Hydrastis Canadensis hydr.

MUCOUS GLANDS: Nasal cavities. STOMACH. Gall-ducts. Intestines. Muscles. Uterus.

AIR: Inhaling, cold. Dry winds. Open. Slight bleedings. Washing. Old age.

A mucus remedy; hawks up much mucus; mucus in stools, urine, etc. Atonic, cachectic or degenerative conditions. Shallow ulcers. Hæmorrhagic or CATARRHAL processes. Thick, yellow, acrid (Sanic.), ropy secretions. Sense of raw-burning. Weak, dyscrasic and emaciated.

Neuralgia of scalp and neck. Thin, yellow, sunken face. Nose; sore; bleeds; bloody crusts. Post-nasal dripping. Dirty, yellow, slimy, flabby, indented tongue (Nat-p. Yuc.). Taste bitter; burnt. Aphthæ. Loathing. Goneness or as of sharp lumps in stomach. Cutting from liver to r. scapula., < lying on back or r. side. Lumpy stool; coated or mixed with mucus. Obstipation; of pregnancy; after purgatives. Mucus in urine. Thick, acrid leucorrhœa. Ulcer of cervix. Loose cough; bloody expectoration. Raises quantities of mucus. Senile bronchitis. Palpitation, with weakness. Heat alternating with chilliness; profuse sweating.

Related: Ars. Kali-bi. Pul.

In nasal catarrh, secretions more from posterior nares; thick, tenacious, air feels cold in the nose. Stomatitis in nursing women or weakly children, especially after mercurius or chlorate of potash. Faintness at stomach, sinking, gone feeling. Gonorrhoea, second stage, thick, yellow discharge. Leucorrhoea, tenacious, ropy, thick, yellow. All mucous secretions tenacious, thick, yellow, erosions of mucous surfaces.

Golden Seal (HYDRASTIS)

Acts especially 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 especially active in old, easily-tired people, cachectic individuals, 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 principal symptom. Goitre of puberty and pregnancy. Small-pox 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).

Depressed; sure of death, and desires it.

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

Roaring. Muco-purulent discharge. Deafness. Estachian catarrh, with high-pitched voice.

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

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

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

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. Ulcers and cancer. Gastritis.

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

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

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

Gleety discharge. Urine smells decomposed.

Gonorrhœa, second stage; discharge thick and yellow.

Erosion and excoriation of cervix. Leucorrhœa, worse after menses (Bov; Calc c); acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious. Menorrhagia. Pruritus vulvæ, with profuse leucorrhœa (Calc c; Kreos; Sep). Sexual excitement. Tumor of breast; nipple retracted.

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.

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

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 (diarrhœa, gonorrhœa, gleet, leucorrhœa, catarrhal conditions). Hydrastinum muriaticum-Muriate of Hydrastia (Locally, in aphthous sore mouth, ulcers, ulcerated sore throat, ozæna, etc. Internally, third dec trit. Is a uterine hæmostatic and vasoconstrictor; metrorrhagia, especially from fibroid tumors; hæmorrhages; in dilatation of the stomach, and chronic digestive disorders). Hydrastin sulph 1x (hæmorrhage of bowels in typhoid). Marrubium-Hoarhound--(a stimulant to mucous membranes, especially laryngeal and bronchial; chronic bronchitis, dyspepsia, and hepatic disorders; colds and coughs).

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

Pain and very weak, faint, gone feeling in stomach, which is sometimes actually sunken.

Affections of the mucous membranes, where there is viscid stringy discharge; stomach, bronchi, uterus, etc.

Chronic constipation, that is remarkable for its absence of any other symptoms.

This is more celebrated remedy with the eclectics than with us. They especially value it for what they call its tonic properties and its specific action in the way of healing ulcerations in mucous membranes. We have also found it useful in such cases, but we have more decided indications for its use. For instance, in stomach troubles, where they attribute it curative powers to its tonic properties, we find it especially valuable only when we have this symptom present: "Dull aching pain in stomach which causes a very weak, faint, gone feeling in the epigastrium." The stomach is sometimes actually sunken (objectively). There are two other remedies that have this symptom to a degree almost equal, viz., Sepia and Ignatia, but Sepia is generally in connection with uterine affections while Ignatia is purely nervous. Hydrastis is a good remedy for chronic constipation. E. M. Hale taught that it must be used in tincture or very low dilution. I have found it most efficacious in the 200th. (B. & T.). I once cured a case that was of years' standing, had worn cathartics out, and all the way she could live (her words) was to swallow a spoonful of whole flaxseed with every meal. I have used it in infantile constipation successfully, and it is almost useful when all other symptoms aside from the constipation are conspicuous for their absence. Again, Hydrastis is indicated in affections of mucous membranes where there is a viscid stringy discharge. This is like Kali bichromicum, but the other symptoms of these two remedies are not much alike.

