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Phytolacca decandra.
Mind and Disposition.
Great indifference.
Head.
Vertigo and dimness of vision.
One-sided headache above the eyes with sickness of the stomach.
Shooting pain from the left eye to the vertex.
Eyes.
[5] Burning and smarting sensation in the eyes and lids, with profuse lachrymation, which is relieved in the open air.
Purple-colored swelling of the eyelids (left eye in the morning).
Ears.
Shooting pains in the (right) ear.
Face.
Pale face.
Heat in the face (left side) after dinner ; with redness of the face, coldness of the feet, eruption in the upper lip (left side).
Mouth and Throat.
[10] The mouth fills with water, the saliva is yellowish and has a metallic taste.
The tongue feels rough, with blisters on both sides, with a very red tip ; great pain at the root of the tongue on swallowing.
The teeth feel elongated and are very sore.
Sensation of dryness in the throat and the posterior fauces.
Sensation of a lump in the throat, causing a continuous desire to swallow.
[15] Roughness and rawness in the throat.
Stomach and Abdomen.
Nausea followed by violent vomiting of mucus, bile, of the ingesta, worms, blood.
Soreness and pain in the right hypochondrium (during pregnancy).
Stool and Anus.
Constipation, hard stools.
Stool with mucus and straining.
Urinary Organs.
[20] Violent urging to pass urine.
Copious nocturnal urination.
Sediment like chalk ; the dark-red urine leaves a stain in the chamber of a mahogany color.
Albuminous urine.
Sexual Organs.
Women. Menstruation too profuse and too frequent.
[25] Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of the mammae.
Generalities.
Pains are pressing, shooting and sore.
Syphilitic and mercurial rheumatism ; nightly pains in the tibia, with nodes and irritable ulcers on the lower leg.
