Podophyllum Peltatum podo.

Liver: Duodenum. Intestines. RECTUM. Right side: Ovary. Scapula. Throat.

EARLY MORNING. Eating. Hot weather. Dentition. Drinking. Motion. Mercury.

Stroking liver. Lying on abdomen.

Biliousness.

Whining. Rolls head. Eyes half open. Bad breath. Burning rough or flabby, indented tongue. Bites gums together; grinds teeth. Bitter taste. As of a lump in œsophagus. Craves acids which <. Vomits hot froth. Constant gagging. Sore, painful liver. Weak, empty sinking or sick feeling in abdomen. Rubs abdomen for >. GURGLING THROUGH BOWELS, THEN PROFUSE, PUTRID STOOLS GUSH OUT PAINLESSLY. Summer diarrhœa. White stools; like dirty water; foaming; with meal - like sediment; runs right through diaper; then weakness. Cholera morbus. Diarrhœa, alternating with other symptoms, head, etc. Pale, hard, chalky stools. Rectum; raw, sore; weak; prolapsed, before stool. Moist, foul piles. Numb ache in ovaries; radiating to r. crural nerve, etc.; < stretching legs. Ischias antica. Generative organs threaten to prolapse, during stool. Rectum, prolapsed after confinement. Burning in small of back. Jaundice, < face and eyes. Moaning and whining during sleep. Loquacity during the fever (Pyro.). Sleepy after the paroxysm (malaria).

Complementary: Nat-m. Related: Alo. Chin. Merc.

Adapted to persons of bilious temperament who suffer from gastro- intestinal derangement, especially after abuse of mercury; "bilious attacks.". Thirst for large quantities of cold water (Bry.). Pains: sudden shocks of jerking pains. Depression of spirits, imagines he is going to die or be very ill (Ars.); disgust for life. Headache alternates with diarrhoea (Aloe); headache in winter, diarrhoea in summer. Painless cholera morbus; cholera infantum (Phyt.). Violent cramps in feet, calves, thighs, watery, painless stools. Difficult dentition: moaning, grinding the teeth at night; intense desire to press the gums together (Phyt.); head hot and rolling from side to side (Bell., Hell.). Diarrhoea: of long standing; early in morning, continues through forenoon, followed by natural stool in evening (Aloe), and accompanied by sensation of weakness or sinking in abdomen or rectum. Diarrhoea of children: during teething; after eating; while being bathed or washed; of dirty water soaking napkin through (Benz. ac.); with gagging. Stool: green, watery, fetid, profuse (Calc.); gushing out (Gamb., Jat., Phos.); chalk-like, jelly-like (Aloe); undigested (Cinch., Ferr.); yellow meal-like sediment; prolapse of rectum before or with stool. Prolapsus uteri: from overlifting or straining; from constipation; after parturition; with subinvolution. In early months of pregnancy, can lie comfortably only on stomach (Acet. ac.). Patient is constantly rubbing and shaking the region of liver with his hand. Fever paroxysm at 7 a. m. with great loquacity during chill and heat; sleep during perspiration. Affects right throat, right ovary, right hypochondrium (Lyc.). Pain and numbness in right ovary, running down thigh of that side (Lil.). Suppressed menses in young girls (Puls., Tub.).

Compare: Aloe, Chel., Collin., Lil., Merc., Nux, Sulph. It antidoes the bad effects of mercury. After: Ipec., Nux, in gastric affections; after Calc. and Sulph. in liver diseases.

In early morning (Aloe, Nux, Sulph.); in hot weather; during dentition.

In many troubles of pregnant females; weak, bearing down sensation, in the abdomen after parturition, with sensation as if the intestines were falling down; prolapsus uteri with pain in the sacrum. Teething children, with green diarrhœa, in the morning; also rolling of the head in difficult dentition. Diarrhœa after eating or drinking; prolapsus of the rectum after stool; whooping cough with costiveness and loss of appetite.

Feels fatigued; depressed.

Sallow complexion; sickly and wretched appearance. Flushed face with morning headache.

Very early morning diarrhœa; profuse, frequent, gushing, painful or painless, usually the latter; seems to drain one dry, but soon is full again; very offensive; watery. Passages natural, but too frequent, and exhausting. Prolapsus of anus and rectum. Dysentery, bloody and green mucus. Hæmorrhoids with prolapsed anus, rectum, or uterus. Pain in lumbar and sacral region, worse during stool, and still worse afterward. Constipation, alternating with diarrhœa.

Pendulous abdomen, after confinement, with much nervous irritability and sleeplessness; feels weak and unable to move about. Colic at daylight every morning; causing retraction of abdominal muscles.

Female: Prolapsus uteri, the womb falls very low, painfully so, especially after childbirth. Miscarriage threatened; pain in ovarian region, both sides, especially at night, disturbing sleep--very nervous and restless. Painful menstruation, bearing down in abdomen and back during menses; pain on both sides of abdomen (ovarian) with numb and aching pain, which runs down into the thighs. Amenorrhœa with above symptoms, including those of stool. Leucorrhœa thick, transparent mucus.

Very subject to frequent "bilious attacks." Foul breath. Emaciation, debility, exhaustion. Troubles during dentition, both cerebral and gastric; rolling of head, gagging.

In early morning (2-4 A.M.); during forenoon; eating and drinking; hot weather.

From bending forward; from external warmth.

Head hot, rolling from side to side with moaning; during dentition, or with bowel disorders. Diarrhoea with great sinking at the epigastrium; sensation as if everything would drop through the pelvis. Morning diarrhoea, stools watery,. green, yellow, sour. with much flatulence and burning in the anus. Biliousness with nausea and giddiness; tendency to bilious vomiting and purging. Prolapsus ani with every stool, or after any sudden motion, such as sneezing or coughing, Painting with sensation of emptiness in abdomen after stool.

May-apple (PODOPHYLLUM)

Is especially adapted to persons of bilious temperament. It affects chiefly the duodenum, small intestines, liver, and rectum The Podophyllum disease is a gastro-enteritis with colicky pain and bilious vomiting. Stool is watery with jelly-like mucus, painless, profuse. Gushing and offensive. Many troubles during pregnancy; pendulous abdomen after confinement; prolapsus uteri; painless cholera morbus. Torpidity of the liver; portal engorgement with a tendency to hæmorrhoids, hypogastric pain, fullness of superficial veins, jaundice.

Loquacity and delirium from eating acid fruits. Depression of spirits.

Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward. Headache, dull pressure, worse morning, with heated face and bitter taste; alternating with diarrhœa. Rolling of head from side to side, moaning and vomiting and eyelids half closed. Child perspires on head during sleep.

Grinding the teeth at night; intense desire to press the gums together (Phytol). Difficult dentition. Tongue broad, large, moist. Foul, putrid taste. Burning sensation of tongue.

Hot, sour belching; nausea and vomiting. Thirst for large quantities of cold water (Bry). Vomiting of hot, frothy mucus. Heartburn; gagging or empty retching. Vomiting of milk.

Distended; heat and emptiness. Sensation of weakness or sinking. Can lie comfortably only on stomach. Liver region painful, better rubbing part. Rumbling and shifting of flatus in ascending colon.

Cholera infantum and morbus. Diarrhœa of long standing; early in morning; during teething, with hot, glowing cheeks while being bathed or washed; in hot weather after acid fruits. Morning, painless diarrhœa when not due to venous stasis or intestinal ulceration. Green, watery, fetid, profuse, gushing. Prolapse of rectum before or with stool. Constipation; clay-colored, hard, dry, difficult. Constipation alternating with diarrhœa (Ant crud). Internal and external piles.

Pain in uterus and right ovary, with shifting noises along ascending colon. Suppressed menses, with pelvic tenesmus. Prolapsed uteri, especially after parturition. Hæmorrhoids, with prolapsus ani during pregnancy.

Pain between shoulders, under right scapula, in loins and lumbar region. Pain in right inguinal region; shoots down inner thigh to knees. Paralytic weakness on left side.

Chill at 7 am, with pain in hypochondria, and knees, ankles, wrists, Great loquacity during fever. Profuse sweat.

Worse, in early morning, in hot weather, during dentition.

Compare: Mandragora-also called mandrake--(must not be confounded with Podoph. Great desire for sleep; exaggeration of sounds and enlarged vision. Bowels inactive; stools large, white and hard). Aloe; Chelid; Merc; Nux; Sulph. Prunella-Self-head--(Colitis).

