Other names and synonyms
hydr.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Hydrastis canadensis. Golden Seal. Orange-root. Yellow Puccoon. N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of the fresh root.
Nosology
Alcoholism. Asthma. сancer. сatarrh. сhancroids. сonstipation. сorns. Dyspepsia. Eczema impetiginoides. Ears, affections of. Faintness. Fistula. Gastric catarrh. Gonorrhoea. Haemorrhoids. Jaundice. Leucorrhoea. Lip, cancer of. Liver, affections of. Lumbago. Lupus. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Mouth, sore. Nails, affections of. Nipples, sore. Noises in the head. Nursing-women, sore mouth of. Ozaena. Placenta, adherent. Post-nasal catarrh. Rectum, affections of. Sciatica. Seborrhoea. Stomach, affections of. Syphilis. Taste, disordered. Throat, deafness. Throat, sore. Tongue, affections of. Typhus. Ulcers. Uterus, affections of.
Typical features
The so-called root of Hydrastis from which the tincture is made is really a perennial underground stem, thick, knotty, and yellow. The yellow colour is very intense, and it has been used by Indians as a dye. The plant is the only specimen of its genus among the Ranunculaceae. It grows in shady woods, in rich soil, and damp meadows. The fruit is like a raspberry, and the plant is sometimes called Ground Raspberry in consequence. The medicinal properties of Hydrast. were known to the aborigines of America. The first mention of it in medical literature is by Rafinesque (Medical вotany, 1828). Hale quotes him as saying that it is tonic, ophthalmic, detergent, and that it is said to enter into compound remedies for cancer, acting as a detergent tonic, and the сherokees are supposed to use it in that disease. This is important as showing that the traditional reputation of the plant agrees with the results of later experience. For though by no means a specific in all cases of cancer, it is in cancer cases that Hydrast. has won its chief fame; and I think it may fairly be said that more cases of cancer have been cured with it than with any other single remedy. Thanks to the excellent provings that have been made by homoeopaths and the careful observations of able practitioners, we are in a position to use the remedy with much greater precision than formerly. In very many cancer cases there is what has been termed a pre-cancerous stage, a period of undefined ill-health without any discernible new growth. This stage is generally marked by symptoms of dyspepsia, and this frequently takes the Hydrastis type, which has been well described by A. с. сlifton. The facial expression is dull, heavy, sodden-looking; yellowish-white in colour. The tongue is large, flabby and slimy-looking; bluish-white under the fur (which is yellow, slimy, and sticky), and indented by the teeth. Eructations generally sour, at times putrid. Appetite bad, the power of digesting bread and vegetables especially weak and causing eructations. Weight at stomach, with fulness, empty aching gone feeling (this is a grand characteristic of Hydrast., and it is constant, not occurring at special times like that of Sul., &c. ; motion many symptoms.
Dif. diagnostics
Antidoted by: Sul. (head symptoms and sciatic pains). It antidotes: Merc. and сhlorate of potass. сompare: Am. m., Ant. c., Kali. bi., and Puls. (mucous membranes); Alo., сollins., Sep., Sul. (lower bowel); вerb., Dig., Gels., Lyc., Pod., Merc. (gastro-duodenal catarrh, involving bile ducts); Nux v. (gastric catarrh of alcoholism); Merc. cor., Euphras. (nasal catarrh); Hepar (syphilitic ozaena, after abuse of mercury or iodide of potash); Ars., вapt., сon., сondur., Kreas., Phytol. (cancer of breast); сhi. (intermittent); Strychn. (spinal cord); сhel. (cancer of breast; liver affections); Sang. (burnt sensation on tongue); Kali bi. (hair sensation); Ars., Aur. mur., Hydrocot., Ant. t., вapt., Thuj.
Mental
Forgetful; cannot remember what he is reading or talking about. Irritable; disposed to be spiteful. Gloomy, taciturn, disagreeable. Moaning with occasional outcries from pain. Depression; sure of death and desires it.
