Materia Medica de A a Z

PHYSALIS ALKEKENGI = ALKEKENGI = SOLANUM VESICARIUM (physal)

Marked urinary symptoms confirming its ancient uses in gravel, etc. Lithiasis; marked diuretic action. Languor and muscular weakness.

Head

Vertigo, hazy feeling; memory weakness; desire to talk constantly. Throbbing pain, heavy over eyes in forehead. Facial paralysis. Dryness of mouth.

Extremities

Stiff limbs; tonic cramps. Paralysis. When walking, every jar seems repeated in the head.

Fever

Chilly in open air. Feverish in evening. Sweat during stool, with creeping sensation, with abundant urine. Pain in liver during, fever.

Respiratory

Cough. Hoarse voice; throat irritated; chest oppressed, causing insomnia. Stabbing in chest.

Urinary

Acrid, foul, retained, abundant. Polyuria. Sudden inability to hold it in women. Nocturnal incontinence. Enuresis.

Skin

Excoriation between fingers and toes; pustules on thighs; nodes on forehead.

Modalities

Worse: cold camp evening. After going heated.

Dose

Tincture to third attenuation. The juice of the berries is used in dropsical conditions and irritable bladder.