Erigeron Canadense erig.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Genito-urinary tract. Joints.

Worse

Rainy weather.

General

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

Particulars

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

Related: Canth. Terb.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Fleabane (ERIGERON - LEPTILON CANADENSE)

General

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.

Female

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).

Modalities

Worse, left side.

Relationship

Terebinthina similar.

Dose

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.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

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

Clinical

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

Characteristics

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.

Relations

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

Mind

Great despondency.

Head

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.

Eyes

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

Ears

Loud singing in r. ear.

Nose

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

Mouth

Bad taste in mouth.

Throat

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.

Stomach

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.

Abdomen

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.

Stool and Anus

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.

Urinary Organs

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.

Male Sexual Organs

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

Female Sexual Organs

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.

Respiratory Organs

Cough; bloody expectoration; incipient phthisis.

Heart

Palpitation.

Back

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.

Limbs

Aching dulness in all the joints and limbs.

Generalities

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

Sleep

Frequent disposition to yawn in afternoon and evening.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

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.

Mind

Lowness of spirits, with a feeling of great languor.

Inner head

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.

Sight and eyes

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

Smell and nose

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

Teeth and gums

Profuse bleeding from gums.

Palate and throat

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.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

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

Scrobiculum and stomach

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

Hypochondria

Dull pains in hypochondria.

Abdomen and loins

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

Stools and rectum

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.

Urinary organs

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.

Male sexual organs

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

Female sexual organs

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.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

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

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Chronic bronchial affections.

Cough

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

Inner chest and lungs

Incipient stages of phthisis ; with bloody expectoration.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation of heart.

Neck and back

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

Upper limbs

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

Lower limbs

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

Rest. position. motion

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

Sleep

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. *

Time

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

Temperature and weather

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

Attacks, periodicity

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.

Locality and direction

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

Sensations

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.

Tissues

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

Touch. passive motion. injuries

From a blow : ecchymosis upon eyeball.

Skin

Slightly elevated, sharply defined vesicles on skin.

Stage of life, constitution

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

Relations

Canthar., Copaiva, Cubeba, Sabina, Terebinth .