Phytolacca Decandra phyt.

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

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

Lying on abdomen. Cold drinks.

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 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 (< 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, > elevating feet. Bone pains. Dry, harsh skin.

Complementary: Sil. Related: Bry. Kali-bi. Kali - io. Merc. Rhus-t.

Patients of a rheumatic diathesis; rheumatism of fibrous and periosteal tissue; mercurial or syphillitic. Emaciation, chlorosis; loss of fat. Great exhaustion and profound prostration. Occupies a position between Bryonia and Rhus; cures when these fail, though apparently well indicated. In rheumatism and neuralgia after diphtheria, gonorrhea, mercury or syphilis. Pain flying like electric shocks; shooting, lancinating: rapidly shifting (Lac c., Puls.); worse from motion and at night. Entire indifference to life; sure she will die. Vertigo: when rising from bed feels faint (Bry.). Intense headache and backache; lame, sore bruised feeling all over; constant desire to move but motion < pains (Lac c., Mer. - motion > Rhus). Irresistible desire to bit the teeth or gums together (Pod.); during dentition. Sore throat; of a dark color; uvula large, dropsical, almost translucent (Kali bi., Rhus). Diphtheria: pains shoot from throat into ears on swallowing; great pain at root of tongue when swallowing; burning, as from a coal of fire or a red-hot iron: dryness; difficult to swallow with trembling of the hands; sensation of a lump in the throat with continuous desire to swallow; tonsils, uvula and back part of throat covered with ash-colored membrane; cannot drink hot fluids (Lach.). Carotid and submaxillary glands indurated after diphtheria, scarlet fever. Mammae full of hard, painful nodosities. Breast; shows an early tendency to cake; is full, stony, hard and painful, especially when suppuration is inevitable; when child nurses pain goes from nipple to all over body (goes to back, Crot. t.; to uterus, Puls., Sil.). Mammary abscess; fistulae, gaping, angry ulcers; pus sanious, ichorous, fetid; unhealthy. Tumefied breast neither heals nor suppurates, is of a purple hue and "hard as old cheese" (Bry., Lac c., Phel.). Nipples, sensitive, sore, fissured (Graph.); < intensely by nursing, pain radiates over whole body. Hastens suppuration (Hep., Lach., Mer., Sil.).

Compare: Kali i., its analogue.

When it rains: exposure to damp, cold weather.

Crusta lactea, moist, fearful itching, with little raw tubercles on scalp, face, and arms. Headache with nausea; right side; in forehead; running backward. Tongue blistered, red tip, great pain at root of.

Constipation habitual; patient says the bowels will not move without aid of purgatives; feeling of fulness in the abdomen before stool, which remains after stool, as if all had not passed; constipation from torpor of the rectum.

Female: Mastitis, where the hardness is very apparent from the first, with great burning; very sensitive nipples or breasts, which are more or less painful; even after suppuration these characteristics continue. Menses: amenorrhœa complicated with ovarian irritation or disease. Very painful menstruation in apparently barren women when occurring in connection with rheumatism; shreds of membrane are passed with the menstrual flow; dysmenorrhœa accompanying erosion or ulceration of the cervix. Menses too often; too profuse, with corresponding increase of the tears, saliva, bile and urine.

Patient is subject to rheumatic pains on change of weather especially in hips and thighs; rheumatic muscular pains or chronic rheumatism. Burning heat in throat, as from coal on fire: throat red sore; catarrh in; diphtheria.

Great pain in root of tongue when swallowing. Difficult swallowing; with every attempt excruciating shooting pains through both cars.

Poke-root (PHYTOLACCA)

Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration, are general symptoms guiding to Phytolacca. Pre-eminently a glandular remedy. Glandular swellings with heat and inflammation. Has a powerful effect on fibrous and osseous tissues; fasciæ and muscle sheaths; acts on scar tissue. Syphilitic bone pains; chronic rheumatism. Sore throat, quinsy, and diphtheria. Tetanus and opisthotonos. Decrease of weight. Retarded dentition.

Loss of personal delicacy, disregard of surrounding objects. Indifferent to life.

Vertigo on rising. Brain feels sore. Pain from frontal region backward. Pressure in temples and over eyes. Rheumatism of scalp; pains come on every time it rains. Scaly eruption on scalp.

Smarting. Feeling of sand under lids. Tarsal edges feel hot. Fistula lachrymalis (Fluor ac). Abundant lachrymation, hot.

Coryza; flow of mucus from one nostril and from posterior nares.

Teething children with irresistible desire to bite the teeth together. Teeth clenched; lower lip drawn down; lips everted; jaws firmly set; chin drawn down on sternum. Tongue red tip, feels rough and scalded; bleeding from mouth; blisters on side. Mapped, indented, fissured, with yellow patch down center. Much stringy saliva.

Dark red or bluish red. Much pain at root of tongue; soft palate and tonsils swollen. Sensation of a lump in throat (Bell; Lach). Throat feels rough, narrow, hot. Tonsils swollen, especially right; dark-red appearance. Shooting pain into ears on swallowing. Pseudo-membranous exudation, grayish white; thick, tenacious yellowish mucus, difficult to dislodge. Cannot swallow anything hot (Lach). Tension and pressure in parotid gland. Ulcerated sore throat and diphtheria; throat feels very hot; pain at root of tongue extending to ear. Uvula large, dropsical. Quinsy; tonsils and fauces swollen, with burning pain; cannot swallow even water. Mumps. Follicular pharyngitis.

Sore spot in right hypochondrium. Rheumatism of abdominal muscles. Colic at navel. Burning griping pains. Bruised feeling through epigastrium and abdomen. Constipation of the aged and those with weak heart. Bleeding from rectum.

Scanty, suppressed, with pain in kidney region. Nephritis.

Mastitis; mammæ hard and very sensitive. Tumors of the breasts with enlarged axillary glands. Cancer of breast. Breast is hard, painful and of purple hue. Mammary abscess. When child nurses, pain goes from nipple all over body. Cracks and small ulcers about nipples. Irritable breasts, before and during menses. Galactorrhœa (Calc). Menses too copious and frequent. Ovarian neuralgia of right side.

Painful induration of testicles. Shooting along perineum to penis.

Feeling as if heart leaped into throat (Pod). Shock of pain in cardiac region alternating with pain in right arm.

Aphonia. Difficult breathing; dry hacking, tickling cough; worse at night (Mentha; Bellad). Aching pains in chest, through mid-sternum; with cough. Rheumatism of lower intercostals.

Aching pains in lumbar region; pains streaking up and down spine into sacrum. Weakness and dull pain in region of kidneys. Back stiff, especially in morning on rising and during damp weather.

Shooting pain in right shoulder, with stiffness and inability to raise arm (see Heart). Rheumatism pains; worse in morning. Pains fly like electric shocks, shooting, lancinating, shifting rapidly (Puls; Kali bich). Pain in under side of thighs. Syphilitic sciatica. Aching of heels; relieved by elevating feet. Pains like shocks. Pain in legs, patient dreads to get up. Feet puffed; pain in ankles and feet. Neuralgia in toes.

High fever, alternating with chilliness and great prostration.

Itches, becomes dry, shrunken, pale. Papular and pustular lesions. Most useful in early stages of cutaneous diseases. Disposition to boils, and when sloughing occurs. Squamous eruptions. Syphilitic eruptions. Swelling and induration of glands. Venereal buboes. Scarlatina-like rash. Warts and moles.

Worse, sensitive to electric changes. Effects of a wetting, when it rains, exposure to damp, cold weather, night exposure, motion, right side. Better, warmth, dry weather, rest.

Compare: Tincture of Phytolacca Berry (sore throats and in the treatment of obesity); Bry; Rhus; Kali hyd; Merc; Sang; Arum triph.

Inimical: Mercur.

Antidotes: Milk and salt; Bellad; Mezer.

