SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS

HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Remedy Origin / Source
Natural

Clinical Applications

Complementary: Tart em.

Related Remedies
Justicia (bronchial catarrh, coryza, hoarseness oversensitive). Digitalis (Migraine). Bell Iris Melil Lach Ferr Op.

Key Symptoms & Indications

  • Is a right-sided remedy pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the mucous membranes, especially of the respiratory tract. It has marked vaso-motor disturbances, as seen in the circumscribed redness of the cheeks, flashes of heat, determination of blood to head and chest, distention of temporal veins, burning in palms and soles, and has been found very applicable to climacteric disorders. Burning sensations, like from hot water. Influenzal coughs. Phthisis. Sudden stopping of catarrh of respiratory tract followed by diarrhœa. Burning in various parts is characteristic.

Physical Symptoms

Head

Worse right side, sun headache. Periodical sick headache; pain begins in occiput, spreads upwards, and settles over eyes, especially right. Veins and temples are distended . Pain better lying down and sleep. Headaches return at climacteric; every seventh day ( Sulph; Sabad ). Pain in small spot over upper left parietal bone. Burning in eyes. Pain in the back of head "like a flash of lightning".

Face

Flushed. Neuralgia; pain extends in all directions from upper jaw. Redness and burning of cheeks. Hectic flush . Fullness and tenderness behind angle of jaws.

Nose

Hay-fever. Ozæna, with profuse, offensive yellowish discharges. Nasal polypi . Coryza, followed by diarrhœa. Chronic rhinitis; membrane dry and congested.

Ears

Burning in ears. Earache with headache. Humming and roaring. Aural polypus.

Throat

Swollen; worse, right side. Dry and constricted. Ulceration of mouth and fauces, with dry, burning sensation Tongue white; feels scalded. Tonsillitis.

Stomach

Aversion to butter. Craving for piquant things. Unquenchable thirst. Burning, vomiting. Nausea, with salivation. Sinking, faint all-gone feeling ( Phos; Sep ). Spitting up of bile; gastro-duodenal catarrh.

Abdomen

Diarrhœa as coryza improves. Pain over region of liver. Diarrhœa; bilious, liquid, gushing stool ( Nat sulph; Lycop ). Cancer of rectum.

Female

Leucorrhœa fetid, corrosive. Menses offensive, profuse. Soreness of breasts. Uterine polypi. Before, menses, itching of axillæ. Climacteric disorders.

Respiratory

Œdema of larynx. Trachea sore. Heat and tension behind the sternum. Aphonia. Cough of gastric origin ; relieved by eructation. Cough, with burning pain in chest; worse, right side. Sputum tough, rust-colored , offensive, almost impossible to raise. Spasmodic cough after influenza and after whooping-cough . Cough returns with every fresh cold. Tickling behind sternum, causes a constant hacking cough; worse at night on lying down. Must sit up in bed. Burning soreness in right chest, through to right shoulder. Severe soreness under right nipple. Hæmoptysis from suppressed menses. Severe dyspnœa and constriction of chest. Offensive breath and purulent expectoration. Burning in chest as of hot steam from chest to abdomen. Fibroid phthisis. Pneumonia; better, lying on back. Asthma with stomach disorders ( Nux ). Valvular disease with lung development, phosphates in urine and loss of flesh. Sudden stoppage of catarrh of air passages brings on diarrhœa.

Extremities

Rheumatism of right shoulder, left hip-joint and nape of neck. Burning in soles and palms . Rheumatic pains in places least covered by flesh; not in joints soles of feet burn. Right-side neuritis; better touching the part.

Skin

Antidotes: Rhus poisoning . Red, blotchy eruptions; worse in spring. Burning and itching; worse by heat. Acne, with scanty menses. Circumscribed red spots over malar bones.

Modalities (Better / Worse)

Worse (Aggravation)

, sweets, right side, motion, touch

Better (Amelioration)

, acids, sleep, darkness

Remedy Relationships

Follows Well

Bell., Mere., Phos., Sep., Sulph.

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SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS

Blood Root (SANGUINARIA)

Is a right-sided remedy pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the mucous membranes, especially of the respiratory tract. It has marked vaso-motor disturbances, as seen in the circumscribed redness of the cheeks, flashes of heat, determination of blood to head and chest, distention of temporal veins, burning in palms and soles, and has been found very applicable to climacteric disorders. Burning sensations, like from hot water. Influenzal coughs. Phthisis. Sudden stopping of catarrh of respiratory tract followed by diarrhœa. Burning in various parts is characteristic.

Head

Worse right side, sun headache. Periodical sick headache; pain begins in occiput, spreads upwards, and settles over eyes, especially right. Veins and temples are distended. Pain better lying down and sleep. Headaches return at climacteric; every seventh day (Sulph; Sabad). Pain in small spot over upper left parietal bone. Burning in eyes. Pain in the back of head "like a flash of lightning".

Face

Flushed. Neuralgia; pain extends in all directions from upper jaw. Redness and burning of cheeks. Hectic flush. Fullness and tenderness behind angle of jaws.

Nose

Hay-fever. Ozæna, with profuse, offensive yellowish discharges. Nasal polypi. Coryza, followed by diarrhœa. Chronic rhinitis; membrane dry and congested.

Ears

Burning in ears. Earache with headache. Humming and roaring. Aural polypus.

Throat

Swollen; worse, right side. Dry and constricted. Ulceration of mouth and fauces, with dry, burning sensation Tongue white; feels scalded. Tonsillitis.

Stomach

Aversion to butter. Craving for piquant things. Unquenchable thirst. Burning, vomiting. Nausea, with salivation. Sinking, faint all-gone feeling (Phos; Sep). Spitting up of bile; gastro-duodenal catarrh.

Abdomen

Diarrhœa as coryza improves. Pain over region of liver. Diarrhœa; bilious, liquid, gushing stool (Nat sulph; Lycop). Cancer of rectum.

Female

Leucorrhœa fetid, corrosive. Menses offensive, profuse. Soreness of breasts. Uterine polypi. Before, menses, itching of axillæ. Climacteric disorders.

Respiratory

Œdema of larynx. Trachea sore. Heat and tension behind the sternum. Aphonia. Cough of gastric origin; relieved by eructation. Cough, with burning pain in chest; worse, right side. Sputum tough, rust-colored, offensive, almost impossible to raise. Spasmodic cough after influenza and after whooping-cough. Cough returns with every fresh cold. Tickling behind sternum, causes a constant hacking cough; worse at night on lying down. Must sit up in bed. Burning soreness in right chest, through to right shoulder. Severe soreness under right nipple. Hæmoptysis from suppressed menses. Severe dyspnœa and constriction of chest. Offensive breath and purulent expectoration. Burning in chest as of hot steam from chest to abdomen. Fibroid phthisis. Pneumonia; better, lying on back. Asthma with stomach disorders (Nux). Valvular disease with lung development, phosphates in urine and loss of flesh. Sudden stoppage of catarrh of air passages brings on diarrhœa.

Extremities

Rheumatism of right shoulder, left hip-joint and nape of neck. Burning in soles and palms. Rheumatic pains in places least covered by flesh; not in joints soles of feet burn. Right-side neuritis; better touching the part.

Skin

Antidotes: Rhus poisoning. Red, blotchy eruptions; worse in spring. Burning and itching; worse by heat. Acne, with scanty menses. Circumscribed red spots over malar bones.

Modalities

Worse, sweets, right side, motion, touch. Better, acids, sleep, darkness.

Relationship

Complementary: Tart em.

Compare: Justicia (bronchial catarrh, coryza, hoarseness; oversensitive). Digitalis (Migraine). Bell; Iris; Melil; Lach; Ferr; Op.

Dose

Tincture in headaches; sixth potency in rheumatism.

Sanguinaria.

