Phytolacca Decandra

Pichi is a solanaceous shrub of South America. It is unproved, but in 1 to 20

drop doses of the fluid extract it has been used with good effect in cases of chronic cystitis with

enlarged prostate; liver affections and gall-stones; excess of uric acid. Hansen gives these

indications: Excoriating urine and urinary calculi. Inflammation of whole urethral tract, must

pass water frequently; burning pains and violent vesical tenesmus after urination. Acute or

chronic cystitis, caused by gravel, painful urination, much mucus and pus. Subacute or chronic

gonorrheea, painful urination, much mucus and pus.

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

Delirium.—Indisposition to mental exertion; disgust for business on waking early in

• ▸morning.
• ▸—Melancholy, gloom.
• ▸—Indifference to life-—Great fear; is sure she will die.
• ▸—Loss of

personal delicacy, complete shamelessness and indifference to exposure of her

person.—Irritability; restlessness.—Irresistible desire to bite teeth together—Cannot be persuaded

to take nourishment.—Over-sensitive; pain intolerable.

Extremities stiff, hands clenched, feet extended, toes flexed, teeth clenched,

lips everted, firm, chin drawn on sternum, opisthotonus.—Great desire for cold water, for bathing

in it.—Pains are pressing, shooting, and sore —Great exhaustion and prostration.—Sore and

stiff—Soreness from head to foot in all muscles.—Pains and numbness followed by itching and

burning.—Pains came suddenly in full force and so continued till they ceased; followed by

drowsiness, stupor, or sleep.—Bones and glands inflamed and swollen.

• ▸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.

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

faint.—Headache: with nausea; dull; heavy; neuralgic; rheumatic; syphilitic; with backache and

• ▸bearing down; weekly; < from wet weather.
• ▸—Sore pain over head, < on r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Pain in vertex;

and sensation of soreness deep in brain as if bruised; when slipping from a high step to

ground.—One-sided pain, just above eyebrows, with sick stomach; < in forehead, or above

eyebrows (glabella most affected); comes every week.—Dull, pressive pain in forehead, with

slight nausea, cold sweat on forehead and feeling of weakness.—Shooting pain from 1. eye to

• ▸vertex.
• ▸—Violent pain at back of 1.
• ▸eye and over eyebrow extending down side of head.
• ▸—Heavy

aching in forehead after dinner —Slight pain in forepart of head with increase of

hearing.—Heaviness of head, with feeling in back part of tongue as if burnt—Headache

commencing in frontal region and extending backward.—Nausea and headache > by eating, but

returning soon with vomiting which < headache and > the nausea.—Pressive pain on forehead

and upper part of both eyes; on vertex with dryness.—Pain in back of head and neck.—Head

• ▸thrown backward.
• ▸—Pain in occiput; and stomach.
• ▸—Rheumatism of r.
• ▸frontal region with nausea,

< morning; of scalp when it rains, with depression.—Syphilitic nodes on skull.—Tinea

capitis.—Crusta lactea, moist, fearful itching, with little raw tubercles on scalp, face, and arms.

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

Eyes staring.—Blue round eyes.—Eyes sunk deep in sockets with livid

• ▸circles.
• ▸—Sclerotica dark yellow.
• ▸—Sharp pain through ball of eye on reading or writing.
• ▸—Dull

aching in eyes, < from motion, light, or exercise.—Pressure around eyes in afternoon as if eyes

too large —Circum-orbital pains in syphilitic ophthalmia.—Panophthalmitis —Aching along lower

half r. orbit.—Orbital cellulitis—Lids feel granulated; tarsal edges feel scalded, hot,

raw.—Burning and smarting sensation (feeling of sand) in eyes and lids, with profuse

lachrymation and coryza, which is > in the open air.—Smarting in inner canthi (<1.), < by

gaslight in evening.—Lids agglutinated and swollen, as if poisoned.—Reddish-blue swelling of

lids (<1.), < morning; cannot close eyes without pain all forenoon, > afternoon.—Fistula

• ▸lachrymalis.
• ▸—Lids feel on fire.
• ▸—Lupus, epithelioma, &c.
• ▸, of lids —Pupils: contracted (tetanus);

much dilated.—Photophobia—Motion of one eye independent of that of the other.—Double

vision; with giddiness and headache.—Objects quintupled.—Far-sighted.

• ▸Shooting in r.
• ▸ear.
• ▸—Pains in both ears, < r.
• ▸; < swallowing.
• ▸—Obstruction in 1.
• ▸Eustachian

tube, rushing in |. ear, a feeling as if hearing were dull, while at same time sensitive to minutest

• ▸sounds.
• ▸—Irritation in one Eustachian tube.
• ▸—Increased sense of hearing (most r.
• ▸); with pain in

forehead.—Very peculiar pressure and tension in parotids.

