Eupatorium Purpureum
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General EN
Eupatorium Purpureum.
Joe Pye Weed. Trumpet Weed. Gravel root. Queen of the Meadow. N. O. Compositae. Tincture of the root.
Clinical EN
Albuminuria. Calculi. Cystitis. Diabetes. Dropsy. Enuresis. Gravel. Headache. Home-sickness. Hysteria. Impotence. Indigestion. Intermittent fever. Renal colic. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Strangury. Throat, sore. Urine, retention of. Vomiting.
Characteristics EN
The fever symptoms of E. purpureum resemble those of E. perfoliatum, but E. purpur. has many more symptoms in the urinary and sexual regions. The general soreness is less marked with purpureum. Both have chills beginning in the back, those of purpureum (as also the pains) run upwards, and with them there is much shaking and comparatively little coldness. Bone pains, nausea, and vomiting accompany fever.
Sweat is slight. Restless, tossing, moaning, unable to lie down. The common name, "gravel root," indicates the traditional use of the drug, and in the hands of eclectics it has done good work in cases of irritable bladder, diabetes insipidus, incontinence of urine and calculous affections. Hale mentions that impotency has been cured in the male, and sterility and uterine atony in the female.
It is similar in action to Cimicif. and Helonias here. E. purpur. has been well proved by a Mrs. Dresser, and she experienced a feeling of home-sickness even when living in her own house. Motion <; changing position ever so little = chilliness down back.
Symptoms are < left side, and there is sensation as if falling to left side, as with E. Perfol. Cystitis in pregnant women from riding over rough roads. Distressing dyspnoea from dropsy.
Relations EN
Compare: Apocy. (dropsy); Apis., Can. sat., Canth., Copaib., Ferr., Hydrct., Mitch., Senec., Vespa (renal symptoms). Caps., Phos. ac. in home-sickness. E. perf., Colch. (nausea at smell of food).
Mind EN
The mind is encompassed by various delusions
Sighing
Home-sickness, although in her own house
Great fear of sickness
Depressed and sleepy
Hysterical, low-spirited state.
Head EN
Head feels light and dizzy, as though flying round and round; cannot get rid of sensation as if falling to l. side; the whole body seems to participate, < morning, disappearing at noon
Illusions of sight and hearing, with vertigo
Much headache and constriction over frontal region; with chill
Dizzy, with deep, dull aching pains through l. temporal region
Sick headache; dull hammering, stitching, or boring l. side; pressing from r. to l.; beginning morning, increasing during afternoon and evening;
< in cold air;
> while walking slowly in fresh air
Violent headache; before chill; during morning; with fever
Sore scalp with itching
Sweat, principally about head, esp. profuse on forehead.
Eyes EN
Staring
Red and swollen (with headache)
Lachrymation.
Ears EN
Ears feel full
Illusions of hearing
Crackling < on swallowing.
Face EN
Face flushed.—Lips blue.
Mouth EN
Tongue furred, brown along centre
Tongue, prickling and stinging in tip; on back
Numbness of tongue
Saliva abundant.
Throat EN
Choking fulness, must swallow often
Burning, as if had swallowed some hot substance; most at back of throat.—< Swallowing
Pain l. side of throat, causing pain on swallowing; before chill
Fluttering in throat pit.
Stomach EN
Thirst: before chill; none during; with fever; with dropsy
Desire for warm drinks
Much wind in stomach; eructations almost constant
Nausea at smell or sight of food or cooking
Great nausea but no vomiting with chill; vomiting with fever; with sick headache
Swelling and fulness, mostly l. side
Griping, crampy pain.
Abdomen EN
Rumbling, rolling, and twisting pain in bowels
Severe colic after voiding urine
Pain and soreness of abdomen, much < l. side
Hypogastric region swollen and hot.
Stool And Rectum EN
Bilious diarrhoea.—Pressure and weight on rectum.
Urinary Organs EN
Dull deep pains in kidneys; also cutting
Intense smarting and burning in bladder and urethra
Deep dull aching in bladder
Uneasiness in bladder while suffering from severe cold
Increased mucus; large deposit of lithates
Enuresis
Constant urging; passes a few drops at a time
Strangury from uterine displacement
Dysuria in a pregnant woman after riding over rough road and taking cold
Vesical irritability in women
Nephritis
Diabetes insipidus.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Impotency from exhaustion or abuse.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Tense cutting pain two inches above l. ovary
Smart, quick jerking motion in l. ovary
Heavy pressure during day, directly above l. ovary
Sterility from ovarian atony
Uterine leucorrhoea caused by exhaustion and chronic metritis
Leucorrhoea abundant, leaving no stain
External genitals feel as though wet (a delusion)
Inflammation of meatus urinarius
Numbness < in groin
Threatened abortion
Habitual abortion at third or fourth month
Inefficient labour-pains.
Respiratory Organs EN
Coryza; hoarseness; hacking cough, evening; cough, with soreness and heat in bronchi
Sighing every few minutes
Strong desire to inflate the lungs, which she continued to do from time to time without noticing particularly that she was doing so
Grating sensation in Chest at every deep inspiration.
Heart EN
Violent palpitation; fluttering in heart and throat.—Pulse accelerated and full.
Neck And Back EN
Cutting pain in neck running from l. shoulder to occiput
Between shoulder-blades chilly feeling
Cutting pains; labour-like pains
Pains running upward; from sacrum into kidneys; from l. side of back and hip
Chill begins in lower dorsal region and runs up back
Distressing pain in lumbar region before chill.
Limbs EN
Tired, weak uneasiness in limbs, with numbness and gnawing pains
Rheumatic pains shifting from place to place, always from below upward
Pains in arms and legs before chill; during fever limbs cold
Neuralgia of r. shoulder or r. knee, passing over to l
Soreness of bones, aching of limbs as if bones were broken, pains come and go suddenly; very restless, but not > by motion.
Upper Limbs EN
Arms perspire most; hands cold, finger-nails blue.
Lower Limbs EN
Gnawing in hip-bone
Numbness of legs after or with severe bone pains
Severe shooting pains in l. sciatic nerve, producing a palsied sensation, esp. after motion; legs feel tired, esp. l
Feet feel as if she had walked a long journey; it seems as though her heels were crowding through her boots.
Sleep EN
Yawning, gaping, and sighing
Sleepy and depressed
Sleep restless and mind disturbed, frightful dreams.
Fever EN
Chilly down back when changing position ever so little
Chill begins in small of back and spreads over body; violent shivering with comparatively little coldness; bone pains; thirst in chill and heat; nails blue
Skin hot and dry with fever; hot to touch in face
Fever protracted, with bone pains, nausea, and vomiting, followed by slight sweat, mostly about forehead and head
Sweat: principally about forehead; chills when attempting to change position.