Cistus Canadensis

Rockrose; Iceplant; Frostweed. Cistacese.

"It is an old, popular medicine in this country, for all kinds of scrofulous diseases.

It grows on low, dry, mica slate hills and serpentine rocks. It is abundant at the foot of Pine Eock, New Haven, on the barren plains, and seems to be de- pendent on the presence of talc (magnesia).

It is said that in tlie months of November and December these plants send out near the roots, broad, thin, curved, ice crystals, about an inch in breadth, which wilt in the day and are renewed in the morning."

Proved under the supervision of Dr. Hering, by J. H. Bute, in 1835-6, with the tincture and first centesimal potency, and by Gosewich, with globules of the X, in 1837. See Bering's Monograph, Philadelphia, 1866, or Hale's New Remedies.

" It has been recommended in hospital gangrene, phagsedenic ulcers, bites of rabid animals, poisoned wounds, etc., a wash to arrest fetid discharges, ozcena, leu- corrhoea, gonorrhoea, gargle in diphtheria, etc." — U.S. D.

Clinical Authoeities Sore throat, Guernsey, Hering's Monograph ; Colic after acid fruit, Lilienthal, Hering's Mon. ; Chronic dysentery, T.

J. Comstock, Am. Hom. Obs., vol. 1, p. 123;

Mastitis, Pehrson & Guernsey, Hering's Mon.; Cough, with tumors on neck, D. A. Tyler, Am.

Hom. Obs., vol. 3, p. 474 ; Goitre and erysip- elas, Gabalda, Hering's Mon. ; White swelling of knee-joint, Bradshaw, M.

H. Rev., v. 13, p. 38 ; Intermittent fever, Marehberg, Organon, v. 3, p. 361 ; Scrofula, etc., Bute and Ives, Hering's Mon. ;

Herpes, C. Hg., Hering's Mon.

^ Mind. I Cheerfulness after supper, until bedtime. I All mental excitement increases the suffering.

■ Bad effects of vexation; feels as if paralyzed.

I Every mental excitement is followed by stitches in

throat, producing cough. I Mental agitation increases the cough. ^ Sensorium. Vertigo.

^ Inner Head, l Headache in sinciput after being kept wait- ing for dinner; > after eating; < toward evening and lasts all night; in r. side, with piercing pain in eye. Pressure above eyes in forehead.

■ Violent pain in head; stitches from temples into ears.

^Intermittent fever. Sick headache with chilliness. * Outer Head. Forehead cold, and sensation of coolness in- side forehead, in a very warm room.

■ Pressing pain at root of nose with headache.

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I Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck. ^ Sight and Eyes. Pressure alDove eyes and feeling of weight.

Stitches in 1. eye.

Left eye most affected.

I Scrofulous inflammation of long standing; feeling as if something were passing around in eye, with stitches.

Spasmodic, piercing pain in middle of upper rim of r. or- bit, with some headache on that side. ^ Hearing and Ears. Itching : in ears ; intense and deep in 1. ear.

I I Stitches from temples into ears, swelling below and be- hind ears. ^Intermittent fever.

■ Discharge from ears; watery, bad smelling pus; inner

swelling, of ears.

■ Tetters on and around ears, extending into external

meatus. Swelling beginning at ear, and extending half way uj)

cheek. ■Swelling of parotids. ^ Smell and Nose. ■Cold feeling or burning in nose.

■ Frequent and violent sneezing, mostly evening and

morning; chronic nasal catarrh. 1 I Left side inflamed and swollen ; burning sensation in 1. nostril.

■ Tip of nose painful.

■ Eczema of nose.

^ Upper Face. Feeling as if facial muscles would be drawn to one side.

■ Flushes of heat in face.

Heat and burning in face and bones of face. I I Half way up cheek, swelling beginning at ear. ^Paro- titis. I I Vesicular erysipelas on face.

■ Sharp shooting, intolerable itching, and thick crusts, with

burning on r. zygoma. I I Lupus on face. ^ Lower Face. ■Caries of lower jaw; with suppurating glands on neck.

