CISTUS.
Helianthemum Canadense, Michx.
Natural order
, Cistaceæ. Synonyms,
Cistus Canadense, Linn.; Helianthemum corymbosum and rosmarinifolium, Pursh. Common names, Rockrose, frostweed.
Preparation
, Tincture of the whole plant.
Authorities.
Hering’s Monograph, Philadelphia, 1866; 1, Dr. Bute’s observations; 2,
“careful proving with globules of the X,” by Dr. Gosewhich. [Starred symptoms are
denoted in Hering’s monograph “cured symptoms;” whether pathogenetic or not is not
stated. Symptoms obviously clinical are omited.]
MIND.
► *After supper,
until bedtime, cheerfulness, [2]. ► Bad effects from vexation (1st dil.), [1].
HEAD.
► Headache all day,
oppressive, [1]. ►
Headache in the sinciput after being kept waiting for dinner, which is better after eating, [2]. ► Headache in the
right side, with piercing pain in the eye, [2]. ► Generally the headache grows worse
towards evening and lasts all night (Puls.), [2].
EYE.
► Feeling as though
something were passing around in the eye, with stitches, [1].
► Stitches in the left eye, [1]. ► Brow and Orbit. ► Feeling as of a weight above the eyes, [1]. [10.] ►
Pressure above the eyes, [1]. ►
Pressure above the eyes, in the forehead, [1]. ► Pressure in the glabella, [1].
► Spasmodic piercing pain in the middle of the upper rim
of the right eye-socket, with some headache on that side, [2].
EAR.
► High swelling,
beginning at the ear and extending half-way up the cheek, [1].
► Inner swelling of the ears, [1]. ► Inner swelling and
discharge from the ears, [1]. ►
Swelling of the parotid glands, [1]. ► Discharge from the ears of water and bad-smelling pus, [1].
NOSE.
► The left side of
the nose grew painfully inflamed and swollen (cured by Sepia), [1]. [20.] ► Sneezing, without cold in the head or any other cause, [1]. ► Burning sensation
in the left nostril, [1]. ►
*Painful tip of nose, which at first grew worse, and then was cured, [2].
FACE.
► A feeling as though
the facial muscles would be drawn to one side, [1]. ► Half way up the cheek, swelling beginning at the ear, [1].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► Twitching-stitching toothache in a decayed molar tooth in the
left upper jaw, [2]. ►
Gums. ► *Very scorbutic gums, swollen,
separating from the teeth, bleeding easily, putrid, disgusting (15th dil.), [1]. ► Tongue. ► Immediately after taking a dose (10 o’clock A.M., X 000), the
tongue grew cool, then the breath through the mouth and nose gave a decidedly cool feeling
in the larynx and in the windpipe; much saliva in the mouth, which is also cool; more mental
calmness than usual; some sleepiness, [2]. ► Sore tongue, as if raw on the surface, [1]. ► Continuous soreness of the
tongue, as if raw, [1]. [30.]
► *Dryness of the tongue and roof of the mouth (1st
dil.), [1].
THROAT.
► Hawking of mucus
which is lodged at the head of the windpipe, [2]. ► Cold air causes pains in the throat, [1]. ► *Hawking of mucus (1st
dil.), [1]. ► *A
feeling of softness in the throat (1st dil.), [1]. ► *Continuous feeling of dryness and heat in the throat (1st
dil.), [1]. ► *Must
get up in the night, on account of dryness in the throat, [1].
► *In the night, swallowing of saliva, on account of
dryness, [1]. ►
*The patient is constantly obliged to swallow saliva to relieve an unbearable dryness,
especially during the night (1st dil.), [1]. ► *After eating, the dryness of the throat is relieved (1st
dil.), [1]. [40.] ► *Stitches in the throat, causing cough, whenever mentally
agitated (1st dil.), [1]. ►
*Every mental excitement is followed by stitches in the throat, producing a cough (1st
dil.), [1]. ►
*Tearing pain in the throat when coughing, [1]. ► *In the morning, sore pain in the throat and dryness of the
tongue (1st dil.), [1]. ►
*Rawness, extending from the chest into the throat, [1].
