PODOPHYLLUM
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Acidity
- Amenorrha
- Anus, Prolapse of
- Asthma, bronchial
- Bilious attack
- Bronchitis
- Cataract
- Cholera infantum
- Cornea, ulcer of
- Dentition
- Diarrha; camp
- Duodenum, catarrh of
- Dysentery
- Dysmenia
- Dyspepsia; from calomel
- Fevers
- Flatulence
- Gagging
- Gall-stones
- Gastric catarrh
- Gotre
- Hmorrhoids
- 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
- Indescribable sick feeling all over
- Persistent dry, rough feeling in pharynx and sophagus
- Dull, aching pain in right ear
- Feeling as though a ball or lump in upper sophagus
- Dull and stupefying headache
- Fulness in stomach
- Belching of gas
- Sour eructations
- Marked salivation
- Offensive odour from mouth
- Sleep disturbed
- Confused dreams
- Bed felt too hard
- Head and shoulders were lying too low
- Profuse, watery, dark green stool
- Peculiar weak, dull, griping pain below umbilicus
- Fulness in rectum
- Weak feeling in stomach
- Faint feeling
- Early morning <
- Faint, gone sensation
- Fulness and tenesmus in rectum
- Rawness like intertrigo
- Intense inflammation, ulceration
- Continual urging and straining
- Symptoms of prolapsus uteri with pain in sacrum
- Muco-gelatinous stools
- Sensation at stool as if the genital organs would fall out
- Pains in the ovaries, especially the right, extending down the anterior and inner side of thighs
- Vomiting of pregnancy
- Swelling of labia
- Severe after-pains with strong bearing-down sensation
- Hmorrhoids and prolapsus recti after confinement
- Can lie comfortably only on stomach (early months)
- Moaning and whining during sleep
- Head is thrown back and rolls from side to side
- Child grates its teeth
- Great desire to press gums or teeth together
- Salivation, foul breath, and moist, tooth-indented tongue
- Congested, sensitive liver, with excess or absence of bile
- Feverishness and proneness to sweat
- Remittent fever
- Intermittent fever
- Delirium, loquacious
- Much drowsiness and desire to stretch
- Alternating conditions: Diarrha alternating with constipation; headache alternating with diarrha; headache in winter, diarrha in summer; inflammation of scrotum or of the eyes; not of both
- Pains in sacrum, in lumbar region with rectal and uterine symptoms
- Cramps in calves with stools
- Loquacity during chill and heat
- Burning tongue
- Ovarian pain, < at night
- Sleepless, nervous, restless
- Much bearing down in abdomen and back
- Burning, aching, cutting pain in rectum
- Nervous, cross, irritable
- 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 sophagus
- Thirst for large quantities of cold water
- Intense desire to press the gums together
- Viscid mucus in mouth, coating teeth
- Diarrha whilst being bathed or washed; of dirty water soaking through napkin; with gagging
- Constant shaking and rubbing region of liver with his hands
- Conscious during chill, but cannot talk, forgets words
- 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
- 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
- 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 conjunctiv; ulceration central and extensive, in r. eye its base was densely white, as if lead had been used
- Eyes inflamed in morning
- L. eye sore
- Arcus senilis lessens and a dribbling of saliva ceases in an old man
- Eyes glazed and motionless
- 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
- Aching pain in r. ear, with rough feeling extending from there along r. Eustachian tube
- Nose pinched
- Soreness and little pimples on nose
- Corpse-like pallor
- Complexion sallow, dingy
- Hot, flushed cheeks
- Under jaw fallen
- 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
- 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
- Much viscid mucus in mouth
- Mouth and tongue dry on awaking
- Nursing sore mouth; canker
- Dryness of throat
- Burning in throat
- Soreness of throat extending to ears; r. to l.; l. side sore, < swallowing liquids, morning
- Rattling of mucus in throat
- Gotre
- Dry, rough feeling in pharynx and sophagus, extending along r. Eustachian tube with aching pain in r. ear
- 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
- After eating: regurgitation of food, sour; hot, sour belching; diarrha; vomits food an hour after, craving appetite afterwards; depression of spirits
- After eating and drinking: diarrha
- After acid fruit and milk: diarrha
- 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 diarrha
- 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 sophagus
- 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
- Abdominal 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 diarrha
- 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
- Emission of fetid flatus
- Morning diarrha, then no more stools during day
- Diarrha early in morning, continuing through forenoon, followed by natural stool in evening
- Stools in morning, with strong urgings in bowels and heat and pain in anus
- Small, frequent, bilious stools with tenesmus
- Diarrha, yellow stools, one every hour for five hours
- Stools of pure blood
- Infantile dysentery
- Dysenteric diarrha
- Stools: thin, watery, green; green; muco-gelatinous with pain in sacrum; 4 a.m., yellow, undigested fces, 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
- Diarrha and constipation alternating every day or two, for several days after the most prominent symptoms had disappeared
- Diarrha 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
- Diarrha from indigestion after eating canned fruit
- Before stool: intense nausea; sudden urging; loud gurgling as of water; rumbling in l. 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
- After 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
- Aggravation 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
- 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
- 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 l. 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 diarrha 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
- 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
- Pendulous abdomen
- 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
- 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
- Aching in limbs < night
- Weakness of joints, esp. knees
- Pain in course of ulnar nerve of both arms
- Rheumatism in l. forearm and fingers
- Pains from head into neck and shoulders; fingers numb
- Weakness of wrists, sore to touch
- Pain and weakness in l. hip, like rheumatism from cold; < by going up stairs
- Sharply defined ache in sacro-ischiadic foramen, with tenderness on pressure
- Slight paralytic weakness of l. 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 l. foot
- Faintness and emptiness after stool
- Prostration with the pain
- Stiffness on beginning to move
- Sudden shocks of jerking pains
- 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
- Skin has peculiar odour in patients taking Pod.
- 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
- Rolled and tossed about, bed felt too hard; feeling as though head and shoulders lying too low
- 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
- 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; 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