Granatum

Pomegranate is a well-known vermifuge especially used for the expulsion of

teenia. For this a decoction of the rind of the fruit is used, or else Pelletierine in the following

manner. After a mild purge the previous night, in the morning 30 grammes of Sulphate of

Pelletierine is administered in a solution containing 50 grammes of Tannic acid. This is followed

by a glass of water in ten minutes, and a brisk purge in half an hour. The homceopathic provings

bring out many symptoms of helminthiasis as: Pale blue rings round eyes. Itching, crawling

tickling of nose. Ravenous hunger; craving for sour or juicy things; fruit; coffee. Loss of

appetite. Nausea; fermenting in abdomen; griping; dragging in inguinal region as if hernia would

• ▸protrude.
• ▸Itching and tickling in anus frequently during the day.
• ▸Emaciation.
• ▸Convulsive

movements. Among the general symptoms are: Great weariness and exhaustion, scarcely able to

• ▸keep upright.
• ▸Trembling.
• ▸Discomfort and nausea.
• ▸Itching of the skin of various places, face and

• ▸body, as if pimples would break out.
• ▸Biting and itching in palms of hands.
• ▸Yawning.
• ▸Great

sensitiveness. Swelling of navel; protrusions in inguinal rings. All symptoms are > after dinner.

Pain in abdomen is > after drinking cold water.

Great sensitiveness and impressibility.—Irritability and arrogance.—Penurious and

quarrelsome humour.—Hypochondriacal scruples.—Melancholy, gloomy temper, dejection, and

discouragement.—Stupefaction, and intellectual embarrassment.

Great lassitude and fatigue, esp. in the legs, sometimes with inability to

remain standing, and want to lie down.—Drowsy lassitude, with headache, as if after a nocturnal

debauch.—Great dejection and prostration, sometimes with burning heat in the

• ▸hands.
• ▸—Trembling of the limbs.
• ▸—Relaxation and flaccidity of the muscles, esp.
• ▸in the lower

extremities.—Emaciation.

Feels empty. Sunken eyes; pupils dilated; weak sight. Vertigo very persistent.

Vertigo, esp. during intellectual labour, or in the morning on rising, and sometimes

with obscuration of the eyes, or with nausea and aching in the stomach.—Sensation of emptiness

• ▸in the head.
• ▸—Stupefying pain and painful heaviness in the head, esp.
• ▸in the forehead.
• ▸—Pressure

• ▸on the forehead and on the occiput.
• ▸—Acute drawing pains, chiefly on r.
• ▸side of head.
• ▸—Shootings

in forehead.—Pustules on forehead and temples, with pain as from excoriation, leaving small

tubercles on drying.

Eyes hollow, and surrounded by a livid circle-—Itching and burning smarting in the

• ▸canthi.
• ▸—Dryness and smarting in the eyes.
• ▸—Y ellowish tint of the sclerotica.
• ▸—Inflammation of the

eyes, as in coryza.—Pupils dilated —Convulsive movements of the eyelids.—Obscuration of the

eyes.—Weak sight.

Cramp-like squeezing, acute drawing pains and shootings in the ears.—Tinkling and

buzzing in the ears.

Burning heat and dryness of the nostrils, or an accumulation of tenacious

mucus.—Crawling itching in the nose —Coryza, alternately dry and fluent.

Complexion sickly, yellowish, and earth-coloured.—Burning heat in the face,

sometimes transient.—Gnawing itching in the face, and esp. in the cheeks —Swelling of the

cheek, which is livid; burning heat, itching, tension, and crawling, as with chilblains—Squeezing

and acute drawing pains in the face, in the cheek-bones, and in the root of the nose, often on one

side only.—Dryness of the lips and burning sensation in them.

Excessive accumulation of saliva, sometimes of a sweetish taste, in the

mouth.—Tongue moist and white.—Excessive spitting of mucus.

Acute drawing pain, tension, and squeezing in the maxillary joints, and cracking of

the joints during mastication.—Shooting pains in the teeth, even at night, in bed—The teeth seem

to be elongated.—Gums unfixed, and easily bleeding.

Sensation of astriction in different parts of the mouth and of the gullet——Contraction

of the gullet.

• ▸Constant hunger.
• ▸Poor digestion.
• ▸Loses flesh.
• ▸Vomiting at night.

Great variableness of taste; taste alternately acute and dull.—Appetite alternately

diminished and increased.—Extraordinary hunger and voracity, even after a meal.—Great

variableness of appetite; desire for different things, and esp. for coffee, for fruits, and for

succulent and acid aliments.—Great thirst for water —Liquid aliments, and potatoes cause nausea

and eructations.