Chronic bronchitis of old debilitated people is sometimes greatly relieved by it; also leucorrhœa, with the stringy discharge as above described.

Hydrastis canadensis. Golden Seal. Orange-root. Yellow Puccoon. N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of the fresh root.

Alcoholism. Asthma. Cancer. Catarrh . Chancroids. Constipation. Corns. Dyspepsia . Eczema impetiginoides. Ears, affections of. Faintness . Fistula. Gastric catarrh. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhoids. Jaundice. Leucorrhœa. Lip, cancer of. Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Lupus . Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Mouth, sore. Nails, affections of . Nipples, sore. Noises in the head . Nursing-women, sore mouth of. Ozæna . Placenta, adherent. Post-nasal catarrh. Rectum, affections of . Sciatica. Seborrhœa. Stomach, affections of . Syphilis. Taste, disordered. Throat, deafness. Throat, sore. Tongue, affections of . Typhus. Ulcers . Uterus, affections of.

The so-called root of Hydrastis from which the tincture is made is really a perennial underground stem, thick, knotty, and yellow. The yellow colour is very intense, and it has been used by Indians as a dye. The plant is the only specimen of its genus among the Ranunculaceæ. It grows in shady woods, in rich soil, and damp meadows. The fruit is like a raspberry, and the plant is sometimes called Ground Raspberry in consequence. The medicinal properties of Hydrast . were known to the aborigines of America. The first mention of it in medical literature is by Rafinesque ( Medical Botany , 1828). Hale quotes him as saying that it is "tonic, ophthalmic, detergent," and that "it is said to enter into compound remedies for cancer, acting as a detergent tonic, and the Cherokees are supposed to use it in that disease." This is important as showing that the traditional reputation of the plant agrees with the results of later experience. For though by no means a specific in all cases of cancer, it is in cancer cases that Hydrast . has won its chief fame; and I think it may fairly be said that more cases of cancer have been cured with it than with any other single remedy. Thanks to the excellent provings that have been made by homœopaths and the careful observations of able practitioners, we are in a position to use the remedy with much greater precision than formerly. In very many cancer cases there is what has been termed a "pre-cancerous stage," a period of undefined ill-health without any discernible new growth. This stage is generally marked by symptoms of dyspepsia, and this frequently takes the Hydrastis type, which has been well described by A. C. Clifton. The facial expression is dull, heavy, sodden-looking; yellowish-white in colour. The tongue is large, flabby and slimy-looking; bluish-white under the fur (which is yellow, slimy, and sticky), and indented by the teeth. Eructations generally sour, at times putrid. Appetite bad, the power of digesting bread and vegetables especially weak and causing eructations. Weight at stomach, with fulness, empty aching "gone" feeling (this is a grand characteristic of Hydrast ., and it is constant , not occurring at special times like that of Sul ., &c.). < After a meal. The action of the bowels is either infrequent and constipated, or frequent with loose, soft, light-coloured stools. Clifton found this type of dyspepsia occur frequently in phthisical families, and often cured it; and even in cases of actual phthisis this type is not uncommon, the loss of appetite and "goneness" being especially prominent. In dyspepsia Clifton found the tincture and lower attenuations answer best; in catarrh of nose and fauces the higher were better. Catarrh of almost all mucous surfaces is caused by Hydrastis — nasal catarrh, pharyngeal, bronchial, gastric, duodenal, intestinal, urethral (gonorrhœa, gleet), vaginal. The characteristic catarrh is yellow (the leading colour of the drug) or white; tough and stringy. The action on the skin is no less marked. Garth Wilkinson found it externally and internally an excellent remedy in small-pox. Eczema impetiginoides, drying into crusts and burning like fire, has been cured with an application of one part Hydras . Ø to nine of glycerine. The burning was removed at once. (I once saw a woman, 60, who had been given Hydrast . Ø gtt. v. in water three times a day, after a week come out in a scarlet rash, raised and nodular, exceedingly irritable, especially at night. It was on every part of the body except the face, and was worst on buttocks and elbows. It remained out a week. The patient at the same time became very ill with sickness and general digestive disorder.) The skin may be jaundiced. There is excessive sweat, especially of armpits or genitals; offensive ulcers; chancroids; fissures. The female genital organs are very much affected: Metrorrhagia, leucorrhœa, pruritus vulvæ, scirrhus of uterus; of breasts; sore mouth of nursing-women; sore nipples. Weiss gave a woman, 31, who had had adherent placenta in several confinements in succession, Hydrast . 3x three drops daily from the fourth month during her last three pregnancies, and each terminated without adherent placenta. Four other cases of habitual adherent placenta were successfully treated in the same way. There is much backache of severe character in connection with many of the Hydrast . conditions. Sometimes it awakens patients in the night. Like many other "yellow" medicines, it has a marked action on the liver, causing jaundice and liver enlargement. Cases of cancer of the liver have been reported cured by it. Fulness, goneness, and constipation are the leading indications. The constipation of Hydrast . is a leading feature of the pathogenesis. There is torpor of the bowels; stools lumpy, covered with yellowish tough mucus; with the constipation continual pain in head, bad taste in mouth. Hydrast . has been a good deal used in bronchial catarrhs with the characteristic tenacious secretion. In one case an over-dose brought on a characteristic attack of asthma ( H. W ., xxxiv. 293). The dose was gtt xx of the liquid extract, and Miodowski, who reported the case, thought there was pulmonary œdema secondary to cardiac weakness induced by the drug. It is worthy of note that most remedies which powerfully act on the skin will also cause an asthmatic state. The symptoms generally are < at night. Skin symptoms are < from warmth; from washing, &c. The catarrhal symptoms are < from harsh, dry winds; out of doors. Rest > ; motion < . There is < by touch; clothing feels uncomfortable about groins. Pressure > many symptoms.

