Phellandrium Aquaticum
Water Dropwort
by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
(PHELLANDRIUM)
The respiratory symptoms are most important, and have been frequently verified clinically. A very good remedy for the offensive expectoration and cough in phthisis , bronchitis, and emphysema. Tuberculosis, affecting generally the middle lobes. Everything tastes sweet . Hæmoptysis, hectic and colliquative diarrhœa.
Head
Weight on vertex; aching and burning in temples and above eyes . Crushing feeling in vertex. Vertigo, dizzy when lying down.
Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia; worse any attempt to use eyes: burning in eyes. Lachrymation. Cannot bear light. Headache; involving nerves going to eye.
Female
Pain in milk ducts ; intolerable between nursing. Pain in nipples.
Chest
Sticking pain through right breast near sternum, extending to back near shoulders . Dyspnœa, and continuous cough, early in morning. Cough, with profuse and fetid expectoration; compels him to sit up. Hoarseness.
Fever
Hectic; profuse and debilitating perspiration; intermittent, with pain in arms. Desire for acids.
Extremities
Tired feeling when walking.
Relationship
Compare: Con; Phyt; Sil; Ant iod; Myosotis arvensis .
Dose
Tincture, to sixth potency. In phthisis not below the sixth.