Hydrastis Canadensis hydr.
General
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.
Type
Intermittent, tertian, quotidian; bilious, typhoid, yellow.
Time
11 A. M.; 10 P. M. fever without chill.
Cause
Often depends upon organic disease.
Chill
Morning or evening; in back or thighs with aching; around shoulders and chest; pulse slow.
Heat
In flushes, over face, neck, hand. Great heat of whole body followed by great debility.
Sweat
Profuse, offensive of genitals (Petr.).
Tongue
Large, flabby, thickly coated white, shows imprint of teeth.
Apyrexia
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.