Sanguinaria canadensis. Blood-root. Puccoon. N. O. Papaveraceæ. Tincture of fresh root. (The resin, leaves, seeds, seed-vessels, powdered root, and expressed juice have also been used.) Acetum.
Clinical

Alcoholism. Aphonia. Asthma. Breast, tumour of. Bronchitis. Cancer. Catarrh. Chest, pains in. Climaxis. Cold. Croup. Deafness. Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Ear, polypus of. Flushes, climacteric. Gleet. Granular lids. Hæmoptysis. Headache. Influenza. Keratitis. Liver-cough. Menstruation, breasts painful during. Nails, ulceration of. Neuralgia. Œdema glottidis. Ophthalmia. Pharyngitis. Phthisis florida. Physometra. Pneumonia, acute. Polypus. Pregnancy, affections during. Pyrosis. Quinsy. Rheumatism. Rhus poisoning. Shoulder, rheumatism of. Smell, illusions of; loss of. Stomach, neurosis of. Syphilis. Tinnitus. Tumours. Vomiting. Whitlow. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

The Blood-root, or Puccoon, commonly found throughout the United States and Canada, is the sole representative of the genus Sanguinaria of the Papaveraceæ. It is herbaceous, has a thick, branching root stock, which creeps along underground; and in early spring sends up from the ends of the little side branches a single long-stalked leaf, and another stalk bearing a solitary flower. The leaf is wrapped round the flower-bud when it rises from the ground, and is bluntly five to nine-lobed, roundish at first, but afterwards kidney-shaped. The American Indians formerly used the orange-coloured juice of the root for smearing their bodies, and for staining various domestic articles. The plant has also been successfully used by American and French dyers (Treas. of Bot.). Hale says of the root: "It is succulent, and when cut or broken emits from numerous points on the transverse surface a light orange, or rather dark vermilion-coloured juice, which has a bitterish, acrid but peculiar taste, which remains long in the mouth and leaves a persistent burning in the throat. The juice of the stem is between a red colour and a yellow, as that from the stem of Chel. maj. is pure yellow, and that from Papaver somnif. [Opium] is white." It is well to bear in mind the parallelism observable between these three Poppies, no less in their medicinal than in their physical properties. The time for collecting the root is early spring or late autumn. An alkaloid, Sanguinarin (identical with Chelerythrin of Chelidonium majus), has been isolated, and the Nitrate of this has been studied separately. Hale refers to a paper by Dr. Tully, published in 1813, in which Sang. is described as being analogous in its action to Squills, Senega, Digitalis, Guaiacum, and Ammonia, which shows an accurate conception of its range. In doses of from eight to twenty grains of the powdered root, Sang. is an active poison producing Nausea; burning in stomach; tormenting thirst; faintness; vertigo indistinct vision; violent, spasmodic efforts of the stomach, free vomiting, followed by alarming prostration. S. L. Mitchell has recorded fatal poisoning of four workmen who drank the tincture in mistake for brandy. They were all soon seized with severe racking and burning pains in the stomach and bowels with intense thirst. "Burning" is one of the leading notes of the remedy, and is found in many different parts. Winterburn has published (H. M. vii. 532) two cases illustrating this indication in the region of the stomach: (1) Mr. F., 48, of sanguino-bilious temperament, energetic, refined, had been ill with pains in the stomach several months. A clairvoyant had recommended "a decoction of blood-root and bone-set in tablespoonful doses." Each dose produced "intense burning pains in the stomach lasting for hours," and it had to be discontinued. Several-weeks later Winterburn was consulted, and this is the condition he found: Burning in epigastrium, with pressure, < at night, but coming on soon after lying clown and compelling patient to arise. Eructations gave no >. Appetite great; bowels torpid, an unsatisfactory relief each morning, leaving a sense of discomfort. Peculiar drawing pain in shoulders and arms during sleep, so that when she woke the lists were tightly clenched and flexed on the sternal end of clavicle; lameness and weariness of the muscles followed. Sang. 200, chosen after careful comparison with Nux, Graph., and others, was given every night at bedtime. After the first dose the symptoms disappeared "like magic," and the patient was soon well. (2) Mrs. S., 30, a chronic inebriate, had been drinking steadily for three weeks when sickness and diarrhœa set in. Nux 1x aggravated the nausea. Ars. 6 checked the diarrhœa and relieved the intense thirst, but did nothing to allay the vomiting. Patient was irritable, angry. Everything she took, even water, was instantly ejected. About every twenty minutes she had a spasm or cramp of the stomach, with gagging and coughing, bringing up some frothy mucus. The straining caused great pain in chest and abdomen. There was, besides, the most intense burning, extending from the stomach up the œsophagus to pharynx, which felt swollen and dry. The only tolerable position was lying slightly turned on her left side. Lying on right side was impossible. Rising from lying = vertigo. Cheeks and hands livid. She believed she would soon die, and was unwilling to be left alone. Sang. 200 was given every two hours. By evening the nausea had ceased, but the burning pain remained as before. The smallest particle of food gave great agony; it seemed as if a spot the size of a florin was ulcerated, and any contact with this was excruciating. She slept better, but awakened next morning in a fright. Next afternoon she was able to take a little solid food, and from that time recovery was rapid. Burning is a leading note of Sang. Burning of eyes; of ears. Tongue and throat feel as if they had been burnt or scalded. Burning palms and soles. Burning in chest; between breasts, streaming from breasts to abdomen. Leonard (Min. H. Mag., ii. 295) says "a circumscribed burning in the chest, commonly followed by heat through abdomen and diarrhœa," is a strong indication for Sang. in pneumonic conditions. Sang. has also the circumscribed hectic flush on the cheeks, as in phthisis, in which it is frequently indicated. (Sang. has also the "hopefulness" of phthisical patients.) The flushed face, at times dark red or livid, is also a prominent feature of Sang., as it is of Op. Sang. affects the whole respiratory tract, irritates the nasal mucous membrane, and causes coryza, with pain at root of nose, lost or perverted sense of smell, and sensitiveness to the odour of flowers. Influenza, hay-fever, ozæna, and polypus have all come within its range. Laryngitis and membranous croup have been cured by it; and I have found it meet a greater proportion of the tracheal and bronchial coughs of epidemic influenza than any other remedy. The chief features are: Violent, dry cough; wheezing, whistling, metallic; sputa almost impossible to raise. I have seen several cases of this kind rescued from apparently imminent death by Sang., the relief conies by the expectoration of a thick plug of mucus which was causing suffocation, and which the patient was too weak to dislodge. Like Chel., Sang. is a right-side medicine, and affects especially the right lung; and is suited to pulmonary affections with liver involvement. After influenza children often get a cough scarcely distinguishable from whooping-cough. I have found Sang. the chief remedy for this. It is also the remedy for severe cough after whooping-coughthe cough returns with every fresh cold. Sang. also acts powerfully on the outer chest, sternum, and mammæ. Like Chel., it has a reputation for curing cancer, polypi, and new growths. I have seen breast tumours diminish under its action. Offensiveness and acridity characterise the discharges of Sang.; and the breath and flatus are also offensive. Menses offensive, flow bright red; later blood darker and less offensive. Before menses itching of axillæ. Eruption on the face of young women, especially during scanty menses. Climacteric disorders: flashes of heat; leucorrhœa; painful enlargement of breasts. The headaches of Sang. are of great intensity, and have some striking characteristics. They are (1) periodicevery seventh day; (2) begin in the morning, increase to noon, and then diminish; (3) are bursting, or as if the eyes would be pressed out; (4) begin at occiput, spread upwards and forwards, and settle over right eye; (5) like a flash of lightning in occiput; (6) > by sleep; (7) return at climacteric. Hering described the headache of Sang. as the "American sick-headache"rush of blood causing faintness and nausea, pains lancinating or throbbing. Can neither bear light nor odours nor least jar, as any one stepping across the floor; at height of headache vomiting of food and bile; pain so violent patient goes out of her mind or seeks relief by pressing head against pillow or with the hands. Cooper gives as a keynote: "If he goes without food, gets bilious headaches." Sang. has also neuralgia of the face > by kneeling down and pressing head firmly against the floor; pain extends in all directions from the upper jaw. The ears are strongly affected by Sang. Cooper gives me this case: Girl, 19, had her throat bad three years from scarlatina, and lately increasing deafness; noises all over head, and vertigo and sudden flushings in daytime; menses too frequent, and profuse leucorrhœa; it pains tier to walk from backache; had to give up teaching from this; appetite poor from the headaches and tinnitus; often has pain behind angles of lower jaw and swellings of gland. All disappeared after a single dose of Sang. Ø, though at first the leucorrhœa was increased. "Fulness and tenderness behind angle of jaws" is, according to Cooper, a keynote. Sang. causes many symptoms of rheumatism, but the most characteristic is a rheumatic pain in right arm and shoulder; cannot raise the arm, < at night. Pains in places where the bones are least covered. Peculiar Sensations are: As if paralysed. As if forehead would burst. As of a band across forehead. As if head were drawn forward. As if electric current shooting through head. As if temples and scalp were alive with irrepressible pulsation. As if eyes would be pressed out. As if hairs were in eyes. As if she was in a railway car which was moving and jarring her, and as if all about her moved rapidly and confusedly. Pain like drawing a rope on a windlass as tight as possible. Tongue as if burnt. Tip of tongue as if scalded. Tongue as if in contact with something hot. Throat as if swollen. Throat so (try it seems as if it would crack. Pharynx as if burnt or scalded. As if some hard substance in stomach. Constriction in pit of stomach as if suffocating. As of a mass in lower part of rectum. As if upper part of chest were too full of blood. Larynx as if swollen. F. Nichol in giving Hale his experience with Sang. in croup, says he used (following Paine, eclectic) a solution of Sanguinarin in vinegar, and he found that the most effective preparation. The symptoms are < by touch. [A painful sensitiveness is very characteristic of Sang.: Temporal veins painfully sensitive; head and eye very painful; nipples sore.] Hard pressure >; (must kneel down and press head hard to floor in neuralgia). Slightest jar <. Lifting = lumbago. Lying dawn > rheumatism and headache; but < cough and most other complaints. Cough <. Lying with head low < cough. Lying on left side >. < Lying on right side. Sitting up and passing flatus > cough. Motion; turning head quickly; turning in bed; stooping; coughing; exercise <. Cannot raise arm from side but can swing it to and fro (in rheumatism). Eating <. Going without food = headache. > Eructations (mind confused). Swallowing <. Vomiting > (Nausea; headache). Smoking = hiccough, < At night. > After sleep. Headache < by day, sunrise to sunset. Cold open air >. Cold room < cough. Damp weather <. The right side is more affected than the left. Symptoms go from right to left. Periodicity is very marked.

