Eryngium Aquaticum ery-a.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Button Snake-root

General

A remedy for urinary disorders. Strangury, etc, with nervous erethism. Thick, yellow mucous discharges. Influenza. Uridrosis, sweat of urinous odor in evening.

Respiratory

Cough, with sense of constriction. Smarting in throat and larynx.

Urinary

Tenesmus of bladder and urethra. Difficult and frequent micturition. Pain behind pubes. Spasmodic stricture. Renal colic (Pareira; Calc). Congestion of kidneys with dull pain in back, running down the ureters and limbs. Irritable bladder from enlarged prostate gland, or from pressure of uterus.

Male

Discharge of prostatic fluid from slight causes. Seminal emissions without erections, with lassitude (Dioscor; Phos ac).

Relationship

Compare: Conium; Cannab; Dios; Ocim; Clemat.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Button Snake-root. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of fresh root.

Clinical

Anus, prolapse of. Conjunctivitis. Constipation. Cough. Diarrhœa. Dropsy. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhoids. Influenza. Laryngitis. Leucorrhœa. Renal colic. Sclerotitis. Sexual weakness. Strabismus. Spermatorrhœa. Urine, incontinence of. Wounds.

Characteristics

Eryngium acts on the mucous membranes, producing thick yellow mucous discharges from eyes, ears, nose, mouth, bowels, urethra, and vagina. Hæmorrhages from stomach and bowels. It is a vulnerary, antidoting the effect of blows. It causes headaches; expanding sensation in forehead; dull, dragging pain in occiput, neck, and shoulders. Seminal and prostatic weakness. I. J. Whitfield has cured three cases of renal colic with calculi (two left side, the other not stated) with Eryng. a . W. K. Leonard reports the following case: A young Methodist minister, apparently healthy, was just over his twelfth attack of renal colic. The attacks had recurred at intervals of two to four weeks and lasted from one to three days, and they were so weakening as to keep him incapacitated in the intervals. He had had old-school treatment, including Morphine and Quinine, with no benefit. Eryng. a . Ø, five drops three times a day, put an end to the trouble. The attacks had been attended with severe nervous chills, and it was for these that the Quinine had been prescribed. Eryng . has a cough with a sense of constriction. (Hale found it useful in epidemic influenza when there was raw smarting burning in throat and larynx, with constant irritating cough and expectoration of yellow mucus.) Loss of energy and nervous erethism. Most symptoms occur on left side, and extend or move from part to part. Motion < all symptoms. Bending head forward < head symptoms; turning eyes = pain in them. < From mental exertion. Heat > .

Relations

Eryngium compares with the other Umbelliferæ: with Æthus. in inability to concentrate thoughts; with Conium as a vulnerary; in discharge of prostatic fluid from slight causes. Compare: In pollutions, Chi., Gels., Phos. In urinary and urethral affections, Cannab. sat., Canthar., Dioscorea, Ocim. can. In constipation and rectal symptoms, Nit. ac. In influenza, Gelsem., Sticta.

Mind

Thoughts confused; cannot concentrate them on any subject; the effort = heavy full pain if persisted in.

Head

Vertigo. ─ Expanding sensation in frontal region above eyes, < stooping; causing dimness of sight. ─ Sharp, shooting pain over l. eye; when sitting in stooping posture, leaves eye, passes into neck and along muscles of shoulder, and beneath scapula. ─ Shooting in coronary region and in r. side of face from eyes to teeth in morning. ─ Dull dragging pain in occiput, neck, and shoulders; when less severe in head, is worse in shoulder. ─ Scalp sore, combing hair = pain.

Eyes

Burning; sensitive to light. ─ Effects of exposure to strong light: squinting; sclerotitis; watery or, purulent discharges. ─ Purulent inflammation of l. eye; purulent, sticking discharge causing gumming of lids; conjunctiva granular and rough. ─ Muscles of eyes feel stiff, pain on moving them quickly.

Ears

Bruised tearing pain; as if ears being torn off. ─ Inflammation of Eustachian tube; l. ear swollen in and out, tender to pressure, constant aching, bleeding readily, thick white, bloody, foul-smelling pus. ─ Continued singing and ringing, with creaking sound in l. ear.

Nose

Profuse thick yellow mucous discharge.

Mouth

Thick, tenacious, disagreeable mucus in mouth.

Throat

Smarting raw pain along l. side of throat; dry tongue. ─ Intense redness; slight swelling without pain; profuse secretion of thick whitish mucus.

