Granatum Punica gran.

Pomegranate

As a vermifuge for the expulsion of tapeworm, and homeopathically for the following symptomatic indications. Salivation, with nausea, and vertigo. Spasm of the glottis.

Feels empty. Sunken eyes; pupils dilated; weak sight. Vertigo very persistent.

Constant hunger. Poor digestion. Loses flesh. Vomiting at night.

Pain in stomach and abdomen; worse about umbilicus (Cocc; Nux m; Plumb); ineffectual urging. Itching at anus. Dragging in vaginal region, as if hernia would protrude. Swelling resembling umbilical hernia.

Oppressed, with sighing. Pain between shoulders; even clothing is oppressive.

Itching in palms. Sensation as if pimples would break out. Jaundiced complexion.

Pain around shoulders, as if heavy load had been carried. Pain in all finger-joints. Tearing in knee-joint. Convulsive movements.

Compare: Pelletierine (one of its constituents -an anthelminitic, especially for tapeworm); Cina; Kousso.

First to third potency.

Punica granatum. Pomegranate. N. O. Granateæ. Homœopathic provings were made with a tincture or trituration of bark of root. An alkaloid, Pelletierine (C 8 H 13 NO), discovered by Bertrand Pelletier is obtained from the rind of the fruit.

Ascarides. Gastralgia. Hernia, umbilical; inguinal. Jaw, cracking in . Leucorrhœa. Tapeworm. Toothache.

Pomegranate is a well-known vermifuge especially used for the expulsion of tænia. For this a decoction of the rind of the fruit is used, or else Pelletierine in the following manner. After a mild purge the previous night, in the morning 30 grammes of Sulphate of Pelletierine is administered in a solution containing 50 grammes of Tannic acid . This is followed by a glass of water in ten minutes, and a brisk purge in half an hour. The homœopathic provings bring out many symptoms of helminthiasis as: Pale blue rings round eyes. Itching, crawling tickling of nose. Ravenous hunger; craving for sour or juicy things; fruit; coffee. Loss of appetite. Nausea; fermenting in abdomen; griping; dragging in inguinal region as if hernia would protrude. Itching and tickling in anus frequently during the day. Emaciation. Convulsive movements. Among the general symptoms are: Great weariness and exhaustion, scarcely able to keep upright. Trembling. Discomfort and nausea. Itching of the skin of various places, face and body, as if pimples would break out. Biting and itching in palms of hands. Yawning. Great sensitiveness. Swelling of navel; protrusions in inguinal rings. All symptoms are > after dinner. Pain in abdomen is > after drinking cold water.

Compare: Ars., Chi., Iod., Cina, Teucr., Kousso., Cucurb.

Great sensitiveness and impressibility. — Irritability and arrogance. — Penurious and quarrelsome humour. — Hypochondriacal scruples. — Melancholy, gloomy temper, dejection, and discouragement. — Stupefaction, and intellectual embarrassment.

Vertigo, esp. during intellectual labour, or in the morning on rising, and sometimes with obscuration of the eyes, or with nausea and aching in the stomach. — Sensation of emptiness in the head. — Stupefying pain and painful heaviness in the head, esp. in the forehead. — Pressure on the forehead and on the occiput. — Acute drawing pains, chiefly on r. side of head. — Shootings in forehead. — Pustules on forehead and temples, with pain as from excoriation, leaving small tubercles on drying.

Eyes hollow, and surrounded by a livid circle. — Itching and burning smarting in the canthi. — Dryness and smarting in the eyes. — Yellowish tint of the sclerotica. — Inflammation of the eyes, as in coryza. — Pupils dilated. — Convulsive movements of the eyelids. — Obscuration of the eyes. — Weak sight.

Cramp-like squeezing, acute drawing pains and shootings in the ears. — Tinkling and buzzing in the ears.

Burning heat and dryness of the nostrils, or an accumulation of tenacious mucus. — Crawling itching in the nose. — Coryza, alternately dry and fluent.

Complexion sickly, yellowish, and earth-coloured. — Burning heat in the face, sometimes transient. — Gnawing itching in the face, and esp. in the cheeks. — Swelling of the cheek, which is livid; burning heat, itching, tension, and crawling, as with chilblains. — Squeezing and acute drawing pains in the face, in the cheek-bones, and in the root of the nose, often on one side only. — Dryness of the lips and burning sensation in them.