Relations

It antidotes: Opium. Compatible: Bell. (scarlatina). Compare: Botan., Chel., Op. In rheumatism of right deltoid, Mg. c. (of left, Fer., Nx. m.). Headache extending forward from occiput and settling over (right) eye, Spi. (left eye), Sill., Sep. (both eyes); extending forward, Gels., Lac c.; (backward, Anac., Bry., Chi. s., Naj., Nux). Headache > by hard pressure, Chi., Indg., Mg. m. Paroxysms of headache ending in profuse urination, Ign., Gels., Ver. Menstrual headache, Sep. (Sep. scanty flow; Sang. profuse). Offensive breath with cough, Caps. Faint from odours, Pho., Ig., Val., Nux. Right-side, throbbing, congestive headache, < light and noise, Bell. (Bell. has "cold feet, hot head," and is > sitting propped up; Sang. headache has more of the gastric form, and is > lying down), Meli. Periodic sick headaches, Ir. v. (Ir. v. every eighth day; every seventh, Saba., Sang., Sil., Sul.). Pneumonia, Ver. v. (more marked arterial excitement), Pho., Ant. t. (face livid, blood carbonised, rattling cough), Sul. (resolution imperfect).(Sang. has sputa very offensive, even to patient). Rheumatism of right ankle, Chel. > Lying left side, Lil. t. Painfulness to touch of parts where pain has been, Lcprs. Sensitive to sudden sounds, Brx. Jerking or jumping as from something alive in stomach, Croc. Physometra, Lyc., Bov. Liver-cough (Scil. spleen-cough). Pain in bones covered only with skin, Rh. ven. Laryngeal and nasal polypi, Sang. n., Pso., Teuc. Eruption on face of young women during scanty menses, Bels., Calc., jamb., Pso. Right-side complaints; right to left, Lyc., Chel. > By sleep, Pho.

1. Mind

Angry irritability; moroseness.Anxiety and dread preceding the vomiting.Mind confused, > by eructations.Mental torpor, stupor, heaviness, sleepiness.Hopefulness, sanguine of recovery.Disgusting ideas.Dreamy state with eyes open.

2. Head

Vertigo: terrible; when moving head rapidly and looking upward; with nausea, fainting, and headache; with ringing in ears; on rising from a sitting or stooping position; on quickly turning the head; with dim vision; with dull, heavy feeling in stomach as if caused by some hard substance there; in cold weather; during sleep; at climaxis.Head swims on lying down suddenly; gets pain l. side of back near waist, as from spleen; bowels confined; complexion spotty (cured in woman, 32.R. T. C.).Sensation of heaviness in head.Determination of blood to head, with whizzing in ears; flushes of heat; accumulation of water in mouth.Headache over whole head from 5 p.m. to midnight; then free; and then sickness (vomiting) from 5 p.m. to midnight (agg.R. T. C.).Headache, with rheumatic pains and stiffness of limbs and neck.Periodical sick headache; with vomiting of bile; begins in morning, < during day, lasts till evening; < from motion, stooping, noise, and light; only endurable when lying still, and > by sleep or after vomiting; esp. severe over r. eye.Headache returns periodically.Heaviness in head from vertex to centre of forehead, with pressing in glabella and buzzing in head; eyes dull.Terrific headache as if caused by approaching coryza which does not come, in forehead and middle of vertex, with pressure in eyes, which burn and are moved with difficulty.Terrific headache during the fever.Dull, pressive frontal headache.Headache as if forehead would burst, with chill and burning in stomach.Frontal headache extending into cheek-bones.Headache or neuralgia over r. eye.Headache as if it must burst, or as if eyes would be pressed out; > walking in open air.Headache with shuddering.Headache begins in occiput, spreads upward, and settles over r. eye.Pain in head in rays drawing upwards from neck.Headache with nausea and chilliness, followed by flushes of heat, extending from head to stomach.Headache with flushed face.Pains in head in spots.Pains in head, which pass rapidly from one place to another, like electric shocks.Pulsations in head (throbbing headache), with bitter vomiting, < from motion.Headache rising up from neck.Feeling as if head were drawn forward.Distension of veins on head, esp. on temples, perceptible to the touch and sore.Sensation of mobility in the scalp.Head very painful to touch; where pain has been.Distension of veins in temples; sore when touched.

3. Eyes

Neuralgia in and over l. eye.Burning and watering of r. eye, which is painful to the touch, followed by coryza.Acute conjunctivitis with ecchymoses, tending to trachoma.Blepharitis.Burning dryness in eyes; followed by copious lachrymation.Retinal congestion with flushed face and congestive headache.Yellow sclerotica, jaundice.Catarrhal ophthalmia, granular lids.Redness of eyes in morning.Hard swelling like scirrhus over eyebrows.Dim eyes, with sensation as if hairs were in them.Pain in eyeballs on moving them.Balls sore, with darting through them and dim vision.Violent twittering before eyes.Vapour or cloud before eyes.

