Phytolacca decandra

Dizziness on rising. Brain feels sore. Pain from frontal region backward. Pressure in temples and over eyes. Joint and muscle pain of scalp; pains come on every time it rains. Scaly rash on scalp.

Smarting. Feeling of sand under lids. Tarsal edges feel hot. Abundant watering eyes, hot.

Runny nose (cold); flow of mucus from one nostril and from posterior nares.

Teething children with irresistible desire to bite the teeth together. Teeth clenched; lower lip drawn down; lips everted; jaws firmly set; chin drawn down on sternum. Tongue red tip, feels rough and scalded; bleeding from mouth; blisters on side. Mapped, indented, fissured, with yellow patch down center. Much stringy saliva.

Dark red or bluish red. Much pain at root of tongue; soft palate and tonsils swollen. Sensation of a lump in throat. Throat feels rough, narrow, hot. Tonsils swollen, especially right; dark-red appearance. Shooting pain into ears on swallowing. Pseudo-membranous exudation, grayish white; thick, tenacious yellowish mucus, difficult to dislodge. Cannot swallow anything hot. Tension and pressure in parotid gland. Ulcerated sore throat and diphtheria; throat feels very hot; pain at root of tongue extending to ear. Uvula large, dropsical.

Sore spot in right hypochondrium. Joint and muscle pain of abdominal muscles. Colic at navel. Burning griping pains. Bruised feeling through epigastrium and abdomen. Constipation of the aged and those with weak heart. Bleeding from rectum.

Scanty, suppressed, with pain in kidney region. Nephritis.

Mastitis; mammae hard and very sensitive. Breast is hard, painful and of purple hue. Mammary abscess. When child nurses, pain goes from nipple all over body. Cracks and small ulcers about nipples. Irritable breasts, before and during menses. Galactorrhoea. Menses too copious and frequent. Painful induration of testicles. Shooting along perineum to penis.

Feeling as if heart leaped into throat. Shock of pain in cardiac region alternating with pain in right arm.

Aphonia. Difficult breathing; dry hacking, tickling cough; worse at night. Aching pains in chest, through mid-sternum; with cough. Joint and muscle pain of lower intercostals.

Aching pains in lumbar region; pains streaking up and down spine into sacrum. Weakness and dull pain in region of kidneys. Back stiff, especially in morning on rising and during damp weather.

Shooting pain in right shoulder, with stiffness and inability to raise arm. (see Heart.) joint and muscle pain pains; worse in morning. Pains fly like electric shocks, shooting, lancinating, shifting rapidly. Pain in under side of thighs. Syphilitic nerve pain down the leg. Aching of heels; relieved by elevating feet. Pains like shocks. Pain in legs, patient dreads to get up. Feet puffed; pain in ankles and feet. Neuralgia in toes.

High fever, alternating with feeling cold and great extreme weakness.

Itches, becomes dry, shrunken, pale. Papular and pustular lesions. Most useful in early stages of cutaneous diseases. Disposition to boils, and when sloughing occurs. Squamous rashes. Syphilitic rashes. Swelling and induration of glands. Scarlatina-like rash. Warts and moles.