Acute drawing pain, tension, and squeezing in the maxillary joints, and cracking of the joints during mastication. — Shooting pains in the teeth, even at night, in bed. — The teeth seem to be elongated. — Gums unfixed, and easily bleeding.

Excessive accumulation of saliva, sometimes of a sweetish taste, in the mouth. — Tongue moist and white. — Excessive spitting of mucus.

Sensation of astriction in different parts of the mouth and of the gullet. — Contraction of the gullet.

Great variableness of taste; taste alternately acute and dull. — Appetite alternately diminished and increased. — Extraordinary hunger and voracity, even after a meal. — Great variableness of appetite; desire for different things, and esp. for coffee, for fruits, and for succulent and acid aliments. — Great thirst for water. — Liquid aliments, and potatoes cause nausea and eructations.

Frequent and noisy eructations. — Frequent nausea, sometimes with lassitude, flow of water in the mouth, pain in the abdomen and in the stomach, frequent want to evacuate without any result, shivering, sickly looks and ill-humour. — Vomiting, even at night, and sometimes with lassitude, trembling, perspiration, or vertigo. — Painful pressure, fulness, burning sensation, and anxiety in the precordial region. — Cramps in the stomach when fasting in the morning.

Pains in the abdomen, frequent, and often prolonged, sometimes with nausea, flow of water in the mouth, shiverings, and prostration, or with vertigo. — Pains in the abdomen after every meal, or when fasting in the morning. — Pains in the abdomen, mitigated by external heat and by lying down, as well as by drinking cold water. — Pinchings, shootings, and rotatory sensation round the navel, and in the stomach. — Anxious sensation in the abdomen. — Painful inflation of the abdomen, sometimes with voracity. — Frequent production and evacuation of flatus. — Swelling of the navel, as if from umbilical hernia. — Fermentation in the abdomen. — Traction in the abdomen, as if preparatory to a stool. — Painful pressure and swelling in the groins, as if a hernia were about to appear.

Several evacuations during the day. — Copious evacuations of a very deep colour. — Diarrhœa, with frequent evacuations, and evacuation of fæcal matter and mucus. — Before the loose evacuations, nausea and fermentation in abdomen; during the evacuations, burning heat in face and pressure in rectum; afterwards burning heat in rectum. — Tenesmus, with movements and fermentation in abdomen. — Prolapsus of rectum during the evacuations. — Insupportable itching and titillation of the rectum. — Burning itching in the anus, on the buttocks and perineum, on the scrotum, and on the hair-covered parts of the genital organs, and esp. on the thighs. — Shootings in anus and rectum.

Incisive, shooting, and gnawing pains in the urethra. — Inflammation and swelling of the urethra.

Mucus oozing from the urethra, as in a gonorrhœa, with burning traction in the cavernous parts, as far as the glans. — Excitement of sexual desire.

Catamenia premature, and too copious, and accompanied by colic and pressure from the sacral region to the groins. — Yellowish leucorrhœa.

Sensation of anxiety in the chest, and groaning. — Great oppression of the chest, with lassitude in the legs. — Pressure on the chest and across the sternum. — Rheumatic pains, shooting and drawing in the diaphragm. — Shootings in the chest, esp. when walking. — Tension and painful squeezing in the ribs.

Palpitations of the heart, sometimes on the least movement. — Pains and cramp-like contractions in the muscles of the chest.

Frequent bruise-like pains, pains as from an oppressive weight between and on the shoulders, and the loins.

Traction, rheumatic pains, crawling, and sensation of paralysis in the arms, with difficulty in raising them. — Rheumatic pains in the joints of the hands and fingers, as well as in the forearms. — Painful and paralytic stiffness in the fingers. — Swelling of the ball of the thumbs, with livid colour, burning heat, and marbled swelling of the veins. — Gnawing and insupportable itching in the palm and in the back of the hands.

Sensation of stiffness in the hips, as in sciatica. — Acute drawing pain, paralytic pulling, heaviness, and shootings in the knee. — Pain, as from a sprain in the instep. — Painful corns on the feet.

