{"id":1103,"remedy_name":"Penthorum Sedoides","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Hale said Pen. is reputed to be curative in catarrh and in diarrhea. A scalded sensation in \nthe tongue is one of the symptoms. A sense of levitation was also produced. The symptoms proceed from \nabove downward. \nChronic disorders of mucus membranes with irritability. Chronic post-nasal catarrh, chronic pharyngitis, mucus \nmembrane purple and relaxed. Coryza with rawness and wet feeling in nose. Hypersecretion of mucus \nmembranes. \nPosterior sinuses feel moist and raw, nose and ears feel full. Throat feels raw. Aph onia, hoarseness, relaxed \nvocal cords. Trouble in pharyngeal vault and Eustachian tube. Itching of anus and burning in rectum. General \nmalaise, headache, weakness of limbs inability to attend to business.","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Dull, discouraged and despondent. Mind is dull, study impossible. Inability to attend to business. Dull, discouraged and despondent. Mind is dull, study impossible. Inability to attend to business.","Head":"Dull, heavy headache with heat and soreness in sacrum. Catarrhal aching in forehead. Weight in \nsinciput. Itching of hairy scalp. \nKidneys - Dull aching in kidneys. Bladder sore to pressure. Urine incr eased, alkaline, burning along urethra \nwhen urinating. Dull, heavy headache with heat and soreness in sacrum. Catarrhal aching in forehead. Weight in \nsinciput. Itching of hairy scalp. \nKidneys - Dull aching in kidneys. Bladder sore to pressure. Urine incr eased, alkaline, burning along urethra \nwhen urinating.","Eyes":"Inner, upper tarsal borders itch and burn. Full sensation in supra -orbital region. On closing eyes, felt \nlike floating, vertigo.","Ears":"Ringing and singing in both ears.","Mouth":"Prickling, burning sensation on tongue as though scalded. Increased flow of saliva (bloody).  \nNose - Constant wet feeling in nose, which no amount of blowing will relieve. Discharge thick, pus -like, \nstreaked with blood. Posterior sinuses feel raw as if denuded of epithelium. Post-nasal catarrh of puberty.","Chest":"In morning a cough from deep in chest with soreness throughout chest.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Disgust and nausea. Forcible eructation and ejection of small quantities of odorless flatus. \nCOMMENTS - Pen. was proved by Dr. D. B. Morrow (twice), Dr. Scudder and a young man, who all took \nsubstantial doses. The majority of the symptoms are Morrow's, including the catarrhal symp toms, which have \nbeen verified in practice. \n\u201cA peculiar wet feeling in sinuses as though a violent coryza would set in,\u201d but it did not, the secretion became \nthickened and pus-like but not increased. \nThe same \u201cwet feeling\u201d was experienced at the same time in trachea and bronchi, which passed from above \ndown as if coryza would set in, followed by a slight feeling of constriction in the chest, which also passed from \nabove down. \nThe next day the nose felt stuffed. The third day the first symptoms were repeated and the discharge became \nthick, pus-like and streaked with blood and there was an odor in the nose as if from an open sore.  \nScudder had \u201cfullness in nose and ears.\u201d Morrow experienced itching at anus, hemor rhoids and pains and \nsensations in rectum, sacrum and sacroiliac joints, his first proving cured \u201cheat and soreness in sacrum with a \ndull, heavy headache.\u201d \nMorrow reported two cures, the first, Miss P.. 17, blonde, had severe cough of several weeks' duration. Worse \nby talking or singing. Frothy, greenish sputa. Puls, and Phos. failed, Pen. soon cured. \nThe second concerned a decrepit old woman, 75, suffered from eczema for twelve years. Previous winter \ncured of asthma (probably from suppressed eczema) with Sulph. 100,000c. Now paretic right side, for whi ch \nPhos. was given. \nBut Phos. did not relieve a loose, con tinual, rattling cough, caused by tickling at bifurcation of bronchi with \nraising much thick, frothy, greenish sputa. Pen. pellets quickly cured. A clawing, uneasy sensation about umbilicus, which gradually passed to lower bowel. Twitching \nin muscles of abdomen. Parietes of abdomen felt thickened. Borborygmus. Appetite increased.","Urinary & Genital":"Sexual orgasm. Weakness, almost satyriasis, followed by long -continued depression, approaching \nimpotence. Varicocele.","Extremities":"Arm numb. Hand felt swollen. Trembling feeling of legs for several days with soreness of knees.","Neck & Back":"Aching through basilar region from back to front. Aching in sacrum and sacroiliac joint. Heat in sacrum \nwith headache."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}