■ Open, bleeding cancer on lower lip.

I I Lupus exedens about mouth and nose. Pains in all the joints of face; drawing, tearing; < in evening. ^° Teeth and Gums. Twitching, stitching toothache in an upper 1. molar, which was decayed. ■Scorbutic, swollen gums, separating from teeth; easily bleeding, putrid, disgusting. ^^ Taste and Tongue. ■ Dryness of tongue and roof of mouth. Tongue sore, surface as if raw.

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Sensation of coldness of tongue, laiynx and trachea ; saliva

is cool ; breath feels cold. I Impure breath. ^^ Inner Mouth. Scorbutis.

13 Throat. Coolness particularly in throat, continues all day. ■A feeling of softness in throat. I A feeling as if sand were in throat.

I Continuous feeling of dryness and heat in throat, < after sleeping, eating and drinking.

■ Dryness of throat from midday until 1 to 3 a.m., then >

until next noon. I A small dry spot in gullet; < after sleeping; must get up and drink ; > after eating ; throat looks glassy ; on back of throat stripes of tough mucus.

■ Must swallow saliva to relieve unbearable dryness, espe-

cially during night.

■ Periodical itching in throat. Crawling-itching in throat and fauces. Rawness extending from chest into throat.

Burning in throat high up in cavity posterior to uvula.

■ Stitches in throat cause cough; when mentally agitated. ■Tearing pain in throat when coughing.

■ Tickling and soreness in throat.

■ Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air, not from

warm air.

■ Sore pain in throat and drjmess of tongue, in morning.

■ Fauces inflamed and dry, without feeling of dryness.

■ Hawking of mucus, tough, gum-like, thick, tasteless;

mostly mornings.

■ Expectoration of bitter mucus.

■After discharging phlegm from throat he feels generally much relieved.

■ ■Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of glands of throat. ^* Thirst, Desires. ■ Desire for acid food and fruits, but pain

and diarrhoea follow after eating them.

■ Desire for cheese. Thirst, with fever.

^^ Eating and Drinking. ■ Eating and drinking relieve dry throat and pain in sinciput. After eating: pain in stomach; cold feeling in stomach; after fruit or coffee, diarrhoea. ^^ Belching, Nausea. Empty and cool eructations. Eructation, with feeling as though it would relieve.

■ Frequent nausea; nausea with diarrhoea.

^^ Stomach. ■ Cool feeling in stomach before and after eating.

Pain in stomach after eating, with diarrhoea. ^^ Hypochondria. Much flatulence and pain in hypochondria.

Bruised pain under hypochondria, with flatulence, in morning on awaking.

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Stitches in 1. hypochondrium. ^^ Abdomen. iCool feeling in whole abdomen.

I I Flatulence and bruised pain in hypochondria ; evening

and night. Belly puffed up with flatulency. Itching of belly and umbilicus. Colic with diarrhoea. Pain in groin coming from back. ^° Stool and Rectum. iThin, greyish-yellow, hot stools,

squirting out; irresistible urging; < afterpart of night

until noon. I Diarrhoea : from coffee, acid fruits ; with goitre ; chronic ;

in wet weather; in scrawny, scrofulous children. Discharge of much flatus. Irresistible urging to stool early in morning. Diarrhoea with desire for acid food, nausea, pain in

stomach after eating, or swelling and suppuration of

cervical glands. I Chronic dysentery. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Bitching on. scrotum. ^ Female Sexual Organs. iCatamenia absent after erysip- elas. I Induration and inflammation of mammse.

■ Left mamma inflamed, suppurating, with a feeling of

fulness in chest; sensibility to cold air; scrofulous. Cancer of mammse. ^^ Larynx and Trachea, i Inhaled air feels cool in larynx

and trachea. Itching and scratching in larynx at night, with anxious

dreams. Dryness in larynx. I Chronic itching in larynx and trachea.

■ Feeling as if windpipe had not space enough.

■ Pain in trachea.

I I Goitre size of a hen's egg ; frequent diarrhoea. ^ Respiration. ■ Impure or cold breath.

