Remedy
Cistus Canadensis cist.
Relationships
Polar generals
Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica
C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915
Region
GLANDS: Naso - pharynx. Neck. Mammæ (l). Throat. Lungs. Skin.
Worse
COLD: Inspired air. Taking. Drafts. Water. Mental: Exertion. Excitement. Touch.
General
Painfully sensitive to cold; to inspired air. Coldness of tongue, saliva, in throat, eructations, stomach, etc.; < sweating. Suppurations. Much thick, yellow or foul mucus, leaving painful rawness (Æsc. Ant-c.). Internal and external itching. Burning. Indurations. Callosities. Scrofula.
Particulars
Fear. Headache from missing the noon meal, > eating. As of a lump in naso-pharynx. Colds affect the throat; it feels spongy, sandy, itches or has a dry spot, > sips of water. Expectorates quantities of tenacious, glairy mucus. Hard, swollen glands; < on neck; l. mamma. Crawling over body. Cracked tetters; canthi; lips; fingertips. Chilliness.
Related
Related: Calc-c. Helod. Hep.
Homœopathic Materia Medica
William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition
Common name
Rock Rose
General
A deep-acting anti-psoric remedy, with marked action in glandular affections, herpetic eruptions, chronic swellings, when patient is extremely sensitive to cold. Sensation of coldness in various parts. Scrofulous ophthalmia. Poisoned wounds, bites, phagedenic ulcers. Malignant disease of the glands of the neck. Cistus has affinity for naso-pharynx; aborts colds that center in posterior nose. Sniffling.
Face
Itching, burning, and crusts on right zygoma. Lupus, caries; open, bleeding cancer. Tip of nose painful.
Mouth
Scorbutic swollen gums. Mouth feels cold; putrid, impure breath. Pyorrhea (Merc cor; Caust; Staph; Kreos). Hurts to protrude the tongue.
Ears
Watery discharge; also fetid pus. Tetter on and around ears, extending to external meatus.
Throat
Spongy feeling; very dry and cold air passing over parts causes pain. Breath, tongue, and throat feel cold. Uvula and tonsils swollen. A small, dry spot in throat; must sip water frequently. Hawking of mucus. Swelling and suppuration of glands of throat. Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck. Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air. Heat and itching in throat.
Stomach
Cool feeling in stomach before and after eating. Cool feeling in whole abdomen. Desire for cheese.
Stool
Diarrhœa from coffee and fruit, thin, yellow, urgent; worse in morning.
Chest
Coldness in chest. The neck is studded with tumors. Induration of mammæ. Hæmorrhage from lungs.
Extremities
Sprained pain in wrist. Tips of fingers sensitive to cold. Tetter on hands. Cold feet. Syphilitic ulcers on lower limbs, with hard swelling around. White swelling.
Sleep
Cannot sleep from coldness in throat.
Female
Induration and inflammation of mammæ. Sensitive to cold air. Bad smelling leucorrhœa.
Respiratory
Asthmatic after lying down (trachea feels narrow), preceded by formication.
Skin
Itching all over. Small, painful pimples; lupus. Glands inflamed and indurated. Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers. Skin of hands hard, thick, dry, fissured; deep cracks. Itching of swollen hands and arms; general itching which presents sleep. Hemicrania.
Modalities
Worse, slightest exposure to cold air; mental exertion, excitement. Better after eating.
Relationship
Antidotes: Rhus; Sepia.
Compare: Conium; Carbo; Calc; Arg n.
Dose
First to thirtieth attenuation. Locally as a wash to arrest fetid discharges.
Text Book of Materia Medica
Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · 1866
Mind and Disposition
Bad effects from vexation. Mental excitement increases the suffering (stitches in the throat, producing cough).
Head
Pressure above the eyes, in the forehead. Headache, worse towards evening, lasting all night. Head drawn to one side by swelling on the neck.
Eyes
Feeling of weight above the eyes. Stitches in the left eye. Feeling as if something were passing around in the eye, with stitches (scrofulous inflammation of the eyes).
Ears
Discharge from the ears (of water and bad-smelling pus). Inner swelling of the ears (with discharge). Tetters on and around the ear, extending to the external meatus. Swelling of the parotid glands.
Nose
Frequent and violent sneezing (evenings and mornings). Cold feeling in the nose. Inflammation and swelling of the left side of the now (burning). The tip of the nose is painful.
Face
Flushes of heat in the face. Heat and burning in the facial bones. Vesicular erysipelas in the face. Caries of the lower jaw. Lupus extends to the mouth and nose.
Mouth and Teeth
Scorbutic gums, swollen, separating from the teeth, easily bleeding, putrid. Dryness off the tongue and roof of the mouth. Sore tongue, as if raw, on the surface. Sensation of coldness of the tongue, larynx, and trachea : the saliva is cool ; the breath feels cold. Impure breath.
