Condensed Materia Medica

Eupatorium Purpureum eup-pur.

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Mind

Stupid, dull.
Sighing.
Depressed, sleepy.
Homesick.

Sensorium

Light, dizzy, as though flying round and round; sensation as if falling to the left.

Inner Head

Sick headache: dull hammering, beating, stitching, or boring pain in left side of head; pressing from right to left; beginning in the morning and increasing during the afternoon and evening; worse in cold air; better while walking slowly in fresh air.

Outer Head

Soreness of scalp.
Sweat on head, profuse about forehead.

Eyes

Staring.
Eyes suffused during fever.
Conjunctive yellow, with the chill.

Ears

Crackling in ears, like burning birch-bark.
Ears feel as filled up.

Nose

Fluent coryza; great heat, sneezing.

Face

Face flushed, with fever.
Shining of the face.

Lower Face

Lips blue; intermittent.

Tongue, etc

Tongue furred, brown along the centre; bitter, pappy taste, with the chill.
Tongue numb; pricking, stinging pain.

Throat

Choking fulness of throat, must swallow often.
Pain in left side of throat, causing pain in swallowing; before chill.
Burning as if scalded, in back of throat.

Desires and Aversions

Thirst during chill and heat; or before chill.
Wants lemonade or cold drinks during the chill.
Thirst with dropsy.
No appetite.

Nausea and Vomiting

Vomiting with the sick headache.
Great nausea, but no vomit, with the chill.
Nausea, vomiting with the fever.

Stomach

Crampy pain in stomach.

Abdomen

Rumbling in bowels.
Lower belly swollen and hot.
Colic all over abdomen after voiding urine.

Stool, etc

Bilious diarrhœa; bowels loose, ague.

Urine

Suppression of urine.
Incontinence of urine; especially with children.
Deep, dull pain in kidneys, also cutting pains; chronic nephritis.
Violent dysuria: after a jolting ride during pregnancy; from displaced uterus.
Constant desire to urinate; even after frequent passages, bladder still feels full.
Soreness and pain in the bladder; deep aching; uneasiness; catarrh.
Smarting, burning in bladder and urethra on urinating.
Frequent effort, with passage of but a few drops of urine.
Urine: very copious; scanty, albuminous; scanty but frequent.

Female Sexual Organs

Quick, jerking pain in left ovary.
Heavy pressure above left ovary.
Numbness, worse in groin.
Leucorrhœa abundant.
External genitals feel as wet.

Breathing

Difficult breathing.
Grating sensation in chest at every deep inspiration.

Cough

Hacking cough in the evening.
Cough, with soreness and heat in bronchia.
Dry, hacking cough in spells, before the attack; ague.

Heart and Pulse

Pulse: accelerated and full; ague.

Neck and Back

Violent cutting in the back.
Neuralgic pains from below upwards, mostly left side of back and hip.
Labor-like pains in the back.

Lower limbs

Legs: numb; weak, tired.

Limbs in General

Rheumatic pains changing place, always from below upward.
Pain in arms and legs before chill.

Position, etc

Chill aggravated by motion.
Changing position: 40. Walking: 3.

Nerves

Restless, tossing, moaning.
Weak, tired, faint with urinary symptoms.

Sleep

Yawning; sighing.
Sleep restless, disturbed; ague, frightful dreams, during the fever.

Time

Morning till evening: 27. Night: 40.

Temperature and Weather

Cold air:3. Walking in fresh air: 3.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chilly when changing position during sweat.
Chill begins in small of the back, and spreads over the body; violent shaking, with comparatively little coldness; bone-pain; thirst during chill and heat.
Nails blue.
Fever protracted, followed by slight sweat, mostly about forehead and head.
Night-sweats: hectic.

Attacks

Chill at different times of the day.
Every other day.

Sides

Left: 2, 3, 13, 31. Right to left: 3. Below upwards: 31, 34.

Tissues

Emaciation; accompanying chronic inflammation of the bladder.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Jolting ride: 21.