I Asthmatic in evening after lying down and at night; loud wheezing; sensation as if trachea had not space enough.

In evening soon after lying down a sensation as if ants were running through whole body ; then anxious, diffi- cult breathing; is obliged to get up and open window; fresh air relieves him; immediately on lying down again these sensations return.

I Inhaling slightest cold air causes sore throat, which he has not when inhaling in a warm room. ^ Cough. Cough < by mental agitation.

I Cough from stitches in throat; with painful tearing in throat; neck studded with tumors.

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I Expectoration of bitter mucus. I After raising phlegm he feels very much relieved. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs, i Pressure on chest. Fulness in chest.

I Raw feeling in upper chest, extending up into throat. Pain in chest accompanied by desire to eructate. Pain in chest and shoulder. ^^ Outer Chest. Chest hurts when touched. Pressure on chest. • I Small painful pimples, which bleed easily and heal slowly,

across shoulders and on breast. ^^ Neck and Back, ii Scrofulous swelling and suppuration

of glands of throat. Itching and scratching on outside of throat near larynx. Itching on back. Below r. shoulder-blade, extending- around to front of

body, a very much inflamed spot, about size of palm of

hand, painfully sore to touch ; soon after pimples appear

on this spot in a large group, causing violent burning ;

later, rheumatoid pain from this spot into 1. hip and

groin, < from motion. I Eruption on back like zoster.

■ Scrofulous ulcers on back.

I I Burning, bruised pain in os coccygis, preventing sitting ; < from touch. ^^ Upper Limbs. Pain in front of r.' shoulder.

I Violent pain in 1. shoulder and chest; feels as if eructa- tion would relieve it.

Tearing pain in nerves of shoulder, drawing pain in uhiar nerve, pain extending to point of little finger.

Periodical, sensitive, jDiercing, drawing pain in arm, ex- tending to tip of little finger, drawing it up.

Right arm and back of hand painfully sensitive to least touch.

Sprained pain in wrists, drawing and scraping.

In the hands, drawing, trembling feelings.

Bad pain on r. hand, in afternoon, so that he cannot use it.

■ Hard, thickened places on hands of workmen, with deep,

oblique cracks,

1 I Tetter on hands; blisters, oozing after scratching, with hot swelling.

Tearing in finger-joints.

Pain in fingers (right hand) while writing.

I I Panaritium.

I I Tips of fingers sensitive to cold air. ^ Lower Limbs. Scrofulous hip disease, with fistulous open- ings leading to the bone, and ulcers on surface, with night sweats.

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Pain as from a blow or shock in 1. buttock, going down on inside of thigh bone, distinctly felt in knee-joint, and spasmodic drawing together of calf of leg.

Tearing pain in sciatic nerve.

Drawing, trembling feeling in lower extremities.

I Pains in knee and r. thigh, walking or sitting.

■ Tearing in knees; evening.

I Hard swelling around mercurial, syphilitic ulcers on legs.

■ Piercing pain in r. great toe; evening. I Cold feet.

iSwelling of 1. leg, ulcer thereon; skin copper-colored. ^* Limbs in General, i Bruised pain, as from fatigue.

Tearing pain in the joints. ^'^ Rest. Position. Motion. After lying down in evening :

asthmatic sensation as if ants were running through

whole body; anxious, difficult breathing, is obliged to

get up and open window. Sitting: pains in knee and r. thigh. While writing: pain in fingers of r. hand.

< rheumatoid pain from inflamed spot under r.

Involuntary drawing and trembling feeling in muscular

parts of hands and lower extremities, with pain in

I Sleeplessness from dryness of throat, constantly swallows

saliva, must get up, dryness < after sleep.

■ Anxious dreams.

I On awaking, pain under hypochondria. '^^ Time. Early in morning: irresistible urging to stool.

In morning: frequent or violent sneezing; sore pain in throat and dryness of tongue; hawking of tough, gum- like, thick, tasteless mucus; on awaking, bruised pain under hypochondria, with flatulence.

In afternoon : bad pain on r. hand so that he cannot use it.