Tincture, to third potency. Externally for mastitis.

Tonsils red, swollen, with white spots, which sometimes coalesce and form patches; pains run up into the ears, and aching, bruised, sore feeling in head, back and limbs; < on motion, but must move; he aches and is so sore.

Irresistible inclination to bite the teeth or gums together. (Dentition).

Breasts very hard, swollen, hot and painful; pain radiates all over the back when the child nurses.

Phytolacca decandra is one of our most valuable remedies for sore throat, and the indications are plain. The throat becomes generally inflamed; the tonsils swell and become very red at the first, and then white spots appear which (unless checked) soon spread and coalesce and form patches of a diphtheritic appearance. There are sharks pains often running up into one or both ears. These are the local throat symptoms, and the constitutional symptoms are:

Intense head and backache, and a sore, aching, bruised feeling all over the body, causing the patient to groan, and while, like Rhus toxicodendron, he feels as if he must move, the act of moving greatly aggravates all his pains and soreness. The patient is also greatly prostrated, and sitting upright makes him faint and dizzy like Bryonia. There is high fever, for the pulse is very quick; but the heat, like that of Arnica, is mostly in the head and face while the body and limbs are cool.

Now these symptoms present, it makes no difference whether the case is called tonsilitis, diphtheria or scarlatina. Abundant experience in my own person and observation with my patients has proven Phytolacca to be a remedy of inestimable value. Nor is it necessary to give it in twenty drop doses of the mother tincture, and gargle in addition, as some advise, but it will in the potentized dose do much better, the same as other homœopathic remedies. I have done some good work with this remedy in follicular pharyngitis, especially when in public speakers the voice gave out from over-work and there was much burning in the throat, as of a hot substance there. In this kind of sore throat I have the best success with the remedy very high.

Now let me call attention to a symptom of this remedy that has been of great value to me: "Irresistible inclination to bite the teeth or gums together." On this indication I have often relieved the complaints of various kinds incident to the period of dentition. I once had a case that was sent up to the country from New York City. The child had been sick a long time, with cholera infantum (entero-colitis), and its physicians said it must leave the city or die. But country air and change of diet brought no relief. The little fellow was greatly emaciated, having frequent loose stools of dark brown color, mixed with slime or mucus of the same color. After trying various remedies I discovered that the child wanted to bite its gums together, or to bite on everything that it could get into its mouth, and the mother then told me that this had been the case all through its sickness. Phytolacca produced immediate relief of the symptoms and rapid recovery followed.

I have since verified this symptom several times. Phytolacca is also one of our best remedies for mastitis. The breasts are very hard, greatly swollen, hot and painful. When the child nurses the pain radiates all over the body. There is fever, great pain in the head and back, and if it is a bad case, unless checked, is very liable to go on to suppuration. Every time the child nurses the pains spread all over the body.

The choice often lies between this remedy and Bryonia, and they complement each other. Almost every case of swollen breasts with the milk fever, when the breasts fill for the first time after confinement, may be speedily relieved with one or the other of these two remedies. If the case should have gone on to suppuration, with large fistulous, gaping and angry ulcers discharging a watery or fœtid pus, Phytolacca is still the remedy; and will often do more good than Hepar sulphur. and Silicea. But the choice sometimes has to be made between other remedies such as:

Croton tiglium. The pain runs through to the back when child nurses. (Silicea, Pulsatilla).

Phellandrium. Pain runs along the milk ducts between the acts of nursing.

Lac caninum. The breasts are greatly filled and so sore that their own weight hurts the patient, who wants to hold them up and shrinks from the least jar. Of course Aconite, Apis and Belladonna must not be forgotten, and have as positive indications for their use as any of the above remedies. (See also Castor equorum.)

I have removed a great many suspicious lumps or tumors in the breasts, some of them of years' standing, by giving a dose of Phytolacca c. m., once a month, during the wane of the moon. What has the moon to do with it? I do not know. I cure goître the same way (but not with Phytolacca), and was led to that way of administration by a suggestion of Jahr. That some diseases have their aggravations in certain times of the moon I know, and that certain remedies act better then, I know just as well. Do not forget that the bruised, sore feeling of Phytolacca that we noticed at length when writing of Arnica is sometimes markedly present in sciatica, for which it is one of our successful remedies. The characteristic symptom for Phytolacca in this painful affection is, that the pain runs down the outer side of the limb. Sciatica is one of the complaints in which Homœopathy has scored some of its most brilliant victories over the anodyne treatment of the old school. Periosteal rheumatism, where the pains are especially worse in wet weather, sometimes finds a remedy in Phytolacca. This drug seems to resemble in its action on the periosteum, glands, bones and skin Kali hydroiodicum, and the two remedies complement each other, of course, with indications, or the choice may sometimes lie between them. H. C. Allen says: Phytolacca occupies a place midway between Bryonia and Rhus tox., and will often help when these seem indicated but fail. It is curious to note that almost every chemical remedy has a closely resembling relative from the vegetable kingdom. Kali hydroiodicum and Phytolacca, Aloes and Sulphur, Cepa and Phosphorus, Chamomilla and Magnesia carb., China and Ferrum, Belladonna and Calcarea ost., Ipecac and Cuprum, Bryonia and Alumina, Mezereum and Mercury, Pulsatilla and Kali sulphuricum. This has been before mentioned by Hering.

Great indifference.

Vertigo and dimness of vision. One-sided headache above the eyes with sickness of the stomach. Shooting pain from the left eye to the vertex.

Burning and smarting sensation in the eyes and lids, with profuse lachrymation, which is relieved in the open air. Purple-colored swelling of the eyelids (left eye in the morning).

Shooting pains in the (right) ear.

Pale face. Heat in the face (left side) after dinner ; with redness of the face, coldness of the feet, eruption in the upper lip (left side).

The mouth fills with water, the saliva is yellowish and has a metallic taste. The tongue feels rough, with blisters on both sides, with a very red tip ; great pain at the root of the tongue on swallowing. The teeth feel elongated and are very sore. Sensation of dryness in the throat and the posterior fauces. Sensation of a lump in the throat, causing a continuous desire to swallow. Roughness and rawness in the throat.

Nausea followed by violent vomiting of mucus, bile, of the ingesta, worms, blood. Soreness and pain in the right hypochondrium (during pregnancy).

Constipation, hard stools. Stool with mucus and straining.

Violent urging to pass urine. Copious nocturnal urination. Sediment like chalk ; the dark-red urine leaves a stain in the chamber of a mahogany color. Albuminous urine.

Women. Menstruation too profuse and too frequent. Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of the mammæ.

Pains are pressing, shooting and sore. Syphilitic and mercurial rheumatism ; nightly pains in the tibia, with nodes and irritable ulcers on the lower leg.

Phytolacca decandra. Virginian Poke. Poke-root. Red Ink Plant. Garget Weed. N. O. Phytolaccaceæ. Tincture of fresh root dug in winter. Tincture of the ripe berries. Tincture of fresh leaves. Solution of the resinous extract, Phytolaccin.

Abortion, threatened. Albuminuria. Angina pectoris, Anus, fissure of. Asthma. Barber's itch. Boils. Bone, diseases of ; tumours of. Breasts, affections of. Cancer . Cholera. Cicatrix . Ciliary neuralgia. Constipation. Corpulence . Cough. Dentition, difficult. Diarrhœa. Diphtheria . Diplopia. Dysentery. Dysmenia. Ears, affections of. Erythema nodosum. Eustachian tubes, affections of. Glands, enlarged. Gleet. Glossitis. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Granular conjunctivitis. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Hearing, altered. Heart, affections of; hypertrophy of; fatty. Impotence. Influenza. Intestinal catarrh. Itch. Lactation, abnormal. Laryngismus. Leucorrhœa. Lichen. Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Lupus, Mercury, effects of. Mouth, ulcerated. Mumps. Neuralgia . Nipples, sore; painful. Nursing, painful. Orchitis. Ozæna. Panophthalmitis. Paralysis, diphtheritic. Parotitis. Prostate, affections of. Rectum, cancer of. Respiration, abnormal. Rheumatism ; syphilitic; gonorrhœal. Ringworm. Rodent ulcer. Salivation. Sciatica. Sewer-gas poisoning . Spinal irritation. Spleen, pain in. Stiff-neck. Syphilis . Syphilitic eruptions. Tetanus. Throat, sore ; diphtheritic; herpetic; granular. Toothache. Tumours. Ulcers. Uterus, affections of. Warts. Wens .

