Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Erigeron Canadense erig.
General
A tincture is made of the entire fresh plant of Erigeron Canadense, L.
Generalities
Languor all day and depressed spirits; left in morning; in afternoon and evening, and no ambition to move; with aching in all large joints. ▶ Symptoms every morning.
Head and Eyes
Headache on waking, with aching in large joints. ▶ Pain in forehead at 9 P.M.; pain in F., with smarting of eyes; in F. and right eye on waking. ▶ Smarting of eyes in afternoon and evening. ▶ Agglutination of lids in morning.
Nose, Mouth and Throat
Nasal mucus increased in forenoon, with roughness in pharynx and sensation as if something had lodged in upper part of œsophagus that caused frequent inclination to swallow. ▶ Bad taste. ▶ Sore throat; all night, with frequent inclination to swallow and feeling as if something had lodged in upper part of œsophagus. ▶ Roughness of pharynx; in morning. ▶ Dryness of pharynx at 9 P.M.
Stomach and Abdomen
Eructations of air. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Intermittent cutting in epigastric region at 2 P.M., then dull pain. ▶ Drawing pain in abdomen. ▶ Frequent rumbling pain in A., with aching in lumbar region. ▶ Rheumatic pains in abdominal muscles. ▶ Cutting in right side of umbilicus. ▶ Pain in umbilicus; right; frequent in left; frequent pain in region of U., with feeling as if anus had been torn; sudden P. in region of U. when walking, with pain in lower dorsal region and singing in right ear. ▶ Distress in U. region; frequently with aching in whole dorsal region. ▶ Pain in left hypogastrium and umbilicus; in hypogastrium then a dark, hard, lumpy stool; sudden, in H., then a mushy stool.
Stool and Urine
Loose stool; at noon after a natural one in the morning. ▶ Mushy S.; next day none. ▶ Hard, lumpy S. ▶ S. omitted. ▶ Natural S., then neuralgia in anus and tenesmus. ▶ Urging to urinate, waking at 4 P.M. ▶ Urine increased and pale; and turns litmus-paper red.
Clinical
Persistent hæmorrhage from bladder, in stone in bladder. ▶ Chronic gonorrhœa, with burning micturition, which is offensive, continual dribbling, smarting, burning, etc. ▶ Post-partum hæmorrhages. ▶ Hæmorrhages from uterus, with painful micturition (Compare with Mitchella.).
Back
Distress in dorsal region at 6 P.M. ▶ Aching in dorsal region; agg. right side; in afternoon and evening, and in lumbar region. ▶ Sticking in region of right kidney; left kidney, passing from left to right. ▶ Pain in lumbar and sacral regions in morning on waking. ▶ Drawing pain in right lumbar region at 9 P.M., passing to right testicle, then dragging pain in left hypochondrium.
Extremities
Aching in arms and legs in afternoon and evening; A. in all joints, with despondency. ▶ Drawing pain in elbow and right metacarpal bones in evening. ▶ Rheumatic pains in right thumb. ▶ Pain in hips at 9 P.M., on walking. ▶ Pain in knees in evening. ▶ Drawing pain in left ankle, agg. walking.
Sleep
Frequent disposition to yawn in afternoon and evening. ▶ Restless night, but no pain.