Tincture to sixth potency. The 200th and 1000th seem to do good work in cholera infantum, when indicated.

Diarrhœa; stools profuse (drain the patient dry), offensive, < morning and during dentition.

Persistent gagging, without vomiting; rolling the head and moaning with half-closed eyes.

Great loquacity during the fever stage, especially with jaundiced skin.

Prolapsus of uteri; prolapse of rectum.

There are many remedies that are powerful cathartics, and this is one of them. A superficial understanding of our law of cure would lead a novice to conclude that all one would have to do for a case of diarrhœa would be to prescribe Podophyllum. Of course failure would often be the result. The simple fact of diarrhœa is only a factor in the case, where the selection of a remedy for its cure is concerned; for each cathartic has not only a diarrhœa, but a peculiar kind of diarrhœa which no other remedy has. The diarrhœa of Podophyllum is characterized by:

1st. The profuseness of the stool. 2d. The offensiveness of the stool. 3d. The aggravations in the morning, hot weather, and during dentition. Then again the concomitants are very peculiar. There is often present prolapsus ani, sleep with eyes half closed and rolling the head from side to side and moaning; frequent gagging or empty retching. These symptoms present have often led to the administration of this great remedy with very gratifying results. In regard to the profuse stools, they are so much so that they seem to drain the patient dry at every one. They may be yellow or greenish watery, and when watery, always profuse. Then again they may be pappy and profuse (Gambogia), or mucous and scanty, but always with Podophyllum very offensive. I have cured these cases in all stages. In the first onset of the disease, as well as in the very far advanced and apparently hopeless cases of cholera infantum, the 1000th potency (B. & T.) has done the best for me. Notwithstanding the fact that this remedy is one of quite a list set down for liver troubles, both with looseness of the bowels and constipation, I have not found it very efficacious in the latter. I can readily see how it might be, however, in liver troubles with constipation which had followed a preceding diarrhœa, just as Opium might cure the sleeplessness that followed preceding stupor, and Coffea sleepiness which followed preceding excitement. All drugs have their double action, or what is called primary and secondary action. But the surest and most lasting curative action of any drug is that in which the condition to be cured simulates the primary action of the drug. For, as I have held elsewhere, I think that what is called secondary action is really not the legitimate action of the drug, but the aroused powers of the organism against the drug. So the alternate diarrhœa and constipation in disease is a fight, for instance, between the disease (diarrhœa) and the natural powers resisting it. It is of considerable importance then to be able to recognize in such a case whether it is the diarrhœa or constipation that is the disease, against which the alternate condition is the effort of the vital force to establish health. Yet such an understanding is not always absolutely imperative, for in either case there are generally enough concomitant symptoms to decide the choice of the remedy. Indeed, the choice must always rest upon either the peculiar and characteristic symptoms appearing in the case or the totality of them. None but the true homœopathist learns to appreciate this. Here is where what is called pathological prescribing often fails, for the choice of the remedy may depend upon symptoms entirely outside of the symptoms which go to make up the pathology of the case, at least so far as we as yet understand pathology.

Podophyllum has a great desire to press the gums together during dentition. When this symptom is prominent, the choice will have to be made between this remedy and Phytolacca, both being great remedies for cholera infantum. In the nausea of Podophyllum vomiting is not so prominent as with Ipecac, but the gagging without vomiting is very marked, as it is also under Secale cornutum. Rumbling in the abdomen, especially in the ascending colon, is strong indication for this remedy even in chronic bowel troubles. Prolapsus ani is also a prominent symptom of this remedy, so also is prolapsus of the uterus, especially after straining, over-lifting or parturition. Here the choice will often be between Podophyllum, Rhus tox. and Nux vomica.

Podophyllum seems also to have a strong affinity for the ovaries, and some remarkable cures have been made on the symptom, -"Pain in right ovary, running down thigh of that side." (Lilium tig.) Sometimes there is also numbness attending. Ovarian tumors have disappeared under the action of this remedy, when this symptom was present. I once made a brilliant cure of an obstinate case of intermittent fever with this remedy. The chills were very violent and were followed by intense fever with great loquacity. There was also great jaundice present. When the fever was past the patient fell asleep, and on awakening did not remember what he had said in his loquacious delirium. The range of this remedy does not seem very wide, but within its range its action is surprisingly prompt and radical.

Depression of spirits ; imagines he is going to die or be very ill.

Giddiness, with the sensation of fulness over the eyes. Delirium and loquacity during the fever, with excessive thirst. Morning headache, with flushed face. Headache alternating with diarrhœa. Rolling of the head during difficult dentition in children. Perspiration of the head during sleep, with coldness of the flesh during teething.

Pain in the eyeballs and in the temples, with heat, and throbbing of the temporal arteries.

Offensive odor from the mouth (at night). The tongue is furred white, with foul taste. Dryness of the mouth and tongue in the morning. Grinding of the teeth at night. Dryness of the throat. Rattling of mucus in the throat.

Regurgitation of the food. After eating and drinking, diarrhœa. Vomiting of food with putrid taste and odor. Colic with retraction of the umbilical muscles. Fulness and pain in the region of the liver.

Constipation, with flatulence and headache ; feces hard and dry, and voided with difficulty. Morning diarrhœa ; stools green (chronic diarrhœa). Feces yellow or dark-green ; white, slimy, chalk-like and very offensive, with gagging and excessive thirst in children ; frothy mucus ; hot, watery ; undigested. After stool extreme weakness and cutting pain in the intestines. Prolapsus ani (with diarrhœa). Descent of the rectum from a little exertion, followed by stool or by the discharge of thick, transparent mucus, sometimes mixed with blood.

Suppression of urine. Frequent nocturnal urination during pregnancy. Involuntary discharge of urine during sleep.

Women. Pain in the region of the ovaries. Suppression of the menses in young persons, with bearing down in the hypogastric and sacral regions, with pains from motion ; better from lying down. Prolapsus uteri, with pain in the sacrum. In the earlier mouths of pregnancy she can only lie comfortably on the stomach. After-pains with strong bearing down.

Hooping-cough, with costiveness and low of appetite. Loose, backing cough. Palpitation of the heart, from physical exertions.

Sleepiness in day-time, especially in the forenoon, with a rumbling in the bowels. Unrefreshing sleep ; feeling of fatigue on waking in the morning.

Chilliness when moving about during fever. Before the chill pain in the small of the back. Chill with pressing pain in both hypochondria ; dull aching pain in the knees, ankles, elbows and wrists ; consciousness, but cannot talk, because he forgets the words. Chill with thirst, which increases during the heat. Heat, with violent headache, excessive thirst, delirium and loquacity. Perspiration, with sleep.

Podophyllum peltatum. May Apple. Mandrake (American). N. O. Berberidaceæ (by some placed in the Ranunculaceæ and closely related to both). Tincture of root gathered after fruit has ripened; of whole fresh plant; of ripe fruit. Solution of resinous extract, Podophyllin.

Acidity. Amenorrhœa. Anus, Prolapse of . Asthma, bronchial. Bilious attack . Bronchitis. Cataract. Cholera infantum. Cornea, ulcer of. Dentition. Diarrhœa ; camp. Duodenum, catarrh of . Dysentery. Dysmenia. Dyspepsia; from calomel. Fevers. Flatulence. Gagging. Gall-stones. Gastric catarrh. Goître. Hæmorrhoids. Headache, sick; bilious. Heart, pains in. Hydrocephaloid. Intermittents. Jaundice. Leucoma. Liver, affections of . Ophthalmia. Ovaries, pains in; numbness in; tumour of. Palpitation. Pneumonia. Proctitis . Prostatitis. Pustules. Sciatica. Stomatitis. Strabismus. Taste, lost, perverted; illusions of. Tenesmus . Tongue, burning in. Urticaria. Uterus, prolapse of. Whooping-cough. Worms.

