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Phytolacca Decandra

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Phytolacca Decandra Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
GENERAL
  • Source: Derived from the root of Phytolacca decandra, commonly known as poke root or American pokeweed, a perennial plant native to North America, prepared for homeopathic use through trituration and serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards.
  • Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for glandular, musculoskeletal,.
  • respiratory, psychological, and dermatological disorders , particularly those involving swollen glands, rheumatic pains, and sore throat.
  • It is noted for symptoms such as glandular swelling,.
  • aching soreness, restlessness, and burning eruptions, often aggravated by cold, damp weather,.
  • motion, or night, and ameliorated by warmth, rest, or dry weather.
  • Modern Context : Indicated for glandular conditions (e.g., lymphadenitis, mastitis),.
  • musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., rheumatoid arthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age., fibromyalgia), respiratory conditions (e.g.,.
  • tonsillitisInflammation of the tonsilsInflammation of the tonsils, typically of sudden onset, causing sore throat and fever., laryngitisInflammation of the larynx causing hoarsenessInflammation of the larynx, typically resulting in huskiness or loss of the voice.), psychological conditions (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder), and dermatological conditions (e.g., eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., psoriasis).
  • It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by glandular swelling, rheumatic pains, sore throat,.
  • restlessness, or burning eruptions, typically exacerbated by cold, damp weather, motion, or night,.
  • and often seen in individuals with sensitive, irritable constitutions.
  • The remedy is particularly relevant for those with glandular or musculoskeletal conditions, often presenting with symptoms like swollen lymph nodes or aching joints, commonly observed in patients with lymphadenitis,.
  • rheumatoid arthritis, or tonsillitis triggered by cold, stress, or infection
MODALITIES ETC
  • Worse from: Cold (weather, air, drinks), damp weather, motion, night, pressure,.
  • swallowing, emotional stress, rest (in musculoskeletal symptoms), talking, scratching,.
  • morning, solitude
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidotes: Milk and salt, Bell., Mez. Compare: (1) Tincture of Phyt. berry - sore throats and in
the treatment of obesity. (2) Bry., Rhus-t., Kali-hp., Merc., Sang., Arum-t. Inimical: Merc.

MODERN DIAGNOSTIC CORRELATIONS (ICD & DSM)
📋 Key Clinical Mappings:
  • ICD-11 Codes: FB50: Lymphadenitis or FB51 (lymphoid hyperplasia) for swollen lymph nodes and glandular induration.
  • FB80: Mastitis for breast pain and swelling.
  • FA20: Rheumatoid arthritis or FA26 (fibromyalgia) for rheumatic pains and stiffness.
  • Phytolacca decandra (Poke Root) 1548.
  • FA28: Osteomyelitis-like symptoms for bone pains and periostitis.
  • CA08: Tonsillitis or CA0A (laryngitis) for sore throat and hoarseness.
  • CA09: Pharyngitis for cough and respiratory oppression.
  • 6B00: Generalized anxiety disorder for restlessness and anxiety.
  • 6A80: Adjustment disorder or 6A71 (dysthymia) for irritability and depression.
  • EA70: Eczema or EA91 (psoriasis) for burning eruptions and psoriatic plaques.
  • EA80: Contact dermatitis for skin sensitivity and rashes
MIND
  • Irritable and nervous.
  • Restlessness.
  • Indisposition to mental exertion.
  • Disgustfor business.
  • Feels faint on rising.
  • Stupefaction with vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. and dimness of vision.
  • Refuses food in spite of continuous insisten ce.
  • Irresistible compulsion to clench the teeth.
  • Melancholy, gloom, indifference to life.
  • Depression of spirits with headache.
  • Weeping at night during menses.
  • Great fear, sure she will die.
  • Predicts death, with mastitis.
  • Desires death in morning on wakin g.
  • Confusion while sitting, better open air.
  • Delirium.
  • Loss of personal delicacy, com plete shamelessness and indifference to exposure of her person.
  • Oversensitiveness to pain.
  • Cannot endure pain, it is intolerable.
  • Unconsciousness from pain.
  • Irritable and nervous.
  • Restlessness.
  • Indisposition to mental exertion.
  • Disgustfor business.
  • Feels faint on rising.
  • Stupefaction with vertigo and dimness of vision.
  • Refuses food in spite of continuous insisten ce.
