Phxtolacca
Abdomen
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Constipation of the aged and those with weak
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Sore spot in right hypochondrium. Rheumatism of abdominal muscles. Colic at navel. Burning griping pains. Bruised feeling through epigastrium and
Female
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Mastitis; mamma: hard and very sensitive. Cancer of breast. 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. Galactorrhcea. [Calc.] Menses too copious and frequent. Ovarian neuralgia of right side.
Guiding symptoms
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on side. Mapped, indented, fissured, with yellow patch down center. Much stringy saliva.
Heart
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Feeling as if heart leaped into
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Bleeding from
Male
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Painful induration of testicles. Shooting along perineum to penis.
Rectum
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Urine. — Scanty, suppressed, with pain in kidney region. Nephritis.
Throat
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[Bell.; Lach.] Throat feels rough, narrozv, hot. Tonsils swollen, especially right; dark-red appearance. Shooting pain into ears on swallozvinq. P.seudo-membranous exudation, grayish white; thick, tenacious yellowish mucus, difficult to dislodge. Cannot swallozv anything hot. [Lach.] Tension and pressure in parotid gland. Ulcerated scue throat and diphtheria: throat feels very hot; pain at root of tongue extending to ear. Uvula large, dropsical. Quinsy; tonsils and fauces sivollen, with burning pain; cannot swallow even water. Mumps. Follicular pharyngitis.
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Dark red or bluish red. Much pain at root of
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[Pod.\ Shock of pain in cardiac region alternating with pain in right arm. 592
Tongue
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soft palate and tonsils swollen. Sensation of a lump in
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.