Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Granatum Punica gran.

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General

A tincture is made of the dried bark of the root of Punica Granatum, L. (Pomegranate).

General Action

An ancient vermifuge, especially for tape-worm. ▶ The alkaloid, Pelletierine, is particularly valuable for this purpose, but large doses cause paralysis, especially of the oculo-motor nerves, with vertigo, acting similarly to Gelsemium.

Allies

Gelsem., Verat. alb.

Generalities

Emaciation. ▶ Laxity of muscles. ▶ Tremulousness in morning (Gelsem.). ▶ Rush of blood to upper part of body, head and chest. ▶ Discomfort and nausea. ▶ Weakness; in morning on rising after good sleep; with heat in hands; could scarcely keep upright (Gelsem.); sleepy with confused pain in forehead, as after a night's debauch. ▶ Better after dinner.

Clinical

Jaundiced complexion, with bloated abdomen, eructations of watery fluid and vomiting, with vertigo, waving before eyes, large pupils, feeling as of something moving in the stomach, palpitation, faintness (Gelsem.).

Mind

Hallucination. ▶ Excited easily; excitement and weakness of mind, tranquility and persistency. ▶ Anger changing to insults. ▶ Sensitiveness. ▶ Sad. ▶ Hypochondriac. ▶ Discouraged. ▶ Inclined to criticise and blame. ▶ Dread of work, with headache. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Stupefaction.

Head

Sticking on moving; S. through brain. ▶ Pain in whole brain when walking, agg. forehead; P. in brain, extending into left occipital protuberance. ▶ Heaviness; with dread of work; with red face, rapid pulse and weakness. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Vertigo in morning on rising; V. after stool; on reading, reflecting and mental labor; with vomiting; like a dimness before eyes (Gelsem.); in attacks, with obscured vision, roaring in ears and trembling of hands. ▶ Frontal sticking; outward; beneath left eminence. ▶ Pressure in sinciput during stool. ▶ Frontal pain, with shivering; pain in left eminence; F. pain extending towards temples, with tearing, then becoming a tearing outward; F. pain so that she could scarcely look up; stupefying pain in frontal sinuses and upper jaw. ▶ Frontal heaviness. ▶ Tearing in right temple; extending into right eye. ▶ Pressure in left temple. ▶ Heavy pain in vertex. ▶ Tearing in right side of head. ▶ Tearing jerking in right side. ▶ Pressure in occiput, with hot ears.

Eyes

Inflamed as in catarrh. ▶ Surrounded by pale blue dirty rings. ▶ Tearing in right, which is red and swimming in tears. ▶ Dryness and burning. ▶ Yellow sclerotics. ▶ Pupils dilated; and sluggish; contracted. ▶ Opening of the lids contracted. ▶ Jerking of right lid. ▶ Burning of canthi, with redness. ▶ Itching of inner canthi; burning I. in outer canthi. ▶ Vision dim; V. weak.

Ears

Sticking in left ; S. outward, agg. left. ▶ Tearing in left ; sticking T. outward in left at night. ▶ Cramplike pain. ▶ Ringing; in front of left. ▶ Roaring before ears.

Nose

Pinching as if in mucous cavities, extending from root into right zygomatic region. ▶ Itching-crawling and tickling in nose. ▶ Heat within. ▶ Dryness of mucous membrane. ▶ Catarrh alternately dry and fluent.

Face

Red; and hot, with sparkling eyes, heaviness of forehead and oppression of chest. ▶ Earthly, sickly color. ▶ Stupid expression. ▶ Tearing in left half. ▶ Pinching in left side. ▶ Right cheek feels swollen. ▶ Jaw cracked painfully when chewing, as if dislocated; tearing in joints, agg. left, with tension and pinching; pinching in left ramus; numbness. ▶ Lips dry; biting of lips, then burning; burning on "crown" of lower.

Mouth

Stitches in incisors at night in bed. ▶ Drawing in incisors, then stitches. ▶ Tearing throbbing pain in upper hollow molar. ▶ Toothache in morning on rising. ▶ Incisors pain as if numb and sore. ▶ Teeth feel too long on biting anything hard. ▶ Tongue coated; white, and moist. ▶ (Moderate dryness of tongue, with feeling of "adstriction" of papillæ.). ▶ Tenacious mucus with need of constant spitting. ▶ Salivation; watery. ▶ Taste altered; at one time acute, at another blunted; sweetish, flat, with salivation, nausea and pain in abdomen.

