Epilobium Palustre

      Epilobium lineare. Willow Herb. *N. O. On-line.

Clinical

Dysphagia. Fever. Larynx, affections of. Ptyalism. Throat, sore.

Characteristics

*Epil. p. was proved by Dr. J. S. Wright, a tincture of the root being used. Symptoms of filling up of throat, inability to swallow, fever and headache were produced. A boy poisoned with the flowers of *Epil. *hirsutum had strong epileptiform convulsions in rapid succession.

SYMPTOMS.

Head

Headache with fever.

Face

Face red.

Mouth

Ptyalism. Dull and sleepy but could not sleep, the saliva would choke him.

Throat

In morning throat began filling up, at noon could not swallow water, larynx sore to pressure with hard lumps on each side externally.

Stool

Three loose stools on eighth day, none the day after.

Urine

Urine red.

Fever

Hard chill began 11 a.m., lasted an hour, high fever came on with aching all over and severe headache, this lasted all night, could not sleep.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica