Sanguinaria Canadensis

General

SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. [Sanguin.] Bloodroot. G. Bute. Papaveraceae.

Mind

► Confused, relieved by eructations. ► Anxiety and feeling of dread. ► Anxiety precedes vomiting and delirium. ► Moroseness, with nausea ; cannot bear a person to walk in room. ► Angry irritability ; moroseness.

Sensorium

► Sensation as if paralyzed and unable to move while lying on her back, with full consciousness of her surroundings. ► It seems as if events that transpired in dreams were of weeks and months duration. ► Vertigo in cold weather. ► Sensation as if in railroad car, and every one about her talked rapidly, begs to be held. ► Vertigo : with long-continuing nausea, debility and headache ; on quickly turning head and looking upward ; on lying down at night ; on rising from stooping ; in cold weather.

Inner Head

► Periodical sick headache ; begins in morning, increases during day, lasts until evening ; head feels as if it must burst, or as if eyes would be pressed out ; or, throbbing, lancinating pains through brain, worse on right side, and especially in forehead and vertex ; followed by chills, nausea, vomiting of food or bile ; must lie down and remain quiet ; relieved by sleep. ► Headache begins in occiput, spreads upward and settles over the right eye. ► Severe headache, only relieved by pressing back up against something hard. ► Headache, rheumatic running up posterior auricular region.

Outer Head

► Soreness in spots, especially temporal regions. ► Distention of veins in temples ; feel sore when touched.

Eyes

► Diminished power of vision. ► Dimness of eyes, with sensation as if hairs were in them. ► Pupils dilated. ► Neuralgia in and over right eye. ► Yellowness of sclerotica, with icterus. ► Catarrhal ophthalmia, granular lids. ► Ophthalmia, followed by ulceration of cornea. ► Copious lachrymation : following the burning and dryness ; tears hot ; with coryza.

Ears

► Painful sensitiveness to sudden sounds ; right ear worse. ► Beating, humming with congestion of blood. ► Burning of the ears, cheeks red. ► Earache, with headache, singing in ears, and vertigo. ► Beating under ears, at irregular intervals often only a couple of strokes.

Nose

► Loss of smell. ► Nasal polypi. ► Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing ; worse right side. ► Ulcerative ozaena, with epistaxis. ► Nose cold and subsequent asthma ; sick and faint from odor of flowers.

Face

► Distention of veins of face, with excessive redness, a feeling of stiffness, and veins sore to touch. ► Circumscribed redness of one or both cheeks. ► Red cheek, with burning in ears. ► Cheeks (and hands) livid. θ Typhoid pneumonia. ► Paleness of face, with disposition to vomit. ► Neuralgia in upper jaw, extending to nose, eyes, ears, neck and sides of head ; shooting, burning pains ; must kneel down and hold head tightly to the floor.

Lower Face

► Lips feel dry. ► Swelling of lips toward evening. ► Under-lip burns, is swollen, hard and blistered ; blisters dry up and form crusts, which drop off. ► Stiffness in articulation of jaws.

Teeth

► Toothache from picking the teeth, or in hollow teeth when touched by the food. ► Spongy, bleeding and fungoid condition of gums.

Tongue, Etc

► Loss of taste, with a burnt feeling on tongue. ► Sweat articles taste bitter, followed by burning in fauces. ► White-coated tongue, with slimy, fatty taste. ► Tip of tongue burns as if scalded. ► Tongue sore ; pain like a boil. ► Red tongue, feels as if in contact with something hot.

Mouth

► Fetid breath, clammy mouth, sticky teeth. ► Sores on gums and roof of mouth.

Throat

► Burning, especially after eating sweet things. ► Roof of mouth and uvula sore and burning. ► Ulcerated sore throat. ► Throat feels swollen, as if to suffocation, with pain when swallowing, and aphonia. ► Tonsillitis, promotes suppuration. ► Heat in throat, better inspiring cold air ; throat so dry it seems as if it would crack. ► Pearly coating on palate and fauces. θ Diphtheritis. ► Burning in pharynx and oesophagus.

Desires And Aversions

► Craving for he know not what, with loss of appetite ; wants piquant articles. ► Sugar tastes bitter, and causes burning. ► Craves food : 16.

Eating And Drinking

► Sweet things aggravate, produce burning. ► Soon after eating : feels empty ; difficult breathing, nausea, water-brash, lassitude almost to fainting, cold sweat until 12 P.M., after a little food. ► While eating : 27.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations ; disposition to vomit ; pale face. ► Nausea intense, in paroxysms : worse when stooping with flow of saliva ; followed by nettle-rash, heart-burn, eructations, with headache and chills, followed by vomiting, and sometimes diarrhoea. ► Vomiting : craves food to quiet the nausea ; of bitter water ; of sour, acrid fluids ; of ingesta ; of worms ; preceded by anxiety ; with headache and burning in stomach ; head better afterward.

