Phytolacca decandra

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

A remedy of long and deep action. SORE, HARD ACHE, all over; sudden; < eyeballs, kidneys, neck, shoulders, back, forearms and below knees. Restlessness. Bluish-red parts, fauces, glands, etc. Spreading pains. Rheumatism; after tonsilitis. Shreddy, stringy secretions; stools, menses, etc. Hard mammary glands. Obesity. .................... Faint on rising. Frontal headache. Head feels beaten sore; < brain. Hot tears. Green vision. Nose seems heavy. Nostrils close alternately. Acrid coryza. Yellowish sickly face. Aching, malar bones. Glands swelled at angle of jaw. Jaws ache, as in mumps. Everted lips. Clenches teeth. Tongue, fiery red at tip; feels burnt or pains at root and into ear on swallowing. Much stringy saliva. White-gray spots on fauces. Mucous patches. THROAT; very sore; very painful swallowing; dark, puffy; burning, as of a stick, hot ball or lump in. Like dark wash leather on tonsil. Tonsilitis. Diphtheria. Hard throb in r. tonsil. Quinsy. Violent retching and vomiting; he would rather die. Continuous urging to stool; even during sleep. Dysentery. Hard ache in kidneys. Dark, red urine; chalky sediment. Albuminuria. Sore spermatic cords. Menstruation, with flow of saliva and tears. Chronic aphonia. Dry, tickling cough. STONY HARD, HEAVY, SWELLED (< left) OR TENDER MAMMÆ, paining during suckling, spreading over whole body; hard nodes in. Mastitis. Nipples cracked; inverted. Heart symptoms go to r. arm. Fatty heart. Neck stiff. Right arm numb and fuzzy. Hips and thighs pain on change of weather. Aching tibiæ. Syphilis. Aching heels, > elevating feet. Bone pains. Dry, harsh skin.

Worse

Raising up. Motion. Swallowing. Hot drinks. Heat. Cold: Damp. Night. Change of weather.

Better

Lying on abdomen. Cold drinks.

Region

Glands: MAMMÆ. Naso-pharynx. Throat. Tonsils. Muscles. Fibrous tissues: NECK. Back. Tendons. Joints. Periosteum. Kidneys. Tongue (Root). Digestive tract. Right side.

Relationships

Complementary: Sil. Related: Bry. Kali-bi. Kali-io. Merc. Rhus-t.

What the other books say about Phytolacca decandra

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Phytolacca decandra in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Phytolacca decandra in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Phytolacca decandra in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Phytolacca decandra — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/phytolacca-decandra. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.