Eupatorium Perfoliatum eup-per.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

BONES. Stomach. Liver. Occiput. Bronchiæ. Muscles: Chest. Back. Limbs.

Worse

COLD AIR. Motion. PERIODICALLY: 7-9 A.M. 3rd. or 7th. day. Lying on part. Coughing. Smell or sight of food.

Better

Vomiting bile. Sweating. Lying on face.

General

VIOLENT, ACHING, BONE-BREAKING PAINS (Coccl. Pyro. Rut.). Bruised, sore ache, < back. Restless, chilly and nauseated. Colds. Grippe; and catarrhal sequelæ. Bilious effects; yellow eyes, face, vomit, etc. Weakness.

Particulars

Vertigo; sways to left; < lying on r. side; > vomiting. Sore throbbing head pains, < occiput; alternating with gouty pains. Sensation as of a metal cap on head. Migraine. Vomits bile at height of head pains, then >. Sore, aching eye-balls. Sneezing. Thirst, but drinks excite bitter vomiting or chill. Whitish stools. Urine now profuse, now scanty. Hoarse in A.M. Painful cough, from a laryngeal tickle; it hurts head; must hold chest. Raw, hot, sore chest and bronchi. Intense backache; as if beaten; ascending. Aching lower limbs. Bruised pain in calves. Dropsy of legs. Painful, gouty nodes. Thirst or nausea, then violent shaking chill; begins in small of back. Bitter vomiting, after chill or during heat. Burning heat. Scanty sweat. Malaria. Catarrhal fevers.

Related

Complementary: Nat-m. Sep. Related: Bry. Nux-v.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Adapted to diseases of old people; worn-out constitutions, especially from inebriety; cachexia, from prolonged or frequent attacks of bilious or intermittent fevers. Bruised feeling, as if broken, all over the body (Arn., Bellis, Pyr.). Bone pains affecting back, head, chest, limbs, especially the wrists, as if dislocated. The more general and severe, the better adapted (compare, Bry., Mer.). Painful soreness of eyeballs; coryza, aching in every bone; great prostration in epidemic influenza (Lac. c.). Pains come quickly and go quickly and go away quickly (Bell., Mag. p., Eup. pur.). Vertigo; sensation as if falling to the left (cannot turn the head to the left for fear of alling, Col.). Cough: chronic; loose with hectic; chest sore, must support it with hands (Bry., Nat. c.); < at night; following measles or suppressed intermittents. Fever: chill to 9 a. m. one day, at noon the next day; bitter vomiting at close of chill; drinking hastens chill and causes vomiting; bone pains, before and during chill. Insatiable thirst before and during chill and fever; knows chill is coming because he cannot drink enough.

Relations

Is followed well: by, Nat. m. and Sep. Compare: Chel., Pod., Lyc., in jaundiced conditions. Bryonia is the nearest analogue, having free sweat, but pains keep patient quiet; while Eup. has scanty sweat and pains make patient restless.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

In chills and fever, when chill comes on in the morning, with great pain in the bones, as though the bones would break; long bones particularly; then comes thirst, then chill with thirst, and as chill subsides, comes copious vomiting of bile.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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Red line symptom

Intense soreness and aching in the limbs, as if bruised or beaten. With chill more shivering than degree of coldness warrants; thirst several hours before the chill, which continues during the chill and heat.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Thoroughwort

General

Known as "Bone-set", from the prompt manner in which it relieves pain in limbs and muscles that accompanies some forms of febrile disease, like malaria and influenza. Eupatorium acts principally upon the gastro-hepatic organs and bronchial mucous membrane. It is a boon in miasmatic districts, along rivers, marshes, etc, and in all conditions where there is a great deal of bone-pain. Cachexia from old chronic, bilious intermittents. Worn-out constitutions from inebriety. Sluggishness of all organs and functions. Bone-pains, general and severe. Soreness. Marked periodicity (Ars; China; Cedron).

Head

Throbbing pain. Pressure as if a cap of lead pressed over the whole skull. Vertigo; sensation of falling to left. Vomiting of bile. Top and back of head with pain and soreness of eyeballs. Periodical headache, every third and seventh day. Occipital pain after lying down, with sense of weight.

Mouth

Cracks in corners of mouth, yellow coated tongue, thirst.

Stomach

Tongue yellow. Taste bitter. Hepatic region sore. Great thirst. Vomiting and purging of bile, of green liquid several quarts at a time. Vomiting preceded by thirst. Hiccough (Sulph ac; Hydrocy ac). Avoids tight clothing.

Stool

Frequent, green watery. Cramps. Constipated, with sore liver.

Respiratory

Coryza, with sneezing. Hoarseness and cough, with soreness in chest; must support it. Influenza, with great soreness of muscles and bones. Chronic loose cough, chest sore; worse at night. Cough relieved by getting on hands and knees.

Fever

Perspiration relieves all symptoms except headache. Chill between 7 and 9 am, preceded by thirst with great soreness and aching of bones. Nausea, vomiting of bile at close of chill or hot stage; throbbing headache. Knows chill is coming on because he cannot drink enough.

Extremities

Aching pain in back. Aching in bones of extremities with soreness of flesh. Aching in arms and wrists. Swelling of left great toe. Gouty soreness and inflamed nodosities of joints, associated with headache. Dropsical swelling.

Modalities

Worse, periodically. Better, by conversation, by getting on hands and knees.

Relationship

Compare: Bryon; Sepia; Natr mur; Chelidon. Nyctanthes arbor-tristis (bilious fever; insatiable thirst; bitter vomiting at close of chill; also constipation of children).

Dose

Tincture, to third attenuation.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Painful soreness of eyeballs; coryza; aching in every bone; prostration in epidemic of influenza (La Grippe).

Deep hard achings as if in the bones, with sore, bruised feeling all over, back, arms, wrists, legs.

Vomiting of bile between chill and heat. Chill 7 to 9 A. M.

Hoarseness in the morning, with soreness in chest when coughing; holds it with his hands.

When writing upon Arnica, I there compared several remedies which have a sensation as if bruised. This remedy might also have been mentioned there, as it has "Bruised feeling as if broken, all over the body." (Arnica, Bellis, Pyrogen.) The bruised feeling of Eupatorium is accompanied with a deep hard aching, as if in the bones.

Let us quote some of the symptoms illustrating: "Intense aching in the limbs and back as if the bones were broken." "Aching in the bones of the extremities, with soreness of the flesh; soreness of the bones." "Soreness and aching of the arms and forearms; painful soreness in both wrists as if broken or dislocated." "Soreness and aching of lower limbs; stiffness and general soreness when rising to walk." "Calves of the legs feel as if they had been beaten." "Aching pains as if in the bones, with moaning." These symptoms are all characteristic and may be found in influenza, bilious or intermittent fever, bronchitis, especially of the aged, and many other diseases. This is what gave the popular name "bone-set" to Eupatorium, because on account of the severe aching, as if the bones were broken, that occurred in an epidemic of intermittent fever this was the remedy that cured, or "set the bones." The epidemic was called break-bone fever. Of course this curative property of the drug was then discovered by accident, but abundant proving and verification have demonstrated the homœopathicity of such cures. So with Apis in dropsies. If this remedy has no curative properties other than it has for intermittent it would still remain a priceless boon to Homœopathy. It cures a kind of intermittent for which the great anti-periodic (Quinine) of the old school can do little or nothing. Three characteristics stand out prominently, to indicate the cases in which it is appropriate:

1st. As to time of chill -7 to 9 A. M.

2d. The intense aching in the bones before the chill.

3d. Vomiting of bile between chill and heat.

There are, of course, other symptoms which may appear in a Eupatorium case, but these three are a sure guide, and many authentic cures corroborate the genuineness. This remedy is also very useful in diseases of the respiratory organs. In the so-called la grippe of recent years it has proven in my hands very valuable; the "aching all over as if in the bones" being the leading symptom.

It also has hoarseness in the morning, like Causticum but while Causticum has more burning and rawness Eupatorium has more soreness in the chest; Ranunculus bulb. has pain in the chest when walking, turning, from touch or weather changing; when coughing has to support the chest with the hands, it hurts so (Bryonia, Drosera, Kreosot., Natrum sul., Sepia). Both remedies have aching in the bones especially in influenza or la grippe, but Eupatorium the most. If either of these remedies fails to cure the hoarseness, Sulphur will often complement them. Altogether, Eupatorium is to be remembered in many diseases having these characteristic symptoms. Eupatorium is especially adapted to worn out constitutions of old people or inebriates. Bryonia is near analogue, having free sweat, but pains keep patient quiet, while Eupatorium has scanty sweat, but pains make the patient restless.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Head

Headache and nausea every other morning, when awaking. Soreness and pulsation on the back part of the head. Heat on the top of the head.