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Forgetful ; cannot remember what he is reading or talking about.
Irritable ; disposed to be spiteful.
Moaning, with occasional outcries from pain.
Despondency.
Depression of spirits, sure of death and desires it.

Feeling as if intoxicated ; headache ; weakness.

Dull, heavy frontal headache over eyes ; catarrhal.
Dull frontal headache, with dull pain in hypogastrium and small of back.
Severe frontal headache.
Sharp cutting in temples and over eyes ; < over left ; > from pressing with hand.
Dull, pressing pain on top of head, pressing outward from ears, at 10.30 A. M.
Vertex headache in paroxysms, every other day, commencing about 11 A. M., with excessive nausea, retching and anguish.
Headache of a nervous gastric character, almost constant.
Frontal headaches ; headaches arising from catarrh, gastric difficulties, indigestion, dyspepsia, acidity of stomach, as well as from bilious disorder, constipation, piles, uterine disorder, etc.

Myalgic headache, in integuments of scalp and muscles of neck.
Weeping eruption on forehead along margin of hair, after taking cold ; < from warmth of room after having been in cold air ; itching when warm ; < washing. θ Eczema.
Scalp and face covered with thick crusts, which upon removal, expose red, raw and infiltrated patches. θ Eczema.
Scalp caked over with a thick, sebaceous secretion ; hair dry and lustreless ; debility and insufficient nourishment after typhoid fever. θ Seborrhœa sicca.
Laceration of scalp above left temple, several inches in length, crescentic in shape ; wound suppurated and became a troublesome sore.

Dark greenish yellow colored conjunctiva.
Jaundiced eyes.
Lack of accommodative power of eyes and asthenopia.
Opacity of cornea ; scrofulous ophthalmia, with or without ulceration ; thick mucous discharge.
Profuse secretion of tears ; smarting of eyes ; burning of eyes and lids.
Pain and burning in eyes.
Inflammation and ulceration of conjunctiva.
Acute catarrhal ophthalmia, the result of daily exposure to harsh dry winds ; inflammation nearly extended to border of iris ; lids greatly swollen and excoriated ; profuse catarrhal secretion.
Ophthalmia : catarrhal ; scrofulous ; thick mucous discharge.
Chronic inflammation of eyes.
Mucous membrane of eyelids much congested ; profuse, thick, white mucous discharge.
Discharge of matter from eyes, resulting from catarrhal inflammation.
Conjunctivitis siccus with sensation of dryness and scratching, and feeling of weight and heaviness of upper lids.
Blepharitis marginalis.
Large painful stye on left lid.

Deafness.
Roaring in ears, like from machinery.
Tinnitus aurium, from catarrh of inner ear.
Membrana tympani purplish and bulging.
Perforation of membrani tympani.
Mucous membrane of middle ear eroded, granular and exuberant with polypoid growths.
Purulent inflammation of middle ear, with thick, tenacious discharge, more mucus than pus.
Bland mucous discharge, associated with dropping in posterior nares.
Thick, offensive, irritating catarrhal and purulent discharges from external auditory meatus.
Otorrhœa, thick mucous discharge.
Ears red, thickened and covered with scales ; skin back of each pinna red, thickened and fissured at their connection with side of head.