Throat

Hawking of mucus; bloody, from choanæ. ▶ Tough mucus in choanæ, causing sensation of a lump. ▶ Tearing, extending to arms and fingers. ▶ (Contraction.).

Stomach

▶ Unusual hunger (Verat. a.); (in morning in bed). ▶ Craving for a variety of things; C. for fruit (Verat a.); for juicy or sour things. ▶ Appetite at one time diminished, at another ravenous. ▶ Loss of appetite. ▶ Aversion to eating. ▶ Craving for coffee, which unusually good. ▶ Thirst for water in evening, with heat of skin, and especially hot forehead. ▶ Want of thirst.

Eructations; after liquid food; agg. after potatoes; loud; of air; offensive, after fat food; of liquids; (of watery substances, agg. fasting). ▶ Nausea; with pain in abdomen; with salivation, frequent spitting, pain in stomach and abdomen, fermenting in abdomen, frequent ineffectual urging to stool, chilliness, sickly look and ill humor (Verat a.); with threatenings of diarrhœa; with pain and fermentation in abdomen, then diarrhœa; with shivering, cold hands and hot forehead; with confusion of head. ▶ Loud retching. ▶ Vomiting; with diarrhœa (Verat. a.); with trembling; with anxiety; with weakness and sweat.

Epigastric region distended and sensitive. ▶ Fulness of pit. ▶ Sticking. ▶ Cramp in morning fasting. ▶ Contractive pain, and in small intestines. ▶ Pressure in pit and on chest; P. in pit, and sick feeling. ▶ Burning in pit and in abdomen.

Abdomen

Distention and pain, with ravenous hunger. ▶ Emission of flatus. ▶ Frequent flatulence. ▶ Movements of flatus; M. as from diarrhœa. ▶ Wanderings like urging to stool. ▶ Griping; then two soft stools. ▶ Cramp before menses, with dragging from small of back to genitals. ▶ Pain; after every meal; agg. morning fasting; amel. drinking cold water; amel. external warmth and lying down; with diarrhœa; flatulent; crawling, which was a sticking towards præcordium. ▶ Drawing like urging to stool. ▶ Sensitiveness. ▶ Anxiety.

Navel distended to a ball, like umbilical hernia. ▶ Sticking to left side of umbilicus, as from suppuration. ▶ Griping about U. ▶ Twisting in umbilical region and stomach. ▶ Dragging in groins as if a hernia would protrude from both sides; D. towards groins; almost painful dragging towards groins, with swelling of the parts; D. in pelvis, with heaviness. ▶ Drawing inflammatory pain in right groin, agg. touch.

Rectum

Sticking when sitting. ▶ Pressure. ▶ Sensation in R. and anus as if something alive were moving about. ▶ Itching and tickling. ▶ Heat after diarrhœa. ▶ Desire for stool. ▶ Tenesmus, with protrusion of anus during the usual stool. ▶ Ineffectual urging.

Anus

Protrusion like a ring during stool. ▶ Hæmorrhoids protrude during stool. ▶ Sticking in evening. ▶ Proctalgia. ▶ Itching frequently during the day, with tickling.

Stool

Diarrhœa; frequent; mucous. ▶ Liquid, two within an hour. ▶ Frequent. ▶ Profuse, with much flatulence. ▶ Delayed and insufficient (later action).

Urinary Organs

Urethra, discharge of mucus, a kind of blennorrhœa; inflammation and swelling; cutting and sticking; cutting in evening after lying down with smarting in it and with relaxed penis; cutting, after micturition; burning drawing extending from spongy part into glans.

Sexual Organs

Excitement. ▶ Painful dragging towards genitals and uterus. ▶ Yellow leucorrhœa. ▶ Menstruation too early and profuse, with griping in abdomen and dragging in small of back, extending to genitals.

