Eupatorium Perfoliatum 30, 200: Uses, Benefits & Side Effects

Eupatorium Perfoliatum is an effective homeopathic medicine that has various health benefits. Eupatorium Perfoliatum 30 & Eupatorium Perfoliatum 200 are the most used form of this homeopathic medicine.

Eupatorium Perfoliatum is prepared from the “Thoroughwort” plant of the Compositae family.

It is also known as “Boneset” due to its magical ability to heal aches in muscles and bones that occur in some febrile diseases, such as malaria, influenza, and dengue, etc.

The action of this medicine is primarily focused on liver and stomach-related complaints and the mucous surfaces present in the body.

It is of great use in people suffering from bone pains who live around rivers and near marshy lands. The pains in bones are severe that occur at specific intervals, i.e., periodic pains.

This article will cover Eupatorium Perfoliatum uses, benefits, dosage & side effects in detail.

So let’s get started –

Eupatorium Perfoliatum Personality

Eupatorium Perfoliatum is a remedy for people with overwhelming sadness. He will be full of sadness and sorrow.

At night he feels like he is going out of his mind. Although he doesn’t want to stay like this, he can help his situation.

Anxiety and hopelessness are the characteristic feelings of a Eupatorium Perfoliatum patient.

This remedy is suited to old, feeble, and worn-out people. It is suitable for drunkards and people with intoxication habits.

Prolonged illness and fevers make his body weak and irritable.

He will always be in pain. Terrible bone pains make him anxious day and night.

Let’s explore the symptoms of Eupatorium Perfoliatum one by one.

Eupatorium Perfoliatum Uses

I will take you through all the body parts from toe to head.

You can match the symptoms and when you feel these symptoms are matched then you can take Eupatorium Perfoliatum – 

1-Mind Complaints

Eupatorium Perfoliatum is a beneficial remedy for people who are exhausted with their fevers.

Those who live near rivers and marshes and who get infected with fevers occasionally, for example, malaria, influenza, dengue, etc.

The patient will be mentally agonized due to his muscle and body aches. Deep bone pains will make him very irritable.

2-Head Complaints

Eupatorium Perfoliatum has characteristic head-related symptoms, and if the medicinal symptoms match with your symptoms, this remedy will surely provide relief.

You will feel like someone is beating your head, i.e., the character of pain is throbbing or pulsating.

Your head will be full of pressure as if a cap is placed and covered the whole head.

You may feel dizzy and faint, especially on the left side; then, the Eupatorium Perfoliatum is the correct remedy.

Due to a headache, you may feel nauseated and sometimes may vomit also. The headache is felt severely in the top and back of the head, with pain and soreness in the eyeballs.

The headache occurs at certain fixed intervals every third and seventh day.

When you lie down in bed, your back of your head may feel heavy and painful. Think of Eupatorium Perfoliatum if you have this kind of symptoms.

3-Eyes Complaints

The eyes of the person requiring Eupatorium Perfoliatum have some peculiar features.

If your eyes are sensitive to external light or disturbed when looking at shiny bright objects, this remedy may help you.

Additionally, your eyelids and eyeballs will be sore and painful. The eyes may look yellowish when you are ill.

4-Ears Complaints

There are not very specific and clear-cut indications for the use of this remedy in ear-related complaints.

Still, if you get severe muscle and body aches during fevers that make you anxious and you develop pain in the ear, too, then this remedy may help to relieve your earache.

If your personality matches with the description of the character of Eupatorium Perfoliatum, then it will help to ease your earaches.

5-Nose Complaints

You may think of this remedy for yourself if you have an occasional cold, sneezing, and a runny nose with aching pains in every bone.

And at the same time, you may feel a slight rise in the body temperature, which will subside after the cold. Eupatorium Perfoliatum can quickly treat these symptoms.

6-Face Complaints

This remedy is helpful to treat sudden and severe contraction of the muscles in your right cheek.

The face becomes slightly yellow. Aching pains in facial bones can be relieved by this beautiful healing agent in Homoeopathy.

7-Mouth Complaints

This remedy can quickly treat the cracks in the corners of the mouth, which are painful and irritating.

The tongue of the patient looks like it is coated yellow. In some people, there is a white fur-like coating in the mouth.

The mouth is pale. The taste in the mouth is altered. A bitter taste is present in the mouth due to fevers.

