Podophyllum

Sot, watery, frequent, profvse evacuations, attended with proetration and cramps, as in cholera.

* Mitco-ffelatmoiis stools, like white of egg, after which the

colic ceases, and does not return. (_IIale.)

* Food passes the howels in an undigested state. ( Williamson.) ° Evacuations which consist of dark yellow mucus, which

smells like carrion. {Jeanes).

* Frequent stools, yellow, green, watery, hrown mucus, all of

which may be streaked with hlood, with strong urging — and heat and pain in the anus.

* Diarrhwa, with prolapsus ani at every stool.

After stool/ flashes of heat running up the back, cutting in the bowels, severe and painful tenesmus; great weakness and faintness and pain in the lumbar region.

Dv/ring stool; urging in the bowels; heat and pain in tlie anns; sensation as if the genital organs would fell out; (in women) hearing down, as if from inactivity of the rectum; nausea; gagging; tormina, and pain in lumbar region.

Before stool; intense nausea; colic; rumbling in left side.

" Diarrhcea, — hiUoits, cholera-morbus, dysentery; pain in the back, and sometimes vomiting ; acute enteritis; eolUia, recUtia, etc.

Secondary — Constipation for two days after the purging.

* Constipation, with headache and flatulence. Ffeces hard, dry, and voided with difficulty.

* Constipation, alternating with diarrhoea.

* Hard stool, coated with tough, yellow mucus. {Hale^

° The first part of the stool large and hard, followed by fluid

and wind. {Soudder.) " Chronic diarrhea — worse in the morning, Freguetit chalk-like stools; very offensive, with gagging and

excessive thirst (in children — see Oalcc.) ( Williamson.)

* Clay -colored, offensive stools, with Jaundice. (Hale.) "Descent of the rectum, from a little exertion, immediately

followed by stool, or a discharge of thick, transparent mucus, sometimes of a yellow color ; and mixed with blood. ( Williamson, Sale.)

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*ProlapBna aiii, most frec[ueiitlj in the morning. {Jeanes^

* The anus feels very sore, sensitive and swollen. *Chronic, paivful, h<BmorThoidal tumors, all around the

anus, some of them bleeding, {Sale, and many others.}

* Internal hcemorrlioids, with prolapsus recti. {Ih.)

[For the primary Bjmptoms, the best curative results are obtaiued with the attenuation abwe the 3d; for aeeonAcvry Bymptoms the dilutions helme the 3d.— Httfe.]

tFrinary Organs.

* Profuse secretion of urine (jp.)

* Involuntary discharge of urine, during aleeji. ( 'WillMmisorC). *Prequent nocturnal urination, during pregnancy. (-/J.) Pain in the region of the kidneys, followed by flow of urine

depositing calculi sediment.

* Suppression a/nd retention of urine.

* Diminished secretion of urine. Scanty urine, with frequent voidings.

GQuerative Organs.

Stitching pain above the pubis, and in the course of

the spermatic cords. " Diseases of the prostate gland, associated with rectum

troubles. (Hale.) " Gonorrhcea; gleet; syphilis (?) [Eclectic autharities.) J^'emale. — * Leucorrhcea ; discharge of thick, transparent

mucus. *Leucorrhcea, attended with constipation and bearing down

in the genital organs.

* Suppression of the menses in young females, with bearing

down in the hypogastric and sacral region, with pain

ovary, heat running down to the left thigh, in pregnancy,

pain in her bacli, with profuse excoriating leucorrhcea

and great ardor urinie. ( Williamson.)

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" Chronic prolapsus, with great costiveness. (/5.)

" Excessive vomitingin pregnancy and conditions arising from

Pains in the chest, increased by taking a deep inspiration. Snapping in the right lung, like breaking a thread, on taking

tlie throat. " Stinging pain in the region of the heart. ° Palpitation of the heart, from physical exertion or mental

emotion, in persons subject to rumbling in the ascending

Pain in the small of the batk when walking or standing. Pain in the lumbar region, with the sensatioB of coldness,

worse at night, from motion.

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Pain between tlie shoulders, witli -BorenesB, worse at uif^lit and

from motion. Paina are of a myalgic character.

" A sharply defined ache in the eaero-iechiatic formica, with teiideinees on pressure, {Siuddetl)

Chillinesswhen lying 'down or in the evening.

Chill in the raoi-niag, with pressing pain in both hypochon- dria.

Backache before the chilL

The shaking and sensation of coldness continues for some time after the heat commences.

" Bilious fever, either remittent or iaterraittent.

" Eeetless sleep of children, witJi whining at night.

A feeling of fatigue on waking in the morning.

° Sallownesa of the skin in children,

" Moisture of the skin, with preternatural warmth.

' Jf'iillnees of the -sup&rfieial vemSy indicating impairment of the innervation of the sympathetic system of nerves. (Scudder.)

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518 POLYGONCM PUNCTATDM.

