PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUMLiquid

Podophyllum peltatum is a potent homoeopathic medicine especially suited to persons of bilious temperament. It aids in managing gastro-enteritis with colicky pain, bilious vomiting, and gushing, painless diarrhea. Acting primarily on the liver, duodenum, small intestines, and rectum, it is highly useful in treating alternating constipation and diarrhea, portal congestion, and rectal prolapse. It also helps in relieving digestive disturbances during pregnancy and teething, including prolapsed uterus and pendulous abdomen.

Common Name

English: May Apple

SBL’s Podophyllum peltatum can be helpful in the following conditions:

Mental and Emotional Imbalance

• Podophyllum peltatum aids in calming loquacity and mild delirium, especially after eating acidic fruits.
• Helps manage mood dips and depression associated with gastrointestinal upsets.

Headache & Vertigo

• Treats vertigo with a tendency to fall forward.
• Manages dull, pressing morning headaches with heated face and bitter taste.
• Helps in relieving head symptoms that alternate with bouts of diarrhea.
• In children, aids in soothing restless behavior like rolling of the head, moaning, and head sweat during sleep.

Mouth & Dentition

• Manages foul, putrid taste and broad, moist tongue.
• Treats grinding of teeth at night and desire to clench gums together.
• Helps in easing painful, difficult dentition.
• Soothes burning sensations of the tongue.

Nausea & Vomiting

• Treats hot, sour belching and vomiting of hot, frothy mucus.
• Aids in calming constant gagging and empty retching.
• Podophyllum peltatum manages nausea and vomiting triggered by drinks or milk in infants.
• Supports intense thirst for large quantities of cold water.

Abdominal & Bowel Disorders

• Helps relieve abdominal distension, heat, and emptiness.
• Aids in reducing colicky pain and liver sensitivity, better from rubbing.
• Treats rumbling, shifting flatus especially in the ascending colon.
• Manages discomfort where patient prefers lying on the stomach.
• Treats diarrhea early in the morning, especially in teething children—green, watery, profuse, and offensive.
• Helps manage painless cholera morbus and cholera infantum.
• Aids in treating prolapse of the rectum before or during stool.
• Manages constipation with hard, clay-colored, dry difficult stools.
• Helps regulate bowel patterns alternating between constipation and diarrhea.
• Supports relief from internal and external piles due to venous stasis.

Female Health

• Treats uterine pain and right ovarian discomfort with abdominal rumbling.
• Helps in relieving pelvic tenesmus and suppressed menses.
• Supports uterine prolapse especially post-partum.
• Aids in managing hemorrhoids and rectal issues during pregnancy.

Urinary Tract & Rectal Irritations

• Painful scanty urination with frequent voidings. Aids in reducing frequent rectal urging with prolapse tendency.
• Treats burning and straining rectal symptoms, especially in infants.
• Helps in managing sluggish bowel movements with dry, difficult evacuation and yellow colored urine with red sediments

Musculoskeletal & Nerve Weakness

• Treats pain under the right scapula, loins, and lumbar area.
• Helps relieve right-sided groin pain radiating to the inner thigh.
• Aids in managing paralytic weakness, especially on the left side.

Circulation & Fever

• Podophyllum peltatum treats chills at 7 a.m. with hypochondriac and joint pains.
• Manages feverish stages with profuse sweating.
• Supports emotional symptoms like excessive talking during fever episodes.