Pod . grows throughout the United States in damp, shady places in woods, has leaves five to nine-lobed, large white nodding flowers, yellowish fruits, egg-shaped, not unlike a small lemon, hence the plant is sometimes called Wild Lemon. It flowers in May and June, and the fruit ripens in October. Indian tribes use the root to expel worms, and drop the juice of the root into the ear to cure deafness. "All the tribes are fond of the fruit," says Rafinesque, quoted by Hale, who gives a full account of the medicine. The botanic and eclectic practitioners adopted the remedy and used it as the "vegetable mercury." The first homœopathic proving was made by Williamson. An unintentional proving recorded by E. V. Rose ( H. W ., xxv. 246) brings out the chief characteristics of Pod ., and shows that its reputation as a "vegetable mercury is not undeserved: Mr. J., 26, took at 11 a.m. gr. x of Pod . 1x to "stir up his liver." At 6 p.m. was taken with an indescribable sick feeling all over, and a persistent dry, rough feeling in pharynx and œsophagus, extending along right Eustachian tube, with dull, aching pain in right ear; feeling as though a ball or lump in upper œsophagus. At 8 p.m. dull and stupefying headache, chiefly frontal, < lying down. Fulness in stomach, belching of gas, sour eructations; marked salivation and offensive odour from mouth. Sleep disturbed, full of confused dreams; rolled and tossed about, bed felt too hard; and a feeling as though head and shoulders were lying too low. At 3 a.m. call to stool, which was profuse, watery, dark green. Calls frequent. Before stool: peculiar weak, dull, griping pain below umbilicus; fulness in rectum. During stool: weak feeling in stomach. After stool: tenesmus and faint feeling. These symptoms passed off in two or three days, the diarrhœa being followed by constipation, which was quickly removed by Nux . These symptoms are nearly all proved characteristics of Pod .: The early morning < ; the profuse stools, faint, gone sensation; fulness and tenesmus in rectum. Pod . is an irritant wherever applied. Externally on the skin it produces a rawness like intertrigo. The dust of the powdered root getting into the eyes sets up intense inflammation, ulceration, and leucoma. These effects have proved leading indications for its internal use in eye affections. The fulness and tenderness of the rectum noted in Ross's case went on to actual prolapse in the provings. I have many times cured with Pod . 6 prolapsus ani in children. With Pod . 1x Mr. Knox Shaw relieved "continual urging and straining" in a case of rectal cancer too far gone for operation. The genital organs were involved with the rectum in the tendency to prolapse. "Symptoms of prolapsus uteri with pain in sacrum; with muco-gelatinous stools"; "sensation at stool as if the genital organs would fall out" are keynotes of the provings which have led to many cures. Pains in the ovaries, especially the right, extending down the anterior and inner side of thighs. In the pregnant and puerperal state Pod . is frequently indicated: in the vomiting of pregnancy; swelling of labia; severe after-pains with strong bearing-down sensation; hæmorrhoids and prolapsus recti after confinement. A peculiar symptom of pregnancy indicating Pod . is: "Can lie comfortably only on stomach (early months)." The irritation of Pod . is shown in the brain, but it is then generally reflected even from the abdominal viscera (cholera infantum) or the teeth (dentition). There is moaning and whining during sleep; the head is thrown back and rolls from side to side; the child grates its teeth. "Great desire to press gums or teeth together" is a keynote. The salivation, foul breath, and moist, tooth-indented tongue of Merc . are reproduced in the Pod . provings, and so also is the congested, sensitive liver, with excess or absence of bile. These, combined with the feverishness and proneness to sweat, make Pod . one of the important antidotes to Merc . Fevers of many kinds are met by Pod . — remittent, chiefly bilious remittent, intermittent. Delirium is not rare, and is apt to be loquacious. Moaning and whining during sleep. Much drowsiness and desire to stretch. Alternating conditions are noted: Diarrhœa alternating with constipation; headache alternating with diarrhœa; headache in winter, diarrhœa in summer; inflammation of scrotum or of the eyes; not of both. Some Concomitants are important: Pains in sacrum, in lumbar region with rectal and uterine symptoms; cramps in calves with stools. The stools may be painless, or may be preceded, accompanied, and followed by colic, tenesmus and other symptoms. The concomitance of diarrhœa with other affections points to Pod . Loquacity during chill and heat is a keynote in fevers. Nash cured an obstinate case of intermittent through this symptom: Chills violent, followed by intense fever with great loquacity; when the fever was past patient fell asleep, and on waking remembered nothing of his loquacious delirium. "Burning tongue" is another leading symptom. A case is related by W. A. Burr ( Critique , quoted Hom. News , xxviii. 87) of a young man who had for some weeks a burning sensation along left edge of tongue, occasionally shooting to tip, or through to opposite edge. He had been in poor health, "bilious," for years. With catarrh of stomach, duodenum, and bile ducts extreme discomfort followed even the blandest foods. Pod . 3x improved in two days, and the tongue was well in a week. L. M. Barnes ( Hom. News , xxix. 45) reports these cases: ( 1 ) A lady for four months after miscarriage had much ovarian pain, < at night. She was sleepless, nervous, restless. Much bearing down in abdomen and back. She was a large, stout woman, with a pendulous abdomen. Pod . cured after Puls . and Act. r . had only partially relieved. ( 2 ) A stout woman, 60, complained of burning, aching, cutting pain in rectum. Was obliged to be on her feet all day. Nervous, cross, irritable. Pod . cured. Pod . is suited to bilious temperaments, especially after mercurialisation. Peculiar sensations are: As if strabismus would occur. Pain in head as from ice on occipital protuberance. As if tongue, throat, and palate had been burned. As if a thousand live things moving about in abdomen, or of fish turning over. As if everything would drop through pelvis. As if heart ascending to throat. Ball in upper œsophagus. Notable symptoms are: Thirst for large quantities of cold water. Intense desire to press the gums together. Viscid mucus in mouth, coating teeth. Diarrhœa whilst being bathed or washed; of dirty water soaking through napkin; with gagging. Patient is constantly shaking and rubbing region of liver with his hands. Great loquacity during chill and heat. Pod . is predominantly right sided — right throat; hypochondrium; ovary. Guernsey mentions that it is often called for in complaints of pregnant and parturient women, with sensation as if intestines were falling down. He mentions also "whooping-cough with costiveness and loss of appetite." The symptoms are < by touch (spot on right hypochondrium); > by pressure. > Rubbing (inclination to rub liver region with hand). > Lying down; lying on abdomen; stretching in bed. Pain in left leg < by straightening out the limb. < Motion; walking; ascending stairs; exertion. < Morning, especially early morning, 2 to 4 a.m. Some symptoms < night. < Open air; while washing. External heat > pain in bowels. Heat of stove does not > chilliness, but wrapping warmly in bed does > . Hot weather, summer, < diarrhœa. < After eating and drinking; after acid fruit and milk. < By swallowing. < Before, during, and after stool.

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Conscious during chill, but cannot talk, forgets words.
Delirium, loquacity during heat ; afterwards forgetful of what has passed.
Depression : imagines he is going to die or be very ill ; in gastric affections.
Disgust for life ; headache ; bilious disorders.
Overfatigue of mind from business ; when in bed he rolled his head on waking and while awake.

Vertigo : while standing, in open air ; with tendency to fall forward ; with sensation of fulness over eyes ; from gastric or bilious disorders.

Momentary darts of pain in forehead, obliging one to shut eyes.
Stunning headache through temples, > from pressure.
Pressing in temples in forenoon, with drawing in eyes as if strabismus would follow.
Throbbing temples, aching eyes, hot head, in morning.
Burning pain at top of head and over forehead ; attack lasts twenty-four hours and, if very severe, ends in vomiting ; urine pale during attack ; passes much bile day after ; < from overexcitement or walking. θ Bilious
headache.
Morning headache, with flushed face and face heat in vertex.
Dull headache, with pain behind eyes ; liver affected.
Bilious and rheumatic headaches, based on torpidity of liver.
Headache alternating with diarrhœa.
When feeling as well as usual there suddenly appears a blur before vision ; objects look much as if one had been looking at sun for a moment, or perhaps the part at which the eye is directed appears clearly and the rest of the object blurred and indistinct ; a more or
less distinct wavering or whirling of mist also becomes perceptible and can be perceived with closed eyes, both eyes alike ; in five minutes fleeting pains appear in head, more in back part, gradually increase in intensity, occupying mostly occipital protuberances, with disgusting
nausea and often sour vomiting without relief ; pains extend into neck and shoulders ; numbness of fingers, like that in beginning of anesthesia ; a peculiar feeling of disgust of life ; pain in upper part of head like that produced by holding a piece of ice for a short
time on occipital protuberances ; lying down in a dark and quiet place ameliorates, and often produces sleep, during which the more urgent symptoms pass off ; in severe attacks there were always peculiar symptoms of want of power of expression (aphasia) even of simplest ideas, very
absurd words being chosen in place of right ones, head does not get fully settled until next day ; attacks appear at any time of day. θ Headache.
Sick-headache accompanied by constipation.
Head hot, rolling head from side to side, moaning. θ Dentition.
Reflex irritation of brain from disorders of bowels ; grinding of teeth at night.
Rolling of head, with moaning in sleep, eyelids half closed ; hydrocephaloid.
Hydrocephaloid after cholera infantum.

