Eupatorium perfoliatum

as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899

Thoroughwort

This is one author on one remedy. The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours. Read Eupatorium perfoliatum in every book at once →

Keynotes

Boneset. Compositce

Adapted to diseases of old people; worn-out constitutions, especially from inebriety; cachexia, from prolonged or frequent attacks of bilious or intermittent fevers.

Bruised feeling, as if broken, all over the body

(Arn., Bellis, Pyr.).

Bone pains affecting back, head, chest, limbs, especially the wrists, as if dislocated. The more general and severe, the better adapted (compare, Bry., Mer.).

Painful soreness of eyeballs; coryza, aching in every bone; great prostration in epidemic influenza (Lac c.).

Pains come quickly and go away as quickly (Bell., Mag. p., Eup. pur.).

Vertigo; sensation as if falling to the left (cannot turn the head to the left for fear of falling. Col.).

Cough : chronic ; loose with hectic ; chest sore, must support it with hands (Bry., Nat. c.) ; < at night; following measles or suppressed intermittents.

Fever: chill, to 9 a. m. one day, at noon the next day ; bitter vomiting at close of chill ; drinking hastens chill and causes vomiting; bone pains, before and during chill.

Insatiable thirst before and during chill and fever; knows chill is coming because he cannot drink enough.

Relations. — Is followed well: by, Nat. m. and Sep.

Compare : Chel., Pod., Lyc., in jaundiced conditions.

Bryonia is the nearest analogue, having free sweat, but pains keep patient quiet; while Eup. has scanty sweat and pains make patient restless.

What the other books say about Eupatorium perfoliatum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Eupatorium perfoliatum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Eupatorium perfoliatum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Eupatorium perfoliatum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Eupatorium perfoliatum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

Search every book at once, take rubrics from Kent and Bönninghausen, and practise on a patient who answers back — free account.

Create a free account

← Every remedy in Allen's Keynotes

Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Eupatorium perfoliatum — Keynotes, pp. 122–123. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/eupatorium-perfoliatum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.