Eupatorium Perfoliatum

When writing upon ARNICA, I there compared several remedies which have a sensation as if bruised. This remedy might also have been mentioned there, as it has "BRUISED FEELING AS IF BROKEN, ALL OVER THE BODY." (ARNICA, BELLIS, PYROGEN.) The bruised feeling of EUPATORIUM is accompanied with a DEEP HARD ACHING, as if in the BONES.
- Dr. E. B. Nash

Let us quote some of the symptoms illustrating: 

"INTENSE ACHING IN THE LIMBS AND BACK AS IF THE BONES WERE BROKEN." 

"ACHING IN THE BONES OF THE EXTREMITIES, WITH SORENESS OF THE FLESH; SORENESS OF THE BONES." 

"SORENESS AND ACHING OF THE ARMS AND FOREARMS; PAINFUL SORENESS IN BOTH WRISTS AS IF BROKEN OR DISLOCATED." 

"SORENESS AND ACHING OF LOWER LIMBS; STIFFNESS AND GENERAL SORENESS WHEN RISING TO WALK." 

"CALVES OF THE LEGS FEEL AS IF THEY HAD BEEN BEATEN." 

"ACHING PAINS AS IF IN THE BONES, WITH MOANING."

These symptoms are all characteristic and may be found in influenza, bilious or intermittent fever, bronchitis, especially of the aged, and many other diseases. This is what gave the popular name "bone-set" to EUPATORIUM, because on account of the severe aching, as if the bones were broken, that occurred in an epidemic of intermittent fever this was the remedy that cured, or "set the bones." The epidemic was called BREAK-BONE FEVER. Of course this curative property of the drug was then discovered by accident, but abundant proving and verification have demonstrated the homeopathicity of such cures. So with APIS in dropsies. If this remedy has no curative properties other than it has for intermittent it would still remain a priceless boon to Homeopathy. It cures a kind of intermittent for which the great anti-periodic (Quinine) of the old school can do little or nothing.