Tussilago Petasites tus-p.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Butter-burr

General

Has some action on the urinary organs, and found useful in gonorrhœa. Affections of pylorus.

Urinary

Crawling in urethra.

Male

Gonorrhœa; yellowish, thick discharge. Erections, with urethral crawling. Pain in spermatic cord.

Relationship

Compare: Tussilago fragrans (pylorus pain, plethora and corpulency); Tussilago farfara (coughs); as an intercurrent medicine in phthisis pulmonalis (See Tuberculinum).

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

Petasites vulgaris. Bitter-bur. (Sandy meadows on the banks of streams.) N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant.

Clinical

Gonorrhœa. Headache. Lumbago. Night-sweat. Pylorus, affections of. Throat, sore. Tibia, pain in. Uvula, burning in.

Characteristics

Petasites is "a genus of Compositæ established for three or four species of Tussilago , which have the flower-heads partially diœceous in racemes, sometimes branching into panicles. The essential characters which separate them from the common Coltsfoot ( Tussilago farfara ) are very slight, and the foliage is the same" ( Treas. of Bot .). I retain the name of Tussilago petasites under which it is best known. Tussilago grows on river-banks that are little trodden on. "The roots are an admirable medicine in the worst kind of fevers with boils or buboes" ( Green's Herbal ). Kuchenmeister and five others took substantial doses. Most noticeable among the symptoms are: a lumbago of very great severity. Tightness of the chest. ( Tussilago means "cough-wort".) A headache shifting from one part of the head to another during two days. A pain about the pylorus. A urethritis, with yellow discharge. The last has been confirmed clinically. Hansen gives the indication: "Acute or chronic gonorrhœa, yellow or white, thick discharge." Crawling in urethra; jerking in spermatic cord, and drawing in r. testicle are additional symptoms of the proving. [Ivatt's ( H. W ., xxxvi. 381) reports cures of gonorrhœa with T. farfara , common Coltsfoot.] Rosenberg ( H. R ., ix. 501) gives some experiences: ( 1 ) An extremely violent gonorrhœa; penis swollen, painful; emission of urine extremely painful, mixed with blood, patient feverish and restless. Tuss. p . was given in water. There was a great aggravation of all symptoms in thirty-six hours. The remedy was discontinued and marked amelioration followed. Resumed again, much diluted, rapid cure followed. The remedy was used externally as well in this case. ( 2 ) Chronic ophthalmia, the result of gonorrhœa "cured" with turpentine. Tuss. p . restored the discharge and then cured. Rosenberg refers to a writer who says of the plant that if it is macerated in water, the water will not spoil even if kept for years. The symptoms are < By pressure (pains in pylorus). < Standing; stooping; walking going up stairs; especially < rising from a seat (lumbago). Drinking = eructations. < Walking.

Relations

Compare: Pain in pylorus (Tus. fg. is as if a morsel had lodged at bottom of cardia). Lumbago, Ant. t., Act. r. gonorrhœa, Thuj.

Head

Severe confusion of head, more l. side, in evening. ─ Vertigo; on waking. ─ Dulness and heaviness of head. ─ Headache l. upper forehead, thence extending slowly over vertex, as if under dura mater like a tearing pain; after two hours pain seated over r. eye, with sensation as if supraorbital muscles would be drawn upward, obliging him to wink; in afternoon headache returned to vertex; in evening again in temporal region; next day on waking, in l. side of vertex extending forward to r. eye.

Ears

(Otorrhœa with enlarged cervical glands. ─ R. T. C.)

Mouth

(Toothache all day, < by cold drink, esp. violent in bed; > by Merc .).

Throat

Pain and burning in uvula. ─ Sore throat and pain on swallowing.

Stomach

Eructations; frequent; numerous always after drinking. ─ Nausea. ─ Pain in pit of stomach. ─ Burning in epigastrium. ─ Pain about pylorus, at the point where sternum and ribs form a triangle, < by pressure.

Abdomen

Colic; > by emission of flatus.

Stool and Anus

In afternoon, a second soft but formed stool followed by desire for stool. ─ Absence of usual stool after dinner. ─ Several unsatisfactory stools in one day.

Urinary Organs

Pressed out a drop of yellow mucus from urethra before urinating, though the urethra was not congested. ─ Crawling in urethra, obliging scratching, with erections. ─ Urine very profuse; but not evacuated often.

Male Sexual Organs

Jerking pain in spermatic cord causing him to bend backward. ─ Drawing in r. testis.

Chest

Tightness of chest. ─ Oppression in r. chest.

Heart

Sudden stitch in l. side of præcordium on deep breathing.

Back

Pain in small of back: on standing or stooping; walking; going up stairs; esp. on rising from a seat.

Limbs

Increased stiffness of limbs at night.

Lower Limbs

Pain in middle of r. tibia confined to a small spot.

Generalities

Weakness.

Skin

Itching on forehead and in beard.

Sleep

Restless sleep. ─ Many dreams.

Fever

Cold feet. ─ Morning sweat. ─ Sweat at night; profuse.