Eupatorium Purpureum

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Bones-breaking pains. Urinary stream smaller.

Eupatorium Purpureum across the other classic books

Eupatorium Purpureum appears in 6 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.
“Eupatorium purpureum, Linn. Natural order , Compositæ. Common names , Joe Pye Weed, Trumpet Weed (Queen of the Meadow). Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authority. Mrs. Dresser's provings with the tincture taken every eight hours, increasing from 10 to 60 drops at a dose, Hale's New Remedies, 2d edition. The mind…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Queen of the Meadow Albuminuria, diabetes, strangury, irritable bladder , enlarged prostate are a special field for this remedy. Excellent in renal dropsy. Chills and pains run upwards. Impotency and sterility. Homesickness. Left-sided headache with vertigo . Pain from left shoulder to occiput. Sick headache beginning…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Joe Pye Weed. Trumpet Weed. Gravel root. Queen of the Meadow. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of the root. Albuminuria / Calculi / Cystitis / Diabetes / Dropsy / Enuresis / Gravel / Headache / Home-sickness / Hysteria / Impotence / Indigestion / Intermittent fever / Renal colic / Rheumatism / Sciatica / Strangury / Throat…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Queen of the Meadow. Compositæ. An old Indian medicine, used by herb doctors, particularly in gravel and other diseases of the kidney and bladder. Proved by Mrs. H. H. Dresser, whose excellent proving appears in full in Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 237 . For a full arrangement of the symptoms see Hering's…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“From the provings made by Dr. Dresser and his wife this remedy ought to be a good one for urinary diseases. And Dr. Hughes says: “The drug has become my favorite remedy for vesical irritability in women.” I have not yet tried it in such cases; but I have done some good work with it in intermittents, when the chill…”

Eupatorium Purpureum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Eupatorium Purpureum in 237 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in BLADDER (34), EXTREMITIES (23), HEAD (19), BACK (17), URINE (15).

EXTREMITIES - PAIN - gnawing - Hip
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill) - extending - up and down the back
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill) - Lumbar region
CHILL - TERTIAN
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - ineffectual
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill)
BACK - PAIN - aching
BACK - PAIN
BLADDER - PAIN - burning - standing agg.
BLADDER - PAIN - smarting - standing agg.
BLADDER - PAIN - cold,from taking
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - chill - before
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill) - motion
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - frequent - cold,from taking
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Leg - fever during
BLADDER - ULCERATION
CHILL - BEGINNING in and extending from - back - lumbar region
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Leg - morning
CHILL - QUARTAN - double
HEAD - PULSATING,beating,throbbing - Occiput - sides of

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Eupatorium Purpureum across the other classic books

Eupatorium Purpureum appears in 6 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.

“Eupatorium purpureum, Linn. Natural order , Compositæ. Common names , Joe Pye Weed, Trumpet Weed (Queen of the Meadow). Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authority. Mrs. Dresser's provings with the tincture taken every eight hours, increasing from 10 to 60 drops at a dose, Hale's New Remedies, 2d edition. The mind…”

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.

“Queen of the Meadow Albuminuria, diabetes, strangury, irritable bladder , enlarged prostate are a special field for this remedy. Excellent in renal dropsy. Chills and pains run upwards. Impotency and sterility. Homesickness. Left-sided headache with vertigo . Pain from left shoulder to occiput. Sick headache beginning…”

Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.

“Joe Pye Weed. Trumpet Weed. Gravel root. Queen of the Meadow. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of the root. Albuminuria / Calculi / Cystitis / Diabetes / Dropsy / Enuresis / Gravel / Headache / Home-sickness / Hysteria / Impotence / Indigestion / Intermittent fever / Renal colic / Rheumatism / Sciatica / Strangury / Throat…”

Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.

“Queen of the Meadow. Compositæ. An old Indian medicine, used by herb doctors, particularly in gravel and other diseases of the kidney and bladder. Proved by Mrs. H. H. Dresser, whose excellent proving appears in full in Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 237 . For a full arrangement of the symptoms see Hering's…”

Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.

“From the provings made by Dr. Dresser and his wife this remedy ought to be a good one for urinary diseases. And Dr. Hughes says: “The drug has become my favorite remedy for vesical irritability in women.” I have not yet tried it in such cases; but I have done some good work with it in intermittents, when the chill…”