====== EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Eupatorium Purpureum. {{anchor:s2}}Queen of the Meadow. {{anchor:s3}}Compositae. {{anchor:s4}}An old Indian medicine, used by herb doctors, particularly in gravel and other diseases of the kidney and bladder. {{anchor:s5}}Proved by Mrs. H. H. Dresser, whose excellent proving appears in full in Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, p. 237. {{anchor:s6}}For a full arrangement of the symptoms see Hering's Monograph. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s8}}- Cystitis (2 cases), B. L. Dresser, Am. Hom. Obs., vol. 3, p. 405; Retention of urine, B. L. Dresser, Am. Hom. Obs., vol. 3, p. 405; Intermittent fever (105 cases reported cured), Von Tagen, Hom. Clinics, vol. 4, p. 126; Hom. Clinics, vol. 1, pp. 3 and 52; Howard, Hom. Clinics, vol. 1, p. 16; (2 cases), Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 195; Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 244; Gardiner, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 52; Analytical Therap., vol. 1, p. 266; Dropsy, Hale, A. II. O., vol. 1, p. 133. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s10}}Stupid, dull. {{anchor:s11}}~ Dropsy. {{anchor:s12}}~ Intermittent.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Confusion with falling to left side.\\ {{anchor:s14}}The mind encompassed by various delusions.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Talkative; exclamations; delusions of sight and hearing.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Sighing every few minutes, with gnawing at stomach.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Moaning; suffering expressed by peculiar cries.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Hysterical mood, weeping, sighing, and a feeling like home sickness, though occupying her own home and surrounded by her own family, with fluttering of heart and a disagreeable fullness in throat.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Feels extremely depressed and sleepy.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Has a great fear of sickness. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s22}}Head feels light and dizzy, as though flying round and round; cannot get rid of the sensation as if falling towards the left side; the whole body seems to participate.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Lightness of head agg. in morning, disappearing at 12 o'clock.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Sensation as if her head were moving in all directions.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Illusions of sight and hearing, with vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Confused, heavy; cannot seem to prevent falling.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Dull, sleepy; great effort required in order to move about. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s29}}Dull, heavy pain in head; most severe in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Much headache and constriction over frontal region, with chill.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Dizzy, with deep, dull, aching pain through temporal region on left side.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Vertex full, pressing, as though lifting up from adjoining parts.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Head feels as though she had a bad cold.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Hard thumping pain on left occipital bone.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Pain from left shoulder extends to occiput.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Sick headache; dull hammering, beating, stitching, or boring pain in left side of head; pressing from right to left; beginning in morning and increasing during afternoon and evening; agg. in cold air; amel. while walking slowly in fresh air.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Violent headache: before the chill; during morning; with fever. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s39}}Fine pricking sensation on scalp, rather pleasurable than otherwise.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Soreness, tenderness, and itching of scalp.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Sweat, principally on head, particularly profuse about forehead. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s43}}Staring; looking with fixed eyes, wide open.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Cannot see as far as usual, with sleepy feeling.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Eyes weeping; copious flow of tears.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Copious flow of tears, filling eyes, making constant wiping necessary.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Eyes red and swollen; violent headache.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Conjunctiva yellow, with the chill. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s50}}Ears feel as though they were full.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Squeaking sound in ears; reports; illusions of hearing.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Crackling, like burning of birch-bark; very much agg. upon swallowing anything. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Fluent coryza; great heat, sneezing.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Abundant discharge of a thin, watery fluid, making nose sore and irritable. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s57}}Congestion to face, with burning heat, dry and hot to touch.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Face flushed, with fever.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Shining appearance of face, as when having used a large quantity of soap in washing. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Lips blue. {{anchor:s62}}~ Intermittent. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s64}}Gums red and hot. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Tongue furred, brown along centre; bitter, pappy taste, with chill.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Pricking and stinging in end of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Fine pricking sensation on posterior part of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Numb feeling of tongue, as if caused by aconite. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s71}}Increased action of all the glands of the mouth; abundance of saliva. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s73}}Fluttering in throat-pit; extends upward from heart.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Disagreeable fullness in throat; can hardly prevent crying.