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Pothos

Pothos Foetidus
Poth.PlantRarePsoric
Source
🎯 Pothos acts primarily on the respiratory and digestive tracts, often manifesting as burning sensations and sudden, intense physical discomforts.
About: Pothos is a remedy derived from the skunk-cabbage, known for its specific affinity for the throat and chest. It is characterized by burning sensations and sudden, sharp pains that may be relieved by bowel movements.
👤 Constitution
The Pothos patient may present with sudden, intense physical symptoms, often accompanied by a sense of anguish and respiratory oppression.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
► *Sudden feeling of anguish, with oppression of breathing and sweat, after which he has an evacuation from the bowels, with relief of all the symptoms, [2].
generalities
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Consider for violent, drawing headaches or vertigo.
Vertigo, [1] .
Headache, [1] .
Headache here and there, of short duration, [2] .
Drawing from both sides of the forehead to the glabella, very violent in the region of the latter, as if drawn by a magnet, [2] .
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Touch
nasal pain
Better from
Evacuation of bowels
anguish
oppression of breathing
📚 Sources & References
Kent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraClarke's DictionaryPhatak's Concise MM

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