Solanum arrebenta
Plant · Solanaceae
A remedy primarily affecting the face and breast, characterized by congestion with flushing redness and breast engorgement with pain and swelling. The constitutional picture includes irritability, vertigo, and a tendency toward boil formation and skin eruptions.
Key symptoms
- Redness of face and rush of blood to brain
- Vertigo after bathing
- Swelling and pain in breasts
- Glandular swelling of breast
- Boils with suppuration
- Urticaria
- Irritability from trifling causes
Worse (aggravation)
- After bathing
- Irritated by trifling causes
Solanum rebenta. Arrebenta cevallos (Brazilian name). Trituration of the leaves. Tincture of the leaves.
Clinical
Apoplexy. Boils. Breasts, swelling of. Glands, swelling of. Urticaria. Vertigo.
Characteristics
Mure, who proved Sol. arr., says of it: "The bush grows spontaneously in the provinces of Rio Janeiro, along roads and in cultivated places. It is from ten to sixteen inches high." Among the symptoms "Redness of face and rush of blood to brain" recalls Bell., as do the swelling and pains in breasts.
1. Mind
Impatient and irritated by trifling causes.
2. Head
Vertigo after bathing.─Headache.
6. Face
Redness of face, and rush of blood to brain.
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