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Choking fullness of throat, must swallow often.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Swallowing: agg. crackling in ears; causes pain.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Soreness, roughness and dryness in throat.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Sensation in throat as if having swallowed tobacco.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Burning, smarting, as if having been scalded by swallowing some hot substance.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Continued smarting and burning, most severe in posterior part of throat.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Pain in left side of throat, causing pain in swallowing; before chill. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s84}}No appetite; much thirst.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Loss of appetite with fever; desire to eat immediately after.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Thirst before the chill, none during.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Constant thirst with fever.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Thirst, in a case of dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Longing for lemonade, or cold acid drinks, with violent bone pains, blue lips and nails, extremities cold, and frontal headache.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Longing for hot drinks. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s92}}Great quantity of wind in stomach; eructations almost constant.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Great nausea and sickness of stomach, but no vomiting with the chill.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Nausea; vomiting with fever.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Vomiting, with sick headache. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s97}}Great nausea, swelling, and fullness, mostly on left side.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Crampy pain in pit of stomach, with weak, sick feeling.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Crampy pain in stomach; gnawing and sighing. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s101}}Bowels hard as a rock.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Fullness and pain in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Swelling and fullness, mostly on left side.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Rumbling, rolling, and twisting pain in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Crampy, windy bowels.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Severe colic pain over whole abdomen, after voiding urine.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Pain and soreness of whole abdomen, much agg. on left side.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Hypogastric region swollen and hot. {{anchor:s109}}~ Suppression of urine. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s111}}Bowels inclined to be loose. {{anchor:s112}}~ Intermittent.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Bilious diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Feeling as though bowels must be moved immediately, without being able to do so.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Pressure and heaviness upon rectum. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s117}}Dull, deep pain in kidneys; also cutting pain.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Chronic nephritis.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Suppression of urine.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Hard, aching pressure upon bladder; evacuated bladder every half hour during day, still it is full and tense.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Smarting and burning very intense in bladder and urethra, so much so that she could not stand.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Severe, deep, dull aching in bladder.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Cutting pain, pressure, fullness in bladder.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Chronic irritation of bladder, with increased mucous secretion.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Excessive irritation of bladder, with large deposits of lithates.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Uneasiness in region of bladder while suffering from a violent cold; continued to increase until it became a confirmed chronic inflammation.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Incontinence of urine; especially with children.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Restless tossing about; constant moaning, expressed by peculiar cries; lower belly swollen and hot.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Violent headache, soreness all over, aching, gnawing in joints; eyes red and swollen; violent cutting pain in back; labor-like pains in back; constant desire to void urine; most excruciating, smarting and burning in urethra upon voiding urine; passes a few drops at a time, and is obliged to make the effort very often; numbness of legs; deep, dull aching in kidneys; also in bladder; great emaciation; hectic fever; night sweats; rheumatic pains shifting from place to place. {{anchor:s130}}~ Chronic cystitis.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Catarrh vesica, attended by ulceration.\\ {{anchor:s132}}After riding four miles a very rough road, with much jolting and shaking, seven months pregnant, and taking a bad cold, violent dysuria.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Strangury, due to uterine displacement.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Ischuria with child two weeks old.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Constant urging to urinate all day; has passed twice as much urine during the day as usual.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Felt an uncontrollable desire to void urine, after which she experienced a severe colic pain, occupying whole extent of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Constant desire to pass water accompanied by a cutting, aching pain in bladder.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Voiding urine as often as once an hour during whole day.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Passes a few drops of urine at a time, and is obliged to make the effort very often.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Profuse flow of clear, limpid urine; weak, tired and faint after urinary symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Urine scanty, albuminous, and frequent.