Homeopathy LibrarySanguinaria Canadensis
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General
(Blood^ool.)
Botanical Descmptioh. — Sanguinaria is a spring plant, found in Canada, and all parts of the United States, excepting aouthward to Florida and westward to Mexico and Oregon. It generally grows in rict lands, covered witli forests and shaded in summer, avoiding the sea coast and high mountains.
Tlie toot is perennial, horizontal, oblong, and, when green, nearly of the Icngtli of the finger, from one-fourth to one-half an inch in diameter, knotty, fleshy, with numerous radicles. Its prtemorse or abrupt form is occasioned by its making off-sets from its sides, wliich off-sets separate as the root decays. Its color, externally, is reddish-brown ; but internally it is paler. It ia succulent, and, when cut or broken, it emits, from, numerous points on the tranverae surface, a bright orange, or rather dark vermilllon colored juice, which has a bitterish, acrid, hut peculiar taate, which remains long in the mouth, and leaves a persistent burning in the throat.
The juice of the stein is Ijetween a red color and a yellow, aa that from the stem Of Chelidnnium majus is pure yellow, and that from Paparer is white.
The chemical analysis shows it to contain an alkaloid called San- guinarina. Dr. James SchieJ, of St. Louis, claims to have determined the identity of Sanguinarina with Cheirythrin, obtained from Celandine. It also contains chelidonic acid.
Officinal Pbbpabatiobb. — Tincture of the root, with strong alcohol; dilutions; tritnrations of the dried root, and of the Sulphate and Nitrate of Sanguinarina.
AsAiiOGOufi- — AraenicuM, Asel^iat tiib. Ammonium emisl. Arum, Asarum, Belladomia, Bromine, Bi-yonia, Calea/rea carb,, Cavsticum, Chflidoninm, Drmera, Separ tulph.. Irii, Laeheais, Lycopodivm, Merewrivi, Plto»plu>ru», Umaex, 8enega, Spongim, Stanwwm, Sulphur, Tart. emet.
Mental Sphere. Mind confused, relieved by eructations. (^.) Anxiety followed by delirium. Delirium with hot ekin. Stnpor, heaviness, sleepiness. Extreme moroseneas, with nausea, cannot bear to hear a person
walk in the room. Hopefulness, sanguine of recovery from illness, (a.)
Head
* Vertigo with singing in tlie ears,
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658 SANOmNAEIA CANADENSia.
* Vertigo with diminished vision before vomiting.
* Vertigo with nausea and headache, followed by spasmodic
vomiting.
* Vertigo on qnickly turning the head, and looking upwards.
* Determination of the blood to the head, with whizzing in the
ears, and flashes of heat. Pressing drawing in the forehead, with heaviness of the head, better while walking.
* Headache aa if tlie forehead would split, with chill, and with
huniing in the. stomach. Periodic stitches in the left temple and forehead, worse in evening.
* Painful soreness in small spots, especially on the temples. Headache with rheumatic pains and stiffness in the limbs and
Neck
* Pain in tiie head in rays, drawing upward from the neck,
* Beating headache with throbbing in the temporal arteries
and bitter vomiting.
A feeling as if the head is drawing forward.
Sensation of looseness in the scalp, on raising the eyes.
Headache with a nausea and chill, then flying heat from the head to the stomach.
" Higraine with bilious vomiting, pains begin in the moraing, last till evening; eyes feel as if they would be pushed out, aggravated by motion.
" Headache relieved only by pressing on the back'of his head.
' Headache which occnrs paroxysmally, once a week or longer, the pains begin in morning, increase all day, and last till evening; the head seems as if it must hurst; tlie pain is digging, piercing, or throbbing, lancinating through the brain, on the forehead and top of head, worse on the right side, followed by chills, nausea, vomiting, and only relieved by sleep. (Jlering.)
•"Frightfully severe headache, the only relief obtained was from pressing the back of his head against the head- board of tlie bed. (ZTemig'.)
' One of the most important indications for Sang, in headache
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SANGUINAKIA CANADENSIS. 559
J6, "Pain like a flash of lightning on the back of the head." {Neidhard.)
" Mjalgic headaches;
"Rheumatic headaches;
"Congestive headaches; '^ Headaches at the "change of lite;" ° Head- ache from snppressed menses ; ° Dyspeptic headache; ° Migraines. {Hale.)
" Sanguineous apoplexy, with vertigo, dimness of sight, vomiting, burning in the stomach, and distension of the temporal veins. {Hale.)
" " Korth American sick headaches^" {Sering.) Fade.
•Distension of the veins of the face and temples, with excea sive redness; a feeling of stiffness.
