Eupionum
Human-made/chemical
Eupionum is a remedy for women with uterine displacements, profuse early menses, and gushing leucorrhoea alternating with severe backache. The type is characterised by intense perspiration from minimal exertion, disgusting dreams, and a peculiar sensation as if the whole body were made of jelly.
Key symptoms
- Marked female symptoms with backache and uterine displacements
- Menses too early and copious with thin flow
- Burning in right ovary with gushing leucorrhoea
- After menses: yellow leucorrhoea with severe backache
- When back pain ceases leucorrhoea gushes out
- Intense sweat from slightest exertion
- Vertigo with everything turning on sitting up in bed
- Cramps in calves worse at night
Wood-tar distillation (EUPION)
Marked female symptoms, and backache. A remedy for uterine displacements. Pain in back, followed by a bland leucorrhœa. Menses too early and copious; flow thin. Intense sweat from slightest exertion. Disgusting dreams. Sensation as if whole body were made of jelly.
Head
Vertigo; everything turns round on sitting up in bed. Heat at vertex; stitches from vertex down limbs into abdomen and genitals. Sore painful spots on head. Painful pulsation in forehead.
Female
Burning in right ovary. Gushing leucorrhœa. Chronic tubal disease. Uterine flexions. Menses too early and copious. During menses, irritable and disinclined to talk; burning and stitches in chest and heart. After menses, yellow leucorrhœa, with severe backache. When pain in back ceases, the discharge gushes out. Sore pain between labia during urination. Pruritus pudendi; labia swollen.
Extremities
Cramps in the calves; worse at night.
Back
Sacrum pains, as if broken. Severe backache; must lean against something for support. Pains extended into pelvis.
Relationship
Kreosot; Graph; Lach.
Dose
Third potency.
On distilling wood tar a volatile oil is obtained, which separates into a lighter and heavier oil; the heavier oil is Kreasote, the lighter is Eupion. C5 H12.
Clinical
Amenorrhœa. Cough. Cramps. Dreams. Epistaxis. Glandular swellings. Groins, pain in. Hæmorrhages. Headache. Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Neuralgia. Night-sweats. Phthisis. Pruritus. Toothache. Tumours. Vicarious menstruation.
Characteristics
The effects of Eupion., which was proved by Wahle in Rome, who also proved Paraffin, bear a close resemblance to those of Kreasote, but are by no means identical with them. A large number of the symptoms centre in the female sexual organs, some of them being very characteristic. Menstruation is too early and too copious, the flow being thin and fluid. During the time there is great irritability, headache, and chilliness; painless pulsation in the head, wabbling sensation in upper part of body; everything becomes dark to her. Nose-bleed occurs when menstrual flow intermits. Cutting in abdomen ceases when flow …
Phatak's chapter on Eupionum is available in the app.
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