POLYGONUM HYDROPIPEROIDES
Hydropiper - Smartweed
By William Boericke โ Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
(POLYGONUM PUNCTATUM)
Metrorrhagia, also Amenorrhลa in young girls. Varicosis ; hรฆmorrhoids and rectal pockets. Burning in stomach followed by feeling of coldness in the pit of the stomach.
Abdomen
Griping pain, with great rumbling, nausea, and liquid feces. Flatulent colic .
Rectum
Interior of anus studded with itching eminence. Hรฆmorrhoids . Liquid feces.
Urinary
Painful constriction at neck of bladder.
Female
Aching pains in hips and loins. Sensation as if hips were being drawn together . Sensation of weight and tension within pelvis. Shooting pains through breasts. Amenorrhลa.
Skin
Superficial ulcers and sores on lower extremities , especially in females at climacteric.
Relationship
Compare: Carduus mar (ulcers); Hamam; Senecio; Polygonum persicaria (renal colic and calculi; gangrene ); Polygonum sagitatum -arrow-leaved. Tear-thumb--(2x for pains of nephritic colic ; suppurative nephritis; lancinating pains along spine; itching of hard palate; burning inner side of right foot and ankle. C. M. Boger); Polygonum aviculare -knot-grass--(in material doses of tincture, found useful in phthisis pulmonalis and intermittent fever, and especially in arterio-sclerosis . Erythema).
Dose
Tincture.