Materia Medica
Podophyllum
May-apple
Is especially adapted to peisons of bilious temper- ment. It affects chiefly the duodenum, small intestines, liver, and rectum. Many troubles during pregnancy; pendulous abdomen after confinement; prolapsus uteri; pamless cholera morbus. Torpidity of the liver ; porta! 605 engorgement with a tendency to hariorrhoids, hypo- gastric pain, fullness of superficial veins, jaundice.
Mind
Loquacity and delirium from eating acid fruits. Depression of spirits.
Head
Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward. Headache, dull pressure, worse morning, with heated face and bitter taste; alternating with diarrhoea. Roll- ing of head from side to side, with moaning and vomit- ing and eyelids half closed. Child perspires on head during sleep.
Mouth
Grinding the teeth at night; intense desire to press the guns together.1 [Phytol.] Difficult den- tition. Tongue broad, large, moist. Foul, putrid taste. Burning sensation of tongue.
Stomach
Hot, sour belching; nausea and vomit- ing. Thirst for large quantities of cold water. [Bry.] Vomiting of hot, frothy mucus. Heartburn; gagging or empty retching. Vomiting of milk.
Abdomen
Distended ; heat and emptiness. Sensa- tion of weakness or sinking. Can lie comfortably only on stomach. Liver region painful, better rubbing part. Rumbling and shifting oi flatus in ascending colon. Griping pain, with great rumbling. nausea, and liquid faces. Flatulent colic.
Rectum
Cholera infantum and morbus. Diar- rhoea of long standing; early in morning; during teeth- ing, with hot, glowing cheeks while being bathed or washed; in hot weather after acid fruits. . Morning. painless diarrhoea when not due to venous stasis or intes- tinal ulceration. Green, watery, fetid, profuse, gushing. Prolapse of rectum before or with stool. Constipation; clay-colored, hard, dry, difficult. Constipation alternating with diarrhcea [Ant. crud.] Internal and external piles. Interior of anus studded with itching eminence. Haemorrhoids. Liquid faces. HvUrinary.-- Painful constriction at neck of bladder. mhting a long time.
Male
Aching pains in hips and loins. Sensation POLYGONUm PUNC.-POLYPORUS PiN.—POP. CAN. 607 as if hips were being draun toyether. Sensation of weight and tension within pelvis. Shooting pains through breasts. Amenorrhaca.
Female
Pain in uterus and right ovary, with shift- in9 gases along osccndiny colon. Suppressed menses, with pelvic tenesmus. Prolapsed uteri, especially after parturition. Haemorrhoids, with prolapsus ani during pregnancy. Prolapsus from overlifting or straining; during pregnancy. Frequent urination at night.
Extremities
Pain between shoulders, under right scapula, in loins and lumbar region. Pain in right in- guinal region ; shoots down inner thigh to knee. Paraly- tic weakness on left side.
Skin
Superficial ulcers and sores on lower ex- trcmities, especially in females at climacteric.
Fever
Chill at 7 A. M., with pain in hypochondria, and knees, ankles, wrists. Great loquacity during fever. Profuse sweat.
Modalities
Worse, in early morning, in hot weather, during dentition.
Relationships
Compare : Aloe; Chelid.; Merc.: Nux; Sulph. Compare: Carduus mar. (ulcers) ; Hanam.; Puls.: Senecio; Polygonum persicaria (renal colic and calculi; yangrene) ; Polygonum aviculare - knot-grass -- (in material doses of tincture, found use- ful in phthisis pulmonalis and intermittent fever, and especially in arteriosclerosis. Erythema).
Dose
Tincture to sixth potency. The 200th and 1000th seem to do good work in cholera infantum, when indicated. POLYGONUM PUNCTATUM (hydropiper) (Smartweed) Amenorrhoea in young girls. Rectal pockets. Burn- ing in stomach followed by feeling of coldness in the pit of the stomach. Alternate chills and heat. Vari- cosis. 'Tincture.