You may dislike eating, and you may not get the taste of food properly due to the bitterness of the mouth.

These are some typical indications for using this remedy.

8-Throat Complaints

The throat of the person requiring this remedy will be sore due to vomiting and cough.

A tickling sensation may be present in the throat, along with severe muscle aches and bone pains.

9-Chest and Respiratory Complaints

It is an excellent remedy for chest complaints.

The characteristic indication for using Eupatorium Perfoliatum is hoarseness and cough and pain and soreness in the chest, which compels the patient to hold and support his chest with hands.

If you have influenza with significant soreness of muscles and bones, then this remedy can help to relieve the suffering.

If you have long-standing, i.e., chronic loose cough with a sore chest, and your symptoms become worse at night, you must think of this remedy for yourself.

The severity of the cough will be relieved by getting on hands and knees. While having coughs, the face becomes flushed, and the eyes will be teary.

The cough will be worse at about 2 to 4 am. You will feel tightness in the chest, and an itchy sensation may also be present.

Breathing can be difficult at times with sweating and anxiousness. The chest symptoms will make you restless at night.

10-Heart Complaints

In patients requiring Eupatorium Perfoliatum, it feels like the heart is placed in a tiny and congested place.

Pain soreness and heaviness remain in the chest region around the heart, i.e., on the left side.

During fever, there is anxiety and shaking in the back portion of the chest.

The Heart troubles seem to increase or get worse by slightest movement or by turning the body around.

11-Stomach Complaints

If you feel nauseated due to the smell of cooking food, then this remedy can help you.

It is suitable for the restoration of health in older adults who suffer from indigestion caused by excessive alcohol intake.

The patient likes cold water. He has a thirst for large quantities of cold water. He would vomit immediately after drinking water which is followed by thirst again.

Vomiting of yellowish bitter liquid, i.e., bile or vomiting of undigested food particles. After vomiting, you will be exhausted and tired.

People with a craving for acidic drinks and ice creams and who suffer from hiccoughs can benefit from this remedy.

One of the characteristic indications for using this remedy in stomach-related complaints is that the patient cannot wear too tight clothing as it becomes oppressive.

12-Abdominal Complaints

It is a helpful remedy to correct abdominal disorders that are accompanied by muscle aches and bone pains.

You may feel pain in the right abdomen, i.e., around the liver region while moving or coughing.

The upper part of the abdomen will be painful, and the character of pain will be colicky.

The abdominal pain mainly occurs with pain in the head. Sometimes the whole area of the abdomen becomes tight and painful.

This pain may make you anxious and restless. If you are having any of these symptoms, you may use this remedy with excellent results.

13-Rectum Complaints

It is a beneficial remedy for the treatment of profuse green and watery stools that make you tired, exhausted.

You may become weaker after each stool. The stools are accompanied by great pains all over the body.

Eupatorium Perfoliatum can relieve your morning diarrhea. You may have to get up in the morning and rush to the toilet for passing the stool.

And a significant indication is that the repeated stools will make the anus burn and smart with heat.

Sometimes you may get constipated with cramps in the abdomen and pain in the right side of the stomach around the liver.

14-Urinary Complaints

You may feel itchy in the passage of urine, especially in fevers with bone pains.

Sometimes, the urine is dark-colored and clear, and sometimes it can be dark brownish and less in quantity than average.

White clay-like sediment may be deposited in the urine. Alternately, the urine can be profuse and then scanty.

These symptoms can be quickly relieved by Eupatorium Perfoliatum.

15-Male Organs Complaints

Older men who lived their life intoxicating their bodies with alcohol can be benefited from Eupatorium Perfoliatum.

This remedy can be helpful to the men who work around rivers and marshes and get occasional fevers with aches.

Their bodies are weak, and they are mentally anxious.

16-Female Organs Complaints

It is suited to women who are physically weak and mentally restless due to their sufferings.

They have headaches with pain in the eyeballs and fevers.

The whole body is painful. Deep pains in the bones and muscles of women are a good indication for using this remedy.

17-Back Complaints

An excellent remedy to treat pain and aches occurring in the neck and back.

The character of pain in the neck and back is like someone is beating as if it appears from a bruise.

During fevers, there is extreme weakness in the back, which is accompanied by shaking and trembling.

Use Eupatorium Perfoliatum if you are suffering from this kind of symptoms.

