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Plectranthus
6XPlectrPlectranthus · "The Rare Plectranthus Remedy"
PlantRarePsoric
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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 Clavatum →Hepar Sulphur →Argentum Nitricum →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM
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