Materia Medica de A a Z

POLYGONUM HYDROPIPEROIDES AUT PUNCTATUM = HYDROPIPER (polyg-h)

Metrorrhagia, also Amenorrhoea in young girls. VARICOSIS; haemorrhoids and rectal pockets. Burning in stomach followed by feeling of coldness in the pit of the stomach.

Abdomen

Griping pain, with great rumbling, nausea, and liquid feces. FLATULENT COLIC.

Rectum

Interior of anus studded with itching eminence. HAEMORRHOIDS. Liquid feces.

Urinary

Painful constriction at neck of bladder.

Female

Aching pains in hips and loins. SENSATION AS IF HIPS WERE BEING DRAWN TOGETHER. Sensation of weight and tension within pelvis. Shooting pains through breasts. Amenorrhoea.

Skin

SUPERFICIAL ULCERS AND SORES ON LOWER EXTREMITIES, especially in females at climacteric.

Relationship

Compare: Carduus mar (Card-m) (ulcers); Ham; Senecio (Senec); Polygonum persicaria (Polyg-pe) (renal colic and calculi; GANGRENE); Polygonum sagitatum (Polyg-s) - arrow-leaved. Tear-thumb — (2x for PAINS OF NEPHRITIC COLIC; suppurative nephritis; lancinating pains along spine; itching of hard palate; burning inner side of right foot and ankle. C. M. Boger); Polygonum aviculare (Polyg-a) - knot-grass — (in material doses of tincture, found useful in phthisis pulmonalis and intermittent fever, and especially in ARTERIO-SCLEROSIS. Erythema).

Dose

Tincture.