Podophyllum

Is especially adapted to persons of bilious temperament. It affects chiefly the duodenum, small intestines, liver, and rectum. The Podophyllum disease is a gastro-enteritis with colicky pain and bilious vomiting. Stool is watery with jelly-like mucus, painless, profuse. Gushing and offensive. Many troubles during pregnancy; pendulous abdomen after confinement; prolapsus uteri; painless cholera morbus. Torpidity of the liver; portal engorgement with a tendency to hemorrhoids, hypogastric pain, fullness of superficial veins, jaundice.

Mind

Loquacity and delirium from eating acid fruits. Depression of spirits.

Head

Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward. Headache, dull pressure, worse morning, with heated face and bitter taste; alternating with diarrhœa. Rolling of head from side to side, with moaning and vomiting and eyelids half closed. Child perspires on head during sleep.

Mouth p. 527

Grinding the teeth at night: intense desire to press the gums together. [Phytol.] Difficult dentition. Tongue broad, large, moist. Foul, putrid taste. Burning sensation of tongue.

Stomach p. 527

Hot, sour belching; nausea and vomiting. Thirst for large quantities of cold water. [Bry.] Vomiting of hot, frothy mucus. Heartburn; gagging or empty retching. Vomiting of milk.

Abdomen p. 527

Distended; heat and emptiness. Sensation of weakness or sinking. Can lie comfortably only on stomach. Liver region painful, better rubbing part. Rumbling and shifting of flatus in ascending colon.

Rectum p. 527

Cholera infantum and morbus. Diarrhœa of long standing; early in morning; during teething, with hot, glowing cheeks while being bathed or washed; in hot weather after acid fruits. Morning, painless diarrhœa when not due to venous stasis or intestinal ulceration. Green, watery, fetid, profuse, gushing. Prolapse of rectum before or with stool. Constipation; clay-colored, hard, dry, difficult. Constipation alternating with diarrhœa. [Ant. crud.] Internal and external piles.

Female p. 527

Pain in uterus and right ovary, with shifting noises along ascending colon. Suppressed menses, with pelvic tenesmus. Prolapsed uteri, especially after parturition. Hæmorrhoids, with prolapsus ani during pregnancy. Prolapsus from overlifting or straining; during pregnancy.

Extremities p. 527

Pain between shoulders, under right scapula, in loins and lumbar region. Pain in right inguinal region; shoots down inner thigh to knees. Paralytic weakness on left side.

Fever p. 527

Chill at 7 a. m., with pain in hypochondria, and knees, ankles, wrists. Great loquacity during fever. Profuse sweat.

Modalities p. 527

Worse, in early morning, in hot weather, during dentition.

Relationship p. 527

Compare: Mandragora—also called mandrake—(must not be confounded with Podoph. Great desire for sleep; exaggeration of sounds and enlarged vision. Bowels inactive; stools large, white and hard). Aloe; Chelid.; Merc.; Nux; Sulph. Prunella—Self-heal—(Colitis).