Stomach

Partial anorexia. ─ Nausea followed by acrid eructations. ─ Hollowness or emptiness in stomach with heavy dragging pain. ─ Spitting up of bright arterial blood, mixed with black clots, with burning in epigastrium after a blow on stomach. ─ Burning in stomach or œsophagus after taking the drug.

Abdomen

Severe colicky or cramping pains in small intestines. ─ Severe pain in l. groin and testicle.

Stool and Anus

Mucous diarrhœa of children. ─ Constipation. ─ Stools dark leaden colour, dry, and very hard; tenesmus at stool with a sensation of cutting as they pass through anus. ─ Hæmorrhoids and prolapsus ani.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to urinate; stinging burning pain in urethra, behind glans, during urination. ─ Must urinate every five minutes; urine dropping away all the time and burning like fire. ─ Renal colic.

Male Sexual Organs

Desire suppressed, then excited with lewd dreams and pollutions. ─ Discharge of prostatic fluid from slightest causes. ─ Spermatorrhœa from onanism and excessive indulgence. ─ Emissions at night with erections; followed by great lassitude and depression; partial impotence. ─ Emissions without erections, day and night, followed by great lassitude; after injury to testicles. ─ Gonorrhœa with painful erections. ─ Gleet.

Female Sexual Organs

Leucorrhœa.

Respiratory Organs

Chronic laryngitis; short, hacking cough. ─ Cough with sensation of constriction in throat. ─ Oppression of chest, feeling of fulness, inability to take a long breath.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Button Snakeroot. Umbelliferæ.
An indigenous plant, growing in low, wet places ; flowers in August.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh root.
Provings by C. H. McClelland, Coggswell and Jones. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 213 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Incontinence of urine , Barenburg, Organon, vol. 3, p. 367 ; Spermatorrhœa (2 cases), Parks, Thomas' Add. to Mat. Med., p. 49.

Mind

Very sober and depressed in spirits ; very dull at night.
Not able to think steadily on any subject.
Thoughts confused ; cannot concentrate them upon any subject without much exertion ; causes heavy full pain in persisted in.

Sensorium

Vertigo.

Inner head

Expanding sensation in frontal region above eyes, < stooping.
Continual dull heavy pain in frontal portion of brain.
Severe pain in frontal region, causing dimness of sight.
Frontal headache on rising.
Reading or writing causes hard, heavy pain in forehead ; < stooping.
Pain in head, < by lowering it or thinking intently upon and subject ; pain especially in frontal region and more particularly over left eye, of a sharp and shooting character ; when sitting in stooping posture it leaves eye, passes into neck and along muscles of shoulder, and beneath scapula, where it remains for some time.
Shooting pains in coronary region, and in right side of face, from eyes to teeth, in morning.
Dull dragging pain in occiput, neck and shoulders.

Outer head

Scalp sore to touch, combing hair causes pain.

Sight and eyes

Dull expression of eyes, great inclination to sleep.
Eyes sensitive to light.
Burning pain in eyes, they feel heavy and slightly congested.
Sclerotitis ; smarting burning sensation, with heavy aching pains, produced by strong light ; squinting on exposure to strong light ; tearing burning pains in eyes ; watery or purulent discharge.
Purulent inflammation of left eye ; congested, red, swollen tender to pressure ; constant dull aching, > by heat profuse discharge of purulent, sticky fluid, glueing lids together, and flowing on cheek from all parts of eyelid ; conjunctiva granulated and rough.
Muscles of eye feel stiff, pain on turning them quickly.
Severe tearing, boring pain over left eye.

Hearing and ears

Continued ringing, singing with cracking sound in left ear.
Bruised tearing pain about ears, as if they were being torn from their location.
Inflammation of Eustachian tube ; left ear swollen in and out, tender to pressure, constant aching pain, bleeding readily, thick, white, bloody, foul-smelling pus.

Smell and nose

Profuse thick, yellow, mucous discharge from nose.

Upper face

Shooting pains in right side of face from eye to teeth.

Inner mouth

Thick, tenacious, disagreeable mucus in mouth.

Palate and throat

Smarting raw pain along left side of throat ; dry tongue.
Intense redness and congestion of mucous membrane of throat, slight swelling without pain, profuse secretion of thick, whitish mucus.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Partial anorexia.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea followed by acrid eructations.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Hollowness or emptiness in stomach, with heavy, dragging pain.
Spitting up of bright arterial blood, mixed with black clots, with burning in epigastrium, after a blow on stomach.