Eyes

Great aversion to light.

Face

Redness of the face, with dry skin.

Mouth and Throat

Paleness ; of the mucous membrane of the mouth. Tongue covered with white fur. Soreness of the corners ; of the mouth.

Stomach and Abdomen

Vomiting immediately after drinking, and preceded by thirst. Vomiting of bile, with trembling and great nausea, causing great prostration. Tight clothing is oppressive. Soreness in the region of the liver.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, with catarrh. Morning diarrhœa.

Urinary Organs

Dark-brown, scanty urine, depositing a whitish, clay-like sediment. Itching of the mons veneris.

Respiratory Organs

Hectic cough, from suppressed intermittent fever. Cough, with flushed face and tearful eyes. Difficulty of breathing, attended with perspiration, anxious countenance, sleeplessness. Inability to lie on the left side.

Extremities

Upper. Heat in the hands, sometimes with perspiration. Lower. Dropsical swelling of both feet and ankles. Heat in the soles of the feet, in the morning.

Fever

The intermittent fever paroxysm generally commences in the morning. Thirst a long time before the chill, which continues during the chill and heat. At the conclusion of the chill, vomiting of bile, or every draught. Pain in the bones (as if broken) all over, before the commencement of the chill. Headache, backache and thirst during the chill. Chilliness, with excessive trembling and nausea. Aching pains, with moaning during the cold stage. During the chill and heat, throbbing headache. The chill is induced or hastened by taking a drink of cold water. Great weakness and prostration during the fever. Headache and trembling during the heat. Vomiting of bile at the close of the hot stage. The fever goes off by perspiration and sleep. Coldness during nocturnal perspiration. Distressing pain in the scrobiculus cordis, throughout the chill and heat. During the apyrexia, loose cough.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Eupatorium perfoliatum. Boneset. Thoroughwort. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole plant.

Clinical

Anus, herpes of. Back, pain in. Bilious fever. Bones, pains in . Cough. Dengue . Diarrhœa. Fractures. Gout. Hiccough. Hoarseness. Indigestion. Influenza. Intermittent fever . Jaundice. Liver, soreness of. Measles. Mouth, cracks of. Ophthalmia. Relapsing fever . Remittent fever. Rheumatism. Ringworm. Spotted fever. Syphilitic pains. Thirst. Wounds.

Characteristics

Eupat. perfol . is an old-world remedy, having been recommended by Dioscorides for ill-conditioned ulcers, dysentery, stings of reptiles, chronic fevers, obstructed liver. The leading characteristic for its homœopathic use is the distressing bone-pains it causes, such as are found in connection with malarial fevers and influenza. Soreness will be found running throughout the proving: headache with soreness internally, parietal protuberances sore; with pain and soreness in eyeballs; cough with extreme soreness down trachea, soreness of chest, aching in limbs throughout the body. A characteristic cough of Eup. perf . has > by getting on hands and knees. W. P. Defriez reports a case in point: Every winter for several years the patient had been annoyed by a dry, hacking cough, with paroxysms lasting some time, only relieved by getting on hands and knees. Eupat. Perfol . cured. The chills of Eu. perf . begin in the small of the back, with aching in the limbs as though every bone in the body were being broken; high fever with increased aching, followed by sweat scanty or profuse; sweat > all pains except headache, which is < . Periodicity is marked. There may be a double periodicity: Chill morning one day, evening the next. The liver is strongly affected by Eup. perfol .; bilious vomiting and diarrhœa; bilious sick-headaches; cough arising from irritation of liver. Catarrhal symptoms are prominent. Nocturnal loose cough. Hoarseness with aching soreness of trachea. Hoarse, rough cough with scraping in bronchia. Cough with soreness, compelling the patient to hold his chest with his hands. Stiffness and general soreness. Cannot twist body either while standing, sitting, or lying. Cannot lie in bed on account of a feeling as if every bone was bruised, causing despair, moaning, and crying out. Bone-pains of all descriptions appear under Eupat. perf . Sleepiness and yawning. Sensation as if falling to left. Pain and extreme tenderness of left glutei muscles. Hale describes the fever of E. perfol . as follows: "The chill is nearly always in the morning , and is preceded for several hours by thirst , soreness and aching of the bones. The thirst continues during the chill and heat. The chill is attended by nausea, vomiting of bile, intense aching and soreness in the flesh of the extremities, and often all over the body. These symptoms continue during the heat, especially the vomiting, which is often painful and incessant. The heat is apt to be prolonged until evening or into the night, and may be followed or not by sweat (with chilliness). If no sweating occurs the apyrexia is short and attended by chilliness, nausea, thirst, and debility, showing that the febrile action never altogether subsides, giving a true type of Remittent fever ─ a fever in which Boneset is often our best remedy, especially if occurring in summer and autumn, and is attended by very severe bilious symptoms." Lying on back < cough. Kneeling with face towards pillow > cough. Rising up > headache. Eating = violent distressing pains which are only relieved by vomiting. There is intense thirst, but drinking cold water = shuddering and vomiting of bile. Chilliness predominates, wants to be covered; > in house, < in open air; < after being in ice-house. I have found Eup. perf . most useful in influenza.

Relations

Bryonia is the closest analogue; but Bryonia has free sweat, and the pains make the patient keep still. Eup. perfol. ─ has scanty sweat, and its pains cause restlessness. Compare also: Arn., Caps., Chel., Symph., Podoph., and Lycop.; nausea from smell of food, Colch. Compatible: Nat. mur. and Sepia, which also follow well.

Mind

Feels at night as if going out of his mind. ─ Moaning; anxiety; despondency. ─ Very restless; cannot keep still, though wishes to.

Head

Early in morning whirling around in brain as if he had been whirled in cool screen: repeated after a short cessation. ─ Headache with a sensation of soreness internally; > in the house; < when first going into the open air; > by conversation. ─ Headache and nausea every other morning, when awaking. ─ Pain in occiput after lying, with sense of weight; must aid with hand in lifting head. ─ Beating pain in forehead and occiput, after rising. ─ Soreness and pulsation on the back part of the head. ─ Heat on the top of the head. ─ Violent headache, comes on before the chill rid lasts through all the stages, and is worst during the sweat.

Eyes

Painful soreness of eyeballs. ─ Great aversion to light. ─ Painful soreness of lids.

Nose

Coryza, with sneezing; aching in every bone.

Mouth

Paleness of the mucous membrane of the mouth. ─ Tongue covered with white fur. ─ Soreness of the corners of the mouth.

Stomach

Nausea from smell of food or cooking. ─ Indigestion from alcohol, of old people. ─ Thirst for cold water. ─ Thirst for large draughts of cold water before and during chill. ─ Vomiting immediately after drinking, and preceded by thirst. ─ Nausea and vomiting of food. ─ Vomiting after every draught. ─ Vomiting of bile, with trembling and great nausea, causing great prostration. ─ Tight clothing is oppressive.

Abdomen

Soreness in region of liver; on moving or coughing. ─ Colicky pains in upper abdomen, with headache and other pains. ─ Abdomen full and tympanitic.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, with catarrh. ─ Morning diarrhœa. ─ Purging stools, with smarting and heat in anus.

Urinary Organs

Dark-coloured, clear urine. ─ Dark-brown, scanty urine, depositing a whitish, clay-like sediment. ─ Itching of the mons veneris.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness. ─ Hoarseness < mornings; soreness in trachea and bronchia. ─ Cough with soreness and heat in bronchia; flushed face, and tearful eyes. ─ Hacking cough in the evening. ─ Cough from a cold, < 2 to 4 am.; excited by tickling in chest, causing tightness of chest; cough < lying on back, > kneeling with face towards pillow; scanty expectoration; painful fulness in head on coughing or blowing nose; lowness of spirits. ─ Hectic cough, from suppressed intermittent fever. ─ Difficulty of breathing, attended with perspiration, anxious countenance, sleeplessness. ─ Soreness in chest; < from inspiration. ─ Inability to lie on the l. side. ─ Sharp pain through r. chest on deep inspiration; feels at night as if going out of his mind; disturbed breathing frightens him.

