Polygonum hydropiperoides

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 Smart Weed ; Water Pepper. Polygonacea.
 Provings by Payne, Trans. Amer. Inst. of Hom., 1859, p. 82, and Joslin and сameron, Hale’s New Remedies.
 We include the symptoms arranged by Doctor Edward вayard, Hom. Phys., vol. 5, 1885, p. 328.

 - Dysuria, Rosenberg, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 94 ; Amenorrhoea, Small, Raue’s Rec., 1873, p. 172 ; Sciatica, Shaw, Org., vol. 3, p. 377 ; Ulcers, Small, Raue’s Rec., 1873, p. 246.

 Great depression, followed by excessive irritability.
 Gloomy views of life, dislike of change and excessive dread of death.

 Dizziness.
 Pulsative and acute pain in left temple.
 Under pressure of great weariness or excitement a dull depressing pain through whole head, causing a sensation of torpor and a strong desire to sleep with inability to do so.
 Pressure in back of head on lying down.
 Pressure and soreness in head during menses.
 Pain upon sudden rising, in back of head with pain over eyes.
 Headache worse in damp weather, better in moderately warm temperature.
 A sensation of sudden rising of scalp, with extreme irritation and increased dry exfoliation.
 Burning in eyeballs ; dry sensation in lids.
 Convulsive twitching of lids when closed and when lying down, dizziness and wavering of sight.
 Inflammation of edges of lids.
 Dulness of hearing.
 Ringing sounds in ears.
 Sudden sounds on tympanum, producing momentary cessation of hearing.
 Acute pain in ear when bending head down ; better bending head backward.
 Ear symptoms worse in moist atmosphere.
 Secretion of ears increased.
 Inflammation of mucous membrane of nose.
 Tickling sensation in nostrils.
 Reddened or inflamed appearance of nostrils with a swollen sensation.
 Feeling of congestion through eyes and nose.
 Coldness in external nose.
 Acute pain in left side of face, extending to temple, sometimes darting through whole left side of head.
 Excruciating pain and heat in left side of face, worse by cold or damp.
 Coldness in right side of face when pain is most severe in left.
 After severe pain, sometimes drawing in left side of face from chin to temple ; paleness, with a drawn, tired look.

 Tenderness of gums.
 Cold or cooling temperature in mouth, producing acute toothache.
 Bitter taste.
 Heat in roof of mouth, with excitation of salivary glands.
 Increased flow of heated saliva, affording no relief to parched condition.
 Throat dry and hot, with sense of excoriation.
 Glands feel swollen ; worse from cold or moist air.
 Contracted feeling in throat after swallowing, followed by thirst.
 Stifling sensation in larynx ; irritability of whole system ; weakness of sexual function.
 Crowding and pressure about larynx, with irritation of bronchi.
 Roughness as of adhesion of mucus to larynx, producing spasmodic hacking and hoarseness.

 Loss of appetite.
 Food is tasteless, or nearly so.
 Repulsion to swallowing.
 No relief after drinking.

 Slight acidity.
 Feeling of weight in stomach.
 Pressure of clothes causes distress.
 Pain upon pressure, followed by throbbing and distress.
 General uneasiness in stomach and abdomen.
 Pain and uneasiness in abdomen.
 Burning heat in stomach and bowels.
 Tympanitis and flatulent colic.
 Cutting, lancinating, griping pains, with great rumbling as if whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state and in violent commotion, the movement proceeding from below upward, producing nausea and disposition to vomit, with liquid feces which were discharged with considerable force, with pain in loins.
 Copious stool, followed by smarting in anus.
 Straining at stool, with mucous, jelly-like discharges.
 Dark discharges, followed by burning in rectum.
 Cholera morbus and cholera infantum.
 Dysentery, with burning and smarting in rectum.
 Evacuations and pain worse in cold temperature.
 Interior of anus studded with itching eminences, as from corrugation without contraction, a kind of hemorrhoidal tumor.
 Hemorrhoids, with itching and burning in tumors.
 Pruritus ani (used as a wash).