4. Ears

Burning of ears, with redness of cheeks.Earache, with headache, with singing in ears and vertigo.Humming and roaring in ears with painful sensitiveness to sudden sounds in women at climaxis.Cracking in r. ear while stroking cheek.Every stroke of a hammer heard near a blacksmith's shop is painful to r. ear.Vein on r. temple swells up in woman, 50, subject to neuralgia and old vascular deafness; after Sang. Ø, one dose, hearing improves for six days strikingly, and then reverts (R. T. C.).Throat affections causing deafness and earache.Acts strongly on l. Eustachian tube (Hydrast. on r.); acts on ethmoid cells specially (R. T. C.).Increased redness of external ear, with humming and roaring in ears from increased circulation of blood through aural structures.Burning ears, cheeks red.Aural polypus.

5. Nose

Fluent coryza with frequent sneezing; < r. side.Heat in nose; coryza, rawness in throat, pain in breast, cough, and finally diarrhœa.Coryza, watery, acrid; with tingling; with heavy pain at root of nose and stinging in nose.Dry coryza, as from a sudden cold.Alternately fluent and dry coryza.Smell in nose like roasted onion.Rose-cold, with subsequent asthma; sick and faint from odour of flowers.Loss of smell and taste.Dislike to odour of syrup.Nasal polypus.

6. Face

Circumscribed redness of one or both cheeks.Paleness of face, with disposition to vomit.Pain in cheek.Stitches l. side of face with pains in forehead.Neuralgia in upper jaw, extending to nose, eye, ear, neck, and side of head; shooting, burning pains; must kneel down and hold head tightly to the floor.Face bloated, with sensation of rigidity and fulness.Veins distended, feel stiff and sore to touch.Twitching of cheeks toward eyes.Stiffness of articulation of jaws.Fulness and tenderness behind angles of jaw (a keynote.R. T. C.).Red cheeks: with burning ears; with cough.Lips feel dry.Under lip burns, is swollen, hard, and blistered; blisters dry up and form crusts which fall off.

7. Teeth

Pain in hollow teeth, esp. when touched by food.Toothache from picking teeth.Pain in carious teeth after cold drinking.Looseness of teeth (with salivation).Bleeding, spongy, fungoid gums.

8. Mouth

Pricking on the point of the tongue.Tongue feels as if burned or as if sore; is coated white.White coated tongue with slimy, fatty taste.Red streak through middle of tongue.Tip of tongue burns as if scalded.Pricking in tip of tongue.Stitches in l. side of tongue.Crawling on tip of tongue followed by astringent sensation of whole tongue, on waking.Dry, acrid sensations, beginning r. side and extending over whole tongue.Prickling on tongue and hard palate as after chewing Mezereum.Sweet things taste bitter, followed by burning in fauces.Loss of smell and taste; with a burnt feeling on tongue.Sore on gums and roof of mouth.Fetid breath, clammy mouth, sticky teeth.White patches on mucous membrane.

9. Throat

Ulcerated sore throat, as if raw and denuded.Feeling of swelling in throat on swallowing, < on r. side.Throat feels swollen as if to suffocation, aphonia.Tonsillitis, promotes suppuration.Throat so dry, seems as if it would crack.Feeling of dryness in throat (with tickling cough), not > by drinking.Sensation in pharynx as if scalded by hot drink.Uvula sore and burning.Burning pharynx and œsophagus.Heat in throat > by drawing in cold air.Inflammation in throat.Warming sensation in fauces, esp. soft palate.Burning in fauces extending to centre of sternal region.

10. Appetite

Craving for he knows not what, with loss of appetite; wants piquant, spiced things.Loss of appetite with great weakness of digestion.Aversion to butter, which leaves a sweetish taste.Sugar tastes bitter and = burning.Tormenting thirst.Sweet things <, = burning.Soon after eating: feels empty; difficult breathing, nausea, waterbrash, lassitude almost to fainting, cold sweat to 12 p.m., after a little food.If goes without food, gets bilious headaches (keynote.R. T. C.).

11. Stomach

Burning in stomach, with headache.Inflammation of stomach.Sensation of emptiness in stomach soon after eating (faint, feverish feeling).Soreness and pressure in epigastrium; < after eating.Hiccough whilst smoking.Spasmodic eructation of flatus.Frequent fetid eructations with disposition to vomit and pale face.Pyrosis.Nausea, which is not > by vomiting.Extreme nausea with great salivation and constant spitting.Nausea with headache, and with chill and heat.Vomiting preceded by anxiety.Vomiting: of bitter water; of sour, acrid fluids of ingesta; of worms; with craving to eat in order to quiet the nausea.Vomiting and diarrhœa.Sudden attacks of constriction in pit of stomach as if suffocating.Goneness with sick headache.Jerking or jumping in stomach as if from something alive.Neurosis of stomach.Pain in stomach-pit extending down into bowels, causing rumbling.

12. Abdomen

Hot streaming from breast towards liver.Sensation as if hot water poured itself from breast into abdomen, followed by diarrhœa.Dull burning in r. hypochondrium and chest.Awoke with severe pain in region of spleen.Violent stitches in spleen.Pain in l. hypochondrium; < by coughing, > by pressure and lying on l. side.Jaundice.Liver-cough.Colic, with torpor of liver.Beating and spasms in abdomen.(Flatus, cough and sneezing.R. T. C.).Flatulent distension of abdomen, evening, with escape of flatus from vagina (the os uteri being dilated).Beating in abdomen.Induration in abdomen.Cutting bellyache from r. to l. of iliac fossa, thence to rectum.Throbbing in abdomen.Shooting pains through bowels extending to lower limbs, afternoon.Knife-thrusts in abdomen followed by watery stools.Cramp extending from place to place.

13. Stool and Anus

Ineffectual urging to stool; then vomiting.Urging to stool, afternoon, but only discharges of flatus.Distressing, cutting, spasmodic sensation in rectum in evening; recurred several days.In effectual desire with sensation of thick mass in anus; repeated several times in the day without stool.Diarrhœic stools with much flatulence.Copious apple-green stools with flatus (offensive) and sudden urging (agg.R. T. C.).Frequent discharges of very offensive flatus.Colic followed by diarrhœa.Diarrhœa with disappearance of coryza, catarrh, or pains in chest and cough.Stools undigested.Dysentery.Alternate diarrhœa and constipation.Constipation; stools in hard lumps.Hæmmorrhoids.

14. Urinary Organs

Dull, heavy pain across kidneys.Pain from kidneys penetrates r. iliac fossa, then shoots through sigmoid flexure to rectum.Frequent and copious nocturnal urination, urine as clear as water.(Retention of urine consequent on gravel and calculus.).Urine is thick and white next day (agg. from 200th.R. T. C.).Copious urination goes on all night with much > to chest symptoms (in a lady.R. T. C.).Very copious urine at night, with pain in l. hypochondrium; < from coughing; > from pressure and lying on l. side.Urine: dark yellow; high-coloured, red sediment.Ardor urinæ.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Burning in glans.Emissions two nights in succession; after which he felt very well.Gleet; old cases.Cheesy secretions from glans (syphilis).

