EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM.
Eupatorium purpureum, Linn.
Natural order
, Compositæ. Common names, Joe Pye Weed, Trumpet Weed
(Queen of the Meadow).
Preparation
, Tincture of the root.
Authority.
Mrs. Dresser’s provings with
the tincture taken every eight hours, increasing from 10 to 60 drops at
a dose, Hale’s New Remedies, 2d edition.
MIND.
►
The mind is acted upon in a very singular manner, being encompassed by
various delusions. ► Delusions of
sight and hearing. ► Talkative,
exclamations. ► Extremely depressed. ► Homesick, though occupying her own home
and surrounded by her own family. ►
Has a great fear of sickness.
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Dizziness of
the head, with a sensation as if falling to the left. ► Dizzy, with deep, dull, aching pain
through the temporal region on the left side. ►
Light and dizzy, as though flying round and round. [10.] ►
Light, dizzy sensation, in which the whole body seems to participate. ► Lightness of head; worse in the morning,
disappearing at 12 o’clock. ►
Sensation as if her head was moving in all directions. ► General Head. ►
Head feels as though she had a bad cold. ►
Dull heavy pain in the head, most severe in the forehead. ► Vertex full, pressing as though lifting
up from adjoining parts; confused, heavy. ►
Occiput. ► Hard thumping
pain in the left occipital bone. ►
External Head. ► Soreness of the
scalp. ► Tenderness of the scalp. ► Itching of the scalp.
EYE.
[20.]
► Staring looking with fixed eyes,
wide open; eyes fastened with an earnest look upon some object. ► Weeping; copious flow of tears. ► Weeping, filling the lids with tears,
causing constant wiping of the eyes. ►
Cannot see as far as usual.
EAR.
►
Ears feeling as though they were full, filled up. ►
Reports in the ears. ► Squeaking
sound in the ears. ► Crackling in the
ears like the burning of birch bark, very much aggravated by swallowing
anything.
NOSE.
►
Nose discharges abundant, thin, watery fluid. ►
Constant discharge from a sore, from continued wiping of the nose.
FACE.
[30.]
► Shinning appearance of the face, as
when having used a large quantity of soap in washing. ► Rush of blood to the face. ► Congestion of the face. ► Burning heat of the face. ► Face burning, red, dry, hot to touch.
MOUTH.
►
Gums. ► Gums red and hot. ► Tongue. ►
Numb feeling of the tongue, as if caused by Aconite. ► Pricking and stinging in the end of the
tongue. ► Fine prickly sensation of
the posterior part of the tongue. ►
Saliva. ► Abundance of
saliva in the mouth; increased action of all the glands in the mouth.
THROAT.
[40.]
► Sensation in the throat as if
having swallowed tobacco. ► Burning
smarting in the throat, as if it had been scalded by swallowing some hot
substance. ► Disagreeable fulness in
the throat; can hardly prevent crying. ►
Choking fulness of the throat, compelling her to swallow every few
minutes. ► Soreness of the throat. ► Smarting in the posterior part of the
throat. ► Continued smarting and
burning in the throat, most severe in the posterior part, during the
entire proving. ► Roughness and
dryness in the throat. ► Fluttering
in the throat-pit.
STOMACH.
►
Eructations. ► Eructation
was an almost constant symptom, particularly immediately after taking
the medicine; most violent twenty minutes after 40 drops. ► Nausea. [50.]
► Great nausea. ►
Sickness of the stomach, came near vomiting. ►
Swelling and fulness of the stomach, mostly on the left side. ► Stomach. ►
Great quantity of wind in the stomach. ►
Crampy pain in stomach. ► Griping
crampy pain in pit of stomach (after 40 drops). ►
Gnawing at the stomach.
ABDOMEN.
►
Bowels as hard as a rock. ► Rolling,
rumbling in the bowels. ► Feeling as
though the bowels must be moved immediately, without being able to do
so. [60.] ►
Pain and soreness of the whole abdomen, but much the worse on the left
side. ► Pain and suffering, as if
from diarrhœa, although the passages were not much altered. ► Fulness of the bowels. ► Fulness and pain in the bowels. ► Crampy, windy bowels. ► Rumbling, rolling, twisting pain in the
bowels. ► Severe colic pain,
occupying the whole extent of the abdomen. ►
Deep dull pain in the ossa innominata.
RECTUM.
►
Heavy pressure all day on the rectum.
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Bladder and Kidneys. ►
Deep dull pain in the left kidney. [70.]
► A dull deep pain in the kidneys,
also another cutting pain, very severe, in the kidneys; the two pains
seem to be separate and distinct, one from the other. ► Fulness of the bladder. ► Dull aching pain in the bladder. ► Hard aching pressing upon the bladder. ► Cutting pain, pressure, fulness, in the
bladder. ► Smarting and burning very
intense in the bladder and urethra, so much so that she could not stand.
► Feeling as though a continual
voiding of urine all the time. ► Urethra.
► Feeling as though having retained
the urine a long time. ► Dull heavy
pain in the urethra. ► Smarting
burning in te urethra on voiding urine. [80.]
