Podophyllum Peltatum

▲   GENERAL

General

Is especially adapted to persons of bilious temperament. It affects chiefly the Duodenum, small intestines, liver, and Rectum. The Podophyllum Peltatum 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 hemorrhoids, hypo-gastric pain, fullness of superficial veins, jaundice.

Dose

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

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

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

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Mandragora Officinarium ^Mandragora - also called mandrake - (must not be confounded with Podophyllum Peltatum. Great desire for sleep; exaggeration of sounds and enlarged vision. Bowels inactive; stools large, white and hard). Aloe Socotrina ^Aloe; Chelidonium Majus ^Chelid.; Merc Viv ^Merc.; Nux Vomica ^Nux; Sulphur ^Sulph. Prunella - Self-heal - (Colitis).

▲   MIND

Mind

Loquacity and delirium from eating acid fruits

Depression of spirits.

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward

▲   HEAD

Head

rolling of head from side to side, with moaning and vomiting and eyelids half closed

Child perspires on head during sleep.

Headache

Headache, dull pressure, worse morning, with heated face and bitter taste; Alternating with diarrhoea

▲   MOUTH

Gums and teeth

Grinding the teeth at night; Intense desire to press the gums together ( Phytolacca Decandra ^Phytol.) Difficult dentition

Tongue

Tongue broad, large, moist

Burning sensation of tongue.

Taste

Foul, putrid taste

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Pain

before chill

lumbar (lower half of back); before chill

aching; before chill

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Heartburn; gagging or empty retching

Distended; heat and emptiness

Sensation of weakness or sinking

Can lie comfortably only on stomach

Liver region painful, Better rubbing part

Anxiety; after stool

Emptiness

after stool

Noises from abdomen

gurgling

gurgling; before stool

Pain

during diarrhoea (colic)

before stool

behind lower ribs; right

liver

during chill

rubbing

spleen; during chill

pressing; before stool

Sense of weakness; after stool

Stomach

burping, belching; bitter

sinking (see emptiness); after stool

Flatus

Rumbling and shifting of flatus in ascending colon.

Vomiting

Stomach; Hot, sour belching; nausea and vomiting

Thirst for large quantities of cold water ( Bryonia ^Bry.) Vomiting of hot, frothy mucus

Vomiting of milk.

Pain; with vomiting, blood and mucus in stool (intussusception); pain in region of liver

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Cholera infantum and morbus

Diarrhoea 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 diarrhoea when not due to venous stasis or intestinal ulceration

Green, water, Fetid, profuse, gushing

Prolapse of rectum before or with stool

Constipation; clay-colored, hard, dry, difficult

Constipation alternating with diarrhoea ( Ant)

crud.) Internal and external piles.

Cholera; with vomiting or diarrhoea

Constipation; alternating with diarrhoea

Diarrhoea

morning

late morning

night

4 a.m.

like bile

in children

after eating

hot weather

painless

Flatulence; during stool

Haemorrhoids; internal

Heat; during stool

Involuntary stool

on passing flatulence

during sleep

Pain

during stool

pressing (pressure); downward, outward, etc.

Prolapse

in children

during diarrhoea

during stool

after stool

Stool

Bilious

Bloody; in streaks

Copious

Forcible, sudden, gushing

Frequent

Frothy

Green

Food appears to be passed undigested (lientery)

With meal-like sediment

Mucous, slimy; bloody

Odour

offensive

putrid

Pasty, mushy

Shooting out

Thin, liquid

normal consistency

pouring out

yellow

Watery

morning

yellow

White

like chalk

normal consistency

lumps, like chalk

milk like

Yellow

normal consistency

▲   GENITALS ETC

Womb

Female

Pain in uterus and Right ovary, with shifting noises along ascending colon

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain)

prolapse; womb; during stool

Genitals

Prolapsed uteri, especially after parturition

Hemorrhoids, with prolapsus ani during pregnancy

Prolapsus from overlifting or straining; during pregnancy.

Female

inflammation; ovaries

inflammation; ovaries; right

pain; ovaries

right

Menses

Suppressed menses, with pelvic tenesmus

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

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.

Pain; elbow; during chill

Perspiration; leg

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Chills at 7 A.M., with pain in hypochondria, and knees, ankles, wrists

Great loquacity during fever

Profuse sweat.

Morning

At certain time of day or night; from 7 a.m.

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Falling asleep; during heat

Sleep between heat of fever

While perspiring (see perspiration during sleep)

Sleepiness, tiredness

during the heat

Generalities

Morning

Late morning

Night; after midnight

Faintness, fainting

after stool

Pain; pressing; externally

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); from diarrhoea

after stool

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