18-Hands & Legs Complaints

Characteristic aching pain in the hands and legs with soreness of flesh is the chief indication for using Eupatorium Perfoliatum in any case.

The arms and wrists are extremely painful. One can cure pain deep in the bones with this remedy.

If you are swelling in your left great toe, you can use this remedy to provide excellent relief to such cases.

It is helpful for people suffering from gout with hard nodule formation in the small joints associated with headaches.

Gout and rheumatism occurring after malarial fevers can be treated by Eupatorium Perfoliatum.

Swollen legs get relieved by this remedy. An excellent indication for using it is in people who suffer from gout associated with headaches.

19-Skin Complaints

It may be helpful to treat yellowish skin due to jaundice.

Skin can be hot due to associated fevers. Rashes occurring in dengue fevers can be relieved by this remedy.

Swelled skin of the legs and toes may get reduced by using this remedy.

20-Fever

Eupatorium Perfoliatum is one of the great and popular remedies for fevers in Homoeopathy.

It has shown outstanding results in fevers when given after carefully matching the medicine symptoms to the signs of the patients. Let’s see the details of indications of this remedy in fevers.

It is helpful for fevers that occur and are repeated at certain fixed intervals.

Sweating will relieve all the symptoms of madness, but it cannot reduce the agonizing headache.

The patient feels chill between 7 to 9 am, preceded by thirst and significant soreness and aching in the muscles and the bones.

There is a great thirst for cold water several after before the fever. The whole body will shiver severely with a violent pain in the back of the head.

The patient wants to cover up the entire body, and when this stage of chill is over, then there will be vomiting of yellowish fluid, i.e., bile.

The whole body feels as if bruised or beaten. These are very characteristic indications and, when matched carefully, can quickly treat these types of various fevers.

Eupatorium Perfoliatum Modalities

Modalities are the factors which, increase or decrease the complaints in a patient.

They are categorized as aggravating factors and amelioration factors.

Aggravating factors make the condition of the illness worst, while the amelioration factor makes the condition of the disease better.

It can be time, any part of the day, season, position, or any applications, etc.

Aggravated By–

The symptoms of Eupatorium Perfoliatum are known to worsen in a periodical fashion, i.e., after a certain fixed period, the symptoms return. The symptoms are also increased at night.

Amelioration By– 

Some factors ease the suffering of the Eupatorium Perfoliatum patient, for example, by talking to someone, i.e., by conversation. By getting on hands and feet also relieve the symptoms.

Eupatorium Perfoliatum Relationship with Other Medicines

Complementary medicine

• Natrum Mur
• Sepia
• Bryonia

Followed Well By

• Natrum Mur
• Sepia

Similar Medicines

• Chelidonium
• Nyctanthes
• Arbor-tristis

Eupatorium Perfoliatum Dosage, Potency and Repetition

30C Dosage:

Eupatorium Perfoliatum can be used in 30C potency in children under 12 years of age for all complaints. It can be repeated as two drops thrice daily till improvement occurs.

200C Dosage:

Eupatorium Perfoliatum can be used in 200C potency in adults or old age groups for all complaints. It can be repeated as four drops thrice daily till improvement occurs.

1M Dosage:

Eupatorium Perfoliatum should be used in 1M potency when the symptom severity is high. It can be given in adults and old age groups as four drops once daily till improvement occurs.

Eupatorium Perfoliatum Side Effects

Eupatorium Perfoliatum, also known as BONESET, can have side effects when taken in physiological doses.

It can cause diarrhea and vomiting. Or it can produce some muscle and body aches if you take unnecessarily large quantities of this medicine.

Some known species of Eupatorium Perfoliatum herb contain the chemical pyrrolizidine alkaloids.

One should not consume this class of alkaloids directly as they can cause liver damage. But there is no evidence that Eupatorium Perfoliatum if finished instantly, can produce such effects.

There are no known side effects of Homoeopathically prepared “Eupatorium Perfoliatum” because the medicines are diluted and potentized, i.e., produced in such a way that the harmful effects get converted into beneficial outcomes.

This is the science behind the preparation of medicines in a Homoeopathic manner. However, when you exceed the recommended dosage, it can have some harmful effects on your health.

Homeopathic medication should be used with caution, especially about the potency and Dosage.

Always try to maintain 15 minutes gap for eating anything else before and after taking this medicine.

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