Materia Medica de A a Z

PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA (phyt)

Region

Glands (MAMMÆ. Naso-pharynx. Throat. Tonsils). Muscles. Fibrous tissues (NECK. Back. Tendons. Joints). Periosteum. Kidneys. Tongue (Root). Digestive tract. Right side.

Worse

Raising up. Motion. Swallowing. Hot drinks. Heat. Cold: Damp. Night. Change of weather.

Better

Lying on abdomen. Cold drinks.

General

A remedy of long and deep action. SORE, HARD ACHE, all over; sudden; agg. eyeballs, kidneys, neck, shoulders, back, forearms and below knees. Restlessness. Bluish-red parts, fauces, glands, etc. Spreading pains. Rheumatism; after tonsilitis. Shreddy, stringy secretions; stools, menses, etc. Hard mammary glands. Obesity..................... Faint on rising. Frontal headache. Head feels beaten sore; agg. brain. Hot tears. Green vision. Nose seems heavy. Nostrils close alternately. Acrid coryza. Yellowish sickly face. Aching, malar bones. Glands swelled at angle of jaw. Jaws ache, as in mumps. Everted lips. Clenches teeth. Tongue, fiery red at tip; feels burnt or pains at root and into ear on swallowing. Much stringy saliva. White-gray spots on fauces. Mucous patches. THROAT; very sore; very painful swallowing; dark, puffy; burning, as of a stick, hot ball or lump in. Like dark wash leather on tonsil. Tonsilitis. Diphtheria. Hard throb in r. tonsil. Quinsy. Violent retching and vomiting; he would rather die. Continuous urging to stool; even during sleep. Dysentery. Hard ache in kidneys. Dark, red urine; chalky sediment. Albuminuria. Sore spermatic cords. Menstruation, with flow of saliva and tears. Chronic aphonia. Dry, tickling cough. STONY HARD, HEAVY, SWELLED (agg. left) OR TENDER MAMMÆ, paining during suckling, spreading over whole body; hard nodes in. Mastitis. Nipples cracked; inverted. Heart symptoms go to r. arm. Fatty heart. Neck stiff. Right arm numb and fuzzy. Hips and thighs pain on change of weather. Aching tibiæ. Syphilis. Aching heels, amel. elevating feet. Bone pains. Dry, harsh skin.

Complementary: Sil.

Related: Bry, Kali-bi, Kali-i, Merc, Rhus-t.