Materia Medica de A a Z

PENTHORUM SEDOIDES (pen)

A remedy for coryza, with rawness and wet feeling in nose. Throat feels raw. Chronic disorders of mucous membranes, with irritability. Chronic post-nasal catarrh; chronic pharyngitis, mucous membrane purple and relaxed. Posterior nares feel moist and raw; nose and ears feel full. Aphonia, hoarseness, relaxed vocal cords. Hypersecretion of mucous membranes. Itching of anus and burning in rectum. Trouble in pharyngeal vault and Eustachian tube.

Nose

CONSTANT WET FEELING IN NOSE, which no amount of blowing will relieve. Discharge thick, pus-like, streaked with blood. POST-NASAL CATARRH of puberty.

Dose

Not very active, and better adapted to chronic affections; its use should be persisted in for some time. Lower potencies.

Relationship

Compare: Penthororun often follows Puls. Sang; Hydr.