Throat
Dryness and heat in the throat ; he must constantly swallow saliva, to relieve it (drinking water and eating relieve it). Periodical itching in the throat. Fauces inflamed and dry without feeling dry, hawking up of tough, gum-like, thick, tasteless phlegm (in the morning). Hawking of (bitter) mucus, relieving the throat. Sore pain in the throat and dryness of the tongue in the morning. Stitches in the throat, causing cough, whenever mentally agitated.
Stomach and Abdomen
Cool eructations. Cold feeling in the stomach before and after eating. Pain in the stomach immediately after eating. Cold feeling in the whole abdomen.
Stool and Anus
Diarrhœa, after eating fruit, after drinking coffee. Thin hot stools, of grayish yellow color, from midnight till noon.
Genital Organs
Male. Itching on the scrotum.
Respiratory Organs
Cool feeling in the larynx and trachea. Feeling as if the trachea were not wide enough (asthma). Pain in the trachea. Feeling of rawness, extending from the upper part of the chest into the throat. Fulness of and pressure on the chest. Cough, from stitches or painful tearings in the throat. Cough ; the neck is thickly studded with tumors. Bleeding at the lungs.
Back and Neck
Glands on the neck and throat swollen. Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of the glands of the throat. Itching on the back. A burning, bruised pain in the os coccygis, preventing sitting ; aggravated by contact.
Extremities
Upper. Sprained pain in the wrists. Pain in the fingers (right hand) while writing. Tearing in the finger-joints. The tips of the fingers are very sensitive to the cold. Tetter on the hands. Lower. Pains in the knee and right thigh when walking or sitting. Tearing in the knees (evening). Piercing pain in the right great toe (evening). Cold feet.
Generalities
Trembling (with the fever). Sensation as if ants were running through the whole body (in the evening, with anxious, difficult breathing).
Fever
Chilliness. Cold feeling in the abdomen, larynx. Chill, followed by fever, with trembling, accompanied by a quick swelling and great redness or the glands below the ear and in the throat. Heat, with thirst (drinks frequently).
Sleep
Very restless at night. Sleeplessness because of the dryness of the throat. Night sweats.
Skin
Itching all over the body without eruption (abdomen, navel, scrotum). Vesicular erysipelas on the face. Tetter (cars, hands). Lupus on the face. Hard swelling around the mercurial, syphilitic ulcers on the lower limbs.
Conditions
Aggravation. Evening ; during the night ; in the morning. Cold air (sore throat). When lying down (difficulty of breathing). From drinking coffee (diarrhœa). From motion. Amelioration. Fresh air (difficult breathing).
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902
General
Helianthemum canadense. Rock-rose. Ice-plant. Frost-weed. N. O. Cistaceæ. Tincture of whole plant.
Clinical
Bone affections. Cancer. Diarrhœa. Erysipelas. Follicular pharyngitis. Glandular swellings. Hip-joint disease. Hospital gangrene. Lupus. Panaritium. Parotitis. Scorbutus. Scrofula. Sore-throat. Ulcers. Zona.
Characteristics
Cistus is a very ancient remedy for scrofulous affections, and also in scorbutic states and gangrenous ulcerations. The provings and homœopathic uses confirm its suitability in these respects and bring out clearer indications. It is most suited to scrofulous subjects who are very sensitive to cold air. "Sensitive to cold air" runs through the pathogenesis and also feelings of coldness, of which its peculiar property of favouring the formation of ice about its roots in early winter is strangely suggestive. Cold feelings: in larynx; in abdomen. "Inhaling the slightest cold air causes sore-throat, which he has not when inhaling in a warm room." Inhaled air feels cool. Cold breath. Stitches and cold feelings are very prominent; there is also a soft or spongy feeling which is very characteristic. (I cured with Cistus a case of sore-throat that had lasted for years under allopathic treatment with local swabbings. There was an accumulation of thick yellow, leathery phlegm that had to be cleared away by local means. The patient complained of a "spongy" feeling in the throat, and that led me to the remedy.) Trembling (with the fever). Sensation as if ants were running through the whole body (in evening, with anxious, difficult breathing). There is also great sensitiveness to touch: < from touch. Throat symptoms > by swallowing. < By motion. < Evening; night; morning. < By drinking coffee (diarrhœa). > By expectoration.
Relations
Antidoted by: Rhus t., Camph., and Sepia. Compatible: Magnesium (the plant grows on a magnesium soil), Bell., Carb. v., Phos. Incompatible: Coffee. Compare: Arg. n., Lach., Carb. v. (cold breath); Sul. (morning diarrhœa).
Mind
Bad effects from vexation. — All mental excitement < ; (stitches in throat; cough).
Head
Headache in sinciput after being kept waiting for dinner; > eating; < towards evening and lasts all night; in r. side, with piercing pain in eye. — Forehead cold, and sensation of coolness inside forehead, in a very warm room. — Pressive pain at root of nose with headache. — Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck.
