SANGUINARIA.
Sanguinaria Canadensis, Linn.
Natural order
, Papaveraceæ.
Common names
, Blood-root, Puccoon, etc.
Preparation
, Tincture of the root.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 6,
from Dr. Downey’s Thesis). 1, Dr.
William Downey, Inaugural Diss, “An Experimental Inquiry,”
etc., Philadelphia, 1803, two hours after breakfast took 20 grains of
recent root; 1a,
same, took 8 grains of “the saponaceous or extractive matter;”
1b,
same, took 8 grains of the resin; 1c, same, took 8 grains of leaves made into
pills; 1d,
same, took 4 grains of extract obtained by decoction with water; 1e, same,
“having procured 2 drachms of immature seed-vessels and seeds, 6
ounces of water were boiled with them and evaporated to 2 ounces; of
this I took 2 drachms, repeated after twenty minutes, and 3 drachms
after forty-five minutes;” 2,
same, proving by Mr. Young, took 23 grains of powdered root made into
pills with honey; 2a, same, took 8 grains of aqueous extract;
3, same, proving by Mr. Rees, took 8
grains of alcoholic extract of dried root; 4,
same, proving by Mr. Bartram, took 8 grains of gummous extract; 5, same, proving of Mr. Pendergrast, who took
4 grains of powdered leaves; 6,
same, proving of Mr. Woolton, who took 5-drachm doses of the decoction; 7, Dr. William Tully, Prize Essay (American
Med. Recorder, Jan. 1828), effects of the continued use of the tincture;
7a,
same, in Bost. M. and S. Journ., 1832, 6, 243, general effects; 7b, same,
proving of Dr. Terry, who took a scruple of the Tartrate of san guinarin
at once; 8, Smith, Lond. Med.
Trans., Vol. 1, general effects; 9,
Bird, Dissertation on Sanguinaria, N. Y., 1822, and other American
authors, general effects. (10 to 15, provings from Hering’s Compilation, N.
Archiv f. Hom., 2, 2, 114); 10,
Bute, effects of 1st dilution; 11,
proving by Dr. Freitag, “K.;” 12,
same, “K. &;” 13,
Jeanes, symptoms observed after expressing the juice; 14, proving by Dr. Husemann with 6th
dilution, “J. H.;” 15,
same, 6th dilution, “F. H.;” 16,
N. Y. Journ. of Commerce (Am. J. of Med. Sc., 1841, 2, 506), “three
women and one man drank a large quantity of the tincture; all died the
next day;” 17, Dr. George D.
Gibbs, Glasgow Med. Journ., 1860, p. 121, general effects; 18, fatal effects in three women (compare No.
16); 19,
Dr. Tinker, Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1870, proving with tincture of dry
root, 10 drops first and second days; 20,
Dr. B. Fincke, from “Compilation by Dr. A. K. Hills,” N. Am.
J. of Hom., N. S., 3, 359 (symptoms); 21,
Dr. M. McFarlan, symptoms (from Hills); 22,
Dr. Henry H. Pilling, Thesis, proving with tincture of fresh root,
repeated doses for eighteen days, increasing from 5 to 150 drops; 22a,
same, “on the fifth day, after all effects had disappeared, took
200 drops of tincture;” 22b, same, “three weeks later took
tincture for fourteen days, repeated doses of 25 to 500 drops.”
MIND.
►
The depressing sensation on the nervous system not so marked as
yesterday (fourth day), [19]. ► Great anxiety, [7]. ► Great
anxiety before vomiting, [10]. ► Extreme moroseness, [10]. ► Very
irritable and morose, and impatient at the least trifle, with severe
dyspnœa, in the afternoon (third day), [19].
► Irritable, easily excited (first
day), [20]. ►
Irritability, in the morning; she could break things to pieces without
any cause (fourth day), [20]. ► Inability to fix the mind on any subject,
in the afternoon (second day), [19].
► Inability to attend to any business
during the fever (third day), [19].
[10.] ►
The stupor continues, making it almost impossible to continue my studies
(ninth day), [22].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► That terrible
vertigo, which had been so prominent during the whole proving, returned
(after one hour, first day), [22a].
► Vertigo, in the morning (fourth
day), [22]. ►
Vertigo, immediately (ninth day), [22].
► *Vertigo on rising from a sitting
position (after the dose, twelfth day), [22]. ► *The
vertigo, which had partly left immediately returned (after the dose),
with a dull heavy feeling in the stomach, as if caused from some hard
substance there (sixteenth day), [22]. ►
*Distressing vertigo (eighth morning), [22a]. ►
Vertigo and headache in the forehead, as from coryza, with sneezing and
vomiturition; (perhaps increased by lime used for whitewashing, which
always caused her headache), (sixteenth day), [20]. ►
Vertigo, long continuing, with debility, [10].
