Polygonum punc
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 528
POLYGONUM PUNCTATUM (Hydropiper) (Smartweed)
Metrorrhagia, also Amenorrhœa in young girls. Varicosis; hemorrhoids and rectal pockets. Burning in stomach followed by feeling of coldness in the pit of the stomach.
Abdomen
Griping pain, with great rumbling, nausea, and liquid feces. Flatulent colic.
Rectum
Interior of anus studded with itching eminence. Hemorrhoids. Liquid feces.
Urinary
Painful constriction at neck of bladder.
Female
Aching pains in hips and loins. Sensation as if hips were being drawn together. Sensation of weight and tension within pelvis. Shooting pains through breasts. Amenorrhœa.
Skin
Superficial ulcers and sores on lower extremities, especially in females at climacteric.
Relationship
Compare: Carduus mar. (ulcers); Hamam.; Senecio; Polygonum persicaria (renal colic and calculi; gangrene); Polygonum sagittatum—arrow-leaved. Tear-thumb—(2x for pains of nephritic colic; suppurative nephritis; lancinating pains along spine; itching of hard palate; burning inner side of right foot and ankle. C. M. Boger); Polygonum aviculare—knot-grass—(in material doses of tincture, found useful in phthisis pulmonalis and intermittent fever, and especially in arterio-sclerosis. Erythema).
The book’s Dose section is left out: Samepath quotes the books but gives no dosing advice.