Erigeron Canadense erig.

Genito-urinary tract. Joints.

Rainy weather.

Hæmorrhage; bright, gushing; vomits and purges pure blood. Congestion. Smarting-burning. Hard aching.

Burning in stomach and abdomen (Ars.). Tympanites. Anus seems torn. Vesico-rectal tenesmus (Canth. Merc-c.). Aching in bladder. Retained urine. Dysuria. Sticky sweat on genitals. Ecchymoses.

Related: Canth. Terb.

Fleabane (ERIGERON - LEPTILON CANADENSE)

Hæmorrhages are caused and cured by this remedy. Persistent hæmorrhage from the bladder. Hæmorrhage from the uterus, with painful micturition. Profuse bright-red blood. Pain in left ovary and hip. Chronic gonorrhœa, with burning micturition; continual dribbling. Dysentery, with soreness and burning in bladder. Tympanites.

Metrorrhagia, with violent irritation of rectum and bladder, and prolapsus uteri. Bright-red flow. Menorrhagia; profuse leucorrhœa; bloody lochia returns after least motion, comes in gushes; between periods, leucorrhœa with urinary irritation; pregnant women with "weak uterus;" a bloody discharge on slight exertion. Bleeding hæmorrhoids; nosebleed instead of menses (Bry).

Worse, left side.

Terebinthina similar.

Tincture, to third potency. Oil of Erigeron 1x internally for tympanites. An enema of one dram of the oil with the yolk of an egg and pint of milk will reduce the most enormous tympanites.

Erigeron Canadense. Canada Flea-bane. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture from the fresh plant when in bloom.

Black eye. Bruises. Cough. Dysuria. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Hæmatocele. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhoids. Placenta prævia. Proctalgia. Spermatorrhœa. Wounds.

Erigeron is chiefly known as a remedy for hæmorrhages and congestions in pretty well all parts of the body. Its characteristic hæmorrhages are bright red. The Indians use it as an application to wounds. It compares as a vulnerary with Arnica . It has been proved by Burt and others. The throat and genito-urinary organs are specifically affected. Sensation as if something had lodged in upper part of œsophagus. Pains in umbilical region were very prominent. Feeling as if anus had been torn. Urination is painful or suppressed; sharp stinging pains in region of left kidney. Gonorrhœa and gleet have been cured by Erig . Wilmot Moore has given it with success in three cases of placenta prævia. He gave the 1x trituration (of what part of the plant is not mentioned) on the tongue. Rest > ; every movement < flow; = bloody lochia to return. Rainy weather < all symptoms.

It is related to Senec., Erech., botanically and in effects. Compare: Ipec., Ham., Arn., Canth., Copaiv., Sabi., Tereb.

Great despondency.

Congestion of the head, red face, nose-bleed; febrile action. — Awakened with dull headache [forehead and r. eye]; with aching distress in all the large joints. — Dull frontal headache with smarting in eyes.

Smarting of eyes, all afternoon and evening. — Slight agglutination of lids in morning.

Loud singing in r. ear.

Epistaxis of bright-red blood. — Increased secretion of mucus all forenoon.

Bad taste in mouth.

Increased secretion of mucus in nostrils all forenoon, with a feeling of roughness of pharynx and sensation as if something had lodged in the upper part of the œsophagus that caused frequent inclination to swallow. — Rough feeling in pharynx in morning.

Violent retching and burning in the stomach, with vomiting of blood. — Eructations of air. — Sharp cutting pains in epigastric region every few minutes followed by dull pains.

Frequent distress in umbilicus with hard, aching distress in whole dorsal region. — Frequent dull pain in umbilical region, with a feeling in anus as if it had been torn. — Constant dull pain in r. umbilicus; twice the pains were severe and cutting (first day, second day pain was in l. umbilicus). — Rheumatic pains in abdominal muscles. — Sudden pain in hypogastrium, followed by mushy stool (7 p.m. first day, 8 p.m. third day). — Dull pain in l. hypogastrium and umbilicus. — Dull pain in hypogastrium followed by dark-coloured, hard, lumpy stool.

