PERTUSSINUM Coqueluchin (PERTUSSIN) Taken from the glairy and stringy mucus containing the virus of whooping-cough. Introduced by John H. Clarke for the treatment of whooping-cough and other spasmodic coughs. Relationship.–Compare: Drosera;

PENTHORUM SEDOIDES Virginia Stonecrop (PENTHORUM) A remedy for coryza, with rawness and wet feeling in nose. Throat feels raw. Chronic disorders of mucous membranes, with irritability. Chronic post-nasal catarrh; chronic

PASSIFLORA INCARNATA Passion-flower An efficient anti-spasmodic. Whooping-cough. Morphine habit. Delirium tremens. Convulsions in children; neuralgia. Has a quieting effect on the nervous system. Insomnia, produces normal sleep, no disturbance of

PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS Bitter-broom (PARTHENIUM – ESCOBA AMARGO) A Cuban remedy for fevers, especially malarial. Increased flow of milk. Amenorrhśa and general debility. Cheyne-Stokes breathing. After Quinine. Head.–Aches, extending to nose;

PAREIRA BRAVA Virgin-vine (CHONDRODENDRON TOMENTOSUM) The urinary symptoms are most important. Useful in renal colic, prostatic affections, and catarrh of bladder. Sensation as if bladder were distended, with pain. Pain going

PARAFFINUM Purified Paraffin (PARAFFINE) Valuable in uterine affections. Particularly serviceable in constipation. Knife-like pains. Pains extend from one part to another, and alternate. Pain in stomach alternates with pain in

PARIS QUADRIFOLIA One-berry Head symptoms marked and verified. Sensation of expansion and consequent tension. Coldness of right side of body, left hot. Catarrhal complaints, stuffed feeling at root of nose.