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

Flow of mucus from one nostril while the other is stopped.—Drawing sensation at root

of nose.—Feeling in nose and eyes as if a cold would come on.—Acrid, excoriating

• ▸discharge.
• ▸—Wakes 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸with nose stopped up, discharges clinkers from both nostrils in

morning.—Sensation in nostrils as if tickled with a stiff feather—Total obstruction of nose, when

riding must breathe through mouth; not > by blowing nose; mucus discharged with

difficulty —Syphilitic ozeena with bloody sanious discharge and disease of bones.—Rodent ulcer.

Face: pale; sunken, blue, suffering; hippocratic distorted —Stupid.—Cool sweat on

forehead.—Heat in face (1.) after dinner with redness of face, coldness of feet, eruption in upper

• ▸lip (1.
• ▸).
• ▸—Face very red, almost purple; alternately very pale.
• ▸—Pains in bones of face and head at

night, keeping her awake many nights; proceeding esp. from "nodes" on frontal bone, very much

like pains of periostitis —Pains in upper jaws.—Jaws ached awfully the whole time, it seemed he

could not open or shut them.—Blotches in face, < afternoon, after washing and eating.—Swelling

round |. ear and side of face, like erysipelas; thence over scalp; very painful.—Ulcers and scaly

eruption on face.—Chin drawn closely to sternum by convulsive action of muscles of face and

neck; lips everted and firm (tetanus).—Eruption on upper lip.—Ulcers (cancerous) on lips.

• ▸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.

The mouth fills with saliva; tenacious, yellowish, ropy, with metallic taste —Cold,

sticky, stringy saliva—No saliva.—Taste: disagreeable; metallic; burnt; nutty; bitter at first;

leaving smarting and coldness towards tip of tongue ——Burnt feeling on back of tongue (with

heavy head).—Tongue: coated white; furred; thick at back; dry, and lips; feels scalded; thick;

protruding.—Tongue feels rough, with blisters on both sides, and very red tip; great pain in root

• ▸of tongue when swallowing.
• ▸—Roof of mouth sore.
• ▸—Mouth dry.
• ▸—Submaxillary glands swollen.

Teeth all ache; feel elongated and are very sore.—Shooting pains in r. upper and lower

molars.—Irresistible inclination to bite teeth together.—Difficult dentition; crying, moaning,

restless at night; diarrhoea in hot weather; > biting something hard.

Sensation of dryness in throat and the posterior fauces (provoking cough, with

disposition to hawk and clear the throat); tonsils swollen.—Uvula large, almost

translucent.—Fauces congested and of a dark red colour.—Sore throat (roughness and rawness),

swelling of soft palate in morning, with a thick, white, and yellow mucus about the

fauces.—Sensation of a lump in throat (when swallowing), causing a continuous desire to

swallow; also when turning head to 1—Could not swallow, throat so dry and rough.—Throat feels

like a cavern.—< From hot drinks.—Difficult swallowing; with every attempt excruciating

shooting pains through both ears.—Sensation of apple-core in throat.—While riding in forenoon

sensation of plug in throat, not > by hawking; this sensation was replaced by increased discharge

of mucus from posterior nares, discharged with difficulty, constantly exciting attempts to expel

it.—Sensation of rawness and scraping in throat and tonsils.—Burning heat in throat as from coal

of fire, as if red-hot iron ball lodged in fauces and whole length of cesophagus; catarrh in throat;

• ▸diphtheria.
• ▸—Eruption on fauces and cesophagus.
• ▸—Herpes pharyngalis.
• ▸—Soreness of posterior

fauces extending into Eustachian tube.—Fulness in throat.

• ▸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.

Intense thirst.—Canine hunger; soon after eating —Loss of appetite—Eructations:

of air; sour fluid; food in evening.—Hiccough, with great inclination to vomit but no

nausea.—Nausea followed by violent vomiting of mucus, bile, ingesta, worms; of clotted blood

and slime, with retching, intense pain, and desire for death to relieve-—Vomits undigested

food.—Frequent vomiting; prostration, fainting, even convulsions, followed by gripes, cramps,

vomiting of dark bilious substance.—In great agony; said his stomach was pinched

• ▸together.
• ▸—Bruised and sore feeling at pit of stomach.
• ▸—Heat in stomach.
• ▸—Cutting in pit of

stomach, tender to touch.—Pains in cardiac portion of stomach, < full respiration and by

walking.—Pain in region of pylorus.

