Granatum
Punica granatum · Pomegranate · Plant · Lythraceae
Granatum is best suited to people who are ill-humored, overly impressionable, and sensitive. Often dejected, discouraged, weary, and gloomy, they tend to be melancholic and prone to hypochondria.
The remedy is used primarily for the expulsion of tapeworms. The typical symptom picture may include nausea, excess salivation, dizziness, pale blue rings around the eyes, itching and tickling in the nose, and itching and tingling in the anus. There may be emaciation or a loss of appetite, or ravenous hunger with cravings for coffee and sour or juicy foods such as fruits.
Key symptoms
- Tapeworm remedy; vermifuge for expulsion of tapeworm
- Constant hunger despite losing flesh and poor digestion
- Very persistent vertigo with nausea and salivation
- Pain in abdomen worse about umbilicus
- Itching at anus; itching in palms
- Head feels empty; sunken eyes with dilated pupils
- Spasm of the glottis; vomiting at night
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Pomegranate
As a vermifuge for the expulsion of tapeworm, and homeopathically for the following symptomatic indications. Salivation, with nausea, and vertigo. Spasm of the glottis.
Head
Feels empty. Sunken eyes; pupils dilated; weak sight. Vertigo very persistent.
Stomach
Constant hunger. Poor digestion. Loses flesh. Vomiting at night.
Abdomen
Pain in stomach and abdomen; worse about umbilicus (Cocc; Nux m; Plumb); ineffectual urging. Itching at anus. Dragging in vaginal region, as if hernia would protrude. Swelling resembling umbilical hernia.
Chest
Oppressed, with sighing. Pain between shoulders; even clothing is oppressive.
Skin
Itching in palms. Sensation as if pimples would break out. Jaundiced complexion.
Extremities
Pain around shoulders, as if heavy load had been carried. Pain in all finger-joints. Tearing in knee-joint. Convulsive movements.
Relationship
Compare: Pelletierine (one of its constituents -an anthelminitic, especially for tapeworm); Cina; Kousso.
Dose
First to third potency.
Punica granatum. Pomegranate. N. O. Granateæ. Homœopathic provings were made with a tincture or trituration of bark of root. An alkaloid, Pelletierine (C8 H13 NO), discovered by Bertrand Pelletier is obtained from the rind of the fruit.
Clinical
Ascarides. Gastralgia. Hernia, umbilical; inguinal. Jaw, cracking in. Leucorrhœa. Tapeworm. Toothache.
Characteristics
Pomegranate is a well-known vermifuge especially used for the expulsion of tænia. For this a decoction of the rind of the fruit is used, or else Pelletierine in the following manner. After a mild purge the previous night, in the morning 30 grammes of Sulphate of Pelletierine is administered in a solution containing 50 grammes of Tannic acid. This is followed by a glass of water in ten minutes, and a brisk purge in half an hour. The homœopathic provings bring out many symptoms of helminthiasis as: Pale blue rings round eyes. Itching, crawling tickling of nose. Ravenous hunger; craving for sour or juicy things; fruit; coffee. Loss of appetite. …
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