* Stitches in the left side of face, with pains in the forehead. Severe burning, heat and redness of the face.
* Paleness of the face, with disposition to vomit, ° Eed cheek, with burning of the ears.
" !Rednes8 of the cheeks, with cough. ° Cheeks and hands livid in typhoid pneumonia. TSoae.
* Fluid coryza, with frequent sneezing; worse in right nostrih
* "Watery, acrid coryza, rendering the nose sore, with copious
watering of tlie right eye. (The coryza disappears when diarrhoea sets in.) ° Acute and chronic coryzas, with loss of smell. ° Influenza, with rawness in the throat, pain in the breast,
cough, and finally diarrhcea. ° If ami polypi, or fungous growths in the nostrils (use the
tincture or powder topically). ° Nasal catarrhs, chronic, with offensive discharges ; (use 2 trit,
as a " snuff.") " Ulcerative ozsena, with epistaxis, {Hale.)
Eyes
Watering and burning of the right eye, which is painftil on
being touched, then coryza. Feeling as if hairs were in the eyes, or as if smoke was in
them.
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Gliimnering before tlie eyes, diminislied power of vision,
worse in the afterDoon.
Dilatation of tlie pupils with vertigo (from the seeds). ° Catarrhal ophthalmia, grannlar lids. [Ifale.) " Ophthalmia followed by ulceration of the cornea.
(Male.) ° Is useful as a collyria in clironic conjunctivitis (2 x aqueous
dil).
Ears
Beating under the ears, at irregular intervals, only a couple of
stroltes.
* Burning of the ears, with redness of the cheets.
*; Earache, with headache, with singing in the ears and vertigo.
Hamming in the ears, with determination of blood.
Painful sensitiveness to sudden sounds.
° Acute internal otitis (also perhaps myringitis).
" Catarrhal affections of the inner ear. ( Woodyat.)
Month and Teeth. Stiffness of the jaws, and pain in the upper teeth.
* Toothache from picking the teeth.
" G-rumbling toothache, with pain in same side of the head. Toothache worse from drinking cold water, better from warm
drinks {ooffea the reverse).
Looseness of the teeth and salivation.
Shooting and thrilling pain in a carious tooth.
* Spongy, bleeding, and fungoid condition of the gums.
Loss of taste and smell, with a burnt feeling on the tongne.
Prickling sensation on the tongue and roof of the mouth.
Feeling of dryness begins on the right side, spreading over
the whole tongne.
Tongue sore, stitches on left side of the tongue.
Sugar tastes bitter, followed hy burning in the fanees.
Wliite coated tongue, with slimy, fatty taste in mouth.
Throat
Dryness, sensation of, not diminished by drinking.
Heat in the throat alleviated by inspiration of cool air.
Burning in the throat after eating sweet things.
" Throat feels swollen as if to suffocation, with pain whrai
swallowing, and aphonia.
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Pain, with feeling of swelling most on the right side, moat perceptible when swallowing.
° Ulcerated sore throat, following quinsy.
"Tonsillitis, chronic, recnrring frequently; prevents the recur- rence. {Hale.')
Stomach and GTastric Symptoms.
* Soreness and pressure in the epigastrium, worse after eating.
* Burning in the stomach, with headache.
* Great weakness of digestion, with loss of appetite.
* Strengthens the stomach, excites the appetite, and stimulates
digestion.
* Inflammation of the stomach, with burning, vomiting, head-
ache, etc.
"Acnte gastritis;
"clironic gastritis;
"atonic gastritis.
" Ulceration of the stomach.
" Nausea not diminished by vomiting. *Lo6s of appetite and great weakness of digestion.
Extreme nausea, with profuse water-brash, " Vomiting, with severe painful burning in the stomach, and
intense thirst, " Pyrosis; a rising of burning, corrosive flnid from the stom
ach, for twenty years. {Fairbanks.) Soon after eating, a feeling of emptiness in the stomach. Jerking in the stomach, as if from something alive.
* J^ausea, intense, in paroxysms, worse when stooping, withi
flow of saliva; followed by nettle-rash; with iieartburn;, spasmodic eructations of flatus of unpleasant odor; withi headaclie, chills, followed by vomiting, and sometimes diarrhcea.
* Yomiting ; before vomiting, great anxiety; pressure to
stool; very disagreeable nausea; (Z«Wnp vomiting, head- ache, burning in the stomach, with craving to eat; with prostration; after vomiting, relief of the headache.
* Yomiting of hitter water; of sour, acrid fluids, and ingesta- " In almost every form of indigestion, for many years, it has-
given me satisfactory results. {F.