• ▸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.

Intense vomiting and purging, with griping pains and cramps in

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Soreness and pain in r.
• ▸hypochondrium (during pregnancy).
• ▸—Sore spot, r.

hypochondrium, size of dollar, extremely sensitive to touch.—Digging in upper and lower

• ▸portions of liver.
• ▸—Lying on r.
• ▸side = penetrating pain in r.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Violent dull

pressing pain |. hypochondrium, cannot remain in sitting posture, lies on painful side all night

and pain is gone in morning.—Heavy aching pain in hypochondrium which left as soon as

leucorrhcea commenced.—Chronic hepatitis, with enlargement and induration Burning, griping

pain in umbilical region.—Much rumbling, pain in umbilicus, stools of blood and mucus; gastro-

enteritis —Bearing-down pains.—Violent pains in abdomen during menstruation in a barren

female.—Rheumatism extending to abdominal muscles.

Constipation, hard stools.—Stool with mucus and straining.—Constipation

habitual; patient says the bowels will not move without the aid of purgatives; feeling of fulness

in abdomen before stool, which remains after stool, as if all had not passed.—Constipation from

torpor of the rectum.—Constipation: of the aged; of persons with weak heart.—Diarrhcea with

sickly feeling in bowels; passage only of mucus and blood, or like scrapings from

intestines.—Tenesmus.—Continual inclination to stool but passes constantly fetid

• ▸flatus.
• ▸—Diarrhoea early in morning after lemonade.
• ▸—Dysentery.
• ▸—Intense vomiting or purging,

with prostration and cramps, as in cholera.—Stools: thin, dark brown; of mucus and blood; of

bile; from 1 or 2 a.m. till after breakfast; mushy; yellow, then greenish, then dark, bloody; dark,

lumpy.—Heemorrhoids permanent and obstinate; bleeding and mucus.—Neuralgic pains in anus

and lower part of rectum, shooting along perinzeum to middle of penis; in middle of night (with

constipation).—Bloody discharge with heat in rectum.—Heat in rectum with burning in

stomach.—Ulceration; fissure.

Weakness, dull pain, and soreness in region of kidneys, < r., connected

with heat; uneasiness down ureters; chalk-like sediment in urine.—Albuminuria; after scarlatina

or diphtheria; chills at night without special fever, accompanied by a form of insanity.—Pain in

bladder before and during urination.—Slight suppression of urine, with pains in loins.—Violent,

• ▸painful urging to pass urine.
• ▸—Copious nocturnal urination.
• ▸—Thick, chalk-like sediment.
• ▸—The

dark-red urine leaves a mahogany stain in the chamber.—Urine: acid and albuminous; excessive

or scanty; stains clothes yellow.

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

• ▸Mastitis; mammae 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.
• ▸Galactorrhoea (Calc).
• ▸Menses too copious and frequent.
• ▸Ovarian neuralgia of right side.

Menses: too frequent and copious; mamme painful; increase of

tears, saliva, bile, urine; rheumatic subjects.—Menses: amenorrhcea 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.—Leucorrheea: uterine, thick, tenacious, irritating.—Profuse, thick, tenacious, from swollen

Nabothian glands.—Threatened miscarriage; bearing-down pains; involuntary straining and

heemorrhage per vaginum caused in woman seven months pregnant.—Sensation as though

menses would appear all the time.—Dysmenorrhoea accompanying erosion or ulceration of the

cervix; menses too often; too profuse, with corresponding increase of the tears, and other

• ▸secretions.
• ▸—Metrorrhagia.
• ▸—Inflammation, swelling, and suppuration of the mammz.
• ▸—Neuralgia

of breasts.—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.—Fulness of both breasts; lump in upper part of 1—Abscesses; Fistulee;

tumours; cancer; hypertrophy.—Irritable tumour; very sensitive and painful; < at menstrual

period.—Nipples cracked and excoriated; intense suffering on putting child to breast; pains

radiate from nipple all over body.—Breasts hard as stones after confinement.—Breasts full of

hard, painful nodosities.—Suppression of lochia.—Pain in sacrum, down to knees and ankles, then

up to sacrum, jerks here and there, after confinement.

Painful induration of testicles. Shooting along perineum to penis.

Sharp pains (and hard, grinding pain) running up each spermatic

cord; later continued soreness in place of the pains —Gurgling sensation in prostate

gland.—Complete loss of desire, absence of erections and relaxation of parts during the

proving.—Impotence.—Gonorrheea; gleet; orchitis, with suppuration and fistulous

ulcer.—Syphilis: chancres; ulcerated throat; ulcers on genitals; bubo; rheumatism.

