Phytolacca decandra
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: poke root.
Patient of a rheumatic diathesis, suffering from the bad effects of syphilis (Merc., Nit-Ac., Syph.) (Bt.).
RHEUMATISM OF FIBROUS AND PERIOSTEAL TISSUES (Rhus-T.) (A.).
CHRONIC RHEUMATISM, WORSE IN DAMP WEATHER (Dulc., Nat-S., Rhus-T.) (Bt.).
Rheumatism after gonorrhœa, syphilis or abuse of mercury (Hep., Kali-P., Lyc., Nat-S., Sil.) (A.).
Aching heels, ameliorated by elevating the feet (B.).
Hips and thighs pain on change of weather (Rhus-T.) (B.).
SCIATIC PAINS RUN FROM THE HIP DOWNWARD AND MOSTLY ON THE OUTWARD SIDE OF THIGHS; WORSE AT NIGHT (N.).
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 (N.).
Pain flying like electric shocks; shooting, lancinating; rapidly shifting (Bell., Lac-C., Mag-P., Puls.); worse from motion and at night (A.).
Rheumatic pains in the arms, especially about the attachment of the deltoid muscles (Ferr., Rhus-T.) (N.).
Entire indifference to life (Ars., Aur.) (A.).
Is sure she will die (Ars.) (A.).
Chronic induration of the glands (Carb-An., Iod., Merc., Rhus-T., Sil.) (Bt.).
Great pain at the root of the tongue when swallowing (A.).
Diphtheritic inflammation and ulceration of the throat (Merc-B-I., Merc-P-I., Rhus-T.) (Bt.).
TONSILS RED, SWOLLEN, WITH WHITE SPOTS, WHICH SOMETIMES COALESCE AND FORM PATCHES; PAINS RUN UP INTO THE EARS (Kali-B., Merc., Nit-Ac.) (N.).
Sensation as if there was a lump in the throat that causes constant efforts to swallow (Bell., Lach.) (Bt.).
Induration and ulceration of the tonsils (Merc., Sil.) (Bt.).
THROAT OF A DARK RED COLOUR (Lach.) (A.).
Tonsils, uvula and back part of the throat covered with ash-coloured membrane (Ars., Merc-B-I., Merc-P.I. ) (A.).
With every attempt to swallow shooting pains through both ears (N.).
Uvula large, dropsical, almost translucent (Kali-B., Rhus-T.) (A.).
Tongue fiery red at tip (Fluor-Ac.) (B.).
CANNOT DRINK HOT FLUIDS (Lach.).
Breath very fetid (Ars., Bapt., Carb-Ac., Kali-P., Lach., Mur-Ac., Nit-Ac., Sil., Sulph.) (Bt.).
Great roughness and rawness of the throat (Caust., Nux-V.) (Bt.).
FEELING AS IF A BALL OF RED-HOT IRON HAD LODGED IN THE THROAT (Bt.).
Great exhaustion and profound prostration (Ars., Bapt., Gels., Kali-P., Lach., Mur-Ac., Phos.) (A.).
Induration of the parotid glands (Brom., Iod.) (Bt.).
Painful menstruation in barren females (Cham., Nux-V., Puls.) (Bt.).
galactorrhea (Bell., Bry., Calc., Puls.) (Br.).
BREASTS VERY HARD, SWOLLEN, HOT AND PAINFUL (Bell., Merc., Sil.) (N.).
MAMMARY ABSCESS (Bell., Bry., Merc., Phos., Sil.); HASTENS SUPPURATIONS (Hep., Lach., Merc., Sil.) (A.).
FISTULOUS, GAPING, ANGRY ULCERS IN THE MAMMAE (Sil.); PUS SANIOUS, ICHOROUS, FOETID AND UNHEALTHY (A.).
Pain from the breast radiates all over the back when the child nurses, (Crot-T.) (N.).
Tumefied breast neither heals, nor suppurates (Merc.); is of a purple hue and "hard as old cheese" (Bry., Lac-C., Phel.) (A.).
Mammæ full of hard, painful nodosities (Carb-An., Sil.) (A.).
Cancer of the mammæ (Ars., Bufo, Carb-An., Con., Graph., Merc., Nit-Ac., Phos., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Thuj.) (Bt.).
Nipples, sensitive, sore and fissured (Graph.) (A.).
Chalk-like sediment in the urine (N.).
Albuminous urine (Apis, Canth., Merc., Phos., Sep.) (Bt.).
Dark-red urine, leaving a deep red stain in the vessel (Berb., Colch., Lyc.) (Bt.).
Vertigo; when rising from bed feels faint (Bry., Con.) (A.).
Vertigo, with dimness of vision (Cycl., Kali-P., Sep.) (C.).
Intense headache (Bell., Ferr-P., Glon., Sang., Spig.) (A.).
Headache, commencing in frontal region and extending backward (C.).
Chronic endocarditis from rheumatism (Lach., Naja, Phos.) (C.).
Shock of pain in the cardiac region alternating with pain in the right arm. (Br.).
Chlorosis (Alum., Cycl., Ferr., Graph., Kali-I., Nat-M., Puls.) (A.).
Emaciation with loss of fat (A.).
IRRESISTIBLE INCLINATION TO BITE THE TEETH OR GUMS TOGETHER (DURING DENTITION) (N.).
Salivation, with metallic taste in the mouth (Ars., Calc., Cup-Ars., Kali-B., Merc., Nat-C., Rhus-T., Sep.) (Bt.).
Mucous and bloody stools, or like scrapings from the intestines (Canth., Merc-C.) (C.).
Painful induration of the testicles (Bell., Puls.); shooting along perineum to penis (Br.).
Stitches in various parts, always from without inward and near the surface (C.).
Carotid and sub-maxillary glands indurated after diphtheria, scarlet fever (A.).
AGGRAVATION: From exposure to damp, cold weather; from motion; at night; when swallowing; from hot drinks; from nursing the child; and when rising from bed;
AMELIORATION: From cold drinks; from lying on the abdomen; from rest; from warmth; and in dry weather.
RELATIONSHIP: Phyt. occupies a position between Bry. and Rhus-T.; cures when these fail, though apparently well-indicated.
Complementary: Sil.