PHELLANDRIUM AQUATICUMLiquid

Phellandrium aquaticum, a dynamic homoeopathic medicine derived from the fresh ripe fruit of the fine-leaved water-hemlock (Water Dropwort), belonging to the Umbelliferæ family, is recognized for its significant action on the respiratory system, mammary glands, and nervous system. It addresses both functional and inflammatory disorders, particularly where right-sided chest affections, oppressive cough, offensive expectoration, and glandular sensitivity are present. This medicine is known for its peculiar affinity toward conditions marked by burning sensations, neuralgias, excessive somnolence, and confusion of head with dizziness. With its notable effects on mental-emotional states, mucosal irritation, and female lactational issues, Phellandrium aquaticum provides targeted relief in cases where symptoms appear, vanish, or shift without clear pattern, often improving with movement and fresh air.

Common Name

English: Water Dropwort, Water-Fennel

SBL’s Phellandrium aquaticum can be helpful in the following conditions:

Emotional Imbalance

• Addresses sadness, profound anxiety, and deeply meditative tendencies.
• Helps manage conflicting emotional states, including abrupt laughter and peevish arrogance.
• Aids in calming overexcited or withdrawn mental states, especially with emotional detachment.

Headache & Scalp Sensations

• Treats vertigo with a sensation of falling backward or sideways, especially upon turning.
• Relieves head heaviness, as though drawn backward by weight at the nape.
• Aids in crushing vertex pain with burning in the eyes and lachrymation.
• Supports conditions with occipital pressure, scalp itching, and post-meal head coldness.
• Useful in headaches that resolve in open air or while eating.

Respiratory & Chest Afflictions

• Manages hoarseness, suffocative cough, and mucus accumulation in the throat.
• Treats phthisis with offensive purulent expectoration and continuous coughing.
• Aids in chest stitching pains extending into scapula and sacrum, especially post-meal.
• Relieves chest oppression on deep inspiration and side-sensitive breathing issues.

Irregular Menses & Mammae Discomfort

• Supports cases of early, scanty, or interrupted menses with bruised limb pain.
• Aids in painful nursing with soreness of nipples and lactiferous ducts.
• Treats post-nursing breast distress with hysterical weeping and purulent discharge.
• Helps manage pains in the breast between nursing intervals.

Musculoskeletal Pain

• Relieves tearing, stitching pains from the neck down into scapula or sacrum.
• Helps manage bruised loins and hot iron-like burning in neck areas.
• Aids in tearing pain in shoulders and arms with congested knees and calves.

Ciliary Neuralgia

• Treats twitching, burning, and swelling of eyelids with sleepiness.
• Aids in managing ciliary neuralgia aggravated by reading or sewing.
• Relieves cloudy vision, photophobia, and morning/evening eye dryness.
• Helps reduce tearing and orbital margin pain.
• Manages ear tearing, boring pain, and ringing—especially in the right ear.

Nasal Coryza & Facial Redness

• Supports in treating burning nostrils with swollen upper lip.
• Manages loss of smell and vesicular eruptions inside the nostrils.
• Treats obstructive coryza and nasal breathing difficulty.
• Aids in facial tension, livid evening redness, and cheek muscle spasms.

Toothache & Sorethroat

• Relieves toothache with tearing or shooting pain.
• Treats red, painful gums and burning vesicles on the tongue.
• Aids in managing frothy salivation, clammy taste, and dryness of the throat at night.
• Helps with sore throat pain that worsens with empty swallowing but eases with food.

Digestive Issues

• Manages nausea, offensive eructations with bug-like odor, and vomiting sensations.
• Treats burning stomach pain and a sensation of fullness or twisting in the epigastrium.
• Aids in addressing unusual cravings like milk or beer with aversion to water.
• Helps relieve stomach pain as if it were empty and rumbling with gas accumulation.

Abdominal & Bowel Disturbance

• Supports relief from pinching and cutting abdominal pains.
• Treats icy coldness in the intestines—especially after stools or alcohol intake with intestinal movements.
• Helps manage incarcerated flatus, flank stitching, and rumbling lower bowel sensations.

Hard Stool

• Aids in hard stools with straining and clawing at the anus.
• Treats liquid diarrhea with excoriation and post-stool burning.
• Helps relieve anal itching that worsens after scratching.
• Supports the expulsion of abundant flatus during and after the stool.

Urinary System Disorders

• Treats pale, greenish, or scanty urine output with burning during urination.
• Helps manage evening urinary urgency with little discharge.
• Supports relief from urinary retention following febrile conditions.

Male Sexual Health

• Helps relieve itching on the prepuce that improves after scratching.

Cardiac & Circulatory Symptoms

• Supports vascular trembling and general pulsation across the body.
• Aids in chest and circulatory symptoms that worsen at rest and improve with movement.

Vascular Discomfort & Congestion       

• Treats petechial eruptions and blue spots resembling bruises.
• Relieves burning, smarting, and itching skin that responds to scratching.
• Aids in limb tearing pain and vascular discomfort while at rest.

Sleepiness & Fever

• Manages excessive daytime drowsiness, dream disturbances, and delayed sleep onset.
• Aids in fever marked by shivering, cold water-like sensations, and trembling.
• Helps relieve retarded sleep with frightful dreams and agitation.