Podophyllum Peltatum

Pod. grows throughout the United States in damp, shady places in woods, has

leaves five to nine-lobed, large white nodding flowers, yellowish fruits, egg-shaped, not unlike a

small lemon, hence the plant is sometimes called Wild Lemon. It flowers in May and June, and

the fruit ripens in October. Indian tribes use the root to expel worms, and drop the juice of the

root into the ear to cure deafness. "All the tribes are fond of the fruit," says Rafinesque, quoted

by Hale, who gives a full account of the medicine. The botanic and eclectic practitioners adopted

the remedy and used it as the "vegetable mercury." The first homsopathic proving was made by

• ▸Williamson.
• ▸An unintentional proving recorded by E.
• ▸V.
• ▸Rose (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxv.
• ▸246) brings out the

chief characteristics of Pod., and shows that its reputation as a "vegetable mercury is not

• ▸undeserved: Mr.
• ▸J.
• ▸, 26, took at 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸gr.
• ▸x of Pod.
• ▸1x to "stir up his liver.
• ▸" At 6 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸was taken

with an indescribable sick feeling all over, and a persistent dry, rough feeling in pharynx and

Ssophagus, extending along right Eustachian tube, with dull, aching pain in right ear; feeling as

• ▸though a ball or lump in upper Ssophagus.
• ▸At 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸dull and stupefying headache, chiefly

frontal, < lying down. Fulness in stomach, belching of gas, sour eructations; marked salivation

and offensive odour from mouth. Sleep disturbed, full of confused dreams; rolled and tossed

about, bed felt too hard; and a feeling as though head and shoulders were lying too low. At 3

• ▸a.
• ▸m.
• ▸call to stool, which was profuse, watery, dark green.
• ▸Calls frequent.
• ▸Before stool: peculiar

weak, dull, griping pain below umbilicus; fulness in rectum. During stool: weak feeling in

stomach. After stool: tenesmus and faint feeling. These symptoms passed off in two or three

days, the diarrhsa being followed by constipation, which was quickly removed by Nux. These

symptoms are nearly all proved characteristics of Pod.: The early morning <; the profuse stools,

faint, gone sensation; fulness and tenesmus in rectum. Pod. is an irritant wherever applied.

Externally on the skin it produces a rawness like intertrigo. The dust of the powdered root getting

into the eyes sets up intense inflammation, ulceration, and leucoma. These effects have proved

leading indications for its internal use in eye affections. The fulness and tenderness of the rectum

noted in Ross's case went on to actual prolapse in the provings. I have many times cured with

• ▸Pod.
• ▸6 prolapsus ani in children.
• ▸With Pod.
• ▸1x Mr.
• ▸Knox Shaw relieved "continual urging and

straining" in a case of rectal cancer too far gone for operation. The genital organs were involved

with the rectum in the tendency to prolapse. "Symptoms of prolapsus uteri with pain in sacrum;

with muco-gelatinous stools"; "sensation at stool as if the genital organs would fall out" are

keynotes of the provings which have led to many cures. Pains in the ovaries, especially the right,

extending down the anterior and inner side of thighs. In the pregnant and puerperal state Pod. is

frequently indicated: in the vomiting of pregnancy; swelling of labia; severe after-pains with

strong bearing-down sensation; h¢morrhoids and prolapsus recti after confinement. A peculiar

symptom of pregnancy indicating Pod. is: "Can lie comfortably only on stomach (early

months)." The irritation of Pod. is shown in the brain, but it is then generally reflected even from

the abdominal viscera (cholera infantum) or the teeth (dentition). There is moaning and whining

during sleep; the head is thrown back and rolls from side to side; the child grates its teeth. "Great

desire to press gums or teeth together" is a keynote. The salivation, foul breath, and moist, tooth-

indented tongue of Merc. are reproduced in the Pod. provings, and so also is the congested,

sensitive liver, with excess or absence of bile. These, combined with the feverishness and

proneness to sweat, make Pod. one of the important antidotes to Merc. Fevers of many kinds are

met by Pod.—remittent, chiefly bilious remittent, intermittent. Delirium is not rare, and is apt to

be loquacious. Moaning and whining during sleep. Much drowsiness and desire to stretch.

