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Cistus Canadensis

Helianthemum canadense
CIST · 13 entries across 13 books
PreparationTincture of whole plant. Clarke
1X–30X
First to thirtieth attenuation. Locally as a wash to arrest fetid dischargesDose · Boericke

Reason for use

Acts especially upon mucous membranes, producing catarrh, and upon the skin and glandular system, establishing conditions which simulate a scrofulous disease.

Characteristic symptoms.

▲ Worse

In morning; in evening; at night; from fruit; from mental excitement

The full Cowperthwaite text, by section

Mind

(Cistus canadense)

All mental excitement increases the suffering.

Head

(Cistus canadense)

Oppressive headache.

Headache generally grows worse toward evening, and lasts all night.

Eyes

(Cistus canadense)

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

Ears

(Cistus canadense)

Watery, bad-smelling pus discharged from the ears (Graph., Hep.) ; inner swelling of the ears.

Tetters on and around the ear.

Nose

(Cistus canadense)

Sneezing without other symptoms of cold.

Left side inflamed and swollen.

Tip of nose painful.

Face

(Cistus canadense)

Flushes of heat in the face.

Vesicular erysipelas in the face. (Rhus tox.)

Mouth

(Cistus canadense)

Scorbutic, swollen gums, separating from the teeth ; easily bleeding, putrid, and disgusting (Carb. v., Merc., Nitr. ac.)

Dryness of the tongue and root of the mouth.

Tongue sore, as if raw on the surface.

Inhaled air feels cool to the tongue.

Throat

(Cistus canadense)

Fauces inflamed and very dry without feeling dry, with much hawking of thick, tough, tasteless mucus.

Must swallow saliva to relieve the unbearable dryness, especially at night.

Dryness in throat better after eating.

Inhaling cold air causes pain in the throat.

Stitches in throat cause cough ; when mentally agitated.

Feeling of rawness from the chest into the throat.

A feeling as if sand were in the throat.

Stomach

(Cistus canadense)

Cool eructations.

Cold feeling in stomach before and after eating (Absinth., Colch.)

Abdomen

(Cistus canadense)

Much flatulence, in the evening and night.

Stool

(Cistus canadense)

Diarrhoea after eating fruit.

Thin, grayish-yellow, hot stools ; squirting out (Crot. tigl.) ; worse after part of night until noon.

Respiratory Organs.- (Cistus canadense)

Pain in the trachea.

Inhaled air feels cool in larynx and trachea.

Cough from stitches in throat ; with painful tearing in throat.

Expectoration of bitter mucus.

Pressure on the chest.

Neck

(Cistus canadense)

Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of the glands of the throat. (Calc. c., Iodi.)

Limbs

(Cistus canadense)

Drawing, tearing pains in the joints.

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

Trembling with the fever ; cold feet.

Skin

(Cistus canadense)

Eruptions on the back, like zoster.

Herpetic eruptions on various parts.

Old ulcers.

Aggravation

Therapeutic Range.- (Cistus canadense)

Diseases which are the outgrowth of a scrofulous diathesis ; affections of glands ; ulcers ; herpes ; eczema ; catarrhal diseases.

Compare

(Cistus canadense)

Bell., Calc. c., Graph., Hep. s., Kali bi., Nitr. ac., Phos., Sulph.

Copyright © Robert Séror 2003

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Complete text of the Cistus Canadensis entry in Cowperthwaite - A Text-Book of Materia Medica; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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15 Tyler

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17 Cowperthwaite · shown above

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21 Hale

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22 Roberts

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