Rolling head ; grinding teeth ; whining at night ; head sweaty in sleep, flesh cold ; difficult dentition.

Ulceration of cornea ; conjunctiva hyperemic ; smarting, aching, heaviness (from grinding the root).
Scrofulous ophthalmia, < in morning.

Soreness with small pustules in nose.

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This remedy is seldom used except in acute affections, but it is a long acting and deep acting drug; it produces a powerful impression on the economy; it relates to the deep-seated miasms.

It affects profoundly the abdominal viscera. It shows its symptoms largely on the abdominal organs, the pelvic organs, and the liver. The abdomen seems to be the earliest seat of attack. It produces such an impression upon the stomach and intestinal canal that the healthy action is impaired, digestion and assimilation cease.

Everything taken into the stomach becomes sour. The glands of the stomach are as if paralyzed; there is no digestion; this goes on until we have vomiting and diarrhea. During this there is a wonderful disturbance in the abdomen; rumbling; gurgling as if animals were floundering about; clinically, as if fish were turning and tossing in a pond, as we have seen them before a storm.

Rumbling and rolling. This is attended with severes cramping pains doubling her up. Abdomen is sensitive; so sore she cannot endure pressure. The soreness extends to the stomach, intestines and finally to the liver. The whole abdominal viscera are sore, sensitive to pressure. After this comes a gurgling, watery stool, pouring out of the anus.

A tremendous outpouring so that the patient wonders where all the fluid comes from, and soon it comes on again. Copious, enormous, and very frequent. This soreness, cramping, and rumbling precedes the stool, but sometimes it continues during the stool. Commonly the patient is relieved by the stool. There is much flatus and spluttering, but not so marked as in Aloe.

The colic often comes and goes without stool. Painless stools, in which compare China which has stool coming on at night and after eating. Putrid or not, and of inky color. Podophyllum is rarely indicated when the discharge is not offensive. After a while the abdomen again becomes tumultuous, and this is again relieved by a stool.

This process is repeated over and over. It seems as if the blood vessels would empty themselves into the! abdominal cavity, and then into the outer world. Not unlike cholera and cholera morbus, and these two are the common manifestations of disease for which this remedy is used in routine practice. The cholera morbus coming on in the latter part of the night, especially about 3, 4, or 5 o'clock, resembles Podophyllum. Tumultuous action of the bowels with rumbling, pain, and soreness, and the prostration is so marked that if not relieved in a day or two, it seems he must die. Rice-water stools, jelly-like on standing.

With this tumultuous action, she has an indescribable sensation; an all-gone feeling, a deathly sick feeling, described by some as an emptiness, as if fasting, yet averse to food. An awful, hungry, empty weakness, as if the whole intestines would drop out.

No wonder they think so, because this remedy produces an astonishing amount of relaxation. Described by some as a sensation of dragging down. The uterine ligaments become relaxed and there is prolapsus. The rectum protrudes for inches. The sensation of dragging down as if all the parts would be pushed out into the world is a common feature. It seems to begin with the liver, as if all the parts were let down. Weakness attended with soreness.

Dragging down in the region of the ovary and the ovary is congested. The uterus is extremely sore and is enlarged; sore to touch so that light clothing aggravates. Sensitiveness of the abdomen in diarrhea and vomiting; in cholera morbus; in women when menstruating. Indicated if there is a copious diarrhea during the menstrual period, and great soreness in the uterus. Much pain in the ovaries, in one or both, extending down the crural region, down the front of the thigh.

Pain in the ovaries, especially the right; pain in the ovaries during the menstrual period, gripping pain in the bowels during the menstrual period. Great soreness of the abdomen before and during the menstrual period. (Apis, Cimicifuga, Vespa, Lachesis , but these are not so likely to have diarrhea and, if so, it is not as copious.)

Alternating conditions is a feature of this remedy. If a Podophyllum patient takes cold, has any mental excitement, overexerts himself, eats boiled food, cabbage, fruits, and overloads his stomach with rich food he has a diarrhea, and following this a constipation lasting for weeks, no stool except in lumps; difficult, scanty stool and as soon as lie disorders Ids stomach again comes a diarrhea. This alternating diarrhea and constipation is a Podophyllum state rather than a chronic diarrhea, which is a continued state found in many remedies. The diarrhea is periodic, alternating with constipation.

Another alternating feature is the headache.

Chronic headache, periodic headache, sick headache, congestive in character, as if all the blood were in the head, as if the head would burst, and the pains most violent in the back of the head, bursting, and then on comes a diarrhea which relieves the head.

Sometimes when the diarrhea slacks up too suddenly, a headache is the result. It is a common feature after giving a high potency of Podophyllum in a diarrhea, that a headache comes, on after the diarrhea is stopped. It means that the medicine has acted suddenly and the headache will pass away soon.

Headache alternating with liver disturbances. The patient lies on the side or abdomen. Rending pains towards the duodenum. You will wonder if it is not gall stone colic. Periodic, violent headaches; alternating diarrhea and constipation; he strokes the region of the liver from behind forward and in this way gets relief, yet the liver is so sore that he can hardly bear the pressure.

Liver sensitive to touch.

Soreness about the liver; pain through to the back; dull aching pain, finally jaundice; becomes extremely yellow. Uneasiness and distress about two or three hours after eating, with jaundice; horrible nausea; aversion to food; empty all-gone feeling in the bowels.

Vomiting, greenish, profuse, watery, vomits everything; vomiting of milk (Calc., Aeth . - the latter sometimes retains water); hunger after vomiting; deathly, overpowering nausea and prostration. Prolapse of rectum and anus during vomiting. ( Mur. ac.). A condition commonly called duodenal catarrh; a chronic state; rouses into a Podophyllum diarrhea every once in a while.

Mental symptoms troublesome.

A torpid liver is often associated with a torpid fluctuating state of the mind; also a slow, sluggish pulse; palpitation. Great depression of spirits, melancholia, sadness, dejection everything goes wrong; the clouds are very dark; there is no light; thinks he may die or that he is going to become ill; that his disease will become chronic; that he has organic disease of the heart and liver; that he has sinned away his day of grace, and other such delusions. Mind easily fatigued; fidgety and restless; cannot sit still, whole body fidgety.

In this mental state with jaundice, all-gone sensation, aversion to food, even the thought or smell of food; stuffed feeling and distension in the region of the liver. The tongue is covered with thick slime; pasty, yellow coating as if mustard were spread upon it; imprint of the teeth upon the tongue; breath foul. For such a condition the ancients gave Calomel.

Gallstone colic; enlargement of the liver; gastric weakness; unable to digest; duodenal catarrh; catarrh of intestines with copious diarrhea. If you notice the Podophyllum discharge in the commode, you will see a great amount of water, on the bottom a sediment like cornmeal gruel; as if cornmeal had been stirred in. If you see it early it is yellow, muddy, or yellow-green, profuse, offensive, cadaverous; the odor penetrates the whole house; stool gushes away like water from a bung-bole; gurgling and much flatus.

With the stool there is very commonly a prolapse of the rectum; a gush of watery stool and a prolapse of the rectum; a soft stool with great straining and a prolapse of the rectum.

Prolapsus of the uterus; prominent are Murex, Sepia, Natrum mur. Sepia is better sitting or lying; worse walking. Aversion to coition; hot flushes; constipation with sense of lump in the rectum, or better by stool. Murex has the following. The only relief is to press on the vulva; not better lying down; she then has pains in the back and hips compelling her to walk, yet his aggravates. Strong sexual desire. Pain in right ovary, which crosses entire body to left breast. Pain shooting up in the uterus.

The word bile is a striking feature in Podophyllum, You must connect the vomiting and the stool with this color. The patient declares he is "bilious;" his liver is out of order;" bitter taste in the mouth; spitting up bile and the color is yellow; in diarrhea it is a green substance.

In children subject to copious diarrhea, with prolapsus of the anus no other symptom, Podophyllum often cures.

A feature of infancy is the following: child may not have diarrhea, may even be constipated, but it lies in bed and rolls the head in sleep. Bell. and Apis roll head.

