Materia Medica de A a Z

PHELLANDRIUM AQUATICUM (phel)

The respiratory symptoms are most important, and have been frequently verified clinically. A very good remedy for the OFFENSIVE EXPECTORATION AND COUGH IN PHTHISIS, bronchitis, and emphysema. Tuberculosis, affecting generally the middle lobes. EVERYTHING TASTES SWEET. Haemoptysis, hectic and colliquative diarrhoea.

Head

WEIGHT ON VERTEX; ACHING AND BURNING IN TEMPLES AND ABOVE EYES. Crushing feeling in vertex. Vertigo, dizzy when lying down.

Eyes

Ciliary neuralgia; worse any attempt to use eyes: burning in eyes. Lachrymation. Cannot bear light. Headache; involving nerves going to eye.

Female

PAIN IN MILK DUCTS; intolerable between nursing. Pain in nipples.

Chest

STICKING PAIN THROUGH RIGHT BREAST NEAR STERNUM, EXTENDING TO BACK NEAR SHOULDERS. Dyspnoea, and continuous cough, early in morning. Cough, with profuse and fetid expectoration; compels him to sit up. Hoarseness.

Fever

Hectic; profuse and debilitating perspiration; intermittent, with pain in arms. Desire for acids.

Extremities

Tired feeling when walking.

Relationship

Compare: Conium; Phyt; Sil; Ant iod (Ant-i); Myosotis arvensis (Myos-a).

Dose

Tincture, to sixth potency. In phthisis not below the sixth.