In evening: sick headache in r. side, with chilliness and piercing pain in eye < ; frequent and violent sneezing ; pain in all the joints of face < ; flatulence and bruised pain in hj^pochondria ; after lying down, asthmatic; tearing in knees; piercing in r. great toe; tearing, piercing pain <.

At night: must swallow saliva to relieve unbearable dry-

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ness of throat; flatulence and bruised pain in hypochon- dria; itching and scratching in larynx, with anxious dreams; asthmatic; night sweats; very restless ; sensa- tion as if ants were running through whole body. ^^ Temperature and Weather. In a very warm room : fore- head cold, and sensation of coolness inside forehead; skin grows moist.

Draft of air: very sensitive to.

Fresh air: > anxious, difficult breathing, and sensation as if ants were running through whole body.

Cold air: sore throat from inhaling least; sensibility of inflamed and suppurating 1. mamma to; tips of fingers sensitive to; < scrofula; extremely sensitive to; pains in throat from.

In wet weather : diarrhoea. ^ Fever. I Chilliness ; chill succeeded by heat, with trembling, accompanied by a rapid swelling and great redness of glands below ear and in throat.

Cold feeling: in abdomen; in larynx.

I Cold feet.

Heat in face.

i Heat with thirst, causing to drink frequently. •

Intermittent fever, with violent pain in head, and swelling below and behind ears.

I In a warm room, skin grows moist; forehead externally cool, with an internal feeling of coolness.

I Night sweats.

■Sweats very easily. ^^ Attacks, Periodicity. Frequent: sneezing; nausea; diar- rhoea; drinking.

Spasmodic: piercing pain in middle of upper rim of r. orbit.

All day: coolness in throat; dryness of throat.

From noon until 3 a.m.: dryness in throat <:

After supper until bedtime: cheerfulness.

Afterpart of night until noon: diarrhoea and urging <.

All night: sick headache in r. side, with chilliness and piercing pain in eye.

Periodical: itching in throat; pain in a;rm, extending to tip of little finger, drawing it up.

Intermittent feyer.

Continuous: feeling of dryness and heat in throat; swal- lowing of saliva.

Chronic: diarrhoea; dysentery; itching in larynx and

trachea; catarrh; scrofulous inflammation.

*^ Locality and Direction. Right: sick headache in side

with piercing pain in eye ; spasmodic, piercing pain in

middle of upjDer rim of orbit, with some headache on

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side; sharp shooting, intolerable itching, and thick crusts, with burning on zygoma ; below shoulder-blade, extending around to front of body, an inflamed spot, about as large as palm of hand, painfully sore to touch ; pain in front of shoulder ; arm and back of hand pain- fully sensitive to least touch ; bad pain in hand so that he cannot use it ; pain in fingers of hand while writing ; pain in knee and thigh, walking or sitting; piercing in great toe.

Left: eye most affected ; stitches in eye ; intense and deep itching in ear; side of nose inflamed and swollen; burn- ing sensation in nostril; toothache in upper decayed molar; stitches in hypochondrium ; mamma inflamed, suppurating ; rheumatoid pain in hip and groin, extend- ing from inflamed spot below r. shoulder-blade ; violent pain in shoulder and chest; pain as from a shock or blow in buttock, going down on inside of thigh bone, felt in knee-joint, and spasmodic drawing together of calf of leg; swelling of leg, ulcer thereon, skin copper- colored. ^^ Sensations. As if paralyzed ; as of coolness inside forehead ; as of a w^eight above eyes; as if something were passing around in eye ; as if facial muscles would be drawn to one side; surface of tongue as if raw; as of softness, in throat; as if sand were in throat; as if windpipe had not space enough; as if ants were running through whole body ; as if eructation would relieve violent pain in 1. shoulder and chest; as from a blow or shock in 1. but- tock, going down on inside of thigh bone, -distinctly felt at knee joint, and spasmodic drawing together of calf of leg; as of lassitude and depression through whole body.

