Polygonum Hydropiperoides polyg-h.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Genito-urinary organs. Intestines.

Worse

Cold. Dampness.

General

CUTTING; along ureters; along Fallopian tubes, with bearing down; up spine. Pulsative pain; wandering; in prostate. Smarting discharges.

Particulars

Puff under r. eye. Itching, burning palate; wants to scratch it. Tongue feels swelled. Nausea in abdomen. Painful affections of urinary tract. Grinding, griping, cutting bellyache, with kidney symptoms. Nephritic colic. Urine scanty; dribbling; dark or calcareous, adherent sediment. Nephritis; suppurative. Cystitis. Excoriated scrotum. Itching pimples within anus. Hips feel drawn together. Aching lower limbs. Sore pains in heels. Urticaria.

Related

Related: Calc-c.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Hydropiper - Smartweed (POLYGONUM PUNCTATUM)

General

Metrorrhagia, also Amenorrhœa in young girls. Varicosis; hæmorrhoids and rectal pockets. Burning in stomach followed by feeling of coldness in the pit of the stomach.

Abdomen

Griping pain, with great rumbling, nausea, and liquid feces. Flatulent colic.

Rectum

Interior of anus studded with itching eminence. Hæmorrhoids. Liquid feces.

Urinary

Painful constriction at neck of bladder.

Female

Aching pains in hips and loins. Sensation as if hips were being drawn together. Sensation of weight and tension within pelvis. Shooting pains through breasts. Amenorrhœa.

Skin

Superficial ulcers and sores on lower extremities, especially in females at climacteric.

Relationship

Compare: Carduus mar (ulcers); Hamam; Senecio; Polygonum persicaria (renal colic and calculi; gangrene); Polygonum sagitatum-arrow-leaved. Tear-thumb--(2x for pains of nephritic colic; suppurative nephritis; lancinating pains along spine; itching of hard palate; burning inner side of right foot and ankle. C. M. Boger); Polygonum aviculare-knot-grass--(in material doses of tincture, found useful in phthisis pulmonalis and intermittent fever, and especially in arterio-sclerosis. Erythema).

Dose

Tincture.

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

POLYGONUM ACRE. P. punctatum, Ell. P. hydropiperoides, Pursh. Smart Weed. (North America.)

And

POLYGONUM HYDROPIPER. Persicaria urens. Water-pepper. (Britain.) Tincture of whole fresh plant. N. O. Polygonaceæ.

Clinical

Amenorrhœa. Antrum, pain in. Blepharitis. Colic, flatulent. Cough. Diarrhœa. ─ Dysentery. Dysmenia. Dysuria. Eczema. Epilepsy. Gonorrhœa. Gravel. Hæmorrhoids. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Laryngitis. Nephritis. Neuralgia. Orchitis. Prostatitis. Sciatica. Spermatic cord, pain in. Spleen, affections of. Strangury. Ulcers.

Characteristics

Polyg . was proved by W. E. Payne and others. Additions by Ed. Bayard, included by Hering, appear in the Schema. "Smart Weed," says Hale, "is a popular domestic remedy throughout U.S.A. Applied externally it has the effect of a mustard plaister, and the leaves saturated with hot water are applied to relieve cramps and colic, and as an emollient in inflammation and sprains. The provers were all men, but clinical experience has shown a definite action in the female generative sphere, amenorrhœa, aversion to coitus, and congestion of the ovaries having been cured by it. Leading symptoms are: Aching pains in hips and loins, with weight and tension in pelvis, and "Tearing in groin, < right." The pains are: Lancinating, cutting, pulsating, shooting, wandering, and flashing. One prover described them as like aurora borealis, and a case of sciatica with pains of this description was cured with Polyg . The left temple was markedly affected; left side generally more so than right. Sensations of cold were numerous, and alternated or coincided with heat in the same or other parts. Coldness of right side of face when pain in left side was most severe. Burning in chest with cold feeling at pit of stomach. Feet burning, then suddenly cold. Diarrhœa, as with its relations, Rheum and Rumex , is marked, and also dysuria. There is excessive weakness, trembling, and sensitiveness to cold. Epilepsy and hysteria have been cured with it. The Polygonums are named by Gerarde "Arse-smarts." Burnett (who prescribed Polyg. hydropiper under its name Persicaria urens ) regarded it as a splenic, and as useful in old cases of syphilis. As a splenic he found it often required in cases of gout; and in gouty eczema with much irritation he used it with much benefit in the 6th, 12th, and 30th. Peculiar Sensations are: As of sudden rising of scalp. As if whole intestinal contents were fluid. As if hips drawn together. As of galvanic shock through lower extremities. The symptoms are < by cold; damp; change of temperature: this is the most characteristic condition. Warmth > . Pressure of clothing = distress. Lying down = pressure in occiput; dizziness and wavering of sight. Rising = sudden pain in occiput. Bending head down = , and bending head back > , pain in ears.

