# Eupatorium Purpureum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Eup-pur. was well proved by a Mrs. Dresser; she experienced a feeling of homesickness 
even when living in her own house. Distressing dyspnea from dropsy. 
Kidney dropsy. Albuminuria, diabetes, strangur y, irritable bladder. Cystitis in pregnant women from riding 
over rough roads. Enlarged prostate. Impotency and infertility. 
Bone pains, nausea and vomiting accom pany fever. Sweat is slight. Restless toss ing, moaning, unable to lie 
down. General soreness  (Eup-pur.). Chills and pains run upwards, beginning in the back, with shaking and 
comparatively little coldness.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from motion. Worse left side. Changing position ever so little causes chilliness down back. 
Sensation as if falling to left side (Eup-per.).

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Homesick, even though at home and among family.
- Sighing.
- Depressed and sleepy.
- Hysterical, low -
spirited state.
- Great fear of sickness.
- Talkative, exclamations.
- Stupid, dull mind.
- Delusions of sight and hearing.
- Delusion that heels were crowding through boots.
- Delusion 
so marked that she felt compelled to look and see if it was really the case.
- Homesick, even though at home and among family.
- Sighing.
- Depressed and sleepy.
- Hysterical, low -
spirited state.
- Great fear of sickness.
- Talkative, exclamations.
- Stupid, dull mind.
- Delusions of sight and hearing.
- Delusion that heels were crowding through boots.
- Delusion 
so marked that she felt compelled to look and see if it was really the case.

### Vertigo
- Light headed, dizzy, as if flying round and round.
- Vertigo as if falling towards left side.
- Vertigo worse 
morning.
- Vertigo with illusions of sight and hearing.

### Head
- Sick headache beginning in morning, worse afternoon and evening, worse in cold air.
- Left sided 
headache with vertigo, as if falling to the left side.
- Pain from left shoulder to occiput.
- Sick headache beginning in morning, worse afternoon and evening, worse in cold air.
- Left sided 
headache with vertigo, as if falling to the left side.
- Pain from left shoulder to occiput.

### Eyes
- Staring.
- Red and swollen, with headache.
- Lachrymation.

### Ears
- Ears feel full.
- Illusions of hearing.
- Crackling, worse on swallowing.

### Face
- Face flushed.
- Lips blue.

### Mouth
- Tongue furred, brown along center.
- Tongue, prickling and stinging in tip, on back.
- Numbness of 
tongue.
- Saliva abundant.
- Nose - Coryza.
- Hoarseness.
- Hacking cough, in evening.
- Cough with soreness and heat in bronchi.
- Perspiration - Sweats about forehead.
- Sweats on upper portion of body.

### Throat
- Choking fullness, must swallow often.
- Burning, as if had swallowed some hot substance, most at back 
of throat, worse swallowing.
- Pain left side of throat, causing pain on swallowing, before chill.
- Fluttering in throat 
pit.

### Chest
- Grating sensation in chest at every deep inspiration.
- Cough - Hacking cough in evening.
- Cough with soreness and heat in bronchia.
- Dry, hacking cough in spells.
- Cough before attack of intermittent fever.
- Cough continuing throughout paroxysm.
- Violent palpitations.
- Fluttering in heart and throat.
- Pulse accelerated and full.
- Kidneys - Nephritis, with severe pain in back, after taking cold.
- Chronic nephritis.
- Deep, dull pain in 
kidneys.
- Cutting pains.
- Diabetes insipidus.
- Dysuria.
- Insufficient flow, milky.
- Urine smells sweet.
- Urinary 
Eupatorium purpureum stream smaller.
- Hematuria.
- Incontinence of urine, in children.
- Frequent effort with 
passage of but a few drops of urine.
- Weak, tired and faint after urinary symptoms.
- Kidney and bladder stones.
- Dyspnea with dropsy.
- Sighing every few minutes.
- Strong desire to inflate the lungs, which she 
continued to do from time to time without noticing particularly that she was doing so.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Wants lemonade or cold drinks during chill.
- Much wind in stomach, belch - ings almost constant.
- Nausea at smell or sight of f ood or cooking.
- Great nausea ht no vomiting, with chill.
- Vomiting with fever with 
sick headache.
- Griping, 
crampy pain.
- Temperature - No thirst during chill, but much frontal ache.
- Chill commences in back.
- Violent shaking with 
comparatively little coldness.
- Fever with protracted bone pains, nausea and vomiting, followed by slight sweat, 
mostly about forehead and head.
- Pain and soreness of abdomen, much worse left side.
- Hypogastric region swollen and hot.
- Rumbling, rolling and twisting pain in bowels.
- Severe colic after voiding urine.
- No appetite.
- Loss of appetite dur ing fever, desire to eat immediately after.
- Desire for warm drinks.
- Desires lemonade.
- Desires cold drinks during chill.
- Thirst during chill and heat.
- Thirst before chill, none during.
- Thirst with dropsy.
- Longing for hot drinks.

### Urinary & Genital
- Impotency from exhaustion or abuse.
- Profuse leucorrhea, caused by exhaustion and chronic metritis.
- Numbness, worse in groin.
- External 
genitals, vulva feels as though wet.
- Quick jerking pain in left ovary.
- Tense, cutting pain above left ovary.
- Sterility 
from ovarian atony.
- Threatened miscarriages.
- Habitual miscarriage at third or fourth month.
- Inefficient labor-
pains.

### Extremities
- Tired, weak, uneasiness in limbs with numbness and gnawing pains.
- Rheu matic pains shifting from 
place to place, always from below upward.
- Soreness of bones, aching of limbs as if bones were broken.
- Pains 
come and go suddenly, very restless, but not better by motion.
- P ains in arms and legs before chill, limbs cold 
during fever.
- Neuralgia of right shoulder or right knee, passing over to left.

### Neck & Back
- Weight and heaviness in back and Joins.
- Cutting pain in neck running from left shoulder to occiput.
- Between shoulder-blades chilly feeling.
- Pains running upward from sacrum into kidneys from left side of back 
and hip.
- Distressing pain in lumbar region before chill.
- Bladder - Cystitis in pregnant women on riding on rough roads.
- Bladder irritability in women.
- Strangury.
- Burning in bladder and urethra on urinating.
- Constant desire, even after frequent urination, the bladder feels 
full.
- Soreness and pain in bladder.
- Smarting and burning pain very intense in bladder and urethra.
- Cutting, 
aching pain in bladder, with constant desire to urinate.

### Skin
- Skin hot and dry with fever, hot to touch in face.

### Sleep
- Y awning, gaping andsighing.
- Sleepy and depressed.
- Sleep restless and mind disturbed, frightful 
dreams.