  • Irresistible compulsion to clench the teeth.
  • Melancholy, gloom, indifference to life.
  • Depression of spirits with headache.
  • Weeping at night during menses.
  • Great fear, sure she will die.
  • Predicts death, with mastitis.
  • Desires death in morning on wakin g.
  • Confusion while sitting, better open air.
  • Delirium.
  • Loss of personal delicacy, com plete shamelessness and indifference to exposure of her person.
  • Oversensitiveness to pain.
  • Cannot endure pain, it is intolerable.
  • Unconsciousness from pain
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Vertigo on rising, feels faint.
  • Vertigo, staggering with danger of falling.
  • Vertigo with dim vision.
  • COMMENTS - Closely related to Merc, and kali-iodatum/" class="internal-remedy-link" title="Click to view remedy: Kali-I.">Kali-i., especially in syphilitic rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
  • General action of tissue absorption, especially new growths.
  • Tumors and indurations of the glands.
  • Muscles, joints, bones, brain and spinal cord, as well as the special senses, were all more or less disordered.
  • In cases of poisoning, the most com mon symptoms were vomiting, diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day., frontal headache and a sore throat.
  • Irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, a severe headache and diarrhea have occurred after inhaling the dust of the powdered dried root, or from the odor of the fresh root when it is sliced.
  • Phyt has caused convulsive symptoms, vomiting and vomiting of worms when given to animals.
  • Wild pigeons and other birds that eat the berries acquire a red color and lose fat.
  • This observation has led to the use of a tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. of Phyt berries as an anti-fat remedy, and successful results have been reported.
  • Hale tells us that among American dairymen the root is used to regulate any abnormality in cows' milk, whether it is scanty, thick, watery, curdy, or containing blood or pus.
  • Its chief repute is for caked udders.
  • One boy, who drank two or three drachms of a tincture of the root, developed complete tetanusBacterial disease causing lockjaw and muscle spasmsA bacterial disease marked by rigidity and spasms of the voluntary muscles, especially of the jaw. in which his limbs were stiff, hands firmly shut, feet extended toes flexed, lower lids drawn down, teeth clenched, lips everted and firm, general opisthotonos.
  • Respiration was difficult, rales were heard all over the room.
  • For an hour muscular rigidity increased with convulsive action of muscles of face and neck, chin drawn close on sternum.
  • This condition lasted five or ten minutes, followed by perfect relaxation and return in twenty minutes more with the same violence.
  • After cold-water infusion, cupping, and mustard plasters, the boy slept about twenty -five minutes.
  • On waking he had some twitchings, especially of lower limbs, pain in back o f head and stomach.
  • The next day he was quite recovered.
  • A boy, 8, who ate a quantity of the berries, was found in great agony, complaining that his stomach was “inched together.” He had nausea, violent vomiting, his throat was sore and dry, fauces dark re d, tonsils swollen.
  • After his vomiting ceased, purging set in, stools dark brown and thin, severe pain in stomach on pressure, extorting a cry.
  • Later he had burning griping in umbilical region, dim vision, tongue coated white, and spasmodic jerkings in his arms and legs.
  • In a woman, 45, who took Phyt as a “blood purifier,” a general rash in appearance not unlike the rash of secondary syphilis was set up.
  • A family of four was poisoned by eating the root with their food by mistake.
  • They had a dread of moveme nt.
  • Seemed stupid, fell asleep after a paroxysm of cramping pain had ceased.
  • Pain in the forehead, worse after eating.
  • Vomited clotted blood and slime.
  • Copious discharge of blood and mucus that looked like scrapings of the intestines.
  • Involuntary stools from straining, which occurred even in sleep.
  • In the mother of the family, who was seven months pregnant, it nearly produced miscarriage.
  • The uterus could be felt contracting under the hand, and there was involuntary straining and hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. from the vagina .
  • Intense griping pain in small of back and cramps in legs coming and going suddenly.
  • Coldness and withered appearance of limbs, the whole body cold.
  • Phyt., used externally, produces good results in cases of ulceration.
  • Clarke found that a gargle of a few drops of the tincture in a tumbler of water was useful in many throat cases.
  • Hundall successfully used a preparation of the leaves as an external application for cancerous growths in dogs.
