Polygonum


Dr. S.R. Phatak describes the clinically confirmed symptoms of the homeopathic remedy Polygonum in his Concise Materia Medica, published in 1977….


Generalities

      Acts upon the genito-urinary organs and the intestines; causing CUTTING PAINS; along the ureters; along ovarian ducts; up spine; with bearing down. Pulsating, flashing; wandering pains; in prostate. Coldness alternating or coincides with heat in the same or other part; burning in chest with cold feeling in pit of stomach, etc. Smarting discharges.

Worse

      Cold; damp. Pressure of clothes.

Head

      Acute pulsative pains in temples.

Eyes

      Puffiness under eyes (right). Lids twitch when closed and when lying down.

Ears

      Acute pain in, on bending head down better bending backwards.

Face

      Coldness in right face, when pain is most severe in left.

Mouth

      Itching, burning palate; wants to scratch it. Tongue feels swollen.

Abdomen

      Cold feeling in stomach, with burning in chest. Nausea felt in. Cutting pains with great rumbling; as if whole intestinal contents were in a fluid state. Interior of anus studded with itching eminences. Haemorrhoids, with itching.

Urinary

      Nephritic colic; with grinding, griping, cutting. BELLYACHE. Cutting pain along ureters. Urine scanty; dribbling; dark or calcareous, adherent sediment. Nephritis; suppurative. Cystitis.

Male

      Scrotum excoriated. Pulsating, burning pain in prostate on urinating. Pain in testes, spermatic cord when urinating.

Female

      Cutting pain along the Fallopian tubes, with bearing down. As if hips were drawn together. Metrorrhagia; amenorrhoea, in young girls. Shooting pains through the breasts.

Extremities

      Aching lower limbs. Sore pains in heels. Feet alternately hot and cold.

Skin

      Urticaria. Superficial ulcers and sores on lower limbs; at climacteric.

Related

      Calcarea

S.R. Phatak
A pioneer of Homoeopathy in Maharashtra, Dr Shankar Raghunath Phatak was born on 6th September, 1896. He did his MBBS from Grant Medical College, in 1924. Started his practice but somehow not satisfied with Allopathic Treatment.

He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.

He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.