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Lycopersicum esculentum is a homoeopathic medicine derived from the ripe fruit of fresh tomato plant, botanically known as- Solanum lycopersicum, belonging from Solanaceae family. It exhibits strong action on the musculoskeletal, respiratory, and nervous systems, making it particularly valuable in conditions involving rheumatism, post-influenza fatigue, chronic coryza, and neuralgic pain. The medicine is especially useful when symptoms present with intense body aches, dry coughing, head congestion, and urinary disturbances. It is notable for managing exhaustion, tingling neuralgias, and severe muscular soreness after acute illness.

Common Name

Hindi: Tamatar

English: Tomato

SBL’s Lycopersicum esculentum can be helpful in the following conditions:

Musculoskeletal and Neurological Support

• Marked effect on rheumatism, with widespread aching in muscles and joints, especially after influenza.
• Alleviates sharp pain in right deltoid and pectoralis muscles and deep muscular pain in the mid-right arm.
• Lycopersicum esculentum assist in rheumatic pain in right elbow, wrist, and both hands.
• Supports relief from aching in the back and lumbar region, intense aching in lower limbs, and tingling along the right ulnar nerve.
• Helps with right-sided crural neuralgia, often associated with restlessness and discomfort.

Headache and Congestion

• Head often exhibits signs of acute congestion with bursting pain, starting in the occiput and spreading throughout the head.
• Post-pain, the entire scalp feels bruised and sore.
• Eyes feel dull and heavy, with contracted pupils and sensation of eyeball constriction.
• Aching in and around the eyes, with suffused eyes suggesting vascular congestion.

Coryza and Hacking Cough

• Profuse, watery coryza that runs down the throat; often triggered or worsened by breathing dust.
• Notable itching in the anterior nasal chamber; markedly aggravated by outdoor exposure, relieved indoors.
• Respiratory involvement includes hoarseness, husky voice, and deep, harsh expulsive cough.
• Dry, hacking night cough that disrupts sleep; pain in chest extending to head with oppression of chest.

Urinary Irritability & Diarrhoea

• Manages constant dribbling of urine, particularly noticeable in open air.
• Increased nocturnal urination, with a need to rise at night to void.
• Indicated in urinary irritability, commonly accompanying post-viral fatigue or open air exposure.
• Aids in brown watery diarrhea with great flatulency of abdomen and burning sensation in stomach especially in evening.

Cardiovascular Effects

• Prominent decrease in pulse rate, often paired with feelings of anxiety and apprehension.
• Useful in supporting circulatory balance during or after febrile states.
• Fine stitching pains at base of heart with full flowing pulse.

Fever & Muscle Soreness

• Highly beneficial in managing influenza and post-influenza fatigue with aching all over the body with restless sleep.
• Lycopersicum esculentum alleviates symptoms of muscular soreness and dull pain that persist after acute viral conditions.
• Cramps in right calf when raising foot from floor with lameness and soreness.
• Beneficial in seasonal hay fever, especially where nasal irritation is prominent.