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Phytolacca Decandra

Phytolacca decandra
PHYT · 18 entries across 18 books
PreparationTincture of fresh root dug in winter. Tincture of the ripe berries. Tincture of fresh leaves. Solution of the resinous extract, Phytolaccin. Clarke
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Tincture, to third potency. Externally for mastitisDose · Boericke

Reason for use

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.

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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.

Complete text of the Phytolacca Decandra entry in Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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18 entries across 18 books · abbreviations: PHYT · Family: Phytolaccaceae

Entries

1 Boericke

PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA · William Boericke · 4,568 chars

2 Kent

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3 Clarke

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4 Hering

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5 Allen

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6 Nash

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7 Hering

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10 Lippe

Phytolacca decandra · Adolph zur Lippe · 1,777 chars

14 T. F. Allen

PHYTOLACCA · Timothy Field Allen · 18,637 chars

15 Tyler

Phytolacca Decandra · Margaret Lucy Tyler · 16,587 chars

16 Guernsey · shown above

PHYTOLACCA · Henry Newell Guernsey · 1,302 chars

17 Cowperthwaite

PHYTOLACCA · Allen Corson Cowperthwaite · 6,101 chars

18 Dewey

Phytolacca Decandra · Willis Alonzo Dewey · 1,573 chars

20 Hempel

Phytolacca Decandra · Charles Julius Hempel · 36,520 chars

21 Hale

Phytolacca Decandra · Edwin Moses Hale · 17,613 chars

22 Roberts

Phytolacca · Herbert Alfred Roberts · 5,405 chars

23 T. F. Allen

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33 Gladstone Clarke

Phytolacca · A. Gladstone Clarke · 1,319 chars

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Research (14)

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  1. Effectiveness of Homoeopathic Treatments for Sleep Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review According to the Principles of Evidence-Based MedicineUpreti K, Frass M · Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025 · Review · doi
  2. Homeopathic medicine of Melissa officinalis combined or not with Phytolacca decandra in the treatment of possible sleep bruxism in children: A crossover randomized triple-blinded controlled clinical trialTavares-Silva C, Holandino C, Homsani F et al. · Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology · 2019 · Randomized Controlled Trial · doi
  3. Homeopathic therapy for sleep bruxism in a child: Findings of a 2-year case reportSilva CT, Primo LG, Mangabeira A et al. · Journal of the Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry · 2017 · Case Reports · doi
  4. Integrative nanomedicine: treating cancer with nanoscale natural productsBell IR, Sarter B, Koithan M et al. · Global advances in health and medicine · 2014 · Review · doi
  5. Homeopathic mother tincture of Phytolacca decandra induces apoptosis in skin melanoma cells by activating caspase-mediated signaling via reactive oxygen species elevationGhosh S, Bishayee K, Paul A et al. · Journal of integrative medicine · 2013 · doi
  6. Biosynthesized silver nanoparticles by ethanolic extracts of Phytolacca decandra, Gelsemium sempervirens, Hydrastis canadensis and Thuja occidentalis induce differential cytotoxicity through G2/M arrest in A375 cellsDas S, Das J, Samadder A et al. · Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces · 2013 · doi
  7. Anti-proliferative effects of homeopathic medicines on human kidney, colon and breast cancer cellsArora S, Aggarwal A, Singla P et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2013 · doi
  8. Rapid green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from silver nitrate by a homeopathic mother tincture Phytolacca DecandraBhattacharyya SS, Das J, Das S et al. · Zhong xi yi jie he xue bao = Journal of Chinese integrative medicine · 2012 · doi
  9. Homeopathic medicines do not alter growth and gene expression in prostate and breast cancer cells in vitroThangapazham RL, Gaddipati JP, Rajeshkumar NV et al. · Integrative cancer therapies · 2006 · doi
  10. Comparative efficacy of homeopathic and allopathic systems of medicine in the management of clinical mastitis of Indian dairy cowsVarshney JP, Naresh R · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2005 · doi
  11. Evaluation of a homeopathic complex in the clinical management of udder diseases of riverine buffaloesVarshney JP, Naresh R · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2004 · doi
  12. Comparison of solid and liquid forms of homeopathic remedies for tonsillitisWiesenauer M · Advances in therapy · 1998 · Clinical Trial
  13. [Is research in veterinary homeopathy justified? Thoughts concerning principles and synopsis of 5 years of research on the subject, "Use of homeopathy in domestic animals," at the branch of the Free University of Berlin in Schwarzenbek]Schütte A · Berliner und Munchener tierarztliche Wochenschrift · 1994 · Clinical Trial
  14. [The administration of homeopathic drugs for the treatment of acute mastitis in cattle]Merck CC, Sonnenwald B, Rollwage H · Berliner und Munchener tierarztliche Wochenschrift · 1989

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