  • An ointment prepared with a strong tincture of the leave, as well as the juice of the leaves, has been used for malignant ulcers in humans.
  • A case of cancer of the rectum was cured with Phyt.
  • 3x.
  • Nash removed many breast tumors by giving a single dose of Phyt.
  • 100,000c during the wane of the moon.
  • The tincture may take a way nondescript lumps in the breast when there are few symptoms.
  • Breast cancer, especially with axillary involvement, especially right sided.
  • Breast cancer that suppurates with horrible burn ing pains in the breasts.
  • Advanced cases of cancer or tumors.
  • Har d nodules with a bluish appearance and enlarged axillary glands.
  • Scirrhus tumors, hard like cement (Con.).
  • Scars of the breast, cicatrix (Graph., Sil.).
  • Sharp pain from the breast.
  • Breast neu ralgias, painful nerve irritation.
  • Swollen glands, indurated (Br om.).
  • Paget's disease of the breast.
  • Breast induration and abscesses in nursing women.
  • Mastitis with a hot, painful, congested and sensitive breast, worse cold and damp.
  • Breasts are hard and lumpy, heavy with mastitis (Bry.).
  • Cracks and fissures in the nip ples.
  • Blocked ducts in the breast.
  • Prob lems with nursing, if the milk dries up, bad milk, thick or lumpy milk.
  • Painful, sore nipples in nursing women.
  • Pain radiates all over the body when the child is put to the breast.
  • Rheumatic swellings are hard, tende r and intensely hot.
  • Arthritis, particularly of the shoulder (Rhus -t.), the joints swell before a storm or when damp.
  • Worse at night, change of weather.
  • Wandering pains, migratory arthritis.
  • SciaticaNerve pain radiating from the lower back down the legsPain radiating along the sciatic nerve, which runs down one or both legs from the lower back. with sharp, cutting pains in the hip and down the thigh.
  • Stiff neck.
  • Generally swollen, stiff and sore, worse on the right side.
  • Electric shocks, sharp pain in the joints with the stiffness (ruta-graveolens-herbal/" class="internal-remedy-link" title="Click to view remedy: Ruta.">Ruta.).
  • Very restless, but worse from motion.
  • The tendons feel too short (Ruta.).
  • When pain in intestines disappears, pain in limbs comes on Pain leaves heart and appears in right arm.
  • Pains in head and chest go from before backward.
  • Pains run down spine from nape, from sacrum down outer aspect of thighs to toes.
  • The outer aspects of the limbs are chiefly affected.
  • Frontal headaches, pressive, involving the eyes, worse right side.
  • Headache associated with increased sense of hearing.
  • Apathetic, gloomy.
  • Restless with a fear of dying (Ars.).
  • Generally self -centered (Ars.).
  • Nervous irritability.
  • Disorders of dentition.
  • Teething, better pressure.
  • Teething with bad breath and sores in the mouth.
  • Irresistible inclination to bite the teeth or gums together.
  • Toothache with digging in pain, shooting pain.
  • Sensation as if the teeth are too long.
  • Jaw problems, with or without swollen gl ands.
  • The tongue feels burnt and rough, may be blistered, with a red tip (Rhus-t.).
  • InfluenzaViral infection of the respiratory tract (flu)A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane.. with general body ache, back pain and wandering joint pains.
  • Swollen, tender glands with throat symptoms.
  • Stiffness.
  • Bone ache.
  • Fevers with pain and vertigo (Gel s.).
  • Apathetic, internal shivering (Gels.).
  • Feels sore and bruised (Bapt., Eup., Arn.).
  • Delirium.
  • Diphtheria (Lac-c.).
  • Sore throat, strep throat, tonsillitis.
  • Burning in the throat with a stiff neck (Rhus -t.), worse from warmth.
  • Dry, raw, rough sore throats.
  • Throat appears dark and purplish.
  • Very swollen and tender glands, particularly on right side of the throat.
  • Great pain at root of tongue when swallowing, pains shooting from throat into ears on swallowing, worse on right side.
  • Hot feeling as if a red -hot ball in throat, burning worse by hot drinks.
  • As if a red -hot iron in the throat (Kali -c., in the rectum; Alum., in the spine).
  • Throat feels plugged (Caust.).
  • Dark redness of fauces.
  • White or gray patches on the tonsils, with offensive breath.
