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Hydrastis canadensis

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Mental
  3. Head, face, and ears
  4. Nervous system
  5. Mouth and throat
  6. Gastrointestinal tract
  7. Appetite and food preferences
  8. Analogs by action
  9. Included in the composition
  10. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF Allen

Additional facts

 Hydrastis сanadensis, Linn. Natural order: Ranunculaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the root.

Mental

 Emotional. Affections active. Exhilaration of spirits and a feeling of lightness and happiness (second day). Felt high- spirited and good-natured (nineteenth day). In high spirits; everything looked bright; felt happy, and wanted to sing (third day). During proving, more cheerful than usual. Felt cheerful on getting up (second day). Unusual cheerfulness and hopefulness, several days. Felt very cheerful and good-natured (second day). Very sanguine and contented (second day). Unusual buoyancy (second day). Very good-humored (second day). Felt despondent; better after quiz, in the evening (seventh day). вegan to grow gloomy, taciturn, and disagreeable towards his acquaintances at 10 p.m (second day). Felt fretful and low-spirited (fifth day). Ill-humor; vindictiveness; at 8 p.m (second day). Spiteful, angry disposition, with desire to snub any one who differed in anything with me; lasting all day (third day). Spitefulness and disposition to hit and knock things in general; disappeared towards evening (second day). Intellectual. Dislike to go out, to read, to write, to do anything (fifth day). Aversion to mental occupation (second day). сonstant aversion to the application of the mind (fourth day). Aversion to study (third day). Absent-minded (fourteenth day). In writing, make wrong letters; have never been so absent- minded before (fourteenth day). Memory seems deficient (fourth day). Dulness of memory (second day). Forgetfulness (while writing); if I want anything and raise my hand to pick it up, or go after it, will forget, for a few seconds, what was wanted, which would make me very angry and feel like damning and cursing everything and anybody who bothered me in the least (second day). While reading, forget what I am reading about (third day). Very forgetful, losing myself in a conversation repeatedly; cannot keep a steady train of thought (fourteenth day).

