ulcers and nodes on legs.
Nightly pains in periosteum of tibia. ( Merc .)
Generalities
(Phytolacca)
Great exhaustion and prostration.
Feeling of soreness in all the muscles. (Acon., Bry.)
Bones and glands inflamed and swollen. (Asaf., Hep. s., Merc., Nitr. ac.)
Rheumatism and gout ; pains shift ; joints swollen, red ; periosteum affected, especially in mercurialisation and in syphilis ; pains in middle of long bones or attachment of muscles ; worse in damp weather or at night.
Skin
(Phytolacca)
Syphilitic eruptions and ulcerations-secondary and tertiary. ( Merc ., Nitr. ac.)
Squamous eruptions ; tinea capitis ; lupus ; ulcers.
Amelioration
Therapeutic Range.-
Syphilitic affections ; periostitis ; rheumatism ; neuralgia ; conjunctivitis ; glandular inflammations, swellings, and suppurations, especially mammary ; diphtheria ; ulcerated sore throat ; Bright's disease ; haemorrhoids ; metrorrhagia ; chancres ; tinea capitis ; squamous eruptions.
Compare
(Phytolacca)
Mez., Merc., Nitr. ac., Kali hyd., Kali bi., Rhus tox.
Antidotes
(Phytolacca)
Milk and salt ; Ign., Sulph.
To large doses : Op., coffee.
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