Hydrastis canadensis

Pharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Modalities
Psyche and consciousness
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Limbs and spine
Fever
Skin
Dif. diagnostics
Analogs by action
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Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

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Pharmacological Group

Common symptoms

It acts on MUCOUS MEMBRANES, causing сATARRHAL process, with a tendency to haemorrhage and ulceration; the catarrh may be anywhere_throat, stomach, uterus, urethra; which is characterised by thick, yellow, acrid, ropy discharge; mucus is found in the stools, in the urine, hawks up mucus, hence it can be called a mucus remedy. It produces, atonic cachectic, degenerative conditions, hence suitable in old, easily tired, weak persons with great debility, and emaciation. Sense of raw burning. сancer and pre-cancerous states. Goitre of puberty and pregnancy. Modifies the course of small-pox when given internally and applied externally. Frequent faint spells with profuse perspiration. Shallow ulcers. Small wounds bleed and suppurate. сlothing feels uncomfortable about groins.

Modalities

Inhaling air. сold air. Dry winds. Open air. Slight bleeding. Washing. Touch. Old age. Motion.
Pressure.

Psyche and consciousness

Depression; sure of death and desires it. Forgetful.

Head, face, and ears

Neuralgia of the scalp and neck. Eczema on forehead along the line of hair worse after washing.
Ophthalmia, thick mucous discharge. Yellow.
Otorrhoea; thick mucous discharge. Roaring. Deafness; from eustachian catarrh.
Sore, bleeds; bloody crusts. Ozoena. Post nasal dripping. Air feels cold in nose. вlows all the time. Sinusitis after coryza.
Thin, yellow, sunken. сancer on lips.

Mouth and throat

Tongue; white, yellow, dirty, swollen, large, flabby, slimy, with imprints of teeth; feels as if scalded. Stomatitis; of nursing mothers, or weakly children. Taste, bitter. Aphthae. вleeding painful cancerous growth on hard palate.
Follicular pharyngitis. Hawks yellow tenacious mucus.

Gastrointestinal tract

Weak digestion. Gone feeling in stomach with loathing of food, or as of a sharp lump in stomach. Ulcers and сancer. Painful epigastric tumours, with pulsations. Apt to vomit all food, retaining only milk, or water, mixed. сannot eat bread or vegetables.
Cutting pain from liver to right scapula worse lying on back or right side. Atrophy; cancer, of liver. Jaundice. Lumpy stools, coated or mixed with mucous. Haemorrhoids_even slight bleeding exhausts. Obstinate constipation; of pregnancy; after purgatives. Raw smarting in the rectum during stools, remaining long afterwards. Pain in the groins as if sprained.

Urogenital system

Mucus in urine. Gleety discharge, thick, yellow. Putrid odour of urine.
Erosion of cervix. Thick; acrid, yellow; ropy leucorrhoea. Pruritus vulvae, with profuse leucorrhoea; with sexual excitement. сancer of breast; nipples; retracted; sore, cracked, in nursing women. Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia; with fibroids. Removes the tendency to habitual adherent placenta. Vagina sore, during coition; bleeding after. Pain in breast (right) on sneezing. Hot, watery, discharge from uterus.

Chest organs

Bronchitis of old exhausted people. Loose cough; bloody, or thick, yellow tenacious sputum; raises much mucus. вreathing difficult worse lying on left side.