(Pokeroot)
Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration, are
general symptoms guiding to Phytolacca. Preeminently a glandular remedy.
Glandular swellings with heat and inflammation. Has a powerful effect on
fibrous and osseous tissues; fasciae and muscle sheaths; acts on scar
tissue. Syphilitic bone pains; chronic rheumatism. Sore throat, quinsy, and
diphtheria. Tetanus and opisthotonos. Decrease of weight. Retarded
dentition. | ||
| Mind. Loss of
personal delicacy, disregard of surrounding 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. Tarsal edges feel hot. Fistula
lachrymalis. Abundant lachrymation, hot. | ||
| Nose. Coryza;
flow of mucus from one nostril and from posterior nares. | ||
| Mouth. Teething
children with irresistible desire to bite the teeth together. Teeth
clenched; low lip drawn down; lips everted; jaws firmly set; chin drawn
down on sternum. Tongue red tip, feels rough and scalded; bleeding
from mouth; blisters 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. [Bell.; Lach.] Throat feels rough, narrow, hot. Tonsils
swollen, especially right; dark red appearance. Shooting pain into
ears on swallowing. Pseudomembranous exudation, grayish white; thick,
tenacious yellowish mucus, difficult to dislodge. Cannot swallow
anything hot. [Lach.] Tension and pressure in
parotid gland. Ulcerated sore throat and diphtheria; throat feels very
hot; pain at root of tongue extending to ear. Uvula large, dropsical.
Quinsy; tonsils and fauces swollen, with burning pain; cannot
swallow even water. Mumps. Follicular pharyngitis. | ||
| Abdomen. Sore
spot in right hypochondrium. Rheumatism of abdominal muscles. Colic at
navel. Burning griping pains. Bruised feeling through epigastrium and
abdomen. Constipation of the aged and those with weak heart. Bleeding from
rectum. | ||
| Urine. Scanty,
suppressed, with pain in kidney region. Nephritis. | ||
| Female.
Mastitis; mammae hard and very sensitive. Tumors of the breasts with
enlarged axillary glands. Cancer of breast. Breast is hard, painful and of
purple hue. Mammary abscess. When child nurses, pain goes from nipple
all over body. Cracks and small ulcers about nipples. Irritable
breasts, before and during menses. Galactorrhea. [Calc.] Menses too copious and frequent. Ovarian
neuralgia of right side. | ||
| Male. Painful
induration of testicles. Shooting along perineum to
penis. | ||
| Heart. Feeling
as if heart leaped into throat. [Podo.] Shock of pain
in cardiac region alternating with pain in right arm. | ||
| Respiratory.
Aphonia. Difficult breathing; dry hacking, tickling cough; worse at night.
[Bell.] Aching pains in chest, through midsternum;
with cough. Rheumatism of lower intercostals. | ||
| Back. Aching
pains in lumbar region; pains streaking up and down spine into sacrum.
Weakness and dull pain in region of kidneys. Back stiff, especially in
morning on rising and during damp weather. | ||
| Extremities.
Shooting pain in right shoulder, with stiffness and inability to raise arm
(see Heart.). Rheumatic pains; worse in morning. Pains fly like
electric shocks, shooting, lancinating, shifting rapidly. [Puls.; Kali-bi.] Pain in underside
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. Neuralgia in toes. | ||
| Fever. High
fever, alternating with chilliness and great prostration. | ||
| 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. Warts
and moles. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, sensitive to electric changes. Effects of a wetting, when it
rains, exposure to damp, cold weather, night, exposure,
motion, right side. Better, warmth, dry weather, rest. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Bry.; Rhus-t.; Merc. Inimical: Merc. Antidote: Milk and Salt; Bell. | ||
| Dose. Tincture,
to third potency. Externally for mastitis. |