Materia Medica

Lycopersicum Esculentum

Tomato

Marked symptoms of rheumatism and influenza. Se- vere aching pains all over body. Pains left after in- fucnsa. Head always shows igns of acute congestion. Hay-fever, with marked aggravation from breathing the least dust.

Head

Bursting pain, beginning in occiput and spreading all over. Whole head and scalp feels sore, bruised, after pain has cease.

Eyes

Dull, heavy: pupils contracted; eyeballs feel contracted: aching in and around eyes. Eyes suf- fused.

Nose

Profuse, watery coryza; drops down

Throat

Itching in anterior chamber; worse, breathing any dust; better, indoors. Expulsive cough, deep and harsh. Chest op- pressed; dry, hacking cough coming on at night and keeping one awake. Urine.--Constant dribbling in open air. Must rise at night to urinate.

Respiratory

Voice iusky. Pain in chest, extend- ing to head. Hoarseness: constant desire to clear

Heart

Decided decrease in pulse rate with anxiety and apprehensiveness.

Extremities

Aching through back. Dull pain in lumbar region. Sharp pain in right deltoid and pec- toralis muscles. Pain deep oin middle of right arm. Rheumatic pain in right elbow and wrist, and hands of 689 both sides. Intense aching in lower limbs. Right crural neuralgia. Tingling along right ulnar nerve.

Modalities

Worse, right side, open air, continued motion, jars, noises. Better, warm room, tobacco.

Relationships

Compare: Bellad. (follows well); Eup. pcrf.; Rhus; Sanguin.: Caps.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 682. Public domain.

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