Homeopathy Remedy Polyporus Officinalis


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


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Generalities

      Shuddering, nervous rather than from chilliness. Tonic effects, afterwards enervating. Aching in all joints of body and limbs; rheumatic and neuralgic pains; sudden, sharp, momentary pain in r. wrist, where the pulse is felt, extending two inches up the artery, when riding, soon in r. shoulder-joint, thence outward to deltoid, at 2 P.M., when writing, the same pain above elbow and external of biceps, then on internal side of l. knee, at 9 P.M. in inner border of r. foot, then in r. arm, and then in l. side of neck. Malaise. Weakness; with depression and disinclination to physical or mental exertion; with aching in all large joints; with uneasiness. Amelioration after 2 P.M.

Mind

      Despondent; and morose. Dullness.

Head

      Aching; in morning on. waking, lasting all day,, stooping or shaking head, with soreness in brain; all night; (<) motion;(>) eructations. with nausea; and in jaws and teeth; semi-lateral. Dullness. Fulness. Light; in morning, with hollow feeling and deep frontal pain; light dizzy feeling. Twinge over l. brow. Pain in forehead; deep; all day; at 8 A.M., (<) walking; in evening;, (<)waking; motion; oppressive, in F. and temples all day; deep drawing, with frequent nausea and cutting in epigastrium; heavy, at night, (<) motion. heavy, through F. and temples. Heaviness in forehead. Dullness in forehead. Tightness across forehead, with headache; in evening. Frequent cutting in temples. Pain in temples; lacerating, in r. at 9.30 P.M.; sharp; neuralgic; neuralgic in l.; neuralgic, in temples, face and teeth. Aching soreness through temples.

Eyes and Face

      Pain in eyeballs; deep drawing. Face bluish.

Mouth

      Teeth felt as if being forced out. Soreness of gums; and of teeth. Tongue coated white; coated yellow; coated light brown; red at tip, coated yellow at base; yellow; pricking in end. Taste bitter; and sweet; and flat; and coppery; T. coppery; flat metallic or coppery; sweetish, nauseous.

Throat

      Rawness all the afternoon and evening, with scraping. Feeling in fauces as if I should vomit, but no nausea.

Stomach

      Appetite invigorated. Desire for sour things, which always relieved the symptoms. Little appetite; for breakfast; for dinner; lost; lost for supper. Thirst. Acid eructations, with heartburn. Nausea; (<) throat and fauces; frequent, but momentary; with loose stool. Vomiting of a bitter, sour, watery fluid.

Cutting, and in abdomen; in epigastrium, waking at midnight, next night waking at 5 A.M., with distress in umbilicus and urging to stool. Cutting lancinating pain. Sharp pain during the day, with almost constant borborygmus; S. pain in epigastrium, all day, (<) walking, with deep distress in it and dull pain in r. hypochondrium. Pain; in epigastrium; in l. epigastric region and in region of spleen. Burning pain, with dragging pain in hypochondrium. Burning distress in epigastrium and r. hypochondrium; in region of S. and liver, extending to umbilicus, (<) 10 A.M., with urging to stool, continues after stool. Burning in epigastrium. Coldness, then burning. Feeling of a lump in it in evening.

Abdomen

      Rumbling. Emission of flatus; fetid in evening. Much flatus in A., with feeling as before diarrhoea. Cutting before stools. Lacerating pains here and there at 3 P.M., then located for an hour in hypogastrium. with inclination to stools, at 9.40 P.M. (after stool) in hypogastrium extending to r. hypochondrium. Pain; all night; on tough. Uneasiness; at night; from increased vermicular action; with diarrhoea; as before stool. Sensation as before diarrhoea.

Hypochondria. Stabbing pain in r. lobe of liver and in lower dorsal region on full inspiration. Sharp pain in region of spleen; and liver and abdomen. Pain in liver; r. lobe of liver, lower part of epigastrium and upper part of umbilicus; r. lobe of liver and in umbilicus, with urging to stool. Dragging in r.; in region of r. lobe of liver; in r. lobe of liver at night. Heavy drawing pain in region of r. lobe of liver. extending through to dorsal region. Heavy pain in region of r. lobe of liver after morning stool. Distress in r. and in umbilicus. Burning distress all the afternoon in region of gall-bladder, with heavy aching in it and cutting in epigastrium and hypochondrium.

