Condensed Materia Medica

Cistus Canadensis cist.

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Mind

All mental excitement increases the suffering.
Bad effects of vexation.

Inner Head

Headache in the sinciput after being kept waiting for dinner; better after eating.
Headache generally grows worse toward evening and lasts all night.

Outer Head

Pressing pain at root of nose, with headache.
Pressure in the glabella.
Head drawn to one side by swellings in the neck.

Eyes

Scrofulous inflammation of long standing; feeling as if something were passing around in eye, with stitches.
Spasmodic piercing pain in the middle of the upper rim or the right orbit, with some headache on that side.

Ears

Watery, bad-smelling pus discharged from the ears; inner swelling of the ears.
Tetters on and around the ears, extending into the external meatus.
Swelling beginning at ear and extending half way up cheek.
Swelling of parotids.

Nose

Cold feeling in the nose.
Frequent and violent sneezing, mostly evening and morning; chronic nasal catarrh.
Left side inflamed and swollen.
Tip of nose painful.
Eczema of the nose.

Face

Flushes of heat in the face.
Vesicular erysipelas.
Heat and burning in bones.
Sharp shooting, intolerable itching and thick crusts, with burning on the right zygoma.

Lower Face

Caries of the lower jaw; with suppurating glands in the neck.
Open, bleeding cancer on lower lip.
Lupus exedens on mouth and nose.

Teeth

Twitching, stitching toothache in an upper left decayed molar.
Scorbutic swollen gums, separating from the teeth; easily bleeding, putrid, disgusting.

Tongue, etc

Dryness of tongue and roof of mouth.
Tongue sore, surface as if raw.

Mouth

Inhaled air feels cool to tongue.

Throat

Fauces inflamed and dry, without a dry feeling; tough, gum like, thick, tasteless mucus is brought up by hawking, mostly morning.
Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air, not from warm air.
Must swallow saliva to relieve the unbearable dryness, especially during the night.
Dryness in the throat, worse after sleeping.
A small dry spot in the gullet; worse after sleeping; must get up and drink; better after eating; throat looks glassy; on the back of throat strips of tough mucus.
Stitches in throat cause cough; when mentally agitated.

Desires and Aversions

Desire for acid food; for acid fruits; but pain and diarrhœa follow after eating them.

Eating and Drinking

Eating and drinking relieve dry throat; pain in sinciput less.
After eating: pain in stomach; cold feeling in stomach; after fruit or coffee, diarrhœa.

Nausea and Vomiting

Cold eructations.
Frequent nausea.

Stomach

Cold feeling in stomach before and after eating.

Abdomen

Cold feeling in whole abdomen.
Flatulence and bruised pain in hypochondria; evening and night.

Stool, etc

Thin, greyish-yellow, hot stools; squirting out; irresistible urging; worse afterpart of night until noon.
Diarrhœa from coffee, acid fruits; diarrhœa, with goitre.
Discharge of much flatus.
Chronic diarrhœa.

Male Sexual Organs

Itching on the scrotum.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia does not appear, after erysipelas.

Pregnancy

Induration and inflammation of the mammæ.
Let mamma inflamed, suppurating with a feeling of fulness in the chest; sensibility to cold air; scrofulous.

Larynx

Inhaled air feels cool, in larynx and trachea.
Chronic itching in larynx and trachea.
Pain in the trachea.
Goitre, size of hen's egg; frequent diarrhœa.

Breathing

Asthmatic, in the evening after lying down and at night, loud wheezing, sensation as if the trachea had not space enough.

Cough

From stitches in the throat; with painful tearing in the throat; the neck studded with tumors.

Lungs

Feeling of rawness from chest to throat.
Fulness in the chest.

Outer Chest

Hurts when touched.
Pressure on chest.
Small painful pimples, which bleed easily and heal slowly, across the shoulders and on the breast.

Neck and Back

Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of the glands of the throat.
Drawing pains at nape, and each side of spine, headache in the temples.
Scrofulous ulcers on the back.
Burning, bruised pain in the os coccygis, prevents sitting; worse from touch.

Upper Limbs

Violent pain in left shoulder and chest; feels as if eructation would relieve it.
Tips of fingers sensitive to cold air.
Tetter on the hands; blisters, oozing after scratching, with hot swelling.
Panaritium.
Hard, thickened places on hands of workmen; with deep, oblique cracks.

Lower limbs

Pains in knee and right thigh, walking or sitting.
Tearing in the knees; evening.
Hard swelling around mercurio-syphilitic ulcers on legs.
Piercing pain in the right great toe; evening.
Cold feet.
Swelling of left leg, ulcer thereon; skin copper-colored.

Limbs in General

Bruised pain, as from fatigue.

Position, etc

Walking: 33. Lying: 26. Sitting: 31, 33.

Nerves

Involuntary drawing and trembling feeling in muscular parts of hands and lower extremities, with pain in the wrists, fingers and knee-joints.
Trembling with the fever.

Sleep

Restless at night; pain from flatulence.
Sleeplessness from dryness of throat.
Anxious dreams.
On awaking, pain under hypochondria.

Time

Morning: 7, 13. Evening: 3, 7, 19, 33, 34. Night: 3, 13, 19, 37, 40. After part of night till noon: 20.

Temperature and Weather

Cold air: 13, 32, 46.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chilliness.
Chill succeeded by heat, with trembling, accompanied by a quick swelling and great redness of the glands below the ear and in the throat.
Cold feeling: in the abdomen; in the larynx and trachea.
Cold feet.
Heat with thirst, drinks frequently.
In a warm room, skin grows moist; forehead cool externally, with an internal feeling of coolness.
Night-sweats.
Sweats very easily.

Sides

Right: 5, 8. Left: 7, 10, 24, 32.

Tissues

Glands swollen, inflamed, indurated or ulcerated.
Scrofula.
Old ulcers.
Caries of the lower jaw.
Pains in all joints; drawing, tearing; worse in evening.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 30, 31. Scratching: 32.

Skin

Itching all over the body, without eruption.
Herpetic eruption on various parts.
Scrofula; extremely sensitive to cold air.
Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers surrounded by hard swelling; on the lower limbs.

Relationship

Bellad., Carb. veg., Phosphor., act favourably between repeated doses of Cistus.
Sepia cured painfully swollen nose, resulting from Cistus.
Drinking coffee after Cistus may cause diarrhœa.