Ομοιοπαθητική ΒιβλιοθήκηCistus Canadensis
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General EN
(SackSoae.)
Dbsobiption,— Sometimes called Frost-plant, beoanae the roots throw,
ofl' small icicles, with all the colors of tlie rainbow, which can be seen on'
frosty mornings— even whan otiier pla,nts show little dew-drops. It" is ai
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perennial herb, with simple, ascending, downy stem, about a foot high. Flowers largo and bright yellow, in terminal corymbs; they open in the sunshine, and cast their petals the next day. It grows on sandy plains and rocliy places, preferring liraestone ground.
Officihai. Pkefasations. — Tincture of tlie whole plant in strong alcohol.
AnAi.oGTJBS. — Ampelopsis, Bdladon/na, OaUarsa, Gorydalie, Graphites, Hepar aultphuT, Kali bichromicam, Paris quadr^Ua, Phylolaeca, StiUingia, Lachesis, Lobelia eerulea.
[AU the following symptoios are marlted by Hering as ("jcurative.]
Mind EN
All mental excitement greatly increases the aufferings.
Bad effects from vexation.
After supper, until bedtime, cheerfulneaa.
Mental agitation increases the cough.
Every mental excitement is followed by stitches in the throat, prodiicing a cough.
Head EN
Head drawn to one side by swellings on the neck.
Eyes EN
Scrofulous inflammation of the eyes of long standing.
Discharge from the ears.
Tetters on and around the ears, extending into the external meatus.
Nose EN
Evenings and mornings frequent and violent sneezing. Painful tip of nose, which at first grew worse and then wafl cured.
Face EN
Flushes of heat in the face. Caries of the lower jaw.
Teeth EN
Very scorbutic gums, swollen, separating from the teetli, bleed* ing easily, putrid, disgusting.
Tongue.
Dryness of the tongue and roof of the mouth.
Throat EN
Impure breath from disease of the throat. Inhaling cold air causes pain in the throat.
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Inhaling the slightest cold air causes a sore throat, which he has not when inhaling in the warm room,
A feeling of soil^ness in the throat.
Kawneas, extending from the chest into the throat.
A feeling as if sand were in the throat.
The patient is constantly obliged to swallow saliva to relieve an nnbearable dryness, especially during the night.
Continuous feeling of dryness and heat in the throat.
Dryness of throat from 12 o'clock noon, until 1 to 3 a.m., at night, then better nnti! the next noon.
A email dry spot in the gullet for one year, then general dry- ness of throat — better after eating, worse after sleeping — as if tearing asnnder, the patient must get up and drink water.
The inside of the throat looks glassy; on the back of throat there appear strips of tough mucus.
Periodical itching in the throat.
Tickling and soreness in the throat.
In the morning sore pain in the throat and dryness of the tongue.
Tearing pain in the throat when coughing.
Stitches in tlie throat, causing cough when mentally agitated.
Fauces inflamed and dry, without feeling dry; tough, gum- like, tliick, tasteless phlegm brought up by hawking, mostly in the morning.
Hawking of mucus, constantly.
Expectoration of bitter mucus.
After discharging phlegm from the throat he feels generally much relieved.
° Ought to be specific in catarrh of the larynx, trachiea, and posterior nares, {Rale.)
Stomach EN
Drinking water relieves the dryness in the Ihroat.
After eating the dryness of the throat is relieved. Abdomen and Stool.
All night till daybreak thin hot stool squirting out, of a gray- yellow color: three more before noon,
" Chronic dysenteiy. {Dr.
Comstoah, of St.
Zoim.)
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° Chronic diarrhcea—a, very sticcessfol remedy in many cases
Tlie wind is not incarcerated as often as before.
Chest EN
Feeling as if the windpipe had not space enough.
Pain in the windpipe; itching and scratching in the larynx.
Feeling ae of rawness, extending from the npper part of tlie chest into the throat.
Cough from stitches in the throat.
Cough, witli a very painful tearing in the throat.
Congh, and her neck tliinly stndded with tomors.
He bled at the Inngs, and his scrofulous symptoms had re- turned.
In the evening, after lying down, and at night in bed, onco a week or oftener, attacks of a kind of asthma; he draws his breath with sneh a loud wheezing that it wakens others sleeping in the same room.
He has the feeling as if the windpipe had not space enongh.
Pressure on the chest.
Keck.
Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of the glands of tho throat.
Mrs. 0., of delicate constitution, when nineteen years of age, was afflicted with a cough, and her neck was thickly studded with tumors; using the Eock-rose she was re- stored, and has not been afElicted with any such symptoms since. {Br.
D.
A.
Tyler.)
Back EN
Scrofulous ulcers on the back.
Lower Limbs.
A lad seven years old had the " white-swelling " of the hip for three years.
The bone was dislocated upward and out- ward; there was a large opening on the hip, leading to the bone, into which I could thrust my finger.
I counted three nlcers.
He had been under several physicians who had given him up.
After using a decoction of the Rock- rose, in two days his night sweats ceased; thirty-nine days after he was entirely well. {Dr.
J.
H.
Thompson.')
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Sleep EN
In the niglit swallowinj^ of saliva on account of dryness.
Must get lip in the niglit on account of drjmess in the throat.
The dryness in the throat worse after sleeping.
On awaking pain under the hypochondria.
Night sweats attending suppurations.
Skin EN
Tetter on the ears and hands,
LupnB on the face.
For scrofula a popular medicine in domestic practice,
l'[r, C, from a child was afflicited with the scrofula, and had also grandular swellings on the neck; at the age of sixteen he was much worse, had eight abscesses on the neck, three ulcers on the shoulder and three on the hips; at forty years of age he had his head drawn on one side, and was unable to labor. After using the Eock-rose for four weeks, the ulcers broke, discharged and healed ; the tumor lessened in size, hie head resumed its natural position, and he went regularly to work. Later his scrofulous symptoms returned again, and he also bled at the lungs, for which he used it again with the same beneficial results. {ProfeBSOT Ivee.)
Hai-d swelling around all her syphiUtic mereuri|il ulcers on the lower limbs.
FuTunculi, commencing with small blisters, (boils.)
Conditions EN
From noon until midnight the dryness of throat is worse; all
the symptoms are worse in the morning. Belladonna, Oai'bo veg. and Phosphoi'us acted favorably, be- tween repeated doses of Cistns,