W.
IIu7d.) ° Especially useful in deficient gastric secretion, with loss of appetite, and periodic nausea.
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° Offensive eructations, spasmodic, from constricted cardiaj from conf^ested nnieouB membrane and fermentation of food. (75.)
Abdomen
Severe and continued pain in the hjpocliondria, with vertigo and debility.
"Pain in left hypochondrium, worse on coughing, better by pressure and lying on the left side. (" Splenitis?)
Beating and cramps in the abdomen, moving from one place to another.
Sensation as if hot water poured itself from the breast into the abdomen, followed by diarrhcea.
Paroxysmal cutting and drawing pains in the abdomen.
Colic-lite pains in tiie morning, followed by diarrhceic stool.
Twisting pain on the left side, above the groin ; worse when sitting, standing, or tending toward the right side, in- creased by pressure, better when walking er«ct.
" Jaundice. ° Hepatic torpor. ° Biliary concretions.
" Atony of the liver. {Allopathic and Eclectic.)
° Congli from affections of tiie liver, {Hale.)
Pain in the top of the right shoulder.
Stool
* Pressure to stool, without evacuation, with the sensation of
a mass in lower part of rectum, and discharge of offensive flatus only.
* Diarrhffiic stools, watery, with great flatulence, ]>reeedcd hy
cutting pain.
* Diarrhtea in the evening, with disturbance of the coryaa and
catarrh, and pain in the cheat.
Food passes away undigested.
" Dysenteiy. ° Hemorrhoids.
* Frequent urination, also at night, which is copious and clear
as water.
" Very copious urine at night, with pain in left hypochon- drium; worse from coughing; better from pressure and lying on left side.
(Bates.)
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SANGUINAEIA CANADENSIS. 663
Generative Organs, Women. — *Pain in the loins, extending thrciiigh tlie hypo- gastric and uterine region, and down tlie thighs, followed by the appearance of the menses (in cases of suppression).
* Abdominal pains (at night) as if the menses wonld appear. Menses are mnch too early, too profuse, with a discharge of
black blood.
Uterine hemorrhage, followed by amenorrhosa.
" Threatened abortion, characterized by nansea, pains in the loins, extending through the hypogastric and iliac regions, and down the thighs.
" Flushes of heat, at the change of life.
° Distension of the abdomen in the evening and flatulent dis- charges per vagina, from the os uteri, which was con- stantly open, and at the same time a pain passing in rays, passing from the nape of neck to the head.
" Burning of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, at the climacteric period, compelling her to throw the bed clothes off, in order to cool them.
" Ulcerations of the os uteri ; corrosive and foetid leacorrhoia.
" Polypi of the utsrua. " Cancer of the uterus.
" DysmsnorrlwBa in feeble, torpid subjects, with tendency to congestion of lungs, liver or head.
" Amenorrhcea, with disease of the lungs.
Breasts: Stitches in both breasts; soreness to the touch, under the right nipple, and painful soreness of the nipples. Iiarynx and Bronchia.
* Tickling in the throat in the evening, with slight cough and
headache,
* Dry cough, awakening him from sleep, which did not cease
until he sat upright in bed, and iiatus was discharged upwards and downwards.
* Tormenting cough, with expectoration and circumscribed
redness of the cheeks. {Sute.) ° Continued severe cough, without expectoration ; pain in
breast, and circnmseribed redness of the cheeks. ' Feels stronger and freer in the breast, mornings, aiid in the
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afi^rnoon and evening the customary dyspnoea does not
appear. ° "Wliooping- cough.
" Hydrothorax.
"Asthma.
"Pnenmonia.
" Cough, ivitli coryza, then diarrhcea, which cures both,
* Chronic dryness in the throat and sensation of swelling in
the larynx, and expectoration of thick mucus. " Chronic laryngitis, bronchitis and trachitis.
* Continued severe cough, without expectoration, pain in thf
head, and cirenmscribed redness of cheeks.
* Croup; catarrhal, with spasmodic, crowing, painful congh,
and stridnlona breathing, {Hale,) ° Pseudo-'mem'branous croup; many severe and dangeroiiB cases. {JYichol, Selnmth.) [Tlie primary action of Sangoinai'ia is like that of Tartar emetic.
A loose, rattling cough, followed Hcondarily ^yJ s. dry, painM, spasmodic, croupy cough, with scanty, tenacious espectflration.
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Chest
* Pain in the breast, with cough and expectoration.
* Pain in tho breast, with dry, periodic cough.
* Buruing and pressing in the breast, heat through the abdo-
men, with diarrhcea. Stitciies from the lower part of left breast to the shoulder.