Eyes
Stitches in eyes; scrofulous inflammation; feeling as if something were passing around in the eye, with stitches. — Weight above eyes.
Ears
Discharge of water and bad-smelling pus. — Inner swelling of ears with discharge. — Tetters on and around the ear, extending into meatus. — Swelling of parotid glands.
Nose
Cold feeling, or burning in nose. — Chronic catarrh; frequent and violent sneezing evening and morning. — Inflammation, swelling and burning l. side of nose. — Tip of nose painful. — Eczema.
Face
Feeling as if facial muscles would be drawn to one side. — Flushes of heat in face. — Heat and burning in bones of face. — Half-way up cheek, swelling beginning at ear. — Vesicular erysipelas. — Lupus. — Sharp shooting, intolerable itching, and thick crusts; with burning on r. zygoma. — Caries of lower jaw; with suppurating glands on neck. — Open, bleeding cancer on lower lip.
Mouth
Scorbutic, swollen gums, separating from teeth; easily bleeding, putrid, disgusting. — Dry tongue and palate. — Tongue sore, surface as if raw. — Impure breath. — Sensation of coldness of tongue, larynx and trachea. — Saliva cool; breath feels cool.
Throat
Coolness in throat. — Soft or spongy feeling in throat. — As if sand in throat. — Continuous feeling of dryness and heat < after sleeping, eating and drinking. — Small dry spot in gullet; < after sleeping, must get up and drink; > after eating; throat looks glassy; on back of throat stripes of tough or leathery mucus. — Must swallow saliva to relieve unbearable dryness, esp. during night. — Periodical itching in throat. — Dry, without feeling dry. — Burning high up behind uvula. — Stitches cause cough; when mentally agitated. — Cough causes tearing pain in throat. — Sore throat < from inhaling least cold air. — Hawking of mucus, tough, gum-like, thick, tasteless; mostly mornings. — Expectoration of (bitter) mucus, relieving throat. — Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of glands of throat.
Stomach
Desire for acid food and fruits, but pain and diarrhœa follow eating them. — Desire for cheese. — Eating and drinking > dry throat and pain in sinciput. — After eating: pain in stomach; cold feeling in stomach. — After drinking coffee, diarrhœa. — Empty and cool eructations. — Frequent nausea; with diarrhœa.
12, 13. Abdomen, Rectum, and Stool. — Stitches in l. hypochondrium. — Cool feeling in whole abdomen. — Pain in groin coming from back. — Thin, greyish-yellow, hot stools, squirting out; irresistible urging, < from midnight until noon. — Diarrhœa: from coffee; fruits; with goître; chronic; in wet weather; in scrawny scrofulous children. — Chronic dysentery.
Male Sexual Organs
Itching in scrotum.
Female Sexual Organs
Induration of mammæ; sensitive to cold air; cancer.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx and trachea: inhaled air feels cool; itching in; feeling as if windpipe had not space enough. — Asthmatic in evening after lying down and at night. — Cough: < by mental agitation; from stitches in throat; with painful tearing in throat. — Raw feeling in upper chest extending into throat. — Expectoration of bitter mucus. — After raising phlegm feels very much relieved.
Neck and Back
Glands of neck and throat swollen; suppuration. — Itching on back. — Eruption like zona. — Burning, bruised pain in coccyx preventing sitting, < from contact.
Limbs
In evening, pains in knees, in r. hand, in l. shoulder. — Drawing pains in muscular parts of hands and of lower extremities, with pains in joints, fingers, and knees. — Tearing and drawing pains in all the joints, knees and fingers.
Upper Limbs
Sprained pain in wrists. — Pain in fingers (r. hand) while writing. — Tearing in finger-joints. — Tips of fingers very sensitive to cold. — Tetter on hands.
Lower Limbs
Pains in knee and r. thigh when walking or sitting. — Tearing in knees. — Piercing pain in r. great toe (evening). — Cold feet.
Skin
Itching all over body without eruption. — Vesicular erysipelas of face. — Lupus on face. — Tetter. — Hard swelling round mercurial syphilitic ulcers on lower limbs.
Sleep
Very restless at night. — Sleepless from dryness of throat. — Night sweats.
Fever
Chilliness; followed by heat with trembling, accompanied by a rapid swelling and great redness of glands below ear and in throat. — Heat with thirst, causing to drink frequently. — Night sweats. — Sweats easily.
The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91
Mind
Cheerfulness after supper, until bedtime.
All mental excitement increases the suffering.
Bad effects of vexation ; feels as if paralyzed.
Every mental excitement is followed by stitches in throat, producing cough.
Mental agitation increases cough.
Sensorium
Vertigo.
Inner head
Headache in sinciput after being kept waiting for dinner ; > after eating, < towards evening and lasts all night ; in right side, with piercing pain in eye.
