Plectranthus Fruticosus

Plectranthus was extensively proved by the Austrian Provers' Association.

Severe symptoms were induced in head, throat, intestines, and rectum, limbs and joints.

Toothache with swelling of face and difficulty of opening mouth. "Pain near right jaw-joint as if

a tooth were coming through" suggests a use for the remedy in difficult cutting of wisdom teeth.

Burning sensation extended throughout the digestive tract; and there was also coldness of

• ▸abdomen, > in open air.
• ▸Many pains about the navel.
• ▸Paralytic pains in joints.
• ▸Pains of many

kinds in right shoulder. Exhaustion, bruised sensation, general discomfort were experienced.

Cramps and paralytic pains in joints. Hansen mentions spastic paralysis as having been remedied

by it. Among the peculiar symptoms are: As if a morsel stuck in throat after swallowing. As

though air were piercing the marrow of the bones. Cool sensation followed by burning at root of

tongue and palate. Pressure as from a heavy weight in stomach. Discharge of white mucus from

• ▸anus causing scratching.
• ▸Pressure on rectum and bladder.
• ▸Whites of eyes yellow, < left.
• ▸Sweat of

right foot, left foot dry; of right foot and both hands and no other part; of scalp. The right side

was more affected than the left. The symptoms are < after eating (pressure in stomach; pain in

• ▸umbilical region).
• ▸< By all food and drink (burning in mouth).
• ▸Chewing = pain in temples.
• ▸< By

motion; moving head; turning body; by swallowing; whilst urinating, > after. < By warmth of

stove. > By application of ice; by eructations. Many of the pains and symptoms were sudden, and

came and went suddenly.

• ▸Fretful.
• ▸—Il-humoured.
• ▸—Peevish.
• ▸—Distracted in mind; cannot keep his attention on an

interesting subject.

Head confused, heavy, dull——Pressure (and stitches) in r. frontal eminence.—(Violent

headache in anterior part of skull as far as vertex, becoming intolerable-—Swashing and

throbbing with every motion; not > by cold applications; thirst and difficulty of

swallowing.).—Pressive pain in occiput; < lying on back; < out of doors; tension in cervical

muscles.—Profuse perspiration on scalp.

White of eyes yellow (< 1.).—Vision seemed remarkably clear (on a dull

day).—Flickering before eyes.

Excessive catarrh, frequent inclination to sneeze; great stoppage with at times

discharge of tenacious yellow mucus.—Dryness, mornings.

Painful drawing in r. cheek, infra-orbital region; extending to last upper molars;

continued through the night with fever; next day r. cheek swollen and very sensitive —Lips very

dry; burning.

Violent drawing in upper and lower incisors with swelled cheek.—Periodic drawing

in r. teeth extending to temple and ear, < chewing, > going out—Pressive pain in r. lower sound

• ▸teeth.
• ▸—Upper incisors sensitive.
• ▸—Tongue coated.
• ▸—Sensation on root of tongue and on soft palate,

at first cool, then burning —Dry mouth.—Burning through mouth and fauces, < by all food and

• ▸drink.
• ▸—Opening the mouth became very difficult; ulcers on r.
• ▸side of palate; digging in r.
• ▸upper

teeth with increased secretion of saliva; sticking and burrowing extending to r. articulation of jaw

as though a tooth erupting.

Scraping in throat; stitches——Dryness with thirst, not > by glass of water.—Burning

• ▸as from pepper, from root of tongue to stomach (6 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸to 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸—Sensation as if a morsel of

food stuck in throat on swallowing.—Tension in pharynx when drinking, with disagreeable

tickling in both ears, that obliges frequent hawking.—Acute pressure in pharynx, on swallowing

became a burning, not affected by external pressure, increased to 9 a.m., when it became a

sensation of swelling.—Dysphagia.

Appetite great; eats hastily, though without satiety; On rising from a meal

pressure as from a weight in stomach with desire to drink a great deal; after taking a few sips a

pulling in stomach causing tension in cesophagus.—Loss of appetite —Great thirst—Eructations:

frequent; empty; and hiccough.—Nausea; vomiting.—Sudden gushing vomiting twice at night

without any other symptoms.—Weight on stomach < after eating.—Cutting in epigastrium

followed by two thin, frothy stools.

Contractive pain in umbilical region always < after eating.—Violent griping at

umbilicus with desire for stool—Rumbling and movement.—Crawling about umbilicus

disappearing along rectus muscle towards symphysis pubis.—Cutting low in abdomen with desire

for stool—Coldness through (upper) abdomen in warm room, morning.—Drawing sticking in I.

inguinal region.

