HEDEOMA PULEGIOIDES

Pennyroyal


  • 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. 
  • Leucorrhoea, 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--(Haemorrhoids with rectal irritation and bleeding. Diarrhœa. Anus feels raw and sore. Cough with laryngeal and tracheal irritation. Glandula sub-mentalis inflamed).

Dose

  • First potency.