Joe Pye Weed. Trumpet Weed. Gravel root. Queen of the Meadow. *N. O. Composite. Tincture of the root.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Calculi. Cystitis. Diabetes. Dropsy. Enuresis. Gravel. Headache. Home-sickness. Hysteria. Impotence. Indigestion. *Intermittent fever. Renal colic. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Strangury. Throat, sore. Urine, retention of. Vomiting.
Characteristics
The fever symptoms of *E. purpureum resemble those of *Eup-per., but *Eup-pur. has many more symptoms in the urinary and sexual regions. The general soreness is less marked with *purpureum. Both have chills beginning in the back, those of *purpureum (as also the pains) run upwards, and with them there is much shaking and comparatively little coldness. Bone pains, nausea, and vomiting accompany fever. Sweat is slight. Restless, tossing, moaning, unable to lie down. The common name, ” gravel root,” indicates the traditional use of the drug, and in the hands of eclectics it has done good work in cases of irritable bladder, diabetes insipidus, incontinence of urine and calculous affections. Hale mentions that impotency has been cured in the male, and sterility and uterine atony in the female. It is similar in action to *Cimic. and *Helonias here. *Eup-pur. has been well proved by a Mrs. Dresser, and she experienced a feeling of home-sickness even when living in her own house. Motion worse, changing position ever so little causes chilliness down back. Symptoms are worse left side, and there is sensation as if falling to left side, as with *Eup-per. Cystitis in pregnant women from riding over rough roads. Distressing dyspnoea from dropsy.
Relations
*Compare: Apocynum (dropsy), Apis., Can. Sat., Cantharis, Copaiva, For., Hydrc., Mit., Senec., Vespa (renal symptoms); Caps., Ph-ac. in home-sickness; Eup-per., Colchicum (nausea at smell of food).
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
The mind is encompassed by various delusions. Sighing. Home- sickness, although in her own house. Great fear of sickness. Depressed and sleepy. Hysterical, low-spirited state.
Head
Head feels light and *dizzy, as though flying round and round, cannot get rid of sensation as if falling to left side, the whole body seems to participate, worse morning, disappearing at noon. Illusions of sight and hearing, with vertigo. Much headache and constriction over frontal region, with chill. *Dizzy, with deep, dull aching pains through left temporal region. Sick headache, dull hammering, stitching, or boring left side, pressing from right to left, beginning morning increasing during afternoon and evening, worse in cold air, better while walking slowly in fresh air. Violent headache, before chill, during morning, with fever. Sore scalp with itching. Sweat, principally about head, esp., profuse on forehead.
Eyes
Staring. Red and swollen (with headache). Lachrymation.
Ears
Ears feel full. Illusions of hearing. Crackling worse on swallowing.
Face
Face flushed. Lips blue.
Mouth
Tongue furred, brown along center. Tongue, prickling and stinging in tip, on back. Numbness of tongue. Saliva abundant.
Throat
Choking fullness, must swallow often. Burning, as if had swallowed some hot substance, most at back of throat. Worse Swallowing. Pain left side of throat, causing pain on swallowing, before chill. Fluttering in throat pit.
Stomach
Thirst: before chill, none during, with fever, with dropsy. Desire for warm drinks. Much wind in stomach, eructations almost constant. Nausea at smell or sight of food or cooking. Great nausea but no vomiting with chill, vomiting with fever, with sick headache. Swelling and fullness, mostly left side. Griping, crampy pain.
Abdomen
Rumbling, rolling, and twisting pain in bowels. Severe colic after voiding urine. Pain and soreness of abdomen, much worse left side. Hypogastric region swollen and hot.
Stool
Bilious diarrhoea. Pressure and weight on rectum.
Urinary Organs
Dull deep pains in kidneys, also cutting. Intense smarting and burning in bladder and urethra. Deep dull aching in bladder. Uneasiness in bladder while suffering from severe cold. Increased mucus, large deposit of lithates. Enuresis. Constant urging, passes a few drops at a time. Strangury from uterine displacement. Dysuria in a pregnant women after riding over rough road and taking cold. Vesical irritability in women. Nephritis. Diabetes insipidus.
Male Sexual Organ
Impotency from exhaustion or abuse.
Female Sexual Organ
Tense cutting pain two inches above left ovary. Smart, quick jerking motion in left ovary. Heavy pressure during day, directly above left ovary. Sterility from ovarian atony. Uterine leucorrhoea caused by exhaustion and chronic metritis. Leucorrhoea abundant, leaving no stain. External genitals feel as though wet (a delusion). Inflammation of meatus urinarius. Numbness worse in groin. Threatened abortion. Habitual abortion at third or fourth month. Inefficient labor-pains.
Respiratory Organs
Coryza, hoarseness, hacking cough, evening, cough, with soreness and heat in bronchi. Sighing every few minutes. Strong desire to inflate the lungs, which she continued to do from time to time without noticing particularly that she was doing so. Grating sensation in chest at every deep inspiration.
Heart
Violent palpitation, fluttering in heat and throat. Pulse accelerated and full.
Back and neck
Cutting pain in neck running from left shoulder to occiput. Between shoulder-blades chilly feeling. Cutting pains, labor-like pains. Pains running upward, from sacrum into kidneys, from left side of back and hip. Chill begins in lower dorsal region and runs up back. Distressing pain in lumbar region before chill.
Limbs
Tired, weak uneasiness in limbs, with numbness and gnawing pains. Rheumatic pains shifting from place to place, always from below upward. Pains in arms and legs before chill, during fever limbs cold. Neuralgia of right shoulder or right knee, passing over to left Soreness of bones, aching of limbs as if bones were broken, pains come and go suddenly, very restless, but not better by motion.
Upper Limbs
Arms perspire most, hands cold, finger-nails blue.
Lower Limbs
Gnawing in hip-bone. Numbness of legs after or with severe bone pains. Severe shooting pains in left sciatic nerve, producing a palsied sensation, especially after motion, legs feel tired, especially left Feet feel as if she had walked a long journey, it seems as though her heels were crowding through her boots.
Sleep
Yawning, gaping, and sighing. Sleepy and depressed. Sleep restless and mind disturbed, frightful dreams.
Fever
Chilly down back when changing position ever so little. Chill begins in small of back and spreads over body, violent shivering with comparatively little coldness, bone pains, thirst in chill and heat, nails blue. Skin hot and dry with fever, hot to touch in face. Fever protracted, with bone pains, nausea, and vomiting, followed by slight sweat, mostly about forehead and head. Sweat: principally about forehead, chills when attempting to change position.
