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.