Heart

Pressure as if heart was in too small a space. ─ Pain, soreness, and heaviness behind sternum and in cardiac region; < by least motion or turning body around.

Neck and Back

Beating pain in nape and occiput; better after rising. ─ Aching pain in the back, as from a bruise. ─ Weakness in small of back. ─ Trembling in back during fever.

Limbs

Aching in bones with soreness of the flesh. ─ Intense soreness and aching in limbs, as if bruised or beaten. ─ Wrists pain as if broken or dislocated. ─ Heat in the hands, sometimes with perspiration. ─ Dropsical swelling of both feet and ankles. ─ Heat in the soles of the feet, in the morning.

Skin

Jaundice.

Sleep

Stretching and yawning; yawning before chill; sleepiness with difficult breathing. ─ Has to lie with head high. ─ Headache on awaking.

Fever

Thirst a long time before the chill, which continues during the chill and heat. ─ At the conclusion of the chill, vomiting of bile, or after every draught. ─ Pain in the bones (as if broken) all over, before the commencement of the chill. ─ Headache, backache, and thirst during the chill. ─ During the chill and heat, throbbing headache. ─ The chill is induced or hastened by taking a drink of cold water. ─ Distressing pain in the scrobiculus cordis, throughout the chill and heat. ─ Aching pains, with moaning during the cold stage. ─ Coldness during nocturnal perspiration. ─ Chilliness throughout the night and morning; trembling and nausea from least motion; intense aching and soreness in back and limbs; more shivering than the degree of coldness warrants. ─ The intermittent fever paroxysm generally commences in the morning. ─ Fever commences in morning; attended with painfulness, trembling, weakness, and soreness; but little or no perspiration. ─ Great weakness and prostration during the fever. ─ Headache and trembling during the heat. ─ Vomiting of bile at the close of the hot stage. ─ Vomiting of bile after the chill. ─ The fever goes off by perspiration and sleep. During the apyrexia, loose cough. ─ When there is perspiration it relieves all the symptoms except the headache.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Feels at night as if he was going out of his mind.
Moaning : with the aching pain ; during cold stage.
Anxious countenance.
Despondency, with fever.
Anxiety, despair, depression.
Headache > by conversation.

Sensorium

Faintness from motion, during fever.
Early in morning an attack of whirling around in brain, or, as he described it, "as if he had been placed in a coal screen and whirled around two or three times, repeated after a short cessation".
Sensation as if falling to the left.
Vertigo on attempting to rise in bed.

Inner head

Aching in forehead.
Throbbing headache, pain extending from forehead to occiput, < left side.
Beating pain in forehead and occiput, > after rising.
Darting pains through temples, with sensation of blood rushing across head.
Shooting from left to right side of head.
Thumping in side of head above right ear.
Painful soreness in right parietal protuberance.
Heat on top of head, with pain, > by pressure.
Distress on top and in back part of head.
Soreness and pulsation in back part of head.
Intense pain in occiput ; distress.
Beating pain in nape and occiput ; > after rising.
Pain in occiput after lying, with sense of weight, must aid with hand in lifting head.
Headache, with sensation of soreness internally, > in the house, < when first going into open air, > by conversation.
Violent pain in head and back before chill or during chill.
Throbbing headache during chill and heat.
Headache and trembling during hot stage. θ Intermittent.
Headache and nausea every other morning, when awaking.
Nervous headache ; hemicrania.
Sick headache : when first awaking, continuing all day ; every other morning.
Suitable to bilious headache ; also headaches of persons suffering from ague.
Headache arising from disordered stomach.

Outer head

Heat on top of head, with buzzing in ears.
Right parietal protuberance sore.
Insupportable heaviness in head.
Head drawn spasmodically backwards. θ Spotted fever.
Tinea capitis.

Sight and eyes

Great aversion to light.
(In sick :) Dimness over eyes when looking at small things ; could not sew for a whole week, all being dark.
Intense pain darting through eyes, as from needles ; eyes not inflamed.
Painful soreness of eyeballs.
Eyes glistened.
Sclerotica yellowish red.
Increased lachrymation, with cough.
Redness of margins of lids, with glutinous secretion from Meibomean glands.
Lachrymation and photophobia, left eye worse. θ Conjunctivitis.

Hearing and ears

Buzzing in ears ; heat on top of head.
Could hear everything while seemingly in profound sleep, but could not speak.

Smell and nose

The smell of food, odors and cooking produced qualmishness.
(In sick :) Nose very dry and stopped up.
Fluent coryza ; sneezing ; hoarseness.
Coryza, with aching in every bone.
Catarrh, with sore fauces ; with costiveness.
Influenza : with weakness of pulse and great prostration ; with pain in bones ; with pain in back and limbs ; lassitude ; skin bathed in perspiration ; surface pale and morbidly sensitive ; of old people and
inebriates.
Epidemic influenza.

Upper face

Anxious countenance with difficulty of breathing.
Sickly, sallow countenance.
Pale and stretchy.
Face : pale, sunken ; cholera like.
Cough, with flushed face and painful eyes.
Flushed face : with dry, hot skin ; during the fever ; with cough ; flushes of heat.
Redness of cheeks, with dry skin.
Face of a dull red color.
During heat face is of a dull mahogany-red color, and eyes glisten ; sclerotica yellow.
Sudden severe contraction of muscles of right cheek.

Lower face

Cracks in corners of mouth : yellow-coated tongue ; thirst.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : bitter ; insipid.
Tastelessness of food ; want of appetite.
Tongue coated yellow, or covered with white fur.

Inner mouth

Paleness of mucous membrane of mouth.
Breath smells mouldy, sourish.

Palate and throat

Fauces sore, dryness of throat.
Soreness of fauces, with catarrh.
Throat dry ; at times becomes hoarse and loses her voice.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Good appetite every intervening day ; other days sick headache.
Canine hunger with or before ague, or after quinine.
Longs for ice-cream.
Disgust for food.
Anorexia of drunkards.
Very thirsty during chill and heat ; took only a little sip of water at a time.
Thirst for cold water.
Thirst throughout night before paroxysm. θ Tertian ague.
Thirst a long time before chill, continues during chill and heat ; no thirst during sweat.
Thirst, sometimes for warm drinks, from one to three hours before chill ; knows chill is coming because he cannot drink enough.
Desire for acid drinks.

Eating and drinking

After eating : violent distressing pains ; no ease until all is vomited.
Insatiable thirst, but drinking causes nausea and vomiting, and hastens the chill.
After drinking cold water : shuddering ; vomiting bile.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations : of bitter, tasteless wind, with feeling of obstruction in epigastrium.
Qualmishness from odors, the smell of food, cooking, etc.
Sick stomach, with headache.
Nausea from least motion, with chilliness.
Nausea with excessive trembling and chilliness.
Sick stomach, night before ague paroxysm.
Nausea and sense of extreme prostration, not real.
Distressing disposition to vomit, and weakness of stomach.
Nausea as the chill goes off.
Nausea and vomiting of food.
Nausea and sickness of stomach (in one case vomiting) at beginning of heat, with violent, throbbing headache.
Nausea and vomiting, with free perspiration and copious expectoration.
Vomiting preceded by thirst.
Vomiting immediately after drinking.
Vomiting : of whatever is taken into stomach, and of bile or mucus.
Vomiting if bile with great tenderness in epigastrium, and trembling.
Vomiting : preceding, during, or at conclusion of chill ; during fever ; of bile at close of hot stage.
Retching and vomiting of bile.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Extreme tenderness in epigastrium.
Beating in epigastrium at night.
Distressing pain in scrobiculum during chill and heat.
Sensation of something in stomach that ought to come up, without ability to raise it.
Weakness of stomach after the chill.
Sensation of fulness in stomach.
General shuddering proceeding from stomach.
Heat in the stomach.
Most violent pains in stomach after eating something ; no rest until all is vomited up again, aided by drinking warm water.
Indigestion consequent on the use of alcoholic drinks.
Indigestion of old people.

Hypochondria

Soreness in region of liver.
Fulness and tenderness in hepatic region, with stitches and soreness on moving and coughing.
Tightness in left hypochondrium.
Tight clothing is oppressive.

Abdomen and loins

Soreness around waist ; tight clothing oppressive.
Violent colicky pains in upper abdomen, with headache and other pains.
Abdomen full and tympanitic.

