Polygonum Hydropiperoides

• ▸Polyg.
• ▸was proved by W.
• ▸E.
• ▸Payne and others.
• ▸Additions by Ed.
• ▸Bayard,

included by Hering, appear in the Schema. "Smart Weed," says Hale, "is a popular domestic

• ▸remedy throughout U.
• ▸S.
• ▸A.
• ▸Applied externally it has the effect of a mustard plaister, and the

leaves saturated with hot water are applied to relieve cramps and colic, and as an emollient in

inflammation and sprains. The provers were all men, but clinical experience has shown a definite

action in the female generative sphere, amenorrhcea, aversion to coitus, and congestion of the

ovaries having been cured by it. Leading symptoms are: Aching pains in hips and loins, with

weight and tension in pelvis, and "Tearing in groin, < right." The pains are: Lancinating, cutting,

pulsating, shooting, wandering, and flashing. One prover described them as like aurora borealis,

and a case of sciatica with pains of this description was cured with Polyg. The left temple was

markedly affected; left side generally more so than right. Sensations of cold were numerous, and

alternated or coincided with heat in the same or other parts. Coldness of right side of face when

pain in left side was most severe. Burning in chest with cold feeling at pit of stomach. Feet

burning, then suddenly cold. Diarrhoea, as with its relations, Rheum and Rumex, is marked, and

also dysuria. There is excessive weakness, trembling, and sensitiveness to cold. Epilepsy and

hysteria have been cured with it. The Polygonums are named by Gerarde "Arse-smarts." Burnett

(who prescribed Polyg. hydropiper under its name Persicaria urens) regarded it as a splenic, and

as useful in old cases of syphilis. As a splenic he found it often required in cases of gout; and in

gouty eczema with much irritation he used it with much benefit in the 6th, 12th, and 30th.

Peculiar Sensations are: As of sudden rising of scalp. As if whole intestinal contents were fluid.

As if hips drawn together. As of galvanic shock through lower extremities. The symptoms are <

by cold; damp; change of temperature: this is the most characteristic condition. Warmth >.

Pressure of clothing = distress. Lying down = pressure in occiput; dizziness and wavering of

sight. Rising = sudden pain in occiput. Bending head down =, and bending head back >, pain in

ears.

Great depression followed by excessive irritability -Gloomy views of life, dislike of

change and excessive dread of death.

• ▸Dizziness.
• ▸—Pulsative, acute pain in |.
• ▸temple.
• ▸—Under pressure of great weariness or

excitement a dull, depressing pain through whole head, causing a sensation of torpor and strong

desire to sleep, but inability to do so.—Pressure in back of head on lying down.—Pressure and

soreness in head during menses.—Pain on sudden rising in back of head with pain over

eyes.—Headache < in damp weather, > in moderately warm temperature.—Sensation of sudden

rising of scalp, with extreme irritation and increased dry exfoliation.

Burning in eyeballs; dry sensation in lids.—Convulsive twitching in lids when closed

and when lying down, dizziness and wavering of sight.—Inflammation of edges of lids.

Dull hearing.—Ringing in ears.—Sudden sounds on tympanum, producing momentary

cessation of hearing.—Acute pain in ear when bending head down; > bending head back.—Ear

symptoms < in damp atmosphere.—Secretion of ears increased.

Inflammation, smarting, raw feeling of Schneiderian membrane.—Tickling in

nose.—Frequent sneezing as from cold.—Red, inflamed appearance of nostrils, with swollen

sensation.—Feeling of congestion through eyes and nose.—Coldness in external nose.

Acute pain in 1. face extending to temples, sometimes darting through whole I. side of

• ▸head.
• ▸—Excruciating pain and heat in 1.
• ▸side of face, < by cold or damp.
• ▸—Coldness in r.
• ▸face when

pain most severe in 1—Pain in r. antrum as if proceeding up from a tooth (sound).

