Hydropiper - Smartweed
(POLYGONUM PUNCTATUM)

Metrorrhagia, also Amenorrhœa in young girls. Varicosis; hæmorrhoids and rectal pockets. Burning in stomach followed by feeling of coldness in the pit of the stomach.

Abdomen.--Griping pain, with great rumbling, nausea, and liquid feces. Flatulent colic.

Rectum.--Interior of anus studded with itching eminence. Hæmorrhoids. Liquid feces.

Urinary.--Painful constriction at neck of bladder.

Female.--Aching pains in hips and loins. Sensation as if hips were being drawn together. Sensation of weight and tension within pelvis. Shooting pains through breasts. Amenorrhœa.

Skin.--Superficial ulcers and sores on lower extremities, especially in females at climacteric.

Relationship.--Compare: Carduus mar (ulcers); Hamam; Senecio; Polygonum persicaria (renal colic and calculi; gangrene); Polygonum sagitatum-arrow-leaved. Tear-thumb--(2x for pains of nephritic colic; suppurative nephritis; lancinating pains along spine; itching of hard palate; burning inner side of right foot and ankle. C. M. Boger);Polygonum aviculare-knot-grass--(in material doses of tincture, found useful in phthisis pulmonalis and intermittent fever, and especially in arterio-sclerosis. Erythema).

Dose.--Tincture.