Pressure above eyes in forehead.
Violent pain in head ; stitches from temples into ears. θ Intermittent fever.
Sick headache with chilliness.
Outer head
Forehead cold, and sensation of coolness inside forehead, in a very warm room.
Pressing pain at root of nose with headache.
Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck.
Sight and eyes
Pressure above eyes and feeling of weight.
Stitches in left eye.
Left eye most affected.
Scrofulous inflammation of long standing ; feeling as if something was passing around in eye, with stitches.
Spasmodic, piercing pain in middle of upper rim of right orbit, with some headache on that side.
Hearing and ears
Itching : in ears ; intense and deep in l. ear.
Stitches from temples into ears, swelling below and behind ears. θ Intermittent fever.
Discharge from ears ; watery, bad smelling pus ; inner swelling of ears.
Tetters on and around ears, extending into external meatus.
Swelling beginning at ear, and extending half way up cheek.
Swelling of parotids.
Smell and nose
Cold feeling or burning in nose.
Frequent and violent sneezing, mostly evening and morning ; chronic nasal catarrh.
Left side inflamed and swollen ; burning sensation in left nostril.
Tip of nose painful.
Eczema of nose.
Upper face
Feeling as if facial muscles would be drawn to one side.
Flushes of heat in face.
Heat and burning in face and bones of face.
Half way up cheek, swelling at ear. θ Parotitis.
Vesicular erysipelas on face.
Sharp shooting, intolerable itching, and thick crusts, with burning on right zygoma.
Lupus on face.
Lower face
Caries of lower jaw ; with suppurating glands on neck.
Open, bleeding cancer on lower lip.
Lupus exedens about mouth and nose.
Pains in all the joints of face ; drawing, tearing ; < in evening.
Teeth and gums
Twitching, stitching toothache in an upper left molar, which was decayed.
Scorbutic, swollen gums, separating from teeth ; easily bleeding, putrid, disgusting.
Taste, speech, tongue
Dryness of tongue and roof of mouth.
Tongue sore, surface as if raw.
Sensation of coldness of tongue, larynx and trachea ; saliva is cool ; breath feels cold.
Impure breath.
Inner mouth
Scorbutis.
Palate and throat
Coolness particularly in throat, continues all day.
A feeling of softness in throat.
A feeling as if sand was in throat.
Continuous feeling of dryness and heat in throat, < after sleeping, eating and drinking.
Dryness of throat from midday until 1 till 3 A. M., then > until next noon.
A small dry spot in gullet ; < after sleeping ; must get up and drink ; > after eating ; throat looks glassy ; on back of throat stripes of tough mucus.
Must swallow saliva to relieve unbearable dryness, especially during night.
Periodical itching in throat.
Crawling-itching in throat and fauces.
Rawness extending from chest into throat.
Burning in throat high up in cavity posterior to uvula.
Stitches in throat cause cough ; when mentally agitated.
Tearing pain in throat when coughing.
Tickling and soreness in throat.
Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air, not from warm air.
Sore pain in throat and dryness of tongue, in morning.
Fauces inflamed and dry, without feeling of dryness.
Hawking of mucus, tough, gum-like, thick, tasteless ; mostly mornings.
Expectoration of bitter mucus.
After discharging phlegm from throat he feels generally much relieved.
Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of glands of throat.
Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1905
Lecture
This remedy is an antipsoric, a deep-acting remedy. It runs very close to Calcarea, but is milder in its action. It has the same exhaustion from exertion, dyspnoea, sweating and coldness that we find in Calcarea.
What will forcibly call your attention to a remedy will be the curing of a bad and typical case. I remember the first time my attention was decidedly called to Cistus.
I had put it on my list to study from time to time and had come to the conclusion that it was only a side issue, until a young lady of nineteen years of age fell under my observation.
Glands
The glands of the neck were large and hard, the parotids especially; she had foetid otorrhoea; her eyes were inflamed and suppurating; there were fissures at the corners of the eyes; her lips were cracked and bleeding, and she had salt rheum at the ends of the fingers.
I could not make Calcarea fit the patient, but after much study this little remedy seemed to be just what I needed; and although she had had an immense amount of Homoeopathy, good and bad, this remedy cured.
The glands inflame, become swollen and suppurate. It causes cries and cures old ulcers. It has a scrofulous constitution. It is useful in chronic diarrhea, with enlarged glands, even in those who are flabby, sickly and pallid and who cannot go upstairs without losing, their breath.
Mucous membranes
All the mucous membranes throw out a thick, yellowish, offensive mucus and hence it is suitable in old and troublesome catarrh. The chest fills up with mucus and he feels relieved after expectoration, but after he empties the chest it feels raw.
It has eruptions, herpes, tetter, scaly eruptions, salt rheum on the hands and ends of the fingers, with cracking and bleeding of the fingers in winter and from washing in cold water.
