Plantago Major

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Dr. S.R. Phatak describes the clinically confirmed symptoms of the homeopathic remedy Plantago Major in his Concise Materia Medica, published in 1977….

Generalities

      Affects the nerves, causing neuralgia of ears, teeth, face; of shingles. Pains are sharp, shifting; play between ear and teeth. Soreness. Produces disgust for tobacco; in chewers and smokers. Pyorrhoea. Ill effects of bruises, burns, cuts, punctured wounds, snake bites. Can be applied locally for neuralgia. As of a foreign body between ears; in the groins, etc.

Worse

      Night. Warm room.

Better

      Sleep. Eating.

Head

      As if brain turned over. Headache with toothache. Sense of something lying in the head, through one ear to the other.

Eyes

      Sharp pains in the eyes, reflex from decayed teeth. As of a hair before eye (left).

Ears

      Neuralgic earache, pain goes from one ear to the other, through the head. Earache with toothache. Hearing more acute; loud noises goes through one. As of a body between ears.

Nose

      Sudden discharge of yellow coloured water from the nose.

Face

      Periodical prosopalgia worse 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., with lachrymation, photophobia, pain radiating to temples and lower jaw.

Mouth

      Saliva flows with pains. Teeth feel too long. Toothache better eating. Dirty taste.

Abdomen

      Bowels seem cold. Colic better eating. Diarrhoea; with brown frothy, watery stools. Painful piles, can hardly stand.

Urinary

      Frequent passage of large quantity of pale urine worse night, with thirst (Diabetes). Enuresis.

Female

      Neuralgia of nipples.

Back

      Throbbing between scapulae. Cold sweat on sacrum.

Extremities

      Numb tremulous legs.

Skin

      Itching and burning. Sensitive.

Sleep

      Gloomy dreams exciting tears.

Related

      Amm; Ferr-p; Pulsatilla

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S.R. Phatak
A pioneer of Homoeopathy in Maharashtra, Dr Shankar Raghunath Phatak was born on 6th September, 1896. He did his MBBS from Grant Medical College, in 1924. Started his practice but somehow not satisfied with Allopathic Treatment.

He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.

He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.