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Stream of urine smaller than natural.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Mucous sediment in urine in excess, indicating inflammation.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Diabetes insipidus; albuminuria; dropsy due to renal disease, with severe dyspnea and edema all over body.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Renal and vesical calculi.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Diuresis and vesical irritation; hyperemia and vesical inflammation.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Dysuria, enuresis nocturna, and other conditions of irritation of bladder from direct or reflex causes.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Vesical irritability in women. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s150}}Impotency, from exhaustion or abuse of the generative functions. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s152}}Tense cutting pain two inches above left ovary.\\ {{anchor:s153}}A smart, quick, jerking motion in left ovary.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Heavy pressure during day directly above left ovary.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Sterility, from atony of ovaries.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Strangury from uterine displacement, or during pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Leucorrhea quite abundant, leaving no stain upon linen.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Uterine leucorrhea caused by exhaustion of uterus and chronic metritis.\\ {{anchor:s159}}The external generative organs feel as though wet, though a delusion.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Inflammation of meatus urinarius.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Numbness, worse in groin. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s165}}Threatened abortion.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Habitual abortion at third or fourth month.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Insufficient labor pains. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s170}}Flowing coryza; sneezing; hoarseness; with roughness of voice; hacking cough in evening; cough with soreness and heat in bronchi; difficult breathing; grating sensation in chest at every deep inspiration. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s172}}Difficult breathing; distressing dyspnea.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Choking compels to swallow.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Grating sensation in chest at every deep inspiration. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s176}}Hacking cough in evening.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Cough, with soreness and heat in bronchia.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Spell of dry, hacking cough previous to attack, continuing throughout paroxysm. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s180}}Strong desire to inflate lungs, which she continued to do from time to time, without noticing particularly that she was doing so; sighing. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s182}}Palpitation of heart; fluttering of heart and fullness in throat.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Pulse accelerated and full. {{anchor:s184}}~ Ague.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Pulse 80 to 100, full and bounding. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s187}}Lame feeling in nape of neck.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Stiff, wry neck.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Cutting pain in neck, running from left shoulder to occiput.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Between shoulder blades chilly feeling.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Sore pain directly within spine, its whole extent, from below upwards.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Violent cutting pain in back.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Labor-like pains in back.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Chill begins in lower dorsal region and runs up the back.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Neuralgic pains from below upwards, mostly left side of back and hip.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Distressing pain in lumbar region before chill.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Rheumatic pains in lumbar region.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Dull, aching pain in sacrum, running upward into kidneys. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s200}}Arms perspire most; hands are cold; finger-nails blue. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s202}}Pain from hip and back upwards.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Gnawing in hip-bone.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Legs feel weak, tired; left leg weak, worse than right in which she has a severe numbness.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Numbness of legs, after or in conjunction with the severe bone-pains.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Feet feel as if she had walked a long journey.\\ {{anchor:s207}}It seems to her as though her heels were crowding through her boots; the delusion so marked that she felt compelled to look and see if it was really the case.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Thighs perspiring most; feet cold. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s210}}Tired, weak, uneasiness in limbs, with numbness and gnawing pain.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Rheumatic pains shifting from place to place, always from below upwards.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Pains in arms and legs before chill.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Limbs cold, during fever.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Ischias sinistra; severe shooting pains in course of left sciatic nerve, producing a palsied sensation, especially after motion; neuralgia of right shoulder, or of right knee, passing over to left side; neuralgic pains from below upwards, mostly in left side of back and hip; gnawing in hip-bone, legs feel weak and tired, left leg more.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Rheumatism, especially in aged persons, with sensation of soreness of bones, leaving ankles and feet swollen; profuse discharge of clear urine; intense aching in limbs, as if bones were broken; pains come and go suddenly; very restless, cannot keep still, though there is great desire to do so, and the pains are not amel. by motion. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s219}}Unable to lie down.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Great effort required to move about.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Changing position ever so little, chilly down back.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Walking slowly: pressing in head amel.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Motion: shooting pain in sciatic nerve produces palsied sensation, agg. after motion; pains in limbs not amel. by motion. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s225}}Suffers from unusual weakness; with a staring look of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Faint, dizzy feeling, pervading whole body.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Tired, weak feeling in every organ of body; general prostration.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Faintness, languor, sickness, cannot move about.\\ {{anchor:s229}}A weak, tired, wearied, faint feeling, almost insupportable accompanies symptoms of urinary organs.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Restlessness, tossing, constant moaning.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Unable to lie down.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Nervous, restless, hysterical mood. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s234}}Yawning, gaping, sighing.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Sleepy and depressed.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Sleep restless and much disturbed, frightful dreams.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Sleeplessness, with wild, staring eyes. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s239}}Morning: lightness of head agg., disappearing at 12 o'clock; pressing in head; violent headache; pain in lumbar region; in arms; in legs; left side of throat.\\ {{anchor:s240}}At 10 A. M.: yawning, gaping, stretching out, then shake.\\ {{anchor:s241}}During day: voiding urine every hour; heavy pressure directly above left ovary.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Afternoon: pressing in head agg.\\ {{anchor:s243}}After 3 P. M.: chilly feeling in lumbar region.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Evening: pressing in head agg.; hacking cough. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s246}}Hot drinks: longing for.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Fresh air: pressing in head amel.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Cold drinks: longing for.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Cold air: pressing in head agg. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s251}}Chilly down back, when changing position ever so little.\\ {{anchor:s252}}General coldness of whole body.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Chill begins in small of back, and spreads over body; violent shaking, with comparatively little coldness; bone pains; thirst in chill and heat; nails blue.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Skin hot and dry with fever; hot to touch in face.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Fever protracted, with bone pains, nausea and vomiting, followed by slight sweat, mostly about forehead and head.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Heat with thirst.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Sweat: principally about forehead; chilly when attempting to shift position.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Hectic fever, with night sweats; pulse feeble but regular.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Pulse ranged from 80 to 100; full and bounding.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Chill commences in small of back and extends from this point up and down body simultaneously; slightest movement while covered, or draft of air blowing upon patient, produces a transient return of chill after it has apparently passed away, and after the fever has set in; this is also the case during the sweat, but not so marked severe bone pains. {{anchor:s261}}~ Intermittent fever.\\ {{anchor:s262}}During morning, headache, pain in lumbar region, arms, legs, and left side of throat; after 3 P. M., chilly feeling in lumbar region, extending up as far as between shoulder blades, cold hands and feet, finger-nails blue, general coldness; after from one to three hours, fever, flushed face, suffused eyes, lachrymation, running at nose; constant thirst; desire for cold and acid drinks; loss of appetite; restless sleep, with frightful dreams.\\ {{anchor:s263}}At 10 A. M., every other day, begins to yawn, gape, stretch out, and then to shake; coldness appears to commence about trunk first, while hands and feet become so in half or three-quarters of an hour afterwards; finger and toe-nails become blue; child does not shake continually during the chill, but appears to shudder at intervals for a moment or so; after two hours slight fever with thirst, both continuing about an hour and followed by perspiration, particularly about upper portion of body. {{anchor:s264}}~ Quotidian intermittent. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s266}}Chill at different times of day.\\ {{anchor:s267}}At intervals for a moment or so: child shakes.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Every few minutes: sighing.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Every half hour during day: evacuates bladder.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Every hour during day: voiding urine.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Every other day: chills. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s273}}Left: falling to side; dull, aching pain through temporal region; thumping pain on occipital bone; pain from shoulder to occiput; boring pain on side of head; pain in side of throat; swelling and fullness in stomach; soreness of whole abdomen agg. on side; cutting pain two inches above ovary; a smart, quick, jerking motion in ovary; heavy pressure above ovary; cutting pain in neck, from shoulder to occiput, neuralgic pains side of hip and back; leg weak; shooting pain in course of sciatic nerve.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Right: leg numb: neuralgia of knee or shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Right to left: pressing in head; neuralgia of knee or shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s276}}From below upwards: sore pain directly within spine; neuralgic pains hip and back. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s278}}As though tendons flying round and round; as if falling to left side; as if head were moving in all directions; vertex as though lifting up from adjoining parts; head feels as though she had a bad cold; ears feel as though they were full; numb feeling of tongue, as if caused by aconite; throat feels as if having swallowed tobacco; throat feels as if having been scalded by swallowing some hot substance; bowels hard as a rock; feeling as though bowels must be moved immediately without being able to do so; external generative organs feel as though wet; grating sensation in chest; as if she had walked a long journey; as though her heels were crowding through her boots; as if bones were broken.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Pain: from left shoulder to occiput; in left side of throat; in bowels; from hip and back upwards; in arms and legs.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Violent: headache; bone pains; Cutting pain: in kidneys; in bladder; in back; two inches above left ovary; in neck.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Shooting pain: in course of left sciatic nerve.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Boring pain: in left side of head.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Stitching pain: in left side of head.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Gnawing: at stomach; in joints; in hip bone; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Neuralgic pains: left side of hip and back; of right shoulder; of right knee.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Dull, deep pain: in kidneys.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Rolling and twisting pain: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Distressing pain: in lumbar region.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Crampy pains: in pit of stomach; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Colic pain: over whole abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Rheumatic pains: from place to place; in lumbar region.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Labor-like pains: in back.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Burning heat: in face; in throat; in bladder; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Sore pain: directly within spine.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Smarting: in throat; in bladder; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Fine pricking sensation: on scalp; in end of tongue; on posterior part of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Soreness: of scalp; of throat; over whole abdomen; all over, in bronchi.\\ {{anchor:s298}}Dull pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Dull aching: in bladder; in kidneys; in sacrum.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Dull, hammering pain: in left side of head.\\ {{anchor:s301}}Beating: in left side of head.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Heavy pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Constriction: over frontal region.\\ {{anchor:s304}}Tense pain: over left ovary.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Pressure: upon rectum; upon bladder; above left ovary.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Heaviness: upon rectum.\\ {{anchor:s307}}Heat: in bronchi.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Roughness: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s309}}Dryness: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Fluttering: in throat-pit; of heart.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Fullness: in throat; in bowels; in bladder.\\ {{anchor:s312}}Dizzy feeling: in head; over whole body.\\ {{anchor:s313}}Light feeling: in head.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Uneasiness: in region of bladder; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Tenderness: of scalp.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Chronic irritation: of bladder.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Squeaking: in ears.\\ {{anchor:s318}}Rumbling: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s319}}Lame feeling: in nape of neck.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Numbness: of legs; agg. in groin; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Numb feeling: of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Itching: of scalp. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s324}}Through the spinal nervous system it produces a state of muscular system similar to rheumatism; it probably affects the anterior portion of spinal cord the most.\\ {{anchor:s325}}Through the renal plexus, this remedy has a specific and special action upon the kidneys, acting as a powerful diuretic, producing great increase of urinary secretion; large doses produce vesical irritation, with frequent desire to urinate, which is very urgent and painful; urine loaded with mucus, and high-colored and scanty.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Distressing dyspnea; whole body and extremities extremely edematous; secretion of urine very scanty, only 3 or 4 ounces in twenty-four hours; no organic disease discernible; urine however slightly albuminous; pulse feeble but regular; extremities cold; considerable general prostration. {{anchor:s327}}~ Dropsy. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s331}}After riding four miles a very rough road, with much jolting and shaking, while pregnant, violent dysuria. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s333}}Infant, aet. 2 weeks; retention of urine.\\ {{anchor:s334}}Babe, aet. 11 months, living in a miasmatic district, is pale, wan, debilitated; intermittent fever.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Girl, aet. 2 1/2 years, delicate, pale, frail, living in a miasmatic district, was seized with convulsions, followed by paroxysm of intermittent fever.\\ {{anchor:s336}}Girl, aet. 6 years; intermittent fever.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Miss. C., aet. 20; intermittent fever.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Mrs. P., pregnant 7 months, after riding over a rough road and being greatly jolted and shaken; cystitis.\\ {{anchor:s339}}Elias S. after enlisting in army took violent cold; chronic cystitis.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Old gentleman; twice had attacks of dropsy; dropsy. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s342}}Compare: Apoc., (dropsy), Cann. sat., Canthar., Copaiva, Ferrum and Senecio (renal symptoms). ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 05, 1887 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r403|Eupatorium purpureum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r403|Eupatorium purpureum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1887 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}