Plantago Major
Plantain
Dose
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Tincture, and lower potencies. Local use in toothache in hollow teeth, otorrheea, pruritus, and Poison-oak. Incised wounds.
Ears
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Pyorrhoea alveolaris. [Staphisag.] Depression and insomnia of chronic Nicotinism. Causes an aversion to tobacco.
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Hearing acute; noise painful. Sticking pain in
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Neuralgic earache; pain goes from one ear to the other through the
Guiding symptoms
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Has considerable clinical reputation in the treatment of earache, toothache, and enuresis. Sharp pain in eyes, reflex from decayed teeth or inflammation of middle ear. Eyeball very tender to touch. Pain plays between teeth and
Head
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Otalgia, with toothache. Loud noises go through one. PLAN ! AGO MAJ. — PLATANUS OCCI. — PLATINA 599
Mouth
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Teeth ache and are sensitive and sore to touch. Swelling of cheeks. Salivation ; teeth feel too long; worse, cold air and contact. Toothache, better while eating. Profuse flow of saliva. Toothache, with reflex neuralgia of eyelids. Stool. — Wants to defecate; goes often, but cannot. Piles so bad, can hardly stand Diarrhoea, with brown watery stools. Urine. — Profuse flow'; nocturnal enuresis. [Rhus arom.; Caust.]
Nose
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Sudden, yellowish, watery discharge.
Relationships
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Compare': Kahn.; Cham.; Puls.
Skin
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Itching and burning ; papulje. Urticaria, chilblains. [Agar.; Tamus.] Poison-oak.
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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