POLYGONUM PUNCTATUM.

(Smart-weed.) BoTAMiCAL Description.— This plaot, somelimta called Water-p^ter, is the PolygoTVum hydropiper of Michaus. It is an annual plant with a smooth stem, branched, often decumbent at hase, slender-Jointed, swelling above the joints, and of a reddish or greenish brown color, sprinkled with glandular dots, and from one to two feet in height

Polygonum punctatum Is a well known, intensely acrid plant, found growing in nearly all parts of the United States, in ditches, low ground, among mhbish, and about brooks and water-courses, flowering in August and September. There are many species of Polygonum, which, although possessing similar virtues, yet differ materially in their medical potency. The whole plant is officinal, and has a biting, pungent, acrid taste, and imparts its virtues to alcohol or water. Age renders it inert, and heat impairs its medicinal qualities.

It should be collected and made into a tincture whiltt fl'esh. The plant has not been analyzed.

Officinal FsEPAaAiiONS. — Tincture of the leaves with strong alcohol ; dilations,

AuALOGUES,— ,il8aOTiWj, Anwionium carb., Caulopki/llwn, Ooptieum, Put- tntilla. Senega, Seneeio, Xantlwxyhi,m.

Pulsative lieadaclie, with sensation of fulln^s. Pain in the forehead and side of the head, extending into the

of the stomaeli. Abundant salivation, thiii and watery, with burning in the month.

Abdomen and Stool. Copious stools, followed by a smarting sensation of the amis.

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Cntting pain in lower part of tlie bowels, with constant urging to stool.

Straining at stool, with a mucus, jelly-like discharge.

Inefficient urging to stool, with great quantity of ftetid flatu- lence.

Yellowish-green stools.

* Cutting, lancinating, griping pains, with great rumhling, as

if the whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state and in violent commotion, the movement proceeding from below upwards, producing nausea and disposition to vomit, with liquid faeces, which were discharged with considei'a- hle force, with pain in the loins.

"Dysentery, with burning and smarting in the rectum.

"Tympanitis; flatulent colic.

Kectum and. Anus.

*The interior of the anus studded with itching eminences, as from <!Orrugation without contraction ; a kind of hsemor- rhoidal tumor.

Slight pains in the lower intestines, rectum and anus.

° H(&nwrrhoids, with itching and burning in the tumors.

" Pruritus ani (used as a wash).

Urinary Organa.

Unusual and increased desire to evacuate the bladder.

* Copious dischai-ge of clear, light-colored urine, with rumb-

ling, griping pains in the abdomen. (^.)

* Painful cutting, and feeling of strangulation at the neck of

the bladder while urinating, lasting a long time after. (^.)

Urine scanty and red. (5.)

Increased flow of urine, with irritation in neck of bladder and urethra.

Pain in sacrum and bladder not relieved by copious urination.

" Stranguary. ' Dysuria.

Generative Organs.

Pains in le/i spermatic cord and testicle, with sore- ness in the testicle; followed by darting pains in 7'ighi cord and testicle (constant symptom). {Dr. Paine.)

When voiding urine, pain and burning in prostate glamd.

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Itching about glans penis and onflee of urethra, and constant

desire to urinate. Fulsative pain in prostate gland, extending along the urethra, /'eme^.— "Warratli, and a peculiar tingling sensation in the

whole system, * Aching pains in the hips and loins, and a sensation of weight

scapula. Shai-p, shooting pains in region of the heart, extending through to left shoulder blade.

Back and Week.

Severe lameness of the muscles of the left side of the neck,

extending to the shoulder and rendering movement painful.

Burning and tingling in the whole body, more in the legs^ feet,

and forearms. Great heat and burning of the feet, continuing one and a half

hours, and then suddenly becoming uncomfortably cold. Darting pains through the extremities and the small joints.

A scarlet eruption about three inches wide (like sona), around

the waist, attended with itching, burning, and pain. It acts as a rubefacient, when topically applied.

Pever. Alternate chills and heat.

Kestless sleep, with unpleasant, laborious and fatiguing dreams, and waking unrefreshed.

Generalities, Slight vertiginous feeling passing over tlie head, followed in a

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short time hj a sensation in the arms and legs as of gal- vanic shocks.

Pulsation and intermitting pains (in shoulders, lumbar region, hypogastric region, small joints, etc.)

The pains move from pia<;e to place.

The pains reminded the prover of electrical movement, or the flashes of aurora iorealis.

A peculiar sensation of tingling and warmth in the whole body, even to the fingers and toes.

" Has a great reputation in domestic practice, as a fomentation in all internal inflammations.

" Sprains, bruises, and lameness therefrom (locally applied).

" Chronic erysipelatous inJlammations (as a wash).

" Old and indolent ulcers (as a wash).

° E^pilepsy^ " A protracted case of epilepsy cured by the ex- tract." {B. L. mil.)