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Eupionum

Wood-tar distillation
34 sectionsBoericke · 7Clarke · 27

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • uterine displacements
  • Intense sweat from slightest exertion

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Wood-tar distillation (EUPION)

  • Marked female symptoms, and backache.
  • A remedy for uterine displacements.
  • Pain in back, followed by a bland leucorrhoea.
  • Menses too early and copious; flow thin.
  • Intense sweat from slightest exertion.
  • Disgusting dreams.
  • Sensation as if whole body were made of jelly.
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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke

The effects of Eupion., which was proved by Wahle in Rome, who also

proved Paraffin, bear a close resemblance to those of Kreasote, but are by no means identical

with them. A large number of the symptoms centre in the female sexual organs, some of them

being very characteristic. Menstruation is too early and too copious, the flow being thin and

fluid. During the time there is great irritability, headache, and chilliness; painless pulsation in the

head, wabbling sensation in upper part of body; everything becomes dark to her. Nose-bleed

occurs when menstrual flow intermits. Cutting in abdomen ceases when flow comes on. Yellow

leucorrhoea follows, colouring linen yellow. Leucorrhcea with severe backache; has to lean

against something to give relief; when the backache ceases the discharge gushes out. Pulsations

all over body while sitting quietly. Hemorrhages occur from nose and bowels. Sticking pains in

head and other parts. Weak eyes and obscured vision. Pressing in ears as if wind were blown in

with force and for a long time. Teeth stick together when jaws are closed; in morning sensation

as if teeth were embedded in some soft matter. Tongue covered with raised nodules. Pain in

inguinal region. Many painful glandular swellings in groins. Spasmodic, periodic pain an inch up

rectum. Palpitation with slow pulse. Nodules appear on inner side of right cheek, left side of

neck, and left forearm. Sensations: of dislocation of joints; as if muscles torn from bones; as if

skin and muscles were too short. Cramps in the calves when accompanying uterine or chest

complaints. Soles of feet numb as if walking on needles; sticking in heels. Coldness of whole

right side of body. Colliquative perspiration. Perspires from least exertion; when eating; all night

(with tuberculosis). Most symptoms are < morning; many appear in evening and night. Cough

  • returning every winter.
  • Blowing nose <.
  • Coughing and sneezing < pains in abdomen.
  • Hot drink <

toothache. Rest > headache and pains in abdomen; < other symptoms. Bending backwards >

backache. Bending forward > pain in abdomen.

Mentals

Symptoms — Mind
Clarke

Cheerful, joyous disposition.—Irritable, angers easily.—Great weakness of memory.

Head

Head
Boericke
  • Vertigo; everything turns round on sitting up in bed.
  • Heat at vertex; stitches from vertex down limbs into abdomen and genitals.
  • Sore painful spots on head.
  • Painful pulsation in forehead.
Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Vertigo; everything becomes black before eyes, when turning upper part of body from

  • r.
  • to 1.
  • ; everything turns round when she sits up in bed.
  • —Dulness of the head as if too

full—Painful pulsations in forehead, > lying down.—On I. superior part of forehead, a pain as if a

cyst would form.—Burning pains in forehead, with pressing down of lids and moisture in eyes as

from tears.—Heat at vertex; sensation as if hairs were pulled, with headache; lachrymation and

drawing on muscles of neck.—Stitches radiating from vertex down limbs and into abdomen and

genitals, producing painful sensation of squeezing together.—Sticking pains from occiput along

cervical muscles to back of chest and in middle of chest with every breath; sticking in 1.

shoulder-blade.—Some painful spots on head as if small furuncles would form.

Eyes

Symptoms — Eyes
Clarke

Eyes weak as if she had cried.—Sensation as if something hung down over eyes, must

wipe them continually.—Pressure above eyes as if the globes would be pushed out.—Burning,

pressive pains in eye with copious lachrymation.—Swelling of r. upper lid on waking in morning,

< during walk in fresh air; lower lid also swells up and then the |. (Graphites 6 quickly removed

this) —Lachrymation < in fresh air, > in room.—Everything appears pale, as if a thin veil were

before eyes.