 Painful cutting and feeling of strangulation at neck of bladder while urinating, lasting a long time after.
 Strangury ; dysuria.
 During an attack of gonorrhoea extremely violent pains on urinating causing him to tremble and cry, he became feverish, slept and ate but little, and within five days grew perceptibly thinner.
 Pains in bladder.
 Deposit in urine of mucus and phosphates.
 Frequent and profuse discharge of clear, light or straw-colored urine.
 Kidneys affected by a cold ; inflammation, urine high-colored, dark-red.
 Albuminuria.
 Irritation of genitals.
 Loss of power and semen, sometimes followed by inflammation of glans penis.
 Extremely convulsive action in the functional uses.
 Intense dislike for coition followed by a perturbation and irritation if approached ; inaction of the flow of secretions.
 Aching pains in hips and loins and sensation of weight and tension in pelvis.
 Amenorrhoea.
 Menses : delayed six or seven days with distress and pain ; too copious, amounting almost to hemorrhage ; tardy, from inaction ; fetid.
 During menses : pressure and soreness in head ; grinding pain through abdomen.
 Congestive weakness and loss of power.
 Congestion of ovaries ; tearing sensation in groin, especially right.
 Acrid, excoriating leucorrhoea.

 Shooting pains through mamma, with great soreness, distention and tenderness.

 Lungs enfeebled, breathing labored ; movement of abdomen on breathing becomes labored.
 Hacking cough worse by change of temperature.

 Increased action of heart with loss of rhythm.

 Pain in back and at lower extremity, at times acute, and again a drawing pain, lateral in its action, as if hips were being drawn together. θ Kidney affection.
 Tearing and drawing in loins and on exposure to cold, followed by lameness and soreness.
 Pain in arms and inability or sense of weakness in lifting slightest weight.
 Sciatica ; the pain put him in mind of the Aurora вorealis.
 Swelling of legs and feet.
 Superficial ulcers and sores upon lower extremities.
 Sensation of weakness in upper and lower limbs.
 Distension of bloodvessels in hands and feet.
 Lying down : pressure in back of head ; dizziness and wavering of sight.
 Rising : sudden pain in back of head.
 Bending head down : acute pain in ears.
 Pressure : of clothes causes distress.

 Hysteria ; slight vertigo, with sensation in extremities as of a galvanic shock passing through them ; constant desire to urinate ; warmth and peculiar sensation of tingling through whole body.
 Epilepsy ; a protracted case (cured by the extract).

 Warm temperature : headache .
 Damp weather : headache.
 Cold : heat in side of face.
 Change of temperature : hacking cough.
 Right : coldness in side of face ; tearing in groin.
 Left : pain in temple ; acute pain in side of face ; darting through side of head ; heat in side of face.
 From below upward : movement in bowels.
 As of sudden rising of scalp ; as if whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state and in violent commotion ; as if hips were drawn together ; pain put him in mind of Aurora вorealis ; as of a galvanic shock passing through extremities.
 Pain : in head ; over eyes ; in loins ; in bladder ; in back and lower extremities ; in arms.
 Excruciating pain : in left side of face.
 Extremely violent pains : when urinating.
 Acute pain : in left temple ; in ears ; in left side of face and head ; in teeth.
 Lancinating : in bowels.
 Shooting pains : through mamma.
 Tearing sensation : in groin ; in loins.
 Cutting : in bowels ; in neck of bladder.
 Griping : in bowels.
 Grinding pain : through abdomen.
 Pulsative pain : in left temple.
 Aching pains : in hips and loins.
 Dull, depressing pain : through whole head.
 Drawing : in left side of face from chin to temple ; as if hips were drawn together ; in loins.
 Burning : in eyeballs ; in rectum ; in tumors.
 Heat : in left side of face ; in roof of mouth ; in throat ; in stomach and bowels.
 Smarting : in anus ; in rectum.
 Soreness : in head ; of mamma ; in loins.
 Tenderness : of gums ; of mamma.
 Tingling : through whole body.
 Pressure : in back of head ; in head ; about larynx.
 Weight : in stomach ; in pelvis.
 Tension : in pelvis.
 Swollen sensation : in nostrils.
 Feeling of congestion : through eyes and nose.
 Contracted feeling : in throat.
 Distress : in stomach.
 Stifling sensation : in larynx.
 Uneasiness : in stomach and abdomen.
 Weakness : in sexual functions ; in arms ; in upper and lower limbs.
 Tickling sensation : in nostrils.
 Dry sensation : in lids ; in throat.
 Itching : in tumors.
 Coldness : in external nose ; in right side of face.
 Has a reputation in domestic practice as a fomentation in all internal inflammations.
 Sprains ; lameness and bruises therefrom (locally).

 Chronic erysipelatous inflammations.
 Old and indolent ulcers.

 Miss с. с., nervo-bilious temperament ; amenorrhoea.
 Man, subject to urinary difficulties, now suffering from gonorrhoea ; dysuria.

 Compare : Asarum, Ammonium carb., сaulophyllum, сapsic., Pulsat., Senega, Senecio, Xanthoxylum.
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