Description

HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS – HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS

Source: Golden Seal (HYDRASTIS)

Acts on mucous membranes, relaxing them and producing a thick, yellowish, ropy secretion. The catarrh may be anywhere,-throat, stomach, uterus, urethra,-it is always characterized by this peculiar mucous discharge.

Hydrastis is active in old, -tired people, hectic people, with great debility. Cerebral effects prominent, feels his wits sharpened, head cleared, facile expression.

Weak muscular power,

poor digestion, and obstinate constipation. Lumbago. Emaciation and prostration. Its action on the liver is marked. Cancer and cancerous state, before ulceration, when pain is the principal symptom. Goiter of puberty and pregnancy. Smallpox internally and locally. The power of Hydrastis over smallpox seen in modifying the disease, abolishing its distressing symptoms, shortening its course, lessening its danger, and greatly mitigating its consequences (J. J. Garth Wilkinson).

Mind
–Depressed; sure of death, and desires it.

Head
–Dull, pressing frontal pain, especially connected with constipation. Myalgic pain in scalp and muscles of neck (Cimicif). Eczema on the forehead along the line of hair. Sinusitis, after coryza.

Ears
–Roaring. Mucopurulent discharge. Deafness. Eustachian catarrh, with a high-pitched voice.

Nose
–Thick, tenacious secretion from posterior nares to the throat. Watery, excoriating discharge. Ozaena, with ulceration of septum. Tends to blow their nose all the time.

Mouth
–Peppery taste. Tongue white, swollen, large, flabby, slimy; shows the imprint of teeth (Merc); as if scalded; stomatitis. Ulceration of tongue, fissures toward the edges.

Throat
–Follicular pharyngitis. Raw, smarting, excoriating sensation. Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus (Kali bich). The child is aroused suddenly from sleep by this tenacious post-nasal dropping. Goiter of puberty and pregnancy.

Stomach
–Sore feeling in the 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. Ulcers and cancer. Gastritis.

Abdomen
–Gastro-duodenal catarrh. Liver torpid, tender. Jaundice. Gallstones. Dull dragging in right groin with cutting sensation into the right testicle.

Back
–Dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness, especially across the lumbar region, must use arms in raising himself from the seat.

Rectum
–Prolapsed; anus fissured. Constipation, with a sinking feeling in the stomach, and dull headache. After stool, long-lasting pain (Nit ac). Hemorrhoids; even light flow exhausts. Contraction and spasm.

Urine
–Gleety discharge. Urine smells decomposed.

Male
–Gonorrhea, second stage; discharge thick and yellow.

Female
–Erosion and excoriation of the cervix. Leucorrhea, worse after menses (Bov; Calc c); acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious. Menorrhagia. Pruritus vulvae, with profuse leucorrhea (Calc c; Kreos; Sep). Sexual excitement. Tumor of the breast; nipple retracted.

Respiratory
–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 the left shoulder.

Skin
–Eruption like variola. Lupus; ulcers, cancerous formations. The general tendency to profuse perspiration and unhealthy skin (Hepar).

Relationship
–Antidote: Sulph. Useful after too much Chlorate of Potash for sore throat. Compare Xanthorrhiza apifolia; Kali bich; Conium; Ars iod; Phytol; Galium (cancer-nodulated tumor of the tongue); Asterias; Stann; Puls. Also Manzanita (diarrhea, gonorrhea, gleet, leucorrhea, catarrhal conditions).

Hydrastinum muriaticum-Muriate of Hydrastia (Locally, in aphthous sore mouth, ulcers, ulcerated sore throat, ozaena, etc.

Internally, third dec trit. Is a uterine hemostatic and vasoconstrictor; metrorrhagia, especially from fibroid tumors; hemorrhages; in dilatation of the stomach, and chronic digestive disorders). Hydrastis sulph 1x (hemorrhage of bowels in typhoid).

Marrubium-Hoarhound–(a stimulant to mucous membranes, especially laryngeal and bronchial; chronic bronchitis, dyspepsia, and hepatic disorders; colds and coughs).

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

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