Paeonia


Paeonia signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Paeonia is used…


      Paeonia officinalis. Peony. *N.O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of the fresh root dug in spring (in autumn the root is said to be inert.).

Clinical

Anus, fissure of, fistula of, affections of. Bed-sores. Breast, ulceration of. Ciliary neuralgia. Coccyx, ulcer on. Haemorrhoids. Headache. Head, rush of blood to. *Nightmare. Perineum, ulcer on. Sternum, pain in. *Ulcers. Varicose veins. Vertigo.

Characteristics

*Paeonia belongs to the great order of Ranunculaceae., which includes the *Aconites, *Acteas, and *Hellebores. The proving brings out many symptoms of congestion Rush of blood to head, face, chest, burning heat and redness of eyes and face, burning, itching, and swelling of anus, heat in throat, in skin. The symptoms are well characterized, but it is principally the anal and skin symptoms which have been verified in practice. One of the symptoms of the proving is this: ” A small ulcers on perineum near anus that constantly oozes very offensive moisture, painful for eight days.” This symptom has been expanded by clinical observation, principally Ozanam’s, into ulceration in general, ulcers from pressure, as bed-sores, and from ill-fitting boots. “Sensation of splinter sticking in skin of right great toe when touched,” and “violent pain as from pressure in left little toe,” are guiding symptoms of the provings which put that great prescriber on the right track here. The ulcers are the seat of severe shooting pains. The symptoms of Ozanam’s cases are bracketed in the Schema. These observations show the relationship between *Paeon and the *Hellebores. The situation of the ulcer of the proving, together with the anal symptoms. Biting, itching, swelling, burning. Clearly point to *Paeon As a remedy in anal affections such as abscess, fissure, fistula, and piles. The leading indications are intolerable pain during and after stool and oozing of moisture. Experience has proved that varicose veins as well as anal varices are amenable to *Paeon The dreams experienced by the provers were of a terrifying nature, and it is interesting to note, as Geyer, one of the provers, does, that both Dioscorides and Plinius cured nightmare with *Paeon, the former with the seeds, the latter with the root. Geyer was ignorant of this fact until after he had experienced the nightmare-causing power of the drug, As the tissues are sensitive to pressure and injury, the mind is also sensitive: “Griping pain in abdomen, preceded, and especially followed, by anxiety, trembling of legs and arms as though he were frightened, he became apprehensive if any one spoke to him, and unpleasant news affected him exceedingly. “There is fainting with diarrhoea, and the stools are followed by intense chilliness, occurring generally a few hours after he felt the worst. The symptoms were worse by motion, by walking. Bad pain in anus compelling him to walk the floor all night, or to roll on the floor. Worse Coming into warm room. Worse Touch or pressure. Keeping jaws open better pressure from lower jaw to inner ear. Drinking water better vertigo with nausea. The right side is more affected than the left.

Relations

*Antidoted by: Aloe., Ratan. *Compare: In varices, Hamamelis In splinter sensation, anal fissures and abscess, in ulcer, nitricum acidum In splinter sensation and ulcers, Arg-n., Hepar In ulcers, Helleb. n., Helleb-v., Silica. In ulcers about the toes, Mang. aust. In diarrhoea, Sul. In effects of bad news, Gelsemium

Causation

Bruises. Pressure (bed-sores, tight boots). Bad news.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Delirium. Excitement. Apprehension, in evening, with anxiety. Anxious, afraid to talk with any one, much affected by bad news, after pinching in belly. Ill-humour. Depression, after 5 p.m., with irritability.

Head

Vertigo: on every motion (in a warm room), with constant reeling and staggering. Dullness, heaviness, vertigo, and feeling of heat in head. Syncope and cold sweat. Fullness, and rush of blood to head, after 5 p.m., with pain below forehead, and to face with sweat. Pain and confusion of head. Pain with dulness of head, roaring in ears, and flickering before eyes. Gnawing headache. Headache, with pressive pain in left side, after a meal (dinner). Pain in forehead: in Morning and evening, and in orbits, above left brow, with sticking. Jerking tearing in right temple, extending into head. Boring outward in right temple. Pain in occiput and in nape. Heaviness in occiput.

