(May Apple)
Is especially adapted to persons of bilious
temperament. It affects chiefly the duodenum, small intestines,
liver, and rectum. The Podophyllum disease is a gastroenteritis 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 hemorrhoids, hypogastric pain, fullness of superficial veins,
jaundice. | ||
| Mind. Loquacity
and delirium from eating acid fruits. Depression of spirits. | ||
| Head. Vertigo,
with tendency to fall forward. Headache, dull pressure, worse morning, with
heated face and bitter taste; alternating with diarrhea. Rolling of head
from side to side, with moaning and vomiting and eyelids half closed.
Child perspires on head during sleep. | ||
| Mouth. Grinding
the teeth at night; intense desire to press the gums together. [Phyt.] Difficult dentition. Tongue broad, large,
moist. Foul, putrid taste. Burning sensation of
tongue. | ||
| Stomach. 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. | ||
| Abdomen.
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. | ||
| Rectum. Cholera
infantum and morbus. Diarrhea 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 diarrhea 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 diarrhea. [Ant-c.] Internal and external
piles. | ||
| Female. Pain in
uterus and right ovary, with shifting noises along ascending colon.
Suppressed menses, with pelvic tenesmus. Prolapsed uteri, especially
after parturition. Hemorrhoids, with prolapsus ani during pregnancy.
Prolapsus from overlifting or straining; during pregnancy. | ||
| Extremities.
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. | ||
| Fever. Chills
at 7 a.m., with pain in hypochondria, and knees, ankles, wrists. Great
loquacity during fever. Profuse sweat. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, in early morning, in hot weather, during dentition. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Merc.; Nux-v.; Sulph. | ||
| Dose. Tincture
to sixth potency. The two hundredth and one thousandth seem to do good work
in cholera infantum, when indicated. |