Eupatorium Purpureum eup-pur.

Bones-breaking pains. Urinary stream smaller.

Queen of the Meadow

Albuminuria, diabetes, strangury, irritable bladder, enlarged prostate are a special field for this remedy. Excellent in renal dropsy. Chills and pains run upwards. Impotency and sterility. Homesickness.

Left-sided headache with vertigo. Pain from left shoulder to occiput. Sick headache beginning in morning, worse afternoon and evening, worse in cold air.

Deep, dull pain in kidneys. Burning in bladder and urethra on urinating. Insufficient flow; milky. Strangury. Hæmaturia. Constant desire; bladder feels dull. Dysuria. Vesical irritability in women. Diabetes insipidus.

Weight and heaviness in loins and back.

Pain around left ovary. Threatened abortion. External genitals feel as though wet.

No thirst during chill, but much frontal ache. Chill commences in back. Violent shaking, with comparatively little coldness. Bone-pains.

Compare: Senecio; Cannab sat; Helon; Phos ac; Triticum; Epigea.

First potency.

From the provings made by Dr. Dresser and his wife this remedy ought to be a good one for urinary diseases. And Dr. Hughes says: "The drug has become my favorite remedy for vesical irritability in women." I have not yet tried it in such cases; but I have done some good work with it in intermittents, when the chill began in the small of the back and spread from there up and downward, which is as near a keynote as any I know for its use. Like the Eupatorium perfoliatum there are bone pains present. A lady who had lived near a marsh or swamp for seven years never had any appearance of malarial symptoms while living there, but after she came away they developed and were unyielding to the usual Quinine treatment. In fact, it utterly failed to do more than suppress for a short time when it would return and in an intensified form. On the above indications she was quickly and permanently cured by Eupatorium purpureum 200th.

Capsicum seems to resemble this remedy, both in the chills beginning in the back and the vesical irritability, but the Capsicum chill begins exactly between the shoulders, while Eupatorium begins in the dorsal or lumbar region.

Capsicum has violent chill, with general coldness of the body.

Eupatorium purp., violent shaking with little coldness of the body. Eupatorium purp., Eupatorium perf. and Capsicum all have bone pains before the chill, but Eupatorium perf. the strongest.

Joe Pye Weed. Trumpet Weed. Gravel root. Queen of the Meadow. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of the root.

Albuminuria. Calculi. Cystitis. Diabetes. Dropsy. Enuresis. Gravel. Headache. Home-sickness. Hysteria. Impotence. Indigestion. Intermittent fever . Renal colic. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Strangury. Throat, sore. Urine, retention of. Vomiting.

The fever symptoms of E. purpureum resemble those of E. perfoliatum , but E. purpur . has many more symptoms in the urinary and sexual regions. The general soreness is less marked with purpureum . Both have chills beginning in the back, those of purpureum (as also the pains) run upwards, and with them there is much shaking and comparatively little coldness. Bone pains, nausea, and vomiting accompany fever. Sweat is slight. Restless, tossing, moaning, unable to lie down. The common name, "gravel root," indicates the traditional use of the drug, and in the hands of eclectics it has done good work in cases of irritable bladder, diabetes insipidus, incontinence of urine and calculous affections. Hale mentions that impotency has been cured in the male, and sterility and uterine atony in the female. It is similar in action to Cimicif . and Helonias here. E. purpur . has been well proved by a Mrs. Dresser, and she experienced a feeling of home-sickness even when living in her own house. Motion < ; changing position ever so little = chilliness down back. Symptoms are < left side, and there is sensation as if falling to left side, as with E. Perfol . Cystitis in pregnant women from riding over rough roads. Distressing dyspnœa from dropsy.

Compare: Apocy. (dropsy); Apis., Can. sat., Canth., Copaib., Ferr., Hydrct., Mitch., Senec., Vespa (renal symptoms). Caps., Phos. ac. in home-sickness. E. perf., Colch. (nausea at smell of food).

The mind is encompassed by various delusions. — Sighing. — Home-sickness, although in her own house. — Great fear of sickness. — Depressed and sleepy. — Hysterical, low-spirited state.

