Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Canchalagua canch.

Allen (1889)In every bookSave

General

A tincture is prepared from the whole plant of Erythræa Chironioides, Griesb. (Gentianaceæ).

Sore all over body, especially in lower limbs. ▶ That kind of pain in head and fingers which accompanies attacks of intermittent fever. ▶ Head feels congested. ▶ Pain in forehead. ▶ Fulness, tightness of scalp, it feels as if drawn together by india-rubber. ▶ Burning in left eye, then in right. ▶ Stitches in ears. ▶ Pain in ears. ▶ Increased buzzing and roaring in ears. ▶ Spitting of white mucus, with trembling and nervousness. ▶ Appetite increased. ▶ Regurgitations. ▶ Waterbrash. ▶ Ructus. ▶ Flatus. ▶ Pain in abdomen, amel. pressure. ▶ Loose stools, several a day. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Morning stool hard, knotty. ▶ Chills repeatedly down spine and all over body, agg. in bed, at night. ▶ Sleeplessness. ▶ Heat in whole body, and after the proving I could bear better the cool trade wind, usually setting in, in San Francisco, in afternoon.

Clinical

Most severe types of intermittent in hot countries, with a general sore and bruised feeling, nausea and retching, the skin becomes wrinkled like a washerwoman's. ▶ Alleviated a catarrh produced by influenza.