Phytolacca Decandra

General

PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA. [Phytol. dec.] Poke root. Allentown College. Phytolaccaceae.

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.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : with danger of falling ; with dim vision ; when rising from bed, feels faint ; staggering.

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.

Outer Head

► Tinea capitis ; worse washing it when he is warm.

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.

Ears

► Shooting pains through both ears when swallowing ; right side worse. ► Eustachian tube feel obstructed.

Nose

► Thin, watery discharge from nostrils increasing till the nose become stuffed. ► Flow of mucus from one nostril, while the other is stopped ; both stopped up while riding. ► Acrid discharge, excoriating. θ Scarlatina.

Face

► Very pale ; hippocratic ; looking blue and suffering ; yellowish. ► Cold sweat on forehead. ► Blotches in face ; worse in P.M., after washing and eating. ► Swelling around left ear and side of face like erysipelas ; thence over scalp ; every painful.

Lower Face

► Chin drawn closely to sternum, by convulsive action of muscles of face and neck. θ Tetanus. ► Lips everted and firm. θ Tetanus. ► Upper lip excoriated. ► Ulcers on lips. ► Parotid and submaxillary glands swollen.

Teeth

► Disposition to bite the teeth together. ► Difficult dentition.

Tongue, Etc

► Metallic taste. ► Burnt feeling on back part of tongue. ► Tongue : fiery red at tip ; coated yellow and dry ; thickly coated at back part. ► Tongue : hot, rough, tender and smarting at tip ; also small ulcers, like those caused by mercury ; thick ; protruding.

Mouth

► Profuse saliva, sometimes yellowish, often thick, ropy, tenacious ; mercurial ptyalism, with inflamed gums and teeth. ► Small ulcers on inside of right cheek, very painful ; he cannot chew on that side. ► Sensation of dryness in the mouth, with cough.

Throat

► Sore, worse right side ; fauces dark, bluish-red ; worse swallowing saliva ; feels as if a red-hot ball was lodged in fauces ; cannot bear touch of clothing about neck. ► Uvula large transparent. ► Tonsils large, bluish, ulcerated ; throat feels as after eating choke-pears ; dry, rough, burning, smarting fauces. ► Like a plug in throat, worse left side. ► Dirty, wash-leather pseudo-membrane ; mucus hawked with difficulty, from posterior nares ; hangs down in strings ; severe pains in head, neck and back ; great prostration ; faint on rising. θ Diphtheria. ► Cannot drink hot fluids ; choking ; ulcers on tonsils. θ Syphilis. ► Pharynx dry, rough, feels like a cavern.

Desires And Aversions

► Great thirst. ► Hunger soon after eating. ► Loss of appetite.

Eating And Drinking

► After eating : 8. Hot drinks : 13.After lemonade : 20.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Nausea, eructations of flatus and sour fluid. ► Violent vomiting every few minutes. ► Violent vomiting of clotted blood and slime, with retching, intense pain, and desire for death to relieve ; purging and vomiting. ► Vomiting in diphtheria.

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.

Hypochondria

► In right hypochondrium a sore spot, not large than a dollar, extremely sensitive to touch.

Abdomen

► Griping and cramps in abdomen. ► Burning, griping pains in umbilical region. ► Rheumatism extending to abdominal muscles. ► Bearing down pains.

Stool, Etc

► Stools : thin, dark brown ; or mucus and blood, like intestinal scrapings ; tenesmus ; of bile. ► Diarrhoea early in morning ; after lemonade. ► Constipation of the aged, or of those with weak heart. ► Bleeding piles. ► Fissured rectum.

Urine

► Weakness, dull pain and soreness in region of kidneys ; most on right side, and connected with heat ; uneasiness down the uterus ; chalk-like sediment in urine. ► Urine : albuminous ; excessive or scanty ; dark-red, stains the vessel. ► Pain in region of bladder before and during urination. ► Urgent desire to pass water.

Male Sexual Organs

► Gonorrhoea and gleet. ► Orchitis ; secondary syphilis. ► Syphilis, chancres, ulcerated throat ; ulcers on genitals.

Female Sexual Organs

► Menses too frequent and too copious ; mammae painful. ► Painful menstruation in barren women ; costive. ► Ovaritis.

Pregnancy

► Pain in sacrum down to knees and ankles, then up to the sacrum ; jerks here and there ; after confinement. ► Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of breasts. ► Nipples very sensitive. ► Breast hard as a stone after weaning. ► Nipples sore and fissured, with intense suffering on putting child to breast ; pain seems to start from nipple, and radiate over whole body. ► Excessive flow of milk, causing great exhaustion. ► "Gathered breasts" with large, fistulous, gaping and angry ulcers, discharging a watery, fetid pus. ► Mammary gland full of hard, painful nodosities.