  • Tonsils ma y appear ulcerated, with crypts.
  • Tenacious, thick mucus in the throat, especially in the morning.
  • Burning of the tongue.
  • Ulcers of the mouth.
  • The Eclectics gave the expressed juice of the berries in “spasmodic or membranous croupChildhood throat infection with barking coughInflammation of the larynx and trachea in children, associated with infection and causing a barking cough. or diphtheria.” Clarke used Phyt.
  • 30c for the so-called “diphtheria sore throat.” With the throat symptoms there are generally headache, backache, wandering rheumatic pains and fever.
  • Nash relieved chronic follicular pharyngitis in public speakers when there was much burning, as if a hot substance in throat.
  • Rapid and profound prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness..
  • Diphtheriaparalysis.
  • Faint and dizzy when standing.
  • Soreness of the muscles.
  • Restlessness, but he fears to move because motion worse the pains.
  • Stiff neck, especially right side.
  • AnginaChest pain from reduced heart blood flowA condition marked by severe pain in the chest, often also spreading to the shoulders, arms, and neck, caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart..
  • Sense of constriction in the chest.
  • Radiating pains down the right arm (Lil -t.).
  • Heart palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions. followed by severe aching down the right arm.
  • Sensation of the heart beating in the throat.
  • The right side is most affected.
  • Many symptoms were experienced in the liver and the spleen.
  • Liver pains were worse lying on right (painful) side.
  • The spleen pain was better lying on left (painful) side.
  • Hepatitis with an enlarged, indurated liver.
  • Sensation in the stomach as if something is being pinched with violent vomiting attacks and pains in the pit of the stomach.
  • ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. during teething, clenching their teeth with severe stomach or abdominal cramps, diarrhea.
  • One characteristic pain, noted in a case of constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass., is a shooting pain from anus to lower part of rectum, along perineum to middle of penis.
  • “Gurgling sensation in the prostate gland, repeatedly in the afternoon,” was noted by one prover along with pains in spermatic cords.
  • Suspension of sexual appetite with relaxation of the genitals.
  • Syphilis, with bone pains, ulcers on the genitals and sore throats, worse at night.
  • Discharges are tough, stringy, difficult to detach.
  • Generally offensive and acrid.
  • Clin kers.
  • Shreddy discharge in certain forms of intestinal catarrh and dysmenorrheaPainful menstruation with abdominal crampsPainful menstruation, typically involving abdominal cramps..
  • Hemor rhagic and hemorrhoida l, acting strongly on rectum and anus, curing tenesmus, bloody discharges and heat.
  • Psoriasis, ringworm and barber's itch.
  • Chronic eczematous eruptions of the face.
  • Old scars that never heal, and when the weather changes the scars flare up and become painful (Graph.)
HEAD
  • Pain from frontal region backwards.
  • Pressure in temples and over eyes.
  • Brain feels sore, head as if beaten.
  • Violent headache, with stupid expression of face and enlarged pupils.
  • Headache with vertigo and dim vision.
  • Nausea and headache better eating, but returns soon with vomiting.
  • Rheumatism of scalp, pains come on every time it rains.
  • Cold sweat on forehead.
  • Scaly eruption on scalp.
  • Tinea capitis.
  • Pain from frontal region backwards.
  • Pressure in temples and over eyes.
  • Brain feels sore, head as if beaten.
  • Violent headache, with stupid expression of face and enlarged pupils.
  • Headache with vertigo and dim vision.
  • Nausea and headache better eating, but returns soon with vomiting.
  • Rheumatism of scalp, pains come on every time it rains.
  • Cold sweat on forehead.
  • Scaly eruption on scalp.
  • Tinea capitis
EYES
  • Dull aching in eyes, worse motion, light or exercise.
  • Orbital cellulitis.
  • Burning, smarting, tingling in eyes.
  • Feeling of sand under lids.
  • Profuse hot lachryma tion.
  • FistulaAbnormal passage connecting two body partsAn abnormal or surgically made passage between a hollow or tubular organ and the body surface, or between two hollow organs. lachrymalis (Fl -ac.).
  • Lids agglutinated and edematous.
  • Lids as if on fire.
  • Tarsal edges feel hot.
  • PhotophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments..
  • Green vision.
  • Eyeballs ache on reading and writing.
  • Diplopia.
