PAEONIA OFFICINALIS
Peony (PAEONIA)
The rectal and anal signs are most important. Chronic ulcers on decrease components of body, leg, foot, toe, additionally breast, rectum.
Head.–Rush of blood to head and face. Nervous. Vertigo when moving. Burning in eyes and ringing in ears.
Rectum.–Biting, itching in anus; orifice swollen. Burning in anus after stool; then inside chilliness. Fistula ani, diarrhoea, with anal burning and inner chilliness. Painful ulcer, oozing offensive moisture on perineum. Haemorrhoids, fissures, ulceration of anus and perineum, purple, protected with crusts. Atrocious pains with and after every stool. Sudden, pasty diarrhoea, with faintness in abdomen.
Chest.–Sticking ache in left chest. Heat in chest. Dull capturing from the front to returned thru heart.
Extremities.–Pain in wrist and fingers; knees and toes. Weakness of legs, inhibiting walking.
Sleep.–Terrifying dreams, nightmare.
Skin.–Sensitive, painful. Ulcers beneath coccyx, round sacrum; varicose veins. Ulcers in general, from pressure, bedsores, etc. Itching, burning, as from nettles.
Relationship.–Compare: Glechoma-Ground Ivy–(rectal symptom). Hamam; Sil; Aesc; Ratanh (great constriction of anus; stools compelled with extraordinary effort).
Antidotes: Ratanh; Aloe.
Dose.–Third potency.