* Slowly shooting pain in right chest, about the seventh rib;
and aeute stitches m right breast.
Shooting pain under the sternum, and the region of the heart.
" Pn&mnonia, with extreme dyspntea, short, accelerated, con- strained breathing, difHeuity of speech, sputa becomes tenacious, rust-colored, and expectorated with much diffi culty.
" Hmnoptyais, during phthisis pulmonalis.
* Continued pressure and heaviness of the whole upper part of
the chest, with difficulty of breathing.
^Typhoid pneumonia, with very difficult respiration; cheeks and hands livid; pulse feels soft, vibrating, and easily compressetl.
^ PnetMnonia in second and third stages/ with dullness on percussion; bronchial respiration, with red or grav hepati- zation; and infiltration of the parenchyma. {Hale.)
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8ANGGINARIA CANADEKSIS. 565
" " SjptiiKtic pulmonary inflammation." {^Wolff, with the
2Q0ih.) " (Jhronic pneumonia, where it rivals Sulphur or PhosphoTus ° Hydrothorax. '' Aethraa. ° Pleurisy. ° Intercostal myalgia [Sanguinaria, in. afi'eetions of the lungs, occupies a place mid-way betweea Phosplioi-us and Tartar emetic; it has many symptoniB common to both, and some possessed by neither.
It closely resembles Sulphur and Lycopodium, and in chronic diseases rivals them in its curative powers.
Rale.)']
Heart
Painful stitches in the region of the heart.
Pressing pain in the region of the heart.
Palpitation of the heart (before the vomiting), with great
Irregularity of the hearts action, and of the pulse, with cold- ness, insensibility, etc.
Back
Pain, stiffness, and eorenese of the nape of the neck, left side, on being touched. ,
* Pain ill the sacrum, from lifting. {Bute.)
Pain in the sacrum, alleviated by bending forward. Ehenmatic pains in the neck, shoulders and arms, " hu/mbago, from lifting; or myalgia of the great muscles of the ba<!k.
Upper Extremities. Sudden rheumatic pains iti the shoulder joints.
* Kheumatic pain in the right arm and shoulder; worse at night,
in bed; (sometimes in the forenoon;) cannot raise the
arm. {Bute.) "Pain in the right shoulder, and in the upjior part of the
right arm, more at night, on turning in bed. {Jeanes.) Pain in tlie left shoulder, in tlie evening.
Kheumatic pains in the arms and hands.
Severe pain in the hand, with aching in the arm, when lying
quiet and warm in bed.
* Burning of the palms, redness of the hands, and severe burn-
ing Hvidity of the hands, in pneumonia. Stiffness of the finger -joints, also cutting and stitching pains.
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Pain as if from a boil at tlie root of tlie nails on all the
fingers. " Ulceration of the roots of all the nails on both hands. {Bute.)
Lower Extremities.
Ehenmatic-like pains in the left hip.
Pain as from a bruise in the left liip joint, whilst walking, but
worse on rising from a seat. Rlieiimatic pain in inside of right thigh, alternating vnih pain
in the chest.
* Burning in the soles of the feet; worse at night. Stiffiiese and tightness in the knees and under the knees.
* Acute swelling of the joints of the extremities.
*" Acute, inflammatory, and arthritic rheumatism.
On touching the painful part, tiie pain vanishes, and i
* Paralysis of the right side.
" Pains in those places where the bones are least covered with flesh.
Chill with headache, nausea and shivering in the back in the
evening in bed.
Shaking pain, with chill under the shoulder-blade on motion.
Heat flying from head to stomaeli.
Bnrning heat, rapidly alternating with chill and shivering.
Gradual increase in the force, and frequency of the pulse.
Slow pulse, with extreme nausea.
° Coldness of tlie feet in the afternoons, with painful and sore tongue; stiffness of the knee, and finger joints {Bute.) ° Hectic fev&r, with coogh, circumscribed redness of the cheeks. ^ s from pulmonary, hepatic or gastric inflammation.
Bleep. ;, waking with fright as if he wo^Afall.
Dreams of a frightful and disagreeable character.
Dreams of sailing on the sea.
Skin
lleat and dryness.
Itching and a nettle-rash before tiie nausea. ° Piingous growths. "Scaly eruptions; carbuncles.
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SANTONINE. 561
" Old indolent ulcers, with callous border, and ichorous dis-
chai'ge.
Generalities
A quickly diffused, and transient, but at the same time a very
peculiai' thrill, often extended to the minutest extremity. General torpor and languor; dilatation of the pnpils.