Hedeoma pulegioides
Plant · Lamiaceae
Suited to women with nervous disturbances accompanying pelvic congestion and urinary complaints. The constitutional picture features bearing-down pelvic pains with associated backache, ovarian congestion, and irritable bladder with urgent, frequent urination. Female symptoms predominate and are typically linked to nervous system involvement.
Key symptoms
- Bearing-down pains with much backache worse from least movement
- Burning irritation at neck of bladder causing frequent intense urge to urinate
- Inability to retain urine for more than a few minutes; better after urinating
- Pain along left ureter; dragging pain from kidney to bladder
- Red sand in urine
- Ovaries congested and painful with bearing-down spasmodic contractions
- Leucorrhoea with itching and burning
- Tendo-Achilles painful as if sprained and swollen; walking painful
Worse (aggravation)
- Bearing-down pains worse from least movement
Better (amelioration)
- Weak, faint feeling better lying down
- Bladder irritation better after urinating
Pennyroyal (HEDEOMA)
Female symptoms are most marked; usually associated with nervous disturbances. Red sand in urine. Pain along ureter. Flatulent colic. Antidotes effects of Poison-oak (Grindelia).
Head
Dull, heavy feeling in morning. Sore pain, as from a cut. Weak, faint; better, lying down.
Stomach
Gastritis. Everything taken into stomach causes pain. Tongue coated thin white. Nausea.
Abdomen
Distended, sore, and sensitive.
Urine
Frequent urging, cutting pains. Pain along left ureter. Dragging pain from kidney to bladder. Dull burning pain over left kidney. Burning irritation at neck of bladder causing frequent intense desire to urinate and inability to retain urine for more than few minutes, better urinating.
Female
Bearing-down pains, with much backache; worse, least movement. Leucorrhœa, with itching and burning Ovaries congested and painful; bearing-down spasmodic contractions.
Extremities
Pain in thumb-joint. Pain, coldness, and paretic condition. Twitchings, jerkings, soreness. Tendo-Achilles painful, as if sprained and swollen; walking painful.
Relationship
Compare: Mentha; Sepia; Lilium; Ocimum (uric acid diathesis, pain in ureters). Hedera Helix--Common Ivy--(Delirium and chronic convulsions. Chronic hydrocephalus Rhinorrhea, cerebro-spinalis. Cataract. Acts on blood vessels, menorrhagia). Glechoma Hederacea--Ground Ivy--(Hæmorrhoids with rectal irritation and bleeding. Diarrhœa. Anus feels raw and sore. Cough with laryngeal and tracheal irritation. Glandula sub-mentalis inflamed).
Dose
First potency.
Hedeoma pulegioides. American Pennyroyal (the British "Pennyroyal" is Mentha pulegium, also a Labiate). N. O. Labiatæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Clinical
Amenorrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Leucorrhœa.
Characteristics
Both the American and the British "Pennyroyals" have a popular reputation as "female regulators," which is by no means undeserved. Homœopaths have verified the relation of the drug to uterine ailments, and an observation by Dr. Toothaker of a case of poisoning affords valuable ground for homœopathic prescribing. Bearing-down pains were most marked, < by any movement, and accompanied by almost paralytic weakness of the legs. Nervous symptoms were very prominent, jerkings and twitchings. Weak, faint, > lying down; inability to sit up. Pains in abdomen < after eating or drinking. < By touch and pressure.
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