Natural stool, followed by severe neuralgia in anus with tenesmus. — Stools small, streaked with blood; tormina; burning in the bowels and rectum; hard lumps of fæces mixed with the discharges. — Mushy stools. — Hæmorrhage from the bowels. — Hæmorrhoids; bleeding; with hard, lumpy stools; burning in the margin of anus; it feels as if torn.

Urination painful or suppressed. — Dysuria of teething children; frequent desire; crying when urinating; urine profuse, of very strong odour; external parts (female) inflamed or irritated, with considerable mucous discharge.

Sticky sweat on genitals. — Pain in r. lumbar region passing down to testicle. — Gonorrhœa and gleet.

Metrorrhagia, with violent irritation of rectum and bladder; after abortion, with diarrhœa and dysuria; with prolapsus uteri. — Very profuse flow of bright-red blood; every movement of patient increases the flow; pallor and weakness. — Leucorrhœa profuse, with spasmodic pains, and irritation of the bladder and rectum. — Bloody lochia return after the least motion; > during rest.

Cough; bloody expectoration; incipient phthisis.

Palpitation.

Dull aching distress in whole dorsal region. — Dull pains in lumbar and sacral regions. — Severe sticking, stabbing pain in region of l. kidney; passing to r. kidney.

Aching dulness in all the joints and limbs.

Excessive languor in morning; all day with great depression; no ambition to move in afternoon and evening.

Frequent disposition to yawn in afternoon and evening.

Canada Flea Bane. Compositæ.
Grows in Canada and the United States as a weed. The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant when in bloom in July and August.
Used by the aborigines as an application to wounds.
Proved by W. H. Burt. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 211 . A fragmentary proving of the Erigeron philadelphicum, by A. Lippe, not published, is here inserted, the symptoms marked '*'.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Dysuria in teething children (2 cases), Ring, N. A. J. H., vol. 5, p. 282 ; Uterine flow , Warren, Med. Inv., vol. 5, p. 35 ; Cough , Wright, Hom. Times, vol. 2, p. 10 ; Hemorrhages , Palmer, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 121.

Lowness of spirits, with a feeling of great languor.

Congestion of head, red face, nosebleed ; febrile action.
Dull frontal headache on waking in morning.
Dull headache, with ringing in right ear.
Headache, with pain in forehead and right eye, and pain in large joints.

Smarting of eyes all day.
Redness, swelling, inflammation, with profuse muco purulent discharges from eyes.
Echymoses upon eyeballs or around eye, from a blow.

Increased secretion of mucus in nostrils all forenoon.
Epistaxis of bright red blood.

Profuse bleeding from gums.

Dryness of pharynx ; roughness, with sensation as if something had lodged in upper part of œsophagus.
Sore throat all night, with frequent inclination to swallow.
Inflammation and ulceration of throat.
Tonsillitis.

Nausea, with frequent eructations.
Violent retching and burning in stomach, with vomiting of blood.

Sharp cutting pains in region of stomach every few minutes.
Violent retching, with burning in stomach.
Hematemesis, from ulceration and rupture of blood vessels.

Dull pains in hypochondria.

Frequent dull pains in bowels.
Sudden, severe pains in hypogastrium, followed by mushy stool.
Flatulent colic.
Tympanites. θ Typhoid fever. θ Dysentery.

Stools, bloody or mucous ; small, streaked with blood ; tormina ; burning in bowels and rectum ; hard lumps of feces mixed with the discharges ; mushy, undigested.
Sudden pain in hypogastrium followed by papescent stools.
Dysentery, with burning in any part of alimentary canal ; extreme tenesmus, with frequent small stools, streaked with blood or bloody, and great irritation of urinary organs ; urination painful or suppressed.
Scybala, with dysentery.
Inflammation of mucous coats of colon and rectum.
Thin papescent stool, with burning in bowels and rectum.
Natural stool, followed by severe neuralgic pains in anus, with tenesmus.
Hemorrhoids : bleeding ; with hard lumpy stools ; burning in margin of anus ; it feels as if torn.
Bleeding of hemorrhoidal tumors, and hemorrhage of bowels.

