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Solanum Tuberosum

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Solanum Tuberosum · Potato (Berries) · "The Potato Berry Cramp Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system and digestive tract, producing symptoms of toxicity similar to potato poisoning such as paralysis, spasms, and severe gastrointestinal distress.

📖 Clarke writes:

Solanum tuberosum. Potato. N. O. Solanaceae. Tincture of the berries. Tincture of green potatoes. Tincture of fresh plant.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Poisonous properties of berries and leaves

•Tubers contain poisonous quantities of Solanin under certain conditions

•Sickness and diarrhoea with tenesmus

•Giddiness

•Dilated pupils and indistinct vision

•Paralytic condition of the tongue

•Cramps

•Tetanic spasms

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Anti-scorbutic properties of tubers when eaten as food

•Symptoms result from eating new potatoes, green potatoes, an extract, and the berries

•Berries proved fatal in a number of instances

•Rheumatic iritis ✓ Sol. t. Ø

•Tumours feeling like masses of potatoes in the abdomen ✓ Sol. t.

•Tumours all round the cervix uteri ✓ Sol. t. (finished with Urt. ur.)

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Violent sickness and diarrhea with tenesmus.

Clarke

Paralytic condition of the tongue with thick, difficult speech.

Clarke

Cramps in the calves with spasmodic contractions of fingers and thumbs.

Clarke

Tumors feeling like masses of potatoes in the abdomen.

Clarke

Cold, clammy skin with a small, rapid, and scarcely perceptible pulse.

Clarke

Pupils dilated with indistinct vision.

Clarke

Hippocratic face with an anxious expression.

Clarke

Epigastric region sensitive to pressure.

Clarke

General rigidity and tossing to and fro in bed.

Clarke

Respiration is hurried, irregular, and difficult.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

States of stupor, giddiness, and near-loss of consciousness.

Almost lost consciousness.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Pressure

Epigastric region sensitivity

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Stramonium →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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