Podophyllum Peltatum 5ch Boiron Granules

Podophyllum Peltatum 5ch Boiron Homeopathic Medicine

Podophyllum peltatum is a perennial herb native to the humid forests of the eastern United States and Canada. It has a horizontal rhizome, two petiolate leaves, a flower and fruit. The part used is the rhizome. The active ingredients consist almost exclusively of podophyllin, a resin that contains podophyllotoxin and heterosides.

Causality

Teething disorders in children.
Acclimatization syndrome in hot countries (tourist's diarrhea).

Main indications

Podophyllum peltatum at the level of the digestive system where it cures infant diarrhea (summer or during teething), adult diarrhea (summer, from abuse of fresh fruit or food poisoning), tourist diarrhea (in those with this acclimatization symptoms when visiting hot countries). It also has a good indication in disorders of cholesterol metabolism and, at a gynecological level, in pain in the right ovary accompanied by digestive disorders.

Characteristic symptoms and modalities

Watery, abundant, yellowish, jet expelled diarrhea, irritating, exhausting, accompanied by gas emission, cramping pains, rectal tenesmus. Worsening early in the morning, in hot weather, during teething. Improvement by lying on the stomach, with a gentle massage to the right hypochondrium.

Dosage

In the symptomatic treatment of both child and adult diarrhea, it is useful to prescribe, at a dilution of 15 CH, 5 granules after each discharge, reducing as symptoms improve.

Format

Tube with granules.