Umbilical Region. Cutting in umbilicus. Sharp pain before stool; S. pain in U. and hypogastric regions. Pain; all day, and in region of transverse and descending colon. Distress; and in hypogastric region, with desire for stool; between stomach and umbilicus all day, with faintness and fever. Uneasiness in subumbilical region, with inclination to stool (an, hour after the usual morning stool), during the stool shooting on each, side of umbilicus, towards iliac, then to floor of pelvis, in a ring around rectum.

Hypogastrium. Pain; in morning; in region of transverse and descending colon; burning, in region of transverse colon. Sudden distress, then light-colored papescent stools. Uneasiness all day, as before diarrhoea.

Rectum and Anus

      Pain in anus. Discomfort about anus, (<) 1 P.M. Desire for stool, with pain in anus; with much flatulence. Disposition to strain when at stool.

Stool

      Watery, copious, with pains; W., copious forcible, frequent. Mixed with water and contained undigested food. Loose, painful; L., with nausea; L., at 6 A.M., mushy and mixed with mucus at 6 P.M., next (third) day mushy at 5 A.M., then heavy aching in region of r. lobe of liver, after 8 P.M. dark stool mixed with bile and mucus, then aching in dorsal region extending to shoulders, fourth day at 6 A.M. black, mixed with bile and mucus, before it voided a drachm of white mucus, after. 8 A.M. a stream of bile, mucus and black facial matter, then burning distress inn region of stomach and liver extending to umbilicus, at 10 A.M. copious stool of water and back fecal matter, then desire to strain, then the same symptoms as before, filth morning hard, black, lumpy stool mixed with bile and mucus, at 1 P.M.. soft, black felt, then distress between stomach and navel, sixth morning, dark, papescent at 9 A.M. mushy, with distress in region of liver and small intestines, at 6 P.M. papescent, then a teaspoonful of blood with tenesmus, Mushy, copious, then uneasiness in umbilical regain, next day scanty stool.

Constipation. Dry stool; and lumpy the first part of the day, but in evening watery, yellow and frequent; and lumpy, dark, then stools mixed with bile and mucus, stools mixed with blood, stools thin and yellow. Contained something like drops of oil, clear and white. Dark, once to three times day. Two in morning. Copious. Scanty.

Urinary and Sexual Organs

      Frequent desire to urinate. Frequent micturition; at night; and profuse, pale; of high-colored urine, with pain in region of kidneys. Urine increased: and light-colored. Urine scanty and high-colored. Sharp pain in glans penis at 10 P.M. after getting into bed.

Chest and Pulse

      Darting pain in l. lung, with suffocating feeling, causing me to rise in bed. Pain in l. lung; extending through l. scapula; P. in ribs, (<) motion. Piercing pain in region of heart, (<) motion. Pulse rapid; at night; and full, wiry; and full, soft.

Neck and Back

      Drawing pain in l. side of neck at 10 P.M. after getting into bed. Pain in back; at 5 P.M., with stiffness; with stiffness; and in hips; and in limbs; drawing P. through back and legs; rheumatic P. in spine and limbs. Shooting between scapulae, extending up nape, then soreness of occipital region, with disposition to throw head back. Aching in lumbar region; all day; at night; with weakness of it; and in dorsal region.

Extremities

      Pain inn all joints; in afternoon; P. in arms and legs; in arms and hands. Rheumatic pain in all joints; and limbs. Weakness of arms legs. Drawing in r. upper arm at 10 P.M. after getting into bed. Lancinations in hip-joint. Pain in thighs and bends of knees; in feet and ankles; in knee and ankles, (<) motion. Rheumatic pains in shin-bones, (<) walking. Weakness of knees.

Skin

      Itching over whole body. (<) between scapulae and on forearms.

Sleep

      Disposition to yawn and stretch; with chilliness. Restless; and disturbed by dreams. Much dreaming. Frightful dreams of water.

Fever

      Chilliness; all night, and fever; in open air, with coldness of nose; then fever and sweat; then pain in hypogastrium, then in hypochondria. Coldness of nose; between shoulders; lone spine, with hot flashes and disposition to yawn and stretch; creeping along spine, intermingled with hot flashes; creeping up back to nape, (<) between scapulae; cold hands and feet. Heat all day and night; H. on waking at 1 A.M. Face hot and flushed. Skin hot and dry. Heat and dryness of hands; nd feet, also at night; of palms. Sweat all night; at midnight on waking.

Clinical This remedy has been used for chills and fever, characterized by rush of blood to the head, vertigo, prickly sensation in the face which is hot and flushed; chill, with darting pain in the back and limbs, heat with headache and flushed face, perspiration not profuse; rarely any thirst; during the apyrexia, disordered liver, jaundice, headache, constipation, etc.; especially adapted to chronic cases.

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.