Stools and rectum

Tenesmus, with small discharge of loose stool.
Purging stools, with smarting and heat in anus.
Considerable griping, < after stool, with tenesmus.
Emission of fetid flatus, with relief.
Morning diarrhœa.
Frequent green, watery stools.
Profuse bilious, watery stools, with nausea and severe colic ; prostration.
Constipation, with catarrh.
Smarting and heat in anus. θ Cholera asiatica, after subsidence of urgent symptoms.
Herpetic eruption, affecting anus and surrounding parts, scrotum and thighs.

Urinary organs

Dark colored clear urine.
Urine : dark brown, scanty, depositing a whitish, clay-like sediment ; profuse, pale, with gout ; dark, in bilious disorders ; watery, during intermittents.
Inflammation of meatus urinarius, in a woman.

Male sexual organs

Itching of the mons veneris.
Herpes on scrotum and thighs.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Throat dry, sore, hoarse ; can hardly talk ; < mornings, when he gets up.
Hoarseness ; roughness of voice ; cough < evenings ; aching in all the bones ; much sweat ; lassitude ; pale ; sensitive ; secretion passive. θ Nasal
catarrh.
Soreness, scraping and heat in bronchi, with cough.

Respiration

Great oppression of chest ; a full breath hurts ; rattling on chest.
Difficulty of breathing, attended with perspiration and anxious countenance.
Dyspnœa very great, obliging patient to lie with head and shoulders high.
Dyspnœa, with hard, dry cough.
With a deep inspiration, grating in chest ; on full inspiration, soreness.

Cough

Disposition to cough, with dyspnœa.
Hoarse, rough cough, with scraping in bronchia.
Cough with soreness and heat in bronchia ; flushed face ; tearful eyes.
Rough, scraping cough, chest sore ; must support it with hands ; flushed face, tearful eyes.
Violent cough, with soreness in chest.
After catching cold, cough, < 2 to 4 A. M. ; excited by tickling in chest, causing tightness of chest ; cough < lying on back, > kneeling with face towards pillow ; scanty expectoration ; painful fulness in head on coughing
or blowing nose ; lowness of spirits.
Stitches in liver when coughing.
Hacking cough in evening.
Cough at night with headache.
Nocturnal loose cough ; particularly after eruptive stage of measles.
Cough preceding or following measles.
Fatiguing cough with heat.
During apyrexia, loose cough.
Hectic cough from suppressed intermittent fever.

Inner chest and lungs

Soreness and grating sensation in chest, at every deep inspiration.
Soreness in chest ; worse from inspiration.
Pain and soreness behind sternum ; heart feels as if in too small a place.
Oppression in middle of sternum ; feels as if something was pressing against his heart ; palpitation.
Cannot take a natural inspiration, or twist body either to right or left, because of soreness behind sternum.
Soreness in chest, with cough.
Pain through right nipple when breathing.
Aching pain under left breast, cannot lie on left side.
Deep-seated pain in left side and in right shoulder.
Supports chest with his hands during cough.
Painful irritation of pulmonary organs, with heat in chest.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pain, soreness and heaviness behind sternum and in cardiac region ; < by least motion or turning body around.
Palpitation of heart.
Heart feels as if in too small a place ; as if something was pressing against it.
Beating pain in occiput, < by motion ; pain and soreness of eyeballs.

Outer chest

Aching pain under left breast, and inability to lie on left side.
Pain through right nipple when he breathes.

Neck and back

Beating pain in neck and occiput ; > after rising.
Pain in back of neck and between shoulders.
Creeping chills, principally on back.
Trembling in back during fever.
Weakness in small of back.
Intolerable aching soreness, as if beaten, in small of back.
Pain in back as from a bruise.
Pain in back before and during chill.
Intense aching in back and limbs ; extremities as if broken.
Deep-seated pains in loins, with soreness from motion.
Severe pain and bruised sensation in sacrum and extremities ; copious sweat without relief ; spasms. θ Intermittent.

Upper limbs

Stiffness of arms and fingers during chill.
Aching pain and soreness, as from having been beaten in arms, above and below elbows.
Soreness and aching in arms and forearms ; painful soreness in both wrists, as if broken or dislocated.
Hands icy cold.
Heat in palms of hands ; sometimes with moisture.
Moisture of hands with chill.
Stiffness of fingers, with obtuseness of sense of touch.

Lower limbs

Aching pain in right hip while sitting.
Lameness in right hip and leg when walking.
Pain above right ilium before chill.
Pain in spot not larger than a pea, over left hip ; with soreness.
Pain with extreme sensitiveness in left glutei muscles, passing around in front of trochanter major.
Flagging of muscles of left thigh, as if they were falling off the bone.
Burning in skin on inner side of thighs.
Herpes on thighs.
Rheumatic pain on inside of left knee.
Soreness and aching of lower limbs ; stiffness and general soreness when rising to walk.
Pains in joints of lower extremities.
Severe pains, like cramps, waken out of sleep ; cold sweat follows.
Calves of legs feel as though they had been beaten.
Sprained ankle-joint.
Pain and soreness of upper part of left foot, with increased sensibility of big toe.
Pain in foot < by standing upon it.
Stinging in feet, as from pins, at beginning of chill.
Sharp burning pain in feet, could not keep her shoes on while pain in feet lasted ; feet seemed swollen.
(In sick :) Soreness and swelling of both feet when standing on them, in a gouty subject.
Throbbing in right foot.
Pricking in soles of feet.
Feet icy cold.
Heat in soles of feet in morning.
Pain in heel, as if stabbed.
Dropsical swelling of feet and ankles.
Gouty swelling of big toe ; profuse pale urine ; dropsical swelling of ankles and feet, after gout, with profuse urinary discharge.
Pain in first joint of left great toe, which suddenly moves to corresponding joint of right one.
Intolerable pain under toe nails of both feet. θ Intermittent.

Limbs in general

Gouty inflammation of left knee and r. elbow ; pains < from 10 A. M. until 4 P. M.
Sharp pain in left ankle, hip and shoulder, came on instantly and went away as quickly.
Intense aching in limbs and back, as if bones were broken. θ Influenza. θ Ague.
Aching pain and soreness, as if beaten, in calves of legs, small of back, and in arms, above and below elbows.
Pain in bones early in morning, before paroxysm. θ Intermittent.
Pains in bones accompanying influenza.
Aching in bones of extremities, with soreness of flesh ; soreness in bones.
Aching pain, with moaning throughout cold stage.
Bones of extremities ache in latter part of chill, and beginning of heat.
Rheumatic affections, accompanied by perspiration and soreness of bones.
Syphilitic pains.
Stretching and pale, 9 A. M., before chill.
Walks about crouched up.
Cramps.

Rest. position. motion

Must lie high with head and shoulders, on account of dyspnœa.
After lying : pain in occiput.
While in great pain he lies quiet.
Lying on back : cough <.
Could not raise head from pillow.
Kneeling with face towards pillow : cough >.
While sitting, aching in hips.
Must support chest with hands during cough.
Cannot lie on left side.
Rising : in bed, vertigo ; pain in forehead > ; pain in neck and occiput > ; stiffness and general soreness when rising.
Standing on foot : pain < ; soreness.
Walks about crouched up.
Walking : lameness of right hip and leg.
Motion : faintness ; nausea ; stitches and soreness in hepatic region ; pains in cardiac region and behind sternum ; pain in occiput < ; pains in loins and soreness ; chilliness ; sweat <.
Cannot turn body because of soreness behind sternum.
Cannot keep still, although there is great desire to do so.

Nerves

Very restless, cannot keep still, although there is great desire to do so.
Trembling : with vomiting ; with chill ; internal ; with external heat ; during heat ; in back ; during fever.
Great weakness and prostration during fever, with faintness from motion.
During fever, weak, faint, nervous, trembling.
Hands have to assist the head in lifting it ; with headache.
Weakness during fever ; could not raise head from pillow.
General debility from intemperance.
General lassitude with influenza.
Great prostration, almost syncope.
Faintness from motion, during fever.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis, with intense soreness and aching all over, vomiting, pain in back of head and neck.

Sleep

Stretching and yawning. θ Intermittent fever.
Disposed to yawn before chill.
Sleepiness with difficult breathing.
Profound sleep at noon ; could hear everything, but could not speak.
During sleep, some sweat in evening.
Has to lie with his head high.
Headache on awaking.

