Euonymus atropurpurea
Euonymus atropurpureus · Plant · Celastraceae
Euonymus atropurpurea affects brunettes especially, producing headache, mental disturbances, and hepato-renal distress with albuminuria. It suits patients with chronic liver torpor, migraine, chronic rheumatism, and gouty complaints.
Key symptoms
- Migraine and heavy frontal headache, especially over right eye extending through the head
- Passive congestion and torpor of liver
- Albuminuria with vertigo and obscure vision
- Mental confusion, despondency, irritability, and inability to recall familiar names
- Constipation with haemorrhoids and severe backache
- Diarrhoea with profuse bloody and variable stools
- Pain in lumbar and renal region better lying down
- Aching in all joints especially ankles; feet feel swollen and tired
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse in the evening
Better (amelioration)
- Better from cool draught
- Better from pressure
- Pain in lumbar region better lying down
Wahoo, Burning Bush
Brunettes more easily affected, producing headache, mental disturbances and much distress in hepatic and renal region; albuminuria. Migraine. Passive Congestion and torpor of liver; chronic catarrhal affections of stomach and intestines. Weak heart. Chronic rheumatism and gout.
Mind
Mental confusion, despondent, irritable; loss of memory, unable to recall familiar names.
Head
Heavy frontal headache. Sore, tired feeling; bruised feeling of scalp. Pain over right eye extending back through the head. Bilious headache; coated tongue, bad taste, constipation. Vertigo, obscure vision and gastric derangement, associated with albuminuria. Headache over eyebrows.
Stomach
Mouth dry, pasty taste; thirsty, stomach full and uncomfortable.
Abdomen
Flatus and pain. Anus very sore and burning. Constipation with hæmorrhoids and severe backache. Diarrhœa; stools variable and profuse, bloody. Pain about umbilical region.
Urinary
Urine scanty, high-colored; acidity increased, poured out rapidly.
Back
Dull pain between shoulders and about renal and splenic region; pain in lumbar region better lying down.
Extremities
Aching in all joints, especially ankles. Feet feel swollen and tired.
Modalities
Better cool draught, pressure. Worse evening.
Relationship
Euonymus Europoea-Spindle-tree (Liver disorders, biliousness, lumbago, gastric derangements with albuminuria. Cutting pains in malar bones, tongue, penis up to bladder); Podophyl; Ammon pic; Chel; Euonymin 1x trit (albuminuria).
Dose
Tincture and lower attenuations.
Wahoo. Burning Bush. N. O. Celastraceæ. Tincture of fresh bark and root.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Bilious fever. Biliousness. Cholera morbus. Gall-stones. Levitation. Liver, affections of. Vertigo.
Characteristics
Euon. atro., like Euonimin and Euon. Europ., is a favourite liver-remedy among eclectics. It has not been proved, but clinical experience shows that its action is very like that of its botanical relatives. A lady who tasted the juice of the bark related her experience to Hale: "I felt immediately a sick weakening feeling all through the nervous system; dull, heavy pain through upper portion of head, together with enlarged blurred feeling, and I seemed so drawn up from the floor, that it seemed difficult to place my foot down when walking with sufficient firmness to stand up; a tipping-over sensation when sitting and walking; a deathly sickness at stomach, with perspiration and heat in face, in alternation with chills in the back, and back part of the arms." Some of the symptoms returned next day, but were dissipated by vinegar, which must be looked upon its antidote.
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