• Bony pains violent, aching; bone breaking pains
• Soreness and bruised feeling as if broken, all over the body (Arn, Bell, Pyrog)
• Great thirst for cold water but after drinking, vomiting of bile
• Anticipatory chill; knows chill is coming because he cannot drink enough
• Perspiration ameliorates all complaints except headache
• Marked periodicity
• Intermittent fever preceded by thirst, with great soreness and aching in the bones

Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Boneset, Thoroughwort
Family: Compositae

Preparation and Parts Used: Tincture is prepared from the flowering tops.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): Spinal cord, vagi, intestines, lungs, skin (Sudoriparous glands).

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

1. On the spinal cord it produces paralytic hyperaesthesia.
2. It acts on the vagi producing excessive nausea and bilious vomiting.
3. Acts on the intestines producing excessive hyper-catharsis.
4. It acts on the lungs producing congestion and catarrhal inflammation.
5. It acts on the skin (sudoriferous glands) and produces copious diaphoresis.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Moaning, groaning with chill and restlessness; nervous with heat.
2. Fear of losing reason.
3. Delusion that she will go insane or going out of his mind.
4. Homesickness; nostalgia; desire to go home.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

1. Febrile illness like malaria, influenza in miasmatic districts, marshy areas and river banks.
2. Violent, aching, bone breaking pains, cannot lie in bed. Moans and cries with pains. Muscles of chest, back and limbs feel bruised, sore, achy; after febrile illness like malaria and influenza.
3. VERY RESTLESS; cannot keep still, although there is a great desire to do so and is not ameliorated by motion.
4. Marked periodicity (Ars, Chin, Cedr).
5. May help relive pain in acute fractures (Symph, Bry, Arn) (Morrison).

Important Characteristic Features

Head: Throbbing pain. Pressure as if a cap of lead pressed over the whole skull. Vertigo; sensation of falling to the LEFT. Vomiting of bile. Top and back of head painful; SORENESS OF EYEBALLS. Periodical headache, every third and seventh day. OCCIPITAL PAIN AFTER LYING DOWN, WITH SENSE OF WEIGHT

Mouth: Cracks at corners of mouth; yellow coated tongue; thirst.

Stomach: Tongue yellow. Taste bitter. Hepatic region sore. Great thirst. Vomiting and purging of bile, of green liquid, several quarts at a time. Vomiting preceded by thirst. HICCOUGH (Sul-ac, Hydr-ac). Avoids tight clothing.

Stool: Frequent, green, watery. Cramps. Constipated, with a sore liver.

Respiratory: Coryza with sneezing. HOARSENESS AND COUGH WITH SORENESS IN THE CHEST; must support it. INFLUENZA with great Soreness of muscles and bones. CHRONIC loose cough, chest sore; WORSE AT NIGHT. Cough relieved by getting on hands and knees.

Fever: Perspiration relieves all symptoms except headache. Chill between 7 and 9 am, PRECEDED BY THIRST WITH GREAT SORENESS AND ACHING OF BONES. Nausea, vomiting of bile at close of chill or hot stage; throbbing headache. Knows chill is coming on because he cannot drink enough.

Extremities: ACHING PAIN IN BACK. ACHING IN BONES OF EXTREMITIES WITH SORENESS OF FLESH. ACHING IN ARMS AND WRISTS. Swelling of left great toe. Gouty soreness and inflamed nodosities of joints, associated with headache. Dropsical swelling.

General Modalities

Aggravation: Cold air, periodically, 7-9 am, third or fourth day, lying on part affected, coughing, sight and smell of food, motion, night, morning.

Amelioration: Vomiting of bile, conversation, lying on face, Sweating (except in headache).

Remedy Relationships

Follows well: Nat-m, Sep, Tub.

Comparison

Bryonia alba: Bry is the nearest analogue, but Bry has free sweat and the pains keep the patient quiet. However in Eup-per, there is scanty sweat but the pains make the patient restless.

Nyctanthes arbor tristis: Bilious fever; insatiable thirst; bitter vomiting at close of chill; also constipation of children.

Potency: 3x, 6x, 12x, 30, 200, 1000.

Quotations

Asthma ameliorated by knee-elbow position – Dr George Pettit

Therapeutic Value: Bone pains, Cachexia, Cough, Fevers, Headache, Hiccough, Hoarseness, Influenza, Lumbago, Malaria.