Podophyllum 

• Source : Vegetable kingdom 
• Common name : Wild lemon, may apple 
• Family : Berberidaceae 
• Prover : Dr. Jeans
• Miasm : psora, syphilis 
• Temperament : Bilious 
• Side affinity : Right

Guiding symptoms + keynotes 

1. Also known as vegetable mercury. 
2. A/F : abuse of mercury, over lifting or over stretching, summer (diarrhoea) or dentition (diarrhoea). 
3. Profuse : Bilious vomiting and diarrhoea. With bitter taste in mouth. 
4. Painless : diarrhoea and stool in cholera. 
5. Putrid : smell from diarrhoea with undigested and yellow meal particals. 
6. Polychromatic : stool. 
7. Prolapse : of uterus due to over lifting. 
8. Prolapse : of rectum with stool. 
9. Prostration : due to loss of body water and energy due to diarrhoea.
10. Pyrexia : with great loquacity during fever.
11. Paroxysm : of fever at 7 a.m.

Liver

• Useful in jaundice and chronic hepatitis. 
• Dull burning pain in liver region with sour regurgitation. 
• Heartburn and acidic eructations worse from coughing. 
• Bitter taste in mouth. 

Rectum  

• Constipation :
• Constipation of little kids. 
• Dry, hard, clay colored stool, needs great strain to evacuate. 
• Constipation associated with piles and prolapse ani. 
• Constipation alternates with diarrhea 

• Diarrhoea :
• A/F : eating acidic fruits, summer, during dentition.
• Diarrhoea begins early in the morning, continues till noon followed by natural stool in evening.
• Alteration start with gurgling in abdomen with Colic and diarrhoea sets in. 
• Characteristics : painless, profuse, putrid, polychromatic stool with prolapse ani. 
• Cholera infantum.
• Aggravation : same as A/F. 
• Concomitant : with liver affection with headache.