Head feels light and dizzy, as though flying round and round; cannot get rid of sensation as if falling to l. side; the whole body seems to participate, < morning, disappearing at noon. — Illusions of sight and hearing, with vertigo. — Much headache and constriction over frontal region; with chill. — Dizzy, with deep, dull aching pains through l. temporal region. — Sick headache; dull hammering, stitching, or boring l. side; pressing from r. to l.; beginning morning, increasing during afternoon and evening; < in cold air; > while walking slowly in fresh air. — Violent headache; before chill; during morning; with fever. — Sore scalp with itching. — Sweat, principally about head, esp. profuse on forehead.

Staring. — Red and swollen (with headache). — Lachrymation.

Ears feel full. — Illusions of hearing. — Crackling < on swallowing.

Face flushed. — Lips blue.

Tongue furred, brown along centre. — Tongue, prickling and stinging in tip; on back. — Numbness of tongue. — Saliva abundant.

Choking fulness, must swallow often. — Burning, as if had swallowed some hot substance; most at back of throat. — < Swallowing. — Pain l. side of throat, causing pain on swallowing; before chill. — Fluttering in throat pit.

Thirst: before chill; none during; with fever; with dropsy. — Desire for warm drinks. — Much wind in stomach; eructations almost constant. — Nausea at smell or sight of food or cooking. — Great nausea but no vomiting with chill; vomiting with fever; with sick headache. — Swelling and fulness, mostly l. side. — Griping, crampy pain.

Rumbling, rolling, and twisting pain in bowels. — Severe colic after voiding urine. — Pain and soreness of abdomen, much < l. side. — Hypogastric region swollen and hot.

Bilious diarrhœa. — Pressure and weight on rectum.

Dull deep pains in kidneys; also cutting. — Intense smarting and burning in bladder and urethra. — Deep dull aching in bladder. — Uneasiness in bladder while suffering from severe cold. — Increased mucus; large deposit of lithates. — Enuresis. — Constant urging; passes a few drops at a time. — Strangury from uterine displacement. — Dysuria in a pregnant woman after riding over rough road and taking cold. — Vesical irritability in women. — Nephritis. — Diabetes insipidus.

Impotency from exhaustion or abuse.

Tense cutting pain two inches above l. ovary. — Smart, quick jerking motion in l. ovary. — Heavy pressure during day, directly above l. ovary. — Sterility from ovarian atony. — Uterine leucorrhœa caused by exhaustion and chronic metritis. — Leucorrhœa abundant, leaving no stain. — External genitals feel as though wet (a delusion). — Inflammation of meatus urinarius. — Numbness < in groin. — Threatened abortion. — Habitual abortion at third or fourth month. — Inefficient labour-pains.

Coryza; hoarseness; hacking cough, evening; cough, with soreness and heat in bronchi. — 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. — Grating sensation in Chest at every deep inspiration.

Violent palpitation; fluttering in heart and throat. — Pulse accelerated and full.

Cutting pain in neck running from l. shoulder to occiput. — Between shoulder-blades chilly feeling. — Cutting pains; labour-like pains. — Pains running upward; from sacrum into kidneys; from l. side of back and hip. — Chill begins in lower dorsal region and runs up back. — Distressing pain in lumbar region before chill.

Tired, weak uneasiness in limbs, with numbness and gnawing pains. — Rheumatic pains shifting from place to place, always from below upward. — Pains in arms and legs before chill; during fever limbs cold. — Neuralgia of r. shoulder or r. knee, passing over to l. — Soreness of bones, aching of limbs as if bones were broken, pains come and go suddenly; very restless, but not > by motion.

Arms perspire most; hands cold, finger-nails blue.

Gnawing in hip-bone. — Numbness of legs after or with severe bone pains. — Severe shooting pains in l. sciatic nerve, producing a palsied sensation, esp. after motion; legs feel tired, esp. l. — Feet feel as if she had walked a long journey; it seems as though her heels were crowding through her boots.

Yawning, gaping, and sighing. — Sleepy and depressed. — Sleep restless and mind disturbed, frightful dreams.

