Eupatoreum Purpureum

Queen of the Meadow. Compositse.

An old Indian medicine, used by herb doctors, particularly in gravel and other diseases of the kidney and bladder.

Proved by Mrs. H. H. Dresser, whose excellent proving appears in full in Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 237.

For a full arrangement of the symptoms see Hering's Monograph.

Clinical Authorities. — Cystitis (2 cases), B. L. Dresser, Am. Hom. Obs., vol. 3, p. 405; Retention of urine, B. L. Dresser, Am. Horn. Obs., vol. 3, p. 405; Intermittent fever (105 cases reported cured), Von Tagen, Hom. Clinics, vol. 4, p. 126; Hom. Clinics, vol. 1, pp. 3 and 52; Howard, Hom. Clinics, vol. 1, p. 16; (2 cases), Bane's Eec, 1871, p. 195; Kane's Eec, 1872, p. 244; Gardiner, Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 52; Analytical Therap., vol. 1, p. 266 ; Dropsy, Hale, A. PL O., voL 1, p. 133.

^ Mind. I I Stupid, dull. <?Dropsy. ^Intermittent. Confusion with falling to 1. side. The mind encompassed by various delusions. Talkative ; exclamations ; delusions of sight and hearing. Sighing every few minutes, with gnawing at stomach. I I Moaning; suffering expressed by peculiar cries. ■ Hysterical mood, weeping, sighing, and a feeling like

home sickness, though occupying her own home and

surrounded by her own family, with fluttering of heart

and a disagreeable fulness in throat. Feels extremely depressed and sleepy. Has a great fear of sickness. ^ Sensorium. iHead feels light and dizzy, as though flying

round and round ; cannot get rid of the sensation as if

falling towards the left side ; the whole body seems to

participate. Lightness of head < in morning, disappearing at 12 o'clock. Sensation as if her head were moving in all directions. Illusions of sight and hearing, with vertigo. Confused, heavy ; cannot seem to prevent falling. Dull, sleepy; great effort required in order to move about. ^ Inner Head, i l Dull, heavy pain in head ; most severe in

forehead. I Much headache and constriction over frontal region, with

chill.

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Dizzy, with deep, dull, aching pain through temporal re- gion on 1. side. Vertex full, pressing, as though lifting up from adjoining

parts. I I Head feels as though she had a bad cold. Hard thumping pain on 1. occipital bone. Pain from 1. shoulder extends to occiput. Sick headache; dull hammering, beating, stitching, or

boring pain in 1. side of head ; pressing from r. to 1. ;

beginning in morning and increasing during afternoon

and evening; < in cold air; > while walking slowly

in fresh air. ■ Violent headache: before the chill; during morning;

with fever. ■* Outer Head. Fine pricking sensation on scalp, rather

pleasurable than otherwise. I I Soreness, tenderness, and itching of scalj). I Sweat, princij)ally on head, particularly profuse about

forehead. ^ Sight and Eyes. ■ l Staring ; looking with fixed eyes, wide

ojDen. Cannot see as far as usual, with sleepy feeling. Eyes weeping ; copious flow of tears. I I Copious flow of tears, filling eyes, making constant

wiping necessary. I 1 Eyes red and swollen ; violent headache. I I Conjunctiva j^ellow, with the chill.

* Hearing and Ears, i i Ears feel as though they were full.

Squeaking sound in ears ; reports ; illusions of hearing. I I Crackling, like burning of birch-bark ; very much <

upon swallowing anything. ^ Smell and Nose. ' ' Fluent coryza ; great heat, sneezing. Abundant discharge of a thin, watery fluid, making nose

sore and irritable.

* Upper Face. Congestion to face, wdth burning heat, dry and

hot to touch. I Face flushed, with fever.

Shining appearance of face, as when having used a large Cjuantity of soap in washing. ^ Lower Face. ■ Lips blue. ^Intermittent. ^'^ Teeth and Gums. Gums red and hot. ^^ Taste and Tongue. ■ Tongue furred, brown along centre; Ijitter, pappy taste, with chill. Pricking and stinging in end of tongue. Fine pricking sensation on posterior part of tongue. Kumb feeling of tongue, as if caused by aconite. ^" Inner Mouth. Increased action of all the glands of the mouth; abundance of saliva.

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13 Throat. Fluttering in throat-pit ; extends upward from heart.

Disagreeable fulness in throat; can hardly prevent crying.

I I Choking fulness of throat, must swallow often.

I Swallowing: < crackling in ears; causes pain.

Soreness, roughness and dryness in throat.

Sensation in throat as if having swallowed tobacco.

Burning, smarting, as if having been scalded by swallow- ing some hot substance.

I Continued smarting and burning, most severe in posterior part of throat.

I Pain in left side of throat, causing pain in swallowing; before chill. ^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. No appetite ; much thirst.