  • Motion of one eye only, independent of the other
EARS
  • Shooting pains in both the ears, worse swallowing.
  • Obstruction in left Eustachian tube.
  • Irritation in one Eustachian tube.
  • Increased sense of hearing with pain in forehead
FACE
  • Face very pale, hippocratic.
  • Yellowish, sickly.
  • Blotches in face, worse evening, after washing and eating.
  • Blueness around eyes.
  • Chin drawn closely to sternum.
  • Glands swollen at the angle of jaw.
  • Jaws ache, as in mumps.
  • Aching malar bones.
  • Mumps.
  • Tension and pressure in parotid gland
MOUTH
  • Dry sensation in mouth, from cough.
  • Metallic taste in mouth.
  • Much stringy saliva.
  • Profuse saliva, sometimes yellowish, often thick, ropy, tenacious.
  • Bleeding from mouth.
  • Very painful small ulcers on side of cheek, cannot chew on that side.
  • Jaws firmly set, chi n drawn down on sternum.
  • Ulcers on lips.
  • Upper lip excoriated.
  • Lower lip drawn down.
  • Lips everted and firm.
  • Nose - CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. with lachrymation and pho tophobia.
  • Acrid coryza.
  • Coryza, flow of mucus from one nostril and from poste riorsinuses.
  • Thin watery disch arge from nose.
  • Feels congested and heavy.
  • Pain at root of nose, with stoppage.
  • Obstruction of nose while riding.
  • Mucus hangs down in strings from posterior nares, hawked with difficulty.
  • Cancerous affection of nose, lupus
THROAT
  • Aphonia.
  • Dark red or bluish red.
  • Much pain at root of tongue , soft palate and tonsils swollen.
  • Sensation of a lump in throat (Bell., Lach.).
  • Throat feels rough, narrow, hot.
  • Ulcerated sore throat and diphtheria, throat feels very hot, pain at root of tongue extending to ear.
  • Pseudo-membranous exudation, grayish- white, thick, tenacious yellowish mucus.
  • Shooting pain into ears on swallowing.
  • Cannot swallow anything hot (Lach.).
  • Tension and pressure in parotid gland.
  • Tonsils swollen, especially right, dark- Phytolacca decandra red appearance.
  • Tonsillitis with fauces s wollen with burning pain, cannot swal low even water.
  • Uvula large, dropsical.
  • Follicular pharyngitis.
  • Tongue - Tongue thickly coated, yellow at base, fiery red at tip.
  • Tongue mapped, indented, fissured, with yellow patch down center.
  • Tongue feels rough and scalded, burnt on back of tongue.
  • Pains at root.
  • Tongue protruded
CHEST
  • Sore throat or burning pain, with a sensation of rawness or tightness, resembling tonsillitis, worse with cold, swallowing, damp weather, or night, often with hoarseness or difficulty speaking.
  • Hoarseness or laryngitis, with a tendency to dryness or irritation, resembling laryngitis, aggravated by cold, talking, or evening, often with cough or mucus.
  • Cough or respiratory oppression, with a sensation of tickling or burning, resembling pharyngitis, worse with cold, damp weather, or motion.
  • Tendency to respiratory sensitivity, with aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. in cold or irritated states.
  • Psychological:.
  • Restlessness or anxiety, with a sensation of nervousness or unease, resembling generalized anxiety disorder, worse with cold, night, emotional stress, or solitude,.
  • often with fear of failure or illness.
  • Irritability or mood swings, with a tendency to impatience or sadness, resembling adjustment disorder, aggravated by cold, damp weather, or morning, often with mental fatigue.
  • Phytolacca decandra (Poke Root) 1547.
  • Depression or apathy, with a sensation of heaviness or disconnection, resembling dysthymia, worse with cold, night, or stress.
  • Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in stressed or cold states.
  • Dermatological:.
  • Burning, itching eruptions, with a sensation of heat or stinging, resembling eczema,.
  • worse with cold, damp weather, scratching, or night, often with scaling or oozing.
  • Psoriatic plaques or ulcers, with a tendency to soreness or cracking, resembling psoriasis, aggravated by cold, stress, or motion, often with redness or discharge.
  • Skin sensitivity or rashes, with a sensation of irritation or burning, resembling contact dermatitis, worse with cold, damp weather, or pressure.