Chilly down back when changing position ever so little. — Chill begins in small of back and spreads over body; violent shivering with comparatively little coldness; bone pains; thirst in chill and heat; nails blue. — Skin hot and dry with fever; hot to touch in face. — Fever protracted, with bone pains, nausea, and vomiting, followed by slight sweat, mostly about forehead and head. — Sweat: principally about forehead; chills when attempting to change position.

Stupid, dull. θ Dropsy. θ Intermittent.
Confusion with falling to left side.
The mind encompassed by various delusions.
Talkative ; exclamations ; delusions of sight and hearing.
Sighing every few minutes, with gnawing at stomach.
Moaning ; suffering expressed by peculiar cries.
Hysterical mood, weeping, sighing, and a feeling like home sickness, though occupying her own home and surrounded by her own family, with fluttering of heart and a disagreeable fulness in throat.
Feels extremely depressed and sleepy.
Has a great fear of sickness.

Head feels light and dizzy, as though flying round and round ; cannot get rid of the sensation as if falling towards the left side ; the whole body seems to participate.
Lightness of head < in morning, disappearing at 12 o'clock.
Sensation as if her head were moving in all directions.
Illusions of sight and hearing, with vertigo.
Confused, heavy ; cannot seem to prevent falling.
Dull, sleepy ; great effort required in order to move about.

Dull, heavy pain in head ; most severe in forehead.
Much headache and constriction over frontal region, with chill.
Dizzy, with deep, dull, aching pain through temporal region on left side.
Vertex full, pressing, as though lifting up from adjoining parts.
Head feels as though she had a bad cold.
Hard thumping pain on left occipital bone.
Pain from left shoulder extends to occiput.
Sick headache ; dull hammering, beating, stitching, or boring pain in left side of head ; pressing from right to left ; beginning in morning and increasing during afternoon and evening ; < in cold air ; > while walking slowly in fresh air.
Violent headache : before the chill ; during morning ; with fever.

Fine pricking sensation on scalp, rather pleasurable than otherwise.
Soreness, tenderness, and itching of scalp.
Sweat, principally on head, particularly profuse about forehead.

Staring ; looking with fixed eyes, wide open.
Cannot see as far as usual, with sleepy feeling.
Eyes weeping ; copious flow of tears.
Copious flow of tears, filling eyes, making constant wiping necessary.
Eyes red and swollen ; violent headache.
Conjunctiva yellow, with the chill.

Ears feel as though they were full.
Squeaking sound in ears ; reports ; illusions of hearing.
Crackling, like burning of birch-bark ; very much < upon swallowing anything.

Fluent coryza ; great heat, sneezing.
Abundant discharge of a thin, watery fluid, making nose sore and irritable.

Congestion to face, with burning heat, dry and hot to touch.
Face flushed, with fever.
Shining appearance of face, as when having used a large quantity of soap in washing.

Lips blue. θ Intermittent.

Gums red and hot.

Tongue furred, brown along centre ; bitter, pappy taste, with chill.
Pricking and stinging in end of tongue.
Fine pricking sensation on posterior part of tongue.
Numb feeling of tongue, as if caused by aconite.

Increased action of all the glands of the mouth ; abundance of saliva.

Fluttering in throat-pit ; extends upward from heart.
Disagreeable fulness in throat ; can hardly prevent crying.
Choking fulness of throat, must swallow often.
Swallowing : < crackling in ears ; causes pain.
Soreness, roughness and dryness in throat.
Sensation in throat as if having swallowed tobacco.
Burning, smarting, as if having been scalded by swallowing some hot substance.
Continued smarting and burning, most severe in posterior part of throat.
Pain in left side of throat, causing pain in swallowing ; before chill.

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Has been praised as a preventive.

All symptoms worse on left side.

Sensation as if falling to the left; persistent, cannot get rid of it.

Weak, tired feeling in every organ of the body; cannot move without making a desperate effort.

Rheumatic pains go from below upward (Ledum—shoot downward, Kalmia); change places frequently (Kali bi., Lac c., Puls.).

Sleep, restless, disturbed with frightful dreams.

Mechanical dysuria; from displaced uterus; jolting ride during pregnancy.

Constant desire to urinate; no matter how often he voids urine, bladder still feels full.

Incontinence of urine in children.