Alternating conditions are noted: Diarrhsa alternating with constipation; headache alternating

with diarrhsa; headache in winter, diarrhsa in summer; inflammation of scrotum or of the eyes;

not of both. Some Concomitants are important: Pains in sacrum, in lumbar region with rectal and

uterine symptoms; cramps in calves with stools. The stools may be painless, or may be preceded,

accompanied, and followed by colic, tenesmus and other symptoms. The concomitance of

diarrhsa with other affections points to Pod. Loquacity during chill and heat is a keynote in

fevers. Nash cured an obstinate case of intermittent through this symptom: Chills violent,

followed by intense fever with great loquacity; when the fever was past patient fell asleep, and

on waking remembered nothing of his loquacious delirium. "Burning tongue" is another leading

• ▸symptom.
• ▸A case is related by W.
• ▸A.
• ▸Burr (Critique, quoted Hom.
• ▸News, xxviii.
• ▸87) of a young

man who had for some weeks a burning sensation along left edge of tongue, occasionally

shooting to tip, or through to opposite edge. He had been in poor health, "bilious," for years.

With catarrh of stomach, duodenum, and bile ducts extreme discomfort followed even the

• ▸blandest foods.
• ▸Pod.
• ▸3x improved in two days, and the tongue was well in a week.
• ▸L.
• ▸M.
• ▸Barnes

(Hom. News, xxix. 45) reports these cases: (/) A lady for four months after miscarriage had

much ovarian pain, < at night. She was sleepless, nervous, restless. Much bearing down in

• ▸abdomen and back.
• ▸She was a large, stout woman, with a pendulous abdomen.
• ▸Pod.
• ▸cured after

• ▸Puls.
• ▸and Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸had only partially relieved.
• ▸(2) A stout woman, 60, complained of burning,

aching, cutting pain in rectum. Was obliged to be on her feet all day. Nervous, cross, irritable.

• ▸Pod.
• ▸cured.
• ▸Pod.
• ▸is suited to bilious temperaments, especially after mercurialisation.
• ▸Peculiar

sensations are: As if strabismus would occur. Pain in head as from ice on occipital protuberance.

As if tongue, throat, and palate had been burned. As if a thousand live things moving about in

abdomen, or of fish turning over. As if everything would drop through pelvis. As if heart

ascending to throat. Ball in upper Ssophagus. Notable symptoms are: Thirst for large quantities of

cold water. Intense desire to press the gums together. Viscid mucus in mouth, coating teeth.

Diarrhsa whilst being bathed or washed; of dirty water soaking through napkin; with gagging.

Patient is constantly shaking and rubbing region of liver with his hands. Great loquacity during

• ▸chill and heat.
• ▸Pod.
• ▸is predominantly right sided—right throat; hypochondrium; ovary.
• ▸Guernsey

mentions that it is often called for in complaints of pregnant and parturient women, with

sensation as if intestines were falling down. He mentions also "whooping-cough with costiveness

and loss of appetite." The symptoms are < by touch (spot on right hypochondrium); > by

pressure. > Rubbing (inclination to rub liver region with hand). > Lying down; lying on

abdomen; stretching in bed. Pain in left leg < by straightening out the limb. < Motion; walking;

• ▸ascending stairs; exertion.
• ▸< Morning, especially early morning, 2 to 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸Some symptoms <

• ▸night.
• ▸< Open air; while washing.
• ▸External heat > pain in bowels.
• ▸Heat of stove does not >

chilliness, but wrapping warmly in bed does >. Hot weather, summer, < diarrhsa. < After eating

and drinking; after acid fruit and milk. < By swallowing. < Before, during, and after stool.

Loquacity and delirium from eating acid fruits. Depression of spirits.

Conscious during chill, but cannot talk, forgets words.—Delirium, loquacious during

heat; forgetful after of what has passed.—Depression: imagines he is going to die or be very ill; in

gastric affections —Disgust for life; headache; biliary disorders —Over-fatigue of mind from

business; when in bed he rolled his head on waking and while awake.

Faintness and emptiness after stool.—Prostration with the pain.—Stiffness on

beginning to move.—Sudden shocks of jerking pains.

Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward. Headache, dull pressure, worse morning, with heated face and bitter taste; alternating with diarrhoea. Rolling of head from side to side, moaning and vomiting and eyelids half closed. Child perspires on head during sleep.

Vertigo: while standing; in open air; with tendency to fall forward; with sensation of

fulness over eyes; from gastric or bilious disorders Momentary darts of pain in forehead,

obliging one to shut eyes.—Stunning headache through temples, > by pressure.—Sudden pain in

forehead, with soreness of throat, evening.—Pressing in temples, forenoon, with drawing in eyes

as if strabismus would follow.—Throbbing in temples, aching eyes, hot tears, in morning.—After

stool, 10 a.m.: Frontal headache with feverishness; sensation of great dryness in forehead and

eyes, > for short time by bathing with cold water.—Sick headache accompanied by

constipation.—Headache alternating with diarrhSa.—Bilious headache, burning at vertex and over

forehead, pain lasts twenty-four hours, ends in vomiting; pale urine during attack; passes much

bile next day; < from over-excitement or walking.—Morning headache with flushed face and heat

in vertex.—Dull headache with pain behind eyes; liver, torpid.—Pain in vertex on rising in

morning.—Sick headache most in occiput, preceded by blur before vision, coming

suddenly.—Head hot, rolling head from side to side; dentition.—Reflex irritation of brain from

disorders of bowels; grinding teeth at night; morning in sleep; eyes half-closed; head sweaty.

Inflammation of eyes with excruciating, heavy pain, great turgescence of

vessels.—Superficial ulceration of each cornea with general congestion of conjunctive; ulceration

central and extensive, in r. eye its base was densely white, as if lead had been used (after ten

• ▸days, from the dust whilst grinding the root)—Eyes inflamed in morning.
• ▸—L.
• ▸eye sore.
• ▸—(Arcus

• ▸senilis lessens and a dribbling of saliva ceases in an old man.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Eyes glazed and

motionless (from ripe fruit).—Eyes sunken.—Heaviness of eyes with occasional pains at

vertex.—Smarting; inflammation of lids —Pain in eyeballs and temples, with heat and throbbing

• ▸of.
• ▸temporal arteries.
• ▸—Drawing in eyes as if squint would follow.
• ▸—Scrofulous ophthalmia < in

• ▸morning.
• ▸—(Cataract has been known to clear after Pod.
• ▸given internally.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)

Aching pain inr. ear, with rough feeling extending from there along r. Eustachian tube.

Corpse-like pallor —Complexion sallow, dingy.—Hot, flushed cheeks.—Under jaw

fallen.

• ▸Grinding the teeth at night; intense desire to press the gums together (Phytol).
• ▸Difficult dentition.
• ▸Tongue broad, large, moist.
• ▸Foul, putrid taste.
• ▸Burning sensation of tongue.

Total loss of taste, could not tell sweet from sour; sleepless, restless—Everything

tastes sour or putrid; sweet.—Taste of fried liver in mouth at night —Bad taste after other

symptoms had disappeared.—Feeling as if tongue, and sometimes palate and throat, had been

burned.—Tongue: furred white with foul taste; white, moist, shows imprints of teeth; dry, yellow;

full and broad with pasty coat in centre; red, not bright red; rough with uniformly erect papill¢;

dull bluish colour; red, dry, cracked, somewhat swollen and often bleeding.—Offensive breath; at

night; perceptible to patient—Copious salivation.—(Dribbling of saliva in an old epileptic case

• ▸ceases.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Much viscid mucus in mouth (morning).
• ▸—Mouth and tongue dry on

awaking.—Nursing sore mouth; canker.

Great desire to press gums together; jaws clenched; grinds teeth at night; difficult

dentition —During dentition; catarrhal cough; catarrh of chest; cholera infantum;

hydrocephaloid.—Teeth covered with dried mucus in morning.

Dryness of throat.—Burning in throat (from the ripe fruit).—Soreness of throat

• ▸extending to ears; r.
• ▸to 1.
• ▸; 1.
• ▸side sore, < swallowing liquids, morning.
• ▸—Rattling of mucus in

throat —Goitre.—Dry, rough feeling in pharynx and ssophagus, extending along r. Eustachian

tube with aching pain in r. ear.

