Phytolacca Decandea

Questions

What is Phytolacca ?

It is the Poke root, and the tincture is from the fresh root.

What are some of its general symptoms?

Bruised feeling of the muscles with stiffness worse at night and in wet weather. Pains better in open air.

What is an important keynote for Phytolacca ?

Aching all over the body.

What are the throat symptoms of this drug ?

Dry, sore throat of dark red color; the tonsils are dark red; pain 011 swallowing, especially at the root of the tongue, accompanied by general aching in the back and limbs.

What are the symptoms of Phytolacca on the mammary gland ?

Nodosities in the female breast; hard swelling, and tenderness on nursing; pains seem to radiate from nipple all over the body. Mastitis.

When is Bryonia useful in Mastitis ?

In the earl 5^ stages with cutting pains, great heat, redness and swelling.

Where do the pains of Croton tiglium go upon nursing ?

To the back.

What other drug has nodosities in the female breast, and how is it distinguished from Phytolacca ?

Co7num, here there is stony;- hardness, and it is less acute than Phytolacca; in Conium the breasts are exceedingly sensitive, cannot bear the touch of clothes, and walking or jarring is painful.

Mention two other remedies that have nodes in the breast. Calcarea fluorica and Silicca. What are the characteristics of Rheum?

Diarrhoea of sour, slimy stools, with tenesmus and griping colic, the child's whole body smells sour, there is an acid condition of the system and the stools are brown and frothy.

What are some other drugs having sour stools ?

Calcarea carb., Magnesia carb., Hepar. Give the characteristics of the cough of Rumex crispus. Teasing, persistent cough, which is aggravated hy cold air, the patient has to cover his head to breathe warm air; it is caused by tickling in the supra sternal fossa; night cough in phthisis. "What is our chief use of Sambucus niger?

Snuffles in children and spasm of the glottis.

What are the indications for Viburnum opulus ?

Threatened miscarriage, with pains from lower abdomen into thighs. Tell the uses of Sarsaparilla. Sycotic eruptions looking like the roseola of syphilis and itching intolerably; eruptions exuding an irritating pus; moist eruption about genitals. Is an antisycotic remedy. Give some indications for Senega. Hoarseness, and a throat so dry that it hurts to talk; great accumulation of albuminous mucus on the chest, which is difficult to expectorate. Great soreness of the chest.

What are the indications for Viola tricolor in Eczema?

Crusta lactea, with copious exudation which mats the hair, and urine smelling like that of a cat. CHAPTER IV.