Painful pressure in rectum, with constant griping followed by profuse,

dark, frothy stool, succeeded by burning and tenesmus in anus; later sudden desire and painful

pressure; only a little mucus and gas evacuated with burning in anus.—Discharge of white mucus

provoking scratching of anus and followed by burning.—Stool: almost black; pasty, yellowish

brown; watery, mixed with mucus; first pasty, then liquid; omitted for five days, then bluish

nodular evacuated with great effort—During stool: griping and rumbling in abdomen; painful

dragging in rectum.—After stool: weakness of lower limbs; coldness of abdomen; cold sweat on

forehead.—Evacuation of round worms.

Pressure in bladder, immediately followed by desire to urinate, sudden

cutting pain from root of penis to base of bladder, compelling to sit still—Burning in navicular

fossa during and after micturition, which was scanty and unsatisfactory.—Frequent, sudden

desire, had hardly time to reach the closet, but only a few drops passed, followed by a sensation

as though bladder full, afternoon; in evening copious micturition with great >.—Increased

urination.—Urine dark with reddish-yellow sediment.

Transient drawing sticking along r. side of penis and

urethra.—Violent erection.

Burning at sterno-clavicular joint.—Stitches: in pectoralis major, arresting breath;

• ▸between r.
• ▸fourth and fifth ribs; in r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸chest extends up to r.
• ▸scapula and nape of

neck, so violent at night was compelled to jump out of bed and cry out; is though a number of

needles sticking into head till head was turned towards the side; with profuse sweat, painful

inspiration, great heat of head; < by application of mustard paste, > gradually by application of

ice.—Tension in chest.

Stiffness and pressive tension in nape, < by every motion of the

head.—Drawing in nape.—Coarse stitches from without inward between scapule, while walking;

during expiration.

Paralysed sensation: in upper limbs; r. shoulder; r. shoulder and wrist,

suddenly appearing and disappearing in both shoulders.—Lameness; sprained feeling; weariness;

• ▸shaking drawing tearing in r.
• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Sensation in |.
• ▸shoulder as if one were beating on it with

a knuckle.—Drawing tearing in joints of upper-arms, fore-arms, and fingers, < r.—Sudden pain in

• ▸outer condyle of |.
• ▸wrist.
• ▸—Stitches in r.
• ▸wrist.

Weariness in lower limbs.—Painful cramps in calves waking him up, not >

• ▸by stretching.
• ▸—Stitches in |.
• ▸hip-joint; burning in r—Cramp in adductor.
• ▸; tension in

• ▸hamstring.
• ▸—Drawing in fascia of r.
• ▸thigh —Tearing beneath r.
• ▸patella; stitches in 1—Pains in both

knees.—Wakened at night by sudden start from a violent sticking in malleoli of ankles —Burning

in periosteum of r. tibia—Numbness in leg.—Toes painful as if burnt.

• ▸24.
• ▸Generalities—Weariness.
• ▸—Stitches.
• ▸—Sensation as though air were piercing the marrow of

the boners.

Drowsiness.—Waked often.—Troubled by confused, unremembered dreams before

midnight.

Sudden, violent, shaking chill with chattering of teeth, waking him from sleep,

followed by dry heat—Chilliness through whole abdomen with warm face and hands; < by heat

of stove; > moving about in open air.—Coldness over back and heat of hands; could not get warm

in heated room.—Sudden heat on scalp lasting a few minutes, followed by profuse sweat; after

• ▸sweat dried up, forehead cold to touch.
• ▸—Sour sweat at night.
• ▸—Sweat on r.
• ▸foot and both hands;

• ▸no other part.
• ▸—Profuse sweat r.
• ▸foot, |.
• ▸foot dry.

• ▸Abdomen, coldness of.
• ▸Cholera.
• ▸Cramps.
• ▸Dentition.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dysphagia.
• ▸Fever.

• ▸Intermittent fever.
• ▸Lumbrici.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Shoulder (r.
• ▸), pains in.
• ▸Spastic paralysis.

• ▸Stiff-neck.
• ▸Sweat, local.
• ▸Throat, sore.
• ▸Toothache.
• ▸Wrists, pains in.

• ▸Compare: Urinary symptoms, Ocim.
• ▸Black stools, Lept.
• ▸Stitches in chest, K.
• ▸ca.

• ▸Pains come and go suddenly, Lyc.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸Crumb in throat, Hep.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Arg.
• ▸n.

Sticking and paralytic drawing in all the joints and limbs.—Sensation of paralysis in

joints of fingers and toes.