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Hydrastis is a slow, deep acting remedy, required in many trophic disturbances. where there is emaciation, catarrhal conditions and ulceration, even malignant ulceration. Defective assimilation.

When it is noticed that the stomach is the center of most of the symptom complex. The desires and aversions often give the key to a very complex totality of symptoms. In this remedy the sinking empty hunger with loathing of food is striking, strange, rare, and therefore Peculiar. It is characteristic because it is a general of the remedy, and is predicated of the patient. Great weakness prevails at all times.

Catarrhal symptoms with thick, viscid, ropy, yellow mucus, sometimes white, from any mucous membrane, with or without ulceration. Deep eating spreading ulcers upon the skin or mucous membrane, with thick, viscid, yellow pus. Induration in glands, in base of ulcers. False granulations that bleed much and easily, on the slightest touch.

This remedy has been very useful in the treatment of malignant ulcers. In such ulcers it is often a great comfort to the patient, even when it does not cure, as it removes the offensiveness, modifies the pain and restrains the destructiveness.

The burning so commonly found in such ulcers is a strong symptom of Hydrastis. When the weakness and emaciation have progressed together for months and years in chronic stomach disease, fainting comes on, and this is also found in Hydrastis. In chronic cases, when the tissues have suffered and not the mind.

The astonishing absence of mental symptoms except the general discouragement incidental to long suffering and weakness is striking. If it were carefully proved, most likely the mental loves and hates would come out. The symptoms are better during rest. Small wounds bleed and suppurate.

The headaches are only such as generally belong to stomach disorders, and prolonged nasal catarrh. They are not distinctive. It has cured eczema with thick crusts.

The eyes and face jaundiced. Ulceration of the cornea. Thick, yellow, viscid, mucous discharge. Chronic inflammation of lids. Inflammation, thickening, redness of margins of lids.

Otorrhoea with thick, viscid, purulent discharge. Copious mucous discharge. Catarrh of the Eustachian tubes with many noises in ears. Ears red, swollen, covered with scales; fissured behind where connected with head.

The nose is obstructed with stringy, yellow or white mucus. The air feels cold in the nose, and the membrane is raw and ulcerated. Ropy mucus is drawn from posterior nares into the throat. Rawness in both nares with constant urging to blow the nose. Coryza with discharge, scanty in room and profuse in open air. Bloody, purulent discharge from nose. Thick, white, or yellow mucous discharge. Large crusts constantly form in the nose.

The face is sickly, shrunken, pale, waxy, cachectic, jaundiced. It is of great service in epithelioma of face, nose or lip.

The tongue is yellow, large, flabby and spongy. Feels as if burnt. Ulceration of mouth, gums, tongue; spreading and burning. Aphthae in children and nursing mothers. Excessive secretions of ropy mucus; golden yellow. Excoriation of mouth. In old mercurial cases.

Catarrhal sore throat of long standing, granulated and ulcerated excoriated and burning. Thick, viscid, yellow mucus that can be drawn out in ropes.

No appetite; no thirst; loathing of food. Nearly all foods disorder the stomach. Spitting up the food by the mouthful (like Phos. and Ferr .). Vomits all food. Retains only water and milk. Eructations, sour, putrid, of food eaten.

Empty, faint feeling in stomach with loathing of food and obstinate constipation with no desire for stool, is a combination that must generally have Hydrastis. Pulsation in the stomach. Ulceration of the stomach with burning. For suspicious lump in region of pylorus. Weight in stomach after eating. The stomach seems to be only an ordinary sack; digestion is slow, and tedious. Fullness after eating, lasting a long time. The empty, sinking feeling is not ameliorated after eating. Sour vomiting. Chronic gastric catarrh. Slow digestion.

This must be a useful liver remedy, for the following reasons: The skin is jaundiced; the stool is light, even white, showing the absence of bile, and there is distress in the region of the liver. In chronic derangement of the liver. Liver enlarged, hard and nodular.

Cramping pains. Colic, Flatulence and distended abdomen. It has cured many of the usual conditions that generally attend bad digestion and torpid liver. Intestinal catarrh and ulceration. Sharp pain in region of spleen.