  • Tendency to dermatological inflammation, with aggravation in cold or stressed states
ABDOMEN
  • Hunger soon after eating.
  • Heat in stomach.
  • Stomach cramps and coldness.
  • Pain in region of pylorus.
  • Pains, worse deep breathing.
  • Nausea, eructations of flatus and sour fluids, with severe pain in umbilical region.
  • Easy vomiting without nausea.
  • Violent vomiting with retching, desires death to relieve vomiting.
  • Vomiting of clotted blood and mucus.
  • Vomit ing and diarrhea, with griping pains and cramps in abdomen.
  • Teeth - Difficult dentition, better biting on something hard.
  • Teething children with irresistible desire to bite the teeth together.
  • Teeth and jaws clenched.
  • Teeth feel sore and elongated.
  • Inflamed gums and teeth, with mercurial ptyalism.
  • Temperature - Chills at night and every morning.
  • Cold hands and feet.
  • High fe ver, alternating with chilliness and great prostration.
  • Mastitis.
  • Mumps.
  • Great rumbling in abdomen and pain in umbilicus.
  • Heavy aching pain in the hypochondrium, worse lying on affected side.
  • Sore spot in right hypochondrium.
  • Soreness and pain in right hypochon drium during pregnancy.
  • Rheumatism of abdominal muscles.
  • Bruised feeli ng through the epigastrium and abdomen.
  • Colic at navel, with burning griping pains.
  • Bearing down pains.
  • Intense vomiting and purging with griping pains and cramps in abdomen.
  • Ulceration of mucus membrane of upper part of digestive tract.
  • Intense thirst.
  • Hunger, soon after eating.
  • Loss of appetite.
  • Can't swallow any hot food ordrinks (Lach.), causes choking.
  • Diarrhea after lemonade.
  • Vomiting of food and milk, in teething children.
  • Glands - Swelling and induration of glands.
  • Swollen glands and burning pains, worse at night.
  • Glands swollen at the angle of jaw.
  • Glandular abscesses.
  • Venereal buboes.
  • Hardness of glands in right side of neck.
  • Swelling of axillary glands
GENITALS ETC
  • Shooting along perineum to penis.
  • Painful induration of the testicles.
  • Orchi tis, acute and chronic, with suppuration and fistulous ulcerOpen painful sore on skin or mucous membraneAn open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucous membrane..
  • Spermatic cord sore.
  • Gonorrhea and gleet.
  • Venereal buboes.
  • Ulcers on genitals.
  • Impotency.
  • AmenorrheaAbsence of menstrual periodsAn abnormal absence of menstruation., with ovarian ir ritation or disease.
  • Menses too copious and frequent, followed by leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection..
  • Menses with salivation and lachrymation.
  • Dysmenorrhea in barren women with ero sion of cervix membranous.
  • Leucorrhea, thick, tenacious and irritating.
  • Leucorrhea profuse, thick, tenacious.
  • Ovarian neural- gia of right side.
  • Ovaritis with rheumatic complications.
  • Venereal buboes.
  • Swollen nabothian cysts.
  • Glandular swellings and abscesses.
  • Suppression of lochia
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Rheumatic pains or aching, with a sensation of soreness or bruising, resembling rheumatoid arthritis, worse with cold, motion, night, or damp weather, often with stiffness or swelling.
  • Stiffness or heaviness, with a tendency to rigidity or fatigue, resembling fibromyalgia, aggravated by cold, rest, or morning, often with burning or wandering pains.
  • Bone pains or periostitis, with a sensation of deep aching or soreness, resembling osteomyelitis-like symptoms, worse with cold, night, or pressure.
  • Tendency to musculoskeletal irritability, with aggravation in cold or damp states.
  • Respiratory:.
  • Sore throat or burning pain, with a sensation of rawness or tightness, resembling tonsillitis, worse with cold, swallowing, damp weather, or night, often with hoarseness or difficulty speaking.
  • Hoarseness or laryngitis, with a tendency to dryness or irritation, resembling laryngitis, aggravated by cold, talking, or evening, often with cough or mucus.
  • Cough or respiratory oppression, with a sensation of tickling or burning, resembling pharyngitis, worse with cold, damp weather, or motion.
  • Tendency to respiratory sensitivity, with aggravation in cold or irritated states.
  • Psychological:.
