Sanguinaria Canadensis

▲   GENERAL

General

Is a right-sided remedy pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the mucous membranes, especially of the respiratory tract. It has marked vasomotor disturbances, as seen in the circumscribed redness of the cheeks, flashes of heat, determination of blood to head and chest, distention of temporal veins, burning in palms and soles, and has been found very applicable to climacteric disorders. BURNING sensations, like from hot water. Influenzal coughs. Phthisis. Sudden stopping of catarrh of respiratory tract followed by diarrhoea. burning in various parts is characteristic.

Dose

Tincture in headaches; sixth potency in rheumatism.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, sweets, right side, motion, touch.

Better

Better, acids, sleep, darkness.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Justicia Adhatoda ^Justicia (bronchial catarrh, coryza, hoarseness; oversensitive). Digitalis Purpurea ^Digitalis (Migraine). Belladonna ^Bell.; Iris Versicolor ^Iris; Melilotus Officinalis ^Meli.; Lachesis ^Lach.; Ferrum Met ^Ferr.; Op.

Complementary

Complementary: Antimonium Tartaricum ^{Tart. Em}.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Rhus Tox ^Rhus Poisoning

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

▲   HEAD

Head

veins and temples are distended

Burning in eyes

Congestion (see pulsation)

Hot; flashes of heat; after chilliness

Pulsating

Headache

Worse RIGHT side, sun headache

Periodical sick headache; pain begins in occiput, spreads upwards, and Settles over eyes, especially right

Pain better lying down and sleep

Headaches return at climacteric; every seventh day ( Sulphur ^Sulph.; Sabadilla ^Sabad.) Pain in small spot over upper left parietal bone

Like a flash of lightning."

Pain, headache

with stomach complaints

recurring headache

sudden pain or sudden increase of pain

in forehead; above eyes; above right

back of head (occiput); extending to other parts; eyes

back of head (occiput); extending to other parts; forehead

▲   EYES

Eyes

Pain

right

daytime only

▲   EARS

Ear

Burning in ears

Earache with headache

Humming and roaring

Aural polypus.

Noises in ear

Pain; burning

▲   FACE

Face

Flushed

Neuralgia; pain extends in all directions from upper jaw

Redness and burning of cheeks

hectic flush

Fullness and tenderness behind angle of jaws.

Skin

discoloration; red

discoloration; red; during cough

▲   NOSE

Nose

Hay-fever

Ozaena, with profuse, offensive yellowish discharges

Nasal polypi

Chronic rhinitis; membrane DRY and congested.

Skin or lining of nose; polyp (growth up nose)

Discharge

Coryza, followed by diarrhoea

Sneezing

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Pain; burning, raw and smarting

▲   THROAT

Throat

Swollen; worse, right side

Dry and constricted

Ulceration of mouth and fauces, with dry, burning sensation

Tongue white; feels scalded

Tonsillitis.

Catarrh

larynx

trachea (wind pipe)

Dryness

Irritation

larynx

throat-pit

trachea (wind pipe)

Mucus; trachea (wind pipe)

Pain

burning

burning; gullet

Tickling in the air passages

evening

in bed

larynx

in throat-pit

in trachea (wind pipe)

▲   CHEST

Chest

Catarrh

Inflammation; bronchial tubes (bronchitis)

Lungs

tuberculosis; last stage

tuberculosis; full of mucus

Pain; breast bone; behind

Respiration

Oedema of larynx

Trachea sore

Heat and tension behind the sternum

Aphonia

Cough of gastric origin; relieved by eructation

Cough, with burning pain in chest; worse, right side

Sputum tough, Rust-colored, offensive, almost impossible to raise

Spasmodic cough after influenza and After whooping-cough

Cough returns with every fresh cold

Tickling behind sternum, causes a constant hacking cough; worse at night on lying down

Must sit up in bed

Burning soreness in right chest, through to right shoulder

Severe soreness under right nipple

Hemoptysis from suppressed menses

Severe dyspnoea and constriction of chest

Offensive breath and purulent expectoration

Burning in chest as of hot steam from chest to abdomen

Fibroid phthisis

Pneumonia; better, lying on back

Asthma with stomach disorders ( Nux Vomica ^Nux.) Valvular disease with lung development, phosphates in urine and loss of flesh

Sudden stoppage of catarrh of air passages brings on diarrhoea.

▲   COUGH

Cough

Dry cough

evening; lying down

flatulence

must sit up

Burping, belching

Flatulence

Hacking cough

afternoon

evening

after lying down

from dryness in larynx

while lying down

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); sensation of crawling; throat-pit

dryness from coughing

larynx

from irritation in air passages; in throat-pit

sensation of foreign body in throat; in wind pipe

While lying down

evening

must sit up

night

Intermittent; after whooping cough

Tickling

in throat-pit

in wind pipe

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Mucous

Noticeable smell; offensive smell

▲   SKIN

Skin

Red, blotchy eruptions; worse in spring

Burning and itching; worse by heat

Acne, with scanty menses

Circumscribed red spots over malar bones.

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Aversion to butter

Craving for piquant things

Unquenchable thirst

Sinking, faint all-gone feeling ( Phosphorus ^Phos.; Sepia ^Sep.) Spitting up of bile; gastroduodenal catarrh.

Diarrhoea as coryza improves

Pain over region of liver

Stomach

burping, belching

burping, belching; after coughing

burping, belching; empty; after cough

Nausea

Nausea, with salivation

Stomach; nausea; during headache

Vomiting

Burning, vomiting

Stomach

vomiting; during headache

vomiting; strong and sharp (acrid)

vomiting; bile; with headache

vomiting; bitter

vomiting; worms

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Flatulence

▲   GENITALS ETC

Womb

Uterine polypi

Genitals

Female; Leucorrhoea fetid, corrosive

Soreness of breasts

Climacteric disorders.

Menses

Menses offensive, profuse

Before menses, itching of axillae

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Rheumatism of right shoulder, left hip-joint and nape of neck

Burning in soles and palms

Rheumatic pains in places least covered by flesh; not in joints

Toes and soles of feet burn

Right-sided neuritis; better touching the part.

Movements and positions; lameness; upper limbs; right

Pain

rheumatic

upper limbs; right

upper limbs; night

upper limbs; rheumatic

shoulder

right

night

night; turning in bed

raising the arm

upper arm; rheumatic

upper arm; deltoid region (by top muscle of arm)

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Hectic fever

Stages of chill, heat and sweat; chill followed by heat

▲   GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

Generalities

Formication (like insects crawling around); internally

Lying down

lying down

lying in bed

Pain

burning externally; internally

pressing; internally

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