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Hydrastis Canadensis

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Generalities

Debility.

General catarrhal discharges, and tendency to ulcerations.

Clinical

Catarrhal inflammation, with profuse secretions ; often smarting and burning, sometimes with swollen lids ; opacities of the cornea.

Clinical

Catarrhal inflammation of the middle ear and deafness, after scarlet fever.

Otorrhoea, with thick mucous discharge.

Nose

Discharge thick, yellow, watery, excoriating, with burning, rawness of the throat.

Catarrh of the posterior nares ; the discharge drops into the throat.

Purulent and bloody discharges.

Mouth

Aphthous sour mouth.

Throat

Sore, with increased mucus, with burning and rawness, extending to nose and chest.

Roughness in the morning on waking, worse swallowing.

Stomach

Soreness over the stomach.

Sinking.

Acute pain.

Abdomen

Pain in the region of the liver, extending to scapulae, with yellow skin, light-colored stools, etc.

Intestinal catarrh, with sinking in the stomach, discharge of mucus.

Stool

Diarrhoea.

Mucous or bloody stools, with symptoms of intestinal catarrh.

Constipation.

Clinical

Catarrh of the bladder, with thick, ropy mucus in the urine.

Clinical

Chronic gonorrhoea.

Hydrocele.

Pruritis of the vulva ; hard nodular tumors of the breast, with lancinating pains.

Ulceration of the cervix, with prolapsus of the uterus.

Cancerous ulcerations of the uterus.

Haemorrhages from the uterus, especially with ulcerations.

The leucorrhoea is almost always tenacious, rarely with albuminuria ; with great prostration, palpitation, or with derangements of the liver, constipation, haemorrhoids, etc.

It has been used successfully in chronic enlargement of the uterus (sub-involution).

Uterine fibroids.

Inflammation of the cervix, with heat and itching of the vagina.

Ulceration of the neck of the womb, fungoid ; leucorrhoea profuse.

Respiratory organs :

Clinical

Laryngeal catarrh ; mucous membrane pale, vocal cords relaxed.

Bronchial catarrh, yellow, tenacious mucus.