16. Female Sexual Organs

Climacteric disorders, esp. flushes of heat and corrosive, fetid leucorrhœa.Burning of palms and soles at climaxis compelling to throw off clothes.Painful enlargement of breasts at climaxis.Abdominal pains as if menses would appear.[Delaying menses, chilliness followed by flushes of heat and occasional palpitation, faintness, vertigo, nausea, and violent vomiting, burning in œsophagus, neuralgia in r. temple, in l. chest (mamma) and lower extremities, occasional hacking cough and gastralgia.Carmichæl.].Menstruation too early, with a discharge of black blood.Menses: more profuse than usual; with headache r. side; at night time, very offensive, putrid, bright red, clotting, becoming darker towards end and less offensive.Amenorrhoea.Metrorrhagia.Dysmenorrhœa of feeble, torpid subjects, with tendency to congestion of lungs, liver, or head.Burning pain between breasts in afternoon, < on r. side.Shootings in bosom and pain in mammæ as from excoriation.The nipples are sore and painful.Stitches in nipples, esp. r.Sharp, piercing pain in r. breast, just beneath nipple; < deep breath, some dyspnœa.Pain in r. breast extends to shoulder, can hardly place hand on head.Threatened abortion, pains in loins extending through epigastric and iliac regions and down thighs.Hydrops uteri.

17. Respiratory Organs

Dryness in throat and sensation of swelling in larynx; with expectoration of thick mucus.Aphonia with swelling in throat.Œdema of larynx.Tickling in throat, evening, after lying down, with dry, hacking cough and headache.Crawling sensation extending down behind sternum. Tracheal irritation secondary to heart disease.Croup: hearse, muffled cough; complete aphonia; spasmodic cough, painful crowing, stridulous breathing.Cough dry, tickling in throat-pit.Distressing, spasmodic, exhaustive cough.Dry cough, awakens him from sleep, which did not cease until he sat upright in bed, and flatus was discharged both upwards and downwards.Continual severe cough, with circumscribed redness of cheeks, with pain in chest; with coryza, then diarrhœa.Coughs in old men with l. earache, and pains going from l. throat to ear.Expectoration: tough; difficult; rust-coloured; extreme dyspnœa; hepatisation.Breath and sputa smell badly even to patient.Pulmonary consumption, expectoration and breath exceedingly offensive.Whooping-cough.Severe cough after whooping-cough; the cough returns every time patient takes cold.Asthma: excessive dyspnœa; esp. after "rose-cold," < from odours.

18. Chest

Hydrothorax.Hæmoptysis.Pneumonia: catarrhal; chronic; r. side; l. side, with heart disease.Typhoid pneumonia, with very difficult respiration, cheeks and hands livid, pulse full, soft, vibrating, and easily compressed.Severe dyspnœa and constriction of chest, with inclination to take deep inspirations.Sharp stitches in r. chest.Stitches in lower part of l. breast to shoulder.Pain in breast with periodic cough.A shooting, sticking pain beneath sternum.Persistent pain beneath sternum and in r. breast.Intense burning between breasts, < r. side.Sharp, piercing, neuralgic pain half-way between sternum and nipple.Hot, burning streaming from r. chest to liver.Pain under l. clavicle on waking.Constriction across both breasts.Violent stitches under short ribs.Burning and pressing in breast, followed by heat through abdomen and diarrhœa.Pain in r. chest to shoulder; can only with difficulty place hand to head.

19. Heart

Painful stitches or pressive pain beneath præcordial region. Surging of blood and racing palpitation, with dry and burning skin.Weak feeling about heart.Metastasis of rheumatism (or gout) to heart from outward applications.Palpitation of heart.Irregularity of heart's action and of the pulse, with coldness, insensibility, &c.Pulse slow, irregular, feeble.

20. Neck and Back

Soreness of nape on being touched.Rheumatic pain in nape, shoulders, and arms.Pain in r. side of neck as if strained; in l. side.Soreness down muscles of back; pains shifting about; feels pain more when drawing long breath.Pain in inner border of r. shoulder-blade.Pain in sacrum from lifting; the pain in sacrum is > on bending forward.Pain in sacrum and bowels.

21. Limbs

Rheumatic pain in limbs, esp. in shoulders, arms, and thighs, and < at night.Burning in hands and feet < night.

22. Upper Limbs

Itching in axillæ before menses.Rheumatic pain in r. arm and shoulder, < at night in bed; cannot raise arm; motion (turning in bed) much < it.Pain in top of r. shoulder.Pain in r. deltoid.R. arm hung helpless.Coldness in body and r. arm.Burning of palms.Stiffness of finger-joints.Aching in ball of r. thumb.Fungoid growth between second and third metacarpal bones, protruding about a quarter of an inch out of palm.Ulceration at roots of nails on all the fingers of both hands.Panaritium, first r. then l. finger.Shooting pains from r. thumb to symphysis menti.

23. Lower Limbs

Rheumatic pain in l. hip.Rheumatic pain inside of r. thigh.Bruise-like pain in thigh, alternating with burning and pressure in chest.Stiffness of knees.Burning of soles, < at night.Rheumatic pains in limbs; pain in those places where the bones are least covered with flesh, but not in the joints; on touching the painful part the pain immediately vanished and appeared in some other part.(Have seen ulcers connected with carious ankles and shins change almost visibly after Sang.Gutteridge).Sharp pain in r. ankle and great toe-joint.Cold feet, afternoon.

24. Generalities

Great debility and weakness in limbs (esp. in morning on waking), whilst walking in the open air.Paralysis of r. side.General torpor and languor.An uncomfortable, prickling sensation of warmth spreading over whole body.Weakness and palpitation of heart; fainting weakness.Convulsive rigidity of limbs.We find this very useful where there is a pain rising from the back of the neck over the top of the head, running down into the forehead; this symptom may occur alone, or in connection with some other trouble (H. N. G.).Often useful for troubles occurring in females at the climacteric period of lifesuch as flashes of heat, &c. (H. N. G.).

25. Skin

Heat and dryness of skin.Itching and nettle-rash before the nausea.Old, indolent ulcers, with callous borders and ichorous discharge.Nasal polypi; fungus excrescences.Jaundice.Eruption on face of young women with menstrual troubles, esp. deficiency.Scaly eruptions, carbuncles.Rhus poisoning.

26. Sleep

Drowsiness causing mental and bodily indolence.Sleeplessness at night; awakens in a fright as if he would fall.Can't sleep without brandy.Slightest noise disturbs, yet is sleepy and dreamy. (R. T. C.).Dreams: of sea voyages, with sensation of being rocked; of business matters; frightful.

27. Fever

Pulse too frequent and full.Coldness of feet in afternoon, with painful, sore tongue; stiffness of knee and finger-joints.Chill and shivering in back, evening, in bed.Shaking chill.Chill with nausea, headache.Heat flying from head to stomach.Fever heat and delirium.Burning heat rapidly alternating with chill and shivering.Intermittent fevers; marsh fevers; nervous fever.Fever from pulmonary, hepatic, or gastric inflammation.Copious sweat; cold sweat.

Sanguinaria canadensis

Sanguinaria canadensis

Generalities

• Commonly known as blood root, is a RIGHT SIDED remedy, affecting the head, LIVER; chest and deltoid.

• It produces VASO-MOTOR DISTURBANCES, as is seen in circumscribed redness of the cheeks, abdomen, tongue etc.; congestion of blood to head, chest abdomen etc.; flushes of heat and general pulsations.

• BURNING HEAT AND EBULLITIONS.

• Mucous membranes become dry.

• Burning; in throat, under sternum; spots or stitches in chest; palms and soles.

• Burnt feeling; in tongue.

• Symptoms ascend or end in bilious vomiting.

• Internal rawness.

• Acrid, blood streaked or foul discharge.

• Lies on back with head elevated.

• Climacteric disorders.

• Bilious.

• Pains increase and decrease with the sun.

• Sudden stopping of catarrh of respiratory tract followed by diarrhoea.

• Polypi, nasal, uterine.

• Fungus excrescences.

• Sick and faint from odour of flowers.

• Pains in places where bones are least covered.

Worse

• Periodically - with sun; weekly; night.

• Climaxis.

• Odors.

• Jar.

- Light.

• Sweets.