Sharp stinging pains in region of left kidney ; complete suppression of urine, and pain in renal region, followed by urging to urinate, with emission of only a few burning drops.
Vesical catarrh, with pain and irritation ; also vesical irritation from calculi.
Inclination to urinate about every hour, with aching distress in bladder.
Urination painful or suppressed.
Urging to urinate, with emission of only a few burning drops at a time.
Dysuria of teething children ; frequent desire, crying when urinating ; urine profuse, of very strong odor ; external parts (female) inflamed or irritated, with considerable mucous discharge.
Urine dark, afterwards pale, double in quantity.
Hemorrhages from bladder or urethra.
Hæmaturia, with metrorrhagia.

Sticky sweat on the male genitals. *
Pain in right lumbar region, passing down to testicle.
Gonorrhœa and gleet.

Premature and profuse menses.
Metrorrhagia : with violent irritation of rectum and bladder ; after abortion, with diarrhœa and dysuria ; with prolapsus uteri.
Very profuse flow of bright red blood ; every movement of patient increases the flow ; pallor and weakness.
Dysmenorrhœa, with menorrhagia.
Menorrhagia, with spasmodic pains.
Steady painless flow occurring during pregnancy, at 6th month, caused by overexertion.
Leucorrhœa profuse, with spasmodic pains, and irritation of bladder and rectum, usually scanty menses.
Chronic uterine leucorrhœa.

Abortion, with profuse hemorrhage, diarrhœa and dysuria.
Post-partum hemorrhage.
Bloody lochia return after least motion ; > by rest.
Profuse lochia.

Chronic bronchial affections.

Cough, with expectoration of blood-streaked matter ; hard pains in lungs ; cannot lie on side.
Bloody expectoration, incipient phthisis.
Hæmoptysis, dark coagula, passive hemorrhage.

Incipient stages of phthisis ; with bloody expectoration.

Palpitation of heart.

Dull aching distress in whole dorsal region.
Severe, drawing pains in lumbar region.

Rheumatic pains in left shoulder, hand and thumb. *
Great aching distress in elbows and wrists during rainy weather.
Rheumatic pains in thumb all evening.

Rheumatic pain in right hip. *
Dull pains in knees.
Severe drawing pains in ankle joint, < walking.

Rest : bloody lochia >.
Cannot lie on painful side.
Every movement : increases flow ; bloody lochia return.
Walking : pain in ankle joint <.

Very drowsy early in the evening ; soon after falling asleep wakes up feeling numb and unable to move, lies in this way, suffering painful agony for half an hour. *

Morning : dull headache on awakening.
Forenoon : secretion of mucus in nostrils.
Evening : rheumatic pains in thumbs ; very drowsy early.
Night : sore throat.

All symptoms < during rainy weather.
Rainy weather : great aching distress in elbows and wrists.

Frequent : inclination to swallow ; eructations ; dull pains in bowels ; small stools ; desire to urinate.
Every few minutes : pains in region of stomach.
Half hour : lies awake suffering.
Every hour : inclination to urinate.

Right : pain in eye ; pain in lumbar region ; rheumatic pain in hip.
Left : sharp stinging pains in kidney ; rheumatic pain in shoulder.

As if something had lodged in upper part of œsophagus ; anus feels as if torn.
Pain : in forehead ; in right eye ; in large joints ; in renal region ; in right lumbar region to testicles.
Severe pains : in hypogastrium.
Sharp cutting pains : in region of stomach.
Sharp stinging pains : in region of kidney.
Neuralgic pains : in anus.
Spasmodic pains : in female sexual organs.
Sudden pain : in hypogastrium.
Hard pains : in lungs.
Drawing pains : in lumbar region ; in ankle.
Aching distress : of bladder ; in dorsal region ; in elbows ; in wrists.
Burning : in stomach ; in bowels ; in rectum ; in alimentary canal ; in anus.
Rheumatic pains : in left shoulder ; in hand ; in thumb ; in r. hip.
Dull pain : in forehead ; in hypochondria ; in bowels ; in knees.
Dryness : of pharynx.
Smarting : of eyes.
Irritation : of rectum ; of bladder.

Produces active congestion of various organs, with a tendency to hemorrhage therefrom.
Useful in hematocele in the first stages.
Hemorrhages.

From a blow : ecchymosis upon eyeball.

Slightly elevated, sharply defined vesicles on skin.

Small, frail, delicate woman, from overexertion at 6th month of pregnancy ; uterine flow.

Canthar., Copaiva, Cubeba, Sabina, Terebinth .

