Homeopathy Remedy Granatum


Granatum homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Granatum…


      A tincture is made of the dried bark of the root of Punica Granatum, L. (Pomegranate).

General Action

      An ancient vermifuge, especially for tapeworm. The alkaloid, Pelletierine, is particularly valuable for this purpose, but large doses cause paralysis, especially of the oculo-motor nerves, with vertigo, acting similarly to Gelsemium.

Allies. Gelsem., Verat-alb.

Generalities

      Emaciation. Laxity of muscles. Tremulousness in morning (Gelsem.). Rush of blood to upper part of body, head and chest. Discomfort and nausea. Weakness; in morning on rising after good sleep, with heat in hands; could scarcely keep upright (Gelsem); sleepy, with confused pain in forehead, as after a night’s debauch. Better after dinner.

Clinical Jaundiced complexion, with bloated abdomen, eructations of watery fluid and vomiting, with vertigo, waving before eyes, large pupils, feeling as of something moving in the stomach, palpitation, faintness (Gelsem.).

Mind

      Hallucination. Excited easily; excitement and weakness of mind, tranquility and persistency. Anger changing to insults. Sensitiveness. Sad. Hypochondriac. Discouraged. Inclined to criticise and blame. Dread of work, with headache. Confusion Stupefaction.

Head

      Sticking on moving; S. through brain. Pain in whole brain when walking, (<) forehead; P. in brain, extending into l. occipital protuberance. Heaviness; with dread of work; with red face, rapid pulse and weakness. Confusion. Vertigo in morning on rising; V. after stool; on reading, reflecting and mental labor; with vomiting; like a dimness before eyes (Gelsem.); in attacks, with obscured vision, roaring in ears and trembling of hands. Frontal sticking; outward; beneath l. eminence. Pressure in sinciput during stool. Frontal pain, with shivering; pain in l. eminence; F. pain extending towards temples, with tearing, then becoming a tearing outward; F. pain so that she could scarcely look up; stupefying pain in frontal sinuses and upper jaw. Frontal heaviness. Tearing in r. temple; extending into r. eye. Pressure in l. temple. Heavy pain in vertex. Tearing in r. side of head. Tearing jerking in r. side. Pressure in occiput, with hot ears.

Eyes

      Inflamed as in catarrh. Surrounded by pale blue dirty rings. Tearing in r., which is red and swimming in tears. Dryness and burning. Yellow sclerotics. Pupils dilated; and sluggish; contracted. Opening of the lids contracted. Jerking of r. lid Burning of canthi, with redness. Itching of inner canthi; burning I. in outer canthi. Vision dim; V. weak.

Ears

      Sticking in l.; S. outward, (<) l. Tearing in l.; sticking T. outward in l. at night. Cramplike pain. Ringing; in front of l. Roaring before ears.

Nose

      Pinching as if in mucous cavities, extending from root into r. zygomatic region. Itching crawling and tickling in nose, Heat within. Dryness of mucous membrane. Catarrh alternately dry and fluent.

Face

      Red; and hot, with sparkling eyes, heaviness of forehead and oppression of chest. Earthly sickly color. Stupid expression. Tearing in l. half. Pinching in l. side. R. cheek feels swollen. Jaw cracked painfully when chewing, as if dislocated; tearing in joints, (<) l., with tension and pinching; pinching in l. r. muscle; numbness. Lips dry; biting of lips, then burning; burning on “crown” of lower.

Mouth

      Stitches in incisors at night in bed. Drawing in incisors, then stitches. Tearing throbbing pain in upper hollow molar. Toothache in morning on rising. Incisors pain as if numb and sore. Teeth feel too long on biting anything hard. Tongue coated; white, and moist. (Moderate dryness of tongue, with feeling of ” adstriction” of papillae.) Tenacious mucus with need of constant spitting. Salivation; watery. Taste altered; at one time acute, at another blunted; sweetish, flat, with salivation, nausea and pain in abdomen.

Throat

      Hawking of mucus; bloody, from choanae. Tough mucous in choanae, causing sensation of a lump. Tearing, extending to arms and fingers. (Contraction.)

Stomach

      Unusual hunger (Verat-a.); (in morning in bed). Craving for a variety of things; C. for fruit (Veratruma.); for juicy or sour things. Appetite at one time diminished, at another ravenous. Loss of appetite. Aversion to eating. Crawling for coffee, which tastes unusually good. Thirst for water in evening, with heat of skin, and especially hot forehead. Want of thirst.