Relations

Compare: Botan., Fago., Rheum, Rumex. Cough, diarrhœa, Rumex. Burning in mouth and throat, Caps. < Pressure of clothes, Lach. Headache waking him from sleep, Lach. Wandering pains, Puls., K. bi. < From cold and damp, Dulc., Merc., Rhus. > Bending head back, Seneg. Averse to coitus, Nat. m. Plumb. Also Asar., Caulo., Senec., Xanth.

Causation

Cold. Damp. Sprains.

Mind

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

Head

Dizziness. ─ Pulsative, acute pain in l. temple. ─ Under pressure of great weariness or excitement a dull, depressing pain through whole head, causing a sensation of torpor and strong desire to sleep, but inability to do so. ─ Pressure in back of head on lying down. ─ Pressure and soreness in head during menses. ─ Pain on sudden rising in back of head with pain over eyes. ─ Headache < in damp weather, > in moderately warm temperature. ─ Sensation of sudden rising of scalp, with extreme irritation and increased dry exfoliation.

Eyes

Burning in eyeballs; dry sensation in lids. ─ Convulsive twitching in lids when closed and when lying down, dizziness and wavering of sight. ─ Inflammation of edges of lids.

Ears

Dull hearing. ─ Ringing in ears. ─ Sudden sounds on tympanum, producing momentary cessation of hearing. ─ Acute pain in ear when bending head down; > bending head back. ─ Ear symptoms < in damp atmosphere. ─ Secretion of ears increased.

Nose

Inflammation, smarting, raw feeling of Schneiderian membrane. ─ Tickling in nose. ─ Frequent sneezing as from cold. ─ Red, inflamed appearance of nostrils, with swollen sensation. ─ Feeling of congestion through eyes and nose. ─ Coldness in external nose.

Face

Acute pain in l. face extending to temples, sometimes darting through whole l. side of head. ─ Excruciating pain and heat in l. side of face, < by cold or damp. ─ Coldness in r. face when pain most severe in l. ─ Pain in r. antrum as if proceeding up from a tooth (sound).

Mouth

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

Throat

Throat dry, hot, burning, with sense of excoriation. ─ Glands feel swollen; < from cold or moist air. ─ Contracted feeling in throat after swallowing, followed by thirst.

Stomach

Appetite: voracious; lost. ─ Food tasteless. ─ Great thirst for cold water, yet drinking = nausea. ─ Nausea: as if proceeding from small intestines; with coldness in abdomen. ─ Acidity. ─ Weight in stomach. ─ Burning in stomach. ─ Cold feeling in stomach: with headache; with burning in chest. ─ Pressure of clothes = distress. ─ Pain on pressure followed by throbbing and distress. ─ Uneasiness in stomach and abdomen.

Abdomen

Burning heat in stomach and bowels. ─ Tympanites and flatulent colic. ─ Cutting, lancinating, griping pains, with great rumbling as if whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state and in violent commotion, the movement proceeding from below up, producing nausea and disposition to vomit, with liquid fæces discharged with great force, with pain in loins. ─ Pain in hypogastric region, rectum, and anus. ─ Throbbing in l. inguinal glands.

Stool and Anus

Copious stool followed by smarting in anus. ─ Straining at stool with mucous, jelly-like discharges. ─ Stools: yellowish green; hard, lumpy; dark, followed by burning in rectum. ─ Urging with discharge of much fetid flatus. ─ Tenesmus; with nausea; with pulsative pains in hips and loins. ─ Constipation alternating with diarrhœa. ─ Interior of anus studded with itching eminences, as from corrugation without contraction, a kind of hæmorrhoidal tumour. ─ Hæmorrhoids with itching and burning. ─ Pruritus ani (used as a wash).