Ears

Symptoms — Ears
Clarke

Pressing in ears as if the wind was blown forcibly into them for a long time, the

external parts being equally affected Shooting and tearing in |. ear, extending to external

temporal region.

Nose

Symptoms — Nose
Clarke

L. nostril cracked and the crack bleeds.—Sneezing; each time he blows his nose the

sneezing reappears.—Sneezing with fluent coryza in morning.—Bleeding; blood thin and fluid;

when blowing nose.—Menstrual flow intermits and bleeding from nose occurs.—Soreness in

upper nose on drawing air through nostrils in evening.

Face

Symptoms — Face
Clarke

On lower portion of inner side of r. cheek a hard nodule size of a pea——Upper lip

fissured and painful as if raw.—Lips and throat always dry, yet without thirst—Lips painful as if

sore.

Mouth

Symptoms — Mouth
Clarke

Whole tongue red, covered with raised pimples like herring roe.—Tip of tongue dry,

back covered with thin dirty white coating.—Anterior part of tongue rough like a

grater.—Insensible feeling in mouth as if scalded by fat——Pappy and sticky in mouth early in

morning.—Taste sour after eating; putrid.

Symptoms — Teeth
Clarke

The teeth stick together when the jaws are closed.—In the morning, sensation as if the

teeth were embedded deeply in some soft matter, without pain; > by eating —Teeth painful as if

loose, gums swollen, scorbutic; < by hot soup.—Toothache like numbness in carious molars,

coming on immediately on lying down, > on rising and moving about.—Grumbling in front teeth;

sensation as if gums swollen and teeth (which are firm) would drop out.—Tearing in all teeth in

morning on rising; tearing extends to temples; to forehead; to nose.—Gums swollen.—Painful

jerking-tearing in gums.

Throat

Symptoms — Throat
Clarke

In morning much white bad-tasting mucus in throat, expectorated after slight

paroxysms of coughing.—Sensation of mucus in throat without being able to

expectorate.—Sensation of dryness on uvula.

Stomach

Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke

Eructations: tasting of food—Vomiting of food —Nausea: till 3 a.m.; on

becoming erect; with much thirst and copious Menstruation, and trembling through all limbs;

lancinating pains under r. breast.—Vomiturition emanating from lower abdomen; dark green

tasteless mucus.—Bloatedness and sensation of fulness of stomach, with internal chilliness in

evening.—Region of stomach feels internally sore and distended; pains under both short ribs.

Abdomen

Symptoms — Abdomen
Clarke

Frequent borborygmus.—Passing flatus > pains.—Pains < by coughing, sneezing,

blowing nose.—In muscles of 1. side of abdomen, from pelvic bones obliquely downwards, a

painful tension like what she formerly felt during pregnancy.—Contracting pain and twisting > by

bending over; one day before menstruation.—Cutting pains during menstruation, when the pains

cease discharge is always copious; blood red and very thin.—In 1. side of abdomen, immediately

over crista ilii, when walking, raising arm, or coughing, a severe pain nearly taking breath away;

she feels nothing when at rest; after a few hours pains move low down into abdomen and then

  • pass off—In 1.
  • anterior crest of iltum stitches when walking.
  • —Squeezing, pressing pain in |.
  • groin

when quiet.

Stool

Symptoms — Stool and Rectum
Clarke

Spasmodic pains a few inches up into rectum, radiating up and down,

extending into labia, with such severity she cannot sit down, > after sleep, but backache and

nausea come on.—Spasmodic periodically returning pains one inch up rectum, extending to

vagina and producing there a spasmodic, contracting pain.—Drawing and tearing in rectum, <

during (natural) stool.—Itching after natural stool.—Ineffectual inclination and

straining.—Tenesmus; > when blood is passed; this weakens her.—Three or four times daily,

bloody stools.—Hard, dry stools, with great straining.—Dark blood in painless

stools.—Constipation: stool every three or four days, with great straining and prolapsus uteri.