Loss of appetite with fever; desire to eat immediately after.

I Thirst before the chill, none during.

■ Constant thirst with fever. I Thirst, in a case of dropsy.

Longing for lemonade, or cold acid drinks, with violent bone pains, blue lips and nails, extremities cold, and frontal headache.

Longing for hot drinks. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Great quan- tity of wind in stomach; eructations almost constant.

I I Great nausea and sickness of stomach, but no vomiting with the chill.

I I Nausea; vomiting with fever.

lA'^omiting, with sick headache. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Great nausea, swelling, and fulness, mostly on 1. side.

Crampy pains in pit of stomach, with weak, sick feeling.

I I Crampy pain in stomach ; gnawing and sighing. ^^ Abdomen. Bowels hard as a rock.

Fulness and pain in bowels.

Swelling and fulness, mostly on 1. side.

■ Rumbling, rolling, and twisting pain in bowels. Crampy, windy bowels.

I I Severe colic pain over whole abdomen, after voiding urine.

Pain and soreness of whole abdomen, much < on 1. side.

I I Hypogastric region swollen and hot. ^Suppression of urine. ^^ Stool and Rectum, i Bowels inclined to be loose. ^Inter- mittent.

■ Bilious diarrhoea.

Feeling as though bowels must be moved immediately,

without being able to do so. Pressure and heaviness upon rectum.

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^^ Urinary Organs. ' iDuU, deep pain in kidneys; also cut- ting pain. I Chronic nephritis.

■ Suppression of urine.

Hard, aching pressure upon bladder ; evacuated bladder every half hour during day, still it is full and tense.

1 Smarting and burning very intense in bladder and urethra, so much so that she could not stand.

■ Severe, deep, dull aching in bladder. Cutting pain, pressure, fulness in bladder.

I I Chronic irritation of bladder, with increased mucous

secretion. ■Excessive irritation of bladder, with large deposits of

lithates.

■ Uneasiness in region of bladder while suffering from a

violent cold; continued to increase until it became a confirmed chronic inflammation, ilncontinence of urine; especially with children.

■ Restless tossing about; constant moaning, expressed by

peculiar cries; lower belly swollen and hot.

■ Violent headache, soreness all over, aching, gnawing in

joints; eyes red and swollen; violent cutting pain in back; labor-like pains in back; constant desire to void urine; most excruciating, smarting and burning in urethra upon voiding urine; passes a few drops at a time, and is obliged to make the effort very often; numbness of legs; deep, dull aching in kidneys; also in bladder; great emaciation; hectic fever; night sweats; rheumatic pains shifting from j)lace to place. ^Chronic cystitis.

■ Catarrhus vesicae, attended by ulceration.

■ After riding four miles a very rough road, with much

jolting and shaking, seven months pregnant, and taking a bad cold, violent dysuria. ■Strangury, due to uterine displacement.

■ Ischuria with child two weeks old.

Constant urging to urinate all day; has passed twice as

much urine during the day as usual. Felt an uncontrollable desire to void urine, after which

she experienced a severe colic pain, occuj)ying whole

extent of abdomen. Constant desire to pass water accompanied by a cutting,

aching pain in bladder. Voiding urine as often as once an hour during whole day.

■ Passes a few drops of urine at a time, and is obliged to

make the effort very often. Profuse flow of clear, limpid urine; weak, tired and faint after urinary symjjtoms.

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I Urine scanty, albuminous, and frequent.

Stream of urine smaller than natural.

Mucous sediment in urine in excess, indicating inflam- mation.

Diabetes insipidus; albuminuria; dropsy due to renal dis- ease, with severe dyspnoea and oedema all over body.

I I Renal and vesical calculi.

Diuresis and vesical irritation; hypersemia and vesical inflammation.

iDysuria, enuresis nocturna, and other conditions of irri- tation of bladder from direct or reflex causes.

■ Vesical irritability in women. '^^ Male Sexual Organs. ' ' Impotency, from exhaustion or

abuse of the generative functions. '^^ Female Sexual Organs. Tense cutting pain two inches above 1. ovary.

A smart, quick, jerking motion in 1. ovary.

Heavy pressure during day directly above 1. ovary.

I I Sterility, from atony of ovaries.

Strangury from uterine displacement, or during pregnancy.

Leucorrhcea quite abundant, leaving no stain upon linen.

I 1 Uterine leucorrhcea caused by exhaustion of uterus and chronic metritis.

I The external generative organs feel as though wet, though a delusion.

I I Inflammation of meatus urinarius.

I I Numbness, worse in groin. 2* Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation, i Threatened abortion.

I I Habitual abortion at third or fourth month.

i I Insufficient labor pains. ^^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. Flowing coryza; sneezing; hoarseness, with roughness of voice; hacking cough in evening; cough with soreness and heat in bronchi; difficult breathing; grating sensation in chest at every deep inspiration. ^^ Respiration, l l Difficult breathing; distressing dyspnoea.

