Ομοιοπαθητική ΒιβλιοθήκηEupatorium Perfoliatum
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General EN
{Boneset.)
Descbiption The ThorougTmort is an indigenous perennial herb, with a horizontal, crooked root. The sterna are round, stout, hairy, and from one to five feet high. The Itaoea are uppoaite, connale-perfoliate, each pair resembling a single leaf centraZly perforated by the stem, and placed at right angles to it.
Plmeers numerous, Jo/is'ie, in dense terminal corymbs. This well-known plant grows in low grounds, on the borders of swamps, wet prairies, flowering in August and Beptetaber. It has a feeble, peculiar odor, and a herbaceous, very bitter taste.
Officinai PRBPARATIOMS. — Tiucture of the flowf-rs and iPaves of the plant; dilutions with stong alcohol
Ajnaloghjes. — Arnica, Baptisia, Bryonia, Gimicifaga, GMmoniilla, Gel- seminum, Ipeeaeuanha, Mereuriue, Ntix vomica, Podophyllum, Trtosteum.
Head EN
* Headache, with a senbation of soreness intcraally, better in
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the house, aggravated when first going into the open air;
relieved hy conversation.
Pain extending from tiie forehead to the occiput.
Throbbing headache; beating pain in forehead and occiput,
hetter after rising. Darting pains tin-ougli the temples, with sensation of blood
rushing across the head.
Distress on tlie top and in the hack part of the head.
Shooting pains from left to right side of the head, " Headache, with nausea, every other morning when first
awaking, continuing all day; loss of appetite during that
day, but good appetite during the intervening day. " Pain in the occiput after lying, with sensation of great weight
in that part-, requii'ing the hands to lift it. {Ses Ohdid.)
Eyes EN
* Soreness of the eyeballs, with intolerance of light.
EednesB of the margin of the lids, with profuse secretion.
Increased laclirymation.
Face EN
Sickly, sallow countenance; flushed face; redness of the cheeks.
Mouth EN
Increased appetite; causes hunger {primary).
Loss of appetite, witli disgust for food (secondary) Paleness of the mucous membrane of the mouth.
Tongue coated yellow, or a white-coated tongae.
Sores in the comers of the mouth.
Insipid taste in the mouth; want of appetite; distaste for
food.
N'octnmal thirst for something cold.
" The hunger which attends or precedes ague.
Stomach EN
* Belching of tasteless wind, with a feeling of obstruction at
the pit of the stomach.
Sensation of something in the stomach that ought to come up.
General shuddering proceeding from the stomach.
Beating in the epigastrium at night.
Sensation of fullness at stomach.
" .Nausea, and vomiting of food.
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* Vomiting of mucus and bile, witli trembling and pain in the
stomach, and weakness even to fainting.
Distressing disposition to, and attempts at, vomiting.
Liver.
* Soreness around the waist— tight clothing is oppreaaive.
* Soreness and fullness in the region of the liver.
Stool EN
* Purging stools, with smarting and heat in the anus.
Frequent watery stools, or hiliozts stools.
Tenesmus, witli small discharge of loose stool.
Morning diarrhcea iprimaryy, constipation {seconda/ry).
Urinary Organs EN
Urine scanty and high colored.
Dark brown, scanty urine, depositing whitish, clay-like sedi- ment, voided only once in twenty-four hours.
" Dark urine in bilious disorders.
" Watery urine during intermittents.
s on the scrotum and thighs, even to the anus.
Catarrhal Symptoms.
* Flowing coryza; sneezing; hoarseness.
* Hacking cough in the evening,
* Cough, with soreness and heat in the bronchia. ° Oougli aggravated in the evening.
° Hectic cough from suppressed intermittent fever.
° Violent cough, with soreness in the chest.
" Epidemic influenza.
' Cough, witli flushed face and teaifnl eyes; be has to support
tlie chest with his hands.
Cheat. Difficulty of breathing, with anxious countenance, perspiration
and sleeplessness.
Painful irritation of the pulmonary organs, with heat in chest.
Aching pain under the left breast, and inability to lie on the
left side.
Grating sensation in the chest at every deep inspiration.
" Asthma and bronchitis, when the dyspnisa is great, obliging
the patient to lie with head and shoulders high.
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Back EN
Weakness in the small of tlie back.
Pain in the back as fi-OKi a bruise.
Pain in tlie back and lower extremities.
Deep-aeated pains in the loins, with soreness from motion. Upper Extremities.
Soreness and aching soreness in the arms and wrists.
Stiffness of the fingers, with obtuseness of the sense of tonch
Heat in the palms <;f the hands.
Lower Extremities.
Pain, with extreme sensitiveness in left gluteal muscles.
" Stiffness and general soreness of the lower extremities when rising to walk.
Calves of the legs feel as though they had been beaten. .
Pains in all the joints of the lower extremities.
Lameness in the right liip and lower extremity.
' Soreness and aching of the lower limbs when rising to walk.
" Rheumatic pains on the inside of the left knee.
° Dropsical swelling of feet and ankles.
" Gouty inflammation of left knee and right elbow. Pever.
* Chilliness through the night and in the morning, with nausea from the least motion; aching pain and soreness, as if from having been beaten in the calves of the legs, small of the back, and in the arms, above and below the elbows; nausea as the chills go off; aching in the bones of the extremities, with soreness of the flesh; chilliness, with excessive trembling and nausea; chilliness in the morn- ing, heat through the rest of the day, but no perspiration; the patient feels worse in the morning of one day, and in the afternoon of the next day.
" Ague and fever, with nocturnal sweat with chilliness from motion or removal of the covering.
" Belchhig and vomiting of bile, and treirtblvny m, the haei
during fever. ° Thirst several hours before the chill.
"The shiverings were severer than the cold would warrant.
" Intermittent fever, when the paroxysm commences in the
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morning, with thirst several hours before the chill, which thirst continues during the chill and heat, and vomiting at the conclusion of the chill; fever attended with great painfulness, weakness and soreness all over; little or no perspiration after the heat. ( WilUtimson,, Weidhami, Gray and ffals.)
° Cerebrospinal meningitis, with intense soreness and aching all over, vomiting, pain in baclc of head and neck, etc {Pratt, Small, etc.)
" M&rmttent fever, bilious and malarial, with severe gastric and intestinal irritation.
Generalities EN
Great soreness and painfulness of the whole body and extrem- ities, as if he bad been bruised or beaten.