Urinary Organs

Inflammation of kidneys from cold. ─ Cutting pains along ureters to bladder. ─ Painful cutting and feeling of strangulation at neck of bladder while urinating, lasting long after. ─ Strangury. ─ During an attack of gonorrhœa extremely violent pains on urinating, causing him to tremble and cry. ─ Pulsating pain; pain; and burning in prostate on urinating. ─ Pains in bladder. ─ Deposit in urine of mucus and phosphates. ─ Frequent and profuse discharge of clear, light, or straw-coloured urine. ─ Albumen.

Male Sexual Organs

Pain in testicles, spermatic cords, and neck of bladder when urinating. ─ Itching at orifice of urethra and around glans with desire to urinate. ─ Itching and stinging of prepuce. ─ Pain and soreness in l. testis, extending along l. spermatic cord; occasionally darting at same time in r. cord and testis. ─ Loss of power and semen, sometimes followed by inflammation of glans. ─ Extremely convulsive action in the functional uses.

Female Sexual Organs

Intense dislike to coition, followed by perturbation and irritation if approached; inaction of flow of secretions. ─ Aching pain in hips and loins, and sensation of weight and tension in pelvis. ─ Menses: absent; delayed, with distress and pain; too copious; tardy; fetid. ─ During menses: pressure and soreness in head; grinding pain through abdomen. ─ Congestive weakness and loss of power. ─ Congestion of ovaries; tearing sensation in groin, < r. ─ Burning in vagina. ─ Acrid, excoriating leucorrhœa. ─ Shooting pains through breasts, with great soreness, distension, and tenderness.

Respiratory Organs

Stifling sensation in larynx; irritability of whole system; weakness of sexual function. ─ Constriction of larynx. ─ Crowding and pressure about larynx with irritation of bronchi. ─ Roughness as of adhesion of mucus to larynx, producing spasmodic hacking and hoarseness. ─ Hacking cough, < by change of temperature. ─ Dry cough, in night, excited by tickling, prickling-tingling in upper anterior part of chest, behind sternum; dry sensation in larynx when coughing.

Chest

Sharp pain under r. scapula, extending into chest and pit of stomach, with heavy beating of heart and throbbing of carotids. ─ Pulsative pressive pains about xiphoid cartilage. ─ Cutting in l. chest. ─ Burning in chest with cold feeling in pit of stomach and shooting pains.

Heart

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

Neck and Back

Awoke at midnight with lameness l. side neck to shoulder, making movement painful; with pulsative, wandering pains. ─ Pulsative pains in l. loin. ─ Aching in loins with pain around l. hip-joint. ─ Pain in back and at lower extremity, acute or drawing, lateral in its action, as if hips being drawn together (kidney affection). ─ Tearing and drawing in loins on exposure to cold, followed by lameness and soreness.

Limbs

Trembling; bruised feeling; weakness in limbs. ─ Shooting pains in arms and back of legs. ─ Distension of blood-vessels in hands and feet.

Upper Limbs

Pains in arms and inability or sense of weakness on lifting slightest weight. ─ Pains pulsating, intermittent, shooting, wandering, generally shooting down to finger-tips, sometimes shooting up.

Lower Limbs

Sciatica; pain flashing like aurora borealis. ─ Pulsative pains in hips and loins with ineffectual urging and tenesmus. ─ Swelling of legs and feet. ─ Superficial ulcers and sores.

Generalities

Pulsating, wandering, flashing pains, like aurora borealis.

Skin

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

Sleep

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

Fever

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

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Smart Weed ; Water Pepper. Polygonaceæ.
Provings by Payne, Trans. Amer. Inst. of Hom., 1859, p. 82, and Joslin and Cameron, Hale's New Remedies.
We include the symptoms arranged by Dr. Edward Bayard, Hom. Phys., vol. 5, 1885, p. 328.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Dysuria , Rosenberg, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 94 ; Amenorrhœa , Small, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 172 ; Sciatica , Shaw, Org., vol. 3, p. 377 ; Ulcers , Small, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 246.

Mind

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

Sensorium

Dizziness.

