Eupatorium perfoliatum
as Ernest Albert Farrington recorded it in Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1908
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Lecture
Lecture XXII — Compositae — Arnica montana, Artemisia vulgaris, Absinthium, Millefolium, Taraxacum, Eupatorium perfoliatum, Artemisia abrotanum
EUPATORIUM PERFOUATUM, or the bone-set, is a popular remedy in malarial districts for chills and fever. In this disease it is indicated by the following symptoms : the chill begins from seven to nine A. m., preceded by headache and insatiable thirst, which rarely continues into the fever. It first appears in the back and is accompanied by aching in the limbs, as though every bone in the body were being broken. This is followed by high fever with increase of the aching, and this by sweat, which is scanty or profuse. In some cases there is a double periodicity; the chill comes in the morning of one day and in the evening of the next. You may also think of Eupatorium perfoliatum in influenza with hoarseness worse in the morning, and cough with extreme soreness along the trachea and even to the finest ramifications of the bronchial tubes. With this there will be the aching all through the body as if in the bones, which impels the sufferer to move, but no relief is obtained thereby.
Eupatorium purpureum has been used for chill beginning in the back. I do not know of any symptom distinguishing it from Eupatorium perfoliatum.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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. Ernest Albert Farrington. Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia. 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Harvey Farrington (1908). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Eupatorium perfoliatum — Lecture, p. 244. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/farrington/eupatorium-perfoliatum. Published 1908: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1885). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.