• ▸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.

Hoarseness and aphonia.—Tickling in |. side larynx with hacking

cough, aching r. side of breast, great dryness of throat.—Sensation of roughness in the

bronchia.—Laryngismus, thumbs and toes flexed; features distorted; eye muscles act

independently.—Respiration difficult and oppressed; loud mucous riles.—Faint, with sighing,

slow breathing.—Panting.—Cough: hacking, dry, hawking; from tickling in larynx or dryness in

pharynx: < night, on lying down; dry, bronchial—Cough with: scraping and tickling in throat;

burning pains in trachea and larynx, sensation of contraction of glottis, laboured breathing;

sensation of ulcerated spot in trachea just above breast-bone, could only expectorate (pus) by

pressing on this spot pains through mid-sternum.—Hoarse, croupy, barking cough, < at night <

out of doors.—Expectoration: thick, tough; thick, starch-like mucus, profuse and exhausting with

pharyngitis ——Dryness of larynx and trachea, < evening.

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

Sharp pains through upper part of chest, preventing a long breath.—Stitch from r.

chest to back.—Pain and suffocation in lungs, throat, and fauces.—Pains in lungs, 7

• ▸a.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Tendermess and lameness of muscles of chest, as if bruised.
• ▸—(Chest feels as if it were a big

empty cask.)—Rheumatism of lower intercostal muscles from exposure to cold and

dampness.—Spots size of lentil on chest.—Hard, tender swelling midway between nipple and

sternum, but nearer latter; restless nights; (in baby a few months old).

In night awoke with lameness near cardiac region, with much nervous restlessness, <

motion, esp. < expiration; kept him awake long time.—Constrictive feeling in preecordia with

pressure in temples.—Great pain in preecordia, much < walking.—Occasional shocks of pain in

heart region, as soon as this ceases similar pain appears in r. arm.—Heart-beats distinctly

felt—Fatty degeneration; lassitude and indisposition to move.—Pulse: small, irregular, with great

excitement in chest, esp. in cardiac region; full but soft; intermittent; weak.

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.

• ▸Hardness of gland in r.
• ▸side of neck.
• ▸—Stiff neck, < on r.
• ▸side; in bed; after

midnight; on waking.—Back very stiff every morning.—Sensation as if cold iron were pressed on

painful scapula—Both scapulee ache continually —Towards evening, while riding, laming pain

• ▸began I.
• ▸side back below scapula; 9.
• ▸30 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸it had reached spine and was a pricking

stitching —Severe pain behind scapulze when walking.—Intense griping in small of back.—Pain

running down spine from nape.—Pain in loins with suppression of urine.—Constant, dull, heavy

pain in lumbar and sacral regions.—Pains shooting from sacrum down both hips to feet.

Enlarged glands in axillee.—Shooting in r. shoulder-joint with stiffness and

paralysis—Rheumatism of (1.) shoulder (esp. in syphilitics); pains fly like electric shocks from

one part to another; < night and damp weather.—Pains at attachment of deltoid.—Weakness and

aching in r. humerus, < motion and extension.—Dull aching and excessive tenderness, as from a

• ▸bruise, in outer muscle of r.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Hands tremble.
• ▸—Rheumatic pains in hands; sudden

pricking. —Painful, hard, shiny swelling of joints of all fingers ——Bony growth in palmar aspect of

• ▸one finger.
• ▸—Whitlow.
• ▸—Ends of fingers all throb and ache as if going to suppurate.
• ▸—Shooting like

needles in finger-joints; in top of 1. thumb.

Neuralgic pain in outer side of both thighs (shooting from sacrum);

sciatica.—Sharp, cutting pain in hip, drawing, cannot touch floor; pain runs down outside of

thigh, < night, and esp. < after sleep.—Rheumatic pains in lower extremities, < damp

• ▸weather.
• ▸—Sensation of shortening of tendons back of knee when walking.
• ▸—Leg drawn up.
• ▸—Legs

• ▸tremble.
• ▸—Pain in dorsum of r.
• ▸foot, 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Syphilitic and mercurial rheumatism; nightly pains in

periosteum of tibia, with nodes and irritable ulcers on lower leg.—Stitches in various parts,

always from without inward and near surface.—Ankles swollen —Feet puffed, soles burn.—Ulcers

on inner sides of soles.—Aching of heels, dull, wearing; > raising feet above level of body.—Pain

in great toe waking him at night.—Corn painful.

• ▸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.

• ▸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.

