Podophyllum peltatum

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

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Keynotes

May Apple. Berberidaceae.

Adapted to persons of bilious temperament who suffer from gastro-intestinal derangement, especially after abuse of mercury; ‘‘bilious attacks.”

Thirst for large quantities of cold water (Bry. ).

Pains: sudden shocks of jerking pains.

Depression of spirits, imagines he is going to die or be very ill (Ars.) ; disgust for life.

Headache alternates with diarrhoea (Aloe) ; headache in winter, diarrhoea in summer.

Painless cholera morbus; cholera infantum (Phyt. ).

Violent cramps in feet, calves, thighs; watery, painless stools.

Difficult dentition : moaning, grinding the teeth at night; intense desire to press the gums together (Phyt.) ; head hot and rolling from side to side (Bell., Hell.).

Diarrhoea: of long standing; early in morning, continues through forenoon, followed by natural stool in evening (Aloe), and accompanied by sensation of weakness or sinking in abdomen or rectum.

Diarrhoea of children: during teething; after eating; while being bathed or washed; of dirty water soaking napkin through (Benz. ac. ) ; with gagging.

Stool: green, watery, fetid, profuse (Calc.); gushing out (Gamb., Jat., Phos. ); chalk-like, jelly-like (Aloe) ; undigested (Cinch., Ferr. ) ; yellow meal-like sediment; prolapse of rectum before or with stool.

Prolapsus uteri : frozn overlifting or straining; from constipation ; after parturition ; with subinvolution.

In early months of pregnancy, can, lie comfortably only on stomach (Acet. ac. ).

Patient is constantly rubbing and shaking the region of liver with his hand.

Fever paroxysm at 7 a. m., with great loquacity during chill and heat; sleep during perspiration.

Affects right throat, right ovary, right hypochondrium (Lyc.).

Pain and numbness in right ovary, running down thigh of that side (Lib).

Suppressed menses in young girls (Puls., Tub.).

Merc., Nux, Sulph.

It antidotes the bad effects of mercury.

After: Ipec., Nux, in gastric affections; after. Calc, and Sulph. in liver diseases.

Aggravation.- — In early morning (Aloe, Nux, Sulph. ) ; in hot weather ; during dentition.

What the other books say about Podophyllum peltatum

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

Podophyllum peltatum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Podophyllum peltatum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Podophyllum peltatum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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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. Podophyllum peltatum — Keynotes, pp. 222–224. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/podophyllum-peltatum. 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.