Common Names:

English: Poke-root, Red Ink Plant

can be helpful in the following conditions:

• • Acts strongly on glands with heat, swelling, and inflammation.
  • Useful in swollen tonsils with dark red color, parotid glands, and mumps.
  • Venereal buboes and scrofulous gland enlargements.
• Throat Affections
  • Phytolacca is indicated in sore throat, quinsy, follicular pharyngitis, and diphtheria.
  • Thick, yellowish, tenacious mucus difficult to expel; pseudo-membranous exudation.
  • Supports in treating enlarged, dropsical uvula. Burning pain and rough, narrow feeling in the throat.
• Female Health
  • Helps in mastitis with hard, sensitive breasts; painful purple discoloration.
  • Galactorrhoea and menstrual irregularities (profuse and frequent menses).
  • Treats ovarian neuralgia, especially right-sided.
• Male Health
  • Indicated in painful testicular induration.
  • Shooting pain from perineum to penis.
• Musculoskeletal & Nervous System
  • Pains described as electric shocks, shooting, shifting, or lancinating.
  • Syphilitic bone pains and chronic rheumatism.
  • Useful in rheumatism of abdominal muscles and lower intercostals.
  • Stiffness of back and shoulder with inability to raise an arm; weakness & dull pain in kidney region.
  • Aids in sciatica, neuralgia in toes, aching in heels, puffed feet, painful ankles.
  • Pains in lumbar region; pains streaking up and down spine into sacrum.
• Mental & Emotional Health
• Head & Scalp
  • Relieves vertigo on rising, soreness of brain, pressure in temples and over eyes.
  • Treats scaly eruptions on the scalp.
• Eyes & Nose
  • Fistula lachrymalis and abundant hot lachrymation.
  • Coryza with mucus from one nostril and postnasal drip.
• Mouth & Tongue
  • Especially helpful in teething children—desire to bite teeth together, jaw clenched, lips everted.
  • Tongue red at tip, scalded sensation, mapped and indented with yellow stripe.
  • Excessive stringy saliva, mouth bleeds, blistered tongue sides.
• Abdominal & Digestive Complaints
  • Soreness in right hypochondrium, colic at the navel, bruised epigastrium.
  • Helps in constipation in the elderly and those with weak hearts.
  • Phytolacca manages rectal bleeding, burning and gripping abdominal pain.
• Urinary System
  • Treats scanty, painful urination with suppressed flow.
  • Nephritis with kidney region pain.
• Respiratory Issues
  • Aching in mid-sternum; difficult breathing.
  • Useful in chest oppression with rheumatic intercostal pain.
• Cardiac Symptoms
  • Aids in sudden shock-like cardiac pain, alternating with pain in right arm.
  • Sensation as if heart leaps into throat.
• Back and Extremities
  • Manages stiff back on rising; pain radiating up and down the spine.
  • Pain in legs, thighs, ankles, and feet.
• Fever & General Weakness
  • High fever alternating with chills and extreme prostration.
• Skin Conditions
  • Helps in dry, pale, shrunken skin, itchy papular and pustular eruptions.
  • Disposition to boils, especially those that tend to slough.
  • Phytolacca treats squamous and syphilitic eruptions.
  • Warts, moles, and scarlatina-like rashes and early stages of skin diseases.