Stomach

► Soreness and pressure in epigastrium, aggravated by eating. ► Burning in stomach, with headache. ► Gastritis, with burning, vomiting, headache. ► Jerking in stomach, as if from something alive. ► Goneness, with sick headache. ► Sudden attacks of constriction in pit of stomach, as if suffocating.

Hypochondria

► Heat streaming from breast toward liver. ► Liver torpid ; skin yellow ; colic. ► Violent stitches in splenetic region. ► Pains in left hypochondrium, worse when coughing, better from pressure and when lying on left side.

Abdomen

► Flatulent distention of abdomen in evening, with escape of flatus from vagina (os uteri being dilated). ► Indurations in abdomen. ► Cutting bellyache from right to left iliac fossa, thence to rectum. ► Soreness in abdomen aggravated by eating. ► Colic, with torpor of the liver. ► Feeling as from hot water pouring from breast into abdomen, followed by diarrhoea.

Stool, Etc

► Stools thin, fecal ; bright yellow ; undigested ; watery. ► Escape of much flatus upward and downward ; also, with diarrhoea. It relieves the cough. ► Diarrhoea following coryza, pains in chest and cough. ► Urging, but no evacuation, with sensation of a mass in lower part of rectum, and discharge of offensive flatus only. ► Alternate diarrhoea and constipation. ► Hemorrhoids.

Urine

► Dark, yellow urine, with icterus. ► Urine scanty, high-colored, reddish sediment on standing. ► Copious and frequent nocturnal urination, clear as water.

Male Sexual Organs

► Seminal emissions. ► Gleet ; old cases.

Female Sexual Organs

► Climacteric disorders, especially flushes of heat and leucorrhoea. ► Menses : at right time, offensive smelling, bright red flow ; clots, like lumps of flesh ; later, blood darker, and less offensive ; scanty, headache, from occiput to frontal region, head as if bursting ; face red and hot. ► Os uteri ulcerated ; fetid, corrosive leucorrhoea. ► Uteri polypi. ► Flatus from uterus : 19.

Pregnancy

► Threatened abortion, with nausea, pains in loins, extending through hypogastric and iliac regions, and down the thighs. ► Mammae : stitches in both ; sore to touch under right nipple, and painful soreness of the nipples.

Larynx

► Chronic dryness in throat, sensation of swelling in larynx, and expectoration of thick mucus. ► Aphonia, with swelling in throat. ► Dryness in throat, with soreness, swelling and redness.

Breathing

► Short, accelerated, constrained breathing ; extreme dyspnoea ; cheeks and hands livid ; compressible pulse. θ Typhoid pneumonia. ► Asthma, especially after the "rose cold", worse from odors. ► Painful, sighing respiration. ► Inclination to take deep inspiration, which increases constriction of chest, and causes tearing pains in chest, worse right side.

Cough

► Wheezing, whistling cough ; metallic sounding ; stridulous breathing ; croup. ► Cough dry, caused by : tickling in throat-pit ; ticking in stomach. ► Dry cough, awakening him and not ceasing until he sits up in bed and passes flatus, upward and downward. ► Whooping-cough, constricted, spasmodic action across throat beneath the jaws ; cough worse at night, with diarrhoea. ► Haemoptysis during phthisis pulmonalis. ► Sputa : thick mucus ; rust-colored ; offensive, purulent.

Lungs

► Sharp piercing midway between sternum and right nipple. ► Pain in right chest to shoulder, can only with difficulty place hand on top of head. ► Stitches on lower part of left breast to shoulder. ► Cramps in chest. ► Burning in chest, also stitching ; he lies on the back ; sputum is tough, rust-colored and difficult ; pulse quick and small ; face and limbs cold, or hands and feet burning hot, and cheeks circumscribed red and burning, worse in afternoon ; extreme dyspnoea. ► Pneumonia. ► Breath and sputa smell badly, even to the patient ; belches before and after cough ; after cough heat ; then gaping ; circumscribed red cheeks ; diarrhoea ; night-sweats ; pains in legs.

Heart And Pulse

► Painful stitches or pressing pain in region of heart. ► Palpitation before vomiting, with great weakness. ► Irregularity of heart's action and pulse, with coldness, insensibility, etc. ► Weak feeling at the heart. ► Pulse : hard, frequent ; small and quick ; irregular, with great weakness.

Outer Chest

► Burning in sternum. ► Severe soreness under right nipple, worse from touch.