Eructations; after liquid food; (<) after potatoes; loud; of air; offensive, after fat food; of liquids; (of watery substances, (<) fasting). Nausea; with pain in abdomen; with salivation, frequent spitting, pain in stomach and abdomen, fermenting in abdomen, frequent ineffectual urging to stool. chilliness, sickly look and ill humor (Verat-a.); with threatenings of diarrhoea; with pain and fermentation in abdomen, then diarrhoea; with shivering, cold hands and hot forehead; with confusion of head. Loud retching. Vomiting; with diarrhoea (Verat-a.); with trembling; with anxiety; with weakness and sweat.

Epigastric region distended and sensitive. Fulness of pit. Sticking. Cramp in morning fasting. Contractive pain, and in small intestines. Pressure in pit and on chest; P. in pit, and sick feeling. Burning in pit and in abdomen.

Abdomen

      Distention and pain, with ravenous hunger. Emission of flatus. Frequent flatulence. Movements of flatus; M. as from diarrhoea. Wanderings like urging to stool. Griping; then two soft stools. Cramp before menses, with dragging from small of back to genitals. Pain; after every meal; (<) morning fasting; (>) drinking cold water; (>) external warmth and lying down; with diarrhoea; flatulent; crawling, which was a sticking towards praecordium. Drawing like urging to stool. Sensitiveness. Anxiety.

Navel distended to a ball, like umbilical hernia. Sticking to l. side of umbilicus, as from suppuration. Griping about U. Twisting in umbilical region and stomach. Dragging in groins as if a hernia would protrude from both sides; D. towards groins; almost painful dragging towards groin, with swelling of the parts; D. in pelvis, with heaviness. Drawing inflammatory pain in r. groin, (<) touch.

Rectum

      Sticking when sitting. Pressure. Sensation in R. and anus as if something alive were moving about. Itching and tickling. Heat after diarrhoea. Desire for stool. Tenesmus, with protrusion of anus during the usual stool. Ineffectual urging.

Anus

      Protrusion like a ring during stool. Haemorrhoids protrude during the stool. Sticking in evening. Proctalgia. Itching frequently during the day, with tickling.

Stool

      Diarrhoea; frequent; mucous. Liquid, two within an hour. Frequent. Profuse, with much flatulence. Delayed and insufficient (later action.

Urinary Organs

      Urethra, discharge of mucus, a kind of blennorrhoea; inflammation and swelling; cutting and sticking; cutting in evening after lying down with smarting in it and with relaxed penis; cutting, after micturition; burning drawing extending from spongy part into glans.

Sexual Organs

      Excitement. Painful dragging towards genitals and uterus. Yellow leucorrhoea. Menstruation too early and profuse, with griping in abdomen and dragging in small of back, extending to genitals.

Chest

      Sticking; in r. l.; middle; (<) walking, not influenced by breathing; rheumatic drawing S. in pleura, now here, now there. Cramp in pectoralis major, stitches extending towards axilla. Pain in r.; in l. and in spine at insertion of diaphragm. Oppression, with sighing; O., with weakness of lower limbs on ascending steps. Heaviness like suffocation, then palpitation. Pressure upon C.; P. outward through sternum. Tension in l. beginning below ribs and gradually extending higher, with pinching and intermitting stitches., Pitching contraction ion muscles about r, nipple. Feeling of catarrh.

Heart

      Sensitiveness of praecordial region. Palpitation on least exertion.

Neck and Back

      Rheumatic pain in nape and throat, making stooping difficult. Pain in loins; on occurrence of menstruation; as if beaten; as if sprained, (<) sitting. Dragging from loins to anus. weight in loins.

Extremities

      Weariness and heaviness preventing sleep. Bruised pain in shoulders and between them, as after heavy load, even the clothing is oppressive; B. pain in r. shoulder as far as axilla, (<) rising arm. Arms, tearing, extending forward; boring extending to fingers; rheumatic pains; paralytic drawing; paralytic weakness; paralyzed feeling (Gelsem); could scarcely be raised. Tearing in ulna at wrist; in radius at wrist; cramplike T. in r, forearm. Periodic drawing in r. forearm, (>) external warmth. Tearing in wrists. Rheumatic pain in l. wrist,. Sticking in second joint of thumb. Tearing in fingers, with stiffness; T., so that she could not hold anything; T. in last phalanges, (<) ring finger; in first joint of thumb. Rheumatic pain in all finger- joints. Paralytic stiffness of F.

Lower Extremities

      Special withering. Sticking in l. hip when walking. Pain in hips; as if injured. Sticking in l. knee. Tearing in knee;l. Paralytic drawing in knee, with heaviness, hindering walking. legs weak, (<) walking; W., with uneasiness, leaden heaviness, he feels better sitting with legs resting upon sofa. Sticking in l. ankle. Sprained pain in l. ankle in evening, hindering walking. Pain in corns.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.