PLANTAGO- a snapshot

• Cause- bruises/ cuts/ punctured wounds/ bites
• Depression and insomnia after chronic nicotinism
• Irritable, vexed
• Impatient
• Desire to do many things at once (AURUM, LILIUM TIG) but perseveres in nothing (ACONITE, LAC CAN, LACHESIS)
• Cannot bear to be spoken to
• Homesick
• Restless, impossible to keep in one place. Extremities numb and restless > changing position. Paces back and forth
• Urine
  • Nocturnal enuresis (CAUST, RHUS BROM, BELL) in children from laxity of sphincter, profuse flow of urine
  • Urine loaded with uric acid
    • (in enuresis compare
    • Bell- enuresis towards morning and after midnight
    • Caust- enuresis in 1^st part of  sleep (sep) from weakened sphincter
    • Chloralum hyd- enuresis every night. Towards the last part of the night
    • Kreos, lac can, senega, sepia- bed wetting while dreaming)
• Grinding of teeth during sleep
• Skin
  • Erysipelas
    • Sp of breast, local application of Q will help
  • Urticaria
  • Chillbalins (AGARICUS, TAMUS)
  • Sensitive
  • Itching burning papulae
  • Vesicles on hands and face
  • Inflammatory conditions
  • Papules exude yellowish discharge and form crust
• Injury and wounds with painful swellings
• Pains
  • Neuralgic
  • Unbearable pains
  • Salivation with pains
  • Sharp shifting pains
    • Shifting erratic pains with chilliness
  • Pains appear in spots
  • Needle like burning pains
• Tooth
  • Earpain with toothache (PULS) or alternate between teeth and ear
  • Reflex from decayed tooth
  • Toothache with eyepain
  • Pain > eating
  • Pyorrhoea alveolaris
  • Swollen cheek from sensitive sore teeth, which feel long
• Ear
  • Acute hearing
  • Neuralgic pains in ear
  • Inflamed middle ear
  • Pains shoot from one ear to the other through the head
• Foul
  • Breath
  • Flatus
• Agg
  • Left side
  • Contact
  • Cold air
• Thirst increased (along with polyuria it may be indicated in DM)
• Causes aversion to tobacco
• Periodical prosopalgia (trigeminal neuralgia)
  • Periodic
  • < 7am- 2pm
  • With flow of tears, photophobias
  • As if brain turned over
• Gloomy dreams exciting tears
• Weakness after stools

(Think of this remedy in neuralgias of various origins, when the patient is CHAM or NUX VOM type. Used in a variety of skin conditions.)

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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