Choking compels to swallow.

I 1 Grating sensation in chest at every deejD inspiration. ^ Cough. Hacking cough in evening.

Cough, with soreness and heat in bronchia.

I I Spell of dry, hacking cough previous to attack, continu- ing throughout paroxysm. ^® Inner Chest and Lungs. Strong desire to inflate lungs, which she continued to do from time to time, without noticing particularly that she was doing so; sighing. ^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Palpitation of heart ; flut- tering of heart and fulness in throat.

J I Pulse accelerated and full. ^Ague.

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Pulse 80 to 100, full and bounding. ^^ Neck and Back. Lame feeling in nape of neck. Stiff, wry neck.

Cutting pain in neck, running from 1. shoulder to occiput. I i Between shoulder blades chilly feeling. Sore pain directly within spine, its whole extent, from be- low upwards. I I Violent cutting pain in back.

I I Labor-like pains in back.

I I Chill begins in lower dorsal region and runs up the back. ■Neuralgic pains from below upw^arcls, mostly 1. side of

back and hip.

■ Distressing pain in lumbar region before chill. Rheumatic pains in lumbar region.

Dull, aching pain in sacrum, running upward into kidneys. ^^ Upper Limbs, l ' Arms perspire most ; hands are cold ;

finger-nails blue. ^^ Lower Limbs. Pain from hip and back upwards.

llClnawing in hip-bone.

Legs feel weak, tired ; 1. leg w^eak, worse than r., in which she has a severe numbness.

Numbness of legs, after or in conjunction with the sever© bone-pains.

Feet feel as if she had walked a long journey.

It seems to her as though her heels were crowding through her boots ; the delusion so marked that she felt com- pelled to look and see if it was really the case.

1 I Thighs perspiring most ; feet cold. ^^ Limbs in General. Tired, weak, uneasiness in limbs, with numbness and gnawing pain.

■ Rheumatic pains shifting from place to place, always from

below upwards. ■Pains in arms and legs before chill.

■ Limbs cold, during fever.

Ischias sinistra; severe shooting pains in course of 1. sciatic nerve, producing a palsied sensation, especially after motion; neuralgia of r. shoulder, or of r. knee, passing over to 1. side; neuralgic pains from below up- wards, mostly in 1. side of back and hip ; gnawing in hip-bone, legs feel weak and tired, 1. leg more.

Rheumatism, especially in aged persons, with sensation of soreness of bones, leaving ankles and feet swollen ; pro- fuse discharge of clear urine; intense aching in limbs, as if bones were broken ; pains come and go suddenly ; very restless, cannot keep still, though there is great de- sire to do so, and the pains are not > by motion. ^ Rest. Position. Motion. Unable to lie down.

Great effort required to move about.

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Changing position ever so little, chilly down back.

Walking slowly: pressing in head >.

Motion: shooting pain in sciatic nerve produces palsied

sensation, < after motion; pains in limbs not > by

^ Νεύρα. Υφίσταται ασυνήθιστη αδυναμία· με βλεφαρόν

η ώρα· πίεση στο κεφάλι· βίαιη κεφαλαλγία· πόνος στην

ελάχιστα. ■Γενικό ψύχος όλου του σώματος. llΤο ρίγος αρχίζει στο κάτω μέρος της πλάτης και απλώνεται σε όλο το σώμα·

βίαιο τρέμουλο, με σχετικά λίγο ψύχος· πόνοι στα οστά· δίψα στο ρίγος και στη ζέστη· νύχια μπλε. I I Δέρμα καυτό και ξηρό με πυρετό· καυτό στην αφή στο πρόσωπο._ _ I I Πυρετός παρατεταμένος, με πόνους στα οστά, ναυτία και έμετο, ακολουθούμενος από ελαφριά εφίδρωση, κυρίως γύρω από το μέτωπο και

Heat with thirst.

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I Chill commences in small of back and extends from this point up and down body simultaneously; slightest move- ment while covered, or draft of air blowing upon patient, j)roduces a transient return of chill after it has appar- ently passed away, and after the fever has set in ; this is also the case during the sweat, but not so marked ; severe bone pains. ^Intermittent fever.

■ During morning, headache, pain in lumbar region, arms, legs, and 1. side of throat ; after 3 p.m., chilly feeling in lumbar region, extending up as far as between shoulder- blades, cold hands and feet, finger-nails blue, general coldness ; after from one to three hours, fever, flushed face, suffused eyes, lachrymation, running at nose ; con- stant thirst; desire for cold and acid drinks ; loss of ap- petite; restless sleep, with frightful dreams.

