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Eupatorium Purpureum

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General

Eupatorium Purpureum.

Joe Pye Weed. Trumpet Weed. Gravel root. Queen of the Meadow. N. O. Compositae. Tincture of the root.

Clinical

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

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

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

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

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

Staring

Red and swollen (with headache)

Lachrymation.

Ears

Ears feel full

Illusions of hearing

Crackling < on swallowing.

Face

Face flushed.—Lips blue.

Mouth

Tongue furred, brown along centre

Tongue, prickling and stinging in tip; on back

Numbness of tongue

Saliva abundant.

Throat

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

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

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

Bilious diarrhoea.—Pressure and weight on rectum.

Urinary Organs

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

Impotency from exhaustion or abuse.

Female Sexual Organs

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

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

Violent palpitation; fluttering in heart and throat.—Pulse accelerated and full.

Neck And Back

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

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

Arms perspire most; hands cold, finger-nails blue.

Lower Limbs

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

Yawning, gaping, and sighing

Sleepy and depressed

Sleep restless and mind disturbed, frightful dreams.

Fever

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.