Eupatorium perfoliatum

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Including E. perfoliatum, L., and E. purpureum, L. Nat. Ord., Composite. Eupatorium perfoliatum, bone-set, ague-weed, thorough-wort. I. Provings.-1. WILLIAMSON. (No informationgiven.) Headache, with sense ofsoreness internally, better in house, aggravated on first going into open air, relieved by conversation; pain extending from forehead into occiput, greatest in 1. side ; beating pain in nape and occiput, better on rising; darting pains through temples, with sensationofblood rushing across head; heat on top of head, with pain, which is relieved by pressure ; soreness of eyeballs ; redness of margins of lids, with glutinous secretion from meibomian glands ; increased lachrymation; flushed face; redness of cheeks, with dry skin ; paleness of mucous membrane of mouth ; tongue covered with white fur; dryness of throat; insipid taste in mouth; loss of appetite; distaste for food; nocturnal thirst for something cold; thirst for cold water ; desire for icecream; belching of tasteless wind, with feeling of obstruction at pit of stomach ; sensation of something in stomach that ought to come up, without ability to raise it; general shuddering, proceeding from stomach ; sense of fulness in stomach; beating at epigastrium in n.; heat in stomach ; nausea and vomiting of food; vomiting preceded by thirst; distressing disposition to vomit; nausea and vomiting, with free perspiration and copious expectoration; qualmishness from odours, as smell of food cooking; tight clothing is oppressive; soreness and fulness in region of liver; tightness in 1. hypochondrium ; purging stools, with smarting and heat in anus ; tenesmus, with a small loose evacuation; 4 or 5 watery stools in d.; urine scanty and high coloured; copious evacuation of limpid urine; dark-coloured clear urine. Hacking cough in e.; cough, with soreness and heat in bronchiæ ; cough, aggravated in e.; aching pain under 1. breast; inability to lie on 1. side; soreness in chest, from taking a full inspiration; grating sensation in chest at every full inspiration ; weakness in small of back; deep-seated pain in loins, with soreness from motion; pain inback, as from a bruise; beating pain in nape; stiffness of arms; painful soreness in both wrists, as if broken or dislocated ; stiffness of fingers, with obtuseness of sense of touch; pain with extreme sensitiveness in 1. glutei muscles, passing round infront of trochanter major ; pain (increasedby standing) and soreness of upper part of 1. foot, with increased sensibility of1. big toe; stiffness and general soreness of lower extremities when rising to walk; pain in first joint of 1. great toe, which suddenly moves to corresponding joint of r. one; pricking in soles of feet; aching in r. hip, while sitting ; heat in soles in m.; chilliness through n., and in m. with nausea, from least motion; aching pain and soreness, as from having been beaten, in calves of legs, small of back, and in arms above and below elbows ; aching in bones of extremities, with soreness of flesh; chilliness, with excessive trembling and nausea; chilliness in m., heat through rest of d., but no perspiration ; nocturnal sweat, with chilliness from movement or removal of covering; alternate chilliness and flashes of heat. (Mat. Med. of Amer. Provings.)

Volume IV — Appendix

EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM.

(See vol. ii, p. 554.)

II. I. A gentleman, who drank a few teaspoonfuls of a tea pre{»i«i from £., had an attack early in m. as of whirling around in the bnin« or, as he described it, " as if he had been placed in a coal jcrccn^^ and whirled around 2 or 3 times, repeated after a short cessation. (Jbanes, Hahn. Monthly ^ iii, 151.)