Eupatorium purpureum


Proving Symptoms of homeopathy medicine Eupatorium Purpureum, described by Richard Hughes in his book, A Cyclopedia of Drug Pathogenesis, published in 1895….


Introduction

Eupatorium purpureum, gravel root, queen of the meadow, trumpet weed.

Provings

Left a. Mrs. DRESER, blonde, very susceptible to medicinal action took tinct for 10 days, a dose 3 times a days, increasing from 10 up to 60 dr. Results; – Persistent sensations of falling towards left side; head feels light; dull and stupid, great effort required in order to move about; unusual wakefulness, with staring look in eyes, so lightness and dizziness as if flying round and round, with hard thumping pain on left occipital bone, and sensation as if had was moving in all directions; dizzy with dull deep aching in left temporal region; head feel as though she had a bad cold; dull, heavy pain in head, most in forehead, with sense as if vertex were pressed up; soreness, itching, tenderness of scalp, fine pricking sensation, rather pleasurable than otherwise. Copious lachrymation; cannot see as far as usual. Feeling as if ears were filled up; reports in the, squeaking, crackling – much aggravated on swallowing anything. Much thin discharge from nose, with soreness. Rush of blood to face, which is burning, red, dry, hot to touch, and shining. Abundant saliva; gum red and hot; pricking and stinging in tongue, with numb feeling (as from aconite) During entire proving, continued smarting and burning in throat, most severe at back, with yawning and sighing; choking fulness, compelling frequent swallowing; roughness, dryness, fulness; fluttering in throat-pit. Continued eructation; much wind in stomach; sickness, nigh to vomiting; fulness, mostly on left side; crampy pain. Fulness and pain in bowels; rolling, tumbling, twisting pain; pain and soreness of whole abdomen, much worse left side; bowels hard as a rock; tense cutting pain 2 in above left ovary. Heavy pressure all day upon rectum; feeling as if bowels must be moved continually without power to effect action; pain and suffering as from diarrhoea, though passages were not much altered. 1 b. In 1/2 hour after morning dose (6 a. m.) experienced sharp, quick, jerking motion in region of left ovary, also immediately above it; and there was deep dull pain in left kidney. In 1 hour experienced desire to void urine, which lasted all day, in spite of frequent micturition; she passed twice as much urine as usual during day. All day heavy, dull pressure just above left ovary. P. m., took 40 dr.; severe colicky pain over whole abdomen after urinating; cutting, as well as dull deep pain, in kidneys. Had to micturate still more frequently; with desire to do so, cutting aching pain in bladder; deep dull pain in fossa innominate; sense of fulness of bladder. At 5 p. m., scalding, smarting, and burning on passing water; unnatural desire to strain urine on; stream does not appear as large as natural; external generative organs feel as though wet(illusory); most severe cutting pain in urethra, coming and going in 5 or 10 m. lasting many hour; dull, hay pain in urethra, and dull aching in bladder. These symptoms of urethra bean to be experienced on 3rd day of proving, and after that were continuous; smarting and burning so intense that she could to stand; therewith weak, tired, wearied, faint feeling, which was almost insupportable.

1 c. Abundant leucorrhoea throughout proving, but leaving no stain on linen. Fluttering of heart and throat; immediately after each dose violent palpitation; pulse 80 – 100, full and bounding; strong desire to inflate lungs. Mind affected with several delusions; depression and sighing. Neuralgia-like pains from below upwards, mostly up left side of back and hip; sore pain directly within spine, along whole length, from below upwards; dull aching in sacrum, running upward into kidneys; lame, weak feeling in neck; stiff, wry neck; cutting pain in neck, from left shoulder to occiput. Tired, weak, uneasy feeling in limbs, with gnawing, disagreeable pain; feet feel as though she had over- walked, heels as if they were crowding through boots; rheumatic pain changing rom place to place, always from below upward; gnawing in hip – bone; left leg feels weaker than right, but in latter there is a severe numbness, worst at groin. 1 d. Same another time took large single doses to observe effects on urinary organs. January 1st, at noon, took 60 dr. of tinct. In 1/2 hour, 14 oz. of urine passed; sp. gr. 1015. At 1 p. m. 10 oz., of more aromatic smell. At 2:50 passed 10 oz., of pale colour, sp. gr. as before. at this examination first noticed a white, flaky, flocculent substance, which when collected on a filter, proved to be mucus. At 4 p. m. passed 12 oz., at 6 p. m. 7 oz.; at 6:45 p. m. 5 oz. Up to this time about 1/2 oz. of mucus had been passed to the 58 oz. of urine. Urgency increased as day went on. 2d. – At 9 a. m. took 60 dr. Desire to-day to void urine was almost unintermitting, but quantity small-not more than 1 1/2 or 2 oz. at a time, but this once an hour or oftener. Urine of lighter colour, and of sp. gr. averaging 1026; it contained more mucus, but is chemical constitution was unchanged. 3rd. – Took 60 dr. more, with similar results; urine neutral, of sp. gr. averaging 1028o.

“During the 3 days the request and tormenting desire to pass urine, with occasional spasmodic action of the bladder, could not long be borne. ” (HALE, New Remedies, 2nd ed.).

Richard Hughes
Dr. Richard Hughes (1836-1902) was born in London, England. He received the title of M.R.C.S. (Eng.), in 1857 and L.R.C.P. (Edin.) in 1860. The title of M.D. was conferred upon him by the American College a few years later.

Hughes was a great writer and a scholar. He actively cooperated with Dr. T.F. Allen to compile his 'Encyclopedia' and rendered immeasurable aid to Dr. Dudgeon in translating Hahnemann's 'Materia Medica Pura' into English. In 1889 he was appointed an Editor of the 'British Homoeopathic Journal' and continued in that capacity until his demise. In 1876, Dr. Hughes was appointed as the Permanent Secretary of the Organization of the International Congress of Homoeopathy Physicians in Philadelphia. He also presided over the International Congress in London.