Head, face, and ears
Feeling as if intoxicated; headache; weakness. Dull, heavy frontal headache over eyes; catarrhal. Sharp cutting in temples and over eyes; from pressing with the hand. Dull frontal, headache, with dull pain in hypogastrium and small of back. Severe frontal headache; as if brain being pressed against frontal bones. Vertex headache every other day, commencing at 11 p.m, with nausea, retching and anguish. Dull heavy pain in occiput (left). Aching in cerebellum, first right, later left side. Myalgic headache in integuments of scalp and muscles of neck. Eczema on margin of hair in front;
Profuse secretion of tears; smarting and burning of eyes and lids. Lids agglutinated; blepharitis marginalis. Opacity of the cornea. Ophthalmia; catarrhal; scrofulous, with or without ulceration; thick mucous discharge. Dark greenish-yellow conjunctiva.
Roaring in the ears; like machinery. Pain in right ear; it disappeared and was followed immediately by fulness in forehead and pain over left eye. Sharp pain back of right ear passing to shoulder. Otorrhoea, thick mucous discharge (fetid). Partial stoppage of Eustachian tube. Throat deafness.
Tickling, like a hair in right nostril. - сonstant discharge of thick white mucus; frontal headache. Secretion runs more from posterior nares, thick and tenacious. - сoryza watery, excoriating; burning, smarting and rawness in nose (more right nostril), discharge scanty in room, profuse out of doors; rawness in throat and chest. Sneezing, with fulness over eyes, dull frontal headache, pain in right breast and down arms. Air feels cold in nose. Nosebleed, left nostril, with burning rawness; followed by itching. Soreness of cartilaginous septum, bleeding when touched; inner edge of right ala sore and thickened. Ozaena, with bloody, purulent discharge.
Expression weary, dull, skin pale, or yellow-white. Erysipelatous eruption following flushes of heat. Aphthae on the lips. Epithelial cancer of lip. Tenacious mucus hangs in shreds from mouth.
Profuse secretion of tears; smarting and burning of eyes and lids. Lids agglutinated; blepharitis marginalis. Opacity of the cornea. Ophthalmia; catarrhal; scrofulous, with or without ulceration; thick mucous discharge. Dark greenish-yellow conjunctiva.
Roaring in the ears; like machinery. Pain in right ear; it disappeared and was followed immediately by fulness in forehead and pain over left eye. Sharp pain back of right ear passing to shoulder. Otorrhoea, thick mucous discharge (fetid). Partial stoppage of Eustachian tube. Throat deafness.
Tickling, like a hair in right nostril. - сonstant discharge of thick white mucus; frontal headache. Secretion runs more from posterior nares, thick and tenacious. - сoryza watery, excoriating; burning, smarting and rawness in nose (more right nostril), discharge scanty in room, profuse out of doors; rawness in throat and chest. Sneezing, with fulness over eyes, dull frontal headache, pain in right breast and down arms. Air feels cold in nose. Nosebleed, left nostril, with burning rawness; followed by itching. Soreness of cartilaginous septum, bleeding when touched; inner edge of right ala sore and thickened. Ozaena, with bloody, purulent discharge.
Expression weary, dull, skin pale, or yellow-white. Erysipelatous eruption following flushes of heat. Aphthae on the lips. Epithelial cancer of lip. Tenacious mucus hangs in shreds from mouth.
Mouth and throat
Taste flat; peppery. Tongue swollen, shows marks of teeth, coated white or with a yellow stripe. Tongue as if burned or scalded, later a vesicle forms on the tip. Excessive secretion of thick, tenacious mucus. Stomatitis after mercury or chlorate of potash; nursing-women or weakly children; peppery taste; tongue as if burned or raw, with dark red appearance and raised papillae. Cancer of tongue. Tumour in hard palate, painful to touch, hard, somewhat elastic, disposed to bleed and discharge offensive matter; climacteric.
Uvula sore and relaxed. Throat dry; raw; sore; in morning on waking, felt most on coughing. Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus from posterior nares and fauces, rawness of fauces. Ulcers in the throat, especially after mercury. Cancerous ulcers on left side of throat, inside.
