BASIC REMEDIES

POLYCHRESTS

TISSUE SALTS

FLOWER REMEDIES

NOSODES etc.

IMPONDERABILIA

GEM REMEDIES

RX GROUPS

RX RELATIONSHIPS

HERBS

NUTRITION

LIFESTYLE

NEW RX'S

RX IN FOCUS

RXS IN RYHME

POISONOUS PLANTS

ORGAN RXS

CHILDREN'S TYPES

PROVINGS

SIMON'S SECTION

PHARMACY - Polyp-p. Polyporus pinicola. Pine Agar. N. O. Fungi. Tincture of fresh plant. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies. Planets: Moon.
HERBAL - The Pine agaric, Pol. pin. like the Larch agaric, Polyporus officinalis (described in this work as Boletus laricis, its older and less correct name), was proved by Dr. Burt. The symptoms of the two have a very close resemblance and many are common to both.
Hale says it is a remedy for ague in the Middle and Southern States, taken during the intermission macerated in whisky. Quotidian fevers, he says, are most suited to it.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Polyp-p. has been useful in intermittent, remittent and bilious fevers with headache, yellow tongue, constant nausea, faintness at epigastrium and constipation.
Despondency, aching distress in many parts. Stiffness of back of fingers, enlarged tonsils with dysphagia and constant inclination to swallow.
Neuralgic pains in head, face and temples, pain in liver and spleen with diarrhea or constipation and hemorrhoids these are the chief features of the proving.
CLINICAL - Anus, prolapse. Constipation. Hemorrhoids. Intermittent fever. Liver disorders. Malar bone, pain. Prolapse ani. Rheumatism. Spleen disorders. Tonsils, enlarged.
Modalities - Better by rest. Worse in damp air. Worse after stool. Worse by motion, by walking.
COMMENTS - Great lassitude, congestion of head with vertigo, face hot and flushed, prickling sensation all over, restless at night from pain in wrists and knee, rheumatic pains, profuse perspiration. Headache about 10 a.m. with pain in back, ankles and legs increasing until 3 p.m., then gradually better.
COMPARE - (1) Similar to its botanical relative, Polyp. officinalis or Boletus laricis. Deep dull, severe pain in shin bones, preventing sleep. (2) Bol. lur., Agar.
SOURCES - Boericke. Clarke.