PHYTOLACCA

Source indications

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • lingering mercurial bone pains
  • pains come on at night from the warmth of the bed
  • body aches
  • 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
  • symptoms in cold, damp weather
  • tendency to ulceration
  • syphilis
  • old, chronic, syphilitic ulcers
  • patient has been salivated
  • ulcers in the throat
  • ulcers on the skin
  • ulcers on mucous membranes anywhere
  • spasmodic conditions
  • drawing in the muscles
  • violent spasms
  • opisthotonos
  • cervical region affected and the head is drawn back
  • jerking and twitching of the muscles
  • glands become inflamed and hard
  • 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
  • aggravation at night
  • aggravation on cold days
  • aggravation in a cold room
  • aggravation from the heat of the bed
  • 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
  • nursing woman is exposed to the cold, the breast inflames and the milk become stringy
  • coagulated milk
  • almost any excitement centers in the mammary gland
  • fear or an accident
  • lumps form
  • pains in breasts
  • heat in breasts
  • swelling in breasts
  • tumefaction in breasts
  • violent inflammation in breasts
  • suppuration in breasts
  • no milk, or that the milk is scanty, thick, unhealthy
  • milk dries up soon
  • bloody watery discharge
  • breast so sore that, when she nurses the child, she almost goes into spasms, with the pain extending down the back and limbs and all over the body
  • diphtheria
  • 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
  • syphilitic nodes on the skull and shin bones
  • squamous eruptions
  • pityriasis
  • psoriasis
  • ringworm
  • barber's itch
  • rash on body
  • measles
  • scarlet eruption all over body
  • scarlatina
  • sore throat
  • glandular involvement
  • delay the formation of malignant growths, especially in the breast
  • glandular tumors that become hard and scirrhous
  • inflammation in the old cicatrices
  • ulceration which eats off the ideal glands or turns the ducts aside and twists them
  • high inflammation
  • throbbing and pain in breasts
  • milk bloody
  • aching in the back
  • bone pains
  • fever and shivering
  • congestion to the head
  • throbbing carotids
  • much redness in breasts
  • redness radiates from the nipple
  • the entire gland is as heavy as a stone, and hard
  • patient is sensitive to motion and touch
  • extreme pain and soreness
  • irritability
  • relief from heat
  • 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
  • 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 averted and firm
  • tetanus
  • ulcers on lips
  • parotid and submaxillary glands swollen
  • tongue thickly coated on back
  • tongue coated yellow and dry
  • ulcerated sore mouth
  • syphilitic ulcers
  • difficult swallowing
  • pains in the tonsils
  • enlarged tonsils
  • tendency to slough
  • syphilitic and mercurial sore throats
  • sore throats are often aggravated from warm drinks
  • wants cool things
  • aggravation at night with sore throat
  • 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 tongue at back, fiery red at tip
  • breath foetid
  • breath putrid
  • vomiting
  • difficulty of swallowing
  • tonsils swollen, covered with membrane, first upon left
  • three or four patches on tonsils
  • 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
  • acute rheumatism which is prolonged, worse at night, worse from the warmth of the bed, worse from warm applications
  • gouty rheumatism
  • syphilitic rheumatism
  • pains as if in the bones
  • sharp cutting pains in hip, drawing
  • legs drawn up
  • cannot touch floor
  • syphilitic or gonorrhoeal sciatica
  • ulcers and nodes on the legs