Time

Morning : attack of whirling around in brain ; attacks of chills ; diarrhœa ; sore throat < ; heat in soles of feet ; pains in bones ; chilliness ; slight perspiration.
From 2 to 4 A. M. : cough.
At 7 A. M. : chill.
At 9 A. M. : stretchy and pale ; chill.
Forenoon : fever.
At 2 P. M. : severe headache with chill.
From 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. : pains <.
All day : sick headache.
Evenings : cough < ; during sleep some sweat.
Night : feels as if he was going out of his mind ; thirst ; sick stomach ; beating in epigastrium ; cough with headache ; chilliness ; coldness during sweat ; pungent heat and sweat.

Temperature and weather

Wants to be warmly covered during chill.
From uncovering : chilliness.
Better in house : headache.
Aggravated when first going in open air : headache.
After being in an ice-house : chill and fever.

Fever

Chilliness in morning, heat throughout rest of day, no perspiration, or slight in morning.
Attacks of chills in morning, no fever ; so chilly, could not get warm ; throat dry, becomes hoarse at times and loses her voice ; very great oppression in chest ; sharp burning pain in feet, could not keep her shoes on while pain in feet lasted, feet
seemed swollen ; cough short and dry ; sharp pains in left ankle, hip and shoulder, come on instantly and go away as quickly.
Chilliness through night and in morning, with nausea from least motion.
Chilliness, with excessive trembling and nausea.
A greater amount of shivering during chill than is warranted by the degree of coldness.
Coldness during nocturnal perspiration.
Alternate chilliness and flushes of heat.
Sick stomach, night before paroxysm.
Cough in night previous to paroxysm.
Paroxysm generally commences in morning.
Thirst several hours before chill, continues during chill and heat.
Chill preceded by pain above right ilium, with thirst and a disposition to yawn.
Pain in all the bones, as if broken, before commencement of chill.
Coldness and stinging or pricking, as from pins, in both feet at commencement of chill.
Violent pain in head and back before chill.
Chill induced or hastened by drinking cold water.
Chill at 7 A. M., preceded by thirst, and attended with moisture of hands.
Chill at 9 o'clock in morning.
Intermittent fever with a heavy chill, early in morning of one day, and a light chill about noon next day, and so on successively.
Chill spreads from back ; begins between 7 and 9 A. M.
Severe headache, with slight chill at 2 P. M.
During chill : thirst, headache and backache ; aching all over, as if in bones ; more shivering than degree of coldness warrants ; trembling, nausea ; moaning with pains, wants to be covered.
Thirst during chill and heat, with vomiting after least drink of water. θ Intermittent.
Distressing pain in scrobiculus cordis, throughout chill and heat.
At conclusion of chill : vomiting of bile ; loose cough.
Fever, with despondency, morbid sensitiveness of skin, and sleeplessness.
Fever preceded by thirst, cannot raise head ; cheeks red ; throbbing headache ; sleep and moaning ; trembling, faint from motion.
Vomiting of bile at end of hot stage, followed by slight sweat and sleep.
During heat : trembling in back ; headache ; thirst continues ; patient is very sensitive to the aggravation from drinking, "a swallow of water will make him shiver" ; the less thirst the more severe the cephalalgia and bone pains ;
great weakness, cannot raise head ; faintness from motion ; cheeks mahogany red ; dry, hot skin.
Fever in forenoon, preceded by thirst early in morning, but no chill ; attended by fatiguing cough, and not followed by perspiration.
Pungent heat attending the perspiration at night.
During apyrexia, loose cough.
Sweat : light or wanting ; > all pains but headache, which is < ; profuse at night in old cases, < by uncovering or least motion, rarely debilitating.
Pains did not abate with the occurrence of the sweat.
Copious sweat with rheumatism.
Skin bathed in sweat ; or sweat scanty.
Nightly sweat, with chilliness, from moving or uncovering.
Anteponing chill, with congestive throbbing, thirst and aching in bones.
Cold stage in afternoon each alternate day an hour earlier, never amounted to a chill ; thirst before and during cold stage, which lasted three hours ; vomiting much bile after drinking ; muscles painful, < in cold stage, followed by intense heat, with
perspiration ; hot stage lasting six to eight hours, with thirst ; during attack she would be warmly covered, then profuse perspiration, without heat, continuing during sleep all night ; great debility even when free from fever ; liver much enlarged and very sensitive to
touch ; urine extremely scanty, turbid, and of an offensive odor ; no appetite.
Exceedingly severe chill followed by burning fever ; face of a dull red color ; glistening eyes, sclerotica yellowish red ; tongue covered with thick, yellowish fur ; intense headache in occiput and insupportable heaviness ; nausea and frequent effort to
vomit ; extreme tenderness in epigastrium ; fulness and tenderness in hepatic region, with stitches and soreness on moving and coughing ; intolerable aching in back and limbs, "as if bones were broken" ; urine scanty and of a dark mahogany color ; hard, dry
cough and some dyspnœa. θ Intermittent fever.
Intense headache with soreness of scalp, soreness of eyes, redness of face, nausea and prostration, soreness in region of liver, constipation, high colored urine, violent bone-pains. θ Bilious
fever.
Remittent fever, bilious and malarial ; with severe gastric and intestinal irritation.
In first stage of yellow fever as an intercurrent remedy, when the bones ache as if broken, with headache and backache, thirst and vomiting.
Intermittent fever, quotidian, tertian and quartan.
Chill and fever after staying in an ice-house.
Fever attended with gastric derangement.
Hectic cough from suppressed intermittent.
Bilious fever ; remittent fever ; dengue ; typhoid.

Attacks, periodicity

Frequent : green watery stools ; effort to vomit.
At times : becomes hoarse.
Intermittents of any type, but especially the tertian.
Pains come quickly and go quickly.
Every other morning : headache and nausea ; good appetite ; alternate heavy and light chill.
Alternate afternoons : cold stage each day an hour earlier.

Locality and direction

Right : thumping in head above ear ; soreness of parietal protuberance ; pain through nipple ; pain in shoulder ; pain in hip ; lameness in hip and leg ; pain above ilium ; rheumatic pain on inside of knee ; throbbing in foot ;
pain in joint of great toe ; gouty inflammation of elbow ; foot throbbing.
Left : as if falling to side ; throbbing headache ; eyeball, pain and soreness ; lachrymation and photophobia ; tightness in hypochondrium ; aching pain under breast ; pain in side ; pain over hip ; pain and extreme sensitiveness of glutei
muscles ; flagging of muscles of thigh ; pain and soreness of upper part of foot ; pain in joint of great toe ; gouty inflammation of knee ; sharp pain in ankle, hip and shoulder.
Left to right : shooting pain in head.
Left great toe to right toe : moving pain.

Sensations

Feels as if he was going out of his mind ; as if he had been placed in a coal screen and whirled around two or three times ; as if falling to left ; as if blood was rushing across head ; sensation of weight ; inner head feels sore ; pain as if
from needles ; feeling of obstruction in epigastrium ; as if extremely prostrated, not real ; as if something were in stomach that ought to come up ; heart as if in too small a place : as if something was pressing against heart ; back as if beaten ; pain in
back as if from a bruise ; extremities as if broken ; wrists as if dislocated or broken ; as if muscles were falling off bones of left thigh ; calves of legs feel as if beaten ; heel as if stabbed.
Bruised feeling, as if broken, all over body.
Pain : in occiput ; in eyeballs ; in bones ; in back ; in limbs ; behind sternum ; through right nipple ; in cardiac region ; in back of neck and between shoulders ; in back ; in right ilium ; in small spot over left
hip ; in left glutei muscles, passing round in front of trochanter major ; in joints ; in upper part of left foot ; in foot ; in heel ; in first joint of great toe.
Numbness : as if flesh was falling from bones.
Intolerable pain : under toe nails.
Intense pain : in occiput ; darting through eyes.
Violent pain : in head and back ; after eating ; in stomach ; in abdomen.
Severe pain : in sacrum ; in extremities.
Sharp pain : in left ankle ; in hip ; in shoulder.
Shooting : from left to right side of head.
Darting pains : through temples.
Stitches : in hepatic region ; in liver.
Colicky pains : in abdomen.
Griping : in abdomen.
Burning pain : in feet.
Pricking : in soles of feet.
Painful soreness : in right parietal protuberance ; of eyeballs ; in small of back ; of wrists.
Distressing pain : after eating ; in scrobiculum.
Deep-seated pain : in left side and right shoulder ; in loins.
Beating pain : in forehead and occiput ; in nape.
Throbbing : headache ; pain from forehead to occiput ; in r. foot.
Beating : in epigastrium.
Thumping : in side of head above ear.
Aching : in forehead ; in every bone ; under left breast ; in back and limbs ; in arms above and below elbows ; in r. hip ; of lower limbs.
Rheumatic pain : on inside of left knee.
Bruised sensation : in sacrum ; in extremities.
Grating : in chest.
Scraping : in bronchi.
Stinging : in feet, as from pins.
Distress : on top and on back part of head ; occiput ; with pain after eating.
Heat : on top of head ; in stomach ; in anus ; in bronchi ; in palms of hands ; in soles of feet.
Burning : in skin ; on inner side of thighs.
Soreness : in back part of head ; of scalp ; in eyeballs ; of fauces ; in region of liver ; around waist ; in bronchi ; of chest ; behind sternum ; in cardiac region ; in arms above and below elbows ; above left hip ; of
lower limbs ; general ; of upper part of left foot ; of feet.
Smarting : in anus.
Painful irritation of pulmonary organs.
Sensitiveness : of big toe on left foot ; of left glutei muscles.
Tenderness : of epigastrium ; in hepatic region.
Pulsation in back part of head.
Trembling : in back.
Shuddering.
Buzzing in ear.
Stiffness : of arms ; of fingers ; Faintness.
Lameness : in right hip and leg.
Tightness : in left hypochondrium ; of chest.
Fulness : in head ; in stomach ; in hepatic region.
Oppression : of chest ; in middle of sternum.
Heaviness : in head ; behind sternum ; in cardiac region.
Weakness : in small of back.
Itching : of mons veneris.

