Phytolacca – Poke Root

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh root collected in autumn of the plant Phytolacca decandra L., a native of North America, where it grows on fertile, sunny soil, and cultivated in many places in Southern Europe and North Africa, and also frequently found growing in the wild. N.O. Phytolaccaceae.

The main indications are:

Tonsillitis. Violent inflammation of the whole pharyngeal area. Throat swollen and dark red. Diphtheria. Vincent’s angina. Sciatic pain along the outside of the thigh. Mastitis with breast “heavy as a stone”. Breast tumours.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Phytolacca americana, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for phytolacca: extremely feverish infections; mucosal inflammations, es- pecially of the respiratory organs; mastitis and other diseases of the mammary glands; the field of rheumatic diseases.