Phyt. dec . is a branching herbaceous plant, with a thick perennial root, sometimes larger than a man's leg in diameter. The young shoots, though extremely acrid, are rendered harmless by boiling, and are eaten like asparagus in the United States. The berries have a popular repute as a remedy for cancer and rheumatism. The berries of P. octandra are used in Mexico and the West Indies as a soap. According to Raffinesque, quoted by Hale (who introduced the remedy into homœopathy), the ash of the plant (which has been used as an escharotic in cancers, ulcers, &c.) contains 45 per cent. of caustic potash; and the plant contains besides an acid, Phytolaccic acid , which is closely allied to Malic acid . The plant is common throughout North America, the Azores, North Africa, and China. It grows in damp places. Some rather severe cases of poisoning have been reported. Vomiting, diarrhœa, frontal headache, sore throat, are the most common symptoms observed. One boy who drank two or three drachms of a tincture of the root had none of these symptoms, but developed complete tetanus: Extremities stiff; hands firmly shut; feet extended; toes flexed; lower lids drawn down; teeth clenched; lips everted and firm, general opisthotonos. Respiration difficult, râles heard all over the room. For an hour muscular rigidity increased generally, with convulsive action of muscles of face and neck; chin drawn close on sternum. This condition would last five or ten minutes, to be succeeded by perfect relaxation, and return in twenty minutes more with the same violence. After cold-water affusion, cupping, and sinapisms, the boy slept about twenty-five minutes. On awaking some twitchings, especially of lower limbs; pain in back of head and stomach. Next day he was quite recovered. A boy, 8, who ate a quantity of berries, was found in great agony, complaining that his stomach was "pinched together." He had nausea, violent vomiting; throat sore and dry; fauces dark red, tonsils swollen. After vomiting ceased, purging set in; stools dark brown and thin; severe pain in stomach on pressure, extorting cries. Later he had burning griping in umbilical region; dim vision; tongue coated white; spasmodic jerkings in arms and legs. In a woman, 45, who took Phyt . as a "blood purifier," a general rash, in appearance not unlike the rash of secondary syphilis, was set up. In a family of four poisoned by eating the root in mistake with their food, these symptoms were observed: Dread of movement; seems stupid; falls asleep after a paroxysm of cramping pain has ceased; pain in forehead < after eating; vomiting of clotted blood and slime; copious discharge of blood and mucus which looked like scrapings of intestines; involuntary stools from straining, which occurred even in sleep. In the mother of the family, seven months pregnant, it very nearly produced miscarriage; the uterus could be felt contracting under the hand; involuntary straining and hæmorrhage from the vagina; intense griping pain in small of back and cramps in legs coming and going suddenly, coldness and withered appearance of extremities, whole body cold. In all the above cases the spasmodic action of the drug is evident in some form. From inhaling the dust of the powdered dried root, or the odour given off on slicing the fresh root, intense irritation of eyes, nose, and throat, and severe headache and diarrhœa have occurred. Given to animals, Phyt . has caused convulsive symptoms, vomiting, and vomiting of worms. Wild pigeons and other birds which eat the berries acquire a highly red colour and lose their fat. This last observation has led to the use of a tincture of Phyt . berries as an anti-fat, and many successful results have been reported. This observation may be taken as the key to one of the great spheres of the action of this remedy — the absorption of tissues, especially new growths. There are few remedies which have a wider range in the cure of tumours and indurations, particularly of the female breast. Hale tells us that among dairymen in America the root is used to regulate any abnormality in the milk of cows — scanty; thick; watery; curdy; containing blood or pus. But its chief repute is in caked udders. In breast induration and abscesses of nursing women, and even in cancers (internally and sometimes externally as well), its action has been well confirmed. But it must not be supposed that this action is purely physiological, as is the absorption of fat in birds. A patient of mine, about forty-five, took Phyt . 30 for sore throat. After a few-doses she was compelled to desist because of its effects on her breasts; both became full and uncomfortable, and in the left one appeared a large lump in its upper segment, which lasted five days, and was only got rid of by dint of vigorous rubbing with camphorated oil. A case of cancer of the rectum has been cured with Phytolaccin 3x. In the uterus and the prostate gland (the male uterus) specific symptoms were evoked in the poisonings and provings. Muscles, joints, bones, brain, and spinal cord, as well as the special senses, were all more or less disordered. The intense action of the drug on the throat has led to its being used as a routine remedy in diphtheria. It is not a specific; but it has some very characteristic symptoms which will indicate it when present. Among these are: Great pain at root of tongue when swallowing; pains shooting from throat into ears on swallowing; hot feeling as if a red-hot ball in throat; burning < by hot drinks; dark redness of fauces. Eclectics ( H. R ., xi. 429) give the expressed juice of the berries in "spasmodic or membranous croup, or diphtheria." There is one form of sore throat in which I have found it of the greatest service-the so-called "diphtheritic sore throat." Dark red, swollen mucous membrane and tonsils, pain on swallowing, eruption of herpetic, whitish, or grey spots on fauces, swelling and tenderness of the glands externally at the angle of the jaw. With these symptoms there are generally headache, backache, wandering rheumatic pains and fever. I have cleared up numberless cases of this kind with Phyt . 30. Not infrequently epidemic influenza has taken this form, and then Phyt . has been my most successful remedy. (Nash has relieved chronic follicular pharyngitis in public speakers when there has been much burning , as if a hot substance in throat.) One of the provers had "swollen and tender gland right side of neck"; and swollen and tender glands in many other localities have been remedied with Phyt . The headaches of Phyt . are chiefly frontal, pressive, involving eyes, < right side. One headache is peculiar, being associated with increased sense of hearing . The irritation of the mucous membrane of the throat extends to nose, ears, and eyes, producing characteristic symptoms in each. The discharges are tough, stringy, difficult to detach, and may take the form of clinkers. Offensiveness and acridity are also common features. The nervous irritability of Phyt . has led to its successful use in disorders of dentition, a keynote symptom being: Irresistible inclination to bite the teeth or gums together. The pains of Phyt . come and go suddenly; move about, radiate from a centre, or change place. Pain in sore nipples of nursing women radiate all over the body when the child is put to the breast. When pain in intestines disappears pain in extremities comes on. Pain leaves heart and appears in right arm (this association is unusual, and therefore important). Pains in head and chest go from before backward. Pains run down spine from nape; from sacrum down outer aspect of thighs to toes. The outer aspects of the limbs are chiefly affected. The shreddy discharge of Phyt . mark it as a remedy in certain forms of intestinal catarrh and dysmenorrhœa. It is hæmorrhagic and hæmorrhoidal, acting strongly on rectum and anus, curing tenesmus, bloody discharges and heat. One characteristic pain (noted in a case of constipation) is: Shooting pain from anus to lower part of rectum, along perinæum to middle of penis. "Gurgling in the prostate gland, repeatedly in the afternoon," was noted by one prover, and pains in spermatic cords. Entire suspension of sexual appetite with relaxation of the genitals was caused. Stiffness is a characteristic effect of Phyt ., noted in the tetanus case, and in others in less degree. Stiff neck, especially right side. The prostration is so rapid and profound that it has led to the successful use of Phyt . in diphtheritic paralysis. Faint and dizzy when standing. Soreness of all the muscles. Restlessness, but he fears to move because motion < the pains. The rheumatic swellings are hard, tender, and intensely hot. Phyt . is suited to rheumatic or syphilitic subjects who are sensitive to damp weather. Peculiar sensations are: Brain as if bruised. Right side of head as if pressed firmly. As if sand in eyes. As if eyes too large. As if lids granulated. As if tarsal edges raw. As if lids on fire. Nostril as if tickled with a stiff feather. Nose and eyes as if a cold would come on. Tongue as if scalded. As if a ball of red-hot iron in throat. As if lump in throat. As if apple core in throat. Throat so full it felt choked. Pharynx feels like a cavern; chest as if it were a big empty cask. Body as if bruised; pounded all over. As if joint were being chopped with an axe. The right side is most affected, and many symptoms were experienced in the liver; there were also some severe ones in the spleen. The liver-pains were < lying on right (painful) side. The spleen pain was > lying on left (painful) side. Nash has removed many breast tumours by giving a single dose of Phyt . cm during the wane of the moon. The symptoms are < by touch (liver, &c). There is great general sensitiveness. Pressure < pain in joints and ulcers. Pressure with hand > pain in breasts. Pressure on trachea facilitates expectoration. Rubbing > pain in hip. Riding < nose and breathing. < Stepping down high step. Rising from bed = faint feeling. Sitting up = sick and giddy. Standing = faint and dizzy. Gaslight < eyes. Swallowing < . After breakfast head and throat > , gastric symptoms < . Vomiting < headache, > nausea. Hunger soon after eating. (This is like the deadly sinking so often met with in the cancerous diathesis.) < At menstrual periods. Must lie down. < Lying right side. > Lying left side. > Lying on stomach. < Standing and < motion. < Walking. < Raising arm. < Night. < Morning; 3, 4, or 5 a.m.; on waking. < Damp weather; washing; hot drinks. < Exposure to air; open air (but it > eyes). The external use of Phyt . has been attended with good results in cases of ulceration, and I have found a gargle of a few drops of the Ø to a tumbler of water useful in many throat cases. A preparation of the leaves has been used successfully by Hurndall ( H. W ., xxxi. 217) as an external application for carcinomatous growths in dogs; and an ointment prepared with a strong tincture of the leaves as well as the juice of the leaves have been used for malignant ulcers in human beings.

