Polygonum hydropiperoides
Persicaria hydropiperoides · Plant · Polygonaceae
Polygonum Hydropiperoides is suited to women with venous congestion of the pelvic organs, alternating hemorrhagic and suppressed menstruation, and varicose conditions of the rectum and lower extremities. It is particularly indicated at the climacteric.
Key symptoms
- Metrorrhagia and amenorrhea in young girls
- Varicosis and hemorrhoids with rectal pockets
- Burning in stomach followed by coldness in pit of stomach
- Griping pain with great rumbling, nausea, and liquid feces
- Sensation as if hips were being drawn together
- Aching pains in hips and loins with weight and tension in pelvis
- Superficial ulcers on lower extremities especially in women at climacteric
Hydropiper - Smartweed (POLYGONUM PUNCTATUM)
Metrorrhagia, also Amenorrhœa in young girls. Varicosis; hæmorrhoids and rectal pockets. Burning in stomach followed by feeling of coldness in the pit of the stomach.
Abdomen
Griping pain, with great rumbling, nausea, and liquid feces. Flatulent colic.
Rectum
Interior of anus studded with itching eminence. Hæmorrhoids. Liquid feces.
Urinary
Painful constriction at neck of bladder.
Female
Aching pains in hips and loins. Sensation as if hips were being drawn together. Sensation of weight and tension within pelvis. Shooting pains through breasts. Amenorrhœa.
Skin
Superficial ulcers and sores on lower extremities, especially in females at climacteric.
Relationship
Compare: Carduus mar (ulcers); Hamam; Senecio; Polygonum persicaria (renal colic and calculi; gangrene); Polygonum sagitatum-arrow-leaved. Tear-thumb--(2x for pains of nephritic colic; suppurative nephritis; lancinating pains along spine; itching of hard palate; burning inner side of right foot and ankle. C. M. Boger); Polygonum aviculare-knot-grass--(in material doses of tincture, found useful in phthisis pulmonalis and intermittent fever, and especially in arterio-sclerosis. Erythema).
Dose
Tincture.
POLYGONUM ACRE. P. punctatum, Ell. P. hydropiperoides, Pursh. Smart Weed. (North America.)
Clinical
Amenorrhœa. Antrum, pain in. Blepharitis. Colic, flatulent. Cough. Diarrhœa.─Dysentery. Dysmenia. Dysuria. Eczema. Epilepsy. Gonorrhœa. Gravel. Hæmorrhoids. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Laryngitis. Nephritis. Neuralgia. Orchitis. Prostatitis. Sciatica. Spermatic cord, pain in. Spleen, affections of. Strangury. Ulcers.
Characteristics
Polyg. was proved by W. E. Payne and others. Additions by Ed. Bayard, included by Hering, appear in the Schema. "Smart Weed," says Hale, "is a popular domestic remedy throughout U.S.A. Applied externally it has the effect of a mustard plaister, and the leaves saturated with hot water are applied to relieve cramps and colic, and as an emollient in inflammation and sprains. The provers were all men, but clinical experience has shown a definite action in the female generative sphere, amenorrhœa, aversion to coitus, and congestion of the ovaries having been cured by it. Leading …
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