Eupatorium Perfoliatum
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General
EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. [Eupat. perf.] Boneset, Thoroughwort. Hanes. Compositae.
Mind
► Feels at night as if he was going out of his mind. ► Moaning with the aching pain. ► Anxious countenance. ► Desponding, with fever.
Sensorium
► Faintness from motion, during the fever. ► Whirling around in the brain ; early morning. ► Sensation, as if falling to the left.
Inner Head
► Headache with the chill. ► Headache and nausea every other morning, when awaking. ► Soreness and pulsation on the back part of the head. ► Heat on top of the head ; distressed feeling. ► Throbbing headache during chill and heat. ► Headache and trembling during the hot stage of the intermittent. ► Shooting from left to right side of head. ► Sick headache : when first awaking, continuing all day ; every other morning. ► Pain in occiput after lying, with sense of weight, must aid with hand in lifting head.
Outer Head
► Right parietal protuberance sore. ► Head drawn spasmodically backwards. θ Spotted fever.
Eyes
► Great aversion to light. ► Painful soreness of eyeballs. ► Redness of margins of lids, with glutinous secretion from meibomian glands. ► Intense pain darting through the eyes, as from needles ; eyes not inflamed. ► Sclerotica yellowish.
Ears
► Buzzing in ears, heat on top of heat.
Nose
► Coryza, with aching in every bone. ► Influenza, with weak pulse, prostration, bone sore ; especially with inebriates and old people.
Face
► Sallow, sickly, with intermittent fever ; pale with catarrhs ; red, skin dry. ► Sudden severe contraction of muscles of right cheek.
Tongue, Etc
► Tongue covered with white fur, or yellow-coated. ► Taste bitter.
Mouth
► Paleness of the mucus membrane of the mouth. ► Breath smells mouldy, sourish.
Throat
► Fauces sore.
Desires And Aversions
► Longs for ice cream. ► Distaste for food. ► Canine hunger with or before argue, or after quinine. ► Loss of appetite. ► Thirst for cold water.
Eating And Drinking
► After drinking cold water : shuddering ; vomiting bile. ► After eating : violent distressing pains ; no case until all is vomited.
Nausea And Vomiting
► Sick stomach, night before ague paroxysm. ► Vomiting ; as the chill passes off, or between chill and fever ; of bile at the close of hot stage ; of bile, with trembling and great nausea, causing great prostration ; preceded by thirst.
Stomach
► Distressing pain in scrobiculum during chill and heat.
Hypochondria
► Soreness in region of the liver. ► Tight clothing is oppressive.
Abdomen
► Violent colicky pains in upper abdomen, with headache and other pains. ► Abdomen full and tympanitic.
Stool, Etc
► Considerable griping, worse after stool, with tenesmus. ► Emission of fetid flatus, with relief. ► Morning diarrhoea. ► Frequent green, watery stools. ► Constipation, with catarrh.
Urine
► Dark brown, scanty, depositing, a whitish clay-like sediment ; profuse, pale, with gout. ► Inflammation of meatus urinarius, in a woman.
Male Sexual Organs
► Itching of the mons veneris.
Larynx
► Hoarse ; throat dry, sore ; can hardly talk ; work mornings, when he gets up.
Breathing
► Difficult of breathing, attended with perspiration, anxious countenance, sleepiness. ► Great oppression of the chest ; a full breath hurts ; rattling on chest. ► Dyspnoea with hard and shoulders high. ► Must lie with head and shoulders high.
Cough
► Hectic cough, from suppressed intermittent fever. ► Loose cough during apyrexia ; also at night, after measles. ► Rough, scraping cough, chest sore ; must support it with the hands ; flushed face, tearful eyes.
Lungs
► Soreness in chest ; worse from inspiration. ► Pain and soreness behind the sternum ; heart feels as if in too small a place. ► Oppression in middle of sternum ; feels as if something were pressing against his heart ; palpitation. ► Pain through right nipple, when breathing. ► Deep-seated pain in left side and right shoulder.
Neck And Back
► Intense aching in back and limbs. ► Pain in back of neck and between the shoulders. ► Aching soreness in the back.
Upper Limbs
► Stiffness of arms and fingers during chill. ► Wrists pain as if broken or dislocated. ► Heat in hands, sometimes with sweat.
Lower Limbs
► Severe pains, like cramps, waken out of sleep ; cold sweat follows. ► Lameness in right hip and lower extremity when walking. ► Flagging of muscles of left thigh, as if falling off the bone. ► Burning of skin of inside of thighs. ► Throbbing in right foot. ► Stinging, as from pains in feet ; beginning of chill. ► Heat in soles of feet in the morning. ► Pain in heel, as if stabbed. ► Sharp, burning pain in feet, could not keep her shoes on. ► Gouty swelling of left big toe ; ankles and feet dropsical.
Limbs In General
► Intense aching in limbs, as if the bones were broken ; back and limbs ache, as if broken. ► Pains all over ; left ankle, hip, shoulder ; pains come instantly and go away as quickly.
Position, Etc
► Very restless, can's keep still, though there is a great desire to do so. ► Not relieved by motion.
Motion : 2, 40.
Walking : 33.
Lying : 3, 26.
Cannot raise head : 40.
Nerves
► During fever, weak, faint, nervous, trembling.
Sleep
► Yawning and stretching, with intermittent. ► Sleepy ; difficulty breathing. ► Profuse sleep at noon, yet can hear every sound. ► Sleepless, with the fever. ► On awaking, headache.
Time
► Morning : 2, 3, 20, 25, 33, 40. 7-9 A.M. : 40.
Noon : 37, 40.
Night : 27, 40.
All day : 3.
Temperature And Weather
► Wants to be warmly covered during chill. ► Uncovering : 40.
Chill, Fever And Sweat
► Before chill : thirst ; cough the night before ; pain above right ilium ; yawning. ► During chill : thirst, head throbs ; aching all over, as if in the bones ; more shivering than the degree of coldness warrants ; trembling, nausea ; moaning with pains. ► At end of chill : vomiting bile. ► Chill spreads from the back ; begins between 7 and 9 A.M. ► Chill early morn one day, light chill about noon next day. ► Fever preceded by thirst, cannot raise the head ; cheeks red ; throbbing headache ; sleep and moaning ; trembling, faint from motion ; vomiting of bile at end of hot stage, followed by slight sweat and sleep. ► Skin bathed in sweat ; or sweat scanty. ► Nightly sweat, with chilliness, from moving or uncovering. ► Hectic from suppressed ague. ► Bilious fever ; remittent fever. ► Dengue.
Attacks
► Every other morning : Intermittents of any type, but especially the tertian. ► Pain come quickly and go quickly : 34.
Sides
► Inability to lie on left side. ► Right : 4, 8, 28, 33, 40.
Left : 2, 28, 33.
Left to right : 3.
Sensations
► Sense of numbness, as if the flesh were falling from the bones. ► Pains in back, head, etc., the more general and severe, the better adapted.
Contact, Injuries, Etc
► Must support with the hands : 27.
Skin
► Eruptions develop tardily ; especially measles. ► Spotted fever ; head drawn backwards ; limbs ache, feel sore. ► Ringworms.
Stages And States
► Old people. ► Inebriates.
Relationship
► Eup perf. is followed well by Sepia or Natr. mur.