POLYGONUM
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Amenorrha
- Antrum, pain in
- Blepharitis
- Colic, flatulent
- Cough
- Diarrha
- Dysentery
- Dysmenia
- Dysuria
- Eczema
- Epilepsy
- Gonorrha
- Gravel
- Hmorrhoids
- Heart, affections of
- Hysteria
- Laryngitis
- Nephritis
- Neuralgia
- Orchitis
- Prostatitis
- Sciatica
- Spermatic cord, pain in
- Spleen, affections of
- Strangury
- Ulcers
- Aching pains in hips and loins
- Weight and tension in pelvis
- Tearing in groin, < right
- Lancinating pains
- Cutting pains
- Pulsating pains
- Shooting pains
- Wandering pains
- Flashing pains
- Left temple markedly affected
- Sensations of cold
- Heat in 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
- Excessive weakness
- Trembling
- Sensitiveness to cold
- 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
- < by cold
- < by damp
- < by change of temperature
- Warmth >
- Pressure of clothing = distress
- Lying down = pressure in occiput
- Lying down = dizziness and wavering of sight
- Rising = sudden pain in occiput
- Bending head down =, pain in ears
- Bending head back >, pain in ears
- Great depression followed by excessive irritability
- Gloomy views of life
- Dislike of change
- Excessive dread of death
- Dizziness
- Pulsative, acute pain in l. temple
- Dull, depressing pain through whole head
- Sensation of torpor
- 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
- Headache > 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
- 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
- Acute pain in ear > bending head back
- Ear symptoms < in damp atmosphere
- Secretion of ears increased
- Inflammation of Schneiderian membrane
- Smarting, raw feeling of Schneiderian membrane
- Tickling in nose
- Frequent sneezing as from cold
- Red, inflamed appearance of nostrils
- Swollen sensation of nostrils
- Feeling of congestion through eyes and nose
- Coldness in external nose
- Acute pain in l. face extending to temples, sometimes darting through whole l. side of head
- Excruciating pain and heat in l. side of face, < by cold or damp
- Coldness in r. face when pain most severe in l.
- 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
- Tongue feels swollen
- Heat and burning from root of tongue to pit of stomach
- Heat and burning 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
- Taste pungent, like pepper
- Throat dry, hot, burning, with sense of excoriation
- Glands feel swollen
- Glands < from cold or moist air
- Contracted feeling in throat after swallowing, followed by thirst
- Appetite voracious
- Appetite lost
- Food tasteless
- Great thirst for cold water, yet drinking = nausea
- Nausea as if proceeding from small intestines
- Nausea with coldness in abdomen
- Acidity
- Weight in stomach
- Burning in stomach
- Cold feeling in stomach with headache
- Cold feeling in stomach with burning in chest
- Pressure of clothes = distress
- Pain on pressure followed by throbbing and distress
- Uneasiness in stomach and abdomen
- 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
- Liquid fces discharged with great force
- Pain in loins
- Pain in hypogastric region, rectum, and anus
- Throbbing in l. inguinal glands
- Copious stool followed by smarting in anus
- Straining at stool with mucous, jelly-like discharges
- Stools yellowish green
- Stools hard, lumpy
- Stools dark, followed by burning in rectum
- Urging with discharge of much fetid flatus
- Tenesmus
- Tenesmus with nausea
- Tenesmus with pulsative pains in hips and loins
- Constipation alternating with diarrha
- Interior of anus studded with itching eminences, as from corrugation without contraction, a kind of hmorrhoidal tumour
- Hmorrhoids 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
- During an attack of gonorrha extremely violent pains on urinating, causing him to tremble and cry
- Pulsating pain in prostate on urinating
- Pain in prostate on urinating
- 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
- 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 l. testis, extending along l. 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
- 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
- Menses delayed, with distress and pain
- Menses too copious
- Menses tardy
- Menses fetid
- During menses: pressure and soreness in head
- During menses: grinding pain through abdomen
- Congestive weakness and loss of power
- Congestion of ovaries
- Tearing sensation in groin, < r.
- Burning in vagina
- Acrid, excoriating leucorrha
- Shooting pains through breasts, with great soreness, distension, and tenderness
- 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 l. chest
- Burning in chest with cold feeling in pit of stomach and shooting pains
- Sharp, cutting, shooting pains in region of heart, extending to l. scapula
- Increased action of heart with loss of rhythm
- Awoke at midnight with lameness l. side neck to shoulder, making movement painful
- Awoke at midnight with pulsative, wandering pains
- Pulsative pains in l. loin
- Aching in loins with pain around l. 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
- Trembling in limbs
- Bruised feeling in limbs
- Weakness in limbs
- Shooting pains in arms and back of legs
- Distension of blood-vessels in hands and feet
- 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
- Pulsating, wandering, flashing pains, like aurora borealis
- Skin dry
- Scarlet eruption round waist
- Itching, burning spasm
- Chronic erysipelatous inflammation
- Old and indolent ulcers
- Sleep restless, uneasy, full of dreams
- Dreams unremembered
- Dreams laborious and fatiguing
- Dreams of headache and wakes with headache
- Alternation of heats and chills and chills and heats
- Feet alternately hot and cold
- Feet burning for an hour, then suddenly cold
- Profuse sweat and trembling of whole body from moderate exercise