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Delirium.
Indisposition to mental exertion ; disgust for business of day, on waking early in morning.
Melancholy, gloom ; indifference to life.
Great fear ; is sure she will die.
Complete shamelessness and indifference to exposure of her person.
Irritability ; restlessness.
Irresistible desire to bite teeth together.
Cannot be persuaded to take nourishment.
Remarkable nervous phenomena in diphtheria.
A form of insanity with albuminuria.
Oversensitiveness to pain ; pain is unbearable.

Vertigo : cannot walk ; staggering, with danger of falling ; with dim vision ; when rising from bed feels faint .

Headache : severe ; violent ; one-sided, just above eyebrows, with sickness of stomach ; dull, heavy in forehead ; dull, pressive, with vertigo and impairment of vision ; in diphtheria ; rheumatic, syphilitic or neuralgic.
Painful pressure on forehead and upper part of both eyes.
Dull pressing pain in forehead, accompanied by slight nausea, with cool perspiration in forehead and feeling of weakness.
Shooting pain from left eye to vertex.
Pain extending back from frontal region.
Sharp, shooting pains in right temple.
Pressure in top of head with dryness.
Pain in top of head and a feeling as if brain were bruised, when stepping from a high step to ground.
Heavy aching feeling in head at 1.30 P. M.
Sore pain over head, < right side.
Sensation of soreness deep in brain.
Sick-headache : in forehead ; with backache and bearing down ; weekly.
Pain in back of head and neck.

Rheumatism : of right frontal region, with nausea, < in morning ; of scalp ; dull pains, come on every time it rains, with depression of spirits ; especially following diphtheria.
Scaly eruption on scalp.
Eczema capitis, moist, fearful itching, little raw tubercles on scalp, face and arms.
Tinea capitis ; < washing it when he is warm.
Syphilitic nodes on skull.

Photophobia.
Double vision with giddiness and headache.
Dimness of vision.
Pupils contracted ; tetanus.
Eyes staring.
Blue around eyes.
Feeling of sand in eyes, with soreness and burning.
Burning and smarting in eyes and lids, with profuse lachrymation, > in open air.
Sharp pain goes through ball of eye on reading or writing.
Dull aching pains in eyes, < from motion, light, or exercise.
Rheumatic pain in and about eye.
Pressure around eyes in afternoon, as if eyes were too large.
Circumorbital pains in syphilitic ophthalmia.
Suppurative choroiditis (pan-opthalmitis) in right eye of a child, after a needle operation for cataract ; lids enormously swollen, very hard and red, conjunctiva injected, chemosis, anterior chamber filled with pus and cornea tending towards suppuration ; child pale,
weak and restless.
Cellulitis : inflammation slow in its course and not attended by severe pain ; infiltration of cellular tissue of orbit very pronounced, hard and unyielding to touch ; eyelids reddish-blue, hard and swollen ; eyeball pressed forward and its mobility impaired or
lost entirely ; chemosis ; more or less dull aching pain ; lachrymation ; photophobia.
Eyes inflamed.
Rheumatic ophthalmia ; lids much swollen.
Catarrhal ophthalmia ; burning, smarting, tingling pain ; itching < by gaslight, abundant flow of tears.
Gradual conjunctivitis, with circumorbital pain ; soreness in periosteum and scalp, as of rheumatic origin.
Motions of one eye independent of the other.
Lachrymation, with coryza.
Fistula lachrymalis.
Lids feel as if granulated and tarsal edges have a scalded, hot feeling, as if raw ; granulated, sandy sensation in lids, with same sensation upon edges.
Lids feel as if on fire. θ Acute rheumatic ophthalmia.
Eyelids agglutinated and œdematous.
Reddish-blue swelling of eyelids, < on left side and in morning ; hard, unyielding cellulitis.
Scrofulous swelling of glands of eyelids.
Malignant ulcers on lid : lupus, epithelioma, etc.

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This is a very imperfectly proved remedy, and it is only possible to present fragments of it.

The mental symptoms have not been brought out, but the remedy has some striking features.

You will notice the resemblance of this drug to Mercury, and it is an antidote to mercury. In those lingering mercurial bone pains, where the patient has been salivated; the pains come on at night from the warmth of the bed; the body aches; a chronic, sore, bruised state; soreness of the periosteum where the flesh is thin, over the tibia; joints; soreness of the muscles; drawing and cramping; drawing in the muscles of the back; backache, worse at night; worse from the warmth of the bed.

The patient suffers from these symptoms in cold, damp weather, as in Mercury. Tendency to ulceration, hence its usefulness in syphilis; old, chronic, syphilitic ulcers; the patient has been salivated; had Mercury rubbed in; he became saturated with it, but it no longer helps. Ulcers in the throat; on the skin; on mucous membranes anywhere.

Spasmodic conditions; drawing in the muscles; this may extend to violent spasms; opisthotonos; sometimes the cervical region is affected and the head is drawn back; jerking and twitching of the muscles.

Phytolacca is a glandular remedy.

The glands become inflamed, and hard. It produces sore throats, with inflammation of the glands of the neck, particularly the sub maxillary and parotid. Inflammation of the throat with the accumulation of thick, tenacious mucus; swelling of the tonsils. Low grade inflammation like erysipelas.

The symptoms are aggravation at night, on cold days, in a cold room, and from the heat of the bed; so that there is a controversy between heat and cold.

