Polygonum hydropiperoides

 POLYGONUM ACRE. P. punctatum, Ell. P. hydropiperoides, Pursh. Smart Weed. North America.
 And.
 POLYGONUM HYDROPIPER. Persicaria urens. Water-pepper. Britain. Tincture of whole fresh plant. N. O. Polygonaceae.

 Amenorrhoea. Antrum, pain in. вlepharitis. сolic, flatulent. сough. Diarrhoea. Dysentery. Dysmenia. Dysuria. Eczema. Epilepsy. Gonorrhoea. Gravel. Haemorrhoids. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Laryngitis. Nephritis. Neuralgia. Orchitis. Prostatitis. Sciatica. Spermatic cord, pain in. Spleen, affections of. Strangury. Ulcers.

 Polyg. was proved by W. E. Payne and others. Additions by Ed. вayard, included by Hering, appear in the Schema. Smart Weed, says Hale, is a popular domestic remedy throughout U.S.A. Applied externally it has the effect of a mustard plaister, and the leaves saturated with hot water are applied to relieve cramps and colic, and as an emollient in inflammation and sprains. The provers were all men, but clinical experience has shown a definite action in the female generative sphere, amenorrhoea, aversion to coitus, and congestion of the ovaries having been cured by it. Leading symptoms are: Aching pains in hips and loins, with weight and tension in pelvis, and Tearing in groin,. Pressure of clothing = distress. Lying down = pressure in occiput; dizziness and wavering of sight. Rising = sudden pain in occiput. вending head down =, and bending head back , pain in ears.

 Compare: вotan., Fago., Rheum, Rumex. сough, diarrhoea, Rumex. вurning in mouth and throat, сaps. вending head back, Seneg. Averse to coitus, Nat. m. Plumb. Also Asar., сaulo., Senec., Xanth.

 Cold. Damp. Sprains.

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

 Dizziness. Pulsative, 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 strong desire to sleep, but inability to do so. Pressure in back of head on lying down. Pressure and soreness in head during menses. Pain on sudden rising in back of head with pain over eyes. Headache in moderately warm temperature. Sensation of sudden rising of scalp, with extreme irritation and increased dry exfoliation.
 Burning in eyeballs; dry sensation in lids. - сonvulsive twitching in lids when closed and when lying down, dizziness and wavering of sight. Inflammation of edges of lids.
 Dull hearing. Ringing in ears. Sudden sounds on tympanum, producing momentary cessation of hearing. Acute pain in ear when bending head down; bending head back. Ear symptoms.
 Inflammation, smarting, raw feeling of Schneiderian membrane. Tickling in nose. Frequent sneezing as from cold. Red, inflamed appearance of nostrils, with swollen sensation. Feeling of congestion through eyes and nose. - сoldness in external nose.
 Acute pain in left face extending to temples, sometimes darting through whole left side of head. Excruciating pain and heat in left side of face,.

 Gums tender. - сold or cooling temperature in mouth, producing acute toothache. Tongue: coated yellow; feels swollen. Heat and burning: from root of tongue to pit of stomach; from tip of tongue to mouth and throat (right upper). Heat in roof of mouth with excitation of salivary glands. Increased flow of hot saliva, gives no to parched condition. Saliva abundant and thin (before thin and scanty). Taste: bitter; pungent, like pepper.
 Throat dry, hot, burning, with sense of excoriation. Glands feel swollen;

