Condensed Materia Medica

Eupatorium Perfoliatum eup-per.

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Mind

Feels at night as if he was going out of his mind.
Moaning with the aching pain.
Anxious countenance.
Desponding, with fever.

Sensorium

Faintness from motion, during the fever.
Whirling around in the brain; early morning.
Sensation, as if falling to the left.

Inner Head

Headache with the chill.
Headache and nausea every other morning, when awaking.
Soreness and pulsation on the back part of the head.
Heat on top of the head; distressed feeling.
Throbbing headache during chill and heat.
Headache and trembling during the hot stage of the intermittent.
Shooting from left to right side of head.
Sick headache: when first awaking, continuing all day; every other morning.
Pain in occiput after lying, with sense of weight, must aid with hand in lifting head.

Outer Head

Right parietal protuberance sore.
Head drawn spasmodically backwards. θ Spotted fever.

Eyes

Great aversion to light.
Painful soreness of eyeballs.
Redness of margins of lids, with glutinous secretion from meibomian glands.
Intense pain darting through the eyes, as from needles; eyes not inflamed.
Sclerotica yellowish.

Ears

Buzzing in ears, heat on top of heat.

Nose

Coryza, with aching in every bone.
Influenza, with weak pulse, prostration, bone sore; especially with inebriates and old people.

Face

Sallow, sickly, with intermittent fever; pale with catarrhs; red, skin dry.
Sudden severe contraction of muscles of right cheek.

Tongue, etc

Tongue covered with white fur, or yellow-coated.
Taste bitter.

Mouth

Paleness of the mucus membrane of the mouth.
Breath smells mouldy, sourish.

Throat

Fauces sore.

Desires and Aversions

Longs for ice cream.
Distaste for food.
Canine hunger with or before argue, or after quinine.
Loss of appetite.
Thirst for cold water.

Eating and Drinking

After drinking cold water: shuddering; vomiting bile.
After eating: violent distressing pains; no case until all is vomited.

Nausea and Vomiting

Sick stomach, night before ague paroxysm.
Vomiting; as the chill passes off, or between chill and fever; of bile at the close of hot stage; of bile, with trembling and great nausea, causing great prostration; preceded by thirst.

Stomach

Distressing pain in scrobiculum during chill and heat.

Hypochondria

Soreness in region of the liver.
Tight clothing is oppressive.

Abdomen

Violent colicky pains in upper abdomen, with headache and other pains.
Abdomen full and tympanitic.

Stool, etc

Considerable griping, worse after stool, with tenesmus.
Emission of fetid flatus, with relief.
Morning diarrhœa.
Frequent green, watery stools.
Constipation, with catarrh.

Urine

Dark brown, scanty, depositing, a whitish clay-like sediment; profuse, pale, with gout.
Inflammation of meatus urinarius, in a woman.

Male Sexual Organs

Itching of the mons veneris.

Larynx

Hoarse; throat dry, sore; can hardly talk; work mornings, when he gets up.

Breathing

Difficult of breathing, attended with perspiration, anxious countenance, sleepiness.
Great oppression of the chest; a full breath hurts; rattling on chest.
Dyspnœa with hard and shoulders high.
Must lie with head and shoulders high.

Cough

Hectic cough, from suppressed intermittent fever.
Loose cough during apyrexia; also at night, after measles.
Rough, scraping cough, chest sore; must support it with the hands; flushed face, tearful eyes.

Lungs

Soreness in chest; worse from inspiration.
Pain and soreness behind the sternum; heart feels as if in too small a place.
Oppression in middle of sternum; feels as if something were pressing against his heart; palpitation.
Pain through right nipple, when breathing.
Deep-seated pain in left side and right shoulder.

Neck and Back

Intense aching in back and limbs.
Pain in back of neck and between the shoulders.
Aching soreness in the back.

Upper Limbs

Stiffness of arms and fingers during chill.
Wrists pain as if broken or dislocated.
Heat in hands, sometimes with sweat.

Lower limbs

Severe pains, like cramps, waken out of sleep; cold sweat follows.
Lameness in right hip and lower extremity when walking.
Flagging of muscles of left thigh, as if falling off the bone.
Burning of skin of inside of thighs.
Throbbing in right foot.
Stinging, as from pains in feet; beginning of chill.
Heat in soles of feet in the morning.
Pain in heel, as if stabbed.
Sharp, burning pain in feet, could not keep her shoes on.
Gouty swelling of left big toe; ankles and feet dropsical.

Limbs in General

Intense aching in limbs, as if the bones were broken; back and limbs ache, as if broken.
Pains all over; left ankle, hip, shoulder; pains come instantly and go away as quickly.

Position, etc

Very restless, can's keep still, though there is a great desire to do so.
Not relieved by motion. Motion: 2, 40. Walking: 33. Lying: 3, 26. Cannot raise head: 40.

Nerves

During fever, weak, faint, nervous, trembling.

Sleep

Yawning and stretching, with intermittent.
Sleepy; difficulty breathing.
Profuse sleep at noon, yet can hear every sound.
Sleepless, with the fever.
On awaking, headache.

Time

Morning: 2, 3, 20, 25, 33, 40. 7-9 A.M.: 40. Noon: 37, 40. Night: 27, 40. All day: 3.

Temperature and Weather

Wants to be warmly covered during chill.
Uncovering: 40.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Before chill: thirst; cough the night before; pain above right ilium; yawning.
During chill: thirst, head throbs; aching all over, as if in the bones; more shivering than the degree of coldness warrants; trembling, nausea; moaning with pains.
At end of chill: vomiting bile.
Chill spreads from the back; begins between 7 and 9 A.M.
Chill early morn one day, light chill about noon next day.
Fever preceded by thirst, cannot raise the head; cheeks red; throbbing headache; sleep and moaning; trembling, faint from motion; vomiting of bile at end of hot stage, followed by slight sweat and sleep.
Skin bathed in sweat; or sweat scanty.
Nightly sweat, with chilliness, from moving or uncovering.
Hectic from suppressed ague.
Bilious fever; remittent fever.
Dengue.

Attacks

Every other morning: Intermittents of any type, but especially the tertian.
Pain come quickly and go quickly: 34.

Sides

Inability to lie on left side.
Right: 4, 8, 28, 33, 40. Left: 2, 28, 33. Left to right: 3.

Sensations

Sense of numbness, as if the flesh were falling from the bones.
Pains in back, head, etc., the more general and severe, the better adapted.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Must support with the hands: 27.

Skin

Eruptions develop tardily; especially measles.
Spotted fever; head drawn backwards; limbs ache, feel sore.
Ringworms.

Stages and States

Old people.
Inebriates.

Relationship

Eup perf. is followed well by Sepia or Natr. mur.