Podophyllum Peltatum

General

PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. [Podoph.] May Apple ; Mandrake. Jeanes. Berberideae.

Mind

► Conscious during chill but cannot talk, forgets the words he wishes to use. ► Delirium loquacity during heat ; afterwards forgetful of what has passed. ► Depression ; imagines he is going to die, or be very ill. ► Depression of spirits ; also, in gastric affections. ► Disgust for life, headache.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : while standing in open air ; with tendency to fall forward with sensation of fulness over eyes.

Inner Head

► Stunning headache through temples, better from pressure. ► Pressing in temples in forenoon, with drawing in eyes as if strabismus would follow. ► Mist before eyes ; the fleeting pains, worse at occipital protuberances, down the neck and shoulders, better when lying down in a quiet and dark place, and from sleep. ► Head hot, rolling the head from side to side, moaning. ► Dentition. ► Momentary darts of pain in forehead, obliging one to shut eyes. ► Headache alternating with diarrhoea. ► Morning headache with flushed face.

Outer Head

► Sweat of the head during sleep flesh cold. θ Dentition.

Eyes

► Ulceration of cornea ; conjunctiva hyperaemic ; smarting aching heaviness (from grinding root). ► Scrofulous ophthalmia, worse in morning.

Face

► Hot, cheeks flushed. θ Infantile diarrhoea.

Teeth

► Great desire to press gums together ; jaws clenched ; grind teeth at night, difficult dentition.

Tongue, Etc

► Total loss of taste, could not tell sweet from sour sleepless, restless. ► Everything tastes sour. ► Tongue : furred white, with foul taste ; white, moist, shows imprints of teeth ; dry, yellow.

Mouth

► Offensive odor from mouth. ► Copious salivation. ► Mouth and tongue dry, on awaking.

Throat

► Sore throat right to left side sore, worse when swallowing liquids, and morning. ► Soreness of throat extends to ears. ► Rattling of mucus in throat. ► Goitre. ► Pharynx dry, deglutition painful.

Desires And Aversions

► Appetite variable at times voracious. ► Great thirst for large quantities of cold water. ► Satiety from small quantity of food, followed by nausea and vomiting. ► Moderate thirst during fever.

Eating And Drinking

► After eating : regurgitation of food, sour ; hot, sour belching ; diarrhoea. ► Vomits food one hour after eating craving after ward ; depression of spirits. ► After acid fruit and milk, diarrhoea. ► While eating : 18.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations : smelling like rotten eggs ; hot, sour. ► Regurgitation of food. ► Gagging. θ Infantile diarrhoea. ► Nausea and vomiting with fulness of head. ► Vomiting : of milk in infants with protrusion of anus ; of food, with putrid taste and odor ; of thick bile and blood ; with congestion of the pelvic viscera, during pregnancy.

Stomach

► Hollow sensation in epigastrium. ► Stitches in epigastrium from coughing. ► Stomach contracts violently during retching. ► Dyspepsia after abuse of calomel ; tongue shows teeth prints conjunctiva yellow ; aching behind eyes ; clayey stools. ► Gastric catarrh.

Hypochondria

► Fulness in right hypochondrium, with flatulence, pain and soreness. ► Stitches, worse while eating. ► Excessive secretion of bile ; great irritability of the liver. ► Torpidity of liver ; jaundice. ► Twisting pain in right hypochondrium, with sensation of heat there. ► Chronic hepatitis ; costive jaundice ; constantly rubbing and stroking hypochondrium with hands. ► Jaundice with gall-stones ; pain from region of stomach toward region of gall-bladder, with excessive nausea. ► Jaundice, with hyperaemia of liver ; fulness, soreness and pain ; alternate constipation and diarrhoea.

Abdomen

► Pain in bowels at day break better from external warmth and bending forward while lying on side ; worse lying on back. ► Cramp-like pain in bowels with retraction of abdominal muscles, 10 P.M., and again at 5 A.M. until 9 A.M. ; lead colic. ► Frequent but transient abdominal pain, during the day better from pressure. ► Rumbling in ascending colon. ► Pain in transverse colon 3 A.M., followed by diarrhoea. ► Sharp pain in right groin, preventing motion, latter months of pregnancy.

Stool, Etc

► Stool : frequent, painless, watery, fetid discharges, gushing out ; yellow-colored, with meal-like sediment ; green sour, with flatulence ; morning, during dentition ; greenish-yellow, slimy bloody, gelatinous, mixed with feces ; tenesmus and prolapsus ani ; with severe straining, much flatulence emitted ; mucus with spots and streaks of blood ; black, only in morning ; chalk-like, fecal, undigested ; muco-gelatinous stools preceded by griping and colic ; stools coated with shreds of yellow mucus. ► Diarrhoea while being washed ; after eating dirty water soaking napkin through. ► Diarrhoea with great sinking at epigastrium, sensation as if everything would drop through the pelvis. ► Stools pale, hard, dry or clayey ; voided with difficulty ; flatulence headache. ► Stools natural, but too frequent during the day, and exhausting. ► Constipation of bottle-fed babies, with dry crumbling stool. ► Emission of fetid flatus. ► Prolapsus ani, with stool, even from least exertion, followed by stool or thick, transparent mucus, or mixed with blood. ► Piles with prolapsus ani and long-standing diarrhoea, worse mornings ; or constipation.