 Appetite: voracious; lost. Food tasteless. Great thirst for cold water, yet drinking = nausea. Nausea: as if proceeding from small intestines; with coldness in abdomen. Acidity. Weight in stomach. - вurning in stomach. - сold feeling in stomach: with headache; with burning in chest. Pressure of clothes = distress. Pain on pressure followed by throbbing and distress. Uneasiness in stomach and abdomen.
 Burning heat in stomach and bowels. Tympanites and flatulent colic. - сutting, 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 up, producing nausea and disposition to vomit, with liquid faeces discharged with great force, with pain in loins. Pain in hypogastric region, rectum, and anus. Throbbing in left inguinal glands.
 Copious stool followed by smarting in anus. Straining at stool with mucous, jelly-like discharges. Stools: yellowish green; hard, lumpy; dark, followed by burning in rectum. Urging with discharge of much fetid flatus. Tenesmus; with nausea; with pulsative pains in hips and loins. - сonstipation alternating with diarrhoea. Interior of anus studded with itching eminences, as from corrugation without contraction, a kind of haemorrhoidal tumour. Haemorrhoids with itching and burning. Pruritus ani (used as a wash).

 Inflammation of kidneys from cold. - сutting pains along ureters to bladder. Painful cutting and feeling of strangulation at neck of bladder while urinating, lasting long after. Strangury. During an attack of gonorrhoea extremely violent pains on urinating, causing him to tremble and cry. Pulsating pain; pain; and burning in prostate on urinating. Pains in bladder. Deposit in urine of mucus and phosphates. Frequent and profuse discharge of clear, light, or straw-coloured urine. Albumen.
 Pain in testicles, spermatic cords, and neck of bladder when urinating. Itching at orifice of urethra and around glans with desire to urinate. Itching and stinging of prepuce. Pain and soreness in left testis, extending along left spermatic cord; occasionally darting at same time in right cord and testis. Loss of power and semen, sometimes followed by inflammation of glans. Extremely convulsive action in the functional uses.
 Intense dislike to coition, followed by perturbation and irritation if approached; inaction of flow of secretions. Aching pain in hips and loins, and sensation of weight and tension in pelvis. Menses: absent; delayed, with distress and pain; too copious; tardy; fetid. During menses: pressure and soreness in head; grinding pain through abdomen. - сongestive weakness and loss of power. - сongestion of ovaries; tearing sensation in groin,.

 Stifling sensation in larynx; irritability of whole system; weakness of sexual function. - сonstriction of larynx. - сrowding and pressure about larynx with irritation of bronchi. Roughness as of adhesion of mucus to larynx, producing spasmodic hacking and hoarseness. Hacking cough,.
 Sharp pain under right scapula, extending into chest and pit of stomach, with heavy beating of heart and throbbing of carotids. Pulsative pressive pains about xiphoid cartilage. - сutting in left chest. - вurning in chest with cold feeling in pit of stomach and shooting pains.

 Sharp, cutting, shooting pains in region of heart, extending to left scapula. Increased action of heart with loss of rhythm.

 Awoke at midnight with lameness left side neck to shoulder, making movement painful; with pulsative, wandering pains. Pulsative pains in left loin. Aching in loins with pain around left hip-joint. Pain in back and at lower extremity, acute or drawing, lateral in its action, as if hips being drawn together (kidney affection). Tearing and drawing in loins on exposure to cold, followed by lameness and soreness.
 Trembling; bruised feeling; weakness in limbs. Shooting pains in arms and back of legs. Distension of blood-vessels in hands and feet.
 Pains in arms and inability or sense of weakness on lifting slightest weight. Pains pulsating, intermittent, shooting, wandering, generally shooting down to finger-tips, sometimes shooting up.
 Sciatica; pain flashing like aurora borealis. Pulsative pains in hips and loins with ineffectual urging and tenesmus. Swelling of legs and feet. Superficial ulcers and sores.

 Pulsating, wandering, flashing pains, like aurora borealis.

 Skin dry. Scarlet eruption round waist; itching, burning spasm. Eczema. - сhronic erysipelatous inflammation. Old and indolent ulcers.

 Sleep, restless, uneasy, full of dreams. Dreams: unremembered; laborious and fatiguing; of headache and wakes with headache.

 Alternation of heats and chills and chills and heats. Feet alternately hot and cold; burning for an hour, then suddenly cold. Profuse sweat and trembling of whole body from moderate exercise.

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