Great lassitude and fatigue, esp. in the legs, sometimes with inability to remain standing, and want to lie down. — Drowsy lassitude, with headache, as if after a nocturnal debauch. — Great dejection and prostration, sometimes with burning heat in the hands. — Trembling of the limbs. — Relaxation and flaccidity of the muscles, esp. in the lower extremities. — Emaciation.

Yawning, sometimes convulsive, and frequent stretchings. — Agitated sleep, with frequent dreams, cries, and tossing.

Partial and semi-lateral shudderings, sometimes with semilateral headache. — Dry, burning heat over the whole body, with inclination to throw off all covering. — The shudderings and shiverings commonly take place in the morning; the heat manifests itself in the evening. — Sweats on the least movement.

A tincture is made of the dried bark of the root of Punica Granatum, L. (Pomegranate).

An ancient vermifuge, especially for tape-worm. ▶ The alkaloid, Pelletierine, is particularly valuable for this purpose, but large doses cause paralysis, especially of the oculo-motor nerves, with vertigo, acting similarly to Gelsemium.

Gelsem., Verat. alb.

Emaciation. ▶ Laxity of muscles. ▶ Tremulousness in morning (Gelsem.). ▶ Rush of blood to upper part of body, head and chest. ▶ Discomfort and nausea. ▶ Weakness; in morning on rising after good sleep; with heat in hands; could scarcely keep upright (Gelsem.); sleepy with confused pain in forehead, as after a night's debauch. ▶ Better after dinner.

Jaundiced complexion, with bloated abdomen, eructations of watery fluid and vomiting, with vertigo, waving before eyes, large pupils, feeling as of something moving in the stomach, palpitation, faintness (Gelsem.).

Hallucination. ▶ Excited easily; excitement and weakness of mind, tranquility and persistency. ▶ Anger changing to insults. ▶ Sensitiveness. ▶ Sad. ▶ Hypochondriac. ▶ Discouraged. ▶ Inclined to criticise and blame. ▶ Dread of work, with headache. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Stupefaction.

Sticking on moving; S. through brain. ▶ Pain in whole brain when walking, agg. forehead; P. in brain, extending into left occipital protuberance. ▶ Heaviness; with dread of work; with red face, rapid pulse and weakness. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Vertigo in morning on rising; V. after stool; on reading, reflecting and mental labor; with vomiting; like a dimness before eyes (Gelsem.); in attacks, with obscured vision, roaring in ears and trembling of hands. ▶ Frontal sticking; outward; beneath left eminence. ▶ Pressure in sinciput during stool. ▶ Frontal pain, with shivering; pain in left eminence; F. pain extending towards temples, with tearing, then becoming a tearing outward; F. pain so that she could scarcely look up; stupefying pain in frontal sinuses and upper jaw. ▶ Frontal heaviness. ▶ Tearing in right temple; extending into right eye. ▶ Pressure in left temple. ▶ Heavy pain in vertex. ▶ Tearing in right side of head. ▶ Tearing jerking in right side. ▶ Pressure in occiput, with hot ears.

Inflamed as in catarrh. ▶ Surrounded by pale blue dirty rings. ▶ Tearing in right, which is red and swimming in tears. ▶ Dryness and burning. ▶ Yellow sclerotics. ▶ Pupils dilated; and sluggish; contracted. ▶ Opening of the lids contracted. ▶ Jerking of right lid. ▶ Burning of canthi, with redness. ▶ Itching of inner canthi; burning I. in outer canthi. ▶ Vision dim; V. weak.

Sticking in left ; S. outward, agg. left. ▶ Tearing in left ; sticking T. outward in left at night. ▶ Cramplike pain. ▶ Ringing; in front of left. ▶ Roaring before ears.

Pinching as if in mucous cavities, extending from root into right zygomatic region. ▶ Itching-crawling and tickling in nose. ▶ Heat within. ▶ Dryness of mucous membrane. ▶ Catarrh alternately dry and fluent.

Red; and hot, with sparkling eyes, heaviness of forehead and oppression of chest. ▶ Earthly, sickly color. ▶ Stupid expression. ▶ Tearing in left half. ▶ Pinching in left side. ▶ Right cheek feels swollen. ▶ Jaw cracked painfully when chewing, as if dislocated; tearing in joints, agg. left, with tension and pinching; pinching in left ramus; numbness. ▶ Lips dry; biting of lips, then burning; burning on "crown" of lower.

