Eupatorium Purpureum

{Queen of the Meadow.)

Dbsciuption This plant is known, also, by the name of Qraveijroot, Trum pet-weed, etc. It Las a perennial, liorrizontal, woody root, ivitli many long, clarl£ brown fibres, whicli Bead up one or more solid, glabrous, green, sometimes purplish sterna, five or six feet In height, with a purple band at the Joints, about an inch apait. Leaves three to six in a whorl, about six inclies apart ; ovale, oblong, or lanceolate.

Flowers all tubular, purple, vary, ing to whitish, and. consist of numerous florets included in an eighvleaved calyx; heads in lax, very dense and compound corymbs, cylindrical, five to ten flowers. It grows in wet places, flowering from August to September.

The root is the officinal part; as found in the shops, it consists of a blackish, woody caudes, from which proceeds numerous long fibres, from one to three lines in diameter; externally thpy are covered with a dark brown, longitudinally furrowed bark, heneatli wliich the interval portion is white, or wliitish -yellow, according to its age, the last color being the oldest. It has a smell somewhat resembling old hay, and a slightly bitter, aromatic, and faintly astringent, but not unpleasant taste, and yields its properties to water, by decoction, or to spirits.

Opficibal PttKPABiTiONS. — Tincture of the fresh root ; dilutions, with dilate alcohol; inftisions. Triturations of the Oleo-resin.

Anm/)ccbs. — Apocynum oanndbirvum, Aadepias ayriaea, Cannabis tativa, Chimaphila, Oali-um, Uw, urn, Senecio.

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Hysterical mood, weeping, sighing, and h feeling like home- ■ sickness, with fluttering of the heart up into the throat.

Illusions of sight, and heaving, with vertigo.

Sensation as if falling toward the left side, with dizziness.

Lightness of the head; dizzy, as though flying round and round.

Sensation as if her head were moving in all directions.

Vertigo, as if flying round and round.

■Hard, thumping pain in the ompital bones.

Soreness, tenderness, and itching of the ecalp.

Copious flow of tears, filling the eyes with tears, making con- stant wiping necessary.

Eyes fastened, with an earnest look, upon some object.

Wild staring look of tlie eyes, with wakefulness.

She cannot see as far as usual.

Ears feel as if they were full; crackling in the ears.

Crackling sound in the ears when swallowing.

Abundant discharge of a thin, watery fluid, making the nose

sore and irritable.

Faoe. Congestion to the face, with burning heat, dry and hot to the

touch. Shining appearance of the face.

Choking fidhiesa of the throat; soreness of the throat, Smwting and hviming im the posterior part of the throat. Sensation of fullness in, the throat, with feeling of home.

sickness. She feels like crying.

Eructations almost constant from wind in the stomacli.

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

Great nausea, swelling and fullness, mostly on the left side.

Fullness and pain in the bowels.

Rumbling, rolling, twisting pain in the bowels.

Pain and sorenene, worse on the left side.

Bowels are hard; tympanitic.

Tense catting pain just above the left ovary.

Feeling as though the bowels must be moved immediately; unable to do so.

Pressure and heaviness upon the rectum.

Pain and suffering as from diarrhcea, although the ] were natural.

Deep, dull pain m the kidneys; also cutting pain.

Strong desire to pass water ten minutea after having urinated.

Greatly increased qua/ntity of urine, with large discharges every half hour, but the bladder fills up soon, with cut- ting, aching pain in bladder.

'* Smarting and burning very intense in the Madder and wreihra.

Sensation as if she had been a long time without urinating.

° Diabetes insipidus and perhaps Tnellitv^,

The stream of urine is smaller than natural.

" Dropsy, when due to rena! disorder (low dil. or infusion.)

" Dysuria, with^ij/wss and watery urine (high dilutions.)

" Strangury from uterine displacement, or during pregnancy.

" Mucus sediment in urine in excess, indicating inflammation.

" Inflammation of the mucous membrane of urinary passages.

° Suppression of urine in infants.

" Penal and vesical calculi.

Generative Organs.

Inflammation of meatus nrinarius.

The external genitals feel as though wet, although they are

Leucorrhcea quite profuse.

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* Threatened abortions.

° Sterility, from atony of the ovariea.

° Amenorrhtea, dysmenorrhtea (atome.)

" Habitual abortion at the tliird or fourth month.

A quick, jerking motion in region of left ovary.

Tense, cutting pain in region of left ovary.

° It is a genuine tonic to the female organs of generation,

" Ineiiicient labor paine.

° Impoienoy, from exhaustion or abuse of the gen-

erative functions.

Palpitaiicm of the heart/ fluttering of the heart up into the

Strong desire to inflate the Inngs, of which she was not eog-

nizant. Pnlse 80 to 100, full and bounding.

Back and Week. Neuralgic-like paine from below upwards, mostly on the lefl

side of the back and hip. Sore pain directly within the spine, its whole extent, from

below upwards. Dull, aching pain in the sacrum, running upward into the

Upper and IiOwer Extremities. Tired, weak, uneasiness in the limbs, with numbness and

gnawing pain. A constant sensation as if her boot-heels were crowding

through her boots upward. Rheumatic pain, changing from place to place, always from

below. Gnawing in the hip bone; legs feel weak, tired, left leg worse- All symptoms worse on the left side of the body.

Bleep. Sleeplessness, with wild, staring eyes.

Intermittent fevers, with cMUs in the back and aching.

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" Intermittent fever J miasmatic; paroxysms at various tiniea of .the day; chills begvnjiing in the small of the hack, spreading lip and down the trunk and extremities; lips and nails blue; violent shaking with eompa/rative little coldness/ fever, with nansea and vomiting, followed by moisture, not amounting to sweat, principally about the head and forehead; any attempt to ehange position, ever so little, during the sweat, a chilliness would pass through the body. ( Van Tagen, Martin, Howard, Gardiner.) [This remedy aeema specific in ague with the above symptoms ; but they

liave a remarkable resemblance.to those of Biipat. perf. (Hoie.)]

° Sedicfeo&r, with night sweats; pulse feeble but regular.

Faint, dizzy feeling pervading the whole body.

All the symptoms are worse on left side of the body.

A feelvng as if falUng to the l^t; (compare Anac., Aur., Bell., Dros., Euphorb., Mez., Natr., Nux moseb., Spig., Spong., Zinc.) {Sering.)