Plectranthus
Plant · Lamiaceae
Plectranthus suits patients with right-sided neuralgic and paralytic pains, burning throughout the digestive tract, and difficult dentition. The remedy shows marked asymmetry — right side more affected than left — with distinctive local sweating patterns and general exhaustion.
Key symptoms
- Toothache with swelling of face and difficulty opening mouth
- Burning sensation throughout the entire digestive tract
- Coldness of abdomen, better in open air
- Many pains around the navel
- Cramps and paralytic pains in joints
- Pains of many kinds in right shoulder
- Sensation as if a morsel were stuck in throat after swallowing
- Sweat of right foot only, left foot dry
Worse (aggravation)
- After eating — pressure in stomach and pain in umbilical region
- All food and drink — burning in mouth
- Motion; moving head; turning body
- By swallowing
- Warmth of stove
Better (amelioration)
- In open air — coldness of abdomen relieved
- Application of ice
- After urinating
Plectranthus fruticosus. N. O. Labiatæ. Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Abdomen, coldness of. Cholera. Cramps. Dentition. Diarrhœa. Dysphagia. Fever. Intermittent fever. Lumbrici. Neuralgia. Rheumatism. Shoulder (r.), pains in. Spastic paralysis. Stiff-neck. Sweat, local. Throat, sore. Toothache. Wrists, pains in.
Characteristics
Plectranthus was extensively proved by the Austrian Provers' Association. Severe symptoms were induced in head, throat, intestines, and rectum, limbs and joints. Toothache with swelling of face and difficulty of opening mouth. "Pain near right jaw-joint as if a tooth were coming through" suggests a use for the remedy in difficult cutting of wisdom teeth. Burning sensation extended throughout the digestive tract; and there was also coldness of abdomen, > in open air. Many pains about the navel. Paralytic pains in joints. Pains of many kinds in right shoulder. Exhaustion, bruised sensation, general discomfort were experienced. Cramps and paralytic pains in joints. Hansen mentions …
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