Homeopathy Remedy Piper Methysticum


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


      A tincture is made of the fresh root of the Kava-Kava, Piper methysticum, Forster.

Generalities.

      Emaciation; and decrepitude. Trembling. Pains, (<) head, temporarily (>) turning mind to another topic. Feeling as if drug descended and impressed lower part of system, causing trembling of abdomen and lower limbs and bloodvessels connected therewith, but on descending stairs the drug seemed to come upward through the circulation, reaching the brain, causing exhilarating dizziness and disposition to swing and stagger, ad if under the influence of liquor, felt talkative and happy, after the dizziness felt a “toned-up” condition of brain and nervous system, dizziness returned on beginning to move. Stimulating and sedative effects, then sweat. Vigor; all day, with exhilaration, next day feelings varying and generally depressed. Uneasiness during the day. WEakness during the day, with timidity and apprehension; w. in morning, (>) rising and moving around; at 8.30 P.M. Want of tone and life in all functions towards night. Amelioration in open air and on motion.

Mind

      Hilarious from 10 A.M. till 1 P.M. Lively after an emission; L. and inclined to work, can dance with more ease than usual. Cheerfulness and ease in his work. Agreeable excitement and support against great fatigue, from increased doses intoxication of a sorrowful, silent and sleepy character, different from that produced by alcoholic drinks. Faculties sharpened. (Capable of working more without fatigue or brain fag.) Lazy and drowsy. Torpor and irritation from least noise

Clinical The symptom of getting worse from thinking of his symptoms is said to be one the indications for this drug.

Head

      Aching, with pressure in upper part of orbits; A., with sleepiness. Brain fag; in morning, (>) getting on feet. Tired feeling at night. Fulness, sometimes in one part, sometimes inn another, (<) forehead. Uneasiness. Heaviness. Intoxication, with fantastic ideas and desire to skip about, although he cannot for a moment hold himself on his legs. Vertigo from 56 till 9 P.M.; in morning in bed, with frontal pressure.

Forehead. Intermittent shooting in l. supraorbital nerve after 3 P.M. aching; in l. supraorbital nerve; back of eyes; all day, at 8 P.M., (<) over eyes and deep-seated; at 9 A.M., (<) 3 P.M.; in afternoon and evening, with drowsy and stupid feeling; above eyes at 5 P.M.; at 7 P.M.; in l. side at 7.30 P.M.; (<) l. side and deep in upper part of orbits, with pain on moving eyes; intermittent, in r. eminence, (>) open air and motion above r. eye, radiating over eyes, at 10 A.M.; heavy in F. and temples, (<) thinking and reading. Heaviness. Dullness, with fulness and pressure, and on raising head or moving it to either side vertigo, after the noon meal the pressure shifted to lateral and occipital regions, (<) lying down, but not to real pain, pressure, (<) remaining in one position, (>) moving, apprehension of pain by rapid movement, but temporary relief from it.

Shooting in l. temple; in l. side of brain, from front to back, after 3 P.M. Uneasiness as from weight over each ear.

Eyes

      Conjunctive red. Pain along r. optic nerve when reading after 3 P.M.; deep in l., as if ball would be pressed out, in the street at 5.30. P.M. Vision obscured. Dizzy blindness when dressing, vertigo, (>) closing eyes, directing attention to head and exerting the will, at the same time vertigo then rush of blood and fulness in forehead, then similar sensation in occipital and basilar regions.

Ears and Face

      Singular pressure in lobules of pinna of l. ear. Pressure outward in face at 7 P.M.

Mouth

      Teeth deep yellow. Teeth sensitive to cold water, cold air, brushing, etc. Teeth sensitive to cold water, cold air, brushing, etc. Tongue feels as if covered with velvet or fur at night’ T., mouth, stomach, etc., feel as if mucous membrane were furred and their sensitive power lost, tongue not coated. Burning on tongue. Dryness on waking from afternoon nap, with sweat (in a hot day). Salivation. Taste nauseous; T. sweat, then piquant and sharp; pappy; everything is tasteless at every meal; lost to food, but ravenous haste in eating; T. and relish to food not as usual, at noon, but appetite unusually good.

Clinical Toothache, with enlarged tonsils, pain involves the whole side of the face, from taking cold. Toothache, with earache and restlessness, forgets all about her pains when amused.

Stomach

      Appetite formidable at 8 P.M.; slight; hungry at noon, but not able to eat much, able to eat but l;little supper. Sour eructations, (<) an hour before meals and at night, at times rolling up and rumbling from stomach to mouth, but generally breaking at throat-pit, and in throat-pit sensation of something that cannot be swallowed, the latter temporarily (>) eructations. Bloating at 11 P.M. Crampy pain, (>) pressure against edge to table. Warmth.