Congestion of the head, red face, nosebleed; febrile action.

Violent retching and burning in the stomach, with vomiting of blood.

Stools: small, streaked with blood; tormina; burning in the bowels and rectum; hard lumps of feces mixed with the discharges.
Hemorrhoids bleeding; with hard lumpy stools; burning in the margin of the anus, it feels as if torn.

Urination painful or suppressed.
Dysuria of teething children; frequent desire, crying when urinating; urine profuse, of very strong odor; external parts (female) inflamed or irritated, with considerable mucous discharge.

Metrorrhagia: with violent irritation of rectum and bladder; after abortion, with diarrhœa and dysuria; with prolapsus uteri.
Very profuse flow of bright red blood; every movement of the patient increases the flow; pallor and weakness.
Leucorrhœa profuse, with spasmodic pains, and irritation of the bladder and rectum.

Bloody lochia returns after the motion; worse during rest.

Bloody expectoration, incipient phthisis.

A tincture is made of the entire fresh plant of Erigeron Canadense, L.

Languor all day and depressed spirits; left in morning; in afternoon and evening, and no ambition to move; with aching in all large joints. ▶ Symptoms every morning.

Headache on waking, with aching in large joints. ▶ Pain in forehead at 9 P.M.; pain in F., with smarting of eyes; in F. and right eye on waking. ▶ Smarting of eyes in afternoon and evening. ▶ Agglutination of lids in morning.

Nasal mucus increased in forenoon, with roughness in pharynx and sensation as if something had lodged in upper part of œsophagus that caused frequent inclination to swallow. ▶ Bad taste. ▶ Sore throat; all night, with frequent inclination to swallow and feeling as if something had lodged in upper part of œsophagus. ▶ Roughness of pharynx; in morning. ▶ Dryness of pharynx at 9 P.M.

Eructations of air. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Intermittent cutting in epigastric region at 2 P.M., then dull pain. ▶ Drawing pain in abdomen. ▶ Frequent rumbling pain in A., with aching in lumbar region. ▶ Rheumatic pains in abdominal muscles. ▶ Cutting in right side of umbilicus. ▶ Pain in umbilicus; right; frequent in left; frequent pain in region of U., with feeling as if anus had been torn; sudden P. in region of U. when walking, with pain in lower dorsal region and singing in right ear. ▶ Distress in U. region; frequently with aching in whole dorsal region. ▶ Pain in left hypogastrium and umbilicus; in hypogastrium then a dark, hard, lumpy stool; sudden, in H., then a mushy stool.

Loose stool; at noon after a natural one in the morning. ▶ Mushy S.; next day none. ▶ Hard, lumpy S. ▶ S. omitted. ▶ Natural S., then neuralgia in anus and tenesmus. ▶ Urging to urinate, waking at 4 P.M. ▶ Urine increased and pale; and turns litmus-paper red.

Persistent hæmorrhage from bladder, in stone in bladder. ▶ Chronic gonorrhœa, with burning micturition, which is offensive, continual dribbling, smarting, burning, etc. ▶ Post-partum hæmorrhages. ▶ Hæmorrhages from uterus, with painful micturition (Compare with Mitchella.).

Distress in dorsal region at 6 P.M. ▶ Aching in dorsal region; agg. right side; in afternoon and evening, and in lumbar region. ▶ Sticking in region of right kidney; left kidney, passing from left to right. ▶ Pain in lumbar and sacral regions in morning on waking. ▶ Drawing pain in right lumbar region at 9 P.M., passing to right testicle, then dragging pain in left hypochondrium.

Aching in arms and legs in afternoon and evening; A. in all joints, with despondency. ▶ Drawing pain in elbow and right metacarpal bones in evening. ▶ Rheumatic pains in right thumb. ▶ Pain in hips at 9 P.M., on walking. ▶ Pain in knees in evening. ▶ Drawing pain in left ankle, agg. walking.

Frequent disposition to yawn in afternoon and evening. ▶ Restless night, but no pain.

Clinical:
Persistent hæmorrhages from bladder; in stone in bladder.
Chronic gonorrhœa, with burning micturition, which is offensive; continual dribbling, smarting, burning, etc.
Post-partum hæmorrhages.
Hæmorrhages from uterus, with painful micturition.