► Most severe cutting pain in the
urethra, which comes and goes in from five to ten minutes, lasting many
hours. ► Smarting of the urethra upon
voiding urine. ► Burning-smarting
pain in the water passage. ► Desire
to void urine; cannot get rid of the sensation (one hour after 10
drops); strong desire to pass water having ten minutes previously
evacuated constant urging to urinate all day; has passed twice as much
urine during the day as usual; having evacuated the bladder every half
hour during the day still the bladder is full and tense; uncontrollable
desire to void the urine (twenty minutes after 40 drops); obliged to
evacuate the bladder four times within one hour, as much in quantity
each time as when not under the influence of medicine; constant desire
to pass water, accompanied by a cutting-aching pain in bladder; scalding
upon passing urine, at 5 P.M.; voiding urine as often as once an hour
during the day; the stream does not seem as large as usual; feeling as
though having retained the urine a long time without voiding it. ► Symptoms of the urethra began the third
day of the proving; after that time they were continuous. ► Urine. ►
Evacuation of urine 14 ounces; specific gravity 1015, measured by the
gravimeter; color not varying from that of healthy urine (after half an
hour); 10 ounces, which had a more aromatic smell than the former
passage (after one hour); 10 ounces, having a pale color, specific
gravity same as is in the previous examination; first observed a white,
flaky, or flocculent substance, which I collected in a filter for
examination; this proved to be mucus, the result, undoubtedly, of
inflammation, caused by the action of the medicine upon the urinary
organs (after two hours and fifty minutes); 12 ounces (after four
hours); 7 ounces (after six hours); 5 ounces (after six hours and
three-quarters); the characteristic constituents are not changed; we
have an addition of mucus in amount, a considerable quantity, 1/2 ounce
in all during the day, or up to 7 o’ clock, the whole amount of urine
voided during the first twelve hours of the proving being 58 ounces; it
certainly has the appearance of diabetic urine; specific gravity during
the day has been 1015; upon applying the test, to see if there was any
sugar or not, not be smallest trace could be discovered; after the first
twelve hours from the beginning of the proving there has been much less
in quantity than at first, though the frequency in voiding it, and the
urgency by which it is impelled, has increased in intensity (first day).
Many of the symptoms of yesterday repeated; the desire to-day to void
urine has been almost uninterrupted, nevertheless the quantity has been
small; the prover has felt impelled to make frequent efforts to void
urine without being able to void more than 1/2 ounce to 2 ounces at each
evacuation; the effort to empty the bladder was made as often as once in
an hour, and sometimes much oftener; the urine presents a higher color,
and has a greater density, specific gravity averaging 1026, though it
has during the day presented different densities; the characteristic
constituents have not been changed, except by the addition of mucus,
which has been increased (second day). Condition of urine to-day has
been almost exactly represented in the record of the preceding day, its
specific gravity averaging 1028; upon examination it was found to be
neutral (third day). During the three days the frequent and tormenting
desire to pass urine, with occasional spasmodic action of the bladder,
could not long be borne.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Heavy pressure during the day directly above the left ovary. ► Tense cutting pain two inches above the
left ovary. ► Smart, quick jerking
motion in the left ovary, also immediately above it (half an hour after
10 drops). ► The external generative
organs feel as though wet; this symptom was constant all through the
proving, though a delusion. [90.] ► Leucorrhœa quite abundant, which
continued during the whole time that the proving lasted; simple, leaving
no stain upon the linen.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Sighing every few minutes. ► Strong
desire to inflate the lungs, which she continued to do from time to
time, without noticing particularly that she was doing so.
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Fluttering of the heart and throat. ►
Violent palpitation of the heart, immediately after each dose. ► Pulse ranged from 80 to 100; it was full
and bounding.
NECK AND BACK.
►
Stiff, wry neck. ► Lame feeling in
the nape of the neck. ► Lame, weak
feeling of the neck. ► Cutting pain
in the neck, running from the shoulder to the occiput. [100.] ►
Sore pain directly within the spine, its whole extent, from below
upwards. ► Dull aching pain in the
sacrum, running upward unto the kidneys.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Tired, weak, uneasiness in the limbs. ► Gnawing, disagreeable pain in the
extremities.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Gnawing in the hip-bone. ► Left leg weak, worse than the right, in
which she has a severe numbness. ►
Feet feel as though she had walked a long journey; seems to her as
though her heels were crowding through her boots, the delusion having
been so marked that she felt compelled to look in order to see if it was
really the case.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Tired, weak feeling in every organ of the body. ►
Feels weak and tired. ► Symptoms of
the urinary organs were accompanied by a weak, tired, wearied, faint
feeling, which was almost insupportable. [110.]
► Feels weak and sick; cannot move
without making a great effort (after 40 drops). ►
Faintness, languor, sickness; cannot move about; thought she must go to
bed, having immediately before go up. ►
Faint and weak, from which the whole body suffers. ►
Numbness worse in the groin. ►
Sensation as if falling towards the left side; head feels light; cannot
get rid of the sensation as if falling to the left. ► Pains, as of a neuralgia, from below
upwards, mostly up the left side of the back and hip. ► Rheumatic pain, changing from place to
place, always from below upward. ►
Fine pricking sensation, rather pleasurable than otherwise. ► All symptoms worse on the left side of
the body.
SLEEP.
►
Sleepiness. ► Yawning,
gaping, and sighing, during the entire proving. [120.]
► Sleepy. ► Dull, sleepy; great effort required in
order to move about. ► Sleeplessness.
► Suffers from an unusual
wakefulness, with a staring look of the eyes.
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Lightness of head. ► (Swallowing
anything), Crackling in ears.® 2000
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