Cistus Canadensis

Face

Itching, burning, and crusts on right zygoma. Lupus, caries; open, bleeding cancer. Tip of nose painful.

Mouth

Scorbutic swollen gums. Mouth feels cold; putrid, impure breath. Pyorrhea (Merc cor; Caust; Staph; Kreos). Hurts to protrude the tongue.

Ears

Watery discharge; also fetid pus. Tetter on and around ears, extending to external meatus.

Throat

Spongy feeling; very dry and cold air passing over parts causes pain. Breath, tongue, and throat feel cold. Uvula and tonsils swollen. A small, dry spot in throat; must sip water frequently. Hawking of mucus. Swelling and suppuration of glands of throat. Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck. Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air. Heat and itching in throat.

Stomach

Cool feeling in stomach before and after eating. Cool feeling in whole abdomen. Desire for cheese.

Stool

Diarrhoea from coffee and fruit, thin, yellow, urgent; worse in morning.

Chest

Coldness in chest. The neck is studded with tumors. Induration of mammae. Haemorrhage from lungs.

Extremities

Sprained pain in wrist. Tips of fingers sensitive to cold. Tetter on hands. Cold feet. Syphilitic ulcers on lower limbs, with hard swelling around. White swelling.

Sleep

Cannot sleep from coldness in throat.

Female

Induration and inflammation of mammae. Sensitive to cold air. Bad smelling leucorrhoea.

Respiratory

Asthmatic after lying down (trachea feels narrow), preceded by formication.

Skin

Itching all over. Small, painful pimples; lupus. Glands inflamed and indurated. Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers. Skin of hands hard, thick, dry, fissured; deep cracks. Itching of swollen hands and arms; general itching which presents sleep. Hemicrania.

Relationship

Antidotes: Rhus; Sepia.

Compare

Conium; Carbo; Calc; Arg n.