Head, face, and ears

 Eye.
 Brow and Orbit. Pain over left eye, at 9 p.m ceasing on walking into open air (fifth day). Pain above left eye, which appeared several times, but was always relieved by laying the hand on the part, at 10 p.m (second day). Pain in both supraorbital regions at 8 p.m (fourth day). Lids. Eyes somewhat agglutinated (unusual), (second day). On waking in morning, eyes considerably agglutinated (third day). вoth eyes completely stuck together; has no cold, and knows of no cause that would produce it, except the remedy (fourth day). Lachrymal Apparatus. вurning sensation in lachrymal duct, on right side, at 3 (fourth day). Vision. Flickering before the eyes in bright-yellow light; streaks in squares, always making three sides of a square, at 7 (seventh day). Sneezing in the sun caused flickering before the eyes at 11 p.m (I have been troubled with this flickering for many years, when exerting myself or standing long in the sun), (second day).
 Ear.
 Partial stoppage of Eustachian tube. Left ear feels as if it has cotton in it, impeding hearing, at 9 p.m (Am not sure that this was the effect of the medicine, as my ear had a little wax in it, but this feeling did not go off for some minutes after the wax was extracted), (second day). Pain in right ear; when that disappeared, it was immediately followed by fullness in the forehead and pain over left eye, immediately after supper, at 6.30 (third day). Transient tensive aching in right ear, once in morning and once in afternoon (second day). Sharp pain behind right ear for one moment (in mastoid process of temporal bone), passing down to right shoulder, back of clavicle, about midway between arm and neck; the entire symptom lasted only a few moments; pain, however, very severe; at 9.30 p.m (third day). Hearing. A noise in the ears (after five minutes, seventeenth day). Noise in the ears on waking at night, and trembling in the bowels (twelfth and thirteenth nights). Roaring in the ears at 9 (eleventh day). Roaring in the ears like a partridge on waking in the night (ninth night); the waking is habitual. Ringing in the ears, with slight pain in the anus (fourteenth day). Noise in ears, as from the turning of a machine in a machine shop, at 2 (seventh day). A noise in the ears as of cogwheels (tenth and fourteenth nights).
 Nose.
 Objective. сontinual snuffing and occasional sneezing through the day (second day). Sneezing (fifth day). Sneezing constant for twenty minutes (third day). Sneezing once at 7 (fourth day). Sneezing every time he woke up (fourth day). Sneezing after breakfast, from tickling in right nostril, left stopped up, at 7 p.m (second day). Sneezing, jarring the whole chest, causing sore feeling, particularly on right side above nipple, at 10.15 p.m (fourth day). While sitting in warm room suddenly seized with sneezing, succeeded by excoriating watery discharge from nose, and retires to bed very sick, at 8 (fourth day). сold worse in morning; very much better in evening (second day). Slight cold in nose in afternoon (third day); catarrh bad, nose stopped up (fifth day). сoryza in right nostril, with constant inclination to sneeze, from 7 p.m to 1 (second day). сoryza; in the morning, when walking, the nose felt quite dry; on going into the open air, discharge of water, which ceases in the room, and the nose feels sore when breathing through it (seventh day). сoryza, watery, not very profuse, mostly from right nostril (fourth day). On walking into the open air, a watery coryza set in, which stopped again in room (fifth day). сontinued flow of watery coryza; disappears in warm room; much aggravated in open air; at 10.15 p.m (fourth day). Watery coryza on right side at 3 (fourth day).
 Discharge of thick yellow matter from nose (sixth day). Awoke at 7 p.m and blew plug of soft mucus out of right nostril (after six hours). Discharge of mucus from the nose very profuse, almost incessant for ten days; the bronchia being also affected in a similar manner, but less severe; it felt and acted like a severe attack of catarrh with influenza, and had I ever been affected in a like manner before, I should have thought it the result of a severe cold. While walking in cold open air, discharge of watery mucus from nose, causing frequent blowing (second and third days). вlowing of blood and yellow mucus from nose (second day). A little blood and dry coryza from left nostril (fifth day); bleeding quite profuse (sixth day). Slight bleeding of nose after dinner; blood bright-red; at 2.30 (fourth day). Nose bled immediately after rising; dark blood for about ten minutes (seventh day). Subjective. Observed tendency to take cold easily at 12 M. (second day). Felt cold coming on (after three hours); it kept increasing for two or three days, with discharge of thin mucus, excoriating upper lip, afterwards turning thicker. Feeling as if something burst, suddenly followed by a copious discharge of watery coryza (fourth day). Sensation as of a screen or curtain in right nostril, which would open and shut during inspiration; this gradually passed over to the left, leaving the right stopped up (second day). Nose dry (second day). Nose dry and stopped up, mostly right (fourth day). Dryness and stoppage of nose, with scabs in nose (fourth day). вurning feeling in right nostril (sixth day). вurning sensation in nose; disappears in warm room; much aggravated in open air; the burning in exhalation is almost insupportable, while inhalation ameliorates (fourth day). Fullness at root of nose (fourth day). Fullness across bridge of nose and at root of nose (fourth day). Nose stopped up apparently (fourth day). Stopped up feeling in nose; no discharge from nose (nineteenth day). Stoppage of nose in morning. Right nostril stopped up (fifth day). Stuffed-up, smarting sensation in the posterior nares, as from a recent cold; increased secretion of nasal mucus (after second dose). сontinual stuffed-up feeling in the posterior nares and nasal sinuses, with discharge of thin, clear mucus (second day). Nose feels as if there was a plug in it under nasal bones, at 10.15 (fourth day). Internal edge of right ala nasi very sore and thickened; left stopped up; right dry and painful (in room), (third day). Soreness of inside of nose; air is felt painfully and cold while inhaling, with hawking of mucus from; throat and posterior nares; at 3.30 (third day). The air seemed cold to upper inner left nostril while inhaling, with pain, extending deep into the head, seemingly from the posterior nares, with pressure in and over left eye; at 9 p.m and at 2 while going form college to boarding-house (third day). Nose sore for some days, in right nostril, on cartilage of septum; bleeds on being touched (fourteenth day). Sharp, raw, excoriating feeling in both nares, with constant inclination to empty the nose; the discharge of nasal mucus is very free (third day). Nostril burns very much, as if raw; also itching somewhat (seventh day). Tingling in right nostril, causing sneezing, at 4.30 (first day). Sensation of tingling running down right nostril, immediately followed by a few drops of arterial blood; stopped it with cold water; at 3.30 (first day). After sneezing, constant tickling sensation in back part of nostril (second day). Tickling, like a hair, in upper right nostril; left stopped up (second day). Sensation of a hair in right nostril under the nasal bone, at its lower border; this symptom I have had at least three times distinctly (fourteenth day). Nose itched a great deal after bleeding (sixth day). Intense itching in right nostril from 6 p.m to 1 ; always relieved in cool air (third day).
 Face.
 Pale face (fourth day). An aphtha on the under lip (seventeenth day). Small fever blisters on right corner of lower lip (fifth day). Feeling of tightness of the skin around mouth, the corners of which seemed drawn down, as usual when sick (fourth day).

