Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
644.34.16
644.34.16 Phyllanthus amarus
English: Stonebreaker; Seed-under-leaf.
Mind
Aversion to both mental and physical work; lazy.
Aversion to playing.
Concentration difficult.
Restlessness, wants to walk about, does not like to lie down.
Angry at trifles.
Confusion, mistakes, to whom he had spoken, what has happened.
Delusion: falling, < walking, < bicycling.
Dreams: being murdered; hard work or exertion.
General
Type: left sided.
Weather: < dry cold wind; < draught; < sun; > open air.
Sweat: < perspiration.
Time: < morning; comes and goes suddenly.
Food: >< eating; > warm drinks; > cold drinks.
Aversion: food, appetite decreased; drinks.
Sleep: sleepy but sleepless; disturbed, < morning.
Physical: < stooping; < motion, slightest, sudden; < touch, slightest, clothing; < pressure; < sitting; < walking; < talking; < reading; < stooping; < lying on painful side; < chewing.
Body
Energy: weak, fatigue, > lying down.
Head: pain dull, aching, heavy, tight helmet, stitching, temples, forehead, < talking, < motion, > sleep, > lying down, < pressure, + vomiting, prostration, cold sweat of face, dry lips and mouth; pain nape of neck, then in both supra orbital regions and finally settles in occipital region, burning as a volcano, < 10 pm, < reading, < morning in bed, < slightest motion; eruptions, itching, painful papules, scalp, < touch.
Eyes: heavy, < headache; drooping eyelids, < reading; heat, burning, > closing eyes tightly; stitching pain in left eyeball with lachrymation, < fever, coryza, dry cough, < slightest motion; stye, left upper eyelid; redness of conjunctiva, < stooping; ophthalmia; conjunctivitis.
Ears: stitching pain, < dry cold wind, eustachian tube; itching in left; stopped, < empty swallowing; tender in front of tragus and in mastoid region; intense stitching pain, right ear, with body pain, chilliness, decreased appetite and heaviness of head, < lying on painful side, evening, night, slightest touch, slightest draught of air, stooping and chewing.
Nose: discharge, thick transparent tenacious mucus, yellowish green, watery; stopped one-sided, alternating sides; sneezing, paroxysmal; loss of smell; raw posterior nares, > eating, > warm drinks; coryza.
Face: pain in left temporo-mandibular joint.
Mouth: loss of taste.
Throat, rawness, > warm drinks.
Lungs: cough, asthma and other bronchial affections; suffocation, < closed room, < lying down.
Stomach: nausea, < eating; + vomiting sour yellow fluid at first and later of undigested food, without nausea, accompanied by prostration.
Abdomen: pain, > cold drinks, > eating, > lying on abdomen, > belching.
Rectum: frequent urging, < eating, < menses; soft stool.
Genital: gonorrhoea.
Female: menses early, scanty, short, intermittent; dysmenorrhoea, + weak legs, + vomiting; stitching pain left ovary, < sitting, < walking, > hard pressure, > lying on abdomen, > pressing thighs against abdomen; menorrhagia; leucorrhoea; mammary abscess; milk scanty; pain stitching, left ovarian region, > hard pressure, lying on abdomen, pressing thighs against abdomen.
Back: pain dull, aching, as blunt wooden instrument sticking or pressing, lumbosacral, sacroiliac joint, < stooping, < rising from stooping, from lying, < motion, < menses.
Limbs: cramps, calves, right, < bathing, < morning in bed, < rising from bed, < walking.
Skin: itching, pubic, = scratching, < perspiration, < clothing; warts, moles; scabby, crusty lesions, bruises, wounds, scabies, offensive ulcers and sores, oedematous swellings, tubercular ulcers and ringworm.