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Polygonum Hydropiperoides

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General EN

Polygonum.

POLYGONUM ACRE. P. punctatum, Ell. P. hydropiperoides, Pursh. Smart Weed. (North America.)

And

POLYGONUM HYDROPIPER. Persicaria urens. Water-pepper. (Britain.) Tincture of whole fresh plant. N. O. Polygonaceae.

Clinical EN

Amenorrhoea. Antrum, pain in. Blepharitis. Colic, flatulent. Cough. Diarrhoea.—Dysentery. Dysmenia. Dysuria. Eczema. Epilepsy. Gonorrhoea. Gravel. Haemorrhoids. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Laryngitis. Nephritis. Neuralgia. Orchitis. Prostatitis. Sciatica. Spermatic cord, pain in. Spleen, affections of. Strangury. Ulcers.

Characteristics EN

Polyg. was proved by W. E. Payne and others. Additions by Ed.

Bayard, included by Hering, appear in the Schema. "Smart Weed," says Hale, "is a popular domestic remedy throughout U.S.A. Applied externally it has the effect of a mustard plaister, and the leaves saturated with hot water are applied to relieve cramps and colic, and as an emollient in inflammation and sprains. The provers were all men, but clinical experience has shown a definite action in the female generative sphere, amenorrhoea, aversion to coitus, and congestion of the ovaries having been cured by it.

Leading symptoms are: Aching pains in hips and loins, with weight and tension in pelvis, and "Tearing in groin, < right." The pains are: Lancinating, cutting, pulsating, shooting, wandering, and flashing. One prover described them as like aurora borealis, and a case of sciatica with pains of this description was cured with Polyg. The left temple was markedly affected; left side generally more so than right. Sensations of cold were numerous, and alternated or coincided with heat in the same or other parts.

Coldness of right side of face when pain in left side was most severe. Burning in chest with cold feeling at pit of stomach. Feet burning, then suddenly cold. Diarrhoea, as with its relations, Rheum and Rumex, is marked, and also dysuria.

There is excessive weakness, trembling, and sensitiveness to cold. Epilepsy and hysteria have been cured with it. The Polygonums are named by Gerarde "Arse-smarts." Burnett (who prescribed Polyg. hydropiper under its name Persicaria urens) regarded it as a splenic, and as useful in old cases of syphilis. As a splenic he found it often required in cases of gout; and in gouty eczema with much irritation he used it with much benefit in the 6th, 12th, and 30th.

Peculiar Sensations are: As of sudden rising of scalp. As if whole intestinal contents were fluid. As if hips drawn together. As of galvanic shock through lower extremities.

The symptoms are < by cold; damp; change of temperature: this is the most characteristic condition. Warmth >. Pressure of clothing = distress. Lying down = pressure in occiput; dizziness and wavering of sight.

Rising = sudden pain in occiput. Bending head down =, and bending head back >, pain in ears.

Relations EN

Compare: Botan., Fago., Rheum, Rumex. Cough, diarrhoea, Rumex. Burning in mouth and throat, Caps. < Pressure of clothes, Lach. Headache waking him from sleep, Lach. Wandering pains, Puls., K. bi. < From cold and damp, Dulc., Merc., Rhus. > Bending head back, Seneg. Averse to coitus, Nat. m. Plumb. Also Asar., Caulo., Senec., Xanth.

Causation EN

Cold. Damp. Sprains.

Mind EN

Great depression followed by excessive irritability.—Gloomy views of life, dislike of change and excessive dread of death.

Head EN

Dizziness

Pulsative, acute pain in l. temple

Under pressure of great weariness or excitement a dull, depressing pain through whole head, causing a sensation of torpor and strong desire to sleep, but inability to do so

Pressure in back of head on lying down

Pressure and soreness in head during menses

Pain on sudden rising in back of head with pain over eyes

Headache < in damp weather, > in moderately warm temperature

Sensation of sudden rising of scalp, with extreme irritation and increased dry exfoliation.

Eyes EN

Burning in eyeballs; dry sensation in lids

Convulsive twitching in lids when closed and when lying down, dizziness and wavering of sight

Inflammation of edges of lids.

Ears EN

Dull hearing

Ringing in ears

Sudden sounds on tympanum, producing momentary cessation of hearing

Acute pain in ear when bending head down;

> bending head back

Ear symptoms < in damp atmosphere

Secretion of ears increased.

Nose EN

Inflammation, smarting, raw feeling of Schneiderian membrane

Tickling in nose

Frequent sneezing as from cold

Red, inflamed appearance of nostrils, with swollen sensation

Feeling of congestion through eyes and nose

Coldness in external nose.

Face EN

Acute pain in l. face extending to temples, sometimes darting through whole l. side of head

Excruciating pain and heat in l. side of face, < by cold or damp

Coldness in r. face when pain most severe in l

Pain in r. antrum as if proceeding up from a tooth (sound).

Mouth EN

Gums tender

Cold or cooling temperature in mouth, producing acute toothache

Tongue: coated yellow; feels swollen

Heat and burning: from root of tongue to pit of stomach; from tip of tongue to mouth and throat (r. upper)

Heat in roof of mouth with excitation of salivary glands

Increased flow of hot saliva, gives no > to parched condition

Saliva abundant and thin (before thin and scanty)

Taste: bitter; pungent, like pepper.