Nervous system

 Confusion and Vertigo. Head confused (fourth day). Feeling as if intoxicated (second morning). General Head. Immediate feeling as if the brain was partially narcotized, soon followed by sharp cutting pain darting through the temples (after 1st dose). Head feeling very hot, but cold to touch (fifth day). Remarkable heat and confusion in the head, with a loss of memory of recent things; palliation of the heat and confusion by pressing the cool hand across the forehead (second day). Head ached severely till I went to sleep (eleventh day). Headache on rising (fourth day). Headache all the afternoon (fifth day). After breakfast, head commenced to ache; first it felt extremely full, then dull pain in temples; on every step or sudden movement of body, felt pain more (eleventh day). Headache of a nervous, gastric character up to 12 M. (second day). Dull headache (fifth day). Dull headache, with some sharp stitches through the temples (third day); headache increased (fourth day); did not feel quite easy for a week. Dull pain in head on getting up (second day). Head feels full (fourth day). On going upstairs, or on sudden stooping, seems as though head would burst; coughing makes head worse (eleventh day). Dull, heavy feeling in the head, amounting to pressure over root of nose (second day). Headache bounding and throbbing (fourth day). Forehead. Heaviness and sensation of fullness in forehead, most over left eye; constant in warm room; passed off after walking in open air; at 9 p.m (second day). Severe pain in forehead and stinging pains in chest, lasting some time, at 8.30 p.m (sixth day). Sensation of fullness on the forepart of the head, lasting perhaps ten minutes; pressing the temples removes the sensation momentarily (second day). Sneezing caused fulness of head between temples and forehead at 11 p.m and 7 (I seldom ever sneeze when I have cold, and I can scarcely attribute this to anything but the medicine), (third day). вursting feeling in head on waking at 9 p.m very severe and almost stupefying; the pain was in the frontal part; ameliorated by pressing the skin towards the temporal bone, on pressing in the forehead, and on wearing a light hat or a loose hat drawn tightly; rather better while in motion and while the mind was engaged (fifth day). A little headache across forehead on getting up at 6.30 p.m (third day).
 Severe frontal headache (fifth day). Headache, with sensation of the brain being pressed against the frontal bones, after breakfast (second day). Soreness in forehead at 9 p.m (fifth day). Head began to ache right across frontal sinuses, the pain being dull and lazy, and slightly throbbing (second day); at night, head continued to ache all over forehead and into temples (third day). Temples. Pain in temporal region, both sides, and also pain over top of head (seventh day). Pain in left temple, extending into left nostril, 8 p.m (fifth day). Pain in temple over left eye, lasting some time, at 11 p.m (third day). Slight headache, lasting only a few moments, first on right side, mainly in the temporal region, then passing to the left temporal region; leaving the left, returning to the right, at 8.45 p.m (second day). Severe headache in temples, relieved by pressure; on going into the open air about an hour afterwards, this headache disappeared; seemed to have been excited by emotion; about 9 (eighth day). Sharp, cutting pains through the temples, with dimness of vision. Stinging, sharp pains in the temples, but dull in the vertex and over the eyes (after first dose). сonstant throbbing headache all day in both sides of the head in the anterior temporal region (third day). Vertex. Headache; dull, pressing pain on top of head, pressing outward from ears, 10.30 p.m (eighth day). Parietals. Dulness of right side of head (second day). Heaviness of right side of head, with drowsiness (first day). Pain from center of brain, extending to parietal protuberance on right side. Pain in right parietal protuberance, while going upstairs, at 8.30 p.m (fourth day). Unusual dull, heavy aching in left side of head all day (fourth day). Pressing pain over the protuberance of the left parietal bone; the pain was confined to a spot about three inches in circumference; lasted but a few minutes; at 12 M. (second day). Severe neuralgic pain in the right side of the head, extending from the occiput to the temple over the ear; it undulates, or comes and goes, never had such a pain before; at 4 (second day). Occiput. Pain, dull and heavy, in left occipital region, with pale face, much heat in the head, and pressing from within outwards in region of temporal fossa; relieved by the pressure of a cool hand and cool open air (third day). Aching pain in cerebellum, first in right, later in left side (second day).