It has cured obstinate piles, ulceration and fissures of anus. Relaxation and prolapsus of anus. Chronic diarrhoea with yellow, thin faeces, even watery. Inflammation of anus. Stools, bileless, white, soft, acrid, greenish, much viscid mucus. Hard, nodular stools. Most obstinate constipation; no desire for stool for days.

Paresis of the rectum. It cures constipation, when the stomach symptoms agree. In old cases when enemas no longer act, when the faeces remain high up, or do not come down into rectum to excite desire, this remedy has been of great service. In constipation or diarrhoea with "goneness" in stomach, trembling in the abdomen and palpitation.

Urine scanty or suppressed. Chronic catarrh of bladder with much viscid mucus in urine, causing difficulty in flow of urine.

Catarrh of the urethra. Chronic gonorrhoea when the discharge remains yellow in spite of time. Copious, painless discharge. Relaxed scrotum and testes. Offensive sweat of genitals.

Thick, yellow, viscid leucorrhoea, sometimes white, sometimes offensive. Excoriation of vagina. Soreness in vagina during coition. Bleeding after coition. Uterine haemorrhage. Menses copious. Relaxed, dragging feeling in pelvis. Intense itching of vulva. Epithelioma of mamma.

Most obstinate catarrh of larynx, trachea and bronchial tubes, with copious, thick, ropy mucus and ulceration. Rawness in air passages. Catarrh of chest in old people.

The cough, is dry, hard; from tickling in larynx. Rawness in chest. Rattling cough. Thick, yellow, viscid, sometimes white, expectoration in old people, or when very chronic.

Palpitation from slowly progressing weakness. Weakness and stiffness in back in lumbar region, must walk about before he can straighten up the back. Must use the arms to rise from a seat.

Rheumatic pains in upper limbs. Weakness and rheumatic pains in lower limbs. Ulcers on legs and about ankles, with stinging, burning pains; high, hard edges; painful at night in warm bed; sensitive to touch. Oedema of feet.

Warmth and washing aggravate ulcers and eruptions. The skin, excoriates easily. Urticaria over body, aggravated at night. Fissures about mouth and anus.

For debilitated persons, with viscid mucous discharges.

Cachectic or malignant dyscrasia, with marked derangement of gastric and hepatic functions; broken down by excessive use of alcohol.

Cancer: hard, adherent; skin mottled, puckered; pains knife-like, sharp cutting; nipple retracted.

Nursing sore mouth; tongue large, shows imprint of teeth.

Leucorrhœa: ropy, thick, viscid, yellow; hanging from os in long strings (Bov., Kali bi.); pruritus.

Profuse discharge of thick, yellow, stringy mucus from nasal passages (Cor. r.).

Hawks yellow, viscid mucus from posterior nares and fauces; ulceration, after mercury or chlorate of potash; syphilitic angina.

Intermittent, tertian, quotidian; bilious, typhoid, yellow.

11 A. M.; 10 P. M. fever without chill.

Often depends upon organic disease.

Morning or evening; in back or thighs with aching; around shoulders and chest; pulse slow.

In flushes, over face, neck, hand. Great heat of whole body followed by great debility.

Profuse, offensive of genitals (Petr.).

Large, flabby, thickly coated white, shows imprint of teeth.

Cachectic; gastric or hepatic symptoms with jaundice, and bilious disturbances; bad effects of Mercury or Quinine.

For days before an attack sensation of entire goneness at epigastrium, with loss of appetite.

Vertex headaches in paroxysms every other day at 11 A. M. with excessive nausea, anguish and retching.

Typhoid; atony, torpor and retarded convalescence; insomnia, copious sweats, debility.

Forgetful; cannot remember what he is reading or talking about.
Irritable; disposed to be spiteful.

Feeling as if intoxicated; headache; weakness.

Dull, heavy frontal headache over eyes; catarrhal.
Sharp cutting in the temples and over the eyes; more over the left; better from pressing with the hand.
Dull frontal headache, with dull pain in the hypogastrium and small of back.

Vertex headache every other day, commencing at 11 A.M., with nausea, retching and anguish.
Eczema on margin of hair in front; worse coming from the cold into a warm room; oozes after washing.

Smart, burn; profuse lachrymation.
Opacity of the cornea; scrofulous ophthalmia, with or without ulceration; thick mucous discharge.

Roaring in the ears, like from machinery.
Otorrhœa, thick mucous discharge.
Membrana tympani purplish and bulging.

