Phytolacca decandra. Kader Kochi.

Synonyms

Poke root, Pigeon berry, Phytolacca americana.

Constituents

Perennial tree. Height 3 meters. Root, leaves, stem, and berries. Plant contains phytolaccotoxin, phytolaccine, phytolaccigenin resin, starch, gum, tannin, mucilage and potassium.

Therapeutics

This is medicine for inflammation of glandular structures. 

It is cardiac depressant medicine (Cinchona, Gelsemium, Crataegus, Colchicum, Digitalis). 

It is medicine externally for rheumatism, and lymphadenitis.

It is medicine for chronic suppuration, chronic breast tumor, and ulcer at muco-cutaneous junction. 

It is medicine for constipation.

Phytolacca berry is medicine for chronic arthritis, and obesity (Ascending dose).

It is remedy for chronic tonsillitis, and chronic rheumatism. 

It is remedy for non-suppurating breast adenoma. 

It is remedy for rheumatic degeneration as iodine does in induration.

Dose

1 to 10 drops.

Dilution.