It seems that the remedy centres in the mammary glands. Soreness and lumps in the breasts from each cold, damp spell; becomes chilled and a sore breast results; sore breast in connection with the menses; a nursing woman is exposed to the cold, the breast inflames and the milk becomes stringy; coagulated milk.

This comes out in the proving, but poke root has been extensively used by cattle raisers when the cow's milk became thick and there were lumps in the bag, and when the condition was brought on from the cow standing out in the rain.

Almost any excitement centers in the mammary gland; fear or an accident; lumps form, pains, heat, swelling, tumefaction; even violent inflammation and suppuration. No other remedy in the Materia Medica centres so in the mammary gland. Mercury is similar; when the patient takes cold the glands become sore. If every tribulation makes the glands sore in a nursing woman, give her Phytolacca.

When a mother says she has no milk, or that the milk is scanty, thick, unhealthy; dries up soon; Phytolacca becomes then a constitutional remedy if there are no contra-indicating symptoms. A bloody watery discharge which continued for five years after weaning the infant was cured by Phyto. The breast is so sore that, when she nurses the child, she almost goes into spasms, with the pain extending down the back and limbs all over the body.

Diphtheria . In certain epidemics; great tumefaction of the throat; swelling of the glands of the neck, parotid and sub maxillary; aching in the bones; fetor from the mouth, with heavily coated tongue; great aching in the back; nose bleed; soreness of the muscles.

Analogous to Mercurius; they are closely related in diphtheria. At times in diphtheria we can only obtain the fetor, loaded tongue, exudation, swollen glands and stiff neck.

This looks like Mercurius or one of the Mercuries. The Protoiodide is right sided, and stays there or may go to the left side. The Biniodide goes from left to right . The Merc. cyanide has a thick, green membranous cast, extending from the nose to the throat. In Phytolacca we have many features of Mercury.

It has cured syphilitic nodes on the skull and shin bones.

Many eruptions.

"Squamous eruptions; Pityriasis, psoriasis."

"Ringworm."

"Barber's itch."

"Rash on body; measles; scarlet eruptions all over the body."

It is not surprising that it cures scarlatina, as it has this scarlet rash, the sore throat and glandular involvement.

It has the ability to delay the formation of malignant growths, especially in the breast; glandular tumors that become hard and scirrhous. Until this remedy was known there was but one remedy for the old cicatrices in the mammary gland. Women who were confined years before, had abscesses of the breast which were poulticed and lanced had a cicatrix left, and now in the present confinement they have trouble; inflammation in the old cicatrices; ulceration which eats off the lacteal glands or turns the ducts aside and twists them; high inflammation - throbbing and pain; milk bloody.

Graphites was the old routine remedy, but Phytolacca, is a better remedy and suits the general concomitants oftener. The symptoms usually found in an inflamed breast after confinement are: aching in the back and bone pains; fever and shivering.

Phytolacca has these and falls into the very nature of the case. Graphites has it only in a limited way. if there is high fever; congestion to the head; throbbing carotids; much redness, and the redness radiates from the nipple, Belladonna is the remedy.

When the entire gland is as heavy as a stone, and hard, and the patient is sensitive to motion and touch, Bryonia. Mercury when the general symptoms agree. Hepar and Silicea after suppuration is inevitable, especially when the only comfort is obtained from heat. Hepar when there is extreme pain and soreness, irritability and this relief from heat; it limits the extent of the suppuration and opens the part without pain.

The most distressing, lingering, inveterate, old catarrhs with destruction of the bones of the nose.

"Total obstruction of the nose: when riding, must breathe through the mouth."

"Coryza and cough, with redness of eyes and lachrymation; photophobia; feeling of sand in the eyes, with soreness and burning."

"Syphilitic ozaena, with bloody, sanious discharge and disease of bone."

"Noli me tangere and cancerous affections of nose."

It is somewhat like Graphites, in that it seeks out fissures in which to establish inflammation, induration and eruptions. Where the circulation is feeble it has the tendency to establish induration.

"Face sunken, pale, hippocratic; blue around eyes; yellowish complexion; looking blue and suffering .

Pains in bones of head and face at night."

"Swelling around left ear and side of face like erysipelas; thence over scalp; very painful."

"Lips everted and firm. Tetanus."

"Ulcers on lips."

"Parotid and sub maxillary glands swollen."

"Tongue thickly coated on back; coated yellow and dry."

This is found in all acute complaints and is like Mercury. Phytolacca holds a reputation among the Eclectics, and in their results we see a shadow of its homeopathic action. In Cincinnati they used three drops in a tumbler of water and gave it for ulcers in the mouth. It was a standard remedy with them and they made some homoeopathic cures.

"Ulcerated sore mouth."

Syphilitic ulcers find a curative remedy in Phytolacca, when the symptoms agree.

There are several pages in the Guiding Symptoms showing homeopathic cures of the throat; diphtheria; sore throat; inflamed glands; aching bones worse at night, violent cases, with difficult swallowing, pains in the tonsils; enlarged tonsils; tendency to slough. Syphilitic and mercurial sore throats. The sore throats are often aggravated from warm drinks; he wants cool things; and there is an aggravation at night.

Here is a summary:

"Diphtheria; sick and dizzy when trying to sit up; frontal headache; pains shooting from throat into ears, especially on trying to swallow; face flushed; tongue much coated, protruded; thickly coated at back, fiery red at tip; breath foetid; putrid; vomiting; difficulty of swallowing; tonsils swollen, covered with membrane, first upon left; three or four patches; tonsils, uvula and back part of throat covered with ash-colored exudation. Pain in the root 'of the tongue on putting out."

Old gout and rheumatism of the limbs; in acute rheumatism which is prolonged, worse at night, worse from the warmth of the bed, worse from warm applications.

Gouty rheumatism; syphilitic cases; pains as if in the bones.

"Sharp cutting pains in hip, drawing; legs drawn up; cannot touch floor."

"Syphilitic or gonorrheal sciatica, etc."

"Ulcers and nodes on the legs."

A certain class of physicians used to call Podophyllum "vegetable Mercury."

Phytolacca ought to be called "vegetable Mercury " because it is so full of symptoms analogous to Mercury.

Delirious.
Indisposition to mental exertion.
Disgust for business of day, on waking early in morning.
Melancholy, gloom.
Great fear, is sure will die.
Indifference to life.
Complete shamelessness and indifference to exposure of her person.
Irritability.
Restlessness.
Oversensitiveness to pain.

Vertigo: with danger of falling; with dim vision; when rising from bed, feels faint; staggering.

Pain in back of head and neck.
One-sided headache.
Pain extending back from the frontal region.
Shooting pain from left eye to top of head.
Heavy aching feeling in the head, at 1-3 P.M.
Sensation of soreness deep in brain.
Painful pressure on forehead and upper part of both eyes.
Pain in top of head, and a feeling as if the brain were bruised, when stepping from a high step to the ground.
Sick headache, worse in forehead; with backache and bearing down; comes every week.

Tinea capitis; worse washing it when he is warm.

Photophobia.
Pupils contracted; tetanus.
Dimness of vision.
Burning, smarting, tingling pain in eyes; itching aggravated by gaslight; abundant flow of tears. θ Catarrhal ophthalmia.
Feeling of sand in eyes, with soreness and burning.
Sharp pain goes through ball of eye on reading or writing.
Reddish-blue swelling of eyelids, worse on left side, and in morning; hard, unyielding cellulitis.
Motions of one eye independent of the other.
Circumorbital pains in syphilitic ophthalmia.

Shooting pains through both ears when swallowing; right side worse.
Eustachian tube feel obstructed.

Thin, watery discharge from nostrils increasing till the nose become stuffed.
Flow of mucus from one nostril, while the other is stopped; both stopped up while riding.
Acrid discharge, excoriating. θ Scarlatina.