All its complaints are worse from mental exertion. He is excitable. His cough, headache and pains are worse from mental exertion. Pains shoot from the head to the ear. Shooting, stitching, tearing pains in inflamed parts. Red discharges from the ear date back to eruptive diseases.
Headache
He feels as if paralyzed after mental exertion, and mental excitement increases his sufferings, like Calcarea and Borax . If he is compelled to fast headache comes on, and like Lyc., the headache will be relieved after eating.
Frontal headache with coldness. In a warm room the perspiration comes out, and it is cold, and the more he sweats the colder he gets. Pain in the forehead with cold sweat, and the colder he gets the worse the pain becomes.
Sick headaches and great prostration with the headache. Sensation of internal coldness of the forehead, especially in warm room. Pressing pain at the root of die nose with headache. The parotid gland is so much enlarged that it pushes the head to one side.
The glands of the abdomen swell with chronic diarrhea, and the swelling may be tuberculous. Enlarged glands, with or without eruptions.
Skin
All over the body there is a sensation of crawling; formication tingling and creeping like ants, and no eruption. He scratches till the skin is raw trying to get relieved of the itching and prickling. Eruption upon the face; eczema. Eruptions about the ear.
Cold feeling or burning in the nose, This is difficult to distinguish. In acute coryza the nose fills up with thick, yellow mucus, and when this is blown out it leaves the nasal cavity empty, and there is irritation; one will say it is a rawness, another will say a coldness, and another will describe it as a burning.
Nose
There is relief when the nose fills up again with mucus. In Ars. the mucus in the nose is so acrid that it burns, but in Ant. c., Aesculus, and in this remedy when the nose is empty there is a burning or rawness. The sensation of rawness, coldness or burning is caused by the inhalation of air.
An epidemic of coryza was prevalent, and this was the strongest symptom, the pain caused by inhaling air, great burning from inhaled air. But it is not in the acute coryza that we see the value of this remedy, it is in the old, chronic case, with thick discharge, and a cold feeling or burning in the nose when inhaling air.
"Sharp shooting, intolerable itching and thick crusts, with burning on right zygoma."
Face
This remedy has cured lupus on the face. Caries of the lower jaw. Open, bleeding cancer on the lower lip. Lupus exedens. Pain in all the joints of the face. It cures old, deep-seated, eating ulcers about the ankle and shin, with copious acrid discharge, formication and swollen glands, aggravation from bathing, extreme sensitiveness to the open air, only comfortable when very warm.
The teeth have all sorts of disturbances; the gums settle away, the teeth become loose; scorbutic gums. The same cold feeling is described in the throat as in the nose-smarting and coldness. Mouth and throat full of mucus. The throat feels rough, as if full of sand. Dry spots in the throat. The throat looks glossy, shining as if vanished, in old atrophic catarrhs.
Every cold settles in the throat. Hot air feels good everywhere. In old cases there is trouble with scrofulous glands, which are enlarged, and the patient wants the heat; goes to the register and turns the heat on, wants to feel the heat in the nose, throat and lungs.
Patients going into tuberculosis have that desire for beat; chilly persons, They do not feel cold to touch, but they are cold subjectively, chilly. Hawking of gum-like mucus, especially in the morning, fauces inflamed and dry. Suppuration of the glands of the throat.
These patients crave pungent things, and especially want something to warm them up, something to build them up, something stimulating herring, cheese; something strong.
"Chronic induration and inflammation of the mammae.
Left mamma inflamed, suppurating, with a feeling of fullness in the chest.
Sensibility to cold air,"
with inflamed glands. We see its tendency to produce enlargement of the glands, and this would make us think of it in growths with involvement of the glands all around. The glands of the neck are enlarged in lines, like knotted rope, as in Hodgkin’s disease.
Only a limited number of remedies have this knotting. Itching of the skin and mucous membrane. The itching in the ear is not relieved by scratching, and the part is raw from the constant rubbing and scratching. The eyes constantly itch. In the throat there is continuous itching. In the chest there is a constant tickling, causing cough. At the anus and all other orifices there is itching, and the itching parts are rubbed until raw and bleeding.
Scrofula; swelling and suppuration of the glands of the neck. Eruption on the back like shingles. Scrofulous ulcer on the back. Burning, bruised pain in the coccyx, worse from touch.
That is like Carbo an., in which the coccyx burns when pressed on, especially after a slight injury in a nervous woman.
Tetter on the hands; blisters oozing after scratching. Diseases of the nails. Hard, thickened places on the hands of workmen, with deep cracks.
The febrile symptoms have not been sufficiently brought out. In chronic cases there is copious sweat with exhaustion. Night-sweats.
Condensed Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · Condensed Materia Medica · 1877
Mind
All mental excitement increases the suffering.
Bad effects of vexation.
Inner Head
Headache in the sinciput after being kept waiting for dinner; better after eating.
