Condensed Materia Medica

Hydrastis Canadensis hydr.

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Mind

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

Sensorium

Feeling as if intoxicated; headache; weakness.

Inner Head

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.

Outer Head

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.

Eyes

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

Ears

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

Nose

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.

Face

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

Lower Face

Aphthæ on the lips; tongue swollen.

Tongue, etc

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.

Mouth

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.

Throat

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

Eating and Drinking

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

Nausea and Vomiting

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

Stomach

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.

Hypochondria

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

Abdomen

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.

Stool, etc

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

Urine

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.

Male Sexual Organs

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.

Female Sexual Organs

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

Larynx

Scraping in the larynx.

Cough

Dry, harsh cough, from tickling in the larynx.

Lungs

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.

Heart and Pulse

Palpitation, with faintness.
Pulse slow during the chill.

Neck and Back

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

Upper Limbs

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.

Lower limbs

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 in General

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

Position, etc

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

Nerves

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.

Sleep

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

Time

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

Temperature and Weather

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

Chill, Fever and Sweat

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.

Sides

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.

Tissues

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.

Contact, Injuries, etc

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

Skin

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.

Stages and States

Old people: 28.

Relationship

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.