• ▸Hot, sour belching; nausea and vomiting.
• ▸Thirst for large quantities of cold water (Bry).
• ▸Vomiting of hot, frothy mucus.
• ▸Heartburn; gagging or empty retching.
• ▸Vomiting of milk.

Indifference to food; loss of appetite; smell. of food = loathing.—Satiety from

small quantity of food, followed by nausea and vomiting.—Appetite variable, at times

voracious.—Great thirst for (cold water in) large quantities; Moderate thirst during

• ▸fever.
• ▸—Increased thirst after eating.
• ▸—Desire for something sour.
• ▸—Thirst towards evening.
• ▸—A fter

eating: regurgitation of food, sour; hot, sour belching; diarrhsa; vomits food an hour after,

craving appetite afterwards; depression of spirits.—After eating and drinking: diarrhsa.—A fter

acid fruit and milk: diarrhsa.

Heartburn, waterbrash, heat in stomach.—Eructations: smelling like rotten eggs;

hot; sour.—Nausea: distressing and extreme; with attempts to vomit; motion of gagging is made

with mouth but not accompanied with retching; stomach contracts so hard and rapidly that the

wrenching pain = patient to utter sharp screams; gagging or empty retching —Gagging in

infantile diarrhsa.—Nausea and vomiting with fulness in head.—Vomiting: of milk in infants,

with protrusion of anus; of food with putrid taste and odour; of thick bile and blood; of hot,

frothy mucus; with congestion of pelvic viscera during pregnancy.—Acidity in afternoon with

unpleasant, sickly sensation in stomach.—Tender over stomach and bowels, < least touch or

motion.—Hollow, empty, weak, sinking feeling at epigastrium; without hunger.—Stitches in

epigastrium from coughing. —Dyspepsia from calomel, aching behind eyes, clayey

stools.—Gastric catarrh—Awakened by violent pains in stomach and bowels.—After breakfast

and dinner burning in stomach as if caused by hot steam.—Heat in stomach.—Cold water <; it =

oppression and uneasiness; small quantities of it were ejected, tasting bitter and causing much

burning in ssophagus.

• ▸Distended; heat and emptiness.
• ▸Sensation of weakness or sinking. Can lie comfortably only on stomach.
• ▸Liver region painful, better rubbing part.
• ▸Rumbling and shifting of flatus in ascending colon.

Acute burning in region of pyloric orifice, with violent retching and vomiting of

bile and belching of wind; constipation; after attacks, prostration; slight jaundice and persistent

tenderness to touch in one spot corresponding to entrance of common bile duct into

• ▸duodenum.
• ▸—Fulness in r.
• ▸hypochondrium, with flatulence, pain, and soreness.
• ▸—Twisting in r.

hypochondrium with burning.—Stitches in hypochondria, < while eating.—Pain in region of liver

with inclination to rub the part with the hand.—Excessive secretion of bile, great irritability of

liver.—Hepatitis with costiveness; tenderness and pain in region of liver.—Gall-stones and

jaundice.—Biliousness; nausea and giddiness; bitter taste and risings; tendency to bilious

vomiting and purging; dark urine-—Abdomen swelled almost to bursting

(fruit).—Flatulence.—A bdominal plethora: bloated feeling; soreness, uneasiness; > after stool;

• ▸causing uterine troubles.
• ▸—Rumbling.
• ▸—Colic.
• ▸—Awakened by violent pains in stomach and

• ▸bowels, griping, stitching, > for short time by pressure; 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸(first night).
• ▸—Pain in transverse

• ▸colon, 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, followed by diarrhsa.
• ▸—Pain in limbs at daylight, > by external warmth and bending

forward whilst lying on side, < lying on back.—Heat in bowels with inclination to stool—Woke 2

• ▸a.
• ▸m.
• ▸with stitches in bowels and desire to go to stool; > flexing thighs or abdomen.
• ▸—Symptoms

generally, and esp. abdominal symptoms, < morning, > evening.—Tenderness over

hypogastrium.—Pain extended into lower bowels and r. ovary.