• Motion.

• Looking up.

• Touch.

• Raising arms.

Better

• Sleep.

- Lying on back.

• Vomiting.

• Cool air.

• Passing flatus.

• Sour things.

• Lying on left side.

Mind

• Irritable, morose.

• Grumbling.

• Borrows trouble.

• Lassitude, indisposed to move or make any mental effort.

Head

• Pain over right eye; or Ascending From Occiput to Over Right Eye.

• Hemicrania, increases and decreases with the sun.

• Distension of veins in the temples.

• Pain in the occiput like a flash of lightning.

• Vertigo agg. looking up and moving head rapidly.

• Headache if he goes without food.

• Headache amel. sleep, vomiting and passing of copious flow of urine.

Eyes

• Burning in.

• Eye balls painful on moving them.

• Hard swelling over eyebrows.

• Lachrymation with coryza, tears hot.

Ears

• Burning in.

• Earache, with headache.

• Humming and roaring in the ear; painfully sensitive to sounds, at climaxis.

Nose

• Pain at the root of nose.

- Coryza; stopped, then diarrhoea.

• Nasal polypi.

• Rose-cold, with subsequent asthma.

• Sensitive to odours.

• Loss of perverted sense of smell, smell in nose like roasted onion.

Face

• Redness and burning of cheeks.

- Hectic flush, red cheeks.

• Neuralgia in upper jaw; radiating, amel. by kneeling down and pressing the head firmly on the floor.

• Fulness and tenderness behind angle of jaw.

Mouth

• Burnt feeling in tongue.

• Anterior tongue looks red like raw beef.

• Sweet things taste bitter.

• Palate feel scalded.

• Toothache from picking teeth.

Throat

• Sore, swollen, (right); pains to ear and chest.

• Burning agg. eating sweet things.

• Dryness of singers.

Stomach

• Craves; spices; knows not for what.

• Aversion to butter.

• Nausea; with salivation; agg. sneezing or blowing nose, amel. eating; followed by urticaria.

• Spitting of bile; gastro-duodenal catarrh.

• Stomach pains to right shoulder.

Abdomen

• Tension of epigastrium.

• Feeling as of hot water pouring from breast to abdomen followed by diarrhoea.

• Bilious, liquid, gushing stools.

• Flatulent distension; with escape of flatus from vagina.

• Jaundice.

• Cancer of rectum.

Urinary

• Urine dark yellow, with jaundice.

• Copious and frequent, clear agg. at night.

Female

• Climacteric disorders; esp. flushes of heat and foetid, acrid leucorrhoea.

• Soreness under nipple (right).

• Menses; offensive, profuse.

• Uterine polypi.

• Mammae sore; and enlarged; at climaxis.

Respiratory

• Larynx, full and dry; in singers.

• Cough; raises foul air; dry; from tickling behind the sternum; must sit up in bed; passes flatus with: amel. from passing flatus up and down.

• Expectoration; tough, rusty coloured, purulent; which agg..

• Burning in chest; as of a hot steam extending to abdomen, with cough.

• Cough, after influenza or whooping cough; returns after every fresh cold.

• Pain in right chest (from breast) to shoulder.

• Pneumonia.

• Phthisis.

• Asthma; from disturbed digestion, with acrid eructations.

Heart

• Weak feeling; irregular action.

Extremities

• Itching in axilla agg. before menses.

• Cutting pain or stiffness in right deltoid agg. raising or turning arm.

• Rheumatism of right shoulder and left hip joint.

• Pain in shoulder agg. night.

• Pain in bone near surface.

• Neuritis amel. by touching the part.

• Burning of palms and soles, agg. covers; at climaxis.

• Palms wrinkled.

• Aching and swelling of ball of thumb (R).

• Pain in arm amel. swinging arm to and fro.

Skin

• Dry: of jaundice.

• Acne; with scanty menses.

• Prickling heat spreading over body.

Fever

• Flushes of heat, rising into face and head; with headache.

• Sweat; burning, scanty.

Complementary

• Ant-t; Phos.

Related

• Bell; Phos.

Sanguinaria

Head:

Sick-headache begins in the occiput, spreads upward and settles over the right eye, < by light and noise, > lying quiet, and sleep, or pressing head against something hard.

General Face:

Circumscribed redness of one or both cheeks; cheeks livid (in typhoid pneumonia).

Respiratory Organs:

Expectoration smells exceedingly offensive even to the patient himself.

Respiratory Organs:

Continual and severe cough, with or without expectoration; always attended with circumscribed redness of cheeks.

Respiratory Organs:

Cough compels the erect position and ceases on passing flatus up or down.

Respiratory Organs:

Cough with circumscribed redness of cheeks, and pain in the chest.

Extremities:

Rheumatic pains in the right arm and shoulder; worse at night in bed; cannot raise arm; motion (turning in bed) makes it much worse.

Chill, Fever, and Sweat:

Afternoon fever with circumscribed red cheeks, 2 to 3 p. m. ; daily; burning of palms and soles; cough and expectoration.

Sanguinaria

Generalities

: Blood root is an old domestic remedy. A great many eastern farmers' wives will not go into the winter without blood root in the house.

In the cold winter days, when the coryzas come on, a "cold" in the head, throat and chest, then they get the blood root ready and make a tea of it. With them it is a routine remedy for "colds." They give it to combat all complaints, and there is no doubt but that even in this crude form it does break up "colds," because the provings show its relation to chest troubles and "colds" that go to the chest.

Head

: Periodic headaches, when the headache comes once in seven days it begins in the morning on waking or wakes the patient up.

It begins in the occiput and travels upward and settles over the right eye and in the right temple. It gets worse during the day and is aggravated by light, so that he is driven into a dark room and compelled to lie down.

Vomiting comes on and the vomited matter is bile, slime, bitter substance and food, and then comes relief of the pain. The headaches are, relieved from passing flatus up or down. If the patient suffers when he goes to bed with hot palms and soles, so that he must put them out of bed, this is an additional striking feature.

Take an individual who has missed his chronic headache, by some means, for a considerable time, but since then he has become increasingly sensitive to cold, and "colds" settle in the nose, throat and bronchial tube and these parts feel as if on fire, with rawness and burning; the expectoration is thick, tenacious mucus; disturbance of the belly, with much belching, and the belching is especially noticed after a violent attack of coughing.

It is not a very long acting remedy. When a periodic sick headache is interrupted by Sanguinaria, if a deeper drug, an antipsoric, is not given, the headache will return or something worse will come on, as Sanguinaria does not go deep into the nature of the case. I remember a case in which the patient missed his Sanguinaria headache and an epithelioma developed, which was cured by Phosphorus.

I am convinced that if Phosphorushad been given at the end of the attack the cancer would not have developed, as Phosphoruswas his constitutional remedy. If a chronic sick headache is interrupted the patient will tend to phthisis.

Chest

: Chest troubles come on and grow worse and worse. Its ability to palliate phthisis is very well known.

A patient much debilitated with bronchial catarrh; susceptible to cold, to every change in the weather, from change to damp weather, to every draft, to change of clothing; always taking new "cold."

There is burning in the chest behind the sternum; thick, tough, ropy expectoration; spasmodic cough, and every cough ends in belching; eructations of gas; empty eructations. If to the burning in the chest, the severe pains in the larynx and trachea when talking, and cough ending in belching, you add heat in the palms and, soles, Sanguinaria will patch him up and mitigate the trouble.

Many such cases get Sulphur, but to their destruction. There is a class of remedies that suits these phthisical patients better than Sulphur, Silicea and Graphites; remedies such as Pulsatilla, Sanguinaria, Senecio gracilis and Coccus cacti, which palliate, mitigate his sufferings, and may even build him up so that he could take a medium potency of a deep remedy.

