Eupionum

Wood-tar distillation

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(EUPION)

Marked female symptoms, and backache. A remedy for uterine displacements . Pain in back, followed by a bland leucorrhœa. Menses too early and copious; flow thin. Intense sweat from slightest exertion . Disgusting dreams. Sensation as if whole body were made of jelly.

Head

Vertigo; everything turns round on sitting up in bed. Heat at vertex; stitches from vertex down limbs into abdomen and genitals. Sore painful spots on head. Painful pulsation in forehead.

Female

Burning in right ovary. Gushing leucorrhœa . Chronic tubal disease. Uterine flexions. Menses too early and copious. During menses, irritable and disinclined to talk; burning and stitches in chest and heart. After menses, yellow leucorrhœa, with severe backache . When pain in back ceases, the discharge gushes out. Sore pain between labia during urination. Pruritus pudendi; labia swollen.

Extremities

Cramps in the calves ; worse at night.

Back

Sacrum pains, as if broken. Severe backache; must lean against something for support. Pains extended into pelvis.

Relationship

Kreosot; Graph; Lach .

Dose

Third potency.

Eupionum across the other classic books

Eupionum appears in 4 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“On distilling wood-tar a volatile oil is obtained, which separates into a lighter and heavier oil; the heavier oil is Kreasote , the lighter Eupion. Formula Preparation , ? Authority. Symptoms, by Dr. Wahle, from "self, sons, daughters, from Dr. Bertoldi, and others, in Rome," Int. Hom. Press, v, p. 91. (Communicated…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“On distilling wood tar a volatile oil is obtained, which separates into a lighter and heavier oil; the heavier oil is Kreasote, the lighter is Eupion. C 5 H 12 . Amenorrhœa / Cough / Cramps / Dreams / Epistaxis / Glandular swellings / Groins, pain in / Hæmorrhages / Headache / Leucorrhœa / Menorrhagia / Neuralgia /…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Colliquative perspiration. Perspires from the least exertion; when eating; all night (with tuberculosis).”

Eupionum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Eupionum in 421 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (83), HEAD (51), ABDOMEN (45), BACK (36), FEMALE GENITALIA (23).

PERSPIRATION - COLLIQUATIVE
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Sides - left - above crest of ilium
BACK - PAIN - extending to - pelvis
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - menses, - during - intermits,when flow
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - burning - urinating, - while
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Sides - left
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Leg - calf - bed,in
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting - menses, - during
BACK - PAIN - broken - as if - Sacrum
BACK - PAIN - rising from sitting - stooping
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - burning - Ovaries
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Leg - calf - night
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - menses - after
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - burning
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - stitching - Forearm
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - yellow
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - copious
PERSPIRATION - EXERTION - during slight
GENERALITIES - CONVULSIONS
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA

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