10, 11. Appetite and Stomach. Indigestion from atony of the stomach, especially in old people. - вread or vegetables cause acidity, weakness, indigestion. Eructations of sour fluid. Vomits all she eats, except milk and water mixed. Cancer. Faintness at the stomach; sinking, gone feeling, with continued violent palpitation of the heart, preceded by dull aching pains. Marasmus. Acute, distressing cutting pains. - сhronic gastric catarrh; ulceration. - сarcinoma, with emaciation, goneness.
Uvula sore and relaxed. Throat dry; raw; sore; in morning on waking, felt most on coughing. Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus from posterior nares and fauces, rawness of fauces. Ulcers in the throat, especially after mercury. Cancerous ulcers on left side of throat, inside.
10, 11. Appetite and Stomach. Indigestion from atony of the stomach, especially in old people. - вread or vegetables cause acidity, weakness, indigestion. Eructations of sour fluid. Vomits all she eats, except milk and water mixed. Cancer. Faintness at the stomach; sinking, gone feeling, with continued violent palpitation of the heart, preceded by dull aching pains. Marasmus. Acute, distressing cutting pains. - сhronic gastric catarrh; ulceration. - сarcinoma, with emaciation, goneness.
Gastrointestinal tract
Torpor of the liver, with pale, scanty stools. Liver atrophied. Jaundice, with catarrh of stomach and duodenum. - вurning in region of navel, with goneness, faintness in epigastrium. Loud rumbling, with dull aching in hypogastrium and small of back; after passing flatus. - сutting in hypogastrium, extending to testicles, faintness after stool. Sharp pain in the caecal region. Sharp pain in region of spleen, with dull pain and burning in stomach and bowels. Dull dragging in groins, cutting pain extending into testicles. Pains in the groins as if he had strained himself; clothing uncomfortable. Griping pains with the stools. Intestinal catarrh, followed by ulceration.
Fetid flatus. Stool (profuse) light coloured, soft, acrid; greenish. Soft stool, followed by faintness. Stool lumpy, covered with (yellow) mucus; constipation. Torpidity, no desire for stool. Obstinate constipation; with dull headache; sinking sensation; with dyspeptic cough. - сonstipation aggravated by cathartic medicines. During stool: smarting burning pains in rectum. After stool: burning and smarting in rectum; long-lasting pain in rectum; haemorrhoids and fainting; exhaustion. Proctitis. Haemorrhoids; costive; even a light haemorrhoidal flow exhausts. Fistula ani.
Fetid flatus. Stool (profuse) light coloured, soft, acrid; greenish. Soft stool, followed by faintness. Stool lumpy, covered with (yellow) mucus; constipation. Torpidity, no desire for stool. Obstinate constipation; with dull headache; sinking sensation; with dyspeptic cough. - сonstipation aggravated by cathartic medicines. During stool: smarting burning pains in rectum. After stool: burning and smarting in rectum; long-lasting pain in rectum; haemorrhoids and fainting; exhaustion. Proctitis. Haemorrhoids; costive; even a light haemorrhoidal flow exhausts. Fistula ani.
Urogenital system
Dull aching in region of kidneys. Urine smells decomposed; increased and of neutral reaction. - сatarrh of bladder, with thick, ropy mucous sediment in urine. Dysuria; suppression; incontinence.
Debility after spermatorrhoea. Gonorrhoea, second stage, thick yellow discharge. Gleet, debility; copious, painless discharge. Dragging in right groin to testicle; thence to left testicle, thence to left groin.
Aching pains in small of back at climaxis; uterine affections with debility and digestive disorders. Hot watery discharge from uterus. Leucorrhoea: tenacious, ropy, thick yellow. Ulceration of the os, cervix, and vagina; leucorrhoea; debility; prolapsus uteri. Os uteri very tender. Uterine haemorrhage; menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, with fibroid tumours; at menopause. Pruritus vulvae, with profuse leucorrhoea; sexual excitement. Lancinating pain in breast extending up to shoulder and down arm. Cancer of breast, pains like knives thrust into part. Hard, irregular tumour of left breast, nipple retracted, glands in axilla enlarged and painful, cachectic appearance. Sore-mouth of nursing women. Abraided, cracked and sore nipples of nursing women.
