Sanguinaria Canadensis

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General

Where are the provings of Sanguinaria found ?

Materia Medica of American Provings. Hale's New Remedies. Allen .

What is the common name, origin, what part used and when gathered ?

Bloodroot , indigenous to America, the fresh root, gathered when the seeds are ripe.

How would you make a mother tincture of Sanguinaria ?

Chop and pound the fresh root to a fine pulp and weigh. Add gradually two parts of alcohol, by weight, to each part of pulp. Stir thoroughly and pour into well stoppered bottle and stand in dark, cool place for eight days, shaking it daily. Decant, strain and filter. Drug power, 1/6. The tincture is deep orange-red, slightly bitter and acrid and of acid reaction.

What is its general action ?

Sanguinaria is a right-sided remedy pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the mucous membrane, especially of the respiratory tract. It has marked vaso-motor disturbance, as seen in the circumscribed redness of the cheeks, flushes of heat, determination of blood to head and chest, distension of temporal veins, burning in palms, soles, etc.

What is the sphere of its homoeopathic applicability ?

Climacteric Disorders

Give its nasal symptoms.

Great susceptibility to odors, which causes the patient to faint ; burning and rawness in the nose, with fluent coryza which excoriates ; nasal polypi which tend to bleed easily.

Give its use during the climacteric.

Flushes of heat, flatulent distension of stomach ; leucorrhoea, fetid and corrosive ; menses offensive, profuse ; uterine polypi.

Breasts sore ; palpitation ; acne ; burning in hands and feet.

What is the characteristic sick headache ?

Pains begin in the morning in the occiput, travel up over the head and settle in or over the right eye.

The pains are so severe that the patient can neither tolerate noise nor light, and vomits everything ; the patient buries the head in the pillow or presses it on something hard for relief.

Temporal veins distended.

Give three differentiating symptoms between Sanguinaria and Belladonna in headache.

Belladonna has hot head, more throbbing, flushed face, and cold feet.

Belladonna is relieved by being propped up in bed, while Sanguinaria has relief from lying.

Belladonna has not, so marked, the pain coming up over the head from the occiput ; Sanguinaria is more useful in the gastric form.

What are the respiratory symptoms of Sanguinaria ?

Congestion of the lungs, bright red face and flushing of one or both cheeks.

Burning in the chest ; dry, hacking cough and feeling of dryness in the air passages.

Oppression of breathing and a tenacious, difficult expectoration, which is apt to be rust colored ; there are also sharp stitching pains through the right lung.

In what disease is it most likely to be indicated ?

Pneumonia ; always better when lying on his back ; also phthisis florida.

In case of purulent expectoration, when should Sanguinaria be prescribed ?

When it smells bad, even to the patient himself.

What are the rheumatic pains of Sanguinaria ?

Sharp, stitching pains, with soreness and stiffness of the muscles. Rheumatism of the right deltoid muscle, which is very painful.

Give another drug having rheumatism of the right shoulder.

Magnesia carbonica .

What drugs have rheumatism of the left deltoid muscle ?

Ferrum metallicum and Nux moschata .

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