Headache generally grows worse toward evening and lasts all night.
Outer Head
Pressing pain at root of nose, with headache.
Pressure in the glabella.
Head drawn to one side by swellings in the neck.
Eyes
Scrofulous inflammation of long standing; feeling as if something were passing around in eye, with stitches.
Spasmodic piercing pain in the middle of the upper rim or the right orbit, with some headache on that side.
Ears
Watery, bad-smelling pus discharged from the ears; inner swelling of the ears.
Tetters on and around the ears, extending into the external meatus.
Swelling beginning at ear and extending half way up cheek.
Swelling of parotids.
Nose
Cold feeling in the nose.
Frequent and violent sneezing, mostly evening and morning; chronic nasal catarrh.
Left side inflamed and swollen.
Tip of nose painful.
Eczema of the nose.
Face
Flushes of heat in the face.
Vesicular erysipelas.
Heat and burning in bones.
Sharp shooting, intolerable itching and thick crusts, with burning on the right zygoma.
Lower Face
Caries of the lower jaw; with suppurating glands in the neck.
Open, bleeding cancer on lower lip.
Lupus exedens on mouth and nose.
Teeth
Twitching, stitching toothache in an upper left decayed molar.
Scorbutic swollen gums, separating from the teeth; easily bleeding, putrid, disgusting.
Tongue, etc
Dryness of tongue and roof of mouth.
Tongue sore, surface as if raw.
Mouth
Inhaled air feels cool to tongue.
Throat
Fauces inflamed and dry, without a dry feeling; tough, gum like, thick, tasteless mucus is brought up by hawking, mostly morning.
Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air, not from warm air.
Must swallow saliva to relieve the unbearable dryness, especially during the night.
Dryness in the throat, worse after sleeping.
A small dry spot in the gullet; worse after sleeping; must get up and drink; better after eating; throat looks glassy; on the back of throat strips of tough mucus.
Stitches in throat cause cough; when mentally agitated.
Desires and Aversions
Desire for acid food; for acid fruits; but pain and diarrhœa follow after eating them.
Eating and Drinking
Eating and drinking relieve dry throat; pain in sinciput less.
After eating: pain in stomach; cold feeling in stomach; after fruit or coffee, diarrhœa.
Nausea and Vomiting
Cold eructations.
Frequent nausea.
Stomach
Cold feeling in stomach before and after eating.
Abdomen
Cold feeling in whole abdomen.
Flatulence and bruised pain in hypochondria; evening and night.
Stool, etc
Thin, greyish-yellow, hot stools; squirting out; irresistible urging; worse afterpart of night until noon.
Diarrhœa from coffee, acid fruits; diarrhœa, with goitre.
Discharge of much flatus.
Chronic diarrhœa.
Male Sexual Organs
Itching on the scrotum.
Female Sexual Organs
Catamenia does not appear, after erysipelas.
Pregnancy
Induration and inflammation of the mammæ.
Let mamma inflamed, suppurating with a feeling of fulness in the chest; sensibility to cold air; scrofulous.
Larynx
Inhaled air feels cool, in larynx and trachea.
Chronic itching in larynx and trachea.
Pain in the trachea.
Goitre, size of hen's egg; frequent diarrhœa.
Breathing
Asthmatic, in the evening after lying down and at night, loud wheezing, sensation as if the trachea had not space enough.
Cough
From stitches in the throat; with painful tearing in the throat; the neck studded with tumors.
Lungs
Feeling of rawness from chest to throat.
Fulness in the chest.
Outer Chest
Hurts when touched.
Pressure on chest.
Small painful pimples, which bleed easily and heal slowly, across the shoulders and on the breast.
Neck and Back
Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of the glands of the throat.
Drawing pains at nape, and each side of spine, headache in the temples.
Scrofulous ulcers on the back.
Burning, bruised pain in the os coccygis, prevents sitting; worse from touch.
Upper Limbs
Violent pain in left shoulder and chest; feels as if eructation would relieve it.
Tips of fingers sensitive to cold air.
Tetter on the hands; blisters, oozing after scratching, with hot swelling.
Panaritium.
Hard, thickened places on hands of workmen; with deep, oblique cracks.
Lower limbs
Pains in knee and right thigh, walking or sitting.
Tearing in the knees; evening.
Hard swelling around mercurio-syphilitic ulcers on legs.
Piercing pain in the right great toe; evening.
Cold feet.
Swelling of left leg, ulcer thereon; skin copper-colored.
Limbs in General
Bruised pain, as from fatigue.
Position, etc
Walking: 33. Lying: 26. Sitting: 31, 33.
Nerves
Involuntary drawing and trembling feeling in muscular parts of hands and lower extremities, with pain in the wrists, fingers and knee-joints.
Trembling with the fever.
Sleep
Restless at night; pain from flatulence.
Sleeplessness from dryness of throat.
Anxious dreams.
