Hydrastis Canadensis

▲   GENERAL

Dose

Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation. Locally colorless Hydrastis Canadensis, mother tincture, or fluid extract.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Antidotes

Antidote: Sulphur ^Sulph. Useful after too much Chlorate of Potash for sore throat.

▲   MIND

Mind

Depressed; sure of death, and desires it.

▲   HEAD

Head

Sinusitis, after coryza.

Headache

Dull, pressing frontal pain, especially connected with constipation

Scalp

Myalgic pain in scalp and muscles of neck ( Cimicifuga Racemosa ^Cimicif.) Eczema on forehead along line of hair

▲   EARS

Ear

Roaring

Muco-purulent discharge

Deafness

Eustachian catarrh, with high-pitched voice.

Discharges from ear; thick

▲   NOSE

Nose

Thick, tenacious secretion from posterior nares to throat

Watery, Excoriating discharge

Ozaena, with ulceration of septum

Tends to blow nose all the time.

Discharge from nose

thick

thick and sticky, tough

yellow

from behind nostrils

sh-green

▲   MOUTH

Gums and teeth

Tongue white, swollen, large, flabby, slimy; Shows imprint of teeth (Merc Viv ^Merc.); as if scalded; stomatitis

Tongue

Ulceration of tongue, fissures toward the edges.

Taste

Peppery taste

▲   THROAT

Throat

Follicular pharyngitis

Raw, smarting, excoriating sensation

Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus ( Kali Bich ^Kali-bich.) Child is aroused suddenly from sleep by this tenacious post-nasal dropping

Goitre of puberty and pregnancy.

▲   CHEST

Respiration

Chest raw, sore, burning

Dry, harsh cough

Bronchial catarrh, later stages

Bronchitis in old, exhausted persons, With thick, yellow, tenacious expectoration

Frequent fainty spells, with cold sweat all over

Feels suffocating when lying on left side

Pain from chest to left shoulder.

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Yellow

Thick

and sticky

▲   SKIN

Skin

Eruption like variola

General tendency to profuse perspiration and unhealthy skin ( Hep Sulph Calc ^Hepar.)

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness, particularly Across lumbar region, must use arms in raising himself from seat.

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Sore feeling in stomach more or less constant

Weak digestion

Bitter taste

Pain as from a hard-cornered substance

Gone feeling

Pulsation in epigastrium

Cannot eat bread or vegetables

Atonic dyspepsia

Gastritis.

Gastroduodenal catarrh

Liver torpid, tender

Jaundice

Gallstones

Dull dragging in right groin with cutting sensation into right testicle.

Anxiety; after stool

Sensation as if diarrhoea would come on

Noises from abdomen; rumbling; as if diarrhoea would come on

Pain; as if diarrhoea would come on

Retraction

Stomach

indigestion

ulcers

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Prolapsed; anus fissured

Constipation, with sinking feeling in stomach, and dull headache

During stool, smarting pain in rectum

After stool, long-lasting pain ( Nitric Acid ^Nit-ac.) Hemorrhoids; even a light flow exhausts

Contraction and spasm.

Constipation; inactivity of rectum

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Gleety discharge

Urine smells decomposed.

Female

Pruritus vulvae, with profuse leucorrhoea ( Calc)

Female

vaginal discharge; ropy, stringy, clinging

vaginal discharge; thick

vaginal discharge; yellow

Genitals

Male; Gonorrhoea, second stage; discharge thick and yellow.

Female; Erosion and excoriation of cervix

C.); acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious

Menorrhagia

c.; Kreosotum ^Kreos.; Sepia ^Sep.) Sexual excitement

Tumor of breast; nipple retracted.

Menses

Leucorrhoea, worse after menses (Bovista ^Bov.; Calc Carb ^Calc)

▲   GENERALITIES

Generalities

Mucous secretions increased

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