POLYGONUM HYDROPIPEROIDES
Hydropiper – Smartweed (POLYGONUM PUNCTATUM)
Metrorrhagia, additionally Amenorrhoea in younger girls. Varicosis; haemorrhoids and rectal pockets. Burning in belly accompanied through feeling of coldness in the pit of the stomach.
Abdomen.–Griping pain, with first-rate rumbling, nausea, and liquid feces. Flatulent colic.
Rectum.–Interior of anus studded with itching eminence. Haemorrhoids. Liquid feces.
Urinary.–Painful constriction at neck of bladder.
Female.–Aching pains in hips and loins. Sensation as if hips had been being drawn together. Sensation of weight and anxiety inside pelvis. Shooting pains via breasts. Amenorrhoea.
Skin.–Superficial ulcers and sores on decrease extremities, particularly in girls at climacteric.
Relationship.–Compare: Carduus mar (ulcers); Hamam; Senecio; Polygonum persicaria (renal colic and calculi; gangrene); Polygonum sagitatum-arrow-leaved. Tear-thumb–(2x for pains of nephritic colic; suppurative nephritis; lancinating pains alongside spine; itching of challenging palate; burning internal aspect of proper foot and ankle. C. M. Boger); Polygonum aviculare-knot-grass–(in cloth doses of tincture, observed beneficial in phthisis pulmonalis and intermittent fever, and in particular in arterio-sclerosis. Erythema).
Dose.–Tincture.