Frequent and noisy eructations.—Frequent nausea, sometimes with lassitude, flow

of water in the mouth, pain in the abdomen and in the stomach, frequent want to evacuate

without any result, shivering, sickly looks and ill-humour.—Vomiting, even at night, and

sometimes with lassitude, trembling, perspiration, or vertigo.—Painful pressure, fulness, burning

sensation, and anxiety in the precordial region —Cramps in the stomach when fasting in the

morning.

• ▸Pain in stomach and abdomen; worse about umbilicus (Cocc; Nux m; Plumb); ineffectual urging.
• ▸Itching at anus.
• ▸Dragging in vaginal region, as if hernia would protrude.
• ▸Swelling resembling umbilical hernia.

Pains in the abdomen, frequent, and often prolonged, sometimes with nausea,

flow of water in the mouth, shiverings, and prostration, or with vertigo.—Pains in the abdomen

after every meal, or when fasting in the morning.—Pains in the abdomen, mitigated by external

heat and by lying down, as well as by drinking cold water.—Pinchings, shootings, and rotatory

sensation round the navel, and in the stomach.—Anxious sensation in the abdomen.—Painful

inflation of the abdomen, sometimes with voracity.—Frequent production and evacuation of

flatus.—Swelling of the navel, as if from umbilical hernia —Fermentation in the

abdomen.—Traction in the abdomen, as if preparatory to a stool.—Painful pressure and swelling

in the groins, as if a hernia were about to appear.

Several evacuations during the day.—Copious evacuations of a very deep

colour.—Diarrhoea, with frequent evacuations, and evacuation of feecal matter and

mucus.—Before the loose evacuations, nausea and fermentation in abdomen; during the

evacuations, burning heat in face and pressure in rectum; afterwards burning heat in

rectum.—Tenesmus, with movements and fermentation in abdomen.—Prolapsus of rectum during

the evacuations.—Insupportable itching and titillation of the rectum.—Burning itching in the anus,

on the buttocks and perineum, on the scrotum, and on the hair-covered parts of the genital

organs, and esp. on the thighs.—Shootings in anus and rectum.

Incisive, shooting, and gnawing pains in the urethra.—Inflammation and

swelling of the urethra.

Catamenia premature, and too copious, and accompanied by colic

and pressure from the sacral region to the groins.—Y ellowish leucorrhcea.

Mucus oozing from the urethra, as in a gonorrhea, with burning

traction in the cavernous parts, as far as the glans.—Excitement of sexual desire.

Oppressed, with sighing. Pain between shoulders; even clothing is oppressive.

Sensation of anxiety in the chest, and groaning.—Great oppression of the chest, with

lassitude in the legs ——Pressure on the chest and across the sternum.—Rheumatic pains, shooting

• ▸and drawing in the diaphragm.
• ▸—Shootings in the chest, esp.
• ▸when walking.
• ▸—Tension and painful

squeezing in the ribs.

Palpitations of the heart, sometimes on the least movement.—Pains and cramp-like

contractions in the muscles of the chest.

Frequent bruise-like pains, pains as from an oppressive weight between and on the

shoulders, and the loins.

Traction, rheumatic pains, crawling, and sensation of paralysis in the arms,

with difficulty in raising them.—Rheumatic pains in the joints of the hands and fingers, as well as

in the forearms.—Painful and paralytic stiffness in the fingers ——Swelling of the ball of the

thumbs, with livid colour, burning heat, and marbled swelling of the veins —Gnawing and

insupportable itching in the palm and in the back of the hands.

Sensation of stiffness in the hips, as in sciatica——Acute drawing pain,

paralytic pulling, heaviness, and shootings in the knee.—Pain, as from a sprain in the

instep.—Painful corns on the feet.

• ▸Pain around shoulders, as if heavy load had been carried.
• ▸Pain in all finger-joints.
• ▸Tearing in knee-joint.
• ▸Convulsive movements.

Itching in palms. Sensation as if pimples would break out. Jaundiced complexion.

Yawning, sometimes convulsive, and frequent stretchings.—A gitated sleep, with

frequent dreams, cries, and tossing.

Partial and semi-lateral shudderings, sometimes with semilateral headache.—Dry,

burning heat over the whole body, with inclination to throw off all covering.—The shudderings

and shiverings commonly take place in the morning; the heat manifests itself in the

evening.—Sweats on the least movement.

• ▸Ascarides.
• ▸Gastralgia.
• ▸Hernia, umbilical; inguinal.
• ▸Jaw, cracking in.
• ▸Leucorrheea.

Tapeworm. Toothache.

Compare: Pelletierine (one of its constituents -an anthelminitic, especially for tapeworm); Cina; Kousso.

First to third potency.