Apis lies on back with the head on its side, Chewing motion of the jaws; sometimes a sucking; a grinding of the teeth in those who are old and have teeth; rolling the head from side to side; if you lift the eyelids you will find a strabisms.

Provers felt as if the eyes were drawn inward. It has cured such a strabismus in congestion of the brain following a suddenly suppressed diarrhea.

A child who should have a colored stool has instead a white one like chalk (Calc. c.). in adults, a bileless, white stool.

The body is offensive; offensive sweat; compare Sepia, Merc., Aloe, Sulph., Murex, Nux.

Adapted to persons of bilious temperament, who suffer from gastro-intestinal derangement, especially after abuse of Mercury; “bilious attacks.”

Pains: sudden attacks of jerking pain.

Depression of spirits; imagines he is going to die or be very ill (Ars.); disgust for life.

Headache; alternating with diarrhœa (Aloe); headache in winter, diarrhœa in summer.

Painless cholera morbus; violent cramps in feet, calves, thighs; watery, painless stools; cholera infantum (Phyt.).

Difficult dentition: moaning, grinding the teeth at night; head hot and rolling from side to side; intense desire to press the gums together (Phyt.).

Patient is constantly rubbing and shaking the region of liver with his hands.

Diarrhœa: of children; during teething; after eating; while being washed; of dirty water, soaking napkin through (Benz. ac.); early in morning, continues through forenoon, followed by natural stool in the evening (Aloe), and accompanied by sinking or weakness in abdomen and rectum; of long standing.

Stool: green, watery, fetid, profuse (Cal.); gushing out (Jatro., Phos.); chalk-like, jelly-like (Aloe); undigested (Cinch., Fer.); yellow, meal-like sediment; prolapse of rectum, before or with stool.

Prolapsus uteri: from overlifting or straining; after parturition. In early months of pregnancy, can lie comfortably only on stomach.

Affects right throat, right ovary, right hypochondrium.

Pain and numbness in right ovary, running down thigh of that side (Lil.).

Suppressed menses in young girls (Puls., Tub.).

In early morning (Aloe, Nux, Sul.); in hot weather (diarrhœa); during dentition.

Evening; external warmth; pressure.

Quotidian; tertian; quartan. Periodicity marked. Morning paroxysm predominates. Bilious; malarial. Intermittent may become bilious, remittent or continued.

7 A. M., characteristic. Light paroxysms may occur in the evening.

Backache; severe in lumbar region. Gastric and bilious symptoms are marked, sometimes for days before the paroxysm.

Without thirst, with pressing pains in both hypochondria and dull aching in knees, ankles, elbows and wrists. Feverish during the afternoon, with occasional chilliness, which was not > by the heat of the stove, but was > by covering up warmly in bed. Great loquacity; consciousness, but cannot talk, because he forgets the words; or tries to talk continually, but he forgets the words he wishes to employ (Marum v.). Chilly on first lying down in evening, with incoherent talking during the imperfect semi-sleep.

With thirst. The heat begins during the chill, or while he is yet chilly. The shaking and sensation of coldness continue for some time after the heat commences. Violent headache with excessive thirst. Chilliness while moving about and in the act of lying down; with sweat at once. Great loquacity, constantly talking (Carbo v., Lach.), which continues with delirium until fever reaches its climax, when he falls asleep and transpires profusely, with forgetfulness of all he had said (falls asleep dur- ing evening fever, and wakes when it stops, Calad.—see Apis,

Nux m.).

Profuse sweating, so that it dropped off the finger- ends. Warm on head and legs. Sleep during perspiration; > headache. Bathed in cold perspiration.

Coated white, moist, dirty, pappy, pasty, shows im- print of teeth (Mer.); dry, yellow. Offensive odor of breath, which disgusts him (offensive odor from mouth; not perceptible to himself, Puls.). Taste foul; total loss of taste, or everything tastes sour. Gastric symptoms predominate.

Total loss of appetite; even the smell of food pro- duces loathing (Colch.); offensive breath; foul taste; profuse salivation; eructations smelling like rotten eggs. Constipation or diarrhœa.

Chill; with aching in hypochondria, knees, ankles, elbows, wrists; great loquacity during semi-sleep.

Heat; thirst, headache, great loquacity, delirium; falls asleep at climax of fever and sweats profusely.

Sweat; profuse, sleeps during perspiration. Gastric symptoms predominate.

The loquacity during chill and far into heat, with complete for- getfulness afterwards of all that had passed, is characteristic.

Falls asleep at climax of heat, and sleeps during perspiration re- sembles Apis, but the urticaria is wanting, and the perspiration is more profuse.

Conscious during chill but cannot talk, forgets the words he wishes to use.
Delirium loquacity during heat; afterwards forgetful of what has passed.
Depression; imagines he is going to die, or be very ill.
Depression of spirits; also, in gastric affections.
Disgust for life, headache.

Vertigo: while standing in open air; with tendency to fall forward with sensation of fulness over eyes.

Stunning headache through temples, better from pressure.
Pressing in temples in forenoon, with drawing in eyes as if strabismus would follow.
Mist before eyes; the fleeting pains, worse at occipital protuberances, down the neck and shoulders, better when lying down in a quiet and dark place, and from sleep.
Head hot, rolling the head from side to side, moaning.
Dentition.
Momentary darts of pain in forehead, obliging one to shut eyes.
Headache alternating with diarrhœa.
Morning headache with flushed face.

Sweat of the head during sleep flesh cold. θ Dentition.

Ulceration of cornea; conjunctiva hyperæmic; smarting aching heaviness (from grinding root).
Scrofulous ophthalmia, worse in morning.

Hot, cheeks flushed. θ Infantile diarrhœa.

Great desire to press gums together; jaws clenched; grind teeth at night, difficult dentition.

Total loss of taste, could not tell sweet from sour sleepless, restless.
Everything tastes sour.
Tongue: furred white, with foul taste; white, moist, shows imprints of teeth; dry, yellow.

Offensive odor from mouth.
Copious salivation.
Mouth and tongue dry, on awaking.

Sore throat right to left side sore, worse when swallowing liquids, and morning.
Soreness of throat extends to ears.
Rattling of mucus in throat.
Goitre.
Pharynx dry, deglutition painful.

Appetite variable at times voracious.
Great thirst for large quantities of cold water.
Satiety from small quantity of food, followed by nausea and vomiting.
Moderate thirst during fever.

After eating: regurgitation of food, sour; hot, sour belching; diarrhœa.
Vomits food one hour after eating craving after ward; depression of spirits.
After acid fruit and milk, diarrhœa.
While eating: 18.

Eructations: smelling like rotten eggs; hot, sour.
Regurgitation of food.
Gagging. θ Infantile diarrhœa.
Nausea and vomiting with fulness of head.
Vomiting: of milk in infants with protrusion of anus; of food, with putrid taste and odor; of thick bile and blood; with congestion of the pelvic viscera, during pregnancy.

Hollow sensation in epigastrium.
Stitches in epigastrium from coughing.
Stomach contracts violently during retching.
Dyspepsia after abuse of calomel; tongue shows teeth prints conjunctiva yellow; aching behind eyes; clayey stools.
Gastric catarrh.

Fulness in right hypochondrium, with flatulence, pain and soreness.
Stitches, worse while eating.
Excessive secretion of bile; great irritability of the liver.
Torpidity of liver; jaundice.
Twisting pain in right hypochondrium, with sensation of heat there.
Chronic hepatitis; costive jaundice; constantly rubbing and stroking hypochondrium with hands.
Jaundice with gall-stones; pain from region of stomach toward region of gall-bladder, with excessive nausea.
Jaundice, with hyperæmia of liver; fulness, soreness and pain; alternate constipation and diarrhœa.

Pain in bowels at day break better from external warmth and bending forward while lying on side; worse lying on back.
Cramp-like pain in bowels with retraction of abdominal muscles, 10 P.M., and again at 5 A.M. until 9 A.M.; lead colic.
Frequent but transient abdominal pain, during the day better from pressure.
Rumbling in ascending colon.
Pain in transverse colon 3 A.M., followed by diarrhœa.
Sharp pain in right groin, preventing motion, latter months of pregnancy.