Abdomen and loins

Severe colicky or cramping pain in small intestines.
Severe pain in left groin and testicle.

Stools and rectum

Bowels constipated.
Mucous diarrhœa of children.
Tenesmus at stool ; feces seem to be cut as they pass through anus.
Hemorrhoids and prolapsus ani.

Urinary organs

Frequent desire to urinate ; stinging burning pain in urethra, behind glans during urination.
Must urinate every five minutes ; urine dripping away all the time, and burning like fire.

Male sexual organs

Sexual desire suppressed, then excited, with lewd dreams and pollutions.
Discharge of prostatic fluid from slightest causes.
Involuntary emissions occasioned by onanism or excessive sexual indulgence.
Emissions at night with erections ; semen also passed by day with urine ; loss of semen followed by great lassitude and depression, lasting from twelve to forty-eight hours ; partial impotence.
Emissions of semen without erections, day and night, and followed by great lassitude ; after injury to testicles.
Gonorrhœa with painful erections.
Gleet.

Female sexual organs

Leucorrhœa.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Laryngeal irritations ; short, hacking cough.
Chronic laryngitis.

Cough

Cough, with sensation of constriction in throat.

Inner chest and lungs

Oppression of chest, feeling of fulness, inability to take a full breath.

Neck and back

When pain in head is less severe, it is worse in neck and shoulders.
Weakness and heavy dragging pain in lumbar region.

Lower limbs

Lower extremities languid and heavy, with profuse perspiration on walking.

Limbs in general

Transient rheumatic pains in left shoulder and arm, also right wrist and hand.

Rest. position. motion

Sitting in stooping posture : pain leaves eye and passes to neck and shoulders.
Stooping : expanding sensation above eyes < ; heavy pain in forehead <.
Lowering head : < pain in head.
Rising : frontal headache.
Turning eyes : causes pain in them.
Walking : causes profuse perspiration.

Nerves

Slight erethism of nervous system Loss of energy.

Time

Morning : shooting pains in right side of face.
By day : semen passes ; emissions without erections.
Night : very dull in spirits ; emissions without erections.

Temperature and weather

Heat : < dull aching in left eye.

Fever

Flashes of heat.

Attacks, periodicity

Every five minutes : must urinate.
From twelve to forty-eight hours : great lassitude after loss of semen.

Locality and direction

Left : pain over eye ; inflammation of eye ; severe tearing boring pain over eye ; constant ringing, singing and cracking sound in ear ; ear swollen ; ear tender to pressure ; pain along side of throat ; pain in groin and testicle ; rheumatic pains in shoulder.
Right : pain in face ; pain in side of face ; rheumatic pain in wrist and hand.

Sensations

As if ears wee being torn from their location.
Pain : in head ; in forehead ; over left eye.
Erratic pains : all over body.
Tearing pain : in eyes ; about ears.
Severe pain : in frontal region ; in left groin ; in testicle.
Severe boring pain : over left eye.
Hard pain : in forehead.
Sharp shooting pain : over left eye ; extending to neck and shoulders ; in coronary region ; right side of face from eye to teeth.
Stinging pain : in urethra.
Colicky pain : in small intestines.
Cramping pain : in small intestines.
Constriction : of throat.
Burning pain : in eyes ; in epigastrium ; in urethra.
Bruised pain : about ears.
Dull dragging pain in occiput ; in neck ; in shoulders ; in stomach ; in lumbar region.
Rheumatic pains : in left shoulder ; in left arm ; in wrist ; in right hand.
Aching pain : in left ear.
Dull, heavy pain : in frontal part of brain.
Heavy aching : in eye.
Smarting : in eyes ; along left side of throat.
Soreness : of scalp.
Oppression : of chest.
Ringing : in ears.
Singing : in ears.
Cracking sound in left ear.
Expanding sensation in frontal region.

Tissues

Dropsy of an asthenic character.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : scalp sore.
Pressure : left eye tender ; left ear tender to pressure.
After a blow ; burning in epigastrium.
After injury to testicles : emissions without erections, followed by lassitude.

Stage of life, constitution

Married man, after injury to testicles by jumping upon a horse, for fifteen years ; spermatorrhœa.
Married man, not conscious of having sustained any injury, seminal emissions for eight or ten years.
Man, æt. 82 ; incontinence of urine.

Relations

Compare in pollutions Cinchona, Gelsem., Phosphor .