Euonymus europaea
Euonymus europaeus · Plant · Celastraceae
Euonymus europaea suits patients with liver congestion, constipation, or profuse variable diarrhoea, and bilious headaches. Left-sided cutting and drawing pains that shift after lying down are characteristic of this remedy.
Key symptoms
- Profuse diarrhoea variable in colour, eventually bloody, with violent abdominal pain
- Liver engorgement with biliousness, coated tongue, and bad taste
- Headache with vertigo and obscuration of sight
- Cutting, sticking, and drawing pains predominating
- Left side more affected than right
- Skin tingling provoking scratching, followed by burning sensation
- Pains compel lying down and then shift to other parts
- Severe pain in back like lumbago
- Eruption of small dry pustules
Worse (aggravation)
- Pains in chest, head, and abdomen worse after eating
Better (amelioration)
- Pains relieved or shift to other parts after lying down
Spindle-tree. N. O. Celastraceæ. Trituration of dried seeds; tincture of fresh seeds.
Clinical
Cholera. Convulsions. Diarrhœa. Gall-stones. Headaches. Liver disorders.
Characteristics
The Celastraceæ, to which order Euonymus belongs, are closely related to the Rhamnaceæ which include the well-known purgative Cascara sagrada. A case of poisoning with the seeds of Euon. eur. (Allen) recalls the effects of Euonymin: "A man, forty-three, took eighteen seeds one morning, and as many the following evening. He was seized with frightful abdominal pain, profuse diarrhœa, eventually bloody. He was not seen till the evening, when he was in a state of profound collapse, with involuntary evacuations of blood and mucus. On lifting him up tetanic convulsions were induced which immediately preceded death." Euon. has been used successfully in cases of engorgement of the liver, "biliousness," headache, coated tongue, bad taste, constipation, passive constipation with hæmorrhoids; also with severe pain in back like …
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