Condensed Materia Medica

Sanguinaria Canadensis sang.

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Mind

Confused, relieved by eructations.
Anxiety and feeling of dread.
Anxiety precedes vomiting and delirium.
Moroseness, with nausea; cannot bear a person to walk in room.
Angry irritability; moroseness.

Sensorium

Sensation as if paralyzed and unable to move while lying on her back, with full consciousness of her surroundings.
It seems as if events that transpired in dreams were of weeks and months duration.
Vertigo in cold weather.
Sensation as if in railroad car, and every one about her talked rapidly, begs to be held.
Vertigo: with long-continuing nausea, debility and headache; on quickly turning head and looking upward; on lying down at night; on rising from stooping; in cold weather.

Inner Head

Periodical sick headache; begins in morning, increases during day, lasts until evening; head feels as if it must burst, or as if eyes would be pressed out; or, throbbing, lancinating pains through brain, worse on right side, and especially in forehead and vertex; followed by chills, nausea, vomiting of food or bile; must lie down and remain quiet; relieved by sleep.
Headache begins in occiput, spreads upward and settles over the right eye.
Severe headache, only relieved by pressing back up against something hard.
Headache, rheumatic running up posterior auricular region.

Outer Head

Soreness in spots, especially temporal regions.
Distention of veins in temples; feel sore when touched.

Eyes

Diminished power of vision.
Dimness of eyes, with sensation as if hairs were in them.
Pupils dilated.
Neuralgia in and over right eye.
Yellowness of sclerotica, with icterus.
Catarrhal ophthalmia, granular lids.
Ophthalmia, followed by ulceration of cornea.
Copious lachrymation: following the burning and dryness; tears hot; with coryza.

Ears

Painful sensitiveness to sudden sounds; right ear worse.
Beating, humming with congestion of blood.
Burning of the ears, cheeks red.
Earache, with headache, singing in ears, and vertigo.
Beating under ears, at irregular intervals often only a couple of strokes.

Nose

Loss of smell.
Nasal polypi.
Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing; worse right side.
Ulcerative ozæna, with epistaxis.
Nose cold and subsequent asthma; sick and faint from odor of flowers.

Face

Distention of veins of face, with excessive redness, a feeling of stiffness, and veins sore to touch.
Circumscribed redness of one or both cheeks.
Red cheek, with burning in ears.
Cheeks (and hands) livid. θ Typhoid pneumonia.
Paleness of face, with disposition to vomit.
Neuralgia in upper jaw, extending to nose, eyes, ears, neck and sides of head; shooting, burning pains; must kneel down and hold head tightly to the floor.

Lower Face

Lips feel dry.
Swelling of lips toward evening.
Under-lip burns, is swollen, hard and blistered; blisters dry up and form crusts, which drop off.
Stiffness in articulation of jaws.

Teeth

Toothache from picking the teeth, or in hollow teeth when touched by the food.
Spongy, bleeding and fungoid condition of gums.

Tongue, etc

Loss of taste, with a burnt feeling on tongue.
Sweat articles taste bitter, followed by burning in fauces.
White-coated tongue, with slimy, fatty taste.
Tip of tongue burns as if scalded.
Tongue sore; pain like a boil.
Red tongue, feels as if in contact with something hot.

Mouth

Fetid breath, clammy mouth, sticky teeth.
Sores on gums and roof of mouth.

Throat

Burning, especially after eating sweet things.
Roof of mouth and uvula sore and burning.
Ulcerated sore throat.
Throat feels swollen, as if to suffocation, with pain when swallowing, and aphonia.
Tonsillitis, promotes suppuration.
Heat in throat, better inspiring cold air; throat so dry it seems as if it would crack.
Pearly coating on palate and fauces. θ Diphtheritis.
Burning in pharynx and œsophagus.

Desires and Aversions

Craving for he know not what, with loss of appetite; wants piquant articles.
Sugar tastes bitter, and causes burning.
Craves food: 16.

Eating and Drinking

Sweet things aggravate, produce burning.
Soon after eating: feels empty; difficult breathing, nausea, water-brash, lassitude almost to fainting, cold sweat until 12 P.M., after a little food.
While eating: 27.

Nausea and Vomiting

Eructations; disposition to vomit; pale face.
Nausea intense, in paroxysms: worse when stooping with flow of saliva; followed by nettle-rash, heart-burn, eructations, with headache and chills, followed by vomiting, and sometimes diarrhœa.
Vomiting: craves food to quiet the nausea; of bitter water; of sour, acrid fluids; of ingesta; of worms; preceded by anxiety; with headache and burning in stomach; head better afterward.

Stomach

Soreness and pressure in epigastrium, aggravated by eating.
Burning in stomach, with headache.
Gastritis, with burning, vomiting, headache.
Jerking in stomach, as if from something alive.
Goneness, with sick headache.
Sudden attacks of constriction in pit of stomach, as if suffocating.

Hypochondria

Heat streaming from breast toward liver.
Liver torpid; skin yellow; colic.
Violent stitches in splenetic region.
Pains in left hypochondrium, worse when coughing, better from pressure and when lying on left side.

Abdomen

Flatulent distention of abdomen in evening, with escape of flatus from vagina (os uteri being dilated).
Indurations in abdomen.
Cutting bellyache from right to left iliac fossa, thence to rectum.
Soreness in abdomen aggravated by eating.
Colic, with torpor of the liver.
Feeling as from hot water pouring from breast into abdomen, followed by diarrhœa.

Stool, etc

Stools thin, fecal; bright yellow; undigested; watery.
Escape of much flatus upward and downward; also, with diarrhœa. It relieves the cough.
Diarrhœa following coryza, pains in chest and cough.
Urging, but no evacuation, with sensation of a mass in lower part of rectum, and discharge of offensive flatus only.
Alternate diarrhœa and constipation.
Hemorrhoids.

Urine

Dark, yellow urine, with icterus.
Urine scanty, high-colored, reddish sediment on standing.
Copious and frequent nocturnal urination, clear as water.

Male Sexual Organs

Seminal emissions.
Gleet; old cases.

Female Sexual Organs

Climacteric disorders, especially flushes of heat and leucorrhœa.
Menses: at right time, offensive smelling, bright red flow; clots, like lumps of flesh; later, blood darker, and less offensive; scanty, headache, from occiput to frontal region, head as if bursting; face red and hot.
Os uteri ulcerated; fetid, corrosive leucorrhœa.
Uteri polypi.
Flatus from uterus: 19.

Pregnancy

Threatened abortion, with nausea, pains in loins, extending through hypogastric and iliac regions, and down the thighs.
Mammæ: stitches in both; sore to touch under right nipple, and painful soreness of the nipples.

Larynx

Chronic dryness in throat, sensation of swelling in larynx, and expectoration of thick mucus.
Aphonia, with swelling in throat.
Dryness in throat, with soreness, swelling and redness.

Breathing

Short, accelerated, constrained breathing; extreme dyspnœa; cheeks and hands livid; compressible pulse. θ Typhoid pneumonia.
Asthma, especially after the "rose cold", worse from odors.
Painful, sighing respiration.
Inclination to take deep inspiration, which increases constriction of chest, and causes tearing pains in chest, worse right side.

Cough

Wheezing, whistling cough; metallic sounding; stridulous breathing; croup.
Cough dry, caused by: tickling in throat-pit; ticking in stomach.
Dry cough, awakening him and not ceasing until he sits up in bed and passes flatus, upward and downward.
Whooping-cough, constricted, spasmodic action across throat beneath the jaws; cough worse at night, with diarrhœa.
Hæmoptysis during phthisis pulmonalis.
Sputa: thick mucus; rust-colored; offensive, purulent.

Lungs

Sharp piercing midway between sternum and right nipple.
Pain in right chest to shoulder, can only with difficulty place hand on top of head.
Stitches on lower part of left breast to shoulder.
Cramps in chest.
Burning in chest, also stitching; he lies on the back; sputum is tough, rust-colored and difficult; pulse quick and small; face and limbs cold, or hands and feet burning hot, and cheeks circumscribed red and burning, worse in afternoon; extreme dyspnœa.
Pneumonia.
Breath and sputa smell badly, even to the patient; belches before and after cough; after cough heat; then gaping; circumscribed red cheeks; diarrhœa; night-sweats; pains in legs.

Heart and Pulse

Painful stitches or pressing pain in region of heart.
Palpitation before vomiting, with great weakness.
Irregularity of heart's action and pulse, with coldness, insensibility, etc.
Weak feeling at the heart.
Pulse: hard, frequent; small and quick; irregular, with great weakness.

Outer Chest

Burning in sternum.
Severe soreness under right nipple, worse from touch.