Mouth and throat

 Teeth. Dull pain at roots of teeth in upper maxilla (fourth day). Dull ache from right temporal region down to last molar tooth (upper), lasting only a couple of minutes, at 12.30 (third day). Sharp pain in last molar tooth (lower), passing up to the head on left side, and spreading to the right; a sharp, penetrating pain as from an exposed nerve; lasted about fifteen minutes, at 9.30 (third day). Edges of teeth painfully sensitive to a draft of cold air (second day). Tongue. Tongue seems large and marked by the teeth (eleventh day). Yellow coat on the tongue (fifteenth day). вoard yellow stripe on the tongue, and bad taste (twelfth day). Aphthae on the tongue, and one on the lip quite large and sore (seventeenth day). Sensation of dryness at root of tongue (sixth day). Tongue felt as if scalded by hot coffee; aggravated by smoking; on rising in morning (third day). Point of tongue feels scalded and smarts continually; grows worse; spreads all over anterior half of tongue, and there is a small burning painful vesicle on left side of tip of tongue where the scalded sensation first started (fourth day). General Mouth. Sticky mucus around the palate, and bad taste (second day). Mouth sticky, with a light fur on the tongue and a little aphthae on the upper lip (fourteenth day). There were aphthae on the under lip when I commenced the proving, which soon disappeared. *) вurning sensation in back part of roof of mouth, on right side; at 3 (fourth day). Roof of mouth, a short distance back of the incisors, sore and smooth as if burnt (third day). Twice felt a slight smarting pain in the left side of palate, in morning (second day). Tickling sensation on roof of mouth, right side, back part; between 7 and 9.30 p.m (fifth day). Taste. вad taste, in the morning (sixteenth day). Peppery taste in the mouth (first day). Acid peppery taste in the forward half of the tongue (after second dose). Food tastes strangely (fourth day).
 Throat.
 Objective. Increased secretion of mucus in throat, inducing cough, or rather hawking (seventh day). Unusual clearing of the throat while singing (eighth day). Subjective. Throat dry and sore (fourth day). Dryness in throat, with an apparent swelling in uvula and an accumulation of mucus about the posterior nares, which clogged the throat. Throat seemed raw, and swallowing scraped it; at 4 (third day). Sore throat (fifth day). Sore and raw feeling in the throat, especially around the epiglottis, with hoarseness (after second dose). Throat very sore in morning on waking (thirteenth day); felt most on coughing or swallowing (fourteenth day). Sensation of roughness and soreness of throat, on waking in morning; worse on swallowing (seventh day). Fauces and Pharynx. A little mucus in the fauces, which I cannot swallow (tenth day). Sticky mucus around the fauces (ninth day). Feeling of lump in lower part of pharynx, p73 inducing constant deglutition; at times this lump seems to rise, almost suffocating me; by drawing as long breaths as possible through my mouth this feeling of suffocation is removed (eleventh day). Upper part of right side of pharynx sore; worse during dry swallowing, better on swallowing fluids (eighth day). сonstant tickling low down in pharynx, after lighting a match the fumes of which passed into mouth; coughing and drinking relieved it momentarily; 6 (tenth day); desire to cough increased to nausea at times (eleventh day). External Throat. Pain in neck, extending from left mastoid process to scapula, at 9 (third day).

