Boneset (Compositae)
- Adapted to diseases of old people; worn-out constitutions, especially from inebriety; cachexia, from prolonged or frequent attacks of bilious or intermittent fevers.
- Bruised feeling, as if broken, all over the body (Arn., Bellis, Pyr.).
- Bone pains affecting back, head, chest, limbs, especially the wrists, as if dislocated.
- The more general and severe, the better adapted (compare, Bry., Merc.).
- Painful soreness of eyeballs; coryza, aching in every bone; great prostration in epidemic influenza (Lac. c.).
- Pains come quickly and go quickly and go away quickly (Bell., Mag. p., Eup. pur.).
- Vertigo; sensation as if falling to the left (cannot turn the head to the left for fear of falling, Col.).
- Cough: chronic; loose with hectic; chest sore, must support it with hands (Bry., Nat. c.); < at night; following measles or suppressed intermittents.
- Fever: chill to 9 a. m. one day, at noon the next day; bitter vomiting at close of chill; drinking hastens chill and causes vomiting; bone pains, before and during chill.
- Insatiable thirst before and during chill and fever; knows chill is coming because he cannot drink enough.
Relations
- Is followed well: by, Nat. m. and Sep.
- Compare: Chel., Pod., Lyc., in jaundiced conditions.
- Bryonia is the nearest analogue, having free sweat, but pains keep patient quiet; while Eup. has scanty sweat and pains make patient restless.
