Podophyllum Peltatum

Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 2,081 chars

General

In many troubles of pregnant females; weak, bearing down sensation, in the abdomen after parturition, with sensation as if the intestines were falling down; prolapsus uteri with pain in the sacrum. Teething children, with green diarrhoea, in the morning; also rolling of the head in difficult dentition. Diarrhoea after eating or drinking; prolapsus of the rectum after stool; whooping cough with costiveness and loss of appetite.

Mental.-- Feels fatigued; depressed.

Face

Sallow complexion; sickly and wretched appearance. Flushed face with morning headache.

Stool

Very early morning diarrhoea; profuse, frequent, gushing, painful or painless, usually the latter; seems to drain one dry, but soon is full again; very offensive; watery.

Passages natural, but too frequent, and exhausting.

Prolapsus of anus and rectum.

Dysentery, bloody and green mucus.

Haemorrhoids with prolapsed anus, rectum, or uterus.

Pain in lumbar and sacral region, worse during stool, and still worse afterward.

Constipation, alternating with diarrhoea.

Abdomen

Pendulous abdomen, after confinement, with much nervous irritability and sleeplessness; feels weak and unable to move about. Colic at daylight every morning; causing retraction of abdominal muscles.

Sexual.-- Female : Prolapsus uteri, the womb falls very low, painfully so, especially after childbirth.

Miscarriage threatened; pain in ovarian region, both sides, especially at night, disturbing sleep--very nervous and restless.

Painful menstruation, bearing down in abdomen and back during menses; pain on both sides of abdomen (ovarian) with numb and aching pain, which runs down into the thighs.

Amenorrhoea with above symptoms, including those of stool.

Leucorrhoea thick, transparent mucus.

Generalities

Very subject to frequent "bilious attacks." Foul breath. Emaciation, debility, exhaustion. Troubles during dentition , both cerebral and gastric; rolling of head, gagging.

Worse.-- In early morning (2-4 A.M.); during forenoon; eating and drinking; hot weather.

Better.-- From bending forward; from external warmth.