Polygonum

Smart Weed ; Water Pepper. Polygonacese.

Provings by Payne, Trans. Amer. Inst, of Horn., 1859, p. 82, and Joslin and Cameron, Hale's New Remedies.

We include the symptoms arranged by Dr. Edward Bayard, Ham. Phys., vol. 5, 1885, p. 328.

Clinical Authorities. — Dysuria, Rosenberg, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 94 ; Amenorrhoea, Small, Rane's Rec, 1873, p. 172 ; Sciatica, Shaw, Org., vol.3, p. 377 ; Ulcers, Small, Rane's Rec, 1873, p. 246.

Mind

Great depression, followed by excessive irritability.

Gloomy views of life, dislike of change and excessive dread of death.

Sensorium

Dizziness.

Inner Head

│▌ Pulsative and acute pain in 1. temple.

Under pressure of great weariness or excitement a dull depressing pain through whole head, causing a sensation of torpor and a strong desire to sleep with inability to do so.

Pressure in back of head on lying down.

Pressure and soreness in head during menses.

Pain upon sudden rising, in back of head with pain over eyes.

Headache < in damp weather, > in moderately warm temperature.

Outer Head

A sensation of sudden rising of scalp, with extreme irritation and increased dry exfoliation.

Sight and Eyes

Burning in eyeballs ; dry sensation in lids.

Convulsive twitching of lids when closed and when lying down, dizziness and wavering of sight.

Inflammation of edges of lids.

Hearing and Ears

Dulness of hearing.

Ringing sounds in ears.

Sudden sounds on tympanum, producing momentary cessation of hearing.

Acute pain in ear when bending head down ; > bending head backward.

Ear symptoms < in moist atmosphere.

Secretion of ears increased.

Smell and Nose p. 524

Inflammation of mucous membrane of nose.

Tickling sensation in nostrils.

Reddened or inflamed appearance of nostrils with a swollen sensation.

Feeling of congestion through eyes and nose.

Coldness in external nose.

Upper Face p. 524

Acute pain in 1. side of face, extending to temple, sometimes darting through whole 1. side of head.

Excruciating pain and heat in 1. side of face, < by cold or damp.

Coldness in r. side of face when pain is most severe in left.

After severe pain, sometimes drawing in 1. side of face from chin to temple; paleness, with a drawn, tired look.

Teeth and Gums p. 524

Tenderness of gums.

Cold or cooling temperature in mouth, producing acute toothache.

Taste and Tongue p. 524

Bitter taste.

Inner Mouth p. 524

Heat in roof of mouth, with excitation of salivary glands.

Increased flow of heated saliva, affording no relief to parched condition.

Throat p. 524

Throat dry and hot, with sense of excoriation.

Glands feel swollen ; < from cold or moist air.

Contracted feeling in throat after swallowing, followed by thirst.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 524

Loss of appetite.

Food is tasteless, or nearly so.

Repulsion to swallowing.

No relief after drinking.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 524

Slight acidity.

Feeling of weight in stomach.

▌ Pressure of clothes causes distress.

Pain upon pressure, followed by throbbing and distress.

General uneasiness in stomach and abdomen.

Abdomen p. 524

Pain and uneasiness in abdomen.

Burning heat in stomach and bowels.

││ Tympanitis and flatulent colic.

││ Cutting, lancinating, griping pains, with great rumbling as if whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state and in violent commotion, the movement proceeding from below upward, producing nausea and disposition to vomit, with liquid feces which were discharged with considerable force, with pain in loins.

Stool and Rectum p. 524

Copious stool, followed by smarting in anus.

Straining at stool, with mucous, jellylike discharges.

Dark discharges, followed by burning in rectum.

││ Cholera morbus and cholera infantum,

a Dysentery, with burning and smarting in rectum.

▌ Evacuations and pain < in cold temperature.

││ Interior of anus studded with itching eminences, as

from corrugation without contraction, a kind of humor-

rhoidal tumor.

││ Hemorrhoids, with itching and burning in tumors.

▌ Pruritus ani (used as a wash).

Urinary Organs p. 525

' ' Painful cutting and feeling of strangulation at neck of bladder while urinating, lasting a long time after,

▌ Strangury; dysuria.

During an attack of gonorrhoea extremely violent pains on urinating causing him to tremble and cry, he became feverish, slept and ate but little, and within five days grew perceptibly thinner.

Pains in bladder.

││ Deposit in urine of mucus and phosphates.

Frequent and profuse discharge of clear, light or strawcolored urine.

Kidneys affected by a cold; inflammation, urine highcolored, dark-red.

││ Albuminuria.

Male Sexual Organs p. 525

Irritation of genitals.

Loss of power and semen, sometimes followed by inflammation of glans penis.

Extremely convulsive action in the functional uses.

Female Sexual Organs p. 525

Intense dislike for coition followed by a perturbation and irritation if approached ; inaction of the flow of secretions.

││ Aching pains in hips and loins and sensation of weight and tension in pelvis.