But the deeper remedies ought to be avoided if the vital force is low, if the body is too much damaged to be repaired. Hahnemann warned against the use of Phosphorusin such cases of deficient vitality. Sanguinaria is a surface remedy; it does excellent palliation.

Nose and throat

: Catarrhal conditions of nose and throat, especially those due to colds and to poisonous plans; also rue colds.

The Sanguinaria patient has "rose colds" in June. Sensitive to flowers and odors; subjects with bay fever. Hay fever patients with burning in the nose, in the throat, as if dry; as if the mucous membrane would crack open.

Dryness and burning in the larynx, with hoarseness; dryness and burning throughout the chest, with asthma; associated with burning of the palms and soles. Examination shows the palms to be dry, wrinkled and hot to the touch; so, also, the soles, where the skin is thickened and indurated. Corns that burn; the toes burn and the patient puts the feet out of bed for relief.

Head again

: When the headache is present it seems to be a general congestive headache; although beginning in the morning, coming up the back and extending to the right eye, the whole head is hot and aches.

Sulphur, Silicea and Sanguinaria have periodic weekly headaches. Arsenicumhas a headache every two weeks. Not that these remedies will not cure other headaches, for Sanguinaria has also a headache every three days. The majority of headaches coming every two weeks are cured by Arsenicumor greatly mitigated in broken down constitutions. The attempt to cure a chronic sick headache should be made before the senile decline.

"Pulsations in the head with bitter vomiting; aggravated by motion."

The headache is generally aggravated by motion, but not so strikingly as in Bryonia. When the Sanguinaria headache increases. towards the afternoon or night, it becomes so severe he must go to bed; and the head becomes sore, and then a step or jar is extremely painful. A severe headache is likely to be disturbed by light, noise, motion, etc.

"Headache as if forehead would burst with chill, and burning in stomach."

"Headache over right eye."

This is a characteristic feature.

"Periodic sick headache; begins in the morning, increases during the day, lasts till evening; head feels as if it must burst, or as if eyes would be pushed out; throbbing, lancinating pains through brain, worse on the right side, especially in the forehead and vertex; followed by chills, nausea, vomiting of food or bile; must lie down or remain quiet; ameliorated by sleep."

Some of these things are not found in every case, but they all go to make up a Sanguinaria headache.

Pains

: All sorts of neuralgic pains; cutting, tearing, lacerating pains; as if the muscles were torn, or put on a stretch.

Tearing pains anywhere, neuralgic or rheumatic. Pains about the scalp, but more particularly about the shoulder and neck; stiff neck; cannot turn over in bed; cannot raise the arm, though he can swing it back and forth.

Pain streaks up the neck; pain in the deltoid. It prefers the right side, but also cures the left side. Rheumatic pains in the right shoulder so that ho cannot raise the arm, and all the muscles of the neck and back of the neck become involved; stiff neck. If the pain comes on in the day it increases as the day advances to night. Complaints are worse at night in Sanguinaria.

A patient comes to you after exposure to cold; he cannot raise the arm; it hangs by his side; pain worse at night in bed, worse turning over (as he uses the shoulder muscle to turn over). It is probably in the deltoid, but you need not speculate on the tissues involved.

It competes with Ferrum. All red-faced, highly-flushed people, who cannot raise the arm and have pain which is worse in the daytime, not night, and ameliorated by slow motion need Ferrum. Sanguinaria is not relieved by motion; it is aggravated by such motion as calls the arm into use. Ferrumhas relief from slow motion, aggravated from rapid motion and the pain comes in the daytime.

While Ferrumhas a uniformly red, plethoric face, Sanguinaria has a pale face. In the chest complaints Sanguinaria has a circumscribed red spot over the malar bones, such as seen in hectic patients.

Headache from stomach disturbances, overeating, rich food, drinking wine. Almost as useful as Nux in old drinkers. Those who disorder their stomachs and weaken their digestion by beer drinking; they cannot eat; vomiting of even a teaspoonful of water.

No food or drink stays on the stomach. Headaches associated with such troubles. Vomiting and diarrhea with complaints.

Catarrhal affections are prominent.

Chronic catarrh of the throat apparent thickening of the mucous membranes of the throat. Nose and pharynx fill with mucus. He hawks it out; there is a dry burning sensation, but the burning is most marked every time he takes a fresh cold.

Acridity of discharges is another feature. Acrid mucus forms in the nose, causing burning in the throat. Acrid, hot fluids eructated from the stomach, excoriating the throat and mouth. The diarrhea is accompanied by an acrid watery stool; especially in infants; the nates become raw and red. This burning extends all through the bowels; burning in the abdomen and stomach in old gastric troubles; vomiting of even a teaspoonful of water with burning; old gastric irritation; dyspepsia; all sorts of disorders of the stomach.

Tongue red and burns as if in contact with something hot. Burning in pharynx and oesophagus, burning in roof of mouth. Tonsillitis with burning.

"Heat in throat, ameliorated by inspiring cold air; throat so dry it seems as if it would crack."

This burning excoriated feeling applies to all the mucous membranes affected.

Patient suddenly taken w bed with a chill; burning in the chest symptoms of pneumonia; rusty expectoration; violent cough; every cough felt as a concussion at the bifurcation of the trachea; as if a knife were in the parts; as if torn asunder; and after the cough copious, loud, empty eructations. No other remedy has this.

"Nausea with burning at the stomach, with much spitting."

Nausea not relieved by vomiting. Keeps on vomiting and retching. Burns as if on fire. Arsenicis often given by mistake, because of the great burning.

"Vomiting of bitter water; of sour, acrid fluids; of ingesta; of worms; preceded by anxiety; with headache and burning in stomach; head relieved afterwards; with prostration."

Such symptoms occur in headache, disordered stomach, sour stomach. The sour stomach is manifested by sour eructations or sour vomiting. A patient often speaks of "a sour stomach," and you must find out whether be means sour eructations or sour vomiting.

He says he "spits up" sour food.

With the headache and many complaints Sanguinaria has a faintness; like a hunger, yet not for food. A sinking, faint, "all gone," empty feeling. It is like Phosphoruswith its "hungry headache."

Psorinumleads all others in "hungry headaches," but Psorinumwants to eat and cannot get enough.

Sanguinaria has a hunger, but it is not for food; aversion at the thought and smell of food. Psorinum can eat a wolf meal, and so can Phosphorus. It is a false hunger with the headache in Sanguinaria.

"Burning in stomach; with headache and chill."

Belching up of acrid fluids in asthma; hay asthma. Sanguinaria palliates asthma associated with stomach disorders. Do not forget Nux in asthma from stomach troubles.

Liver complaints; pains and aches and sense of fullness. Bilious trouble described in general terms. It seems as if the liver makes an enormous quantity of bile, but there is a gastro-duodenal catarrh, so that the bile is regurgitated into the stomach instead of going down, and it is eructated as bitter, green, yellow fluid; vitiated bile.

This is a peculiar thing. If you watch a chronic Sanguinaria patient you will notice that the stomach will be disordered for a week; spitting up bile much flatulence; sour hot eructations; then all at once this will disappear, and a diarrhoea, which fairly floods him, comes on suddenly; a bilious, liquid, gushing stool. Natrum sulph., Sanguinaria, Pulsatilla and Lycopodium cure this alternation of diarrhoea and constipation.

"Os uteri ulcerated; foetid, corrosive leucorrhoea."

"Distension of abdomen in the evening and flatulent discharges by vagina from os uteri, which was constantly open; at same time a pain passing in rays from nape of neck to head."

"Chronic dryness in throat, sensation of swelling in the larynx and expectoration of thick mucus when associated with dryness, rawness, burning and smarting."

"Whooping cough; constricted, spasmodic across throat beneath jaws; cough worse at night with diarrhoea."