• ▸Cholera infantum and morbus.
• ▸Diarrhoea of long standing; early in morning; during teething, with hot, glowing cheeks while being bathed or washed; in hot weather after acid fruits.
• ▸Morning, painless diarrhoea when not due to venous stasis or intestinal ulceration.
• ▸Green, watery, fetid, profuse, gushing.
• ▸Prolapse of rectum before or with stool.
• ▸Constipation; clay-colored, hard, dry, difficult.
• ▸Constipation alternating with diarrhoea (Ant crud).
• ▸Internal and external piles.

Emission of fetid flatus —Morning diarrhsa, then no more stools during

day.—Diarrhsa early in morning, continuing through forenoon, followed by natural stool in

evening.—Diarrhsa immediately after eating and drinking.—Stools in morning, with strong

urgings in bowels and heat and pain in anus.—Small, frequent, bilious stools with

tenesmus.—DiarrhSa, yellow stools, one every hour for five hours.—Stools of pure blood

• ▸(produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Infantile dysentery (cured.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Dysenteric diarrhsa.
• ▸—Stools: thin,

watery, green; green; muco-gelatinous with pain in sacrum; 4 a.m., yellow, undigested féces,

mixed with mucus, offensive; with violent tenesmus; burning, acrid, causing much bearing down

during and after stool; with gagging and excessive thirst in children; gushing, watery, profuse,

green, with sudden urging, often painless; offensive, < in hot weather; pasty; yellow, watery,

with meal-like sediment; smelling like carrion; mucous and blood-streaked; black, only in

morning; tar-like; changing colour.—Stool with much pain and deadly nausea.—Diarrhsa and

constipation alternating every day or two, for several days after the most prominent symptoms

had disappeared.—Diarrhsa with great sinking at epigastrium, sensation as if everything would

drop through pelvis, prolapsus ani.—Small stools, yellow, watery, coming after meals with sick

feeling, in pregnancy.—Diarrhsa from indigestion after eating canned fruit.—Be/fore stool: intense

nausea; sudden urging; loud gurgling as of water; rumbling in I. side; violent colic or absence of

pain; prolapsus ani.—During stool: urging in bowels; heat and pain in anus; sensation as if genital

organs would fall out; in women bearing down as from inactivity of rectum; nausea; gagging,

tormina, and pain in lumbar region; colic or absence of pain; prolapsus ani; pains in sacrum;

tenesmus.—A/fier stool: extreme weakness and cutting pain in intestines; exhaustion, even after

natural stool; flashes of heat running up back, cutting in bowels, severe and painful tenesmus;

colic continues; faintness and pain in lumbar region; prolapsus ani; sore anus; sensation of

emptiness in abdomen and rectum.—A ggravation of internal piles; rectum protrudes more than an

inch after every stool, or sudden motion as sneezing, even during mental excitement; prolapse

sometimes persists for days from swelling and congestion.—Prolapsus ani: in infants, stool

bloody, or too large; with uterine displacement.—Secretion of mucus from anus.—External piles,

bleeding or not—(Cancer of rectum.)

Micturition painful; scanty with frequent voidings.—Urine: yellow,

containing sediment; very red.—Diabetes mellitus and insipidus; chalky stool, urination

immediately after drinking, frequent, profuse.—Urinary tenesmus.—Enuresis; (markedly < on

• ▸lying down, hence at night.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

• ▸Pain in uterus and right ovary, with shifting noises along ascending colon.
• ▸Suppressed menses, with pelvic tenesmus.
• ▸Prolapsed uteri, especially after parturition.
• ▸Haemorrhoids, with prolapsus ani during pregnancy.

Symptoms of prolapsus uteri, with pain in sacrum, muco-

gelatinous stools.—Sensation as if genital organs would fall out at stool.—After-pains with strong

• ▸bearing down.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸ovary and uterus—Numb aching in |.
• ▸ovary; heat down thigh; third

• ▸month of pregnancy.
• ▸—Pain in ovaries, esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸; extending down limbs.
• ▸—Pain from r.
• ▸ovary down

anterior crural nerve, pain < as it descends; < straightening limb.—Shooting pain in r. ovary,

before and during menses.—Ovarian tumour with pains extending up to shoulder.—Prolapsus

uteri: with diarrhsa from washing; after over-lifting or straining; after parturition.—Induration of

os uteri.—_(Extreme tenderness of uterus, backache, sick feeling and enuresis on lying down.—R.

• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Menorrhagia from straining.
• ▸—Menses, retarded; with ovarian, hypogastric, and sacral

pains, < from motion, > lying down.—Bearing down in abdomen and back during menses;

ovarian pains running into thighs.—During pregnancy: swelling of labia; can lie comfortably only

on stomach, early months; excessive vomiting —H¢morrhoids and prolapsus ani after

confinement.—Pendulous abdomen.

Sticking pain above pubes and in course of spermatic

cords.—Diseases of prostate gland associated with rectal troubles.—Inflammation either of

scrotum or of eyes; seldom of both.—Inflammation of scrotum is attended with a pustular

eruption which suppurates freely.

Chronic bronchitis.—Inclination to breathe deep; sighing.—Sensation

of suffocation on first lying down at night—Bronchial asthma; < after catching cold—Cough:

loose, hacking; with remittent fever; dry; loose; rattling in chest, during dentition; from disease

of liver—Whooping-cough, with constipation and loss of appetite.

Catarrh of chest during dentition —Pneumonia.—Snapping in r. lung like breaking a

thread, when taking a deep inspiration.—Pains in chest < by deep inspiration —Oppression in

chest with constant desire to breathe deep, which is prevented by feeling of constriction in chest.

Sensation in chest as if heart ascending to throat.—Sticking (or stinging) in region of

heart.—Palpitation: with a clucking sensation rising up to throat, obstructing respiration; from

exertion or mental emotion; with heavy sleep and feeling of fatigue on waking; nervous, in

consequence of excessive hepatic action.—Pulse: quick and small; slow, scarcely perceptible;

pulseless.

• ▸Nape of neck stiff, muscles sore.
• ▸—Pain under r.
• ▸scapula.
• ▸—Pain between

shoulders, morning: with soreness, < night and morning, < by motion.—Pain in small of back,

when walking or standing, with sensation of back bending inward.—Pain in lumbar region with

sensation of coldness, < at night and from motion.—Pain in lumbar and sacral regions < during

stool, and still < after.—Pain in loins < walking on uneven ground or from mis-step.—Sacral pain.

Pain in course of ulnar nerve of both arms.—Rheumatism in |. forearm and

fingers.—Pains from head into neck and shoulders; fingers numb.—Weakness of wrists, sore to

touch.

Pain and weakness in 1. hip, like rheumatism from cold; < by going up

stairs.—Sharply defined ache in sacro-ischiadic foramen, with tenderness on pressure.—Slight

paralytic weakness of |. side —Heaviness and stiffness of knees as after a long walk.—Cracking in

knee from motion.—Cramps in calves, thighs, and feet, with painless, watery stools.—Sharp pains

in outer and upper portion of 1. foot.

Pain between shoulders, under right scapula, in loins and lumbar region. Pain in right inguinal region; shoots down inner thigh to knees. Paralytic weakness on left side.

Sallow skin; jaundice; also in children.—Skin moist with preternatural warmth.—Scabs

on arms and legs.—Pustules slow in healing —Rawness and itching of genitals; also

• ▸pustules.
• ▸—Cold, clammy skin.
• ▸—Erysipelas.
• ▸—Rubefaciant and vesicatory.
• ▸—Intolerable itching of

• ▸body and arms.
• ▸—Urticaria.
• ▸—Skin has peculiar odour in patients taking Pod.
• ▸(Ussher).

Sleepiness: in daytime, esp. forenoon; with rumbling in bowels in morning.—Heavy

• ▸sleep; fatigue on waking.
• ▸—Drowsy, half-closed eyes, moaning, whining, esp.
• ▸children.
• ▸—Great

restlessness, tossing about in bed, yawning and stretching, which > completely.—Rising up in

sleep without waking.—Drowsiness or restless sleep, with grinding of teeth or rolling of

head.—Worrying and sleepless early part of night, apparently from nervous irritability—Sleep

disturbed, full of confused dreams.—Rolled and tossed about, bed felt too hard; feeling as though

head and shoulders lying too low.

