Lycopersicum – Tomato

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts in flower of Lycopersi- con lycopersicum [L.] Karst ex Farw., syn.: Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. N.O. Solanaceae.

The remedy-picture shows a number of characteristic symptoms, such as headaches, weakness of memory, pains in the eyes with burning and a sensation as if the eyeballs were drawn together, contraction of the pupils with painfulness of the area around the eyes and swelling of the eyelids. The symptoms of an acute cold, such as profuse, watery, fluent coryza which makes the alae nasae sore and drips down into the throat, also makes the use of Lycopersicum in acute pharyngeal and nasal catarrhs expedient. There is also a rough voice with hoarseness and continual clearing of the throat, and possibly a deep, rough cough with constriction of the chest, shaking the whole body; at night-time it is a short, dry cough preventing sleep. By way of gastric symptoms there is a thick yellow coating to the tongue with thirst for large quantities of water and violent eructations of air with burning in the epigastrium. There are also urinary symptoms, with urging at night, weakness of the bladder and dribbling of urine in the open air with back-pains in the renal area. There are also stabbing pains in the right shoulder muscles and the abdominal mus- cles, rheumatic pains in the right elbow and wrist, violent pains in the lower limbs, neuralgias in the right leg and crawling in the right elbow, all of which rounds off the picture of an acute, painful cold-infection. There is aggravation in the open air and from continued movement, also from jarring and noise, and amelioration in a warm

room.

Lycopersicum has been used not only in rheumatism, in influenza with pains all over the body, especially in arm and leg muscles, and in eye problems, but also in headaches with congestion of blood from the slightest amount of dust, the remedy being used mostly in combination with other homoeopathic substances.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Lycopersicon lycopersicum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Fed- eral Gazette) for lycopersicum: inflammations of the upper respiratory passages; myalgia; neuralgia.