Larynx

► Hoarseness and aphonia. ► Dryness of larynx and trachea, worse toward evening. ► Burning in larynx and trachea, with a sensation of contraction of the glottis ; labored breathing. ► Spasms of glottis, eyes distorted, one eye moves independently of the other, thumbs clenched, toes flexed.

Breathing

► Respiration difficult, oppressed ; loud mucous rales. ► Constant moaning and gasping for air. θ Diphtheria. ► Faint, with sighing, slow breathing.

Cough

► Hacking, dry, with hawking ; excited by tickling in larynx or dryness in pharynx ; worse at night as soon as he lies down. ► Sputa thick, tough.

Lungs

► Pains and suffocating feeling in throat and lungs. ► Aching pains in chest and side, with cough. ► Pain through mid-sternum, with cough.

Heart And Pulse

► Shocks of pain in cardiac region ; angina pectoris ; pain goes into right arm. ► Heart's action weak, with constipation. ► Awakens with lameness near heart ; worse during expiration ; cannot get to sleep again. ► Pulse : small, irregular, with great excitement in chest especially in cardiac region ; full, but soft.

Outer Chest

► Rheumatism of lower intercostal, from exposure to cold and dampness.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Both scapulae ache continually. ► Shooting pain in right shoulder-joint, with stiffness and inability to raise the arm ; aching and tenderness along top of right trapezius. ► Pain in arms, especially about attachment of deltoid muscles. ► Finger-joints swollen, hard, shining. ► Lame feeling in the arms.

Lower Limbs

► Pains shooting from sacrum down outside of both hips. ► Sharp, cutting pains in hip, drawing ; leg drawn up, cannot touch the floor ; hip disease on right side after mercury ; or, in syphilitic children. ► Rheumatism of left knee, hamstrings feel shortened. ► Pains down from hips to knee ; heavy dragging ; neuralgic pains ; all worse on outer part of thighs. ► Nightly pains in periosteum of tibiae. ► Chronic rheumatism of left hip. ► Ulcers and nodes on legs. ► Feet puffed, soles burn ; severe pains through ankles and feet ; puffed, soles burn ; severe pains through ankles and feet ; also, on dorsa of feet.

Limbs In General

► Severe pains in arms and legs from elbows and knees to fingers and toes ; worse from motion and contact ; syphilis.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 1, 5. Stepping down : 3. Rising from bed : 2. Lying : 27.

Nerves

► Great exhaustion, prostration, muscular paresis. ► Legs weak, heavy ; he staggers. ► Tetanus ; alternate spasms and relaxation of muscles ; general muscular rigidity.

Sleep

► Frequent gaping. ► Drowsiness. ► Restlessness at night ; pains drive him out of bed. ► On waking, feels wretched.

Time

► Morning : 1, 5, 20, 31, 36, 40. Afternoon : 3. Evening : 25. Night : 25, 27, 31, 33, 37, 44. Day and night : 31.

Temperature And Weather

► Damp weather : 3, 30, 44. Washing when warm : 4, 8. Cold : 30.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Coldness, faintness, dyspnoea ; chill every morning. ► Limbs cold, head and face hot. ► Sweat cold on forehead ; toes sweat. ► Night-sweat.

Attacks

► Every week : 3. Every morning : 40.

Sides

► Right : 3, 6, 12, 13, 18, 21, 31, 32, 33. Left : 5, 8, 13, 29, 33. Left to right : 29. Below upward : 2. Above downward : 33. Above downward, then below upward : 24. Before backward : 3.

Sensations

► Pains flying like electric shocks ; jerking pains ; shooting, lancinating.

Tissues

► Loss of fat (animals). ► It hastens suppuration. ► Pus watery, fetid, ichorous. ► Rheumatism and gout ; pains shift ; joints swollen, red ; periosteum affected, especially in mercurialization and in syphilis ; pains in middle of long bones or attachment of muscles ; worse in damp weather, at night. ► Glands inflamed, swollen. ► Bones inflamed, swollen.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Riding : 7. Touch : 13, 18, 24.

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.

Relationship

► Antidote to Phytol. : milk and salt ; Ignat. ; also, Sulphur against eye symptoms. ► Opium is said to be an antidote for large doses. ► Coffee sometimes relieves vomiting.