Very pale; hippocratic; looking blue and suffering; yellowish.
Cold sweat on forehead.
Blotches in face; worse in P.M., after washing and eating.
Swelling around left ear and side of face like erysipelas; thence over scalp; every painful.

Chin drawn closely to sternum, by convulsive action of muscles of face and neck. θ Tetanus.
Lips everted and firm. θ Tetanus.
Upper lip excoriated.
Ulcers on lips.
Parotid and submaxillary glands swollen.

Disposition to bite the teeth together.
Difficult dentition.

Metallic taste.
Burnt feeling on back part of tongue.
Tongue: fiery red at tip; coated yellow and dry; thickly coated at back part.
Tongue: hot, rough, tender and smarting at tip; also small ulcers, like those caused by mercury; thick; protruding.

Profuse saliva, sometimes yellowish, often thick, ropy, tenacious; mercurial ptyalism, with inflamed gums and teeth.
Small ulcers on inside of right cheek, very painful; he cannot chew on that side.
Sensation of dryness in the mouth, with cough.

Sore, worse right side; fauces dark, bluish-red; worse swallowing saliva; feels as if a red-hot ball was lodged in fauces; cannot bear touch of clothing about neck.
Uvula large transparent.
Tonsils large, bluish, ulcerated; throat feels as after eating choke-pears; dry, rough, burning, smarting fauces.
Like a plug in throat, worse left side.
Dirty, wash-leather pseudo-membrane; mucus hawked with difficulty, from posterior nares; hangs down in strings; severe pains in head, neck and back; great prostration; faint on rising. θ Diphtheria.
Cannot drink hot fluids; choking; ulcers on tonsils. θ Syphilis.
Pharynx dry, rough, feels like a cavern.

Great thirst.
Hunger soon after eating.
Loss of appetite.

After eating: 8. Hot drinks: 13.After lemonade: 20.

Nausea, eructations of flatus and sour fluid.
Violent vomiting every few minutes.
Violent vomiting of clotted blood and slime, with retching, intense pain, and desire for death to relieve; purging and vomiting.
Vomiting in diphtheria.

Bruised and sore feeling at pit of stomach.
Heat in stomach.
Pain in pit of stomach, as from a heavy blow or concussion there, followed by cramps in abdomen, and coolness.
Pain in region of pylorus.

In right hypochondrium a sore spot, not large than a dollar, extremely sensitive to touch.

Griping and cramps in abdomen.
Burning, griping pains in umbilical region.
Rheumatism extending to abdominal muscles.
Bearing down pains.

Stools: thin, dark brown; or mucus and blood, like intestinal scrapings; tenesmus; of bile.
Diarrhœa early in morning; after lemonade.
Constipation of the aged, or of those with weak heart.
Bleeding piles.
Fissured rectum.

Weakness, dull pain and soreness in region of kidneys; most on right side, and connected with heat; uneasiness down the uterus; chalk-like sediment in urine.
Urine: albuminous; excessive or scanty; dark-red, stains the vessel.
Pain in region of bladder before and during urination.
Urgent desire to pass water.

Gonorrhœa and gleet.
Orchitis; secondary syphilis.
Syphilis, chancres, ulcerated throat; ulcers on genitals.

Menses too frequent and too copious; mammæ painful.
Painful menstruation in barren women; costive.
Ovaritis.

Pain in sacrum down to knees and ankles, then up to the sacrum; jerks here and there; after confinement.
Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of breasts.
Nipples very sensitive.
Breast hard as a stone after weaning.
Nipples sore and fissured, with intense suffering on putting child to breast; pain seems to start from nipple, and radiate over whole body.
Excessive flow of milk, causing great exhaustion.
"Gathered breasts" with large, fistulous, gaping and angry ulcers, discharging a watery, fetid pus.
Mammary gland full of hard, painful nodosities.

Hoarseness and aphonia.
Dryness of larynx and trachea, worse toward evening.
Burning in larynx and trachea, with a sensation of contraction of the glottis; labored breathing.
Spasms of glottis, eyes distorted, one eye moves independently of the other, thumbs clenched, toes flexed.

Respiration difficult, oppressed; loud mucous rales.
Constant moaning and gasping for air. θ Diphtheria.
Faint, with sighing, slow breathing.

Hacking, dry, with hawking; excited by tickling in larynx or dryness in pharynx; worse at night as soon as he lies down.
Sputa thick, tough.

Pains and suffocating feeling in throat and lungs.
Aching pains in chest and side, with cough.
Pain through mid-sternum, with cough.

Shocks of pain in cardiac region; angina pectoris; pain goes into right arm.
Heart's action weak, with constipation.
Awakens with lameness near heart; worse during expiration; cannot get to sleep again.
Pulse: small, irregular, with great excitement in chest especially in cardiac region; full, but soft.

Rheumatism of lower intercostal, from exposure to cold and dampness.

Convulsive action of muscles of face and neck. θ Tetanus.
Glands of right side of neck, hard.
Stiff neck; tonsils swollen.
Rheumatism in lumbar muscles.
Aching pain in lumbar region, day and night, with sore throat.
Pain streaking up and down the spine.
Aching in sacrum.

Both scapulæ ache continually.
Shooting pain in right shoulder-joint, with stiffness and inability to raise the arm; aching and tenderness along top of right trapezius.
Pain in arms, especially about attachment of deltoid muscles.
Finger-joints swollen, hard, shining.
Lame feeling in the arms.

Pains shooting from sacrum down outside of both hips.
Sharp, cutting pains in hip, drawing; leg drawn up, cannot touch the floor; hip disease on right side after mercury; or, in syphilitic children.
Rheumatism of left knee, hamstrings feel shortened.
Pains down from hips to knee; heavy dragging; neuralgic pains; all worse on outer part of thighs.
Nightly pains in periosteum of tibiæ.
Chronic rheumatism of left hip.
Ulcers and nodes on legs.
Feet puffed, soles burn; severe pains through ankles and feet; puffed, soles burn; severe pains through ankles and feet; also, on dorsa of feet.

Severe pains in arms and legs from elbows and knees to fingers and toes; worse from motion and contact; syphilis.

Motion: 1, 5. Stepping down: 3. Rising from bed: 2. Lying: 27.

Great exhaustion, prostration, muscular paresis.
Legs weak, heavy; he staggers.
Tetanus; alternate spasms and relaxation of muscles; general muscular rigidity.

Frequent gaping.
Drowsiness.
Restlessness at night; pains drive him out of bed.
On waking, feels wretched.

Morning: 1, 5, 20, 31, 36, 40. Afternoon: 3. Evening: 25. Night: 25, 27, 31, 33, 37, 44. Day and night: 31.

Damp weather: 3, 30, 44. Washing when warm: 4, 8. Cold: 30.

Coldness, faintness, dyspnœa; chill every morning.
Limbs cold, head and face hot.
Sweat cold on forehead; toes sweat.
Night-sweat.

Every week: 3. Every morning: 40.

Right: 3, 6, 12, 13, 18, 21, 31, 32, 33. Left: 5, 8, 13, 29, 33. Left to right: 29. Below upward: 2. Above downward: 33. Above downward, then below upward: 24. Before backward: 3.

Pains flying like electric shocks; jerking pains; shooting, lancinating.

Loss of fat (animals).
It hastens suppuration.
Pus watery, fetid, ichorous.
Rheumatism and gout; pains shift; joints swollen, red; periosteum affected, especially in mercurialization and in syphilis; pains in middle of long bones or attachment of muscles; worse in damp weather, at night.
Glands inflamed, swollen.
Bones inflamed, swollen.

Riding: 7. Touch: 13, 18, 24.

