PODOPHYLLUM


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Podophyllum from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Adapted to persons of bilious temperament, who suffer from gastro-intestinal derangement, especially after abuse of Mercury.

Sudden attacks of jerking pain.

depression of spirits; imagines he is going to die or be very ill.

Headache, alternating with diarrhoea.

Painless cholera morbus; violent cramps in feet, calves, thighs; watery, painless stools.

Difficult dentition; moaning; grinding the teeth at night; head hot and rolling from side to side.

Diarrhoea: of children; during teething; after eating; while being washed; dirty water soaking napkin through; early in morning, continues through forenoon, followed by natural stool in evening, and accompanied by sensation of sinking or weakness in abdomen and rectum.

Stool: green, watery, fetid, profuse; gushing out; chalk- like, jelly-like; undigested; yellow, meal-like sediment; prolapsus of rectum, before or with stool.

Prolapsus uteri; from overlifting or straining; after parturition.

In early months of pregnancy, can lie comfortably only on stomach.

Affects right side of throat, right ovary, right hypochondrium.

Leucorrhoea: discharge of thick, transparent mucus.

Fever, with violent pain in the head, and excessive thirst.

Sleep during perspiration.

Loquacity during chill and far into heat.

Heartburn, and water-brash, with heat in the stomach.

Chronic, painful, haemorrhoidal tumors.

Constipation alternating with diarrhoea.Fulness of the superficial veins.

Faintness, with the sensation of emptiness in the abdomen after stool.

Sleepiness in the daytime, especially in the forenoon, with rumbling in the bowels.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.