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Podophyllum peltatum

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9 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Is especially adapted to persons of bilious temperament.
  • It affects chiefly the duodenum, small intestines, liver, and rectum The Podophyllum disease is a gastro-enteritis with colicky pain and bilious vomiting.
  • Stool is watery with jelly-like mucus, painless, profuse.
  • Gushing and offensive.

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Mind & mood

  • Loquacity and delirium from eating acid fruits.
  • Depression of spirits.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

In early morningIn hot weatherDuring dentition

Symptoms by body part

Head

Dizziness, with tendency to fall forward. Headache, dull pressure, worse morning, with heated face and bitter taste; alternating with diarrhoea. Rolling of head from side to side, 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. Difficult dentition. Tongue broad, large, moist. Foul, putrid taste. Burning sensation of tongue.

Stomach

Hot, sour belching; nausea and 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

Diarrhoea 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 diarrhoea 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 diarrhoea.

Female

Pain in uterus and right ovary, with shifting noises along ascending colon. Suppressed menses, with pelvic constant urge to pass stool. Prolapsed uteri, especially after parturition.

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

Chill at 7 a.m., with pain in hypochondria, and knees, ankles, wrists, Great loquacity during fever. Profuse sweat.

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