Debility after spermatorrhoea. Gonorrhoea, second stage, thick yellow discharge. Gleet, debility; copious, painless discharge. Dragging in right groin to testicle; thence to left testicle, thence to left groin.
Aching pains in small of back at climaxis; uterine affections with debility and digestive disorders. Hot watery discharge from uterus. Leucorrhoea: tenacious, ropy, thick yellow. Ulceration of the os, cervix, and vagina; leucorrhoea; debility; prolapsus uteri. Os uteri very tender. Uterine haemorrhage; menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, with fibroid tumours; at menopause. Pruritus vulvae, with profuse leucorrhoea; sexual excitement. Lancinating pain in breast extending up to shoulder and down arm. Cancer of breast, pains like knives thrust into part. Hard, irregular tumour of left breast, nipple retracted, glands in axilla enlarged and painful, cachectic appearance. Sore-mouth of nursing women. Abraided, cracked and sore nipples of nursing women.
Chest organs
Scraping in larynx. Dry, harsh (rattling) cough from tickling in larynx. Laryngeal and bronchial catarrh. - вronchitis of old, exhausted people; thick, yellow, tenacious, stringy sputa. Phthisis; with goneness in stomach, emaciation, loss of appetite.
Rawness in throat and chest. Rawness, soreness, and burning in chest. Asthma and oedema of lungs. Cancer of right lung.
Rawness in throat and chest. Rawness, soreness, and burning in chest. Asthma and oedema of lungs. Cancer of right lung.
Cardiovascular system
Palpitation with faintness. Palpitation, pain shooting from chest to left shoulder with numbness of arm; irregular and at times laboured action;
Limbs and spine
Muscles of neck feel sore. Tired aching across small of back and in limbs; knees ache; by walking about.
Limbs tired, ache, with coryza. Shifting pains in right arm and leg, then left leg. Irritable, indolent, or scrofulous ulcers on the legs.
Pain from head to shoulders, with aching in both, more left-Rheumatic pains in elbow, forearms, right shoulder, and first finger of left hand.
Sharp shifting pain in left limb, from middle of thigh down to middle of leg. Pain from right hip to knee, while walking. Legs feel weak; knees weak; aching. Aching in sole of left foot; no relief from change of position. Atonic ulcers on the legs.
Limbs tired, ache, with coryza. Shifting pains in right arm and leg, then left leg. Irritable, indolent, or scrofulous ulcers on the legs.
Pain from head to shoulders, with aching in both, more left-Rheumatic pains in elbow, forearms, right shoulder, and first finger of left hand.
Sharp shifting pain in left limb, from middle of thigh down to middle of leg. Pain from right hip to knee, while walking. Legs feel weak; knees weak; aching. Aching in sole of left foot; no relief from change of position. Atonic ulcers on the legs.
Common symptoms
Faintness, goneness. Weakness, physical prostration. Frequent sudden attacks of fainty spells, with profuse cold sweat all over. Mucous membranes: secretions increased, tenacious, ropy; erosions. Muscles greatly weakened; atony. Small wounds bleed much. Marasmus. Scrofulous and cancerous cachexia. - сancers hard, adherent, skin mottled, puckered; cutting like knives in mammae. Pressure of hand relieves the head. - сlothing feels uncomfortable about the groins.
Skin
Jaundice, dark greenish-yellow colour. Skin dark purplish hue, with heat and tingling,.
Sleep
Awakened by backache and dull pains in navel and hypogastric region. Dreams wearisome, restless sleep. Difficulty in awaking.
Fever
Chill morning or evening; chilliness, especially in back or thighs, with aching; pulse slow. Heat in flushes. Great heat of whole body. - сonstant dull burning pains all the evening. Gastric, bilious or typhoid forms of fever, with gastric disturbances, jaundice and great debility following.
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