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Phytolacca Decandra

30C / QPhytolacca
Poke Root · Poke Weed · "The Breast and Throat Remedy"
phyt.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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🎯 A glandular remedy with a powerful effect on fibrous and osseous tissues, particularly useful for inflammation, soreness, and rheumatic conditions.
📖 Boericke writes:
(PHYTOLACCA)
Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration, are general symptoms guiding to Phytolacca. Pre-eminently a glandular remedy. Glandular swellings with heat and inflammation. Has a powerful effect on fibrous and osseous tissues; fasciae and muscle sheaths; acts on scar tissue. Syphilitic bone pains; chronic rheumatism. Sore throat, quinsy, and diphtheria. Tetanus and opisthotonos. Decrease of weight. Retarded dentition.
👤 Constitution
•Typically affects individuals with glandular issues, those prone to rheumatic complaints, and children with teething difficulties.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Smarting.
eyes
Abundant lachrymation, hot.
eyes
Coryza; flow of mucus from one nostril and from posterior nares.
nose
Teething children with irresistible desire to bite the teeth together.
mouth
Dark red or bluish red.
throat
Throat feels rough, narrow, hot.
throat
Shooting pain into ears on swallowing.
throat
Cannot swallow anything hot (Lach).
throat
Ulcerated sore throat and diphtheria; throat feels very hot; pain at root of tongue extending to ear.
throat
Quinsy; tonsils and fauces swollen, with burning pain; cannot swallow even water.
throat
Mumps.
throat
Follicular pharyngitis.
throat
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for states of mental indifference and loss of social awareness.
Loss of personal delicacy, disregard of surrounding objects.
Indifferent to life.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
📝Externally for mastitis.
Primary Dosage
3X
Decimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Belladonna →Mezereum →
🔄 Compare With
Rhus Toxicodendron →Bryonia Alba →Arum Triphyllum →Mercurius Solubilis →Sanguinaria Canadensis →Lithium Bromatum →
⚠️ Inimical
Mercurius Solubilis →
📚 Sources & References

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