I At 10 A.M., every other day, begins to yawn, gape, stretch out, and then to shake ; coldness appears to commence about trunk first, while hands and feet become so in half or three-quarters of an hour afterwards ; finger and toe-nails become blue ; child does not shake continually during the chill, but appears to shudder at intervals for a moment or so; after two hours slight fever with thirst, both continuing about an hour and followed by perspi- ration, particularly about upper portion of body. ^Quotidian intermittent. ^^ Attacks, Periodicity. Chill at different times of day.

At intervals for a moment or so : child shakes.

Every few minutes : sighing.

Every half hour during day : evacuates bladder.

Every hour during day: voiding urine.

Every other day : chills. *^ Locality and Direction. Left: falling to side; dull, ach- ing pain through temporal region ; thumping pain on occipital bone; pain from shoulder to occiput; boring pain on side of head; pain in side of throat; swelling and fulness in stomach; soreness of whole abdomen < on side; cutting pain two inches above ovary; a smart, quick, jerking motion in ovary; heavy pressure above ovary; cutting pain in neck, from shoulder to occiput; neuralgic pains side of hip and back; leg weak; shoot- ing pain in course of sciatic nerve.

Right: leg numb; neuralgia of knee or shoulder.

Right to left: pressing in head; neuralgia of knee or shoulder.

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directions; vertex as though lifting up from adjoining parts; head feels as though she had a bad cold; ears feel as though they were full; numb feeling of tongue, as if caused by aconite; throat feels as if having swallowed tobacco; throat feels as if having been scalded by swal- lowing some hot substance ; bowels hard as a rock ; feel- ing as though bowels must be moved immediately with- out being able to do so; external generative organs feel as though wet; grating sensation in chest; as if she had walked a long journey; as though her heels were crowd- ing through her boots; as if bones were broken.

Pain: from 1. shoulder to occiput; in 1. side of throat; in bowels; from hip and back upwards; in arms and legs.

Violent: headache; bone pains.

Cutting pain: in kidneys ; in bladder; in back; two inches above 1. ovary ; in neck.

Shooting pain : in course of 1. sciatic nerve.

Boring pain: in 1. side of head.

Stitching pain: in 1. side of head.

Gnawing: at stomach; in joints; in hip bone; in limbs.

Neuralgic pains: 1. side of hip and back; of r. shoulder; of r. knee.

Dull, deep pain : in kidneys.

Rolling and twisting pain : in bowels.

Distressing pain : in lumbar region.

Crampy pains: in pit of stomach ; in stomach.

Colic pain: over whole abdomen.

Rheumatic pains: from place to place; in lumbar region.

Labor-like pains: in back.

Burning heat: in face; in throat; in bladder; in urethra.

Sore pain: directly within spine.

Smarting: in throat; in bladder; in urethra.

Fine pricking sensation: on scalp; in end of tongue; on posterior part of tongue.

Soreness: of scalp; of throat; over whole abdomen; all over; in bronchi.

Dull pain: in head.

Dull aching: in bladder; in kidneys; in sacrum.

Dull, hammering pain : in 1. side of head.

Beating : in 1. side of head.

Heavy pain: in head.

Constriction : over frontal region.

Tense pain: over 1. ovary.

Pressure: upon rectum; upon bladder; above 1. ovary.

Heaviness: upon rectum.

Heat: in bronchi.

Roughness: in throat.

Dryness: in throat.

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Fluttering: in throat-pit; of heart.

Fulness: in throat; in bowels; in bladder.

Dizzy feeling: in head; over whole body.

Light feeling: in head.

Uneasiness: in region of bladder; in limbs.

Tenderness : of scalp.

Chronic irritation: of bladder.

Squeaking: in ears.

Rumbling: in bowels.

Lame feeling: in nape of neck.

Numbness: of legs; < in groin; in limbs.

Numb feeling: of tongue.

Itching: of scalp. ** Tissues. Through the spinal nervous system it produces a state of muscular system similar to rheumatism ; it prob- ably affects the anterior portion of spinal cord the most.

Through the renal plexus, this remedy has a specific and special action upon the kidneys, acting as a powerful diuretic, producing great increase of urinary secretion ; large doses produce vesical irritation, with frequent de- sire to urinate, which is very urgent and painful ; urine loaded with mucus, and high-colored and scanty.

Babe, set. 11 months, living in a miasmatic district, is pale^ wan, debilitated ; intermittent fever.

Girl, set. 2J years, delicate, pale, frail, living in a mias- matic district, was seized with convulsions, followed by paroxysm of intermittent fever.

Girl, £et. 6 years ; intermittent fever.

Miss C., set. 20 ; intermittent fever.

,Mrs. P., pregnant 7 months, after riding over a rough road and being greatly jolted and shaken ; cystitis.

Elias Stafford, after enlisting in army took violent cold ; chronic cystitis.

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