Chronic cystitis: uneasy; deep aching; dull pain and soreness in bladder; smarting and burning in bladder, in urethra, on urinating.

Motion; changing position; draft of air.

Double tertian; double quartan; malarial.

Double tertian.

Tertian.

Different times of the day; hour not marked (3 to 5 P. M.). No regularity.

Prodrome:—Bone pains in arms and legs (bone pains with intense thirst, Eup. perf.). Dry, hacking cough in spells.

Different times of day; 10

A. M. Every other day.

7 A. M., or 7 to 9 A. M. one day; 12 M. next day.

With thirst; begins in small of back—lumbar region (interscapular region, Caps., Polyp.), passing up and down, thence extends over the body.

Chill begins between scapulæ, thence spreading over body like waves; craves heat to back, yet heat does not relieve (heat >, Caps.).

Longing for lemonade, cold acid drinks, with violent bone pains, blue lips and nails (Nat., Nux), extremities cold, and frontal headache. Violent shaking, with comparatively little coldness (Eup. perf.). Nausea, but no vomiting, as the chill is leaving (vomiting at close of chill, Eup., Lyc.). Nervous, restless, hysterical mood. Numbness of the legs after or in conjunction with the severe bone pains.

Slight movement while covered or draft of air produces a return of chill.

No thirst, or thirst for lemonade and acid drinks. Chill begins in lumbar region, thence ex- tends over body. Nausea as the chill is leaving, but no vomiting.

Great thirst for cold water.

Chill, with bone pains, pains in back, gaping, stretching, throbbing head- ache. Bitter vomiting at close of chill. Drinking hastens chill and causes vomiting.

With thirst. Long-lasting heat, with bone pains, nausea and vomiting. Hunger, with desire to eat immediately after the fever (hunger before chill and during sweat, Cinch.).

Frightful dreams. Longing for hot drinks (Ars., Casc., Ced.).

Long-lasting; thirst, bone pains, and hunger as the heat is passing off (Cina, Cinch.).

With sleep; moaning, in- creased headache. "A swallow of water will make him shiver" (Caps.).

Without thirst; slight, mostly about forehead and head; of upper parts of body. Chilly down the back, when chang- ing position ever so little. Very rarely, sweat is profuse (same as its congener, Eup.).

Chilly when changing position ever so little during sweat.

Bone pains disappear with disappearance of sweat. Light chill and profuse sweat, or shaking chill, and light or wanting sweat.

Heavily furred, brown along the centre; bitter, pappy taste with the chill.

Passes more urine than normal, with frequent desire; scalding on urinating. Profuse flow of clear, limpid urine; weak, tired and faint after urinary symptoms. Vertigo, with "a dizzy feeling" all over, and a persistent sensation of falling to the left (Col.—of falling, Gels.).

Eup. purp.

Vertigo, with falling to the left.

Urine, profuse, urging, scalding.

Eup. perf.

Jaundiced hue; great weakness; anæmia.

Bone pains in arms and legs. Dry, hacking cough in spells.

Thirst several hours before, with bone pains and pains in back.

Stupid, dull.
Sighing.
Depressed, sleepy.
Homesick.

Light, dizzy, as though flying round and round; sensation as if falling to the left.

Sick headache: dull hammering, beating, stitching, or boring pain in left side of head; pressing from right to left; beginning in the morning and increasing during the afternoon and evening; worse in cold air; better while walking slowly in fresh air.

Soreness of scalp.
Sweat on head, profuse about forehead.

Staring.
Eyes suffused during fever.
Conjunctive yellow, with the chill.

Crackling in ears, like burning birch-bark.
Ears feel as filled up.

Fluent coryza; great heat, sneezing.

Face flushed, with fever.
Shining of the face.

Lips blue; intermittent.

Tongue furred, brown along the centre; bitter, pappy taste, with the chill.
Tongue numb; pricking, stinging pain.

Choking fulness of throat, must swallow often.
Pain in left side of throat, causing pain in swallowing; before chill.
Burning as if scalded, in back of throat.

Thirst during chill and heat; or before chill.
Wants lemonade or cold drinks during the chill.
Thirst with dropsy.
No appetite.