Chest

Sticking; in right; left ; middle; agg. walking, not influenced by breathing; rheumatic drawing S. in pleura, now here, now there. ▶ Cramp in pectoralis major, stitches extending towards axilla. ▶ Pain in right; in left and in spine at insertion of diaphragm. ▶ Oppression, with sighing; O., with weakness of lower limbs on ascending steps. ▶ Heaviness like suffocation, then palpitation. ▶ Pressure upon C.; P. outward through sternum. ▶ Tension in left, beginning below ribs and gradually extending higher, with pinching and intermitting stitches. ▶ Pinching contraction in muscles about right nipple. ▶ Feeling of catarrh.

Heart

Sensitiveness of præcordial region. ▶ Palpitation on least exertion.

Neck and Back

Rheumatic pain in nape and throat, making stooping difficult. ▶ Pain in loins; on occurrence of menstruation; as if beaten; as if sprained, agg. sitting. ▶ Drawing from loins to anus. ▶ Weight in loins.

Extremities

Weariness and heaviness preventing sleep. ▶ Bruised pain in shoulders and between them, as after a heavy load, even the clothing in oppressive; B. pain in right shoulder as far as axilla, agg. raising arm. ▶ Arms, tearing, extending forward; boring extending to fingers; rheumatic pains; paralytic drawing; paralytic weakness; paralyzed feeling (Gelsem.); could scarcely be raised. ▶ Tearing in ulna at wrist; in radius at wrist; cramplike T. in right forearm. ▶ Periodic drawing in right forearm, amel. external warmth. ▶ Tearing in wrists. ▶ Rheumatic pain in left wrist. ▶ Sticking in second joint of thumb. ▶ Tearing in fingers, with stiffness; T., so that she could not hold anything; T. in last phalanges, agg. ring finger; in first joint of thumb. ▶ Rheumatic pain in all finger-joints. ▶ Paralytic stiffness of F.

Lower Extremities

Special withering. ▶ Sticking in left hip when walking. ▶ Pain in hips; as if injured. ▶ Sticking in left knee. ▶ Tearing in knee; left. ▶ Paralytic drawing in knee, with heaviness, hindering walking. ▶ Legs weak, agg. walking; W., with uneasiness, leader heaviness, he feels better sitting with legs resting upon sofa. ▶ Sticking in left ankle. ▶ Sprained pain in left ankle in evening, hindering walking. ▶ Pain in corns.

Skin

Pimples on forehead and left temple, with sore pain, they suppurate and leave nodules. ▶ Formication down arms. ▶ Itching biting between middle and ring fingers and between ring and little fingers, with red, hot hands; I. biting on balls of thumbs, they become bluish-red, hot and swollen, with distended veins, which form a bluish-mottled swelling, as after freezing. ▶ Itching on forehead and eyebrow; in palms, with biting; in various places on face and whole body, as if pimples would break out; on back of hands as if an eruption would break out; scraping. ▶ I. on cheeks; burning I. about anus, on nates, perineum, scrotum and hairy parts of genitals, extending thence over almost the whole body, agg. thick parts of thighs.

Sleep

Yawning; with filling of eyes with water; with stretching; violent, with stretching, sleepiness and creeping chills from hips to calves. ▶ Sleepy early in evening. ▶ Falls asleep late. ▶ Screaming in sleep at night. ▶ Unsound S. ▶ Uneasy S. ▶ Night full of dreams. ▶ Numerous and varied dreams, so that she cannot remember them in the morning. ▶ Dreams immediately if he only slumbers, cries out and awakes.

Fever

Chilliness, agg. forenoon, but heat in evening; C., agg. arms, with sweat in palms. ▶ Shivering; about I. side, over scalp, the hair stands on end; over scalp in open air, and in lower limbs, with paralytic drawing in right thigh; over left hip and abdomen, with pain in left side of forehead.

Intolerance of warmth in evening, desire for cold. ▶ Heat, with rapid, hard pulse; H., agg. legs, she must keep them out of bed. ▶ General heat on getting into bed, with dry tongue, without thirst. ▶ General dry heat. ▶ H. in forehead in evening. ▶ H. of face; in evening; during diarrhœa; during stool; of right cheek, with bluish redness, also with swelling, itching, tension and crawling as if frozen. ▶ Sweat on slightest motion.