Euphorbia pilulifera
Euphorbia hirta · Plant · Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbia Pilulifera is suited to pale, delicate, and sensitive women suffering from acrid leucorrhoea aggravated by motion. It is also indicated in gonorrhoea with intense urinary pains, humid asthma with prostration and restlessness, and haemorrhages resulting from sunstroke or traumatic injury.
Key symptoms
- Humid asthma with prostration and restlessness
- Acrid leucorrhoea aggravated by the least motion
- Intense burning pain during urination in gonorrhoea
- Violent desire to pass water with burning pains obliging patient to sit down
- Haemorrhages caused by sunstroke or traumatism
Worse (aggravation)
- Least motion aggravates leucorrhoea
Better (amelioration)
- Sitting down or keeping quiet relieves urinary burning in gonorrhoea
E. pilulifera. N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Tincture.
Clinical
Asthma. Gonorrhœa. Leucorrhœa. Sunstroke. Traumatism.
Characteristics
In the Medical Press of May 3, 1893, Dr. George Foy gives an account of this medicine. Gray in 1817 mentions it as a remedy for syphilis and for venomous bites. Marsset, of Paris, experimented with the aqueous extract on guinea-pigs. None of the irritant effects common to most Euphorbias were produced, but a powerful action on the heart-first an alarmingly quick pulse and then a sudden chill. It has been used by old-school practitioners in asthma, hay asthma, and bronchitis, chiefly in considerable doses. In the Universal Homœopathic Annual, p. 57, Dr. Cartier gives this account: "Euphorbia Pilulifera has given excellent results in cases of acrid leucorrhœa, aggravated by the least motion, especially useful for pale, delicate, and sensitive women (Jacaranda). In gonorrhea, when there are intense pains at each micturition, burning pains which oblige the patient to sit down or to keep …
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