Vomiting with the sick headache.
Great nausea, but no vomit, with the chill.
Nausea, vomiting with the fever.

Crampy pain in stomach.

Rumbling in bowels.
Lower belly swollen and hot.
Colic all over abdomen after voiding urine.

Bilious diarrhœa; bowels loose, ague.

Suppression of urine.
Incontinence of urine; especially with children.
Deep, dull pain in kidneys, also cutting pains; chronic nephritis.
Violent dysuria: after a jolting ride during pregnancy; from displaced uterus.
Constant desire to urinate; even after frequent passages, bladder still feels full.
Soreness and pain in the bladder; deep aching; uneasiness; catarrh.
Smarting, burning in bladder and urethra on urinating.
Frequent effort, with passage of but a few drops of urine.
Urine: very copious; scanty, albuminous; scanty but frequent.

Quick, jerking pain in left ovary.
Heavy pressure above left ovary.
Numbness, worse in groin.
Leucorrhœa abundant.
External genitals feel as wet.

Difficult breathing.
Grating sensation in chest at every deep inspiration.

Hacking cough in the evening.
Cough, with soreness and heat in bronchia.
Dry, hacking cough in spells, before the attack; ague.

Pulse: accelerated and full; ague.

Violent cutting in the back.
Neuralgic pains from below upwards, mostly left side of back and hip.
Labor-like pains in the back.

Legs: numb; weak, tired.

Rheumatic pains changing place, always from below upward.
Pain in arms and legs before chill.

Chill aggravated by motion.
Changing position: 40. Walking: 3.

Restless, tossing, moaning.
Weak, tired, faint with urinary symptoms.

Yawning; sighing.
Sleep restless, disturbed; ague, frightful dreams, during the fever.

Morning till evening: 27. Night: 40.

Cold air:3. Walking in fresh air: 3.

Chilly when changing position during sweat.
Chill begins in small of the back, and spreads over the body; violent shaking, with comparatively little coldness; bone-pain; thirst during chill and heat.
Nails blue.
Fever protracted, followed by slight sweat, mostly about forehead and head.
Night-sweats: hectic.

Chill at different times of the day.
Every other day.

Left: 2, 3, 13, 31. Right to left: 3. Below upwards: 31, 34.

Emaciation; accompanying chronic inflammation of the bladder.

Jolting ride: 21.

A tincture of the fresh root is used.

Eupt. perf., Apocyn. c.

Neuralgia from below upward, agg. up left side of back and hip. ▶ Rheumatic pain changing about always from below upward. ▶ Tired feeling; in every organ. ▶ Faintness; with the urinary symptoms; after rising, with sickness. ▶ Numbness, agg. in groin. ▶ Aggravation on left side of body. ▶ Delusions; of sight and hearing. ▶ Talkative, exclamations. ▶ Depression. ▶ Homesickness though at home and surrounded by her own family. ▶ Fear of sickness.

Heavy pain, agg. forehead. ▶ Feeling as in a bad cold. ▶ Lightness, agg. morning, amel. at 12 o'clock; left, with sensation as if falling to the left. ▶ Sensation as if moving in all directions. ▶ Vertigo, with sensation of falling to left ; V., with deep dull pain through left temple; in which the whole body seemed to participate; as if flying round and round. ▶ Fulness in vertex, with pressing as if lifting up from adjoining parts, confusion and heaviness. ▶ Thumping pain on left side of occipital bone. ▶ Soreness of scalp. ▶ Pleasant pricking in scalp. ▶ Itching of scalp.

Eyes wide open and fixed. ▶ Lachrymation. ▶ Inability to see as far as usual. ▶ Ears feel full. ▶ Reports in E. ▶ Squeaking in E. ▶ Crackling in E. like the burning of birch bark, agg. swallowing anything.

Copious watery discharge from nose. ▶ Constant discharge from a sore, from continued wiping of nose. ▶ Face shining as from washing with much soap. ▶ Congestion of face. ▶ Rush of blood to F. ▶ Redness, dryness and internal and external heat of F. ▶ Heat of F.