Stool: frequent, painless, watery, fetid discharges, gushing out; yellow-colored, with meal-like sediment; green sour, with flatulence; morning, during dentition; greenish-yellow, slimy bloody, gelatinous, mixed with feces; tenesmus and prolapsus ani; with severe straining, much flatulence emitted; mucus with spots and streaks of blood; black, only in morning; chalk-like, fecal, undigested; muco-gelatinous stools preceded by griping and colic; stools coated with shreds of yellow mucus.
Diarrhœa while being washed; after eating dirty water soaking napkin through.
Diarrhœa with great sinking at epigastrium, sensation as if everything would drop through the pelvis.
Stools pale, hard, dry or clayey; voided with difficulty; flatulence headache.
Stools natural, but too frequent during the day, and exhausting.
Constipation of bottle-fed babies, with dry crumbling stool.
Emission of fetid flatus.
Prolapsus ani, with stool, even from least exertion, followed by stool or thick, transparent mucus, or mixed with blood.
Piles with prolapsus ani and long-standing diarrhœa, worse mornings; or constipation.

Frequent nocturnal urination during pregnancy.
Enuresis, with involuntary urination during sleep.
Diminished of urine; yellow, containing sediment.
Suppression of urine.

Numb aching in region of left ovary; heat down thigh; third month of pregnancy.
Pain in region of ovaries, especially the right; also when extending down the anterior crural nerve; worse straightening the leg. Sometimes pains go up to shoulder.
Ovarian tumor.
Sensation as if genitals would come out during stool.
Prolapsus uteri: after overlifting or straining; after parturition; with pain in sacrum; rumbling in ascending colon; prolapsus ani; or constipation.
Suppressed menses in young females, with bearing down in hypogastric and sacral regions, with pain from motion; better lying down.
Leucorrhœa, bearing down in genitals; costive; of thick, transparent mucus.
Swelling of labia during pregnancy.

During pregnancy; can lie comfortably only on stomach, early months: 19, 21, 23.
After-pains, with heat flatulency; also with strong bearing down.

Inclined to breathe deeply; sighing.
Shortness of breath.
Sensation of suffocation, at first when lying down at night.

With remittent fever: dry; loose; whooping, with constipation and loss of appetite.

Catarrh of chest during dentition.

Palpitation, with a clucking sensation rising up to throat, obstructing respiration.
Palpitation from mental emotion or exertion, with rumbling in ascending colon, heavy sleep, fatigue on awaking in morning, drowsy all forenoon.
Sensation in chest as if heart was ascending to throat.

Nape of neck stiff, with soreness of muscle of neck and shoulders.
Pain between shoulders, in the morning.
Pain under right scapula.
Fishes up the back, with stool.
Pain in lumbar region, withered sensation; worse at night and from motion.
Pain in loins, worse when walking on uneven ground, or from a misstep.
Backache after washing, with prolapsus uteri.

Rheumatism in left forearm and fingers.
Pain from head into neck and shoulders, fingers numb.
Weakness of wrists, soreness to touch.

Sharply defined ache in sacro-ischiatic foramen, with tenderness on pressure.
Pain and weakness in left hip, like rheumatism from cold, worse going up stairs.
Cramps in calves, thighs and feet, with painless, watery stools.
Knee-joints crack during motion.
Joints weak, especially knees.
Legs heavy and stiff, as after long walk.
Aching of limbs, worse at night.
Feet cold.
Feet sweat, evening.

Lying down: 3, 19, 23, 24, 26, 40. Going up stairs: 33. Walking: 31. Misstep: 31. Motion: 19, 20, 23, 29, 31, 33, 40. Exertion, washing: 31. Standing: 2. Bending forward: 19.

Slight paralytic weakness of whole left side.
Sudden shocks of jerking pains.

Heavy sleep; fatigue on waking.
Drowsy, half-closed eyes, moaning, whining, especially children.
Sleepy, especially forenoon.
Restless sleep, whining.

Morning: 3, 5, 19, 20, 29, 31, 37. Evening: 19, 33, 40. Night: 20, 21, 26, 31, 33. At 3 A.M.: 19. At 7 A.M.: 40. Day: 19, 20.

Warmth: 19. Washing: 20, 31. Worse hot weather; diarrhœa. Open air: 2.

Chilliness while moving about during fever and in act of lying down, with sweat immediately afterward.
Chilly at first on lying down in evening, followed by fever and sleep, with talking and imperfect waking.
Chill 7 A.M., pressing in both hypochondria, dull aching in knees and ankles, elbows and wrists.
Backache before chill.
During fever: pain in head, thirst, shaking and cold sensation continue for some time.
Sweat with sleep.

Right: 18, 19, 23, 31. Left: 13, 23, 32, 33, 36. Right to left: 13.

Fulness of superficial veins.
Softness of flesh, with debility; children.
Relaxes the sphincters.

Pressure: 3, 19, 33. Overlifting: 23, 31. Touch: 32. Rubbing or stroking: 18.

Sallow skin; jaundice; also in children.
Skin moist, with preternatural warmth.
Scabs on skin.
Rawness and itching about genitals; also pustules (from grinding the root).

Bilious temperaments, especially after mercurialization.

Podoph, after Ipec. and Nux vom. failed, in vomiting. Salt increases its action.
Antidotes to Podoph.: Lact. ac., Nux vom.

A tincture is made of the fresh root of the Podophyllum peltatum, L.

An active cathartic, causing inflammation (and ulceration) of the whole intestinal canal, affecting chiefly the duodenum and rectum. ▶ It congests the liver and promotes the secretion of biles. ▶ It produces symptoms of dysentery and prolapsus of the rectum. ▶ Study also the symptoms referred to the uterus and right ovary.

Chel., Iris, Sul. ac., Merc.

Sudden shocks of jerking pain. ▶ Nervous and crampy. ▶ Distress in evening after first sleep. ▶ Weakness; during the pain in stomach; with relaxed muscles and feeling as if body were bathed in sweat, which it was not. ▶ Faintness, with sensation of emptiness in abdomen after stool (Sul. ac.). ▶ Bordering on collapse, features pinched, limbs cold, pulse feeble. ▶ Stiffness on beginning to move. ▶ Aggravation from 2 till 4 A.M. of all symptoms except weakness in epigastric region; in morning, especially of abdominal symptoms, and amelioration in evening.

▶ Aching in morning, with dullness and sleepiness; A. in morning, with heat in vertex; and fever; alternating with diarrhœa. ▶ Vertigo when standing in open air; V., with inclination to fall forward; with fulness over eyes. ▶ Frontal pain at 10 A.M., after stool, with feverishness and with dryness in forehead and eyes, transiently amel. bathing the parts with cold water; in left protuberance, agg. afternoon; suddenly in evening, with sore throat; darting, obliging him to close eyes, with vertigo; heavy, with soreness. ▶ Pain in temples in forenoon, with drawing in eyes as if strabismus would follow; P. in temples and eyeballs, with heat and throbbing in temporal arteries; stunning, through T., amel. pressure. ▶ Pain in vertex in morning on rising. ▶ Pain in occiput as if head were being split open for two minutes, then a throbbing ache and heaviness so that head could not be raised from pillow.

Headache preceded by a blurring of vision, then gradually increasing pain, especially in the occiput, with nausea and vomiting (Iris).

Difficult dentition, with grinding of teeth, rolling the head, disagreeable breath, diarrhœa, etc.

Indigestion; food become acid. ▶ Hot eructations, violent efforts to vomit. ▶ Numerous gastric complications of uterine complaints.

Chronic inflammation of the liver, with fulness and pain; the pains involve the whole right side, associated with jaundice. ▶ Gall-stone colic, with jaundice and twisting pain. ▶ Duodenitis, with jaundice. ▶ Catarrhal inflammation of the bowels, with hot watery stools. ▶ Ulceration of the duodenum.

Hæmorrhoids, frequently with prolapsus ani following confinement; associated with prolapsus uteri. ▶ Prolapsus of the rectum.

Diarrhœa; stools profuse, gushing usually yellowish in color and very offensive; generally worse in the morning, either painless or preceded by violent colic; associated with prolapsus ani and sometimes with pains in the sacrum; in cholera morbus we may find this drug indicated even when there are cramps of the calves and of other muscles. ▶ Diarrhœa in hot weather; dentition. ▶ Diarrhœa worse from 3 to 9 A.M., then a natural stool towards evening. ▶ Constipation, with prolapsus ani and sinking sensation in the abdomen as if the intestines would drop through the pelvis. ▶ Dysentery; it has not infrequently been found to be an epidemic remedy, especially in the South, usually characterized by prolapsus ani, sinking feeling in the abdomen, nausea and efforts to vomit. ▶ Chronic dysentery, discharges like meat-washings, severe tenesmus, burning pain deep in rectum, extremely weak digestion. ▶ Diarrhœa, stools profuse, containing undigested food, extremely fetid.