Skin cool, shrivelled, dry, lead-coloured.—Syphilitic eruptions and ulcerations-

secondary and tertiary—Squamous eruptions; tinea capitis;

• ▸lupus.
• ▸—Shingles.
• ▸—Itch.
• ▸—Pityriasis.
• ▸—Psoriasis.
• ▸—Warts.
• ▸—Lipoma.
• ▸—Erythematous blotches,

slightly raised, pinkish, slowly desquamating, ending in purple spot, as old ones died away others

• ▸came.
• ▸—Suppuration of painless tumours.
• ▸—Drawing in cicatrices.
• ▸—Itching began on hands and

feet and spread over whole body; rash followed four hours later; itching < by scratching; < heat

of bed.—Itching and lichen-like eruption on I. leg, < fore part of night, preventing sleep till

• ▸midnight.
• ▸—Boils; esp.
• ▸near ulcers; on back; behind ears.
• ▸—Ulcers: punched-out looking;

lardaceous base; pus watery, fetid, ichorous; shooting, lancinating, jerking pains; syphilitic;

cancerous.—Warts.—Corns.

Frequent yawning; drowsiness.—Restlessness at night, pains drive him out of

bed.—On awaking feels wretched.

High fever, alternating with chilliness and great prostration.

Great coldness, withered appearance of extremities—Coldness, faintness, dyspnoea;

limbs cold, head and face hot.—Internal shiverings during the pains.—Chill: every morning;

sudden, followed by fever after confinement; at night without special fever.—Heat: with pain in

joints; high fever; in face after dinner; with red face; on |. side of face —Sweat: cold on forehead;

esp. under toes; night-sweat, acrid.

Pichi.

• ▸Fabiana imbricata.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Solanacez.
• ▸Fluid extract.

• ▸Antidoted by: Milk, Salt, Coffee (vomiting), Nit.
• ▸sp.
• ▸dulc.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Mez.
• ▸,

• ▸Sul.
• ▸(eyes), Op.
• ▸(large doses).
• ▸Compare: Botan.
• ▸, Petiver.
• ▸Diphtheria, Ar.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸[Lach.
• ▸has not

• ▸the great pain at root of tongue when swallowing of Phyt.
• ▸S.
• ▸M.
• ▸Pease (Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, xxv.
• ▸27)

found bleeding from the buccal cavity a keynote symptom of Phyt. in one epidemic. |

Hypertrophy of heart, Rhus (Phyt. has right arm numb; Rhus has left arm numb, also Aco., Act.

• ▸r.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸).
• ▸Breast abscess, Bry.
• ▸(Phyt.
• ▸follows Bry.
• ▸when suppuration seems inevitable; pain goes

• ▸from nipples all over body).
• ▸< Motion, Bry.
• ▸Tetanic spasms, Nux (Phyt.
• ▸is slower than Nux, has

• ▸everted lips, alternate relaxation and spasm).
• ▸Pain in breasts when suckling, Crot.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Phell.
• ▸, Lac

c., Borax (Borax, like Phyt., has > from pressure; Borax alone has empty, sucked-out feeling).

• ▸Sensation of apple core in throat, Hep.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Stringy discharges and clinkers, electric shocks,

• ▸flying pains, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸Desires cold water (Physt.
• ▸opp.
• ▸).
• ▸Symptoms fly from centre outward (Abrot.

• ▸opp.
• ▸) Pains in breast at menstrual period, Calc.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸Diarrhoea with shreddy membranes, Caust.
• ▸,

• ▸Ars.
• ▸< In damp weather, Rhus, Dulc.
• ▸Pains in tibia, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸< After sleep, Lach.
• ▸Loss of

• ▸fat (Sabal ser.
• ▸opp.
• ▸).
• ▸Loss of sense of delicacy, Hyo.
• ▸Bruised, sore feeling, Arn.
• ▸Hale says K.
• ▸iod.

is the nearest analogue (rheumatism, syphilis, wasting); Merc. and its antidotes are also closely

related.

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.

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 submaxillary 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, htet, 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 submaxillary ; aching

in the bones ; foetor from the mouth, with heavily coated tongue ; great

aching in the back ; nose bleed : soreness of the muscles. Analogous ta

Mercurius ; they are closely related in diphtheria. At times in diphtheria we can only obtain the foetor, 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 tight. 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 thd

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 com-

-plexion ; 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.

Intense cramps, muscles gather in large knots, hard and ridged; come and go

• ▸suddenly.
• ▸—Rheumatism of all joints 3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Sudden transference of internal pains to

extremities.—Pains in limbs always in outer aspects.—Patient is subject to rheumatic pains on

change of weather, esp. in hips and thighs; rheumatic muscular or chronic

rheumatism.—Rheumatic pains in arms and hands.—Cold hands and feet.