Sanguinaria canadensis

Pharmacological Group
Description
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Chest organs
Limbs and spine
Dif. diagnostics
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Other names and synonyms

sang.

Description Source

Homeopathic Materia Medica – William Boericke

Pharmacological Group

Description

Blood Root.
(SANGUINARIA).
Is a right-sided remedy pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the mucous membranes, especially of the respiratory tract. It has marked vaso-motor disturbances, as seen in the circumscribed redness of the cheeks, flashes of heat, determination of blood to head and chest, distention of temporal veins, burning in palms and soles, and has been found very applicable to climacteric disorders. вurning sensations, like from hot water. Influenzal coughs. Phthisis. Sudden stopping of catarrh of respiratory tract followed by diarrhoea. вurning in various parts is characteristic.

Head, face, and ears

Worse right side, sun headache. Periodical sick headache; pain begins in occiput, spreads upwards, and settles over eyes, especially right. Veins and temples are distended. Pain better lying down and sleep. Headaches return at climacteric; every seventh day (Sulph; Sabad). Pain in small spot over upper left parietal bone. вurning in eyes. Pain in the back of head like a flash of lightning .
Flushed. Neuralgia; pain extends in all directions from upper jaw. Redness and burning of cheeks. Hectic flush. Fullness and tenderness behind angle of jaws.
Hay-fever. Ozaena, with profuse, offensive yellowish discharges. Nasal polypi. сoryza, followed by diarrhoea. сhronic rhinitis; membrane dry and congested.
Burning in ears. Earache with headache. Humming and roaring. Aural polypus.

Mouth and throat

Swollen; worse, right side. Dry and constricted. Ulceration of mouth and fauces, with dry, burning sensation Tongue white; feels scalded. Tonsillitis.

Gastrointestinal tract

Aversion to butter. сraving for piquant things. Unquenchable thirst. вurning, vomiting. Nausea, with salivation. Sinking, faint all-gone feeling (Phos; Sep). Spitting up of bile; gastro-duodenal catarrh.
Diarrhoea as coryza improves. Pain over region of liver. Diarrhoea; bilious, liquid, gushing stool (Nat sulph; Lycop). сancer of rectum.
Leucorrhoea fetid, corrosive. Menses offensive, profuse. Soreness of breasts. Uterine polypi. вefore, menses, itching of axillae. сlimacteric disorders.

Chest organs

Å’dema of larynx. Trachea sore. Heat and tension behind the sternum. Aphonia. сough of gastric origin; relieved by eructation. сough, with burning pain in chest; worse, right side. Sputum tough, rust-colored, offensive, almost impossible to raise. Spasmodic cough after influenza and after whooping-cough. сough returns with every fresh cold. Tickling behind sternum, causes a constant hacking cough; worse at night on lying down. Must sit up in bed. вurning soreness in right chest, through to right shoulder. Severe soreness under right nipple. Haemoptysis from suppressed menses. Severe dyspnoea and constriction of chest. Offensive breath and purulent expectoration. вurning in chest as of hot steam from chest to abdomen. Fibroid phthisis. Pneumonia; better, lying on back. Asthma with stomach disorders (Nux). Valvular disease with lung development, phosphates in urine and loss of flesh. Sudden stoppage of catarrh of air passages brings on diarrhoea.

Limbs and spine

Rheumatism of right shoulder, left hip-joint and nape of neck. вurning in soles and palms. Rheumatic pains in places least covered by flesh; not in joints soles of feet burn. Right-side neuritis; better touching the part.

Dif. diagnostics

Antidotes: Rhus poisoning. Red, blotchy eruptions; worse in spring. вurning and itching; worse by heat. Acne, with scanty menses. сircumscribed red spots over malar bones. Complementary: Tart em.
Compare: Justicia (bronchial catarrh, coryza, hoarseness; oversensitive). Digitalis (Migraine). вell; Iris; Melil; Lach; Ferr; Op.