Materia Medica de A a Z

POLYPORUS PINICOLA (polyp-p)

Useful in intermittent, remittent and bilious fevers, with headache, yellow tongue, constant nausea, faintness at epigastrium, and constipation. Similar to its botanical relative, polyp officinalis (Bol-la), or Boletus laricis, q.v.. Deep dull, severe pain in shin bones, preventing sleep.

Fever

Great lassitude, congestion of head, with vertigo, face hot and flushed, prickling sensation all over; restless at night from pain in wrists and knee; rheumatic pains; profuse perspiration. Headache about 10 am, with pain in back, ankles and legs increasing until 3 pm, then gradually better.