Paeonia Officinalis

                             

Paeonia Officinalis

or simply Paeonia

(Peony)

The rectal and anal symptoms are most important. Chronic ulcers on lower parts of body, leg, foot, toe, also breast, rectum.

Head
Rush of blood to head and face. Nervous. Vertigo when moving. Burning in eyes and ringing in ears.

Rectum
Biting, itching in anus; orifice swollen. Burning in anus after stool; then internal chilliness. Fistula ani, diarrhea, with anal burning and internal chilliness. Painful ulcer, oozing offensive moisture on perineum. Hemorrhoids, fissures, ulceration of anus and perineum, purple, covered with crusts. Atrocious pains with and after each stool. Sudden, pasty diarrhea, with faintness in abdomen.

Chest
Sticking pain in left chest. Heat in chest. Dull shooting from front to back through heart.

Extremities
Pain in wrist and fingers; knees and toes. Weakness of legs, inhibiting walking.

Sleep
Terrifying dreams, nightmare.

Skin
Sensitive, painful. Ulcers below coccyx, around sacrum; varicose veins. Ulcers in general, from pressure, bedsores, etc. Itching, burning, as from nettles.

Relationship
Compare: Glechoma-Ground Ivy--(rectal symptom). Hamam; Sil; Aesc; Ratanh (great constriction of anus; stools forced with great effort).

Antidotes: Ratanh; Aloe.

Dose
Third potency.

(Reference: Homeopathic Materia Medica by William Boericke)