Tissues

Acts upon gastro-hepatic system, fibrous tissues and bronchial mucous membranes, its most characteristic condition being a bilious derangement partaking of a malarial character.
Rheumatism and gouty affection.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure : heat on top of head >.
Tight clothing is oppressive.
Standing upon it, increases pain in foot ; soreness and swelling of feet.

Skin

Jaundiced color. θ Intermittent and bilious fevers.
Anasarcous swellings of extremities, depending on general debility.
Surface pale and morbidly sensitive ; morbid sensitiveness of skin, with fever.
Tardy development of eruptive diseases, and especially measles.
Measles preceding or following cough.
Petechial or spotted fever ; head drawn spasmodically backward.
Spotted fever, with severe aching and soreness of limbs.
Ringworms and herpetic eruptions.

Stage of life, constitution

Cachectic condition of system from long continued or frequent attacks of bilious and intermittent fevers.
Adapted to diseases of old people ; worn-out constitutions, especially from inebriety.
Old people suffering from indigestion.
Boy, æt. 8 ; tertian intermittent.
Boy, æt. 14, sallow face, sickly aspect ; tertian ague.
Boy, æt. 18 ; intermittent fever.
Mrs. A. T., æt. 22 ; intermittent fever.
Strong man, æt. 27 ; second attack of tertian ague.
Miss ---, caught cold ten days previously ; cough.
Mrs. A., four months pregnant ; intermittent fever.
RD., æt. 35, stout mechanic, dark complexion, after remaining in an ice-house for quarter of an hour, during a warm August morning ; intermittent fever.
Miss W., æt. 50, corpulent ; intermittent fever.

Relations

Compatible : Natr. mur . and Sepia , which follow well.
Compare : Chelid., Podoph . and Lycop ., but especially Bryon , which is its closest analogue. These may be distinguished by Bryon . having
free sweat, and pains keep patient quiet, and by Eupat . having deficient sweat, and pains make the patient restless.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

History

Every time I take up one of these old domestic remedies I am astonished at the extended discoveries of medical properties in the household as seen in their domestic use.

All through the Eastern States, in the rural districts, among the first old -settlers, Boneset-tea was a medicine for colds. For every cold in the head, or running of the nose, every bone-ache or high fever, or headache from cold, the good old housewife had her Boneset-tea ready. Sure enough it did such things, and the provings sustain its use. The proving shows that Boneset produces upon healthy people symptoms like the colds the old farmers used to suffer from.

Winter colds

The common winter colds through the Eastern States and the North are attended with much sneezing and coryza, pain in the head, as if it would burst, which is aggravated from motion, chilliness with the desire to be warmly covered; the bones ache as if they would break; there is fever, thirst, and a general aggravation from motion. Such common everyday colds correspond sometimes to Eupatorium and sometimes to Bryonia. These two remedies are very similar, but the aching in the bones is marked in Eupatorium.

If this state goes on for a few days the patient will become yellow, the cold will settle in the chest, a pneumonia may develop, or an inflammation of the liver, or an attack commonly called a bilious fever. Such fevers frequently call for Bryonia and Eupatorium, each fitting its own cases.

These remedies are especially useful throughout New England, New York, Ohio, the North and Canada. They do not have this kind of a cold very frequently in the warmer climates, but Eupatorium is often indicated in the warmer climates for fevers, yellow fever, bilious fever, break-bone fever and intermittent fever. It seems to be useful in one kind of complaints in one climate and in another kind of complaints in another climate.

In the Southwest and the West, in the valleys of the great river Eupatorium. cures complaints beginning as if the back would break, great shivering from head to foot spreading from the back, great sensitiveness to cold, congestive headaches, flushed face, yellow ski and yellow eyes, pain in the abdomen, and in the region of the live inability to retain any food, nausea from the sight and smell of food the bones ache as if they would break, the fever runs high, the un is of a mahogany color, the tongue is heavily coated yellow, and the is nausea and vomiting of bile.

That gives the picture of Eupatorium in the Mississippi Valley, in the Ohio Valley, in Florida and Alabama and all through the Southern States. The most prominent symptom are the vomiting of bile, the aching of the bones as if they would break, the pains in the stomach after eating, and the nausea from th thought and smell of food.

The stomach is very irritable; the thought of food gags him. The patient desires to keep still, but the pain is s severe that he must move and so he appears restless. These are among the acute manifestations, and are things only very general th we must take up and apply to sick people.

Eupatorium has been a very useful remedy in intermittent fever when epidemic in the valleys. Among the first signs is nausea sometime before the attack, and there are sometimes spells of vomiting bile. About seven or nine o'clock in the forenoon, he commences to shudder, the shivering runs down the back and spreads from the back to the extremities; he has violent thirst, but the shiverings are mad worse from drinking so that he dare not drink cold water. There is soreness and pulsation in the back of the head, violent pain in th occiput and back before and during the chill. During the chill he wants to cover up and the clothing needs to be piled on.

The thirst extends through all the stages. At the close of the chill there is vomiting; often it does not occur until the heat, but before the sweat fairly sets in, he vomits copiously, first the contents of the stomach and then bile. When the heat is on he seems to burn all over, sometime as though with electric sparks.

Intense heat, burning in the top the head, his feet burn and his skin burns. The burning is more intense than the heat would justify. It is characteristic of this remedy, for the sweat to be scanty; a violent chill, intense fever which passes off slowly, and very scanty sweat. The bones ache as if they would break.

During the chill his head aches as if it would burst, it throbs it tears, it stings, it burns; he describes the headache in terms expressive of violence, as if probably a congestive headache. One would think after the fever subsides and he commences to sweat a little that he would get relief, which is true excepting the headache, which often gets worse clear through to the end of the attack, and. sometimes it will last all day and night; then he will have a whole day free from the headache, but on the third day at seven or nine o'clock on will come the same trouble with increasing violence.

At times these attacks are prolonged, the one will extend into the other, that is enter into a sort of remittent character with no intermission. The longer this runs the more the liver becomes engorged, and finally the urine is loaded with bile, the stool becomes whitish, the fever increases, the nausea increasing, the tongue becomes pointed and elongated, and is dry, the headache is extremely painful, and a state of masked fever comes on.

In those intermittent fevers that begin with violent shaking, and the headache continues without sweat, or, if with sweat the headache is made worse, thirst during all stages, vomiting of bile at the close of the heat or during the heat, with the awful bone aches, the Western men, who study their Materia Medica, know that they have a sure cure in Eupatorium.

The time for the administration of this dose is at the close of the paroxysm. You get the best effect when reaction is at the best, and that is when reaction is setting in, after a paroxysm has passed off. That is true of every paroxysmal disease, where it is possible to wait until the end. You cannot mitigate them very much during the attack, indeed, if the medicine is given then it very often increases the difficulty, but if you wait until the close of the paroxysm you get the full benefit of your medicine, and the next paroxysm will not develop, or will be lighter, or, if another attack is brought on immediately you may rest assured there will be no more.

