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Solanum Tuberosum Aegrotans

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Solanum Tuberosum Aegrotans · Diseased Potato · "The Diseased Potato Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the gastrointestinal tract, causing severe putridity, rectal prolapse, and intense muscular pain.

📖 Clarke writes:

Diseased potato. Tincture of the affected tubers.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Rapid putrescence and decay of tissues

•Foul odor of breath and body

•Excruciating muscular pains

•Symptoms aggravated by touch and pressure

•Cold water causes shock

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Headache aggravated on waking

•Headache aggravated by smell of alcohol

•Headache aggravated by walking at 5 p.m.

•Headache aggravated by sleeping

•Headache aggravated by working

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Prolapse of the rectum (confirmed by poisoning cases)

•Anus perfectly patulous and exquisitely tender to the touch

•Violent and ineffectual efforts to discharge the contents of the rectum

•Retention of urine (passed only in drops with extreme suffering)

•Lips cracked and raw

•Gums bleeding

•Tongue coated, thick, cracked

•Throat inflamed and ulcerated

•Sensation of something sticking in throat

•Sensation as if a fleshy growth in throat

•Noma of left cheek

•Sensation of water splashing on head

•Sensation as if brain were leaping in skull (on stooping)

•Sensation as if a spring unrolled in left hypochondrium

•Sensation as if a hollow body were turning rapidly in chest

•Sensation of stoppage in trachea

•Sensation of something becoming detached from sacrum

•Urine has an oily pellicle

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Prolapse of the rectum with violent, ineffectual efforts to stool.

Clarke

Horribly fetid breath and body odor resembling the smell of diseased potatoes.

Clarke

Headache at noon, aggravated by the smell of spirits.

Clarke

Sensation as if the brain were leaping in the skull upon stooping.

Clarke

Excruciating muscular pains aggravated by touch and pressure.

Clarke

Urine covered with an oily pellicle.

Clarke

Sensation of a fleshy growth or something sticking in the throat.

Clarke

Shock or oppression felt when drinking or washing with cold water.

Clarke

Small pimples on the back causing violent itching.

Clarke

Sensation as if a spring were unrolling in the left hypochondrium.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Irritable, quarrelsome, and anxious states; dread of work and fear of thieves.

Quarrelsome, irritable mood.

Bad temper.

An unintelligible expression irritates her so that she would like to break everything and bite her hands.

Dread of work.

Hypochondriac mood.

She wants to enjoy a change of scenery, &c.

She fancies she is miserable, and dwells much on the future.

Rises in the night imagining that there are thieves behind the curtain, but dares not look, asks others to do it.

Crowd of ideas.

His attention is easily disturbed by other things.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Touch

muscular pains

headache

↑Better from

Stirring about

general symptoms

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Podophyllinum →

📚 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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