Urinary

Symptoms — Urinary Organs
Clarke

Frequent inclination, scanty discharge; worse when standing than

sitting.—Frequent and copious; lemon colour; chestnut brown before menses.—Hot urine passed

without pain.

Female

Female
Boericke
  • Burning in right ovary. Gushing leucorrhoea.
  • Chronic tubal disease.
  • Uterine flexions.
  • Menses too early and copious.
  • During menses, irritable and disinclined to talk; burning and stitches in chest and heart.
  • After menses, yellow leucorrhoea, with severe backache.
  • When pain in back ceases, the discharge gushes out.
  • Sore pain between labia during urination.
  • Pruritus pudendi; labia swollen.
Symptoms — Female Sexual Organs
Clarke

During urination some pain between labia.—Burning, stinging,

itching and swelling between labia, momentarily > by rubbing, afterwards burning and <; after

washing with cold water genitals feel stiff and numb, with sensation of soreness and

rawness.—Pruritus pudendi; < evening; with raw pain in sternum unendurable when

touched.—Discharge of blood between periods with backache.—Eight days after period,

leucorrhcea staining linen yellow in spots size of sixpence; lassitude; emaciation; stitching in

soles of feet when walking; trembling all over (as if a jelly) when at rest —When backache ceases

leucorrhoea gushes out abruptly, with sticking pains in forehead.—Copious leucorrhcea, running

from her, remits evening, returns morning.—Menses a few days too soon, without the leucorrhcea

which usually precedes them.—Menses too soon; too copious; a flooding; bruised sensation in

chest; when breathing, stitches in middle of chest and in heart; taking away breath pains decrease

the third day.—Copious, thin, fluid menstrual discharge with severe backache, painless pulsating

in head, pressing towards forehead, with full sensation—During menstruation painful twisting

deep in abdomen extending to rectum, intermitting and returning; as soon as the pains cease the

flooding sets in again.—Menses stopped twenty-four hours; returned and continued twenty-four

hours, with sensation as if whole upper part of body from short ribs to head were wabbling; she

has slightly the same soaring sensation in her feet—On third day courses cease and she suffers

from severe headache and chilliness; fourth day flow returns copiously for a few hours and

headache and chilliness cease—On menses ceasing abruptly, nausea, salivation, and irritability

come on, ceasing completely when flow returned.—Scanty menses, the usual drawing abdominal

pains to genitals did not appear.—In a case of suppressed menses Eupion 9 caused severe cutting

abdominal pains emanating from sacrum, as if something would press out of genital parts; pains

passed and returned at intervals; after twenty-four hours she was well, and the courses appeared

without any trouble.

Respiratory

Symptoms — Respiratory Organs
Clarke

Sensation below larynx as if something was sticking there, with short,

  • dry, hacking cough.
  • —Smarting in a spot size of bean, on internal r.
  • side of larynx.
  • —Crawling in

upper bronchi causing dry cough.—Tickling r. side larynx causing continual cough; paroxysms

causing short breath which ceases after expectoration of tasteless white mucus.—Rough,

scraping, metallic, dry cough, as if he had eaten rancid fat and taken brandy afterwards.—Hard,

suffocating, dry cough with stitches in chest; returning every winter—Cough partly dry, partly

loose, with thick yellow, greenish or grey, sometimes foul-tasting expectoration; great lassitude

and thirst.—Cough > by warm drinks; by sitting up in bed; with breaking out of perspiration.

Chest

Symptoms — Chest
Clarke

Heaviness, oppression, stitches, and tickling in chest.—Stitches and pressure in

sternum.—Mamme increase in size, with pressive pains in them, as if something painful were

drawn through them with oppression.—Stitches under r. mamma, in the skin; < by lying,

breathing, or walking; beginning 7 p.m. and lasting till midnight, followed by stitches close

under heart, and with malaise and hot rising from stomach.