Chill at 7 am, with pain in hypochondria, and knees, ankles, wrists, Great loquacity during fever. Profuse sweat.

Chilliness while moving about during fever, and in act of lying down, with sweat

immediately after—Chilly at first on lying down in evening, followed by fever and sleep with

• ▸talking and imperfect waking.
• ▸—Chill 7 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Backache before chill——During chill great

loquacity—Shaking and sensation of coldness continue some time after heat commences.—Heat

begins during chill or whilst he is yet chilly.—Chilly with stool.—Pain in bowels first attended

with coldness, which is followed by heat and warm sweat.—Feverish during afternoon, with

occasional chilliness, not > by heat of stove, but > by covering up warmly in bed.—Heat with

violent pains in head; thirst; loquacity.—Flashes of heat running up back during stool.—Ravenous

hunger with thirst during fever —Bilious fever; bilious intermittent; remittent; infantile remittent;

intermittent, quotidian, tertian, quartan.—Sweat: profuse, dropped off prover's fingers; of feet in

evening; bathed in cold; warm on head and legs.—Sleep during sweat.

• ▸Acidity.
• ▸Amenorrhsa.
• ▸Anus, Prolapse of.
• ▸Asthma, bronchial.
• ▸Bilious attack.

• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Cataract.
• ▸Cholera infantum.
• ▸Cornea, ulcer of.
• ▸Dentition.
• ▸Diarrhsa; camp.
• ▸Duodenum,

• ▸catarrh of.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Dysmenia.
• ▸Dyspepsia; from calomel.
• ▸Fevers.
• ▸Flatulence.
• ▸Gagging.
• ▸Gall-

• ▸stones.
• ▸Gastric catarrh.
• ▸Goitre.
• ▸H¢morrhoids.
• ▸Headache, sick; bilious.
• ▸Heart, pains in.

• ▸Hydrocephaloid.
• ▸Intermittents.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Leucoma.
• ▸Liver, affections of.
• ▸Ophthalmia.
• ▸Ovaries,

• ▸pains in; numbness in; tumour of.
• ▸Palpitation.
• ▸Pneumonia.
• ▸Proctitis.
• ▸Prostatitis.
• ▸Pustules.

• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Stomatitis.
• ▸Strabismus.
• ▸Taste, lost, perverted; illusions of.
• ▸Tenesmus.
• ▸Tongue, burning

• ▸in.
• ▸Urticaria.
• ▸Uterus, prolapse of.
• ▸Whooping-cough.
• ▸Worms.

• ▸Antidoted by: Lact.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Nux, Coloc.
• ▸, Lept.
• ▸Antidote to: Merc.
• ▸Compatible: After

• ▸Ipec.
• ▸and Nux in vomiting; after Calc.
• ▸and Sul.
• ▸in liver diseases.
• ▸Incompatible: Salt, which

• ▸increases its action.
• ▸Compare: Morning diarrhSa, Sul.
• ▸, Dros.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸s.
• ▸, Rx.
• ▸c.
• ▸Hot, yellowish,

• ▸green, offensive diarrhSa, Cham.
• ▸(Cham.
• ▸< evening; Pod.
• ▸< morning, in one gush).
• ▸Cholera

• ▸morbus, profuse stools, Ver.
• ▸(Ver.
• ▸has much pain; Pod.
• ▸may have absence of pain).
• ▸Diarrhsa <

after eating; headaches alternating with uterine and bowel affections, Alo. (Plumb. delirium

alternating with colic). Prolapsus ani before stool with weakness in abdomen (Alo. after stool).

Prolapsus uteri < during stool, Stan. (with Pod. the stool is diarrhsic and comes with a rush).

Prolapsus recti et uteri, Nux, Sep. Bearing down in hypogastric and anal regions, > lying down,

• ▸Sep.
• ▸Prolapsus of rectum, Bell.
• ▸, Csc.
• ▸h.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Rut.
• ▸(especially in children, Chi.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸s.
• ▸, Pod.
• ▸).

