Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Cistus Canadensis cist.

Allen (1889)In every bookSave

General

A tincture is prepared from the fresh plant of Cistus Canadense, L.

Generalities and Mind

Trembling with the fever. ▶ Bad effects from vexation. ▶ Aggravation from mental, excitement. ▶ Amelioration after discharging mucus from throat. ▶ Cheerfulness after supper, till bedtime.

Clinical

Has been used for swollen glands in general which become inflamed, indurated or ulcerated. ▶ Herpetic eruptions, scrofulous ophthalmia, offensive discharges. ▶ All the cases are extremely sensitive to cold.

It has been used for sore throat, mostly subacute, with intolerable dryness, agg. cold air, amel. swallowing liquids, great swelling of uvula and tonsils. ▶ Sore throat with a small dry spot, has to rise at night to sip water, feeling as if it were glazed with strips of tough mucus.

Diarrhœa from coffee, thin, yellow, urgent, agg. early in morning. ▶ Dysentery.

The windpipe feels narrow, has to open the window to breathe fresh air, agg. lying down, a kind of asthmatic attack.

Induration of the mammary gland.

Has cured white swelling of the knee.

Head

Aching, agg. towards evening, and lasting all night; oppressive, all day; A. in sinciput after being kept waiting for dinner, amel. after eating. ▶ Pressure above eyes. ▶ Weight above eyes. ▶ Aching in right side, with piercing pain in eye.

Eyes

Stitches in left. ▶ Feeling as if something were passing around in it, with stitches. ▶ Pressure in glabella. ▶ Spasmodic piercing pain in middle of upper rim of right socket, with headache on that side.

Ears, Nose and Face

Inner swelling in ears; with discharge. ▶ Discharge from ears of water and bad smelling pus. ▶ Swelling of parotid glands. ▶ Tip of nose painful. ▶ Left side of nose painfully inflamed and swollen. ▶ Burning in left nostril. ▶ Sneezing, without cold in head. ▶ Facial muscles feel as if they would be drawn to one side.

Mouth

Twitching stitching in decayed left upper molar. ▶ Gums scorbutic, swollen, separating from teeth bleeding easily, putrid, disgusting. ▶ Tongue sore, as if raw. ▶ Tongue and roof of mouth dry. ▶ Breath impure.

Throat

Swelling of glands. ▶ Hawking of mucus; of mucus which is lodged at head of windpipe. ▶ Inflammation and dryness, without dry feeling, with hawking agg. morning, of tough, gumlike, thick tasteless mucus. ▶ Tearing when coughing. ▶ Stitches whenever mentally agitated, causing cough. ▶ Pain on inhaling cold air; sore, in morning, with dryness of tongue. ▶ Feeling of sand. ▶ Feeling of softness. ▶ Dryness, agg. at night; amel. eating; with heat. ▶ Tickling, with soreness. ▶ Periodical itching.

Stomach

(Inclination for acid food.). ▶ (Desire for cheese.). ▶ Thirst with the fever. ▶ Eructation, with feeling as if it would relieve; cool E. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Pain after eating. ▶ Cold feeling before and after eating.

Abdomen

Puffed up, with flatulency in evening. ▶ Flatulence towards evening; at night; with discomfort. ▶ Emissions of flatus; in evening, as when air-bubbles rise in water. ▶ Internal coldness. ▶ Much flatulence in hypochondria, with pain. ▶ Stitches in left hypochondrium. ▶ Bruised feeling under hypochondria in morning, with flatulence.

Stool and Sexual Organs

Urging to stool, stool pappy. ▶ Diarrhœa; in morning; after fruit; after drinking coffee; thin, till daybreak, squirting, grayish-yellow then three more discharges before noon; (thin, hot). ▶ Itching of scrotum.

Respiratory Organs

Itching in larynx at night, with scratching, and with anxious dreams. ▶ Pain in windpipe. ▶ Cough, agg. mental anguish. ▶ Expectoration of bitter mucus.

Chest

Pressure on. ▶ Pain, and in throat; P., and in shoulder. ▶ Fulness. ▶ Rawness, extending into throat; in upper part, extending into throat.

Back and Extremities

Burning bruised pain in os coccygis. ▶ Pain in all joints. ▶ Bruised pain in all limbs, as from fatigue. ▶ Drawing in joints, especially in knees and fingers, with tearing; involuntary D. in muscular parts of hands and lower limbs with trembling feeling in them and with pain in wrists, fingers and knees.

Upper Extremities

Pain in from of right shoulder; in left S. in evening, and in chest, with feeling as if an eructation would relieve the pain. ▶ Piercing drawing pain in arm, extending periodically to tip of little finger so as to draw up the finger. ▶ Sensitiveness to touch on right arm and dorsum of hand. ▶ Sprained pain in wrist, drawing scraping. ▶ Pain in hand, in right in evening and in left shoulder; in right H. in afternoon, so that he cannot use it. ▶ Drawing trembling feelings when writing; in finger-joints. ▶ Pain in right finger when writing; in joints. ▶ Sensitiveness of finger-tips to cold, the pain agg. cold.

Lower Extremities

Drawing, trembling feeling. ▶ Pain in left buttock as from a blow or shock, extending down inside of femur, distinctly felt in knee, with spasmodic drawing together of calf. ▶ Pain in right thigh while walking. ▶ Pain in knees; in evening; when walking and sitting and in right thigh. ▶ Piercing pain in right great toe in evening.

Skin

Swelling, beginning at ear and extending half way up cheek. ▶ Inflamed spot below right scapula, extending round to front of body, with soreness to touch, then burning pimples, then rheumatic pain extending to left hip and into groin the pain agg. motion. ▶ Eruptions like zoster on back. ▶ Vesicular erysipelas in face. ▶ Formication evenings after lying down, amel. rising and opening window, with anxious, difficult breathing, both returning on lying down again. ▶ Itching all over body; on outside of throat near larynx; of abdomen and umbilicus; on back.

Sleep

Restlessness at night; with pain from flatulency, he could move the wind with his hands and hear it. ▶ Anxious dreams.

Fever

Chill, then heat; with trembling and with quick swelling and redness of glands below ear and in throat. ▶ Coolness especially in throat; on forehead; in nose. ▶ Cold feet. ▶ Heat, with thirst; in facial bones; in face in flushes. ▶ Moisture of skin in a warm room, with internal and external coolness in forehead.