COMMON NAME:
POKE ROOT.
Symptoms
Patient of a rheumatic diathesis, suffering from the bad effects of syphilis (Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Syphilinum) (Bt.)RHEUMATISM OF FIBROUS AND PERIOSTEAL TISSUES (Rhus toxicodendron) (A.)
CHRONIC RHEUMATISM, wORSE IN DAMP WEATHER (Dulcamara, nat-S., Rhus- T.) (Bt.).
Rheumatism after gonorrhoea, syphilis or abuse of mercury (Hepar, Kali-, Nat-S., Sil) (A.).
Aching heels, ameliorated by elevating the feet (B.)
Hips and thighs pain on change of weather (Rhus toxicodendron) (B.)
SCIATIC PAINS RUN FROM THE HIP DOWNWARD AND MOSTLY ON THE OUTWARD SIDE OF THIGHS; WORSE AT NIGHT (N).
A SORE, ACHING, BRUISED FEELING ALL OVER THE BODY, CAUSING THE PATIENT TO GROAN, AND WHILE LIKE RHUS TOXICODENDRON, HE FEELS AS IF HE MUST MOVE, THE ACT OF MOVING GREATLY AGGRAVATES ALL HIS PAINS AND SORENESS (N.)
Pain flying like electric shocks; shooting; lancinating; rapidly shifting (Belladonna, Lac-C., Magnesia phos., pulsatilla), worse from motion and at night (A.)
Rheumatic pains in the arms, especially about the attachment of the deltoid muscles (Ferrum, Rhus toxicodendron) (N.)
Entire indifference to life (Arsenicum, Aurum) (A.)
Is sure she will die ( Arsenicum) (A.)
Chronic induration of the glands (Carb-An., Iodium, Mercurius, Rhus-t., Silicea) (Bt.)
Great pain at the root of the tongue when swallowing (A.)
Diphtheritic inflammation and ulceration of the throat (Merc-B- I., Merc-P-I., Rhus toxicodendron) (Bt.)
TONSILS RED, SWOLLEN, WITH WHITE SPOTS, WHICH SOMETIMES COALESCE AND FORM PATCHES.; PAINS RUN UP INTO THE EARS (Kali bichromicum, Mercurius, Acid nitricum) (N.)
Sensation as if there was a lump in the throat that causes constant efforts to swallow (Belladonna, Lachesis) (Bt.)
Induration and ulceration of the tonsils (Mercurius, Sil) (Bt.)
THROAT OF A DARK RED COLOUR (Lachesis) (A.)
Tonsils, uvula and back part of the throat covered with ash- coloured membrane (Arsenicum, Merc-B-I, Merc-P-I.) (A.)
With every attempt to swallow shooting pains through both ears (N.)
Uvula large, dropsical, almost translucent (Kali bichromicum, Rhus toxicodendron) (A.)
Tongue fiery red at tip (Fluor-Ac.) (B.)
CANNOT DRINK HOT FLUIDS (Lachesis)
Breath very fetid, (Arsenicum, Baptisia, Carb-Ac., Kali-P., Lachesis, Mur- Ac., Acid nitricum, Silicea, Sulphur) (bt.)
Great roughness and rawness of the throat (Causticum, Nux vomica) (Bt.)
FEELING AS IF A BALL OF RED-HOT IRON HAD LODGED IN THE THROAT (Bt.).
Great exhaustion and profound prostration (Arsenicum, Baptisia, Gelsemium, Kali-P., Lachesis, Mur-AC., Phosphorus) (A.)
Induration of the parotid glands (Bromium, Iodium) (Bt.)
Painful menstruation in barren females (Chamomilla, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla) (Bt.)
Galactorrhoea (Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, Pulsatilla) (Br.)
BREASTS VERY HARD, SWOLLEN, HOT AND PAINFUL (Belladonna, Mercurius, Silicea) (N.)
MAMMARY ABSCESS (Belladonna, Bryonia, Mercurius, Phosphorus, Silicea) HASTENS SUPPURATIONS (Hepar, Lachesis, Mercurius, Silicea) (A.)
FISTULOUS, GAPING, ANGRY ULCERS IN THE MAMMAE (Silicea); PUS, SANIOUS, ICHOROUS, FOETID AND UNHEALTHY (A).
Pain form the breast radiates all over the back when the child nurses (Crot-T.) (N.)
Tumefied breast neither heals, nor suppurates (Mercurius); is of a purple hue and ” hard as old cheese” (Bryonia, Lac-C., Phel.) (A.).
Mammae full of hard, painful nodosities (Carb-An., Silicea) (A.)
Cancer of the mammae (Arsenicum, Bufo., Carb-An., Conium, Graphites, Mercurius, Acid nitricum, phosphorus, sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Thuja) (Bt.)
Nipples, sensitive, sore and fissured( Graphites) (A.)
Chalk-like sediment in the urine ( N.)
Albuminous urine (Apis., Cantharis, Mercurius, Phosphorus, Sepia) (Bt.)
Dark-red urine, leaving a deep red stain in the vessel (Berberis, Colchicum, Lycopodium) (Bt.)
Vertigo; when rising from bed feels faint (Bryonia, Conium) (A.)
Vertigo, with dimness of vision (Cyclamen, Kali-p., Sepia) (C.)
Intense headache (Belladonna, Ferr-P., Gloninum, Sanguinaria, Spigelia) (A.)
Headache, commencing in frontal region and extending backward (C.)
Chronic endocarditis from rheumatism (Lachesis, Naja., Phosphorus) (C.)
Shock of pain in the cardiac region alternating with pain in the right arm. (Br.)
Chlorosis (Alumina, Cyclamen, Ferrum, Graphites, Kali-I., Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla) (A.)
Emaciation with loss of fat (A.)
IRRESISTIBLE INCLINATION TO BITE THE TEETH OR GUMS TOGETHER (DURING DENTITION ) (N).
Salivation, with metallic taste in the mouth (Arsenicum, Calcarea, Cup- Arsenicum, Kali bichromicum, Mercurius, Natrum carbonicum, Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia) (Bt.)
Mucous and bloody stools, or like scrapings from the intestines (Cantharis, merc-C.) (C.)
Painful induration of the testicles (Belladonna, Pulsatilla) shooting along perineum to penis. (Br.)
Stitches in various parts, always from without inward and near the surface (C.)
Carotid and sub-maxillary glands indurated after diphtheria, scarlet fever (A.)
AGGRAVATION:
From exposure to damp; cold weather; from motion; at night; when swallowing; from hot drinks; from nursing the child; and when rising from bed;
AMELIORATION:
From cold drinks; from lying on the abdomen; from rest; from warmth; and in dry weather.
RELATIONSHIP:
Phytolacca occupies a position between Bry,. and Rhus- T. cures when these fail; though apparently well-indicated.Complementary: Silicea
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)