Abdomen

      Pain every day about 9 A.M.; in forenoon after first stool, with distressing full sensation; (>) motion; then a large stool, the latter part soft; above umbilicus; in r. groin when walking.

Clinical Colic, purely neuralgic, with great restlessness and agony.

Rectum

      Burning. Urging all day; every evening.

Stool

      Diarrhoea threatened. Loose in morning, more difficult in evening. Soft, difficult Constipation. Hard; and the same day a small one; and large two days, next day H. and small; and light- colored, small, oblong, afterward a darker and larger one, then continuous desire, next day forced a large stool, which caused prolapsus ani. Large, next day none; L. and soft; and light- colored; frequent, one soft. Small, a second one softer. Light- colored. Difficult.

Urinary and Sexual Organs

      Micturition at 4.45 A.M. Burning in urethra during micturition; in morning, urine nearly neutral at 10 A.M., hot over-acid next day at night. Urine increased. Urine scanty in morning. Shooting in penis. Erection in afternoon; at night; at 4 A.M. after an emission. Pain in r. testicle. Emission early in morning, without dreams; E. about 4 A.M., then wakefulness; at night; in forepart of night. Amorousness.

Clinical Renal colic, passage of uric acid.

Chest

      Heaviness behind upper part of sternum, as from wind that cannot be eructated.

Pulse

      Steadied.

Back

      Pain on pressure at 11.45 P.M. Soreness about second dorsal vertebra at 5 P.M.

Extremities

      Pain in r. foot and wrist and l. toe, at 10 P.M.; r., elbow and l. knee, with stiffness; r. foot and back of l. hand at 11. 30 P.M., with heat of them; P. in r. arm as if marrow would be affected, changing its locating in the whole length from shoulder to finger ends, with paroxysmal paralyzed feeling in hands, pain r. great toe, pain at 6 P.M. around r,. fibula, (>) toe at 8 P.M., but appearing in r. hand, (<) metacarpal part, next to little finger.

Upper Extremities

      Pain in l. shoulder; in l. arm in the street, with flushing heat in l. and, then pain in middle and third fingers, later in second joint of l. thumb; above elbow, at insertion of triceps, at noon; in r. arm, running in all directions, with heaviness, soreness and tired sensation; dragging, in l. arm at 8 P.M., (>) 10 P.M. Tingling as from an electric current from l. elbow to fingers. Numbness of r. elbow. Pain in r. wrist, (<) writing, the P. lasted all the next day and evening, began third day at 10.30 A.M., with sore pain and with prickling running up to elbow, afterwards soreness of wrist. Weakness of l. hand. Pain in joint of l. thumb, (<) pressure.

Lower Extremities

      Drunk in his walk, but intellect unclouded, aware of his inability to control the movements of his legs. Numbness. Weakness; all day; in afternoon; in thighs as if unable to stand. Sticking in l. knee at 4 P.M. when walking. Pain in l. knee; making me limp; arthritic, in l. when walking; sharp intermittent, under patella, making me limp. Pain in r. calf; in lower part of r. calf in morning; in calves after bathing. Soreness of r. leg moved down to tendoachillis at 8 A.M., removed to l. sole. Heaviness of legs when walking. Pain in feet; l. foot and toe; r. sole; at outer and under border of l. foot and in r., great toe, with coldness of l. foot; r. instep, (<) sitting, (>) motion, with tingling; in toe; great toe; r. great toe at noon; arthritic, in first phalanges of r. toes at noon, also in l. when walking at 6 P.M. Sticking in end of l. toe on waking at 4.45 A.M.; in great toe when moving and walking.

Skin

      Covered as in leprosy with large scales, which fall off and leave white spots, and these often become ulcers. Dryness, especially where it is thick, as on hands and feet, with scales. Cracks and ulcers. Peculiar disease called arevarea. Painful hard swelling in lower corner of l. ear; red, painful hard welling in lower corner of l. ear; red, painful lump, threatening to become an abscess, on forehead above r. minor canthus, and on back.

Sleep

      Sleepiness; at 9 A.M.; afternoon and evening, with stupidity and frontal headache; at 10 P.M., soon afterwards liveliness and wakefulness; irresistible; Sleep in afternoon, laziness on waking, and sleepiness in evening. Hard sleep several times a day. Stupid S. Sound S. in afternoon. Heavy S., with disturbing but unremembered dreams. Sleepless; from 12 till 2.30 A.M.; at 4 P.M., after an emission, then sound sleep, next night wakeful after an emission till I got up for breakfast; latter part of night mind working on business problems, next morning tired feeling before and after rising; between 1 and 2 P.M., when he is usually sleepy. Difficult falling asleep. Restless sleep last part of night. Fragmentary sleep from 12.30 till 4.20 A.M., with varied and exciting dreams, then sleeplessness so that I had to get up at 4.30 A.M., did excitedly all kinds of unusual office work.

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.