▌ Amenorrhoea.

i:P^Lenses: delayed six or seven days with distress and pain ; too copious, amounting almost to hemorrhage ; tardy, from inaction ; fetid.

During menses : pressure and soreness in head ; gnndnig pain through abdomen.

Congestive weakness and loss of power.

Congestion of ovaries ; tearing sensation in groin, especially right.

Acrid, excoriating leucorrhoea.

"Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation, i Shooting pams through mammae, with great soreness, distension and tonciGriiGSS.

'▌• Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. Stifling sensation in larynx ; irritability of whole system ; weakness of sexual function.

Crowding and pressure about larynx, with irritation of bronchi.

Roughness as of adhesion of mucus to larynx, producing spasmodic hacking and hoarseness.

Respiration p. 526

Lungs enfeebled, breathing labored ; movement of abdomen on breathing becomes labored.

Cough p. 526

Hacking cough < b}^ change of temperature.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 526

Increased action of heart with loss of rhythm.

Neck and Back p. 526

▌ Pain in back and at lower extremity, at times acute, and again a drawing pain, lateral in its action, as if hips were being drawn together. θ Kidney affection.

Tearing and drawing in loins and on exposure to cold, followed by lameness and soreness.

Upper Limbs p. 526

Pain in arms and inability or sense of weakness in lifting slightest weight.

Lower Limbs p. 526

' l Sciatica; the pain put him in mind of the Aurora Borealis.

Swelling of legs and feet.

▌ Superficial ulcers and sores upon lower extremities.

Limbs in General p. 526

Sensation of weakness in upper and lower limbs.

Distension of bloodvessels in hands and feet.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 526

Lying down : pressure in back of head ; dizziness and wavering of sight.

Rising : sudden pain in back of head.

Bending head down : acute pain in ears.

Nerves p. 526

Hysteria; slight vertigo, with sensation in extremities as of a galvanic shock passing through them ; constant desire to urinate; warmth and peculiar sensation of tingling through whole body.

││ Epilepsy ; a protracted case (cured by the extract).

Temperature and Weather p. 526

Warm temperature : headache >.

Damp weather: headache < ; ear symptoms < ; heat in side of face < ; glands of throat feel swollen <.

Cold : heat in side of face < ; swollen glands < ; evacuations and pain < ; kidneys affected ; tension and drawing in loins.

Change of temperature : hacking cough <.

Locality and Direction p. 526

Right : coldness in side of face ; tearing in groin.

Left : pain in temple ; acute pain in side of face ; darting through side of head ; heat in side of face.

From below upward : movement in bowels.

Sensations p. 527

As of sudden rising of scalp ; as if whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state and in violent commotion ; as if hips were drawn together ; pain put him in mind of Aurora Borealis ; as of a galvanic shock passing through extremities.

Pain : in head ; over eyes ; in loins; in bladder; in back and lower extremities ; in arms.

Excruciating pain : in 1. side of face.

Extremely violent pains : when urinating.

Acute pain : in 1. temple ; in ears ; in 1. side of face and head ; in teeth.

Lancinating : in bowels.

Shooting pains : through mammae.

Tearing sensation : in groin ; in loins.

Cutting : in bowels ; in neck of bladder.

Griping : in bowels.

Grinding pain : through abdomen.

Pulsative pain : in 1. temple.

Aching pains : in hips and loins.

Dull, depressing pain : through whole head.

Drawing: in 1. side of face from chin to temple; as if hips were drawn together ; in loins.

Burning : in eyeballs ; in rectum ; in tumors.

Heat: in 1. side of face; in roof of mouth; in throat; in stomach and bowels.

Smarting : in anus ; in rectum.

Soreness : in head ; of mammae ; in loins.

Tenderness : of gum.s ; of mammae.

Tingling: through whole body.

Pressure : in back of head ; in head ; about larynx.

Weight : in stomach ; in pelvis.

Tension : in pelvis.

Swollen sensation : in nostrils.

Feeling of congestion: through eyes and nose.

Contracted feeling : in throat.

Distress : in stomach.

Stifling sensation : in larynx.

Uneasiness: in stomach and abdomen.

Weakness : in sexual functions ; in arms ; in upper and lower limbs.

Tickling sensation : in nostrils.

Dry sensation : in lids ; in throat.

Itching : in tumors.

Coldness : in external nose ; in r. side of face.

Tissues p. 527

Has a reputation in domestic practice as a fomentation in all internal inflammations.

Sprains ; lameness and bruises therefrom (locally).

Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 527

Pressure : of clothes causes distress.

Skin p. 528

││ Chronic erysipelatous inflammations.

▌ Old and indolent ulcers.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 528

Miss C. C, nerve-bilious temperament ; amenorrhoea.

Man, subject to urinary difficulties, now suffering from gonorrhoea ; dysuria.

Relations p. 528

Compare: Asarum, Ammon. carb., Caulophyl, Capsic, Pulsat., Senega, Senecio, Xanthoxylum.