Symptoms — Heart
Clarke

Palpitation with slow pulse; believes her heart must be heard some distance

away.—Four hours before menses appear severe palpitations, ceasing when the flow begins.

Neck & Back

Back
Boericke

Sacrum pains, as if broken. Severe backache; must lean against something for support. Pains extended into pelvis.

Symptoms — Neck and Back
Clarke

Pulsating and burning node on muscles of neck, |. side, two inches below

mastoid process, preventing turning neck.—Backache one day before menses, > bending

backward, lasts all the first day.—Backache alternating with leucorrhcea.—Backache during

menses, > by leaning up against something.—Stiffness and horripilations between

shoulders.—Pressive heaviness in lumbar vertebree.—Pains in back extend to pelvis; when she

stoops she can hardly rise again; sacrum pains as if broken.

Upper Limbs

Symptoms — Upper Limbs
Clarke

Trembling; paralytic pain, crampy pain in r. arm.—As if muscles beaten off

  • bone (axillary side of r.
  • arm).
  • —Paralysing stitches in r.
  • deltoid.
  • —Stitching pains in elbows

radiating to fingers.—In centre of r. palm, severe stitch radiating to elbow, and leaving sensation

of numbness in ring and little fingers Hands go to sleep easily.—Dislocation pains in joints of r.

hand.—Heads of bones of fingers feel too large.

Lower Limbs

Symptoms — Lower Limbs
Clarke

In both thighs a tensive pain as if skin and muscles were too short.—From

upper end of r. hip painful drawing to middle of thigh, where it ends with a stitch Sensation at

back of thigh as if muscles were torn from bones, < by ascending, stooping, sitting, and by

  • touch.
  • —Paralytic, dislocation pain in r.
  • knee.
  • —Stitches in either knee.
  • —Cramps in

calves.—Sensation of warmth in |. anterior leg, upper part (as from hot vapour); burning in

calves.—In morning stitching, burning, and twitching, beginning in the calves, going to the toes,

most severe in the heels; in evening the pains lessen in the calves but stitches continue to shoot

back and forth in the heels, gradually ceasing after an hour.—Dislocation pain in joints of r.

foot.—Soles of feet numb as if she walked on needles.—Stitches in middle of sole first day of

menses.—Drawing stitching in r. heel running up to calf.

Extremities

Extremities
Boericke

Cramps in the calves; worse at night.

Skin

Symptoms — Skin
Clarke

Nodule on 1. forearm.—Itching biting in skin; in genitals penetrating whole body; <

night; > during motion.

Sleep

Symptoms — Sleep
Clarke

Yawning with chilliness and shivering. —Sleepiness towards noon.—Dreams of

disgusting things; of naked persons; anxious dreams; of her child falling into the

water.—Frightful dreams, the same dream repeated.—Dreams that she is pursued by oxen; of

falling into an abyss.—Wakes bathed in perspiration.

Fever

Symptoms — Fever
Clarke

Chilliness with headache; with stitching;> by warm drink.—Dry heat towards

noon.—Sweat of foul odour on least exertion.—Colliquative sweating on least exertion; when

eating; all night—Copious night-sweat towards morning.

Clinical

Clinical
Clarke
  • Amenorrhoea.
  • Cough.
  • Cramps.
  • Dreams.
  • Epistaxis.
  • Glandular swellings.
  • Groins, pain
  • in.
  • Hemorrhages.
  • Headache.
  • Leucorrhoea.
  • Menorrhagia.
  • Neuralgia.
  • Night-sweats.
  • Phthisis.
  • Pruritus.
  • Toothache.
  • Tumours.
  • Vicarious menstruation.

Relations

Relations
Clarke

Compare: Kreasote, and the Carbons; Graphites antidoted effect on eyelids; Laches.

(pain ceases when discharges appear).

Relationship
Boericke

Kreosot; Graph; Lach.

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Third potency.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.

Additional notes

Symptoms — Limbs
Clarke

Lassitude with yawning sleepiness.—Tearing in extremities and restlessness in legs

preventing sleep.

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