Phellandrium aquaticum
Oenanthe aquatica · Plant · Apiaceae
Phellandrium aquaticum suits individuals with respiratory tuberculosis or chronic bronchitis marked by offensive, profuse expectoration and hectic fever. It is also indicated in nursing mothers with intolerable pain in the milk ducts.
Key symptoms
- Offensive, profuse expectoration with cough in phthisis and bronchitis
- Everything tastes sweet
- Sticking pain through right breast near sternum, extending to back near shoulders
- Weight on vertex with aching and burning in temples and above eyes
- Pain in milk ducts intolerable between nursing
- Ciliary neuralgia worse on any attempt to use eyes
- Hectic fever with profuse debilitating perspiration
Worse (aggravation)
- Any attempt to use the eyes
Water Dropwort (PHELLANDRIUM)
The respiratory symptoms are most important, and have been frequently verified clinically. A very good remedy for the offensive expectoration and cough in phthisis, bronchitis, and emphysema. Tuberculosis, affecting generally the middle lobes. Everything tastes sweet. Hæmoptysis, hectic and colliquative diarrhœa.
Head
Weight on vertex; aching and burning in temples and above eyes. Crushing feeling in vertex. Vertigo, dizzy when lying down.
Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia; worse any attempt to use eyes: burning in eyes. Lachrymation. Cannot bear light. Headache; involving nerves going to eye.
Female
Pain in milk ducts; intolerable between nursing. Pain in nipples.
Chest
Sticking pain through right breast near sternum, extending to back near shoulders. Dyspnœa, and continuous cough, early in morning. Cough, with profuse and fetid expectoration; compels him to sit up. Hoarseness.
Fever
Hectic; profuse and debilitating perspiration; intermittent, with pain in arms. Desire for acids.
Extremities
Tired feeling when walking.
Relationship
Compare: Con; Phyt; Sil; Ant iod; Myosotis arvensis.
Dose
Tincture, to sixth potency. In phthisis not below the sixth.
Œnanthe phellandrium. Phellandrium aquaticum. Water dropwort. Fine-leaved water-hemlock. Horse-bane. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of fresh ripe fruit.
Clinical
Abdomen, coldness in. Asthma. Breasts, affections of. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Ciliary neuralgia. Coryza. Cough. Headache. Influenza. Intermittent fever. Nipples, painful. Phthisis. Sleepliness, excessive. Tongue, soreness of.
Characteristics
Phelland. which, like Œnanthe croc., grows in moist places, and even in the water itself, has not shown the poisonous properties of the latter. The provings were made by Nenning and Richter with tincture of the seeds. The symptoms show a general resemblance to those of the poisonous Umbelliferæ─vertigo, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhœa, drowsiness and weakness, but Phelland. is easily distinguished from the rest in its particular features. The provings developed many symptoms in both mammæ, especially the right, stitches shooting inward being most marked. Clinical experience in nursing women has further …
Phatak's chapter on Phellandrium aquaticum is available in the app.
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