# Penthorum Sedoides

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **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 
the tongue is one of the symptoms. A sense of levitation was also produced. The symptoms proceed from 
above downward. 
Chronic disorders of mucus membranes with irritability. Chronic post-nasal catarrh, chronic pharyngitis, mucus 
membrane purple and relaxed. Coryza with rawness and wet feeling in nose. Hypersecretion of mucus 
membranes. 
Posterior sinuses feel moist and raw, nose and ears feel full. Throat feels raw. Aph onia, hoarseness, relaxed 
vocal cords. Trouble in pharyngeal vault and Eustachian tube. Itching of anus and burning in rectum. General 
malaise, headache, weakness of limbs inability to attend to business.

## 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 
sinciput.
- Itching of hairy scalp.
- Kidneys - Dull aching in kidneys.
- Bladder sore to pressure.
- Urine incr eased, alkaline, burning along urethra 
when urinating.
- Dull, heavy headache with heat and soreness in sacrum.
- Catarrhal aching in forehead.
- Weight in 
sinciput.
- Itching of hairy scalp.
- Kidneys - Dull aching in kidneys.
- Bladder sore to pressure.
- Urine incr eased, alkaline, burning along urethra 
when urinating.

### Eyes
- Inner, upper tarsal borders itch and burn.
- Full sensation in supra -orbital region.
- On closing eyes, felt 
like floating, vertigo.

### Ears
- Ringing and singing in both ears.

### Mouth
- Prickling, burning sensation on tongue as though scalded.
- Increased flow of saliva (bloody).
- Nose - Constant wet feeling in nose, which no amount of blowing will relieve.
- Discharge thick, pus -like, 
streaked 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.
- COMMENTS - Pen.
- was proved by Dr.
- D.
- B.
- Morrow (twice), Dr.
- Scudder and a young man, who all took 
substantial doses.
- The majority of the symptoms are Morrow's, including the catarrhal symp toms, which have 
been verified in practice.
- “A peculiar wet feeling in sinuses as though a violent coryza would set in,” but it did not, the secretion became 
thickened and pus-like but not increased.
- The same “wet feeling” was experienced at the same time in trachea and bronchi, which passed from above 
down as if coryza would set in, followed by a slight feeling of constriction in the chest, which also passed from 
above down.
- The next day the nose felt stuffed.
- The third day the first symptoms were repeated and the discharge became 
thick, pus-like and streaked with blood and there was an odor in the nose as if from an open sore.
- Scudder had “fullness in nose and ears.” Morrow experienced itching at anus, hemor rhoids and pains and 
sensations in rectum, sacrum and sacroiliac joints, his first proving cured “heat and soreness in sacrum with a 
dull, heavy headache.” 
Morrow reported two cures, the first, Miss P..
- 17, blonde, had severe cough of several weeks' duration.
- Worse 
by talking or singing.
- Frothy, greenish sputa.
- Puls, and Phos.
- failed, Pen.
- soon cured.
- The second concerned a decrepit old woman, 75, suffered from eczema for twelve years.
- Previous winter 
cured of asthma (probably from suppressed eczema) with Sulph.
- 100,000c.
- Now paretic right side, for whi ch 
Phos.
- was given.
- But Phos.
- did not relieve a loose, con tinual, rattling cough, caused by tickling at bifurcation of bronchi with 
raising much thick, frothy, greenish sputa.
- Pen.
- pellets quickly cured.
- A clawing, uneasy sensation about umbilicus, which gradually passed to lower bowel.
- Twitching 
in muscles of abdomen.
- Parietes of abdomen felt thickened.
- Borborygmus.
- Appetite increased.

### Urinary & Genital
- Sexual orgasm.
- Weakness, almost satyriasis, followed by long -continued depression, approaching 
impotence.
- 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 
with headache.