Nocturnal enuresis. ▶ Suppressed menses of girls, with great pressure, hæmorrhoids, etc. ▶ Prolapsus uteri, especially following parturition, with more or less prolapsus ani. ▶ A great weakness of the abdominal walls during pregnancy, generally amel. lying on the stomach. ▶ Ovarian tumor of the right side, pains extend to the shoulder or down the thigh. ▶ Endometritis; thick, transparent leucorrhœa. ▶ Prolapsus of the uterus and vagina after parturition, with ovarian pain, backache, etc. ▶ Numerous cases of acute and chronic ovaritis, right side.

It has been found useful in some cases of remittent fever, with numerous "bilious" symptoms.

Glazed in morning, and motionless. ▶ Sunken. ▶ Inflammation; in morning; with heavy pain and turgescence of vessels of conjunctiva; of lids. ▶ Smarting. ▶ Soreness of left, agg. inner canthus, with discomfort there, conjunctiva of left ball red, agg. inner canthus. ▶ Heaviness, with occasional pains on vertex. ▶ Superficial ulceration of each cornea, its base white in right eye and looking as if lead had been used, with general conjunctival congestion.

Nose pinched. ▶ Soreness and pustules in nose. ▶ Face pale. ▶ Face and eyes red in morning and skin about them discolored, the discoloration extended over face, forehead and front of neck during the day, next night pain in eyes prevented sleep, next day the parts were yellowish-red, pupils small, eyes painful and sensitive to light (local effects). ▶ Jaw fallen.

Teeth covered with dried mucus in morning. ▶ Tongue white; coated white in morning, with much viscid mucus in mouth; coated white, except centre; T. and neighboring glands swollen; T. and mouth dry in morning on waking. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Taste bad; sour; sweet to everything; as of fried liver, at night; lost.

▶ Soreness extending to ears; S. on left side, agg. morning and on swallowing liquids. ▶ Dryness. ▶ Burning.

▶ Desire for something sour. ▶ Indifferent to food. ▶ Appetite lost; impaired in morning, with unusual thirst for cold water. ▶ Thirst; towards evening; after eating. ▶ Nausea; in morning after rising; in afternoon, with acidity; amel. in bed; with diminution of pulse; and retching. ▶ Vomiting of hot, frothy mucus; of contents of stomach, then of bile; of thick, dark green bile mixed with dark coagulated blood about every hour; of contents of stomach, then of bitter, dark green fluid, from half of a pint to a pint at each attack, and exhaustion so that she felt as if dying, could not raise her head, with each attack a painless stool, first constipated, then watery.

Such rapid and hard contractions in efforts to vomit that the wrenching pain caused sharp screams. ▶ Epigastrium and abdomen tympanitic and tender. ▶ Griping sticking in S. and abdomen at 3 A.M., transiently amel. pressure on abdomen, about 4 A.M. offensive, yellow, undigested stool mixed with mucus, about 10 A.M. burning, acrid stool, with tenesmus and bearing down during and after it. ▶ Pain at night, with thirst, burning and prostration; P. extending into abdomen after eating toast. ▶ Tenderness; and in abdomen, could scarcely bear the bed-clothes; and in abdomen, agg. motion. ▶ Throbbing in epigastrium, then diarrhœa. ▶ Oppression from cold water, with uneasiness, small quantities of the water were ejected, tasted bitter and burned œsophagus. ▶ Heat; as from hot stream, after breakfast and dinner. ▶ Hollow sensation in epigastrium. ▶ Empty feeling before supper, without hunger. ▶ Weakness in epigastric region from 2 A.M. till next morning.

Distention in morning. ▶ Flatulence; in morning; in evening. ▶ Griping; during stool. ▶ Pain; at daylight, amel. external warmth and bending forward while lying on side, agg. lying on back; with coldness, then heat and warm sweat; then frequent liquid stools; occasionally; wandering, at 5 P.M. ▶ Heat, with inclination to stool. ▶ Colon rumbling in ascending; pain in ascending; pain in transverse at 3 A.M., then diarrhœa. ▶ Hypochondrium, fulness in right, with flatulence; sticking in right, agg. eating; twisting pain in right, with heat in it; sensation of flatulence in left ; dragging close under left ribs. ▶ Cutting on sides of A., with desire for stool. ▶ Hypogastrium, bloating and tenderness; sticking above pubes and along spermatic cords; pain in H. and right ovary in afternoon.

▶ Aggravation of internal piles, protrusion of rectum after stool (Ign.), sudden motion, such as sneezing and mental excitement, sometimes prolapsed for days, owing to the swelling and congestion. ▶ Discharge of mucus. ▶ Too much bearing down at stool, as from inactivity of rectum. ▶ Ineffectual desire. ▶ Intermittent desire from after supper till going to bed, woke at 2 A.M. with the desire and sticking in abdomen, stool about 2.30 A.M., did not sleep well the rest of the night on account of sticking in abdomen, the pain amel. flexing thighs on abdomen.

▶ In morning, with heat and pain in anus, and urging. ▶ With pain and nausea. ▶ Liquid, yellow, every hour; L., green, frequent, also with pain and griping; L., with colic. ▶ Diarrhœa; in morning and through forenoon, then natural stool in evening; immediately after eating and drinking; alternating with constipation; frequent. ▶ Solid and small at 9 P.M., copious, loose one at 12 P.M., next morning two thin ones, with griping and chilliness. ▶ Green in morning. ▶ Muco-gelatinous small, infrequent, with flatulence and pain in region of sacrum. ▶ Frequent.

Micturition frequent and scanty; M. painful. ▶ Urine red. ▶ Inflammation of scrotum or eyes, seldom of both; of scrotum, with pustules. ▶ Sensation in female genitals as if they would fall out when at stool. ▶ After-pains, with strong bearing down. ▶ Symptoms of prolapsus of uterus, with pain in sacrum, flatulence, infrequent, muco-gelatinous stools. ▶ Pain in uterus and right ovary (Apis).

Suffocating sensation at night on lying down. ▶ Short breath. ▶ Inclination to breathe deeply, sighing. ▶ Snapping in right lung like the breaking of a thread, on deep inspiration. ▶ Pain in chest, agg. deep inspiration. ▶ Oppression of chest in morning, with inclination to inspire deeply, but prevented from doing so by constriction of chest.

Sticking in heart. ▶ Sensation as if H. ascended to throat. ▶ Palpitation in morning, with rapid, small pulse; P. from exertion or emotion; from physical exertion in persons subject to rumbling in ascending colon, with heavy sleep, and fatigue in morning on waking, then drowsiness in forenoon. ▶ Pulse rapid. ▶ Pulse slow; and weak and small, also with nausea. ▶ Pulse weak.

Pain in nape, agg. motion, with soreness. ▶ Stiffness of nape, with soreness of muscles of neck and shoulder. ▶ Pain under right scapula (Chel.); between scapulæ in morning; between S., agg. night and morning and by motion, with soreness; in loins when walking and standing, with sensation as if back bent inward; in loins, agg. night and motion, with coldness; in loins, agg. a misstep and walking over uneven ground.

Aching, agg. night. ▶ Tingling. ▶ Weakness of joints, agg. knees; wrists, with soreness on touch. ▶ Spasmodic sensation in right thigh and leg. ▶ Pain in thighs, legs and knees, agg. standing; P. in left hip like rheumatism from cold, agg. ascending stairs, with weakness of it. ▶ Cracking in knees on motion. ▶ Pain in left knee, leg and foot. ▶ Heaviness of knees and stiffness as after a long walk. ▶ Pain in right leg in afternoon, with cramp. ▶ Sharp pain in outer and upper part in left foot.

▶ Rubefacient and vesicant effects. ▶ Scabs on arms and legs. ▶ Minute vesicles filled with serous fluid, which soon changes to whitish or yellowish pus, with superficial inflammation, the pustules usually slow in healing. ▶ Itching on body and arms, and on scratching blotches like hives.

▶ Sleepiness; in daytime, agg. forenoon, with rumbling in abdomen; early in evening. ▶ Sleep too heavy. ▶ Difficult waking in morning. ▶ Unrefreshed in morning on waking. ▶ Restless in forepart of night. ▶ Moaning, with half-closed eyes. ▶ Rising up in bed without waking.

