Latin, Polygonum acre, P. hydropiperoides ;
English, American water pepper, Biting knot, Biting persicaria, knot weed, Smart weed, Water pepper, Wild smart weed.
An annual, aquatic herb, with fibrous whorled root. The stem is 1
to 5 feet high, branching, smooth, shining, more or less red, with
swollen joints. The pellucid-dotted leaves are alternate, petiolate,
entire, lanceolate, undulated with stipules in the form of sheathes,
placed above the swollen joints of the stem. The flowers appear during
the summer and autumn, mostly green, on nodding spikes, usually short,
or interrupted. The plant has a watery juice, so acrid as to act as a
vesicant.
Found in :-
Himalaya, abundant at 4 to 10,000 ft. from Sikkim to Kashmir, Sri Lanka, Nilgiri. Common in moist or wet ground of the United States.
Introduced into homoeopathic practice:-- |
By Dr. Payne, Trans M. Inst. Hom. 1859, 32. in 1859. ( Allen’s Encyc. Mat, Med. VIII. 136.)
The whole fresh plant.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Polygonum punctatum, moist magma containing solids | 100 gm
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Plant moisture 300 Cc. | = 400.
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Strong alcohol, a sufficient quantity | 730 Cc.
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To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.
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(b) Dilutions: 2x to contain one part of tincture,
two parts distilled water,
seven parts alcohol ; 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
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