A tincture of the entire fresh plant is used. Allies– Bryonia, Arsenicum; and probably Carduus ben.
Generalities and Head
Soreness in bones. Bruised feeling in every bone, preventing lying in bed and causing despair, moaning and crying out. inability to lie on l. side. Aggravation in the moaning of one day and in the afternoon of the next. Headache, (<) first going into the open air, (<) the house and by conversation, with internal soreness.. Whirling around in brain in morning, as if placed in a coal screen and whirled around two or three times, soon repeated. Pain in forehead, extending to occiput, (<) l. side. Darting through temples, with sensation of blood rushing across head.
Clinical Periodical headaches, especially in occiput, throbbing, sensation of great soreness of eyeballs, soreness of scalp, etc.
Eyes, Nose and Face
Eyeballs sore (Baptisia). increased lachrymation. Redness of margins of lids, with glutinous secretion from Meibomian glands. Dim vision on looking at small things. Nose dry and stopped. Redness of face; of cheeks, with dryness of skin.
Clinical Violent coryza or influenza, with thirst, heaviness overhead, bone-pains, soreness of eyeballs, etc.
Mouth and Throat
Tongue coated white (Bryonia). Mucous membrane of mouth pale. Insipid taste. Throat dry.
Stomach
Desire for ice-cream. Loss of appetite. Thirst for cold water (Bryonia); T. for something cold at night. Belching of tasteless wind, with feeling of obstruction at pit of S. Nausea; from odors, the smell of cooking, etc.; with vomiting, free perspiration and copious expectoration. Retching and vomiting of bile. Vomiting preceded by thirst (Arsenicum); V. after every draught (Arsenicum); of food. Feeling as if something ought to come up without ability to raise it. Fulness. S. seemed contracted from side to side. Heat. Beating in epigastrium at night.
Abdomen
Tight clothing is oppressive. Tightness in l. hypochondrium. soreness in liver region, with fulness.
Stool and Urine
Diarrhoea in morning. purging, with smarting and heat in anus. Four or five watery stools in day. Loose scanty stool, with tenesmus. Urine dark, clear. Scanty urine; and high-colored. Urine copious, limpid.
Respiratory Organs
Cough, with soreness and heat in bronchi; C., (<) evening; hacking, in evening.
Clinical inflammation of larynx, with soreness and hoarseness, soreness extending into the bronchi and trachea, usually with bone-pain and soreness of the chest generally. The cough is generally, (<) lying on back, (>) lying on face; cough hurts the head and chest, the patient holds the chest with the hands (Drosera); generally8 there is no expectoration, or at least very little.
Chest
AChing under l. breast; behind sternum, with soreness, weight, inability to inspire naturally or twist the body to r. or l. because of the soreness, he feels best when lying on the back with his arms down and legs straight, but inability to move to r. or l., inability to twist the body when standing, sitting or lying. Soreness on a full inspiration; S. from coughing, (>) going down on his knees., Grating sensation on very deep inspiration.
Heart
Pressure as if in too small a place.
Neck and Back
Beating pain in nape; (>) rising, and in occiput. Bruised pain in back. Trembling in back during fever. Pain and soreness in small of B. as if beaten; deep-seated P. in loins, with soreness from touch. Weakness of small of B.
Extremities
Aching in bones, with soreness of flesh. Soreness and aching in arms and forearms; above and below elbows, as if beaten. Painful soreness of wrists as if broken or dislocated. Stiffness of arms; of fingers, with obtuseness of touch; of lower limbs on rising to walk, with soreness. Soreness of lower limbs, with aching. Pain in r. hip when sitting; P. in l. gluteal muscles, passing round in front of trochanter major, with sensitiveness. Calves feel as if they had been beaten. Pricking in soles. Pain in upper part of l. foot, with soreness and with increases sensitiveness of l. great toe, the pain in foot (<) standing upon it. Pain in first joint of great toe, l., then suddenly moving to r.
Fever
Intermittent, quotidian, tertian and quartan. The paroxysm usually begins in the morning, thirst several hours before the chill, continuing during chill and heat; C. in morning, heat through the day, but no sweat; C. through the night and in the morning, with nausea from the least motion; C., with nausea nd trembling; C. alternating with flashes of heat. General shuddering proceeding from the stomach. Pungent heat at night, with sweat. Heat on vertex, with pain which is (>) by pressure; H. of soles in morning. Sweat at night, with chilliness from motion or uncovering.
Clinical The characteristic fever, intermittent fever, for which this drug should be prescribed, has thirst beginning before the chill and continuing during both chill and heat; it is extremely important to observe that vomiting is particularly apt to result from drinking or taking any nourishment; either before or after the chill and fever; this vomiting from raking water is much more characteristics of the drug than the bone-pains, especially the vomiting of bile as the chill passes off; the violent bone-pains, the violet headache, pain and soreness of the muscles, are the universal accompaniments of the intermittent fever; the patient feels as if all the bones were breaking; it is very frequently observed that these Eupatorium cases present an incomplete paroxysm, for the chill and fever are well marked, and perhaps violent, and yet the sweat is entirely wanting; while this is usually the case, it is true that the drug cures cases in which there is a decided sweating stage. Valuable for catarrhal fevers, especially if there is bilious vomiting, with soreness of the chest nd muscles and bone-pains, running from eyes and nose, soreness of the eyeballs, soreness of head, etc.