Condensed Materia Medica

Collinsonia Canadensis coll.

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Inner Head

Dull frontal headache, with frequent flying pains in the legs tearing in the knees.

Tongue, etc

Tongue yellow along the base and centre; rough, bitter taste.

Abdomen

Dull distress in the right hypochondrium; cutting pains in the hypogastrium; with faintness.

Stool, etc

Constipation, stool light-colored, lumpy, with hard straining.
Diarrhœa, mucous, bloody; thin yellow matter, or watery, with violent tenesmus and sharp cutting in the bowels.
Hemorrhoids, blind or bleeding; sense of weight in rectum, itching, feeling as of sticks of sand; caused by congestive inertia of lower bowel. Also for obstinate cases.

Male Sexual Organs

Varicocele; rectal symptoms decide.

Female Sexual Organs

Chronic inflammation; retroflexion or retroversion; prolapsus; when there is pelvic passive congestion, hemorrhoids, etc., ovarian neuralgia, lancinating pains, worse right side.
Pruritus vulvæ; prolapsus uteri or during pregnancy.

Cough

Spits dark, tough, coagulated blood, covered with viscid mucus; previously the blood was discharged per anum.

Heart and Pulse

Irritable heart, it beats rapidly and irregularly, worse least motion or excitement; periodical spells of faintness; when reflex from pelvic and rectal symptoms (clinical).

Tissues

Acts upon the lower portion of the bowels, causing congestive inertia.
Reflexly, or by similar drug effect, veins elsewhere are affected; hence its use (like Arnica) as a vulnerary, and also its employment in varicocele.

Relationship

Compare: Aloe soc. (rectal dysentery; latter has more paresis of rectum): Æsculus (piles); Nux vom.