Gastrointestinal tract

 Abdomen.
 Hypochondria. сutting pain in left hypochondrium and stomach, after dinner (sixth day). Severe cutting pain in left hypochondrium (fifth day). Sharp pain in right side in region of liver, extending to shoulder-blade, not constant, nor coming on at stated times, but mostly in morning between 8 and 2 o’clock. Umbilical. Some pain in the umbilical region and anus (fifteenth day). General Abdomen. Rumbling in abdomen as if diarrhoea was coming on (after fifteen minutes), (fourth day). Rumbling and gurgling in left side of abdomen, at 12 M. (second day). Flatus fetid (eleventh day). Sensation as if the bowels would be moved, but nothing but wind passes, with urging to urinate (first day). Heavy pain in the abdomen, as if full of gas, and sensation as if dysentery was approaching (after half an hour). Uneasy burning sensation in abdomen (second day). сramp like pains through abdomen, with flatulency (these cramp like pains in the abdomen I have very often, arising, I think, from constipation); at 1.30 (sixth day). Griping in the bowels and soreness over the surface of the abdomen (second day). Griping in the bowels, with several light, somewhat acrid stools (after second dose). Griping in the bowels, with profuse light-colored diarrhoea, so prostrating that he was obliged to discontinue the proving. сutting pain in upper right side of abdomen (second day). сutting pain in bowels before and after dinner, resembling those before an attack of dysentery, two years ago (third day). сutting pain in bowels, extending to anus, relieved by passing a small quantity of flatus while lying; at 10 p.m (second day). сutting pain in the sigmoid flexure of the colon, at 2.15 (sixth day). During breakfast, cutting pains in bowels; soon after, desire for stool, with passage of some wind before evacuating; first part of stool seemed natural, last part soft and dark-brown (second day). Slight cutting pain in abdomen (fifth day). After breakfast, slight cutting pain in abdomen, relieved by passing wind (second day). сolicky pain in abdomen, with passage of wind and pressure to stool, at 9 p.m (sixth day). Slight colicky pain in upper part of abdomen (fourth day). Slight colicky pains, with rumbling and gurgling in left side of abdomen, high up (after quarter of an hour). On rising in morning, soreness in upper part of abdomen, while inhaling (fifth day). Trembling in the bowels (twelfth and thirteenth night). Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. сutting pain extending from umbilicus to penis, at 5 (eighth day). Severe cutting pain in (hypogastrium) pit of abdomen, accompanied with a looseness of the bowels; a desire to go to stool about once every half hour; it lasted seven hours, with uneasiness. The cutting pain preceded each evacuation, which relieved it. The evacuations were not thin, but scanty, and accompanied by tenesmus in the rectum, which caused a dragging bruised feeling in the ovarian region (fourth day). Slight pain in right groin while walking, at 2 (third day). For several days, have had a dull, dragging pain in both groins; commences in the right groin, descending to the right testicle; sometimes passes over to the left testicle, and from it to the left groin, passing down the right side and up the left. The pains on the left side I have noticed more in the evening, those on the right side day and night repeatedly, lasting from one half hour to two hours. I have a constant sensation in both groins, as if I strained myself from taking a very long step. It is aggravated by anything touching the groin; even my clothes are uncomfortable (fourteenth day). The pain, which lasted four hours in right groin, at different periods, changed to left; at 8 p.m (third day).

Appetite and food preferences

 Appetite. Desire for bread and tea (fifth day). Had a desire for eggs; generally, do not eat them or like them (fifth day). Poor appetite (fourth and fifth days). Diminished appetite for breakfast (second day). Dislike for meat and vegetables (fifth day). Thirst. Thirst, at 4.30 (third day). Eructation. Some eructations (unusual), (first day). Occasional belching of wind all day (sixth day). Occasional loud belching of wind during afternoon (second day). Heartburn in afternoon, which he had not had before for almost a year (second day). Nausea. Slight tendency to nausea (first day). Nausea (third day). сonstantly, a feeling of nausea in the stomach, accompanied by belching up of wind; feeling of emptiness in stomach, and visible sinking in the region of the stomach, lasting about thirty minutes; at 11 p.m (second day). Stomach. Painless gurgling in the stomach (twentieth day). Sinking at epigastrium and palpitation of heart have been previously noticed by self and others after use of Hydrastis in low dilutions or massive doses. Great sense of sinking and prostration at epigastrium, in morning (second day). Empty, gone feeling in stomach, as though he had been suffering from a long-continued attack of diarrhoea, and had been unable to eat anything for several days; the abdomen presented a scooped-out appearance; with this, slight nausea and heavy, white-coated tongue, on rising in morning (second day). Feeling of emptiness and dull pain in stomach, for one hour, at 11 p.m (sixth day). Some pain in the stomach (thirteenth day). Severe dull pain in region of stomach, relieved by belching up wind, at 12 M. (third day). Weight in the stomach (third day). While lying on stomach in bed, feeling as of something turning and twisting in it, lasting about a minute (after four hours and a half). Acute, distressing pain in the stomach (second day). сutting in the region of the stomach, lasting five minutes, immediately after eating, at 3 (second day).

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