Phytolacca

Characteristic symptoms

Great muscular debility; lassitude and desire to lie down ; myalgia and rheumatic pains, especially of a chronic character ; periosteal rheumatism / tingling and pricking sensation over the whole surface ; chronic skin diseases ; restless sleep at night ; nausea on being wakened out of sleep at night ; vertigo with dimness of vision ; dull, steady, aching pain in the forehead; headache, with sickness of the stomach, from walking ; heavy aching in the head, with vertigo, and disinclination to mental labor ; shooting pain from the left eye to the top of his head; burning and smarting in the eyes, with great flow of tears; catarrhal inflammation of the left eye, with flowing of tears and photophobia ; long-sightedness ; dimness of vision, objects appear indistinct; increased sense of hearing with pains in forehead ; feeling in the nose and eyes, as if a cold would come on ; total obstruction of the nose, when riding, not relieved by blowing the nose ; fluent coryza ; acute and chronic nasal catarrhs, ozoena ; syphilitic ulceration of the nose ; sickly countenance ; dark, yellow color of the face and sclerotica ; firm tetanic contraction of the masseters ; tenderness and heat in the roof of the mouth and on the tongue ; ptyalism ; irresistible inclination to bite the teeth together ; rough blistered tongue ; teeth feel elongated ; metallic taste ; inflammation of the fauces ; throat feels dry and sore, especially on swallowing; sensation as of a lump in the throat, causing a constant inclination to swallow ; constant choking sensation ; hawking to rid the throat and posterior nares of mucus ; diphtheria ; enlarged tonsils ; taste like nuts in the mouth ; hungry soon after eating ; eructations with waterbrash ; vomiting with but little distress in the stomach ; pain in the region of the pylorus ; eructations of sour fluid ; vomiting of abundant dark, bilious substance ; regurgitation of food ; bruised and sore feeling at the pit of the stomach ; pinched feeling in the stomach ; soreness and pain in the hypochondria ; neuralgic pain in the left groin ; griping pains as before a diarrhœa, followed by the passage of offensive flatus; mushy stool; severe colicky pain in the umbilical region; emission of flatus relieves the pain of the bowels; ulceration of the rectum ; fissura recti ; prolapsus ani and haemorrhoids; pains in the region of the bladder, before and during micturition; dark-red urine; sexual organs unusually relaxed; impotence; secondary and tertiary syphilis; menstruation too copious and too frequent ; metrorrhagia ; leucorrhœa; inflammation, swelling and suppuration of the mammae ; dryness of trachea with dry cough ; coughs at night with gagging and vomiting; intercostal rheumatism tenderness of the muscles of the chest, as if they were bruised ; 25 constant dull, heavy pains in the lumbar and sacral regions, aggravated by motion ; spinal irritation ; lumbago.