Gums tender.—Cold or cooling temperature in mouth, producing acute

toothache —Tongue: coated yellow; feels swollen.—Heat and burning: from root of tongue to pit

of stomach; from tip of tongue to mouth and throat (r. upper).—Heat in roof of mouth with

excitation of salivary glands.—Increased flow of hot saliva, gives no > to parched

condition.—Saliva abundant and thin (before thin and scanty).—Taste: bitter; pungent, like

pepper.

Throat dry, hot, burning, with sense of excoriation.—Glands feel swollen; < from

cold or moist air—Contracted feeling in throat after swallowing, followed by thirst.

Appetite: voracious; lost.—Food tasteless.—Great thirst for cold water, yet

drinking = nausea.—Nausea: as if proceeding from small intestines; with coldness in

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Acidity.
• ▸—Weight in stomach.
• ▸—Burning in stomach.
• ▸—Cold feeling in stomach: with

headache; with burning in chest.—Pressure of clothes = distress.—Pain on pressure followed by

throbbing and distress ——Uneasiness in stomach and abdomen.

Griping pain, with great rumbling, nausea, and liquid feces. Flatulent colic.

Burning heat in stomach and bowels.—Tympanites and flatulent colic.—Cutting,

lancinating, griping pains, with great rumbling as if whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state

and in violent commotion, the movement proceeding from below up, producing nausea and

disposition to vomit, with liquid feeces discharged with great force, with pain in loins.—Pain in

hypogastric region, rectum, and anus.—Throbbing in I. inguinal glands.

Interior of anus studded with itching eminence. Haemorrhoids. Liquid feces.

Copious stool followed by smarting in anus.—Straining at stool with

mucous, jelly-like discharges.—Stools: yellowish green; hard, lumpy; dark, followed by burning

in rectum.—Urging with discharge of much fetid flatus—Tenesmus; with nausea; with pulsative

pains in hips and loins.—Constipation alternating with diarrhcea.—Interior of anus studded with

itching eminences, as from corrugation without contraction, a kind of hemorrhoidal

tumour.—Heemorrhoids with itching and burning.—Pruritus ani (used as a wash).

Inflammation of kidneys from cold.—Cutting pains along ureters to

bladder.—Painful cutting and feeling of strangulation at neck of bladder while urinating, lasting

long after—Strangury.—During an attack of gonorrhoea extremely violent pains on urinating,

causing him to tremble and cry.—Pulsating pain; pain; and burning in prostate on

• ▸urinating.
• ▸—Pains in bladder.
• ▸—Deposit in urine of mucus and phosphates.
• ▸—Frequent and profuse

discharge of clear, light, or straw-coloured urine.—Albumen.

Painful constriction at neck of bladder.

• ▸Aching pains in hips and loins.
• ▸Sensation as if hips were being drawn together.
• ▸Sensation of weight and tension within pelvis.
• ▸Shooting pains through breasts.
• ▸Amenorrhoea.

Intense dislike to coition, followed by perturbation and irritation if

approached; inaction of flow of secretions.—Aching pain in hips and loins, and sensation of

weight and tension in pelvis.—Menses: absent; delayed, with distress and pain; too copious;

tardy; fetid During menses: pressure and soreness in head; grinding pain through

abdomen.—Congestive weakness and loss of power.—Congestion of ovaries; tearing sensation in

• ▸groin, < r.
• ▸—Burning in vagina.
• ▸—Acrid, excoriating leucorrhcea.
• ▸—Shooting pains through breasts,

with great soreness, distension, and tenderness.

Pain in testicles, spermatic cords, and neck of bladder when

urinating.—Itching at orifice of urethra and around glans with desire to urinate —Itching and

• ▸stinging of prepuce.
• ▸—Pain and soreness in I.
• ▸testis, extending along |.
• ▸spermatic cord;

occasionally darting at same time in r. cord and testis.—Loss of power and semen, sometimes

followed by inflammation of glans.—Extremely convulsive action in the functional uses.

