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Plectranthus

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Plectranthus · "The Rare Plectranthus Remedy"
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🎯 Acts primarily on the digestive tract, joints, and nervous system, producing sudden, intense, and shifting pains.
📖 Clarke writes:
Plectranthus fruticosus. N. O. Labiatae. Tincture of fresh plant.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Severe symptoms induced in head, throat, intestines, rectum, limbs, and joints
Burning sensation extended throughout the digestive tract
Exhaustion, bruised sensation, general discomfort
Cramps and paralytic pains in joints
Spastic paralysis remedied by it
Right side more affected than the left
Pains and symptoms were sudden, and came and went suddenly
Temperament & Physical Profile
Sweat of right foot, left foot dry
Sweat of right foot and both hands and no other part
Sweat of scalp
Whites of eyes yellow, WORSE left
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Toothache with swelling of face and difficulty of opening mouth
Pain near right jaw-joint as if a tooth were coming through difficult cutting of wisdom teeth
Coldness of abdomen, BETTER in open air
Many pains about the navel
Paralytic pains in joints
Pains of many kinds in right shoulder
As if a morsel stuck in throat after swallowing
As though air were piercing the marrow of the bones
Cool sensation followed by burning at root of tongue and palate
Pressure as from a heavy weight in stomach
Discharge of white mucus from anus causing scratching
Pressure on rectum and bladder
Chewing = pain in temples
Modalities
WORSE after eating (pressure in stomach; pain in umbilical region)
WORSE by all food and drink (burning in mouth)
WORSE by motion; moving head; turning body
WORSE by swallowing
WORSE whilst urinating, BETTER after
WORSE by warmth of stove
BETTER by application of ice
BETTER by eructations
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sudden, shifting pains that come and go rapidly.
Clarke
Burning sensation throughout the digestive tract, from mouth to anus.
Clarke
Right-sided symptoms are more pronounced than the left.
Clarke
Contractive pain in the umbilical region, worse after eating.
Clarke
Stiffness and pressive tension in the nape, worse by motion of the head.
Clarke
Periodic drawing pain in right teeth extending to temple and ear.
Clarke
Sensation as if a morsel of food is stuck in the throat.
Clarke
Sweat on right foot and both hands, while other parts remain dry.
Clarke
Worse by heat of stove and better by application of ice.
Clarke
Sensation as though air were piercing the marrow of the bones.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Fretful, ill-humoured, and distracted; unable to maintain attention.
Fretful.
Ill-humoured.
Peevish.
Distracted in mind
cannot keep his attention on an interesting subject.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Eating
pressure in stomach
umbilical pain
Better from
Open air
abdominal coldness
chilliness
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Lycopodium ClavatumHepar SulphurArgentum Nitricum
📚 Sources & References
Kent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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