On awaking, pain under hypochondria.
Time
Morning: 7, 13. Evening: 3, 7, 19, 33, 34. Night: 3, 13, 19, 37, 40. After part of night till noon: 20.
Temperature and Weather
Cold air: 13, 32, 46.
Chill, Fever and Sweat
Chilliness.
Chill succeeded by heat, with trembling, accompanied by a quick swelling and great redness of the glands below the ear and in the throat.
Cold feeling: in the abdomen; in the larynx and trachea.
Cold feet.
Heat with thirst, drinks frequently.
In a warm room, skin grows moist; forehead cool externally, with an internal feeling of coolness.
Night-sweats.
Sweats very easily.
Sides
Right: 5, 8. Left: 7, 10, 24, 32.
Tissues
Glands swollen, inflamed, indurated or ulcerated.
Scrofula.
Old ulcers.
Caries of the lower jaw.
Pains in all joints; drawing, tearing; worse in evening.
Contact, Injuries, etc
Touch: 30, 31. Scratching: 32.
Skin
Itching all over the body, without eruption.
Herpetic eruption on various parts.
Scrofula; extremely sensitive to cold air.
Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers surrounded by hard swelling; on the lower limbs.
Relationship
Bellad., Carb. veg., Phosphor., act favourably between repeated doses of Cistus.
Sepia cured painfully swollen nose, resulting from Cistus.
Drinking coffee after Cistus may cause diarrhœa.
Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889
General
A tincture is prepared from the fresh plant of Cistus Canadense, L.
Generalities and Mind
Trembling with the fever. ▶ Bad effects from vexation. ▶ Aggravation from mental, excitement. ▶ Amelioration after discharging mucus from throat. ▶ Cheerfulness after supper, till bedtime.
Clinical
Has been used for swollen glands in general which become inflamed, indurated or ulcerated. ▶ Herpetic eruptions, scrofulous ophthalmia, offensive discharges. ▶ All the cases are extremely sensitive to cold.
It has been used for sore throat, mostly subacute, with intolerable dryness, agg. cold air, amel. swallowing liquids, great swelling of uvula and tonsils. ▶ Sore throat with a small dry spot, has to rise at night to sip water, feeling as if it were glazed with strips of tough mucus.
Diarrhœa from coffee, thin, yellow, urgent, agg. early in morning. ▶ Dysentery.
The windpipe feels narrow, has to open the window to breathe fresh air, agg. lying down, a kind of asthmatic attack.
Induration of the mammary gland.
Has cured white swelling of the knee.
Head
Aching, agg. towards evening, and lasting all night; oppressive, all day; A. in sinciput after being kept waiting for dinner, amel. after eating. ▶ Pressure above eyes. ▶ Weight above eyes. ▶ Aching in right side, with piercing pain in eye.
Eyes
Stitches in left. ▶ Feeling as if something were passing around in it, with stitches. ▶ Pressure in glabella. ▶ Spasmodic piercing pain in middle of upper rim of right socket, with headache on that side.
Ears, Nose and Face
Inner swelling in ears; with discharge. ▶ Discharge from ears of water and bad smelling pus. ▶ Swelling of parotid glands. ▶ Tip of nose painful. ▶ Left side of nose painfully inflamed and swollen. ▶ Burning in left nostril. ▶ Sneezing, without cold in head. ▶ Facial muscles feel as if they would be drawn to one side.
Mouth
Twitching stitching in decayed left upper molar. ▶ Gums scorbutic, swollen, separating from teeth bleeding easily, putrid, disgusting. ▶ Tongue sore, as if raw. ▶ Tongue and roof of mouth dry. ▶ Breath impure.
Throat
Swelling of glands. ▶ Hawking of mucus; of mucus which is lodged at head of windpipe. ▶ Inflammation and dryness, without dry feeling, with hawking agg. morning, of tough, gumlike, thick tasteless mucus. ▶ Tearing when coughing. ▶ Stitches whenever mentally agitated, causing cough. ▶ Pain on inhaling cold air; sore, in morning, with dryness of tongue. ▶ Feeling of sand. ▶ Feeling of softness. ▶ Dryness, agg. at night; amel. eating; with heat. ▶ Tickling, with soreness. ▶ Periodical itching.
Stomach
(Inclination for acid food.). ▶ (Desire for cheese.). ▶ Thirst with the fever. ▶ Eructation, with feeling as if it would relieve; cool E. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Pain after eating. ▶ Cold feeling before and after eating.
Abdomen
Puffed up, with flatulency in evening. ▶ Flatulence towards evening; at night; with discomfort. ▶ Emissions of flatus; in evening, as when air-bubbles rise in water. ▶ Internal coldness. ▶ Much flatulence in hypochondria, with pain. ▶ Stitches in left hypochondrium. ▶ Bruised feeling under hypochondria in morning, with flatulence.