Stitches in incisors at night in bed. ▶ Drawing in incisors, then stitches. ▶ Tearing throbbing pain in upper hollow molar. ▶ Toothache in morning on rising. ▶ Incisors pain as if numb and sore. ▶ Teeth feel too long on biting anything hard. ▶ Tongue coated; white, and moist. ▶ (Moderate dryness of tongue, with feeling of "adstriction" of papillæ.). ▶ Tenacious mucus with need of constant spitting. ▶ Salivation; watery. ▶ Taste altered; at one time acute, at another blunted; sweetish, flat, with salivation, nausea and pain in abdomen.

Hawking of mucus; bloody, from choanæ. ▶ Tough mucus in choanæ, causing sensation of a lump. ▶ Tearing, extending to arms and fingers. ▶ (Contraction.).

▶ Unusual hunger (Verat. a.); (in morning in bed). ▶ Craving for a variety of things; C. for fruit (Verat a.); for juicy or sour things. ▶ Appetite at one time diminished, at another ravenous. ▶ Loss of appetite. ▶ Aversion to eating. ▶ Craving for coffee, which unusually good. ▶ Thirst for water in evening, with heat of skin, and especially hot forehead. ▶ Want of thirst.

Eructations; after liquid food; agg. after potatoes; loud; of air; offensive, after fat food; of liquids; (of watery substances, agg. fasting). ▶ Nausea; with pain in abdomen; with salivation, frequent spitting, pain in stomach and abdomen, fermenting in abdomen, frequent ineffectual urging to stool, chilliness, sickly look and ill humor (Verat a.); with threatenings of diarrhœa; with pain and fermentation in abdomen, then diarrhœa; with shivering, cold hands and hot forehead; with confusion of head. ▶ Loud retching. ▶ Vomiting; with diarrhœa (Verat. a.); with trembling; with anxiety; with weakness and sweat.

Epigastric region distended and sensitive. ▶ Fulness of pit. ▶ Sticking. ▶ Cramp in morning fasting. ▶ Contractive pain, and in small intestines. ▶ Pressure in pit and on chest; P. in pit, and sick feeling. ▶ Burning in pit and in abdomen.

Distention and pain, with ravenous hunger. ▶ Emission of flatus. ▶ Frequent flatulence. ▶ Movements of flatus; M. as from diarrhœa. ▶ Wanderings like urging to stool. ▶ Griping; then two soft stools. ▶ Cramp before menses, with dragging from small of back to genitals. ▶ Pain; after every meal; agg. morning fasting; amel. drinking cold water; amel. external warmth and lying down; with diarrhœa; flatulent; crawling, which was a sticking towards præcordium. ▶ Drawing like urging to stool. ▶ Sensitiveness. ▶ Anxiety.

Navel distended to a ball, like umbilical hernia. ▶ Sticking to left side of umbilicus, as from suppuration. ▶ Griping about U. ▶ Twisting in umbilical region and stomach. ▶ Dragging in groins as if a hernia would protrude from both sides; D. towards groins; almost painful dragging towards groins, with swelling of the parts; D. in pelvis, with heaviness. ▶ Drawing inflammatory pain in right groin, agg. touch.

Sticking when sitting. ▶ Pressure. ▶ Sensation in R. and anus as if something alive were moving about. ▶ Itching and tickling. ▶ Heat after diarrhœa. ▶ Desire for stool. ▶ Tenesmus, with protrusion of anus during the usual stool. ▶ Ineffectual urging.

Protrusion like a ring during stool. ▶ Hæmorrhoids protrude during stool. ▶ Sticking in evening. ▶ Proctalgia. ▶ Itching frequently during the day, with tickling.

Diarrhœa; frequent; mucous. ▶ Liquid, two within an hour. ▶ Frequent. ▶ Profuse, with much flatulence. ▶ Delayed and insufficient (later action).

Urethra, discharge of mucus, a kind of blennorrhœa; inflammation and swelling; cutting and sticking; cutting in evening after lying down with smarting in it and with relaxed penis; cutting, after micturition; burning drawing extending from spongy part into glans.

Excitement. ▶ Painful dragging towards genitals and uterus. ▶ Yellow leucorrhœa. ▶ Menstruation too early and profuse, with griping in abdomen and dragging in small of back, extending to genitals.

