Eupatorium perfoliatum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Thoroughwort
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General
Known as "Bone-set", from the prompt manner in which it relieves pain in limbs and muscles that accompanies some forms of febrile disease, like malaria and influenza. Eupatorium acts principally upon the gastro-hepatic organs and bronchial mucous membrane. It is a boon in miasmatic districts, along rivers, marshes, etc, and in all conditions where there is a great deal of bone-pain. Cachexia from old chronic, bilious intermittents. Worn-out constitutions from inebriety. Sluggishness of all organs and functions. Bone-pains, general and severe. Soreness. Marked periodicity (Ars; China; Cedron).
Modalities
Worse, periodically. Better, by conversation, by getting on hands and knees.
Head
Throbbing pain. Pressure as if a cap of lead pressed over the whole skull. Vertigo; sensation of falling to left. Vomiting of bile. Top and back of head with pain and soreness of eyeballs. Periodical headache, every third and seventh day. Occipital pain after lying down, with sense of weight.
Mouth
Cracks in 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 (Sulph ac; Hydrocy ac). Avoids tight clothing.
Stool
Frequent, green watery. Cramps. Constipated, with sore liver.
Respiratory
Coryza, with sneezing. Hoarseness and cough, with soreness in 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.
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.
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.
Relationships
Compare: Bryon; Sepia; Natr mur; Chelidon. Nyctanthes arbor- tristis (bilious fever; insatiable thirst; bitter vomiting at close of chill; also constipation of children).
Dose
Tincture, to third attenuation.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Eupatorium perfoliatum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/eupatorium-perfoliatum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.