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.