Fagopyrum Esculentum

Fagopyrum has had an extensive proving, and though there is little clinical

experience with the drug on record, some features are sufficiently well marked to justify their

being classed as characteristics. One of the most marked symptoms is a visible pulsation of the

carotids and other arteries. Offensiveness distinguishes many excretions. Headaches involving

eyes, root of nose, and back of neck; hot head; < bending head forward, > bending head

backward. Headache with tired neck. Itching is general; scalp, eyes, margins of lids; ears; nose.

The nose is sore and has crusts in it. Lips dry and cracked. Many symptoms of sore throat.

Rheumatic symptoms are > by motion. Heat and restlessness after retiring. Perspiration, often

• ▸offensive.
• ▸The symptoms are < in afternoon from 3 to 6; < 11 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸; < after retiring; < from

warmth; < from motion; > by cold applications; from cold air; > from pressure. Berridge has

recorded two cases in which Fago. was of service. In one it removed the following symptoms

after aggravating the pain in the shoulder: On waking, dull, bruised pain in top of left shoulder,

rather posteriorly, extending up neck, < on moving the part, going off after breakfast and

returning later in the day; constipation; nausea a little before 11 a.m., afterwards dull pain in left

temple, feeling of heat all over. In the other case it permanently removed (after a week's

aggravation), sinking in the stomach about 6 or 7 p.m., and temporarily removed a chronic

• ▸diarrhoea about 6 or 7 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸The diarrhoea was increased later and was met by Laches.
• ▸Hale

mentions that there is a popular belief that indulgence in buckwheat cakes is a prolific cause of

skin eruptions. He has found it curative in cases of eczema, erythema, and intertrigo.

Intoxication.—Dread of water.—Terrified; apprehensive of death—Gloomy and torpid.

• ▸Inability to study or remember.
• ▸Depressed and irritable.
• ▸Itching of eyes and ears.
• ▸Pains deep in head, with upward pressure.
• ▸Itching in and around eyes and ears.
• ▸Head hot, better bending backward, with tired neck.
• ▸Occipital headache.
• ▸Bursting pains.
• ▸Cerebral hyperaemia.

Dizziness and stupefaction lasting all night; reeling. —Intoxication.—Headache; lasting

several hours; dull; frontal —Swelling of mouth, and headache.

Itching and smarting, swelling, heat and soreness.

Eyes swollen, red, hot, itching; as if sand in eyes.—Meibomian glands of |. lower lid

• ▸inflamed; itching in margins.
• ▸—Lachrymation, < by reading.
• ▸—Aching deep in eyeballs.
• ▸—Feeling

as if eyeballs were being pushed out and at the same time held back by cords.

Heat, itching and neuralgic pains in external ears —Itching along Eustachian tubes.

Sore, red, inflamed. Fluent coryza, with sneezing, followed by dryness and crust formation.

• ▸Soreness of nose.
• ▸—Nose red and sore externally.
• ▸—Septum deeply cracked.
• ▸—Fluent

coryza.—Crusts in nostrils.

• ▸Face flushed.
• ▸—Soreness of |.
• ▸malar bone, also of temporal region.
• ▸—Lips dry and

cracked; longitudinal crack on upper lip.

• ▸7, 8.
• ▸Teeth and Mouth.
• ▸—Soreness of teeth in closing them; < by cold water.
• ▸—Gums sore and

• ▸bleed easily.
• ▸—Swelling in roof of mouth.
• ▸—Bad taste in mouth in morning.
• ▸—Taste of ingesta after

dinner with eructations.

Salivation; mouth flowing with froth and saliva.—Swelling of mouth, and headache.

Thick mucus collects in throat on rising.—Throat sore, dry, raw, inflamed, aching;

feeling as if a lump in cesophagus; painful on swallowing.—Tonsils swollen; badly-smelling

cheesy mass coughed up.—Throbbing of carotids.—Parotid and submaxillary glands swollen,

sore, and painful.

Soreness and feeling of excoriation, deep down pharynx. Uvula elongated, tonsils swollen.

• ▸Eructations of scalding, hot, acid, watery substance; better, coffee.
• ▸Bad taste in the morning.
• ▸Persistent, morning nausea.
• ▸Drooling.

