Phytolacca



Generalities

Extremities stiff, hands clenched, feet extended, toes flexed, teeth clenched, lips everted, firm, chin drawn on sternum, opisthotonos. Great desire for cold water, for bathing in it. Pains are pressing, shooting, and sore. Great exhaustion and prostration. Sore and stiff. Soreness from head to foot in all muscles. Pains and numbness followed by itching and burning. Pains came suddenly in full force and so continued till they ceased, followed by drowsiness, stupor, or sleep. Bones and glands inflamed and swollen.

Skin

Skin cool, shrivelled, dry, lead-coloured. Syphilitic eruptions and ulcerations secondary and tertiary. Squamous eruptions, tinea capitis, lupus. Shingles. Itch. Pityriasis. Warts. Lipoma. Erythematous blotches, slightly raised, pinkish, slowly desquamating, ending in purple spot, as old ones died away others came. Suppuration of painless tumours. Drawing in cicatrices. Itching began on hands and feet and spread over whole body, rash followed four hours later, itching worse by scratching, worse heat of bed. Itching and lichen-like eruption on left leg, worse fore part of night, preventing sleep till midnight. Boils, especially near ulcers, on back, behind ears. Ulcers: punched-out looking, lardaceous base, pus watery, fetid, ichorous, shooting, lancinating, jerking pains, syphilitic, cancerous. Warts. Corns.

Sleep

Frequent yawning, drowsiness. Restlessness at night, pains drive him out of bed. On awaking feels wretched.

Fever

Great coldness, withered appearance of extremities. Coldness, faintness, dyspnoea, limbs cold, head and face hot. Internal shiverings during the pains. Chill: every morning, sudden, followed by fever after confinement, at night without special fever. Heat: with pain in joints, high fever, in face after dinner, with red face, on left side of face. Sweat: cold on forehead, especially under toes, night-sweat, acrid.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica