Materia Medica

Plantago Major

Plantain

Has considerable clinical reputation in the treatment of earache, toothache, and enuresis. Sharp pain in eyes, reflex from decayed teeth or inflammation of mid- dle ear. Eyeball very tender to touch. Pain plays between teeth and ears. Pyorrhoea alveolaris. [Staph- isag.] Depression and insomnia of chronic Nicotinism. Causes an aversion to tobarco.

Ears

Hearing acute; noise painful. Sticking pain in ears. Neuralgic earachie; pain goes from one ear to the other through the head. Otalgia, with toothache. Loud noises go through one. lLANIAGO MAJ.— PLATANUS OCCI.— PLATINA 599

Nose

Sudden, yellowish, watery discharge.

Mouth

Teeth ache and are sensitive and sore to touch. Swelling of cheeks. Salivation; teeth feel too long; worse, cold air and contact. Toothache, better while eating. Profuse flow of saliva. Toothache, with reflex neuralgia of eyelids.

Stool

Wants to defecate; goes often, but cannot. Piles so bad, can hardly stand Diarrhoea, with brown watery stools. Urine.-- Profuse flow; nocturnal euurcsis. [Rhus arom.: Caust.]

Skin

Itching and burning ; papulae. Urticaria, chil- lains. [Agar.; Tamus.] Poison-oak.

Relationships

Compare: Kal.; Cham.; Puls.

Dose

Tincture, and lower potencies. Local use in toothache in hollow teeth, otorrhoea, pruritus, and Poi- son-oak. Incised wounds.