Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA [phyt] [Kent’s]This is a very imperfectly proved remedy, and it is only possible to present fragments of it. Themental symptoms have not been brought out, but the remedy has some striking features.You will notice the resemblance of this drug to , and it is an antidote to .In those lingering mercurial bone pains, where the patient has been salivated; the pains come on atnight from the warmth of the bed; the body aches; a chronic, sore, bruised state; soreness of theperiosteum where the flesh is thin, over the tibia; joints; soreness of the muscles; drawing andcramping; drawing in the muscles of the back; backache, worse at night; worse from the warmth of thebed. The patient suffers from these symptoms in cold, damp weather, as in .Tendency to ulceration, hence its usefulness in syphilis; old, chronic, syphilitic ulcers; thepatient has been salivated; had rubbed in; he became saturated with it, but it no longerhelps. 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 themuscles.Phytolacca is a remedy. The gland become inflamed and hard. It produces sorethroats, with inflammation of the gland of the neck, particularly the submaxillary and parotid.Inflammation of the throat with the accumulation of thick, tenacious mucus; swelling of thetonsils. low grade inflammation like erysipelas.The symptoms are aggravation at night, on cold days, in a cold room, and from the heat of thebed; so that there is a controversy between heat and cold.It seems that the remedy centers in the .Soreness and lumps in the breasts from each cold, damp spell; becomes chilled and a sore breastresults; sore breast in connection with the menses; a nursing woman is exposed to the cold, the breastinflames and the milk becomes stringy; coagulated milk. This comes out in the proving, but poke roothas been extensively used by cattle raisers when the cow's milk became thick and there were lumps inthe 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 theMateria Medica centers so in the mammary gland. is similar; when the patient takes coldthe glands become sore. If every tribulation makes the glands sore in a nursing woman, give herPhytolacca. When a mother says she has no milk, or that the milk is scanty, thick, unhealthy; dries upsoon; Phytolacca becomes then a constitutional remedy if there are no contra- indicating symptoms. Abloody 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 painextending down the back and limbs all over the body.. In certain epidemics; great tumefaction of the throat; swelling of the glands of theneck, parotid and submaxillary; aching in the bones; foetor from the mouth, with heavily coatedtongue; great aching in the back; nose bleed; soreness of the muscles. Analogous to theyare 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 or one of the . The is , and stays there or may go to the left side. The goes from to . The has a thick, green membranous cast, extending from the noseto the throat. In Phytolacca we have many features of .It has cured syphilitic nodes on the skull and shin bones.Many eruptions. "Squamous eruptions; pityriasis, psoriasis"."Ring worm". "Barber's itch". "Rash on body; measles; scarlet eruption all over the body". It isnot surprising that it cures scarlatina, as it has this scarlet rash, the sore throat and glandularinvolvement.It has the ability to delay the formation of malignant growths, especially in the breast; glandulartumors that become hard and scirrhous. Until this remedy was known there was but one remedy for theold cicatrices in the mammary gland. Women who were confined years before, had abscesses of thebreast which were poulticed and lanced had a cicatrix left, and now in the present confinement theyhave trouble; inflammation in the old cicatrices; ulceration which eats off the lacteal gland or turns theducts aside and twists them; high inflammation; throbbing and pain; milk bloody. was theold routine remedy, but Phytolacca is a better remedy and suits the general concomitants oftener. Thesymptoms usually found in an inflamed breast after confinement are: Aching in the back and bonepains; fever and shivering. Phytolacca has these and falls into the very nature of the case.