Cool, shriveled, dry, lead-colored.
Barber's itch, local application of tincture.
Ringworm.
Boils, especially near the ulcers.
Black looking, tettery, suppurative eruption.
Ulcers, with an appearance as if punched out; lardaceous bottom; syphilitic ulcerations.
Cancerous ulcers (also, on breast).
Erythematous blotches, irregular, slightly raised, pale red, ending in dark red or purple spots.
Rash.
Red spots, with syphilitic persons.
Scarlatina, with angina; acrid coryza; delirium; non-appearing eruption.

Antidote to Phytol.: milk and salt; Ignat.; also, Sulphur against eye symptoms.
Opium is said to be an antidote for large doses.
Coffee sometimes relieves vomiting.

A tincture is made of the fresh root of Phytolacca decandra, L.

It produces sore throat, even diphtheritic; inflammation of the kidneys, with numerous symptoms of general lithæmia, pains in tendinous parts (periosteum and tendons), heart symptoms, etc. ▶ Its action on the mammary glands is pronounced and important.

Petrol., Merc., Rhus t., Colch., Wyeth., Lyc.

Increased secretion of tears, saliva, bile, urine and menses. ▶ Convulsions. ▶ Opisthotonos, general rigidity, hands clenched, feet extended and toes flexed, eyes bleared and dancing, pupils contracted, lower lids drawn down, teeth clenched, lips everted and firm, pulse 85 and soft, respiration difficult, mucous râles, later general rigidity with convulsions of face and neck (chin close to sternum), then partial relaxation, then return of symptoms, afterwards twitching of muscles, agg. lower limbs.

Pains are sometimes followed by itching and burning. ▶ Pains transitory; P. in joints, and bones of face and head, preventing sleep and proceeding from the "nodes," agg. frontal bone, and resembling those of periostitis; P. always came with its full force at once and so continued till it ceased, then drowsiness and stupor or even sleep; all neuralgic, agg. motion and pressure, they are pressing and shooting, sometimes sore, drawing and aching; shooting inward and upward. ▶ General soreness at 7 A.M.; S. in muscles (Rhus t.); of throat, lungs and stomach; with stiffness (Petr., Rhus). ▶ Throbbing through whole system.

▶ Weakness; in afternoon and evening; at night, with the headache; on rising and walking, with intoxicated feeling; and could speak only in a whisper; with indisposition to move; with trembling on motion; with discomfort; with the vomiting and purging; as between chills and fever of ague. ▶ Faintness.

Aggravation general at night and in wet weather; in morning, of symptoms in stomach, throat and mouth; at 11 A.M., of all symptoms except pains in bowels, most symptoms begin to subside at 10 P.M.; on motion and in open air, except headache, which was amel. open air; in right side of head and neck, right limbs, right side of chest; on right side, in several instances symptoms first on left side and either pass over to right or the next symptom was on right side. ▶ Amelioration when eating, especially of throat symptoms (Ign.); of pain in open air; after breakfast, of many symptoms, especially about head and throat, while heat and many abdominal symptoms are agg. afternoon; when lying, of all symptoms except scraping and excoriation of throat and expectoration of tenacious saliva.

Subacute rheumatism. ▶ Convulsions (uræmic).

Cheerfulness increased. ▶ Loss of personal delicacy, disregard of surrounding objects and no disposition to adjust their persons under any circumstances. ▶ Indifference to life in morning on waking, with disgust for the business of the day. ▶ Gloomy. ▶ Irritable. ▶ Dread of movement. ▶ Desire to bathe in cold water, could hardly keep him from dashing water over himself. ▶ Half stupor all the time and sleep as soon as the paroxysm of cramping had passed.

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Convulsions.
General sore, bruised feeling of the muscles, with stiffness.
Prostration.
Aggravation at night and in wet weather.
Amelioration of pains in the open air.

General indifference or even stupor.

Internal soreness, < right side.
Dull pain in one side of the forehead, with nausea and cold sweat.
Vertigo, with dim vision and nausea, especially when rising from a bed, with faintness and cold sweat.

Inflammation, with a feeling of sand or of granulations; the edges of the lids seem raw.

Clinical:
Blepharitis, with little tumors in the margins of the lids, which are thickened and indurated or even ulcerated.
Chronic ophthalmia.
Suppurative inflammation, intra-ocular.

Pain on swallowing.
A feeling of obstruction and irritation in the Eustachian tube.

Pain at the root of the nose, with stoppage, with symptoms of coryza.

Irresistible inclination to bite the teeth together, though they are sometimes sore and feel elongated.
Tip of the tongue red, with blisters on the sides.
Pain at the root of the tongue on swallowing, extending into the throat.
Saliva profuse and tenacious.
Metallic taste.

Diffuse inflammation, with dryness, dark redness, swollen tonsils.
Roughness, rawness and smarting in the throat.
Pain on the right side of the throat, and feeling of a lump on swallowing; pains extending into the Eustachian tube.
Hawking, increased discharge from the posterior nares.
General dryness and soreness, with inclination to hawk and shooting pains through the Eustachian tubes on attempting to swallow.

Clinical:
Catarrhal sore throat, with general stiffness of the muscles of the neck; aggravation on the right side.
Diphtheritic throat, with albuminaria, soreness across the kidneys.

Vomiting of blood and mucus, with deathly nausea and faintness.
Bruised, sore feeling in the pit of the stomach.

Burning, griping pains.
Flatulent symptoms.

Neuralgic pains in the rectum, shooting along perineum to penis.
Evacuations of blood and mucus, like scrapings of intestines.
Constipation from torpor.

Urine scanty, even suppressed, with pains in the region of the kidneys.

Clinical:
Nephritis, with soreness over the kidneys, aggravated on right side; urine scanty, dark colored.

Clinical:
Ovarian neuralgia of the right side.
Menses frequent and profuse, followed by leucorrhœa, with ulceration of cervix.
Inflammation and suppuration of mammary glands.

Larynx dry, with hoarseness and aphonia.
Cough dry, croupy, with burning in the larynx and trachea; < night and in cold, damp weather.

Pain in the region of the heart, < walking; pain shoots into the right arm.

Neck stiff in the morning on waking, or < night on the right side.
Shooting pains in the sacrum, extending down the hips to the feet, < motion, worse on the right side.
Stiffness and lameness of the back every morning.
Soreness in the region of the kidneys.

Numerous pains, like rheumatism, in the extremities, particularly below the elbows and knees; pains are near the surface generally, attended with stiffness and lameness of the muscles; sometimes seem to be in the periosteum; are usually burning and < night and damp weather.
Pains generally fly about.
Sciatica: pain involves the right leg, especially outer side of the thigh, < damp weather.
Pains tearing, extending to the feet.

Clinical:
Shifting syphilitic or gonorrhœal pains, often with swollen red joints and swollen glands, aggravated in damp weather.

Clinical:
Eruptions dry, like psoriasis, or moist, like herpes.
Disposition to boils or carbuncles, with swollen glands and burning pains, aggravated at night.
Scarlatina-like rash.

Phy. / (Poke-Fight-Fighting.) / Phyllis.

Phytolacca,-Anti-fat!
Rheumatism's habitat.
Quelcheth thou, as case may be
Syphilis or mercury,
Also with a vigorous swipe
Ailments of malignant type.
Inflammation of the throat,-
Type malignant as we note-
Diphtheritic, or perchance
Scarlatinal in advance,
Or from syphilitic fire,
Mersed in ulceration dire,
When on swallowing appears.
Pain in root of tongue, and ears,
Or as meet attendant whim
Aching in the back and limb.
Pain along the bones at night,
Is thy customary plight.
Foul eruptions on the skin,
Ulceration out and in.
Even cancer taking flight
From the presence of thy might.
Thou of all our agents best
For inflammed and gathered breast,
Or for breast and pains that begin
When the milk is flowing in,
Or for lochia suppressed,
These, with headache once a week,
And red-tip tongue bespeak
Phyto.-and the more, if when
Scarce you finish eating, then,
Appetite sets in again.