Throat EN

Throat dry, hot, burning, with sense of excoriation

Glands feel swollen;

< from cold or moist air

Contracted feeling in throat after swallowing, followed by thirst.

Stomach EN

Appetite: voracious; lost

Food tasteless

Great thirst for cold water, yet drinking = nausea

Nausea: as if proceeding from small intestines; with coldness in abdomen

Acidity

Weight in stomach

Burning in stomach

Cold feeling in stomach: with headache; with burning in chest

Pressure of clothes = distress

Pain on pressure followed by throbbing and distress

Uneasiness in stomach and abdomen.

Abdomen EN

Burning heat in stomach and bowels

Tympanites and flatulent colic

Cutting, lancinating, griping pains, with great rumbling as if whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state and in violent commotion, the movement proceeding from below up, producing nausea and disposition to vomit, with liquid faeces discharged with great force, with pain in loins

Pain in hypogastric region, rectum, and anus

Throbbing in l. inguinal glands.

Stool And Anus EN

Copious stool followed by smarting in anus

Straining at stool with mucous, jelly-like discharges

Stools: yellowish green; hard, lumpy; dark, followed by burning in rectum

Urging with discharge of much fetid flatus

Tenesmus; with nausea; with pulsative pains in hips and loins

Constipation alternating with diarrhoea

Interior of anus studded with itching eminences, as from corrugation without contraction, a kind of haemorrhoidal tumour

Haemorrhoids with itching and burning

Pruritus ani (used as a wash).

Urinary Organs EN

Inflammation of kidneys from cold

Cutting pains along ureters to bladder

Painful cutting and feeling of strangulation at neck of bladder while urinating, lasting long after

Strangury

During an attack of gonorrhoea extremely violent pains on urinating, causing him to tremble and cry

Pulsating pain; pain; and burning in prostate on urinating

Pains in bladder

Deposit in urine of mucus and phosphates

Frequent and profuse discharge of clear, light, or straw-coloured urine

Albumen.

Male Sexual Organs EN

Pain in testicles, spermatic cords, and neck of bladder when urinating

Itching at orifice of urethra and around glans with desire to urinate

Itching and stinging of prepuce

Pain and soreness in l. testis, extending along l. spermatic cord; occasionally darting at same time in r. cord and testis

Loss of power and semen, sometimes followed by inflammation of glans

Extremely convulsive action in the functional uses.

Female Sexual Organs EN

Intense dislike to coition, followed by perturbation and irritation if approached; inaction of flow of secretions

Aching pain in hips and loins, and sensation of weight and tension in pelvis

Menses: absent; delayed, with distress and pain; too copious; tardy; fetid

During menses: pressure and soreness in head; grinding pain through abdomen

Congestive weakness and loss of power

Congestion of ovaries; tearing sensation in groin, < r

Burning in vagina

Acrid, excoriating leucorrhoea

Shooting pains through breasts, with great soreness, distension, and tenderness.

Respiratory Organs EN

Stifling sensation in larynx; irritability of whole system; weakness of sexual function

Constriction of larynx

Crowding and pressure about larynx with irritation of bronchi

Roughness as of adhesion of mucus to larynx, producing spasmodic hacking and hoarseness

Hacking cough, < by change of temperature

Dry cough, in night, excited by tickling, prickling-tingling in upper anterior part of chest, behind sternum; dry sensation in larynx when coughing.

Chest EN

Sharp pain under r. scapula, extending into chest and pit of stomach, with heavy beating of heart and throbbing of carotids

Pulsative pressive pains about xiphoid cartilage

Cutting in l. chest

Burning in chest with cold feeling in pit of stomach and shooting pains.

Heart EN

Sharp, cutting, shooting pains in region of heart, extending to l. scapula.—Increased action of heart with loss of rhythm.

Neck And Back EN

Awoke at midnight with lameness l. side neck to shoulder, making movement painful; with pulsative, wandering pains

Pulsative pains in l. loin

Aching in loins with pain around l. hip-joint

Pain in back and at lower extremity, acute or drawing, lateral in its action, as if hips being drawn together (kidney affection)

Tearing and drawing in loins on exposure to cold, followed by lameness and soreness.

Limbs EN

Trembling; bruised feeling; weakness in limbs

Shooting pains in arms and back of legs

Distension of blood-vessels in hands and feet.

Upper Limbs EN

Pains in arms and inability or sense of weakness on lifting slightest weight.—Pains pulsating, intermittent, shooting, wandering, generally shooting down to finger-tips, sometimes shooting up.

Lower Limbs EN

Sciatica; pain flashing like aurora borealis

Pulsative pains in hips and loins with ineffectual urging and tenesmus

Swelling of legs and feet

Superficial ulcers and sores.

Generalities EN

Pulsating, wandering, flashing pains, like aurora borealis.

Skin EN

Skin dry

Scarlet eruption round waist; itching, burning spasm

Eczema

Chronic erysipelatous inflammation

Old and indolent ulcers.

Sleep EN

Sleep, restless, uneasy, full of dreams.—Dreams: unremembered; laborious and fatiguing; of headache and wakes with headache.

Fever EN

Alternation of heats and chills and chills and heats

Feet alternately hot and cold; burning for an hour, then suddenly cold

Profuse sweat and trembling of whole body from moderate exercise.