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Eupatorium purpureum

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Head, face, and ears
  5. Mouth and throat
  6. Gastrointestinal tract
  7. Urogenital system
  8. Chest organs
  9. Cardiovascular system
  10. Limbs and spine
  11. Sleep
  12. Fever
  13. Analogs by action
  14. Included in the composition
  15. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Additional facts

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

Nosology

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

Typical features

 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. вoth 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. вone 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 сimicif. 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 while walking slowly in fresh air. Violent headache; before chill; during morning; with fever. Sore scalp with itching. Sweat, principally about head, especially profuse on forehead.

Head, face, and ears

 Staring. Red and swollen (with headache). Lachrymation.
 Ears feel full. Illusions of hearing. - сrackling.
 Face flushed. Lips blue.

Mouth and throat

 Tongue furred, brown along centre. Tongue, prickling and stinging in tip; on back. Numbness of tongue. Saliva abundant.
 Choking fulness, must swallow often. - вurning, as if had swallowed some hot substance; most at back of throat.

Gastrointestinal tract

 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 left side. Griping, crampy pain.
 Rumbling, rolling, and twisting pain in bowels. Severe colic after voiding urine. Pain and soreness of abdomen, much.
 Bilious diarrhoea. Pressure and weight on rectum.

Urogenital system

 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. - сonstant 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 left ovary. Smart, quick jerking motion in left ovary. Heavy pressure during day, directly above left ovary. Sterility from ovarian atony. Uterine leucorrhoea caused by exhaustion and chronic metritis. Leucorrhoea abundant, leaving no stain. External genitals feel as though wet (a delusion). Inflammation of meatus urinarius. Numbness.

Chest organs

 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 сhest at every deep inspiration.

Cardiovascular system

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

Limbs and spine

 Cutting pain in neck running from left shoulder to occiput. - вetween shoulder-blades chilly feeling. - сutting pains; labour-like pains. Pains running upward; from sacrum into kidneys; from left side of back and hip. - сhill 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 right shoulder or right knee, passing over to left-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 left sciatic nerve, producing a palsied sensation, especially after motion; legs feel tired, especially left-Feet feel as if she had walked a long journey; it seems as though her heels were crowding through her boots.

Sleep

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

Fever

 Chilly down back when changing position ever so little. - сhill 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.

Analogs by action

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Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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