HYDRASTIS
Generalities :
Debility.
General catarrhal discharges, and tendency to ulcerations.
Eyes :
Clinical
:
Catarrhal inflammation, with profuse secretions ; often smarting and
burning, sometimes with swollen lids ; opacities of the cornea.
Ears :
Clinical
:
Catarrhal inflammation of the middle ear and deafness, after scarlet
fever.
Otorrhśa, with thick mucous discharge.
Nose :
Discharge thick, yellow, watery, excoriating, with burning, rawness of the
throat.
Catarrh of the posterior nares ; the discharge drops into the throat.
Purulent and bloody discharges.
Mouth :
Aphthous sour mouth.
Throat :
Sore, with increased mucus, with burning and rawness, extending to nose
and chest.
Roughness in the morning on waking, worse swallowing.
Stomach :
Soreness over the stomach.
Sinking.
Acute pain.
Abdomen :
Pain in the region of the liver, extending to scapulć, with yellow skin,
light-colored stools, etc.
Intestinal catarrh, with sinking in the stomach, discharge of mucus.
Stool :
Diarrhśa.
Mucous or bloody stools, with symptoms of intestinal catarrh.
Constipation.
Urinary organs :
Clinical
:
Catarrh of the bladder, with thick, ropy mucus in the urine.
Sexual organs :
Clinical
:
Chronic gonorrhśa.
Hydrocele.
Pruritis of the vulva ; hard nodular tumors of the breast, with
lancinating pains.
Ulceration of the cervix, with prolapsus of the uterus.
Cancerous ulcerations of the uterus.
Hćmorrhages from the uterus, especially with ulcerations.
The leucorrhśa is almost always tenacious, rarely with albuminuria ;
with great prostration, palpitation, or with derangements of the liver,
constipation, hćmorrhoids, etc.
It has been used successfully in chronic enlargement of the uterus
(sub-involution).
Uterine fibroids.
Inflammation of the cervix, with heat and itching of the vagina.
Ulceration of the neck of the womb, fungoid ; leucorrhśa profuse.
Respiratory organs :
Clinical
:
Laryngeal catarrh ; mucous membrane pale, vocal cords relaxed.
Bronchial catarrh, yellow, tenacious mucus.
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