► *Feeling as of rawness, extending from the upper part
of the chest into the throat (30th dil.), [1]. ► *A feeling as if sand were in the throat (1st dil.), [1]. ► *Tickling and
soreness in the throat (1st dil.), [1]. ► *Periodical itching in the throat (1st dil.), [1]. ► *Inhaling cold air causes
pain in the throat (1st dil.), [1]. ► Fauces. [50.] ► *Fauces inflamed and dry, without feeling dry; tough,
gumlike, thick, tasteless phlegm brought up by hawking, mostly in the morning (30th dil.), [1]. ► External Throat.
► Glands on the throat swollen, [1].
STOMACH.
► Appetite and Thirst.
► (Inclination for acid food), [1]. ► (He wants cheese), [1]. ► Thirst with the
fever, [1]. ►
Eructation. ► Eructation, with feeling as
though it would relieve, [1]. ►
Cool eructations, [2]. ►
Nausea. ► Frequent nausea (1st dil.), [1]. ► Cold feeling in
stomach before and after eating, [2]. ► Before and after eating, a cold feeling in the stomach; cold
eructations, [2]. [60.]
► Immediately after eating, pain in the stomach, [1].
ABDOMEN.
► Hypochondria.
► Stitches in the left hypochondrium, [1]. ► In the morning, on waking,
a bruised pain under the hypochondria, with flatulence, [2].
► General Abdomen. ►
In the evening, the belly puffed up with flatulency, [2].
► Flatulence and uncomfortableness in the intestines, [1]. ► Towards evening,
flatulence; last evening there was several times a discharge of wind, as when air-bubbles
rise in water, [2]. ►
Much flatulence and pain in the hypochondria, [1]. ► Troubled with wind in the belly at night, [2]. ► Immediately after taking
the dose, discharge of much wind, [1]. ► *The wind is not incarcerated as often as before, [2]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac
Regions. [70.] ►
In the groin, pain coming from the back, [1].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► Towards
evening, violent urging of stool; stool pappy, [2].
STOOL.
► Diarrhœa, lasting
a short time, [1]. ►
*Diarrhœa after eating fruit, [1]. ► After drinking coffee, diarrhœa, [2]. ► *Till daybreak, very thin
stools, squirting out, of a grayish-yellow color; until noon, three more discharges,
[2]. ► In the
morning, thin stool, [2]. ►
(The thin stools are hot), [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Frequent
itching on the scrotum, [2].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx
and Trachea. ► In the larynx and windpipe,
cool feeling, [2]. [80.]
► At night, an itching and scratching in the larynx, and
anxious dreams, [2]. ►
*Pain in the windpipe (1st dil.), [1]. ► Cough and Expectoration. ►
*Cough, from stitches in the throat (1st dil.), [1]. ► *Cough, with a very painful tearing in the throat (30th
dil.), [1]. ►
*Mental agitation increases the cough (15th dil.), [1].
► *Expectoration of bitter mucus (1st dil.), [1]. ► Respiration.
► *Impure breath (1st dil.), [1].
CHEST.
► After partaking of
it frequently in the form of tea for the sequelæ of scarlet fever, it caused an induration
of the left mamma, which was taken for cancer and successfully operated upon. -Lippe. ► Fulness in the chest, [1].
► Pain in the chest, and in the throat, [1]. [90.] ►
Pain in the chest and in the shoulder, [1]. ► *Pressure on the chest (1st dil.), [1].
NECK AND BACK.
► A burning
bruised pain in the os coccygis, [2].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
Pain in all the joints, [1]. ►
Always, or repeating the dose, a drawing and tearing in all the joints, particularly in the
knees and finger-joints, [1]. ►
Involuntary drawing and trembling feeling in the muscular parts of the hands and lower
extremities, with pain in the wrists, fingers, and knee-joints, [1]. ► A bruised pain in all the
limbs, as from fatigue, [1].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► The
right arm and back of the hand are painfully sensitive to the least touch, [2]. ► Shoulder. ► Pain in front of the right shoulder, [1]. ► In the evening, violent
pain in the left shoulder and in the chest, with a feeling as though an eructation would
relieve the pain, [1]. ►
Wrist. [100.] ►
Pain in the wrists, [1]. ►
A sprained pain in the wrist, drawing, scraping, [1]. ► Hand. ► Hand pain, [1]. ► In the afternoon,
a bad pain in the right hand, so that he cannot use it, [1].
