Materia Medica
Phytolacca
Poke-root
Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration, are gen- eral symptoms guiding to Phytolacca. Pre-eminently a glandular remedy. Glandular swellings with heat and inflammation. Has a powerful effect on fibrous and osseous tissues; fascire and muscle sheaths; acts on scar tissue. Syphilitic bone pains; chronic rheumatism. Sore throat, quinsy, and diphtheria. . Tetaius and opisthotonos. Decrease of weight. Retarded dentition.
Mind
Loss of personal delicacy, disregard of sur- rounding objects. Indifferent to life.
Head
Vertigo on rising. Brain feels sore. Pain from frontal region backward. Pressure in temples and over eyes. Rheumatism of scalp; pains come on every time it rains. Scaly eruption on scalp.
Eyes
Smarting. Feeling of sand under lids. Tar- sal edges feel hot. Fistula lachrymalis. [Fluor. ac.] Abundant lachrymation, hot.
Nose
Coryza; flow of mucus from one most) il und from posterior nares.
Mouth
Teething children with irresistible desire to bite the teeth together. Teeth clenched; lower lip drawn dow; lips everted; jaws frmly set; chin drawn down sternum. Tongue feels rough and scalded ; blisters 591 on side. Mapped, indented. fissured, with yellow patch down center. Much stringy saliva.
Throat
Dark red or bluish red. Much pain at root of tongue: soft palate and tonsils swollen. Sensation of a lump in throat. [Bcll.; Ach.] Throat feels rough, narrow, hot. Tonsils swollen, especially right; dark-red appearance. Shooting pain into cars on swal- lozing. Pseudo-membranous exudation, grayish white; thick, tenacious yellowish mucus. difficult to dislodge. (aunot sauilozu anythiny hot. [Lach.] Tension and pressure in parotid gland. Ulcerated soie throat and diphtheria: throat feels very hot; pan at root of tungue c.tending to car. Uvula large, dropsical. Quinsy: ton- sils and fauces svollen, with burning pain; cannot swal- low even water. Ups. Follicular pharynyitis.
Abdomen
Sore spot in right hypochondrium. Rheumatism of abdominal muscles. Colic at navel. Burning griping pains. Brrised feeling through epi- gastrium and abdomen. Constipation of the aged and those with weak heart. Bleeding from rectum. Urine.— Scanty, suppressed, with pain in kidney rc- gion. Nephritis.
Male
Painful induration of testicles. Shooting along perineum to penis.
Female
Mastitis; nlamma hard and very sensitive. Cancer of breast. Breast is hard, painful and of pur- ple hue. Mammary abscess. When child nurses, pain yocs from nipple all over body. Cracks and small ul- cers about nipples. Irritable breasts, before and during Galactorrhcea. [Calc.] Menses too copious menses. and frequent. Ovarian neuralgia of right side.
Respiratory
Aphonia. Difficult breathing; dry hacking, tickling cough; v worse at night. [Mentha: Bellad.] Aching pains in chest, through mid-sternum; with cough. Rheumatism of lower intercostals.
Heart
Feeling as if heart leaped into throat. [Pod.] Shock of pain in cardiac region alternating with pain in right arm.
Back
Aching pains in lumbar region ; pains streak- ing up and down spine into sacrum. Weakness and dull pain in 1 region of kidneys.I Back stiff, especially in am dp p s
Extremities
Shooting pain in right shoulder, with stiffness and inability to raise arm. ( (see Heart.) Rheu- matic pains; worse in morning. Pains fy like electric shocks, shooting, lancinating, shifting rapidly. [Puls.; Kali bich.] Pain in under side of thighs. Syphilitic sciatica. Aching of heels; relieved by elevating feet. Pains like shocks. Pain in legs, patient dreads to get up. Feet puffed; pain in ankles and feet. Neuraigia in toes.
Skin
Itches, becomes dry, shrunken, pale. Papular and pustular lesions. Most useful in early stages of cutaneous diseases. Disposition to boils, and when sloughing occurs. Squamous eruptions. Syphilitic eruptions. Swelling and induration of glands. Venereal buboes. Scarlatina-like rash.
Fever
High fever, alternating with chilliness and great prostration.
Modalities
Worse, sensitive to electric changes. Ef- fects of a wetting, when it rains, exposure to damp, cold weather, night, exposure, motion, right side. Better, warmth, dry weather, rest.
Relationships
Compare: Tincture of Phytolacca Berry (sore throats and in the treatment of obesity); Franciscca (syphilis and rheumatism, much aching, great heat over body; better, sweat. Pain in back of head and spine. Band-like feeling around head); Bry.; Rhus; Kali hyd.; Merc.; Sang.; Arum triph. 593 Antidotes: Milk and salt; Bellad.; Mcser.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency. Externally for mastitis.