Cough worse at night with diarrhoea is the feature this remedy is prescribed for.

"Severe cough occurring after whooping cough when patient takes cold, which partakes of the spasmodic nature of whooping cough."

An adult takes cold and has a spasmodic cough, like whooping cough. He says it is a stomach cough, because there is a gagging with it. In all there is burning and diarrhoea.

"Distressing, dry, spasmodic, exhaustive coughs, especially in children; worse towards night, lying down, going into a cold room to. sleep, feeling of rawness and burning in bronchi."

The trachea seems so sore, and it is sore; a bolus of food passing down the oesophagus can be plainly felt; he can outline the part where the food passes.

Sanguinaria.

Bloodroot. (Papaveraceae.)

The periodical sick headache; begins in morning, increases during the day, lasts until evening; head feels as if it would burst, or as if eyes would be pressed out; relieved by sleep. American sick headache, > by perfect quiet in a dark room ("tired headache" from over mental or physical exertion, epigea; sick headache < during rest > by rubbing, pressure, motion, Indigo). Headache begins in occiput, spreads upwards and settles over right eye (Sil., - over or in left orbit, Spig.). Headaches, return at the climacteric; every seventh day (Sabad., Sil., Sulph. - eight day, Iris). Neuralgia of face > by kneeling down and pressing the head firmly against the floor; pain extends in all directions from the upper jaw. Circumscribed red cheeks in afternoon; burning in ears; in bronchitis, pneumonia, phthisis. Rheumatic pain in the right arm and shoulder (left, Fer.); cannot raise the arm, < at night. Pains in places where the bones are least covered, as tibia, backs of hands, etc (Rhus ven.). Burning in pharynx and oesophagus. Laryngeal or nasal polypi (Sang. n., Psor., Tuec.). Climacteric ailments: flushes of heat and leucorrhoea; burning of palms and soles; compelled to throw off bedclothes; painful enlargement of breasts; when Lachesis and Sulphur fail to relieve. Asthma after the "rose cold," < from odors. Cough: dry, waking him at night and not ceasing until he sits up in bed and passes flatus; circumscribed red cheeks; night sweats; diarrhoea. Severe cough after whooping-cough; the cough returns every time patient takes cold. Eruption on face of young women, especially during scanty menses (Bellis, Cal., Eug. j., Psor.).

Relations

. - Compare: Bell., Iris, Mellil., in sick headache; Lach., Sulph., Ver. v., in chronic bronchitis or latent pneumonia. After Bell. fails in scarlatina. As a dynamic remedy for the narcosis of Opium.

Sanguinaria Canadensis.

Mind and Disposition.

Angry irritability ; moroseness.

Anxiety preceding the vomiting.

Head.

Vertigo, when moving the head rapidly and looking upward, with nausea ; ringing in the ears.

Congestion of blood to the head, with ringing in the ears ; flushes of heat accumulation of water in the mouth.

[5] Headache, with rheumatic pains and stiffness of the limbs and neck.

Sick headache, with vomiting (of bile), beginning in the morning, increasing during the day ; worse from motion, stooping, noise, and light ; only endurable when lying and relieved by sleep or after vomiting ; especially severe over the right eye, -the headache returns periodically.

Pains in the head, in spots.

Pulsations in the head, with bitter vomiting, worse from motion.

The headache rises up from the neck.

[10] Feeling as if the head were drawn forward.

Distention of the veins on the head, especially on the temples, perceptible to the touch.

Eyes.

Burning and watering of the right eye, which is painful to the touch, followed by coryza.

Dim eyes, with the sensation as if hairs were in them.

Frequent obscuration of vision.

Ears.

[15] Burning of the ears, with redness of the cheeks.

Nose.

Heat in the nose ; coryza, rawness in the throat, pain in the breast, cough, and finally diarrhoea.

Loss of smell.

Dislike to the odor of syrup.

Nasal polypus.

Face, Mouth and Throat.

Stiffness of the articulation of the jaws.

[20] Pain in hollow teeth, especially when touched by food.

Toothache from picking the teeth.

Pain in the carious teeth after cold drinking.

Looseness of the teeth (with salivation).

Feeling of dryness of the lips.

[25] Pricking on the point of the tongue.

Tongue feels as if burned, or as if sore ; is coated white.

Ulcerated sore throat.

Feeling of swelling in the throat on swallowing.

Feeling of dryness in the throat, not relieved by drinking.

[30] Heat in the throat alleviated by the inspiration of cold air.

Loss of smell and taste.

Stomach and Abdomen.

Craving for he knows not what, with loss of appetite ; craving for piquant food.

Burning in the stomach with headache.

Sensation of emptiness in the stomach soon after, eating.

[35] Inflammation of the stomach.

Nausea, which is not diminished by vomiting.

Extreme nausea, with great salivation and constant spitting.

Nausea, with headache, and with chill and heat.

Spasmodic eructation of flatus.

[40] Hiccough (while smoking tobacco).

Vomiting preceded by anxiety.

Vomiting of bitter water ; of worms ; with craving to cat, in order to quiet the nausea.

Vomiting and diarrhoea.

Pain in the left hypochondrium ; worse by coughing, better by pressure and lying on the left side.

SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS

REGION:
RIGHT SIDE: Head. LIVER. Chest. Deltoid.
VASO-MOTORS.
Capillaries.
Mucous membranes.
Stomach.

WORSE:
Periodically
: WITH SUN. Weekly. Night.
Climaxis.
Odors.
Jar.
Light.
Raising arms.
Looking up.

BETTER:
SLEEP.
Lying on back.
Vomiting.
Cool air.
Passing flatus.

Redness; abdominal; tongue, etc. BURNING HEAT AND EBULLITIONS. Dry mucous membranes. Burnt feeling; tongue. Burning; in throat; under sternum; spot or stitches in chest; palms and soles, etc. General pulsation. Congestion; to head, abdomen, chest, etc. Symptoms ascend, or end in bilious vomiting. Migraine. Internal rawness. Acrid, blood-streaked or foul discharges. Lies on back with head elevated. .................... Irritable and bilious. Grumbling. Borrows trouble. Pain over r. eye or ASCENDS FROM OCCIPUT TO OVER R. EYE, > free urination. Sun pains. Swelled temporal veins. Pain at root of nose. Coryza; stopped, then diarrhœa. Sensitive to odors. Red, burning cheeks. Hectic spot. Full and tender behind angle of jaw. Anterior tongue looks red, like raw beef. Palate feels scalded. Sorethroat (r); pains to ear and chest. Craves spices. Averse to butter. Nausea, < sneezing or blowing nose, > eating. Tension in epigastrium. Stomach pains to r. shoulder. Bilious or gushing stools. Acrid leucorrhœa. Larynx full and dry; in singers. Coughs; raises foul air, tough, bloody plugs or purulent sputum, or passes flatus; dry, tickling - behind sternum, in evening. Pneumonia. Phthisis. Itching axillæ, < before menses. Cutting, stiff r. deltoid, < raising or turning arm. Omodynia; < night. Wrinkled palms. Dry skin; of jaundice. Polypi. Pain in bones near surface. Flushes of heat, rising into face and head; with headache. Burning, scanty sweat. General pulsation. Heat of palms and soles, < covers.

 

REMEDY RELATION

Complementary: Ant-t. Pho.

Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights

"I know of no remedy to take the place of SANGUINARIA in oedema of glottis, secondary to acute pharyngitis."

By Dr. Irvins Acute Pharyngitis

"SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS is decidedly homoeopathic to acute gastritis. It has the terrible burning, the unquenchable thirst, the pain, the vomiting and the prostration which mark the disease."

By Dr. Dewey, M.D. Acute Gastritis

Remedy Profile

  • Type Remedy
  • Common Name HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
  • Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency

Tincture in headaches; sixth potency in rheumatism.

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