Senega

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

Generalities

      Known as Snake-root, affects the MUCOUS MEMBRANES causing catarrhal symptoms esp. of the respiratory tract; and bladder. Eyes; serous membranes of CHEST; muscles and left side are also affected. It is suited to plethoric persons; or persons tending to obesity; tall, slender, sprightly women; old persons and fat chubby children. Paretic states esp., of ocular muscles and distinct eye symptoms. Circumscribed spots left in chest after inflammation. Weakness seems to originate in the chest. Faintness when walking in open air. Burning in air passages. Laxity of tissues. Profuse albuminous secretions. Ill effects of poisonous bites. Sprains. Sensation of trembling, without visible trembling.

Worse

      Air-inhaling, open; cold; wind. Touch. Pressure. Rest. Looking fixedly. Walking in open air; (dyspnoea, cough). Rubbing.

Better

      Bending head backwards, (vision). Sweat. Walking in open air; (pains).

Mind

      Anxiety; with hasty respiration. Readily takes offence.

Head

      Bursting pain in forehead, into eyes; better cool open air.

Eyes

      Balls feel distended or like balls of ice. Tremble and water, when looking fixedly or reading. Objects look shaded. Lachrymation, ptosis and diplopia, better bending head backwards. Blepharitis, lids dry and crusty. Oculomotor paralysis. Absorbs fragments of lens after operations. Flickering, must wipe eyes frequently. Opacities of vitreous humour. Iritis. Specks upon cornea. Stitches in eye (right) worse coughing.

Ears

      Aching in the ear when chewing.

Nose

      Sneezes, so often and so violently that the head grows dizzy and heavy. Nostrils feel peppery.

Face

      Paralysis of the left side. Pimples in the corners of lips with burning.

Mouth

      Dry scraping in mouth. worse talking. Taste; metallic; like urine.

Throat

      Dry scraping in worse talking. Hawks viscid mucous in detached small clots.

Stomach

      Loathing and nausea; with inclination to vomit.

Urinary

      Urine; foamy, acrid; increased or decreased in amount; with mucous shreds. Scalding before and after urination.

Respiratory

      Dry scraping in chest worse talking. Hoarse unsteady Voice worse talking and sexual losses, suddenly when reading aloud. Cough incessant, strangling, violent, shaking, choking ends in sneezing, worse lying on right side or evening. Loose rattle in chest; but the clear, profuse sputum is tough and slips back again. Albuminous or blood-streaked sputum. Chest; sore from coughing, pressure, sneezing or moving arms, in spots, as if bruised; shifting pains on stooping. As of a crushing weight or weakness starts in chest; chest feels as if too narrow. Exudation in pleura. Hydrothorax. Burning in chest before or after coughing. Asthmatic bronchitis of old people, with chronic nephritis or emphysema. Vocal cords partially paralyzed. Pleuro- pneumonia.

Related

      Calc-c; Caust; Hepar; Lyc; Phos; Sulph.

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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'.