Lycopersicum esculentum
Solanum lycopersicum · Plant · Solanaceae
Lycopersicum appears especially suited to dark-complexioned, large, stout individuals prone to rheumatic and influenza conditions. It is indicated when there is intense congestive headache beginning in the occiput, marked right deltoid rheumatism, and coryza notably worse out of doors. Symptoms predominantly affect the right side and proceed from right to left.
Key symptoms
- Intense throbbing bursting headache beginning in occiput spreading over entire head
- Sharp rheumatic pain in right deltoid and pectoral muscles worse lifting arm
- Profuse watery coryza dropping down posterior nares markedly worse out of doors
- Scalp and whole head sore and bruised after headache has ceased
- Intense aching through whole back especially lumbar region
- Pupils minutely contracted; eyes dull, heavy, aching, burning
- Polyuria; must rise at night to urinate
- Brownish or frothy watery diarrhoea, painless
Worse (aggravation)
- Open air (coryza, general debility)
- Continued motion
- Noise
- Jars
- Right side principally
- Evening (headache)
Better (amelioration)
- Warm room
- Tobacco smoke (headache completely relieved)
- External heat
- Leaning head against something
Tomato (SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM)
Marked symptoms of rheumatism and influenza. Severe aching pains all over body. Pains left after influenza. Head always shows signs of acute congestion. Hay-fever, with marked aggravation from breathing the least dust. Frequent urination and profuse watery diarrhœa.
Head
Bursting pain, beginning in occiput and spreading all over. Whole head and scalp feels sore, bruised, after pain has ceased.
Eyes
Dull, heavy; pupils contracted; eyeballs feel contracted; aching in and around eyes. Eyes suffused.
Nose
Profuse, watery coryza; drops down throat. Itching in anterior chamber; worse, breathing any dust; better, indoors.
Heart
Decided decrease in pulse rate with anxiety and apprehensiveness.
Respiratory
Voice husky. Pain in chest, extending to head. Hoarseness; constant desire to clear throat. Expulsive cough, deep and harsh. Chest oppressed; dry, hacking cough coming on at night and keeping one awake.
Urine
Constant dribbling in open air. Must rise at night to urinate.
Extremities
Aching through back. Dull pain in lumbar region. Sharp pain in right deltoid and pectoralis muscles. Pain deep in middle of right arm. Rheumatic pain in right elbow and wrist, and hands of both sides. Intense aching in lower limbs. Right crural neuralgia. Tingling along right ulnar nerve.
Modalities
Worse, right side, open air, continued motion, jars, noises. Better, warm room, tobacco.
Relationship
Compare: Bellad (follows well); Eup perf; Rhus; Sanguin; Caps.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
Lycopersicum esculentum. Solanum lycopersicum. Tomato. Love-apple. N. O. Solanaceæ. Tincture of ripe fruit. Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Backache. Coryza. Deltoid rheumatism. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Eyes, affections of. Gout. Headache. Leucorrhœa. Metrorrhagia. Obesity. Rheumatism. Throat sore.
Characteristics
There is a popular impression that eating Tomatoes is a cause of cancer. The impression is not strong enough to prevent the universal use of them, and I have been unable to discover any basis for the idea. Cooper gave Lycopers. in a case of rodent ulcer and caused sharp pain and temporary spread of the disease. Cooper commends the use of them in cases of obesity. I know of one instance in which the slightest indulgence in them brings on an attack of gout. When raw they require mustard or other condiment, being cold to the stomach. Gross made a proving of Lycopers. It caused sticking and pressing pains; a sense of paralysis; peevishness and loss of memory; pressing and boring pains in head; stopped …
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