Mouth flowing with froth and saliva; intolerable thirst; entreating for drink, but as

soon as any liquid was brought he seemed to shudder as after eating unripe grapes; soon after

eating the nuts had been seized with gloominess, torpor, and dread of liquids; urine fiery red,

depositing copious turbid white sediment.—A few hours before death vomited a porracious bile.

(This patient, a boy, had not been bitten by a rabid animal.).—Nausea.

Pain in region of liver on stooping, and a bruised, sore feeling at 10 a.m.; < lying

• ▸on r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Sharp sticking through liver from before backward.
• ▸—Abdomen distended with

flatulence; tympanitic; < by pressure of clothes.—Soreness in hypogastrium; sharp pains through

hypogastric region extending into 1. inguinal region.

Burning in rectum after stool; creeping; urging; tenesmus.—Diarrhoea

with tenesmus; stools watery or pappy; with flatulence; very offensive.

Cutting in urethra.—Difficulty in voiding last drops of urine; several drops

pass after he thinks lie has finished.

Pruritus vulvae, with yellow leucorrhoea, worse, rest. Burning in right ovary.

Pains in r. ovary; on walking in afternoon.—Pruritus, > by cold

water.—Leucorrheea staining yellow.—Mamma less painful than usual before period.

Breath very offensive.—Touching the neck occasions a cough with a

smarting sensation extending to the ear and throat, under lobe of r. ear.

• ▸Pain around heart, better lying on back, extending to left shoulder and arm.
• ▸Throbbing in all arteries after retiring.
• ▸Palpitation with oppression.
• ▸Pulse irregular, intermittent, rapid.
• ▸Light feeling in chest.

Seized with pleurisy, soon became delirious, and died in convulsions on eleventh

day.

Pain around heart;> lying on back; extending to 1. shoulder and arm.—Throbbing of

heart and all arteries, even those of lips, comes on after retiring; sour perspiration breaks

out.—Palpitation with oppression.—Pulse irregular and intermittent.

Stiffness of neck and soreness of all neck muscles.—Neck tired; as if

unable to support head.—Dull pain in back of neck, at base of occiput, > bending head

backwards.—Stitching pains in region of r. kidney.

Pain in shoulder every morning, greatly < by getting chilly—From 5 to 6

• ▸p.
• ▸m.
• ▸pain in |.
• ▸axilla extending down biceps muscle and also into pectorals—Numbing pain in 1.

axilla extending down arms.—Pain in hands as if in bones; < touching cold table; visible

throbbing of arteries.

Pain from hips up to small of back; also down to feet—Numbness from

• ▸knees down.
• ▸—Feet numb and pricking, esp.
• ▸toes.
• ▸—Pain in I.
• ▸os calcis.

• ▸Stiffness and bruised sensation in the muscles of the neck, with sensation as if nape of neck could not support head.
• ▸Pain in shoulder, with pain along fingers.
• ▸Vehement itching in arms and legs; worse towards evening.
• ▸Feet numb and pricking.
• ▸Streaking pains in arms and legs.

• ▸Itching; better by bathing in cold water; worse scratching, touch and retiring.
• ▸Sore red blotches.
• ▸Blind boils.
• ▸Itching of knees and elbows and hairy portions.
• ▸Itching of hands, deep in.
• ▸Vesicular, pustular, phlegmonous dermatitis.
• ▸Skin hot, swollen.

General and excessive itching, with or without eruption, most marked on pubes,

pudenda, whiskers and hairy portions of body generally; < in afternoon, 5 to 7.

• ▸Constant desire to yawn and stretch, 5 to 6 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Restless night; wakes 5 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸and

sleeps again; many dreams.

• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Hydrophobia.
• ▸Vertigo.

Characteristics—Our knowledge of this remedy is derived from the ill effects of eating the nuts;

among which are dread of liquids and salivation. It is this which has suggested its use in

hydrophobia. In addition, trembling, convulsions with periodic spasms, stiffness and coldness

have been observed, pointing to the same kind of nerve irritation as is caused by the poison of

rabies. Swelling of the mouth and headache were noted in one case. In some instances death has

resulted from the effects of the nuts.

Compare: Epiphegus (which grows on the beech and partakes of its properties) in

headache and salivation.

Compare: Dolichos; Bovista; Urtica.

Third potency and 12x.