Materia Medica

Physalis--- Solanum Vesicarium

Alkekengi —- Winter Cherry

Marked urinary symptoms confrming its ancient uses in gravel, etc. Languor and muscular weakness.

Head

Vertigo, hazy feeling; memory weakened ; desire to talk constantly. Throbbing pain, heavy over eyes in forehead. Facial paralysis. Dryness of mouth.

Urinary

Acrid, foul, retained, abundant. Polyuria. Sudden inability to hold it in women. Nocturnal in- continence. Enuresis.

Respiratory

Cough. Hoarse voice; throat irritated ; chest oppressed, causing insomnia. Stabbing in chest.

Extremities

Stiff limbs; tonic cramps. Paralysis. When walking, every jar seems repeated in the head.

Skin

Excoriation between fingers and toes; pus- ules on thighs; nodes on forehead.

Fever

Chilly in open air. Feverish in evening. Sweat during stool, with creeping sensation, with abund- ant urine. Pain in liver during fever.

Modalities

Worse, cold damp evening. After being heated.

Dose

Tincture to third attenuation. The juice of the berries is used in dropsical conditions and'irritable bladder.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 581. Public domain.

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