Neck and Back

Pain in nape of neck.
Dull pain along inner edge of left scapula, worse from breathing.
Rheumatic pains in neck, shoulders and arms, worse at night.
Pain in sacrum, from lifting.
Lumbago, from lifting; or, myalgia of great muscles of back.
Soreness down muscles of back; pains shift about; feels pain more when drawing long breath.

Upper Limbs

Itching in axilla before catamenia.
Rheumatic pain in right arm and shoulder; worse at night; on turning in bed; cannot raise the arm.
Burning in palms, redness of hands, and severe burning.
Ulceration of the roots of all the nails on both hands.
Panaritium, first right, then left fingers.

Lower limbs

Rheumatic pain in left hip; also, inside of right thigh.
Bruise-like pain in thigh, alternating with burning and pressure in breast.
Pain through hips, extending down right limb.
Wandering pains worse at night.
Knees are stiff.
Left leg and foot swelled in evening, with violent burning pain, did not know where to lay the limb; limb externally cold; worse until 12 P.M.
Sharp pain in right ankle and great toe-joint.
Burning of soles of feet, worse in bed.
Cold feet, afternoon.

Limbs in General

Burning of hands and feet, worse at night.
Rheumatic pains, worse in those places least covered with flesh, but not in joints; on touching the painful part, pain vanishes and appears on some other part.
Rheumatism in all joints, with swelling and spasmodic pains.

Position, etc

Motion: 40. Walking: 36. Rising: 2. Stooping: 16. Turning quickly: 2; in bed: 32. Indisposed to move: 36. Cannot find rest: 33. Restricted motion of right arm: 28, 32. Must sit up: 27. Must kneel down: 8. Lying down: 2, 27; on side: 17, 18; on back: 2, 17, 28. Must lie down: 3. Looking upward: 2.

Nerves

Lameness of right arm.
Paralysis of right side.
Lassitude, torpor, languor; not disposed to move or make any mental exertion, worse damp weather.
Limbs weak while walking in open air.

Sleep

Sleepless at night, wakes with fright, as if he would fall.
Dreams: of sailing on sea; of business matters; frightful.
Drowsiness, causing mental and bodily indolence.

Time

Morning: 3. Afternoon: 28, 33, 40. Evening: 3, 9, 19, 27, 33, 40. Until 12 P.M.: 15. Midnight: 33. Night: 2, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37. Day: 3.

Temperature and Weather

In bed: 33, 40. Cold weather: 2. Damp weather: 35. Atmospheric changes: 44. Cold, open air: 13, 36.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chill, with headache, nausea, pain under scapula on motion; shivering in back, worse evening in bed.
Slight flushes of heat, followed by chills, then face flushed, hands hot, qualmish feeling all over; lassitude.
Heat flying from head to stomach.
Burning heat, rapidly alternating with chill and shivering.
Afternoon fever, with circumscribed red cheeks.
Fever 2 to 3 P.M. daily.
Flushes of heat.
Fever and delirium.
Slight chill, violent fever, headache and delirium.
Copious sweat; cold sweat.
Typhus, with the characteristic headache.

Attacks

Headache usually recurs every seventh day; increases in severity from morning till evening.

Sides

Right 3, 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33, 36. Left: 6, 18, 28, 29, 31, 33. Right to left: 19, 32. Above downward: 19, 24, 33, 40. Below upward: 28. Up and down: 20, 27.

Sensations

Heat flying from head to stomach.
Sensation as if hot water was poured from breast into abdomen.
An uncomfortable prickling sensation of warmth spreading over whole body.
Slow, shooting pains, with long-continued thrills.

Tissues

Languid circulation, limbs cold, skin pallid, sensitive to atmospheric changes.
Veins distended, feel sore.
Surging of the blood.
Red or grey hepatization of lungs.
Polypi, nasal and uterine.
Carbuncles.
Warts.
Fungous excrescences.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Pressure: 3, 8, 18. Touch: 5, 6, 8, 10, 24, 30, 34. Lifting: 31.

Skin

Heat and dryness.
Itching and nettle-rash before the nausea.
Old, indolent ulcers, with callous borders and ichorous discharge; dirty granulations, dry, sharp-cut edges.
Icterus, during prevalent intermittent fever.
Prickling sensation of warmth, spreading over body.
Eruption on face of young women, with menstrual troubles, especially deficiency.

Relationship

After Bellad. fails in scarlatina.
As a dynamic remedy for the narcosis of opium.
Sanguin. antidotes: Rhus rad.