Tickling, like a hair, in the right nostril.
Coryza watery, excoriating; burning in the nose, more the right nostril; discharge scanty in the room, profuse out of door; rawness in throat and chest.
Sneezing, with fulness over the eyes, dull frontal headache, pain in the right breast and down the arms.
The air feels cold in the nose.
Secretion, more from the posterior nares, thick, tenacious.
Nosebleed, left nostril, with burning rawness; followed by itching.
Soreness of the cartilaginous septum, bleeding when touched; inner edge of right ala sore and thickened.
Ozæna, with bloody, purulent discharge.

Expression weary, dull, skin pale, or yellow-white.
Erysipelatous eruption following flushes of heat.

Aphthæ on the lips; tongue swollen.

Taste: flat; peppery.
Tongue: swollen, shows marks of the teeth; coated white, or with a yellow stripe.
Tongue as if burned or scalded, later a vesicle forms on tip.

Excessive secretion of thick, tenacious mucus.
Stomatitis after mercury or chlorate of potash; nursing women or weakly children; peppery taste; tongue as if burned or raw, with dark red appearance and raised papillæ.

Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus from posterior nares and fauces; rawness of fauces; ulcers in the throat; after mercury.

Indigestion from atony of stomach.
Bread or vegetables cause acidity weakness, indigestion.

Eructations of sour fluid.
Vomits all she eats, except milk and water. θ Cancer.

Faintness at the stomach; sinking gone feeling, with continued violent palpitation of the heart.
Stomach actually sunken, weak, faint. θ Marasmus.
Acute, distressing, cutting pains.
Chronic gastric catarrh.
Carcinoma, with emaciation, goneness.

Torpor of liver, with pale, scanty stools.
Liver atrophied. θ Marasmus.
Jaundice, with catarrh of stomach and duodenum.

Burning in the region of the navel, with "goneness", faintness, in the epigastrium.
Loud rumbling, with dull aching in the hypogastrium and small of back; worse moving.
Cutting, colicky pains, with heat and faintness; constipation; better after passing flatus.
Cutting in the hypogastrium, extending to the testicles, faintness, after stool.
Sharp pain in the cœcal region.
Sharp pain in the region of the spleen, with dull pain and burning in stomach and bowels.
Dull dragging in groins, cutting pains extending into testicles.
Pains in the groin, as if he had strained himself; clothing uncomfortable.

Fetid flatus.
Stool light-colored, soft, acrid, greenish.
Stool lumpy, covered with mucus; constipation.
Hemorrhoids; costive; even a light hemorrhoidal flow exhausts.
Fistula ani.

Dull aching in the region of the kidneys.
Urine: smells decomposed; increased and of neutral reaction.
Catarrh of bladder, with thick, ropy, mucous sediment in urine.

Debility, after spermatorrhœa.
Gonorrhœa, second stage, thick yellow discharge.
Gleet, debility; copious, painless discharge.
Dragging in right groin to testicle; thence of left testicle, thence to left groin.

Leucorrhœa tenacious, ropy, thick, yellow.
Ulceration of the cervix and vagina; leucorrhœa; debility; prolapsus uteri.
Pruritus vulvæ, with profuse leucorrhœa; sexual excitement.

Scraping in the larynx.

Dry, harsh cough, from tickling in the larynx.

Rawness, soreness and burning in the chest.
Bronchitis of old exhausted people; thick, yellow, tenacious, stringy sputa.
Phthisis; to relieve the goneness in stomach, emaciation, loss of appetite.

Palpitation, with faintness.
Pulse slow during the chill.

Muscles of neck feel sore.
Tired aching across small of back and in limbs; knees ache.

Pain from head to shoulders, with aching in both, more the left.
Rheumatic pains in elbow, forearms, right shoulder, and first fingers of left hand.

Pain from right hip to knee, while walking; cannot stand or bear one's weight.
Outer part of left knee aches while sitting, worse when walking.
Legs feel weak; knees weak; aching.
Aching in sole of left foot; no relief from change of position.
Atonic ulcers on the legs.

Limbs tired, ache, with coryza.
Shifting pains in right arm and leg, then left leg.

Motion: 19. Walking: 33. Sitting: 33. Change of position: 33.

Faintness, goneness.
Weakness, physical prostration.
Frequent sudden attacks of fainty spells, with profuse cold sweat all over. θ Cancerous ulcers on left side of throat, inside.

Awakened by backache and dull pains in navel and hypogastric region.
Dreams worrisome, restless sleep.
Difficulty in awaking.

Morning or evening: 40. 11 A.M.: 4. Evening: 40. Night: 46.

Room: 7. Out-doors: 7. Coming from cold air into warm room: 4. Washing: 4.