Pain: in head violent; in tip of nose; in all the joints of face; in sinciput, > by eating and drinking; in stom- ach, after eating; in hypochondria; in groin, coming from back; in trachea; in chest, with desire to eructate; in chest and shoulder; in front of r. shoulder; violent in 1. shoulder and chest; on r. hand; in fingers ; (r. hand) while writing; in knee and r. thigh; in wrists, fingers, and knee-joints; under hypochondria on awaking; in head.

Piercing: in eye; in arm, extending to tip of little finger; in r. great toe.

Spasmodic piercing : in middle of upper rim of r. orbit.

Stitches: in throat; from temple into ears; in 1. eye; in upper 1. decayed molar; in 1. hypochondrium; sharp shooting on r. zygoma.

Scraping: in wrists.

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Scratching: in larynx at niglit; on outside of throat near larynx.

Tearing : in all the joints of face ; in throat when cough- ing; in nerves of shoulder; in finger-joints; in sciatic nerve; in knees; in joints.

Drawing: in all the joints of face; in ulnar nerve; pain extending to point of little finger; in wrists; in hands; in lower extremities.

Involuntary drawing feeling in muscular parts of hands and lower extremities.

Burning : in nose ; in 1. nostril ; in face and bones of face ; on r. zygoma; in throat high up in cavity posterior to uvula ; in inflamed spot about as large as palm of hand below r. shoulder-blade; in os coccygis.

Soreness : of tongue ; in throat.

Rawness: from chest into throat.

Pressing pain : at root of nose.

Pressure: in forehead above eyes; on chest.

Sprained pain : in wrists. . Bruised pain: under hypochondria, in morning; in hj^po- chondria at evening and at night; in os coccygis; in limbs.

Rheumatoid pain : from inflamed spot below r. shoulder- blade, into 1. hip and groin.

Sensitive pain: in arm, extending to tip of little finger.

Fulness: in chest, with inflammation and suppuration of 1. mamma.

Twitching : in upper 1. decayed molar.

Trembling feeling: in hands; in lower extremities; in muscular parts of hands and lower extremities.

Crawling-itching : in throat and fauces.

Tickling: in throat.

Itching: in ears; intense and deep in 1. ear; intolerable on r. zygoma; in throat; of belly and umbilicus; of scrotum ; in larynx ; at night ; on outside of throat near larynx; on back; all over body.

Dryness: of tongue and roof of mouth; in throat; of small spot in gullet; in larynx; in trachea.

Pleat : in face and bones of face ; in throat.

Cool feeling : in throat all day ; of eructations ; in stomach ; in whole abdomen ; of inhaled air in larynx and trachea.

Cold feeling: in nose; in stomach; in abdomen; in larynx. '^ Tissues. 1 1 Glands swollen, inflamed, indurated,* or suppu- rating; scrofula; caries; old ulcers.

Chronic catarrh, with strumous disease of glands.

Chronic diarrhoea and dysentery.

• Hospital gangrene, phagsedenic ulcers, bites of rabid animals, poisoned wounds, etc., a wash to arrest fetid

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discharges, ozsena, leucorrhoea, gonorrhoea, gargle in

hurts. Toucli : below r. shoulder-blade, extending around to front

of body, a very much inflamed spot, about size of palm

of hand, painfully sore to; pain in os coccygis; r. arm

as of ants running through whole body, especially at

night.

■ Herpetic eruption on various parts.

1 1 Scrofula; extremely sensitive to cold air. iMercurio-syphilitic ulcers, surrounded by hard swelling;

slowly, across shoulders and on breast. ■Vesicular erysipelas on face.

■ Lupus on face. Eruptions on back like zoster.

Furuncules which commenced with a number of small blisters. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Scrofulous subjects with great sensitiveness to cold air,

A lad, set. 7 years; scrofulous hip disease.

Compatible: Magnesium (the plant requires a magnesian soil), Bellad., Garb, veg., Phosphor.

Incompatible : Coffee causes diarrhoea.

Argent, nitr., Bellad., Calc. carb., Garb. veg. (cold breath), Gorydalis, Graphit., Hepar, Kali bich., Laches., Nitr. ac, Paris quad., Phosphor., Sulphur (stool in morn- ing with urging).

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