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Phytolacca. (Phytolacca Decandra.) – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6]
Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10]
Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15] Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18]
Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22]
Male sexual organs.

[23]
Female sexual organs.

[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30]
Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34]
Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45]
Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

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TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] [Phyt.]

Taste : disagreeable, metallic.

Great pain in root of tongue, fauces, etc.

Burnt feeling on back part of tongue.

Tongue : thickly coated at back ; coated yellow and dry ; furred ; fiery red at tip ; feels as if scalded ; coated greyish-yellowish ; hot, rough, tender and smarting at tip ; small ulcers like those caused by mercury ; thick ;
protruding.

Tongue and lips dry, much pain in fauces when swallowing.

   

INNER MOUTH. [12] [Phyt.]

Profuse saliva, sometimes yellowish, often thick, ropy, tenacious ; mercurial ptyalism, with inflamed gums.

Salivation with metallic taste in mouth. θ Diphtheria.

Sensation of dryness in mouth with cough.

Roof of mouth sore ; profuse salivation.

Ulcerated sore mouth.

Small ulcers on inside of right cheek, very painful ; he cannot chew on that side.

Inflammation of posterior nares, pharynx, tonsils and soft palate ; uvula and tonsils ulcerated ; extreme sensitiveness of mucous membrane ; deglutition painful ; tongue coated ; fetor oris ; eruption on face, arms and
body ; has taken much mercury. θ Syphilis.

Severe glossitis ; deep ulceration of tongue and gums ; looseness of teeth ; tonsils, uvula and velum palati ulcerated ; in consequence of large doses of mercury. θ Syphilis.

   

PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Phyt.]

Fauces and pharynx look dry.

Dryness : of throat ; in throat and posterior fauces ; in upper part of pharynx, disposition to hawk and clear throat, without affording relief ; in fauces provoking hacking, dry cough ; in throat inducing cough ; in throat < morning and evening ; of
throat soon produces soreness.

Throat : very dry, rough and sore ; dryness, roughness, burning and smarting in fauces.

Hot feeling, as if a ball of red-hot iron had lodged in throat.

Sensation of a lump in throat, causing a continuous desire to swallow ; like a plug in throat ; < left side.

Sensation of throat being so full that it felt choked ; hawking to rid throat and posterior nares of mucus.

Pressing pain in right side of throat.

Increased discharge of mucus from posterior nares, detached with difficulty, continually excited a disposition to hawk.

Uvula large, almost translucent.

Strings of mucus adhering to upper part of pharynx.

Deglutition : painful ; difficult ; with every attempt excruciating shooting pains through ears ; regurgitation through nostrils ; unable to swallow even water ; almost impossible because throat felt so dry and rough.

Tonsils : and palate congested, bluish or dark-purple ; sore, red and swollen ; right much enlarged, dark-red, burning in fauces and whole length of œsophagus ; large, bluish, ulcerated ; throat feels as after eating choke-pears ; induration and
ulceration ; chronic enlargement ; aphthous patches with rheumatic pain in lumbar region ; follicular sore throat ; quinsy.

Cannot drink hot fluids ; choking ; ulcers on tonsils.
θ Syphilis.

Feeling of rawness, scraping and excoriation in throat.

Throat sore ; the isthmus congested and of a dark-red color ; dryness of throat, with some swelling of tonsils.

General soreness of posterior fauces and apparent extension of irritation into Eustachian tubes.

Darkish-red inflammation of fauces, tonsils swollen ; ulcerated ; thick, white or yellow mucus.

Soreness of throat, and a feeling as of a lump when swallowing saliva ; same sensation felt on turning head to left side.

Sore throat, with derangement of digestive organs ; fetid breath and constipation ; after diphtheria or scarlatina ; tubercular ; after syphilis.

Sore throat on right side ; throat red and tumefied ; no pain when swallowing food, but when swallowing saliva ; low-spirited indifferent to his surroundings, wishes some one would knock him on the head and kill him ; tongue coated white and slimy ; has to
drink often to keep throat moist ; weight on back of neck ; pressing pain going up back of neck, on right side only ; right side of head feels as if firmly pressed, causing pain in eyes ; pain in throat from root of tongue downward towards outer attachment of
clavicle ; cannot bear clothes on throat ; drawing, stinging, pressing pain down right side of neck towards shoulder blade.

Scarlatina anginosa : tending to suppuration or ulceration ; fever rages with unwonted severity ; no eruption ; nose and upper lip much excoriated by an acrid discharge ; slight delirium ; great prostration.

Hoarseness and persistent sore throat after diphtheria.

Chronic sore throat : fauces and pharynx look dry and of a dark color, with a few adherent strings of mucus high up ; hawking of phlegm morning and evening ; aphonia.

Pharynx dry, rough, feels like a cavern.

Chronic follicular pharyngitis ; membrane lining fauces and pharynx as well as velum pendulum and uvula pale, puffed and flabby ; uvula large, almost translucent ; distressing sensation of enlargement of calibre of pharynx and œsophagus from choanæ to epigastrium,
provokes a cough, paroxysmal, extremely distressing, and attended by very profuse and exhausting expectoration of thick starch-like mucus ; whole chest feels like a big empty cask, as if its calibre were enlarged tenfold ; great debility ; patient, who is intolerant of
stimulants, can take whisky to any extent and with great temporary relief.

Chronic granular pharyngitis ; burning sensation as of a hot substance in throat ; voice gives out ; burning and soreness, greatly < by prolonged use of voice.

Catarrhal inflammation of head and throat, closely simulating diphtheria ; tough, white mucus from posterior nares, clinging tightly to posterior wall of throat, resembling large patch of diphtheritic membrane.

Swollen glands ; tonsils swollen and covered with greyish patches ; dizziness and backache.

Diphtheritic inflammation and ulceration of throat.

Diphtheria : sick and dizzy when trying to sit up ; frontal headache ; pains shooting from throat into ears, especially on trying to swallow ; face flushed ; tongue much coated, protruded ; thickly coated at back, fiery
red at tip ; breath fetid, putrid ; vomiting ; difficulty of swallowing ; tonsils swollen, covered with membrane, first upon left, three or four patches ; tonsils, uvula and back part of throat covered with ash-colored exudation ; tonsils covered with dirty,
white, pseudo membrane ; small white or yellow spots on tonsils coalesce and form patches of membrane ; membrane has appearance of dirty wash-leather ; exudation pearly or greyish white ; great thirst ; < from hot drinks ; dyspnœa ; ropy, offensive
mucus lining mouth and throat ; glands of neck very tender ; pain in neck and back, body sore as if bruised, groans with pain, especially when trying to move or turn in bed ; aching limbs ; great prostration ; violent chill, soon followed by high fever ; fever
without chill ; pulse 120, 140, weak ; rash on skin ; remarkably nervous phenomena ; consecutive paralysis ; leaves vision impaired, hearing dull ; in cold weather generally epidemic ; usually of catarrhal or rheumatic origin, brought on by exposure to damp
and cold atmosphere or sleeping in damp, ill-ventilated rooms.

Ulceration of mucous membrane of upper part of alimentary tract. θ Diphtheria.

Scarlet fever, with diphtheritic complications.

Induration of parotid glands in diphtheria.

Parotitis : inflammation of submaxillary glands.

   

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Phyt.]

Great thirst.

Hunger soon after eating.

Loss of appetite.

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