Chill morning or evening: chilliness, especially in the back or thighs, with aching; pulse slow.
Heat in flushes.
Great heat of the whole body.
Constant dull burning pains all the evening.
Gastric, bilious or typhoid forms of fever, with gastric disturbances, jaundice and great debility following.

Right: 7, 22, 32, 33, 34. Left: 3, 7, 19, 22, 32, 33, 34. Right to left: 22, 34. Above downwards: 19, 22, 33. Below upwards: 22.

Mucous membranes; secretions increased, tenacious, ropy; erosions.
Muscles greatly weakened; atony.
Marasmus.
Scrofula.
Cancer cachexia.
Cancers hard, adherent, skin mottled, puckered; cutting like knives; mammæ.

Pressure of hand relieves the head.
Clothing feels uncomfortable about the groins.
Touch: 7.

Erysipelatoid rash on the face, neck, palms, joints of fingers and wrist, with maddening, burning heat, later skin exfoliates; pains worse at night.
Lupus.
Variola, itching-tingling of the eruption; face swollen; throat raw; pustules dark; great prostration.

Old people: 28.

Antidotes to Hydrast. Sulphur (against the head symptoms and sciatic pains).
Bad effects from Mercur., or the chlorate of potash.
Superior to Arsen. in lupus; compare Kali bich.

A tincture is made of the fresh root of Hydrastis Canadensis, L.

A "catarrhal" drug, causing inflammation of all mucous membranes, with profuse discharges. ▶ It depresses the vitality, causing atonic as well as catarrhal dyspepsia, constipation and general weakness. ▶ Its action on the liver is marked; jaundice, and symptoms of inflammation resemble its near relative, Chelidonium.

Puls ., Stann., Borax., Chel., etc.

Darting pain occasionally in long muscles. ▶ Pain at night, but too sleepy to notice where. ▶ Tendency to take cold easily. ▶ Malaise. ▶ Languor; in morning; at 4 P.M.; agg. towards evening, with headache, and giddiness, and when walking falling; and ennui. ▶ Disposition to lie down. ▶ Dullness. ▶ All symptoms except the gone feeling amel. dinner.

The Hydrastis patient generally suffers from debility, constipation, atonic dyspepsia, palpitation, dyspnœa, and in a general way is subject to catarrhal discharge and ulceration of mucous membranes. ▶ Scrofulous affections, particularly marasmus in children. ▶ Malignant ulcerations (epithelioma). ▶ Retarded convalescence from typhoid fever, with loss of appetite, constipation, etc.

Affections active. ▶ Exhilarated; and desirous to sing. ▶ Sanguine and contented. ▶ Vindictive. ▶ Spiteful, amel. towards evening, and disposed to hit things in general; S. and angry, and desirous to snub any one who differed from me. ▶ Angry, and desirous to curse everything and anybody who bothered me. ▶ Fretful. ▶ Despondent, amel. "quiz" in evening. ▶ Gloomy, taciturn. ▶ Fearful that he will become sick all over. ▶ Dislikes to go out, to read, write, do anything. ▶ Averse to mental occupation, and memory dull. ▶ Forgetful when writing. ▶ Memory deficient; and head confused.

Aching on rising; after breakfast, with sensation as if brain were pressed against frontal bones; A. till sleep; with sticking through temples; extending from centre of brain to right parietal protuberance; bounding, throbbing; nervous, gastric, till noon. ▶ Heaviness, amounting to pressure, over root of nose. ▶ Fulness after breakfast, then aching in temples, agg. every step or sudden movement or coughing, with bursting sensation on ascending stairs or on sudden stooping. ▶ Confusion, with heat in it and loss of memory of recent events, the heat and confusion amel. pressing cool hand across forehead. ▶ Brain feels partially narcotized, then cutting darting through temples. ▶ Intoxicated feeling in morning.

▶ Pain; on rising at 6.30 A.M.; at 8.30 A.M.; in supraorbital regions at 8 A.M.; over left eye at 9 A.M.; with soreness in forehead, stoppage of right nostril, with aching amel. walking in open air, when watery coryza sat in, the latter stopped again in the room; above left eye at 10 A.M., always amel. laying hand on part, at night, and in temples; throbbing P. across sinuses. ▶ Bursting, almost stupefying sensation on waking at 9 A.M. amel. pressing skin towards middle of forehead and when in motion and when mind was engaged, agg. pressing skin towards temples on pressing in forehead and on wearing a light hat or loose hat drawn tightly. ▶ Heaviness, agg. over left eye at 9 A.M., in a warm room, amel. open air, with fulness.