It is not an uncommon thing in intermittent fever, when the remedy has been administered at the close of the paroxysm, for the next paroxysm to come within twenty-four hours after the administration of the medicine; these mixed cases are often in a state of disorder.

One who does not know this would immediately show the white feather, would be alarmed, would be afraid the patient was getting worse, but you have only to wait for the subsidence of the attack and you will see that you have broken its cycle and periodicity.

When this remedy has been apparently indicated by intermittents, and it has not proved of sufficient depth to root out the intermittent, there are two remedies, either of which is likely to follow it, and these are Natrum muriaticum and Sepia. These two remedies are very closely related to Eupatorium, and take up the work where it leaves off, when the symptoms agree.

Gout

This medicine has also a chronic constitutional state, viz.: its gouty nature. It is a very useful medicine in gout. It has gouty soreness and inflamed nodosities of the finger joints, of the elbow joint, pain and gouty swelling of the great toe, red tumefaction of the joint of the great toe. It establishes, in persons who are subject to chalk stone deposits around the finger joints. These gouty subjects take cold, the bones ache, the joints become inflamed, the patient will say he is chilly, the skin becomes yellow, the urine is charged with bile, the stool becomes whitish, and he becomes weak.

In many instances these patients have been for years resorting to Burgundy for relief of their gouty joints and the weakness. Some one of our homoeopathic remedies will relieve the suffering, but in those old gouty subjects who have been always drinking wine, you cannot take the wine away from them at once; you cannot do it while they are having the attack, because they have become so accustomed to it.

Burgundy is the kind of wine very commonly used by the gouty, but the Scotchman with his gout thinks he must always have a little Scotch whiskey and in the attack it is quite impossible to take it away from him. What has been his custom must be followed out for a while because he would grow weaker, but it is damaging him, and hence it is difficult to contend with gouty subjects who have been taking stimulants. You do not get the full benefit of Homoeopathy and you cannot stop his stimulants because weakness will follow. Persons who have not taken wine as a regular beverage can and should do without it, as it interferes with the action of the homoeopathic remedy.

These gouty patients have terrible sick headaches. Pain in the base of the brain and back of the head, associated with gouty joints. These are often referred to as arthritic headaches, that is, gouty headaches, headaches associated with painful joints. Or the headaches may alternate with pains in the joints. Congestive headaches, the pain being in the base of the brain, with more or less throbbing; the pain spreads up through the head and produces a general congestive attack.

Sometimes these headaches come on when the joints are feeling better, and the more headache he has the less pain he has in the extremities; and again, when the gout affects the extremities, then the headaches diminish. Headaches, having a third and seventh-day aggravation, coming with more or less periodicity.

With the headache there will be nausea and vomiting of bile, nausea at the thought and smell of food. This gouty individual is also subject to vertigo, and the sensation as if he would fall to the left is especially noted with the coming on of the headache. The vertigo comes on in the morning; when he gets up he feels as if he would sway to the left, and he has to guard himself in turning to the left. Sometimes in intermittent fever this symptom of swaying to the left and vertigo ending in nausea and vomiting, violent pain in the back of the head and pain in the bones, are the first threatenings.

We have in this remedy also other gouty manifestations: shooting through the temples, shooting from the left to the right side of the head; shooting all through the head; stitching, tearing pains in the limbs as well as the bone aches.

The headaches are so violent that they make him sick at the stomach. In gouty headaches, in intermittents at the close of the intense heat, in periodical headaches, the course is the same, the pain is so intense that nausea is soon brought on and then he vomits bile. Eupatorium has not been used on its symptoms in gouty states as often as it might have been. In intermittent fever it is well known; in headaches it is only occasionally used.

Only occasionally does a man realize its great benefit in headaches and in remittent fevers. In gouty and rheumatic affections it may be suited to the symptoms and is more useful than is generally known. It is not the purpose of our talks to point out ultimates of disease. I do not look upon gout as a disease, but as a great class of symptoms of a rheumatic character that occur in the human family; a great mass of symptoms that may be called gouty, a tendency to enlargement of the joints and gouty deposits in the urine. The ordinary so-called lithaemia is a gouty constitution.

The gouty state of the economy is the superficial or apparent cause; the real cause rests in the miasm. So when I speak of gout I do not mean the name of a disease, but a class of manifestations that are met in large cities especially, less frequently in the country where the people live on farms and take plenty of exercise and have wholesome food and are not housed up. It is supposed to be due to wine drinking. Often when I say to patients that the symptoms arc somewhat gouty, they reply,

"I am not in the habit of drinking wine. I have not been a high liver."

Such conditions of course bring on a tendency to gout.

Painful soreness in the eyeballs like Bryonia and Gelsemium. The eyeballs are very sensitive to touch and sore to pressure; feel as if he had been struck a blow in the eye; sore, bruised, pain in the eye. Coryza with aching in every bone.

Stools

With the bilious attacks there often may be an ending in a diarrhoea; copious green discharges, green fluid or semi solid stools, but after the attack has lingered until there is one grand emptying out of the bowels, this symptom will disappear and the secondary state comes on in which there is constipation and a light-colored stool, or bileless stool.

Cough

Boneset has a dry, hacking, teasing cough, that seems to rack the whole frame, as if it would break him up, it is so sore, and he is so much disturbed by motion. A great amount of tribulation is found in the respiratory tract, in the bronchial tubes.

We find a cough in capillary bronchitis that shakes the whole frame, analogous to Bryonia and Phosphorus. The subject is extremely sensitive to the cold air, as much so as in Nux vomica. Nux vomica has aching in the bones as if they would break; he wants the room hot, and wants to be covered with clothing which relieves; often the slightest lifting of the covers increases the chilliness, which is true also of Eupatorium, so they run close together.

Mind

In Nux vomica we have the dreadful irritability of temper; in Eupatorium we have overwhelming sadness. The Nux vomica patient is not likely to say much about dying, he is too irritable to go into the next world; not so with Eupatorium, he is full of sadness.

There are other states that comes on secondarily in this medicine. After malarial attacks and in gouty affections, etc., there is bloating of the lower limbs, oedematous swelling. It is not an uncommon thing for a malarial fever that has lingered a long time to be attended with swelling of the lower limbs. Eupatorium very strongly competes with Natrum muriaticum, China, and Arsenicum in such lingering malaria.

Dropsy

When the symptoms have largely subsided and left only this state of anaemia and dropsy of the lower extremities, in the badly treated case, it is very difficult to find what medicine to administer, and the course that the homoeopath must pursue is to go back and examine the patient to find the symptoms he had at the time of the intermittent fever, before he was meddled with. If now there is swelling of the extremities, and you get symptoms to show you that he needed Eupatorium in the beginning, Eupatorium will still cure the dropsy of the extremities.

It may bring back the chill, it may bring back an orderly state that you can prescribe on. If in the beginning he needed Arsenicum, that remedy will bring back the chill, turn it right end to and cure his symptoms. The trouble is that the symptoms were only suppressed, bad not been cured.

So the medicine he needed, but has never had for the chill, may be the medicine that he needs now. Then think of Eupatorium in dropsical swellings of the feet and ankles, and in gouty swellings also. The gouty swellings are all of an inflammatory character.

Very commonly these are closely related to hydrarthrosis, and here Eupatorium. is to be compared with Arsenicum. Gouty inflammation of the knee. All the way through this remedy you read about bone-aches and bone pains.

It is peculiar that medicines come around on time with an exactitude. Diseases do the same thing, and we must see that it is also peculiar that they come with a regular cycle, a regular periodicity. We meet with headaches that come every seven days, headaches also, that come once in two weeks, and there are remedies that have seven-day aggravations and fourteen-day aggravations and three-day aggravations, remedies that bring out their symptoms just in this form.

Do not be surprised when your patient is perfectly under the influence of Aurum if he has a characteristic aggravation every twenty-one days.

There are quite a number of remedies having fourteen-day aggravations, e. g., China and Arsenicum. Again, there are autumnal aggravations, spring aggravations, winter aggravations, aggravations from cold weather and aggravations in the summer from heat.

Some remedies have both the latter.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Adapted to diseases of old people; worn-out constitutions, especially from inebriety; cachexia, from prolonged or frequent attacks of bilious or intermittent fevers.

Bruised feeling, as if broken, all over the body (Arn., Lac can., Pyr.).

Bone pains; affecting the back, limbs, head, chest, particularly the wrists as if dislocated, the eyeballs; the more general and severe the better adapted. Like Bryonia, they are accompanied by headache, constipation and pain in hepatic region, but here the similitude ends.