► In the hands, drawing trembling feelings, [1]. ► Fingers. ► The tips of the fingers were very sensitive to the cold; the
pain becoming more intense when they grew cold, [2]. ► Pain in the fingers of the right hand, while writing, [1]. ► Pain in the
finger-joints, [1]. ►
The pain in the arm extends to the tip of the little finger periodically, a very sensitive,
piercing, drawing pain, so as to draw up the little finger, [2].
► Tearing in finger-joints, [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
[110.]
► Drawing, trembling feeling in the lower extremities, [1]. ► Thigh. ► While walking, a violent pain in the right thigh, [1]. ► Pain, as from a
blow or shock in the left buttock, going down on the inside of the thigh-bone, distinctly
felt in the knee-joint; with spasmodic drawing together of the calf of the leg, [2]. ► Knee. ► Pain in the knee, coming from the thigh, [2]. ► Pain in the knee, in the
evening, [1]. ► In
the evening, pain in the knees, in the right hand and left shoulder, [1]. ► Pain in the knees and in
the right thigh, when walking or sitting, [1]. ► Pain in the knee-joint, [1].
► Tearing in the knees, [1].
► Leg. ►
Spasmodic drawing together of the calf of the leg, [2].
► Toes. [120.]
► In the evening, a sharp piercing pain in the right
great toe, [1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Trembling, with the fever, [1].
SKIN.
► Objective. ► Eruptions, Dry. ►
Below the right shoulder-blade, extending around to the front of the body, was a very much
inflamed spot about the size of the palm of the hand, painfully sore to touch; soon after
pimples began to appear on this spot in a large group, they caused violent burning. Later, a
pain went from this beltlicke spot to the left hip and into the groin; the pain was like
rheumatism, motion increased it, [1]. ► Eruptions, Moist. ►
Vesicular erysipelas in the face, [1]. ► *Eruptions on the back, like zoster, [1]. ► Subjective. ► Sensation as if ants were running through the whole body, in
the evening, a quarter of an hour after lying down, then anxious, difficult breathing, [1]. ► In the evening, a
quarter of an hour after lying down, a sensation as if ants were running through the whole
body, then anxious difficult breathing. He was obliged to get up and open the window; the
fresh air relieved him; immediately on lying down again these sensations returned, two
evenings in succession, [1]. ►
Itching all over the body, without eruption, [1]. ► Itching and scratching on the outside of the throat, in the
region of the larynx, [2]. ►
Itching of the belly and umbilicus, [2]. [130.] ► Itching on the back, [2].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Very
restless at night, the first night, the next night slept well, [2]. ► Very restless at night;
pain from flatulency; he could move the wind with his hands and hear it, [2]. ► Anxious dreams, [2].
FEVER.
► Chilliness.
► Chill succeeded by heat, [1].
► Violent chill, succeeded by fever heat, with trembling,
accompanied by a quick swelling and great redness of the glands below the ear and in the
throat, [1]. ► The
coolness, particularly in the throat, continues all day, [2].
► Coolness on the forehead, [1]. ► Cool feeling in the nose, [2]. ► Cold feeling in
the abdomen, [2]. [140.]
► Cold feeling in the whole abdomen, [2]. ► *Cold feet (1st dil.), [1]. ► Heat. ► Heat with thirst, causing to drink frequently, [1]. ► Heat in the face, [1]. ► Heat and burning
of the facial bones, [1]. ►
*Flushes of heat in the face (1st dil.), [1]. ► Sweat. ► In a very
warm room the skin grows moist, at the same time the forehead is not only externally cool,
but also there is a feeling of coolness inside, [2].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), *Sore
pain in throat, etc.; fauces inflamed, etc.; on waking, pain under hypochondria, etc.; thin
stool; *all symptoms. ►
(Afternoon), Towards evening headache; towards evening,
flatulence; towards evening, urging of stool; pain in hand. ►
(Evening), Belly puffed up; pain in shoulder, etc.; pain in knees; a quarter of an hour after lying down, sensation
through whole body. ► (Night),
*Dryness of throat; at night, itching, etc., in larynx, etc.; pain from flatulency. ► (After drinking coffee),
Diarrhœa. ► (After eating),
Immediately, pain in stomach. ► (After
eating fruit), Diarrhœa. ► (Motion), Pain from inflamed spot to left hip, etc. ► (While writing), Pain in
fingers. ► Amelioration. ►
(Fresh air), Anxious breathing. ►
(After eating), Headache in sinciput.® 2000
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