Chilliness; in afternoon, then fever and headache, next day fever and headache. ▶ Shivering and prostration. ▶ Cold feet. ▶ Intermittent, quotidian, tertian and quartan fever. ▶ Heat; in afternoon, with occasional coldness, not amel. heat of stove, but amel. warm covering in bed; in flashes up back after stool; passing over face and head. ▶ Sweat, so that it dropped off finger-tips; S. of feet in evening; cold S.

An active cathartic; causes inflammation of the intestinal canal, affecting chiefly the duodenum and rectum.
Congestion of the liver, and an increased secretion of bile.
Dysentery; prolapsus of the rectum.
Inflammation of the uterus and right ovary.

Faintness: a sensation of emptiness after stool.
General aggravation from 2 to 4 A. M.

Dull headache, with dim vision.

Tongue white, with much sticky mucus in the mouth.

Soreness; pain, extending to the ears.
Dryness.

Nausea, with acidity.
Vomiting of the contents of the stomach and of bile, at times mixed with blood, or of hot, frothy mucus.

Flatulent symptoms.
Heat and pain, especially in the transverse colon, followed by diarrhœa.

Hæmorrhoids, internal and external.
Prolapsus of the rectum.
Diarrhœa; < early in the morning, either painless or preceded by colic, with heat and pain in the anus.
Evacuation yellow, undigested or green, at times mixed with mucus; < immediately after eating and drinking.
Dysenteric stools, with prolapsus of the rectum.
Evacuations followed by faintness and a feeling of emptiness in the stomach and abdomen.
Sensation of prolapsus of the uterus, with pain in the sacrum; flatulence, and numerous abdominal symptoms.
Pain and soreness in the right ovary; pains extend up and down.

Pain under the right scapula, in the sacral region, with dragging in the uterus and rectum.

Overcome with sleep in the day time, but restless the fore part of the night.

Pod. / (PP-Apple.) / Poet.

Podophyllum-Heads the list
For dentition's proteau grist-
Gagging, gnashing, moaning, and
Rolling of the head attend.
Head and bowel and liver each
Feeling his subtending reach.
Yellow stools, or green, or white,
Join with jaundice in the plight,
Also added to the show
Is the rectum falling low.

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The Poet,-Has falling of the bowel.

The Poet, Mez-ruta-fer, is a dark, gloomy quaker saint in blue.

This Poet,-Who is subject to gnashing of the teeth,-is in Greece, at the jubillee of Santo-Zin, with St. Phyllis, as a spy.

Falling of the rectum-Prolapsus Ani: Pod., Mez., Ruta, Ferr., Nit. a., Graph., Lyc., Mer., Nux v., Ig., Indigo. (Stools costive, Graph., Mez, Nux v., Lyc.)

Gnashing of the teeth or gums: Pod., Cic., Aco., Bell., Cina., ZN., Ig., Phyto., Spig.

Indicated in diarrhoea, cholera infantum, cholera morbus. The morning aggravation and the tendency to anal prolapse are valuable indications. Of service in bilious states generally, with gastro-intestinal symptoms; alternating diarrhoea and constipation.

All the symptoms (diarrhoea, headache, etc.) worse in the morning, getting better as the day advances.

Rolling of the head from side to side, with moaning.

Great desire to press the gums together (diarrhoea of teething children).

Vomiting, protracted, with severe epigastric pain; the effort to vomit continues after stomach is emptied, affecting the duodenum, resulting in vomiting of bile and blood.

Colic of infants; severe; with retraction of the abdomen.

Diarrhoea of copious, large stools, which do not seem to weaken the patient.

Diarrhoea preceded by griping and colic, with heat and pain in the anus.

Diarrhoea watery, gushing, foul, painless in the morning, driving him out of bed, better as the day passes.

Stools preceded by heat in the abdomen; followed by feeling of great emptiness.

Prolapsus ani before and with stool; after stool; from least motion.

Prolapsus uteri; bearing down toward the vulva, as if the pelvic contents would issue through the vulva, with anal prolapse.

Worse in the morning; during hot weather; after eating and drinking.

Depressed, Hypochondriac mood.

With fullness over eyes.

Splitting, dull throbbing or heaviness in occiput. Headache, with heat in vertex, alternating with diarrhoea, sharp pain, soreness over seat of pain, stunning. Worse: Lying down, after eating, rising. Better: Open air, cold bathing.

Sunken. Half open, during sleep. Heavy lids. Drawing, as if squint would follow. Inflamed. Photophobia. Ulcers and opacities of cornea. Occluded pupil.

Pinched. Soreness and little pustules in. Inflamed, with itching and burning.

Pale. Fallen jaw. cheeks red. swelled.

Lips sore. Teeth covered with dried mucus in the morning. Much viscid mucus in. Sour or offensive odor from. Salivation. Tongue: Coated while, yellow, taking imprint of teeth, swelling of and of adjacent glands.

Taste: Sour, putrid, of tried liver, sweet, to everything.

Soreness of, extending into ears. rough, dry and burning. Sense of a lump in. Rattling of mucus in. Worse: Swallowing liquids.

Burning like hot steam in. Spasmodic, wrenching pains, which extort screams with efforts to vomit, he constantly rubs it. Cold water causes oppression and uneasiness in. Heaviness in. Sickly feeling in. Worse: Motion.

Hypochondriae. Fullness, twisting, stitches or heat in right. Weight or dragging in left. Worse: Eating.

Epigastrium: Throbbing, then diarrhoea Hollow feeling. Weakness, after stool.

Appetite: Voracious, craves acids.

Thirst: For cold water.

Nausea: After rising, with acidity. Vomiting: Of hot, frothy mucus, burning the oesophagus, bitter, dark green, bloody, forcible, exhausting. Regurgitations, with heat in throat.

Faintness, with a sense of emptiness in a., after stool. Heat and pain in, with inclination to stool. Cramp - like colic, with retracted muscles Griping. Cutting in sides of. Rumbling in ascending colon. Pain in ascending and transverse colon. Sharp pain above right groin. Distension. Tenderness. Inflammation and ulceration of duodenum. Worse: Lying on back: pressure of clothes, touch, motion, eating. Better: Doubling up. Hard pressure. Warmth. After passing stool or flatus. Lying on side.

Prolapsus of. with swelling and congestion. fullness and dragging in, before stool, sense of weakness in and in abdomen after stool. Anus, Soreness in. Discharge of mucus from.

Liquid, profuse, painless, offensive, hurried, gushing out, undigested, frothy, yellow, green, chalk - like or blood streaked, albuminous, acrid, burning hot, coated with tough yellow mucus, painful with screaming and grinding of teeth, ineffectual urging to, preceded by retching and vomiting. (Comp. Lyc.). alternate diarrhoea and constipation. Worse: After eating or drinking, in hot weather, during dentition, in morning, from acid fruit with milk.

Incontinence of.

Inflamed scrotum or eyes, pustules on scrotum (Crot-t.). Sticking above pubes and in spermatic cord. Inflammation and soreness in right ovary and uterus, pains in ovary extend up and down. Numbness in left ovary. Falling out feeling during stool, without pain in sacrum. Prolapsus uteri and recti.

Oppression, with desire to breathe deeply, hindered by a sense of constriction. Sense of suffocation on first lying down. Snapping like a thread breaking in right lung on deep inspiration.

Palpitation. Feeling as if it were mounting into throat.

Neck: Stiff nape with soreness of muscles of neck and shoulder.

Back: Pains. - Pains, under right scapula, in loins worse from a misstep.

Tingling in. Weakness in joints, knees, wrists, left hip, etc. Pain with cramp in right leg.

Choleraic symptoms, with cramps and drowsiness, Prostration. Constant rolling and tossing about. Stiff on beginning to move. Sense of soreness, the bed being too hard. Head ache accompanies many symptoms. Affects the right throat, right hypochondrium and right ovary. Aggravation: In the morning, from 2 to four AM, abuse of calomel, during dentition. Amelioration: Evening.

Moaning in. Sleepy: In day time, in morning, with rumbling in bowels.

Intolerable itching, scratching causes urticarious blotches. Rawness. Scabs on arms and legs.

Coldness: With the pain in bowels. Heat: In flushes, up back after stool: over face and head. cough during. Sweat: so profuse it drops from fingers, cold, on feet in evening. Feeling as if body were bathed in.

Allied Remedies: Alo., chel., Colch., Crot-t., Gamb., Ign., Iris-v., Jat., Jat., Lyc., Merc., Nat-c., Nux-v., Sul., sul-ac., Verat-a.

Complementary: - Nat - m.