In Bryonia, the perspiration is profuse, easily excited by motion, and the pains compel patient to lie still upon the painful side.

In Eupatorium the sweat is scanty or wanting, the pains cause restlessness without any relief from motion, and there is entire inability to lie on left side.

Pains as if broken; come quickly and go away as quickly (Bell., Mag. p., Eup. pur.—reverse of Stan.).

Vertigo: sensation as if falling to the left (cannot turn the head to the left for fear of falling, Col., Con.).

Cough: chronic; loose with hectic; chest sore, must support it with hands (Bry., Nat. c.); $<$ at night; following measles or suppressed intermittents.

Painful soreness of eyeballs; coryza, aching in every bone; great prostration in epidemic influenza (Lac c.).

Relations

Followed well by Natr. mur., Sepia and Tub.

Aggravation

Motion; drinking; uncovering.

Type

Tertian; double tertian; rarely double quartan, and then only when changed from original type by Quinine. All types may be cured by it. Anticipating, remittent, bilious, malarial; sporadic La Grippe.

Quotidian; tertian; quartan; double tertian and quartan. Anticipating. Every fourteen days. Irregular both in type and stage.

Tertian; double tertian, rarely double quartan. Anticipating. All types may be cured with Eupatorium.

Time

7 A. M.; 7 to 9 P. M.; 7 to 9 A. M. one day, lighter chill at 12 M. next day; 10 A. M.; 12 to 2 P. M.; 5 P. M. Will cure without reference to time, when totality of symptoms are present.

Characteristic; 1 to 2 P. M., 12 to 2 A. M. Afternoon paroxysm predominates.

7 A. M. or 7 to 9 A. M.; 7 to 9 A. M. one day, lighter chill at 12 M. next day. Forenoon predominates.

Prodrome

Insatiable thirst, but drinking causes nausea and vomiting, and hastens the chill. Sick stomach and thirst night before the paroxysm. Thirst, sometimes for warm drinks (Casc., Ced ), one to three hours before the chill; he knows the chill is coming because "he cannot drink enough" (knows chill is coming because she is thirsty, Caps., Cinch., Nat.); yawning, stretching, pain in back, especially over right ilium, and the bones of extremities as if broken. Colicky pain in the upper abdomen (Coc.); painful soreness of the eyeballs. Must be covered, before and during chill (covered during entire paroxysm, Nux). Hungry (Cina).

No thirst. Headache, with vertigo and pale face; pain in bowels and watery diarrhœa. Debility; great weariness; must lie down. Malaise.

Eupatorium.

Insatiable thirst. Drinking hastens chill and causes vomiting. Know chill is coming because "he cannot drink enough." Yawning, stretching, backache, and bone pains in extremities.

Arsenicum.

Chill

With intense thirst; but drinking water increases the nausea, and causes bitter vomiting (drinking causes vomiting, Ars.—drinking increases the chill, Caps.). Chilliness with excessive trembling and nausea (from the least motion). Chilliness in the morning, heat throughout the whole day, but no perspiration. Chill may leave for a few minutes and return again, but no heat in the interval (reverse of Ars., which has alternate chill and heat). Shivering increased by motion; intense, throbbing headache; pain in back and bones of extremities; moaning with pain; distressing pain in stomach and spleen. Yawning and stretching; more shivering than the degree of coldness warrants.

Must be warmly covered (Nux). Begins in or may spread from the back, or runs up the back (begins in back between the should- ers, Caps., Polyp.—begins in lumbar region, Eup. purp.).

At close of chill, nausea and vomiting of bitter fluids and bile, aggravated by drinking, or after every draft vomiting (Caps. —sour vomiting at close of chill, Lyc.). Chilly one day, colic the next.

Irregular; mingling of chilliness and heat; or chills and heat alternate; ameliorated by external heat. Thirst is not always present; if present, drinks little and often, but generally for hot drinks. Thirst, except for hot drinks, contra-indicates.

With great thirst. Begins in back; with yawning, stretching, backache and bone pains. May leave and return, but no heat in interval. Must be covered warmly (Nux v.). Bitter vomiting at close of chill. More shivering than coldness warrants.

Heat

Preceded by thirst, which is often felt most between chill and heat (Ars., Cinch.), or there may be little thirst, when cephalalgia and bone pains are increased; trembling, faint from motion; great weakness; cannot raise the head while the fever lasts; cheeks mahogany red; throbbing headache; internal sore- ness from head to foot, all over the body (Arn.); sleep with moaning. Seldom any nausea during this stage, but bitter vomit- ing (sour vomiting, Lyc.) occurs at close of heat if absent at close of chill. Heat and lachrymation. Much shivering even during heat. "A swallow of water will make him shiver" (will make him shudder, Caps.). Pain in scrobiculus cordis. Fever in the forenoon, preceded by thirst early in the morning, but no chill; attended by fatiguing cough, and not followed by perspiration.

Intense, dry, burning, long-lasting heat, pungent to the touch, and insatiable thirst for cold water. Great restlessness. Must be uncovered. Heat as if hot water were coursing through the blood-vessels.

Great weakness; cannot raise the head while heat lasts. Rarely any thirst; cheeks mahogany red, and intense throbbing headache; a swallow of water produces shivering. Body sore from head to foot.

Sweat

Generally scanty, or absent altogether, in which case the headache continues for several hours after fever is gone (Ars.).

When there is much perspiration, it brings relief of all pains ex- cept cephalalgia, which is increased (sweat relieves all pains,

Nat.). Coldness during nocturnal sweat. Perspiration; at night giving no relief; during sweat the slightest movement of patient, or jar of bed, will cause a transient chill to run through the frame, especially along the back on uncovering (Nux); not debilitating if profuse (reverse of Cinch. and Carbo v.). When chill is severe, sweat is light or wanting and vice versa.

With unquenchable thirst for large quantities of water, which causes vomiting. Cold, clammy. Great weakness and prostration. Previous symptoms relieved during sweat.

Scanty or absent. If much, is more profuse at night and then cold. Relieves all pains except cephalalgia, which is increased. When chill is severe, sweat is light or wanting, and vice versa.

Tongue

Coated white or yellow. Taste, insipid, bitter; food has no taste (Dros.). Desire for ice cream; thirst. Pale- ness of mucous membrane of mouth (Fer.). Cracks at the com- missures of the lips (Nat.). Canine hunger after Quinine.

Ayprexia.—Imperfect; very little remission. Jaundiced hue of skin and conjunctiva; loose cough; if any sweat, it is attended with chilliness and worse from motion and uncovering. Bone pains are present in every stage, and only gradually disappear with disappearance of sweat. Feels worse morning of one day, and afternoon of next. The severity of vomiting has relation to time of eating; the nearer the meals the surer to vomit; first of ingesta, afterwards of bile, which is usually bitter.

"Eupatorium has been a favorite remedy with the most suc- cessful practitioners where remittent and intermittent fevers have prevailed epidemically in miasmatic districts, along rivers, at fisheries, on marshes, and their several neighborhoods."—C. J.

HEMPEL, S. C., I., p. 696.

"Eupatorium perf., both by its pathogenesis and clinical verifi- cation in practice, is one of the most valuable of the Materia

Medica in the treatment of western intermittents."—J. S. DOUG-

LAS.

To this statement I would add that its efficacy is not bounded by latitude. Sometimes it corresponds to the genus epidemicus, and will alone cure nearly every case, particularly if occurring in autumn. It vies with Arsenicum, Cinchona and Natrum mur. as one of our sheet anchors in this disease; its symptoms are "clear- cut" and well defined; its action prompt and decisive. It has cured in all potencies from the tincture to the cm.

Arsenicum.

Tip red, sides furred, with red streaks down middle; brown-blue. Desire for acids, brandy; water tastes bitter; aversion to food.

Coated white or yellow, pale; food tasteless, insipid, bitter. Desire for ice cream. Canine hunger after Quinine. Commissures of lips cracked (Nat.).

Apyrexia

Never clear. Great weakness and prostration. Face pale, sallow, sunken or bloated. Debilitating, watery diarrhœa. General anæmic appearance.

Fevers contracted at sea-shore watering-places, appear in autumn, or "wintered over" and come on in spring.

Eupatorium.

Imperfect, very little remission. Jaundiced hue of skin and conjunctiva; loose cough. Bone pains in every stage, unless relieved by sweat.

Fevers of miasmatic, marshy regions; autumnal; often the genus epidemicus. Apt to become remittent.