Gums red and hot. ▶ Stinging in end of tongue. ▶ Prickling in posterior part of tongue. ▶ Numbness of tongue as from Aconite. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Sensation in throat as after swallowing tobacco. ▶ Scalded feeling in throat. ▶ Smarting in posterior part of T.; agg. posterior part, with burning. ▶ Soreness of T. roughness and dryness in T. ▶ Fulness in T., can hardly prevent crying; F.; with choking, compelling frequent swallowing. ▶ Fluttering in pit of T.

Eructations. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Swelling, agg. left side, with fulness. ▶ Crampy pain. ▶ Griping, crampy pain in pit. ▶ Gnawing.

As hard as a rock. ▶ Rumbling. ▶ Fulness; with pain. ▶ Crampy, windy. ▶ Twisting pain. ▶ Pain in the whole; agg. left side, with soreness; deep in ossa innominata; as in diarrhœa, without much alteration in stools.

Pressure all day. ▶ Ineffectual urging to stool.

Cutting in bladder with pressure and fulness. ▶ Pain in bladder. ▶ Smarting in bladder and urethra, with burning, so that she could not stand. ▶ Feeling of continual micturition. ▶ Constant urging to urinate, with cutting in bladder. ▶ Frequent and copious micturition, the stream smaller than usual. ▶ Frequent micturition, 58 ozs. in twelve hours, once with an aromatic odor, pale, containing a white flocculent mucus, in the next twelve hours greater urging and more frequent micturition, but less urine, the next day almost constant urging but urine scanty, on-half to two ounces at each evacuation, of higher color, during the three days occasional spasmodic action of bladder. ▶ Cutting in urethra. ▶ Smarting in urethra during micturition; burning S. in U. ▶ Smarting burning in urethra during micturition. ▶ Feeling of having retained the urine long. ▶ Heavy pain in urethra.

It has been recommended for chronic or subacute inflammation of the bladder with dysuria, and in intermittent fever when dysuria is a prominent symptom, with constant desire to urinate, with aching in kidneys and bladder.

The severe pain in the back noticed in this drug sometimes seems to indicate its use for chronic or subacute inflammation of the kidneys, especially from taking cold, with suppression of urine or with more or less difficulty in urinating.

It has been used for sciatica, severe pain in the course of the left sciatic nerve. ▶ It has also been used for rheumatism of old people, with soreness of bones, swelling of ankles, etc. ▶ It has been found useful in dropsy during Bright's disease, with œdematous swelling, scanty urine, cold extremities, etc.

In intermittent fever it has generally been found curative when the chill begins in the small of the back and spreads over the body. ▶ This drug, as well as Eup. perfoliatum, seems to remove the bone-pains; the other symptoms of the two remedies seem also to be similar; whether there is a marked difference in the drugs it is for future experiments to determine.

Constant wet feeling externally. ▶ Jerking in and above left ovary. ▶ Cutting two inches above left ovary. ▶ Heavy pressure during the day above left ovary. ▶ Leucorrhœa leaving no stain.

Frequent sighing. ▶ Desire to inflate the lungs, which she did from time to time without particularly noticing that she did it. ▶ Heart and throat fluttering. ▶ Palpitation. ▶ Pulse from 80 to 100 full and bounding.

Stiff, wry neck. ▶ Lame feeling in nape; in neck, with weak feeling. ▶ Sore pain in the whole extent of the spine, from below upward. ▶ Aching in sacrum running into kidneys; deep in left kidney; deep in kidneys, with cutting.

Gnawing pain. ▶ Weakness, with uneasiness. ▶ Cutting in left shoulder, running to occiput. ▶ Gnawing in hip-bone. ▶ Weakness of legs, agg. left with numbness of right. ▶ Feet feel as after a long walk, and as if the heels were crowding through the boots.

Yawning. ▶ Sleepiness; with dullness, it requires a great effort to move about. ▶ Wakefulness, with staring eyes.

Indicated in derangements of the urinary organs, especially in irritable and inflamed bladder, with constant desire to urinate and aching in bladder and kidneys. In intermittent fever with vesical irritation.

Constant urging to urinate, with burning, cutting pain in bladder and urethra; feeling as though the urine had been retained too long.

Aching and cutting pain deep in the kidneys.

Chill in the small of the back, spreading from there over the whole body. Aching of bones.