Inner head

Pulsative and acute pain in left temple.
Under pressure of great weariness or excitement a dull depressing pain through whole head, causing a sensation of torpor and a strong desire to sleep with inability to do so.
Pressure in back of head on lying down.
Pressure and soreness in head during menses.
Pain upon sudden rising, in back of head with pain over eyes.
Headache < in damp weather, > in moderately warm temperature.

Outer head

A sensation of sudden rising of scalp, with extreme irritation and increased dry exfoliation.

Sight and eyes

Burning in eyeballs ; dry sensation in lids.
Convulsive twitching of lids when closed and when lying down, dizziness and wavering of sight.
Inflammation of edges of lids.

Hearing and ears

Dulness of hearing.
Ringing sounds in ears.
Sudden sounds on tympanum, producing momentary cessation of hearing.
Acute pain in ear when bending head down ; > bending head backward.
Ear symptoms < in moist atmosphere.
Secretion of ears increased.

Smell and nose

Inflammation of mucous membrane of nose.
Tickling sensation in nostrils.
Reddened or inflamed appearance of nostrils with a swollen sensation.
Feeling of congestion through eyes and nose.
Coldness in external nose.

Upper face

Acute pain in left side of face, extending to temple, sometimes darting through whole left side of head.
Excruciating pain and heat in left side of face, < by cold or damp.
Coldness in right side of face when pain is most severe in left.
After severe pain, sometimes drawing in left side of face from chin to temple ; paleness, with a drawn, tired look.

Teeth and gums

Tenderness of gums.
Cold or cooling temperature in mouth, producing acute toothache.

Taste, speech, tongue

Bitter taste.

Inner mouth

Heat in roof of mouth, with excitation of salivary glands.
Increased flow of heated saliva, affording no relief to parched condition.

Palate and throat

Throat dry and hot, with sense of excoriation.
Glands feel swollen ; < from cold or moist air.
Contracted feeling in throat after swallowing, followed by thirst.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of appetite.
Food is tasteless, or nearly so.
Repulsion to swallowing.
No relief after drinking.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Slight acidity.
Feeling of weight in stomach.
Pressure of clothes causes distress.
Pain upon pressure, followed by throbbing and distress.
General uneasiness in stomach and abdomen.

Abdomen and loins

Pain and uneasiness in abdomen.
Burning heat in stomach and bowels.
Tympanitis and flatulent colic.
Cutting, lancinating, griping pains, with great rumbling as if whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state and in violent commotion, the movement proceeding from below upward, producing nausea and disposition to vomit, with liquid feces which were discharged with considerable force, with pain in loins.

Stools and rectum

Copious stool, followed by smarting in anus.
Straining at stool, with mucous, jelly-like discharges.
Dark discharges, followed by burning in rectum.
Cholera morbus and cholera infantum.
Dysentery, with burning and smarting in rectum.
Evacuations and pain < in cold temperature.
Interior of anus studded with itching eminences, as from corrugation without contraction, a kind of hemorrhoidal tumor.
Hemorrhoids, with itching and burning in tumors.
Pruritus ani (used as a wash).

Urinary organs

Painful cutting and feeling of strangulation at neck of bladder while urinating, lasting a long time after.
Strangury ; dysuria.
During an attack of gonorrhœa extremely violent pains on urinating causing him to tremble and cry, he became feverish, slept and ate but little, and within five days grew perceptibly thinner.
Pains in bladder.
Deposit in urine of mucus and phosphates.
Frequent and profuse discharge of clear, light or straw-colored urine.
Kidneys affected by a cold ; inflammation, urine high-colored, dark-red.
Albuminuria.

Male sexual organs

Irritation of genitals.
Loss of power and semen, sometimes followed by inflammation of glans penis.
Extremely convulsive action in the functional uses.

Female sexual organs

Intense dislike for coition followed by a perturbation and irritation if approached ; inaction of the flow of secretions.
Aching pains in hips and loins and sensation of weight and tension in pelvis.
Amenorrhœa.
Menses : delayed six or seven days with distress and pain ; too copious, amounting almost to hemorrhage ; tardy, from inaction ; fetid.
During menses : pressure and soreness in head ; grinding pain through abdomen.
Congestive weakness and loss of power.
Congestion of ovaries ; tearing sensation in groin, especially right.
Acrid, excoriating leucorrhœa.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Shooting pains through mamma, with great soreness, distention and tenderness.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Stifling sensation in larynx ; irritability of whole system ; weakness of sexual function.
Crowding and pressure about larynx, with irritation of bronchi.
Roughness as of adhesion of mucus to larynx, producing spasmodic hacking and hoarseness.

