Solanum oleraceum
Plant · Solanaceae
Herbaceous plant with woody stem and short crooked thorns growing in damp places near Rio Janeiro. Most remarkable symptom is swelling of mammary glands with profuse milk effusion, along with drowsiness and headache characteristic of Solanaceæ remedies.
Key symptoms
- Swelling of breasts
- Profuse milk discharge
- Catarrh
- Herpes
- Gland swelling
- Urticaria
- Pustules
- Stye
- Drowsiness
Solanum oleraceum. Juquerioba. N. O. Solanaceæ. Tincture of flowers.
Clinical
Breasts, swelling of. Catarrh. Glands, swelling of. Herpes. Lactation, profuse. Leucorrhœa. Pustules. Sleep excessive. Stye. Urticaria.
Characteristics
This plant, says Mure, is herbaceous, stem somewhat woody, the upper branches being covered with short and crooked thorns. It grows on the shores round Rio Janeiro in damp and shady places. The most remarkable symptom of the proving was "Swelling of the mammary gland with profuse effusion of milk" occurring in a negro woman of 60. Other symptoms were: "Pain and swelling of face and throat with inflammation." "Cold feeling in left chest after drinking." There was drowsiness with headache, and the generally deranged sleep of the other Solanaceæ.
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