Phytolacca decandra

Poke Root. Phytolaccacece.

Keynotes

Patients of a rheumatic diathesis; rheumatism of fibrous and periosteal tissue ; mercurial or syphilitic.

Emaciation, chlorosis ; loss of fat. Great exhaustion and profound prostration.

Occupies a position between Bryonia and Rhus ; cures when these fail, though apparently well indicated.

In rheumatism and neuralgia after diphtheria, gonorrhoea, mercury or syphilis.

Pain flying like electric shocks; shooting, lancinating; rapidly shifting (Lac c., Puls.) ; worse from motion and at night.

Entire indifference to life; sure she will die. Vertigo; when rising from bed feels faint (Bry.).

Intense headache and backache; lame, sore bruised feeling all over; constant desire to move but motion < pains (Lac c., Mer. — motion >, Rhus).

Irresistible desire to bite the teeth or gums together (Pod.) ; during dentition.

Sore throat; of a dark red color; uvula large, dropsical, almost translucent (Kali bi., Rhus).

Diphtheria : pains shoot from throat into ears on swallowing; great pain at root of tongue when swallowing; burning, as from a coal of fire or a red-hot iron; dryness; difficult to swallow with trembling of the hands; sensation of a lump in the throat with continuous desire to swallow; tonsils, uvula and back part of throat covered with ash-colored membrane; cannot drink hot fluids (Lach.).

Carotid and submaxillary glands indurated, after diphtheria, scarlet fever. Mammae full of hard, painful nodosities. Breast; shows an early tendency to cake; is full, stony, hard and painful, especially when suppuration is inevitable; when child nurses pain goes from nipple all over body (goes to back, Crot. t. ; to uterus. Puls., Sil.).

Mammary abscess ; pustule^ gaping, angry ulcers; pus sanious, ichorous, fetid; unhealthy.

Tumefied breast neither heals nor suppurates, is of a purple hue and “hard as old cheese” (Bry., Lac c., Phel.).

Nipples, sensitive, sore, fissured (Graph.) ; < intensely by nursing, pain radiates over whole body. Hastens suppuration (Hep., Lach., Mer, Sil.). Aggravation.. — When it rains; exposure to damp, cold weather. Compare : Kali i. its analogue.