• ▸Duodenal catarrh, Berb.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Hydras.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Ric.
• ▸c.
• ▸Diarrhsa immediately after eating,

• ▸Alo.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸, Trbd.
• ▸(wA/ilst eating, Fer.
• ▸).
• ▸< After eating or drinking, Dig.
• ▸, Trbd.

• ▸Headache from over-excitement, Epipheg.
• ▸Blur before headache, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸, Ir.
• ▸v.
• ▸Wants to bite gums

• ▸together, Phyt.
• ▸Tongue as if burnt, Sang.
• ▸Blue tongue, Gymno.
• ▸As if something alive in

• ▸abdomen, Croc.
• ▸Regurgitation of food, Sul.
• ▸Pain under right scapula, Chel.
• ▸Diarrhsa, ovarian

pain, ovarian tumour, dysmenia, Coloc.

• ▸Compare: Mandragora-also called mandrake--(must not be confounded with Podoph.
• ▸Great desire for sleep; exaggeration of sounds and enlarged vision.
• ▸Bowels inactive; stools large, white and hard).
• ▸Aloe; Chelid; Merc; Nux; Sulph. Prunella-Self-head--(Colitis).

Tincture to sixth potency. The 200th and 1000th seem to do good work in cholera infantum, when indicated.

It affects profoundly the abdominal viscera. It shows its symptoms

largely on the abdominal organs, the pelvic organs, and the liver. The

abdomen seems to be the earliest seat of attack. It produces such an

impression upon the stomach and intestinal canal that the healthy action

is impaired, digestion and assimilation cease. Everything taken into

the stomach becomes sour. The glands of the stomach are as if paralyzed ; there is no digestion ; this goes on until we have vomting and

diarrhoea. During this there is a wonderful disturbance in the abdomen ; rumbling ; gurgling as if animals were floundering about ; clinically, as if fish were turning and tossing in a pond, as we have seen

them before a storm. Rumbling and rolling. This is attended with

severe, cramping pains doubling her up. Abdomen is sensitive ; so sore

she cannot endure pressure. The soreness extends to the stomach, intestines and finally to the liver. The whole abdominal viscera are sore,

sensitive to pressure. After this comes a gurgling, watery stool, pouring out of the anus. A tremendous outpouring so that the patient

wonders where all the fluid comes from, and soon it comes on again.

Copious, enormous, and very frequei|t. This soreness, cramping, and

rumbling precedes the stool, but someiimes it continues during the stool.

Commonly the patient is relieved hyfthe stool. There is much flatus

and spluttering, but not so marked ai in Aloe. The colic often comes

and goes without stool. Painless stools, in which compare China which

has stool coming on at night and atfter eating. Putrid or not, and of

inky color. Podophyllum is rarely indicated when the discharge is not

offensive. After a while the abdomen again becomes tumultuous, and

this is again relieved by a stool. This process is repeated over and

over. It seems as if the blood vessels would empty themselves into the

abdominal cavity, and then into the outer world. Not unlike cholera

and cholera morbus, and these two are the common manifestations of

disease for which this remedy is used in routine practice. The cholera

morbus coming on in the latter part of the night, especially about 3, 4,

or 5 o’clock, resembles Podophyllum. Tumultuous action of the botvels with rumbling, pain, and soreness, and the prostration is so marked

that if not relieved in a day or two, it seems he must die. Rice-water

stools, jelly-like on standing.

With this tumultuous action, she has an indescribable sensation ; an

all-goite feeling, a deathly sick feeling, described by some as an emptiness, as if fasting, yet averse to food. An a'wful, hungry, empty weakas if the whole intestines would drop out. No wonder th^ think

May-apple (PODOPHYLLUM)

• ▸Is especially adapted to persons of bilious temperament.
• ▸It affects chiefly the duodenum, small intestines, liver, and rectum The Podophyllum disease is a gastro-enteritis with colicky pain and bilious vomiting.
• ▸Stool is watery with jelly-like mucus, painless, profuse.
• ▸Gushing and offensive.
• ▸Many troubles during pregnancy; pendulous abdomen after confinement; prolapsus uteri; painless cholera morbus.
• ▸Torpidity of the liver; portal engorgement with a tendency to haemorrhoids, hypogastric pain, fullness of superficial veins, jaundice.