Respiration

Lungs enfeebled, breathing labored ; movement of abdomen on breathing becomes labored.

Cough

Hacking cough < by change of temperature.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Increased action of heart with loss of rhythm.

Neck and back

Pain in back and at lower extremity, at times acute, and again a drawing pain, lateral in its action, as if hips were being drawn together. θ Kidney affection.
Tearing and drawing in loins and on exposure to cold, followed by lameness and soreness.

Upper limbs

Pain in arms and inability or sense of weakness in lifting slightest weight.

Lower limbs

Sciatica ; the pain put him in mind of the Aurora Borealis.
Swelling of legs and feet.
Superficial ulcers and sores upon lower extremities.

Limbs in general

Sensation of weakness in upper and lower limbs.
Distension of bloodvessels in hands and feet.

Rest. position. motion

Lying down : pressure in back of head ; dizziness and wavering of sight.
Rising : sudden pain in back of head.
Bending head down : acute pain in ears.

Nerves

Hysteria ; slight vertigo, with sensation in extremities as of a galvanic shock passing through them ; constant desire to urinate ; warmth and peculiar sensation of tingling through whole body.
Epilepsy ; a protracted case (cured by the extract).

Temperature and weather

Warm temperature : headache >.
Damp weather : headache < ; ear symptoms < ; heat in side of face < ; glands of throat feel swollen <.
Cold : heat in side of face < ; swollen glands < ; evacuations and pain < ; kidneys affected ; tension and drawing in loins.
Change of temperature : hacking cough <.

Locality and direction

Right : coldness in side of face ; tearing in groin.
Left : pain in temple ; acute pain in side of face ; darting through side of head ; heat in side of face.
From below upward : movement in bowels.

Sensations

As of sudden rising of scalp ; as if whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state and in violent commotion ; as if hips were drawn together ; pain put him in mind of Aurora Borealis ; as of a galvanic shock passing through extremities.
Pain : in head ; over eyes ; in loins ; in bladder ; in back and lower extremities ; in arms.
Excruciating pain : in left side of face.
Extremely violent pains : when urinating.
Acute pain : in left temple ; in ears ; in left side of face and head ; in teeth.
Lancinating : in bowels.
Shooting pains : through mamma.
Tearing sensation : in groin ; in loins.
Cutting : in bowels ; in neck of bladder.
Griping : in bowels.
Grinding pain : through abdomen.
Pulsative pain : in left temple.
Aching pains : in hips and loins.
Dull, depressing pain : through whole head.
Drawing : in left side of face from chin to temple ; as if hips were drawn together ; in loins.
Burning : in eyeballs ; in rectum ; in tumors.
Heat : in left side of face ; in roof of mouth ; in throat ; in stomach and bowels.
Smarting : in anus ; in rectum.
Soreness : in head ; of mamma ; in loins.
Tenderness : of gums ; of mamma.
Tingling : through whole body.
Pressure : in back of head ; in head ; about larynx.
Weight : in stomach ; in pelvis.
Tension : in pelvis.
Swollen sensation : in nostrils.
Feeling of congestion : through eyes and nose.
Contracted feeling : in throat.
Distress : in stomach.
Stifling sensation : in larynx.
Uneasiness : in stomach and abdomen.
Weakness : in sexual functions ; in arms ; in upper and lower limbs.
Tickling sensation : in nostrils.
Dry sensation : in lids ; in throat.
Itching : in tumors.
Coldness : in external nose ; in right side of face.

Tissues

Has a reputation in domestic practice as a fomentation in all internal inflammations.
Sprains ; lameness and bruises therefrom (locally).

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure : of clothes causes distress.

Skin

Chronic erysipelatous inflammations.
Old and indolent ulcers.

Stage of life, constitution

Miss C. C., nervo-bilious temperament ; amenorrhœa.
Man, subject to urinary difficulties, now suffering from gonorrhœa ; dysuria.

Relations

Compare : Asarum, Ammon. carb., Caul., Capsic., Pulsat., Senega, Senecio, Xanthoxylum .