SECTION 114.
POKE.
GENERAL INDICATIONS for Phytolacca
Tongue red at the tip - throat dry and sore - scabby skin - night pains in the bones - recurrence of headache once a week - desire for food directly after eating.
Minute Dose
Section 56, B.
Ordinary Dose
Adult, 5 to 10 drops of the Fluid Extract (Emetic 30 drops) - Tincture 1/8 to 1 drachm - Phytolaccin 1/4 to 1 grain. Child, see Section 56, B.
(A) Phytolacca, in ordinary doses, repeated as often as the nature of the case may seem to require (see Section 56), is a very superior remedy for Diphtheria, with dark fetid patches, high fever, aching back and limbs; many cures reported - Scarlet Fever malignant, the throat dark red - Quinsy, bad type - Aphthous Sore Throat, with inflammation extending into the mouth and to the tongue - Chronic Sore Throat - Syphilitic Throat Affections - Rupia - Leucorrhea - Prolapsus uteri - Mercurial Cachexia.
Inflammation of the Breast - "Caked Breasts," impossible to draw the milk - Sore Nipples. The true specific is Phytolacca, tincture, 3 drops taken every 3 hours in a wineglass of water, together with local application of the tincture diluted, one - half with warm water, frequently renewed.
"For Gathered Breasts, give 20 drops of the fluid extract of Phytolacca every 3 hours in water; improvement will be manifest in 12 hours; in 36 hours the cure will be effected! The same will just as surely start the Lochia if suppressed; and if there should be violent pains in the breast whenever the milk flows in, it will directly obviate that trouble also. "
(B) Chronic Ulcer. Reported cure by continued application of the tincture of Phytolacca; boils came out around the ulcer in the course of the treatment, but disappeared as the ulcer healed. The same local treatment, combined with internal administration of the Phytolacca, is said to constitute our best mode of treatment for Cancer. A malignant tumor on the face is reported to have been dispelled by applying to it, twice a day on a cloth, the juice of poke leaves, dried to the consistency of paste, on a pewter dish in the sun; in three days the tumor turned black, in twelve days it dropped off, and the ulcer soon after healed; the cure was complete.