Ceanothus Americanus

New Jersey Tea, or Red-root. Rhamnacece.

Extends from Canada to the Gulf, and west to Arkansas and Iowa.

The bark of this root is considered astringent by the Old School and is recommended in aphthous sore mouth and sore throat, accompanying scar- let fever. See Investigator, April, 187V). — J. L. Andrews.

Authorities. — L. Munyon, Am. Observ , 7, 100 ; clinical cases and a frag- mentary proving by J. C. Burnett, in Mon. Horn. Rev., vol. 23, p. 155.

W. Geisse reported a case of chronic urinary trouble in an old man, cured by the tea.

^ Mind. I Low-spirited, fears he will become unfit for work.

^Chronic splenitis. ^iGreat nervous excitement, with chilliness and loss of appetite;

felt as if nerves were shaken; at dinner could scarcely hold

knife and fork. ^ Inner Head. ' i Headache in r. side, with pain in region of

spleen. ^^ Inner Mouth. • Aphthous affections of mouth and fauces. ^® Hypochondria, ll Deep-seated pain in 1. hypochondrium. I Pain and fullness in 1. side, with inability to lie on it.

■ Severe pain in region of spleen, with low spirits.

I Pain in 1. side, for a long time with leucorrhoea and chilliness. I Pain in 1. side, headache r. side ; severe pain in 1. side, with inability (for years) to lie on that side.

■ Swelling in 1. side, under ribs, with cutting pain, -< in cold

weather, with constant chilliness, must sit over fire. ^Chronic splenitis.

■ Enlarged spleen, extending to within an inch of crest of ilium,

with severe pain in side.

■ Chronic hypertrophy of spleen. ^After intermittent. ^^ Stool and Rectum. Diarrhoea.

I Dysentery. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. • Syphilitic complaints. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. ■ Leucorrhoea, profuse, thick and yellow, with pain under 1. ribs. ^Chronic splenitis.

;rMenses appeared ten days too early, and very profusely.

■ Catamenia appears every two weeks.

■ Metrorrhagia, with pain in region of spleen. ^' Neck and Back. ;rChilliness down back.

^^ Rest. Position. Motion. Cannot lie down, on account of pain in 1. side.

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^' Temperature and Weather. iMust sit over fire. ^Splenitis.

Cold weather: < swelling and pain in 1. side under ribs. *" Fever, ;rChilliness, principally down back ; shivering ; loss of appetite, and nervous excitement. I Rigors at frequent intervals, with pain in 1. side. ^Chronic

splenitis. Intermittent, with chronic enlargement of spleen. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. Every two weeks, catamenia.

*^ Locality and Direction. Right : headache.

Left : pain in region of spleen ; deep-seated pain in hypochon- drium; pain and fullness in hypochondrium, with inability to lie down, with leucorrhoea and chilliness; swelling in side under ribs ; pain in side, with rigors. *^ Sensations. As if nerves were shaken ; at dinner could scarcely hold knife and fork. Cutting : in 1. side under ribs. Pain : in 1. side. Fullness : in 1. side. ^^ Stages of Life, Constitution. iGirl, set. 14. /^Splenitic

pain.

A young lady, set. about 26. /^Chronic splenitis.

A woman, set. about 30, or 32, mother of several children, ill- fed and overworked. ^Chronic hypertrophy of spleen.

A middle aged, childless lady, of fresh complexion, ^Chronic hypertrophy of spleen.

A lady, set. about 55. ^Chronic splenitis, chills and leu- corrhoea.

A young man. ^Chronic splenitis. *** Relations. Berber, helped the pain in spleen when Ceanoth. failed.

Coniuni helped in second attack of metrorrhagia when Ceanoth. failed.

Mi/r. cerif. finished the cure of icterus, after Ceanoth. relieved the severe pain in 1. side.

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