Eyes

Eyes red and watery. Pain in left eye, becoming a tearing, with inflammation, injection of conjunctiva, difficult opening of eye on account of pain and photophobia, with lachrymation. Eyes dry, smarting, not easy to open. Burning, itching and dryness, of eyes and lids. Violent tearing around right eye. Conjunctivitis of ball and lid, with lachrymation and contracted pupils. Inflammation of left ball, with pain as if a grain of sand were under upper lid. Sticking in right upper lid towards inner canthus.

Ears

Jerking in cartilages of ears. Sticking outward in right ear. Pinching behind right ear. One ear cold, the other hot, 3 p.m. Itching in concha. Ringing in ears, in left.

Nose

Stoppage of nose: in evening, in morning in bed, with dryness. Crawling in tip of nose.

Face

Face red and puffy. Burning heat in face. Crawling in upper lip. Pain extending from articular fossa of lower jaw through inner ear, better keeping jaws open for a long time, as, e.g., when drinking, worse pressing them together.

Mouth

Tongue red.

Throat

Biting posteriorly in palate in evening. Hawking caused by tenacious mucus in throat, with scanty expectoration. Scraping in throat, necessary to cough and hawk to loosen it, and feeling in posterior nares as if full of mucus. Sensation as if an acrid, burning vapour ascended throat. Heat: in fauces extending to pharynx, in throat and oesophagus, worse hawking. Swallowing difficult.

Appetite

Appetite lost. Thirst.

Stomach

Nausea (on entering a warm room after a moderate walk, with seething in head, vanishing or obscuration of senses, and attacks of faintness). Vomiting and painful diarrhoea. Anxious aching (pressing) in epigastrium. Periodical sticking upward from middle Of epigastric region. Burning in epigastric region at night.

Abdomen

Borborygmi. Griping pain in forenoon, preceded, and especially followed, by anxiety, trembling of Extremities and arms, as if frightened, and apprehension when any one spoke to him, unpleasant news affected him exceedingly. Pinching in abdominal muscles. Cutting, in umbilical region. Colic, with diarrhoea, transversely across upper abdomen. Sensitiveness, worse along transverse colon and epigastric region, that were hard and retracted. Crawling in abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Biting itching in anus that provokes scratching in afternoon, the orifice seems somewhat swollen. Haemorrhoids with fissure in anus, intolerable pains during and after a stool. Haemorrhoids and ulceration of rectum. Very painful and sensitive ulcers and rhagades in rectum. Very painful ulcer, partly in enlargement, round, sharp-cut edges, and exuding much moisture. Funnel-shaped ulcer just below coccyx. Running and fetid ulcer in the anus, towards the perineum. Sudden pasty diarrhoea, with faintness in abdomen and burning in anus after stool, returning after six hours, then internal chilliness, generally a few hours afterwards he felt the worst. Stools thin, frequent.

Urinary Organs

Constriction in region of neck of bladder, so that urine passed only in driblets. Frequent and copious micturition, disturbing sleep at night. Micturition burning and urine scanty.

Female Sexual Organs

External genitals swollen and painful.

Chest

Sticking in left chest, parallel with axis of body, on every inspiration from 3.30 to 5 and at 9 p.m. Sticking: in right side near sternum, on a level with nipples, at 4 p.m., near right nipple, worse walking, to right of ensiform process, with pressure, downward sticking in left chest, backward sticking as if through heart. Sticking through whole left half of chest, beginning beneath clavicle and extending to diaphragm, worse region of heart at moment of expiration, and worse walking. Cutting in left side when sitting bent over. Sharp pain in ribs above hepatic region, in morning. Pain: near middle of sternum, beneath manubrium in morning, near both sides of lower part of sternum when eating, in middle of sternum, better night, worse next morning, and recurring all the forenoon. Pain beneath the heart as from anxiety. Throbbing extending through right side and from posterior part to nape, where it ended in intermitting pinching. Rush of blood. Heat in chest. (Ulcer on lower part of left breast, consequent on abscess which had never healed.).

Heart

Dull shooting from front to back through heart. Pulse contracted.

Neck and Back

Sticking in last cervical vertebra. Sticking in scapula, in places in back, better scratching. Pinching or griping now in dorsal, now in abdominal muscles. Boring in left scapula, better motion., _ Ulcers over sacrum, bed-sores.

Limbs

Jerking and tearing in Extremities, paroxysmal tearing, then numbness, weakness in evening.

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