Neck And Back

► Pain in nape of neck. ► Dull pain along inner edge of left scapula, worse from breathing. ► Rheumatic pains in neck, shoulders and arms, worse at night. ► Pain in sacrum, from lifting. ► Lumbago, from lifting ; or, myalgia of great muscles of back. ► Soreness down muscles of back ; pains shift about ; feels pain more when drawing long breath.

Upper Limbs

► Itching in axilla before catamenia. ► Rheumatic pain in right arm and shoulder ; worse at night ; on turning in bed ; cannot raise the arm. ► Burning in palms, redness of hands, and severe burning. ► Ulceration of the roots of all the nails on both hands. ► Panaritium, first right, then left fingers.

Lower Limbs

► Rheumatic pain in left hip ; also, inside of right thigh. ► Bruise-like pain in thigh, alternating with burning and pressure in breast. ► Pain through hips, extending down right limb. ► Wandering pains worse at night. ► Knees are stiff. ► Left leg and foot swelled in evening, with violent burning pain, did not know where to lay the limb ; limb externally cold ; worse until 12 P.M. ► Sharp pain in right ankle and great toe-joint. ► Burning of soles of feet, worse in bed. ► Cold feet, afternoon.

Limbs In General

► Burning of hands and feet, worse at night. ► Rheumatic pains, worse in those places least covered with flesh, but not in joints ; on touching the painful part, pain vanishes and appears on some other part. ► Rheumatism in all joints, with swelling and spasmodic pains.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 40. Walking : 36. Rising : 2. Stooping : 16. Turning quickly : 2 ; in bed : 32. Indisposed to move : 36. Cannot find rest : 33. Restricted motion of right arm : 28, 32. Must sit up : 27. Must kneel down : 8. Lying down : 2, 27 ; on side : 17, 18 ; on back : 2, 17, 28. Must lie down : 3. Looking upward : 2.

Nerves

► Lameness of right arm. ► Paralysis of right side. ► Lassitude, torpor, languor ; not disposed to move or make any mental exertion, worse damp weather. ► Limbs weak while walking in open air.

Sleep

► Sleepless at night, wakes with fright, as if he would fall. ► Dreams : of sailing on sea ; of business matters ; frightful. ► Drowsiness, causing mental and bodily indolence.

Time

► Morning : 3. Afternoon : 28, 33, 40. Evening : 3, 9, 19, 27, 33, 40. Until 12 P.M. : 15. Midnight : 33. Night : 2, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37. Day : 3.

Temperature And Weather

► In bed : 33, 40. Cold weather : 2. Damp weather : 35. Atmospheric changes : 44. Cold, open air : 13, 36.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill, with headache, nausea, pain under scapula on motion ; shivering in back, worse evening in bed. ► Slight flushes of heat, followed by chills, then face flushed, hands hot, qualmish feeling all over ; lassitude. ► Heat flying from head to stomach. ► Burning heat, rapidly alternating with chill and shivering. ► Afternoon fever, with circumscribed red cheeks. ► Fever 2 to 3 P.M. daily. ► Flushes of heat. ► Fever and delirium. ► Slight chill, violent fever, headache and delirium. ► Copious sweat ; cold sweat. ► Typhus, with the characteristic headache.

Attacks

► Headache usually recurs every seventh day ; increases in severity from morning till evening.

Sides

► Right 3, 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33, 36. Left : 6, 18, 28, 29, 31, 33. Right to left : 19, 32. Above downward : 19, 24, 33, 40. Below upward : 28. Up and down : 20, 27.

Sensations

► Heat flying from head to stomach. ► Sensation as if hot water was poured from breast into abdomen. ► An uncomfortable prickling sensation of warmth spreading over whole body. ► Slow, shooting pains, with long-continued thrills.

Tissues

► Languid circulation, limbs cold, skin pallid, sensitive to atmospheric changes. ► Veins distended, feel sore. ► Surging of the blood. ► Red or grey hepatization of lungs. ► Polypi, nasal and uterine. ► Carbuncles. ► Warts. ► Fungous excrescences.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Pressure : 3, 8, 18. Touch : 5, 6, 8, 10, 24, 30, 34. Lifting : 31.

Skin

► Heat and dryness. ► Itching and nettle-rash before the nausea. ► Old, indolent ulcers, with callous borders and ichorous discharge ; dirty granulations, dry, sharp-cut edges. ► Icterus, during prevalent intermittent fever. ► Prickling sensation of warmth, spreading over body. ► Eruption on face of young women, with menstrual troubles, especially deficiency.

Relationship

► After Bellad. fails in scarlatina. ► As a dynamic remedy for the narcosis of opium. ► Sanguin. antidotes : Rhus rad.