Urine

► Frequent nocturnal urination during pregnancy. ► Enuresis, with involuntary urination during sleep. ► Diminished of urine ; yellow, containing sediment. ► Suppression of urine.

Female Sexual Organs

► Numb aching in region of left ovary ; heat down thigh ; third month of pregnancy. ► Pain in region of ovaries, especially the right ; also when extending down the anterior crural nerve ; worse straightening the leg. Sometimes pains go up to shoulder. ► Ovarian tumor. ► Sensation as if genitals would come out during stool. ► Prolapsus uteri : after overlifting or straining ; after parturition ; with pain in sacrum ; rumbling in ascending colon ; prolapsus ani ; or constipation. ► Suppressed menses in young females, with bearing down in hypogastric and sacral regions, with pain from motion ; better lying down. ► Leucorrhoea, bearing down in genitals ; costive ; of thick, transparent mucus. ► Swelling of labia during pregnancy.

Pregnancy

► During pregnancy ; can lie comfortably only on stomach, early months : 19, 21, 23. ► After-pains, with heat flatulency ; also with strong bearing down.

Breathing

► Inclined to breathe deeply ; sighing. ► Shortness of breath. ► Sensation of suffocation, at first when lying down at night.

Cough

► With remittent fever : dry ; loose ; whooping, with constipation and loss of appetite.

Lungs

► Catarrh of chest during dentition.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation, with a clucking sensation rising up to throat, obstructing respiration. ► Palpitation from mental emotion or exertion, with rumbling in ascending colon, heavy sleep, fatigue on awaking in morning, drowsy all forenoon. ► Sensation in chest as if heart was ascending to throat.

Neck And Back

► Nape of neck stiff, with soreness of muscle of neck and shoulders. ► Pain between shoulders, in the morning. ► Pain under right scapula. ► Fishes up the back, with stool. ► Pain in lumbar region, withered sensation ; worse at night and from motion. ► Pain in loins, worse when walking on uneven ground, or from a misstep. ► Backache after washing, with prolapsus uteri.

Upper Limbs

► Rheumatism in left forearm and fingers. ► Pain from head into neck and shoulders, fingers numb. ► Weakness of wrists, soreness to touch.

Lower Limbs

► Sharply defined ache in sacro-ischiatic foramen, with tenderness on pressure. ► Pain and weakness in left hip, like rheumatism from cold, worse going up stairs. ► Cramps in calves, thighs and feet, with painless, watery stools. ► Knee-joints crack during motion. ► Joints weak, especially knees. ► Legs heavy and stiff, as after long walk. ► Aching of limbs, worse at night. ► Feet cold. ► Feet sweat, evening.

Position, Etc

► Lying down : 3, 19, 23, 24, 26, 40. Going up stairs : 33. Walking : 31. Misstep : 31. Motion : 19, 20, 23, 29, 31, 33, 40. Exertion, washing : 31. Standing : 2. Bending forward : 19.

Nerves

► Slight paralytic weakness of whole left side. ► Sudden shocks of jerking pains.

Sleep

► Heavy sleep ; fatigue on waking. ► Drowsy, half-closed eyes, moaning, whining, especially children. ► Sleepy, especially forenoon. ► Restless sleep, whining.

Time

► Morning : 3, 5, 19, 20, 29, 31, 37. Evening : 19, 33, 40. Night : 20, 21, 26, 31, 33. At 3 A.M. : 19. At 7 A.M. : 40. Day : 19, 20.

Temperature And Weather

► Warmth : 19. Washing : 20, 31. Worse hot weather ; diarrhoea. Open air : 2.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chilliness while moving about during fever and in act of lying down, with sweat immediately afterward. ► Chilly at first on lying down in evening, followed by fever and sleep, with talking and imperfect waking. ► Chill 7 A.M., pressing in both hypochondria, dull aching in knees and ankles, elbows and wrists. ► Backache before chill. ► During fever : pain in head, thirst, shaking and cold sensation continue for some time. ► Sweat with sleep.

Sides

► Right : 18, 19, 23, 31. Left : 13, 23, 32, 33, 36. Right to left : 13.

Tissues

► Fulness of superficial veins. ► Softness of flesh, with debility ; children. ► Relaxes the sphincters.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Pressure : 3, 19, 33. Overlifting : 23, 31. Touch : 32. Rubbing or stroking : 18.

Skin

► Sallow skin ; jaundice ; also in children. ► Skin moist, with preternatural warmth. ► Scabs on skin. ► Rawness and itching about genitals ; also pustules (from grinding the root).

Stages And States

► Bilious temperaments, especially after mercurialization.

Relationship

► Podoph, after Ipec. and Nux vom. failed, in vomiting. Salt increases its action. ► Antidotes to Podoph. : Lact. ac., Nux vom.