Eupatorium aromaticum
Ageratina aromatica · Plant · Asteraceae
Eupatorium aromaticum is doubly indicated where nervous erethism and aphthous disease are combined. It suits nursing mothers with sore mouth and sore nipples, and restless patients with chorea and hysteria.
Key symptoms
- Nervous erethism with restlessness and morbid watchfulness
- Hysteria and chorea with tremors and jactitations
- Aphthous stomatitis in women and children
- Sore mouth in infants; sore nipples in nursing mothers
- Low fevers with extreme restlessness
- Vomiting of bile with stomach pain, headache, and fever
- Morbid irritability of the nervous system
Pool-root
Nervous erethism; restlessness and morbid watchfulness. Hysteria and chorea. Low fevers, with extreme restlessness.
Aphthous disease. Sore nipples. Sore mouth in infants. Vomiting of bile, pain in stomach, headache, and fever.
Relationship
Lapsana communis-Nipple-wort-useful in sore nipples and piles. Hyosc; Passiflor; Hydr mur.
Dose
Tincture, locally, in sore mouth and sore nipples. Internally, tincture to third attenuation.
E. urticifolium (Rafinesque). Deerwort boneset. White Snake-root. (In low woods from Massachusetts to Louisiana. Flowers are white and aromatic.) N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of root.
Clinical
Ague. Aphthæ. Gravel. Neurasthenia.
Characteristics
E. aromat., when chewed, produces in the mouth a warm, aromatic, pungent sensation, and is regarded as a "warm, stimulating tonic." Hale quotes eclectic authorities as commending this plant in "aphthous stomatitis" in women and children; also for burning in the stomach with "nursing sore mouth," before and after confinement. Some commend it as a "nervine," like Scutellaria and Cypripedium for "restlessness and morbid watchfulness, morbid irritability of the nervous system, tremors, jactitations, chorea, and hysteria." It is doubly indicated where nervous erethism and aphthous disease are combined. Locally it is useful as a wash for the mouth. Like E. purpur. it has also been used for gravel.; and the Indians use it as a cure for ague. In a case of sore mouth in a …
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