  • Restlessness or anxiety, with a sensation of nervousness or unease, resembling generalized anxiety disorder, worse with cold, night, emotional stress, or solitude,.
  • often with fear of failure or illness.
  • Irritability or mood swings, with a tendency to impatience or sadness, resembling adjustment disorder, aggravated by cold, damp weather, or morning, often with mental fatigue.
  • Phytolacca decandra (Poke Root) 1547.
  • Depression or apathy, with a sensation of heaviness or disconnection, resembling dysthymia, worse with cold, night, or stress.
  • Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in stressed or cold states.
  • Dermatological:.
  • Burning, itching eruptions, with a sensation of heat or stinging, resembling eczema,.
  • worse with cold, damp weather, scratching, or night, often with scaling or oozing.
  • Psoriatic plaques or ulcers, with a tendency to soreness or cracking, resembling psoriasis, aggravated by cold, stress, or motion, often with redness or discharge.
  • Skin sensitivity or rashes, with a sensation of irritation or burning, resembling contact dermatitis, worse with cold, damp weather, or pressure.
  • Tendency to dermatological inflammation, with aggravation in cold or stressed states
BACK AND NECK
  • Pains streaking up and down the spine.
  • Back stiff, especially in morning on rising and during damp weather.
  • Aching pain in lumbar and sacral region.
  • Shooting pain in sacrum.
  • Weakness and dull pain in region of kidneys.
  • Hardness of glands in right side of neck.
  • Neck s tiff in morning on waking.
  • Pale red spots on neck and arms.
  • Both scapulae ache continually.
  • Breasts - Heavy, stony, hard swollen or tender breasts.
  • Severe stinging pains, throughout breasts, with oozing out of milk, better pressure with hands.
  • Swollen breast.
  • Irritable breasts, before and during menses.
  • Tender and sore breasts, before and during menses.
  • Mastitis, with breasts hard and very sensitive.
  • Mastitis from taking cold.
  • Mastitis during pregnancy.
  • Galactorrhea (Calc.), causes great exhaustion.
  • When child nurses, pain goes from nipple all over body.
  • Milk thick, scanty and unhealthy, dries up too soon.
  • Breast hard as a stone, after weaning.
  • Cracks and small ulcers about nipples.
  • Nipples, cracked, very sensitive inverted.
  • Tumors or hard nodes of the brea sts with enlarged axillary glands.
  • Breast is hard, painful and of purple hue.
  • Breast cancer, with shooting, lancinating pains, great exhaustion and prostration.
  • Breast abscessCollection of pus inside body tissuesA swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus, typically caused by bacterial infection..
  • Bloody, watery discharge from breasts.
  • Affection of old scars in breasts.
  • Causations - Emotions, grief, injuries, blows, bathing, and exposure to cold, damp weather
SKIN
  • Dry, harsh, shriveled.
  • S kin becomes dry, shrunken, pale.
  • Itching.
  • Papular and pustular lesions.
  • Erythematous blotches, irregular, slightly raised, pale red, ending in dark red or purple spots.
  • Disposition to boils and carbuncles, with swollen glands and burning pains, worse at night.
  • Painful boils on back and behind ears.
  • Squamous eruptions.
  • Syphilitic eruptions.
  • Swelling and induration of glands.
  • ScarlatinaScarlet fever bacterial infectionAnother term for scarlet fever, an acute contagious bacterial disease causing a red rash. -like rash.
  • Warts and moles.
  • Lipoma.
  • Corns.
  • Barber’s itch.
  • Lipoma.
  • Pityriasis.
  • Ring worm.
  • Ulcer, chronic, surrounded by boils .
  • Cancerous ulcers
SLEEP
  • Frequent yawning and drowsiness.
  • Restlessness at night.
  • Pains drive him out of bed.
  • On awaking, feels wretched
GENERALITIES
  • Brain as if bruised.
  • Right side of head as if pressed firmly.
  • As if sand in eyes.
  • As if eyes too large.
  • As if lids granulated.
  • As if tarsal edges raw.
  • As if lids on fire.
  • As i f lump in throat.
  • As if apple core in throat.
  • Throat so full it felt choked.
  • Pharynx feels like a cavern, chest as if it were a big empty cask.
  • Body as if bruised, pounded all over.
  • As if joint were being chopped with an ax

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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