Sticking; in right; left ; middle; agg. walking, not influenced by breathing; rheumatic drawing S. in pleura, now here, now there. ▶ Cramp in pectoralis major, stitches extending towards axilla. ▶ Pain in right; in left and in spine at insertion of diaphragm. ▶ Oppression, with sighing; O., with weakness of lower limbs on ascending steps. ▶ Heaviness like suffocation, then palpitation. ▶ Pressure upon C.; P. outward through sternum. ▶ Tension in left, beginning below ribs and gradually extending higher, with pinching and intermitting stitches. ▶ Pinching contraction in muscles about right nipple. ▶ Feeling of catarrh.

Sensitiveness of præcordial region. ▶ Palpitation on least exertion.

Rheumatic pain in nape and throat, making stooping difficult. ▶ Pain in loins; on occurrence of menstruation; as if beaten; as if sprained, agg. sitting. ▶ Drawing from loins to anus. ▶ Weight in loins.

Weariness and heaviness preventing sleep. ▶ Bruised pain in shoulders and between them, as after a heavy load, even the clothing in oppressive; B. pain in right shoulder as far as axilla, agg. raising arm. ▶ Arms, tearing, extending forward; boring extending to fingers; rheumatic pains; paralytic drawing; paralytic weakness; paralyzed feeling (Gelsem.); could scarcely be raised. ▶ Tearing in ulna at wrist; in radius at wrist; cramplike T. in right forearm. ▶ Periodic drawing in right forearm, amel. external warmth. ▶ Tearing in wrists. ▶ Rheumatic pain in left wrist. ▶ Sticking in second joint of thumb. ▶ Tearing in fingers, with stiffness; T., so that she could not hold anything; T. in last phalanges, agg. ring finger; in first joint of thumb. ▶ Rheumatic pain in all finger-joints. ▶ Paralytic stiffness of F.

Special withering. ▶ Sticking in left hip when walking. ▶ Pain in hips; as if injured. ▶ Sticking in left knee. ▶ Tearing in knee; left. ▶ Paralytic drawing in knee, with heaviness, hindering walking. ▶ Legs weak, agg. walking; W., with uneasiness, leader heaviness, he feels better sitting with legs resting upon sofa. ▶ Sticking in left ankle. ▶ Sprained pain in left ankle in evening, hindering walking. ▶ Pain in corns.

Pimples on forehead and left temple, with sore pain, they suppurate and leave nodules. ▶ Formication down arms. ▶ Itching biting between middle and ring fingers and between ring and little fingers, with red, hot hands; I. biting on balls of thumbs, they become bluish-red, hot and swollen, with distended veins, which form a bluish-mottled swelling, as after freezing. ▶ Itching on forehead and eyebrow; in palms, with biting; in various places on face and whole body, as if pimples would break out; on back of hands as if an eruption would break out; scraping. ▶ I. on cheeks; burning I. about anus, on nates, perineum, scrotum and hairy parts of genitals, extending thence over almost the whole body, agg. thick parts of thighs.

Yawning; with filling of eyes with water; with stretching; violent, with stretching, sleepiness and creeping chills from hips to calves. ▶ Sleepy early in evening. ▶ Falls asleep late. ▶ Screaming in sleep at night. ▶ Unsound S. ▶ Uneasy S. ▶ Night full of dreams. ▶ Numerous and varied dreams, so that she cannot remember them in the morning. ▶ Dreams immediately if he only slumbers, cries out and awakes.

Chilliness, agg. forenoon, but heat in evening; C., agg. arms, with sweat in palms. ▶ Shivering; about I. side, over scalp, the hair stands on end; over scalp in open air, and in lower limbs, with paralytic drawing in right thigh; over left hip and abdomen, with pain in left side of forehead.

Intolerance of warmth in evening, desire for cold. ▶ Heat, with rapid, hard pulse; H., agg. legs, she must keep them out of bed. ▶ General heat on getting into bed, with dry tongue, without thirst. ▶ General dry heat. ▶ H. in forehead in evening. ▶ H. of face; in evening; during diarrhœa; during stool; of right cheek, with bluish redness, also with swelling, itching, tension and crawling as if frozen. ▶ Sweat on slightest motion.