Stool and Sexual Organs
Urging to stool, stool pappy. ▶ Diarrhœa; in morning; after fruit; after drinking coffee; thin, till daybreak, squirting, grayish-yellow then three more discharges before noon; (thin, hot). ▶ Itching of scrotum.
Respiratory Organs
Itching in larynx at night, with scratching, and with anxious dreams. ▶ Pain in windpipe. ▶ Cough, agg. mental anguish. ▶ Expectoration of bitter mucus.
Chest
Pressure on. ▶ Pain, and in throat; P., and in shoulder. ▶ Fulness. ▶ Rawness, extending into throat; in upper part, extending into throat.
Back and Extremities
Burning bruised pain in os coccygis. ▶ Pain in all joints. ▶ Bruised pain in all limbs, as from fatigue. ▶ Drawing in joints, especially in knees and fingers, with tearing; involuntary D. in muscular parts of hands and lower limbs with trembling feeling in them and with pain in wrists, fingers and knees.
Upper Extremities
Pain in from of right shoulder; in left S. in evening, and in chest, with feeling as if an eructation would relieve the pain. ▶ Piercing drawing pain in arm, extending periodically to tip of little finger so as to draw up the finger. ▶ Sensitiveness to touch on right arm and dorsum of hand. ▶ Sprained pain in wrist, drawing scraping. ▶ Pain in hand, in right in evening and in left shoulder; in right H. in afternoon, so that he cannot use it. ▶ Drawing trembling feelings when writing; in finger-joints. ▶ Pain in right finger when writing; in joints. ▶ Sensitiveness of finger-tips to cold, the pain agg. cold.
Lower Extremities
Drawing, trembling feeling. ▶ Pain in left buttock as from a blow or shock, extending down inside of femur, distinctly felt in knee, with spasmodic drawing together of calf. ▶ Pain in right thigh while walking. ▶ Pain in knees; in evening; when walking and sitting and in right thigh. ▶ Piercing pain in right great toe in evening.
Skin
Swelling, beginning at ear and extending half way up cheek. ▶ Inflamed spot below right scapula, extending round to front of body, with soreness to touch, then burning pimples, then rheumatic pain extending to left hip and into groin the pain agg. motion. ▶ Eruptions like zoster on back. ▶ Vesicular erysipelas in face. ▶ Formication evenings after lying down, amel. rising and opening window, with anxious, difficult breathing, both returning on lying down again. ▶ Itching all over body; on outside of throat near larynx; of abdomen and umbilicus; on back.
Sleep
Restlessness at night; with pain from flatulency, he could move the wind with his hands and hear it. ▶ Anxious dreams.
Fever
Chill, then heat; with trembling and with quick swelling and redness of glands below ear and in throat. ▶ Coolness especially in throat; on forehead; in nose. ▶ Cold feet. ▶ Heat, with thirst; in facial bones; in face in flushes. ▶ Moisture of skin in a warm room, with internal and external coolness in forehead.
A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy
Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892
Generalities
Clinical:
Has been used of swollen glands in general, which become inflamed, indurated or ulcerated.
Herpetic eruptions, scrofulous ophthalmia, offensive discharges.
All the cases are extremely sensitive to cold.
It has been used for sore throat, mostly subacute, with intolerable dryness, aggravated by cold air, ameliorated by swallowing liquids; great swelling of uvula and tonsils.
Sore throat, with a small, dry spot; has to rise at night to sip water; feeling as if he were glazed with strips of tough mucus.
Diarrhœa from coffee, thin, yellow, urgent, aggravated early in morning.
Dysentery.
The wind-pipe feels narrow; has to open the window to breathe fresh air; aggravated on lying down, a kind of asthmatic attack.
Induration of the mammary gland.
Has cured white swelling of the knee.
The Mnemonic Similiad
Stacy Jones · The Mnemonic Similiad · 1904
Mnemonic names
Cis. / (Rock Rose.) / Rose.
Verse
Cistus,- Takes a foremost stand,
For enlargement of the gland.
Which, with ulceration, may
Add itself to bone decay.
Scrofula declares her case,
Where soe'er it finds a place.
In a joint, or gland, or eye,
Furnishing a pus supply.
inward coldness may attend,
Soreness, too, at coccyx end.
And a throat in sore condition,
Eased somewhat by deglutition.
Mnemonic sentences
Rose,-Has Scrofula.
Rose Bacil, the "Ideal Bar smasher," from Thebes, Is in the dark cabin, with the Duke Carbola, of Florence.
This Rose,-Who is subject to a tender coccyx,-Is at Pete Sil's, with Ruth Carba.
Indications
Scrofula: Cist., Bacil., Iod., Bar. c., Sul., Mer., Sil., Hep., Therid., Nit. a., Cal. c., Bell., Dul., Carbol. a., Cal. f.
Tender Coccyx: Cist., Pet., Sil., Ruta., Carb. a.