Stifling sensation in larynx; irritability of whole system; weakness of

sexual function.—Constriction of larynx.—Crowding and pressure about larynx with irritation of

bronchi.—Roughness as of adhesion of mucus to larynx, producing spasmodic hacking and

hoarseness.—Hacking cough, < by change of temperature.—Dry cough, in night, excited by

tickling, prickling-tingling in upper anterior part of chest, behind sternum; dry sensation in

larynx when coughing.

Sharp pain under r. scapula, extending into chest and pit of stomach, with heavy

beating of heart and throbbing of carotids.—Pulsative pressive pains about xiphoid

cartilage.—Cutting in 1. chest —Burning in chest with cold feeling in pit of stomach and shooting

pains.

Sharp, cutting, shooting pains in region of heart, extending to |. scapula.—Increased

action of heart with loss of rhythm.

Awoke at midnight with lameness |. side neck to shoulder, making

movement painful; with pulsative, wandering pains.—Pulsative pains in |. loin—Aching in loins

with pain around I. hip-joint.—Pain in back and at lower extremity, acute or drawing, lateral in its

action, as if hips being drawn together (kidney affection).—Tearing and drawing in loins on

exposure to cold, followed by lameness and soreness.

Pains in arms and inability or sense of weakness on lifting slightest

weight.—Pains pulsating, intermittent, shooting, wandering, generally shooting down to finger-

tips, sometimes shooting up.

Sciatica; pain flashing like aurora borealis —Pulsative pains in hips and loins

with ineffectual urging and tenesmus.—Swelling of legs and feet.—Superficial ulcers and sores.

24. Generalities—Pulsating, wandering, flashing pains, like aurora borealis.

Superficial ulcers and sores on lower extremities, especially in females at climacteric.

• ▸Skin dry.
• ▸—Scarlet eruption round waist; itching, burning spasm.
• ▸—Eczema.
• ▸—Chronic

erysipelatous inflammation.—Old and indolent ulcers.

Sleep, restless, uneasy, full of dreams.—Dreams: unremembered; laborious and

fatiguing; of headache and wakes with headache.

Alternation of heats and chills and chills and heats.—Feet alternately hot and cold;

burning for an hour, then suddenly cold.—Profuse sweat and trembling of whole body from

moderate exercise.

• ▸Amenorrheea.
• ▸Antrum, pain in.
• ▸Blepharitis.
• ▸Colic, flatulent.
• ▸Cough.

• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸—Dysentery.
• ▸Dysmenia.
• ▸Dysuria.
• ▸Eczema.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Gonorrheea.
• ▸Gravel.

• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Laryngitis.
• ▸Nephritis.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Orchitis.

• ▸Prostatitis.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Spermatic cord, pain in.
• ▸Spleen, affections of.
• ▸Strangury.
• ▸Ulcers.

• ▸Compare: Botan.
• ▸, Fago.
• ▸, Rheum, Rumex.
• ▸Cough, diarrhoea, Rumex.
• ▸Burning in

mouth and throat, Caps. < Pressure of clothes, Lach. Headache waking him from sleep, Lach.

• ▸Wandering pains, Puls.
• ▸, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸< From cold and damp, Dulc.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Rhus.
• ▸> Bending head back,

• ▸Seneg.
• ▸Averse to coitus, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸Plumb.
• ▸Also Asar.
• ▸, Caulo.
• ▸, Senec.
• ▸, Xanth.

• ▸Compare: Carduus mar (ulcers); Hamam; Senecio; Polygonum persicaria (renal colic and calculi; gangrene); Polygonum sagitatum-arrow-leaved.
• ▸Tear-thumb--(2x for pains of nephritic colic; suppurative nephritis; lancinating pains along spine; itching of hard palate; burning inner side of right foot and ankle.
• ▸C.
• ▸M.
• ▸Boger); Polygonum aviculare-knot-grass--(in material doses of tincture, found useful in phthisis pulmonalis and intermittent fever, and especially in arterio-sclerosis.
• ▸Erythema).

Tincture.

Trembling; bruised feeling; weakness in limbs.—Shooting pains in arms and back of

legs.—Distension of blood-vessels in hands and feet.