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Debility.
General catarrhal discharges, and tendency to ulcerations.

Clinical:
Catarrhal inflammation, with profuse secretions; often smarting and burning, sometimes with swollen lids; opacities of the cornea.

Clinical:
Catarrhal inflammation of the middle ear and deafness, after scarlet fever.
Otorrhœa, with thick mucous discharge.

Discharge thick, yellow, watery, excoriating, with burning, rawness of the throat.
Catarrh of the posterior nares; the discharge drops into the throat.
Purulent and bloody discharges.

Aphthous sour mouth.

Sore, with increased mucus, with burning and rawness, extending to nose and chest.
Roughness in the morning on waking, worse swallowing.

Soreness over the stomach.
Sinking.
Acute pain.

Pain in the region of the liver, extending to scapulæ, with yellow skin, light-colored stools, etc.
Intestinal catarrh, with sinking in the stomach, discharge of mucus.

Diarrhœa.
Mucous or bloody stools, with symptoms of intestinal catarrh.
Constipation.

Clinical:
Catarrh of the bladder, with thick, ropy mucus in the urine.

Clinical:
Chronic gonorrhœa.
Hydrocele.
Pruritis of the vulva; hard nodular tumors of the breast, with lancinating pains.
Ulceration of the cervix, with prolapsus of the uterus.
Cancerous ulcerations of the uterus.
Hæmorrhages from the uterus, especially with ulcerations.
The leucorrhœa is almost always tenacious, rarely with albuminuria; with great prostration, palpitation, or with derangements of the liver, constipation, hæmorrhoids, etc.
It has been used successfully in chronic enlargement of the uterus (sub-involution).
Uterine fibroids.
Inflammation of the cervix, with heat and itching of the vagina.
Ulceration of the neck of the womb, fungoid; leucorrhœa profuse.

Clinical:
Laryngeal catarrh; mucous membrane pale, vocal cords relaxed.
Bronchial catarrh, yellow, tenacious mucus.

Hyd. / (Hide-Hiding.) / Hiram.

Hydrastis gropes,
Mid yellow ropes,
Of mucus in the flues.
In each 'orrhoea,
And sputa, he a
Tough ropy phlegm doth choose.
In nose catarrh,
The ropy tar,
Drops down to hawk and spit.
In indigestion,
His key suggestion
Is goneness at the pit.
Sub-inflammation,
With ulceration,
Infects his avenues.
And blood may flow,
From parts below,
In acrid stream profuse.
A jaundice state-
Sick headache fate-
With piles and caustive stool,
May well reveal,
The golden seal
For use in "our school."

Hiram,-Has a sinking, empty feeling at the stomach pit.

Hiram Po-pet, is on the vessel, "St. Ana," with the aged maiden lady, Dio Su Cim.

This Hiram,-Who is subject to Dyspepsia,- Is at Ova Bryan's, on his red pony, "Abies."

Sinking-Empty-Gone Feeling at the Stomach Pit: Hyd., Pod., Pet., Verat. a., Sep., Ign., Ana., Gel., Ustil., Pul., Dio., Sul., Cimi.

Indigestion-Dyspepsia: Hyd., Ova t., Bry., Sang., Pul., Nux. v., Abies, etc. (Sense of a "hard boiled egg" lodged in the stomach, Abies. -Feeling of weight like a "stone" Sep., in the stomach, Bry., Pul., Nux. v., Spig.)

Indicated in affections of the mucous membrane in any part of the body, as: eyes, nose, throat, yellowish discharge; also in conditions tending toward malignancy; in stomatitis, aphthous sore mouth; gastro-duodenal catarrh; chronic constipation, in old people; in many diseases of women, with tenacious, yellow leucorrhoea, inflammation, hardening, ulceration, chiefly of the cervix, fungoid growths, prolapsus uteri; gonorrhoea. Hard, nodular tumors in the breast, with lancinating pain.

Tongue, large, slimy, showing imprint of teeth.

Great debility; gastric inertia, constipation.

Nasal catarrh, with watery, excoriating or yellowish-green, thick, offensive discharge. Dropping of mucus into the throat.

Ozaena, with ulceration of the septum.

Faintness and goneness at the stomach, with sense of weight and bitter taste in the mouth.

Constipation, with weight and goneness at the stomach, malaise, debility and heavy pain in the rectum, persisting for a long time; haemorrhoids.

Pain lancinating (breast); like a distressing weight (rectum); with much heat and itching (vagina, rectum).

Worse from exposure to cold.