Author:
Cyrus Boger
Book:
Synoptic key
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
Phytolacca americanan
Phytolacca americana
A remedy of long and deep action. SORE, HARD ACHE, all over; sudden; < 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; < 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 right 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 (< left) OR TENDER MAMMÆ, paining during suckling, spreading over whole body; hard nodes in. Mastitis. Nipples cracked; inverted. Heart symptoms go to right arm. Fatty heart. Neck stiff. Right arm numb and fussy. Hips and thighs pain on change of weather. Aching tibiae. Syphilis. Aching heels, > elevating feet. Bone pains. Dry, harsh skin.
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.