Introduction
Eupatorium perfoliatum, bone set, ague – weed, thorough – wort.
Provings
I. WILLIAMSON. (No information given.) Headache with sense of soreness internally, better in house, aggravated on first going into open air, relieved by conversation; pain extending from forehead into occiput, greatest in left side; beating pain in nape and occiput, better on rising; darting pains through temples; with sensation of blood 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 night; 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 odorous, as smell of food cooking; tight clothing is oppressive; soreness and fulness in region of liver; toughness in left hypochondrium; purging stools, with smarting and heat in anus; tenesmus, with a small loose evacuation; 4 or 5 watery stools in day; urine scanty and high coloured; copious evacuation of limpid urine; dark-coloured clear urine. Hacking cough in evening; cough with soreness and heat in bronchiae; cough, aggravated in evening; aching pain under left breast; inability to lie on left 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 in back, as from a bruise; beating pain in nape; stiffens of arms; painful soreness in both wrists as if broken or dislocated; stiffness of fingers, with obtuseness os sense of touch; pain with extreme sensitiveness in left glutei muscle, passing round in front of trochanter major; pain (increased by standing) and soreness or upper part of left foot, with increased sensibility of left big toe; stiffness and general soreness of lower extremities when rising to walk; pain in first joint of left great toe, which suddenly moves to corresponding joints of right one; pricking in soles of feet; aching in right hip, while sitting; heat in soles in morning; chilliness through night, and in morning with nausea, form 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 morning, heat through rest of day, but no perspiration; nocturnal sweat, with chilliness from movement or removal of covering; alternate chilliness and flashes of heat. (Mat. med. of amer. Provings).