Phyllis,-Has Diphtheria.

Phyllis Merbi-Kib, the mute baptist, and her brother, are lying low with Diphtheria.

This Phyllis,-Who is subject to Inflammation and gathering of the breasts,- Is absent at Hamburg, paying bills for Helen.

Diphtheria: Phy., Mer. b., Kal. b., Mur. a., Bap., Brom., Lach., Apis, Lyc., Ars., Diphtherinum.

Inflammation of the Breasts-"Gathering": Phy., Bry., Sil., Hep., Mer., Bell., Pho., Apis, Bell., Lil. t., Sul., Helon. (Breasts painful during menses, Graph., Cal. c., Con., Helon., Mer., Cimi., Usti.)

Indicated in sore throat, chiefly diphtheria, with grayish deposit and abundant tough, sticky mucus; chronic rheumatism, especially in the hip and thigh, worse from any change in the weather; bone pains (syphilis). Useful in mastitis.

Throat dark red, purplish; soft palate and tonsils swollen; feeling of a lump in the throat.

Throat covered with grayish-white pseudo-membrane.

Swallowing difficult, accompanied with intense pain extending into and through the ears; cannot swallow hot drinks.

Throat and mouth filled with thick, tenacious, ropy mucus, which it is almost impossible to dislodge; it sometimes runs out of the mouth in long tenacious strings, difficult to remove.

Great hardness and sensitiveness of the mamae; cracks in the nipples; sore places around the nipple; nursing causes intense pain radiating from the nipple to other parts.

Pain in the extremities, burning, lancinating, shooting, like electric shocks, changing location often.

Boils and carbuncles, with burning pain in them; worse at night; glandular swellings.

Worse during rain; from damp; cold weather; at night; from motion.

Loss of personal delicacy. Indisposition to mental exertion. Indifference. Half stupor.

As if intoxicated, with nausea and dim vision. Faintness on raising up.

Head thrown back. Aching, which moves about, above one brow, with nausea, cool sweat on forehead and weakness, in temples, with sense of suffocation, in forehead, extending backward (Bry.), with acute hearing. Pressure, Bursting, painful in forehead and upper part of eyes, with gaping in vertex, with dryness. Bruised soreness in, more in occiput or right side. Heaviness extending thro' shoulders, chest and legs, with vertigo. shooting in, when leucorrhoea begins. Worse: Stopping down, looking down, stooping. Better: Eating, open air.

Sunken, inflamed, flowing hot tears. Smarting. Balls painful, feel too large. Lids reddish blue, swollen, edematous, agglutinated, as of coals of fire on. Sandy feeling in. Shooting from left to top of head. Worse: From gaslight.

Drawing about root. Sore, with profuse, acrid, watery coryza. Stoppage of one nostril, flow of mucus from the other. Tickling in. Burning in.

Dark yellowness of, and of sclerotic. Purple - red, bluish, sickly pallor of, suffering expression. Pain in bones of, and in all joints. feeling of mumps coming on. Jaws ache.

Inclination to bite teeth together, they feel sore and elongated. Tongue: Red at tip, blisters on sides, pain at root on swallowing, burnt feeling at base, and in throat. Heat, swelling and tenderness of tongue, tonsils and palate. Saliva: Thick, ropy and tenacious, flowing from mouth, yellow, metallic tasting: cold.

Taste: Like nuts, bitter, then smarting and cool towards tip of tongue.

Congested and dark red. Sore, rough and dry, with aching in neck, back and limbs. Choking as from a lump, hot ball or apple - core lodged therein. Smarting or raw, scraped feeling in. Much hawking to clear it of increased mucus, with, no relief. Excruciating pains shoot through ears on attempting to swallow. Eruption in Worse: Hot drinks. Better: Liquids.

Intense thirst. Violent retching and vomiting, distress so intense, he desired death. Vomiting, with purging, with eructations (Arg - n), painless. Vomit: Bloody, dark bilious, acrid, causing scraping and excoriation in throat. Empty retching. Agonizing cramps and coldness, with cutting, tearing, straining pain in, then soreness on pressure, diarrhoea and prostration. Bruised soreness in pit. Burning in. Sickly feeling in. Worse: Morning, eating.

Much flatus. Boring or burning griping about navel. Weakness in.

Pain shooting from r., along perineum into penis.

Diarrhoea, with sickly feeling in bowels, preceded by cramping about navel, followed by faintness. Continual inclination to, with much straining. Involuntary, from much straining, which continues even in sleep. Copious, of blood, mucus and like scrapings of intestines. Dark brown, Painless. With fearful tenesmus. vomiting and purging.

Weakness, pain and soreness in kidney region. Straining to urinate. Kidneys inflamed. Urine: diminished, with pain in iodine, retained, albuminous, chalky sediment.

Sharp or hard grinding pains run up spermatic cords, followed by soreness. Gurgling in prostate gland. Bearing down pains, involuntary straining and hemorrhage from vagina. Intermittent contractive, uterine pains. Menses suppressed. Profuse, ropy leucorrhoea. Loss of sexual appetite, relaxed genitals. Mammae full, containing lungs.

Dry, croupy cough, with burning in larynx and trachea. Cough with nausea, excited by scraping and tickling in throat, worse in cold air. Expectoration tough. Hoarse. Dryness in Feels as if breathing thro' a sponge.

Chest.

Painful muscles. Pain in region of right nipple through to back. Worse: After midnight. Better: Afternoon.

Shocks of pain in region of, then in right arm, worse walking. Constrictive feeling in precordia with pressure in temples. Pulse slow.

Neck: Stiffness of, and of back at night. Pain in back of, running down spine, also in upper jaw and teeth.

Back: Backache. Aching weight and pressure on scapulae. Intense griping in small of, with cramps in lower extremities, which come and go suddenly, the muscles gather in knots, then become flaccid and sore, followed by drossiness and stupor. Shooting pains in sacrum, down outer side of both thighs to feet.

Rheumatic and neuralgic pains affect the outer side and seem near surface of skin or bones. Corpse - like coldness, they look withered. Rheumatism of shoulders, Throbbing, aching or pricking needle - like pains as is suppurating, in finger - tips. Pains below knees and elbows Hamstrings seem too short. Heavy. Stiff. Spasmodic jerking of. \rheumatic feeling in all joints. Worse: Sitting. Better: Elevating feet.

General soreness, with tired aching and restlessness. Great muscular debility. lassitude and desire to lie down. Dark or purple redness of affected parts. Affects the right side especially the shoulder and thigh. Pains appear and disappear suddenly and are often followed by itching, burning or soreness. Universal throbbing. Smarting sensations. convulsions, hands clenched, toes flexed, eyes bleared and dancing, with alternate spasm and relaxation of facial muscles. Many symptoms are accompanied by heat. All the secretions are greatly increased, tears. Saliva, etc. Worse: Motion: raising up, wet weather, at night, open air, pressure, at eleven AM. Better: Eating: warm, dry weather.

Aching and hardness in glands. Itching rash with a dry, hot, red skin, desire for cold bathing, which relieves momentarily, bit is worse afterwards, worse from scratching and heat of bed. Elevated erythematous eruption, painfully sore itching, terminating in a dark purple node. Causes suppuration of tumors, boils, etc. Cold and blues, purplish red, lead - colored.

Chill: Chilliness uncovering, internally during pains. Heat: Burning heat, especially on soles of feet, which seem bloated like puff - balls. In throat, stomach and rectum. With fullness of head, red face and cold feet. Sweat: Cool, mostly on forehead. Free on feet, most under toes. Profuse with the vomiting and purging.

Allied Remedies: Bell., Bry., cimi., Cimi., dulc., Hell., Ign., Kali-bi., Kali - iod., Merc., Nux-v., rhus - t.

Antidotes. - dig., Dig., Ign. Nit - ac., Op.

Complementary. - sil.