Homeopathic Materia Medica

 

Eupatorium Perfoliatum.

Boneset. Compositae.

 


Adapted to diseases of old people; worn-out constitutions, especially from inebriety; cachexia, from prolonged or frequent attacks of bilious or intermittent fevers.

Bruised feeling, as if broken, all over the body ( Arn. , [Bellis], Pyr. ).

Bone pains affecting back, head, chest, limbs, especially the wrists, as if dislocated. The more general and severe, the better adapted (compare, Bry. , Mer. ).

Painful soreness of eyeballs; coryza, aching in every bone; great prostration in epidemic influenza ( Lac. c. ).

Pains come quickly and go quickly and go away quickly ( Bell. , Mag. p. , Eup. pur. ).

Vertigo; sensation as if falling to the left (cannot turn the head to the left for fear of alling, Col. ).

Cough: chronic; loose with hectic; chest sore, must support it with hands ( Bry. , Nat. c. ); < at night; following measles or suppressed intermittents.

Fever: chill to 9 a. m. one day, at noon the next day; bitter vomiting at close of chill; drinking hastens chill and causes vomiting; bone pains, before and during chill.

Insatiable thirst before and during chill and fever; knows chill is coming because he cannot drink enough.

Relations. - Is followed well: by, Nat. m. and Sep.

Compare: Chel. , Pod. , Lyc. , in jaundiced conditions.

Bryonia is the nearest analogue, having free sweat, but pains keep patient quiet; while [Eup.] has scanty sweat and pains make patient restless.