► Vertigo, with sounds in the ears,
immediately, [10]. [20.] ►►
*Vertigo, [7a], [18]. ►
Stagger as if intoxicated (after the dose, twelfth day), [22]. ► Very
dizzy, immediately (seventh and fifteenth days), [22]. ► *Head
feels dizzy and cannot turn quick, without fear of falling,
in the afternoon (second day), [19].
► *Head is dizzy at times, and vertigo
and faintness on rising quickly from a stooping position, or turning the
head quickly, in the morning (fourth day), [19]. ► General
Head. ► Confused and dull
feeling in the head, which became better after eructation (soon), [10]. ►
Heaviness in the head, from the vertex to the middle of the forehead,
with pressing in the glabella and buzzing in head; eyes have a dull
expression (fifth day), [20]. ► Heaviness of the brain, [10]. ► *Head
feels dull and inclined to ache in the temples, right side most
(after one hour), [19]. ► *Dull headache, [10]. [30.] ► Dull headache, which did not leave me for
several hours (after eighty minutes), [1c].
►► *Determination of blood to the
head, with whizzing in the ears and transitory feeling of heat; then a
sensation as if vomiting was about to take place, but instead
of this there succeeded slight cutting drawings in the abdomen, and then
a stool, [10]. ► The fulness in the head considerable
(seventeenth day), [20]. ► *Fulness in his head, with vertigo
(after twenty-five minutes), [5]. ► *Fulness in the head, with slight vertigo
(after twenty-five minutes); still continued (after fifty-five minutes),
[1c]. ►
*Fulness in the head (after the dose, twelfth day), [22]. ►
Terrible headache, as if caused by an approaching coryza, which would
not make its appearance, in the forehead and middle of the vertex, with
pressure on the eyes, which burn and are moved with difficulty, and
vertigo (eighth and thirteenth days), [20].
► Terrific headache during the fever
(fourth day), [19]. ► *Head is very painful to touch, as
well as the breasts, loins, and other parts where the pain had been
severe, in the afternoon (third day), [19].
► *Head aches as if it would burst;
better when walking in the open air; pain most severe in the temples,
and especially the right in the afternoon (third day), [19]. [40.]
► Severe headache, on waking, in the
morning (twelfth day), [22]. ► Slight headache, with vertigo (eighth and
ninth days), [22]. ► Headache on the left side (sixteenth and
seventeenth days), [22]. ► Severe headache (third morning), [19]; (after a dose, thirteenth day), [22b]. ►►
*Headache (after forty minutes), [4], [5];
(fourteenth day), [22b]. ► *Headache, lasting six hours, [10]. ►
Headache in the evening, with tickling in the throat, [10]. ► Slight
headache (after forty minutes), [1].
►► *Paroxysmal headache,
[10]. ►
Headache, with vertigo and earache, while lying down, [10]. [50.] ►► *Headache, with nausea and chilliness,
followed by flushes of heat, extending from the head to the stomach,
[10]. ►
Headache, with chilliness, [10]. ► Headaches, in the morning (fourth day), [19]. ►
Headache whilst lying down, [10]. ► Slight headache (eighth day), [22b]. ►
Throbbing headache, worse on every motion, [10]. ►
Throbbing headache, with bitter vomiting, [10].
► Throbbing headache, worse while
stooping and moving about, [10]. ► Very dizzy headache over and above the
right eye, extending to the right temple; pain very severe, amounting to
a tearing pain, and in an hour feels like driving a nail into the brain
or boring into it, first one sensation and then the other, in the
afternoon (second day), [19]. ► *Violent pain over the upper portion of the
whole left side of the head, especially in the eye, at the
same time a similar pain in the left foot, [10]. [60.] ► Sharp darting pains through the brain,
from one temple to the other (fourth day), [19]. ►
Sensation as if the head were drawn forward, [10]. ► Pain
in all the upper part of the head, [10].
► The cerebral functions are exalted
by small doses, [17]. ► Forehead. ►
*Headache, as if the forehead would burst, with chilliness
and burning in the stomach, [10]. ► *Frontal headache, with considerable vertigo, on
rising from a sitting posture (ninth and tenth days), [22b]. ►
Awoke with a severe frontal headache over the eye, which continued all
day (second day), [22]. ► Sharp frontal headache (Fincke, 10m), [21]. ►
Headache very severe through the whole front of the head, extending down
into the cheek-bones, for two hours (after three hours, second day), [19]. ►
*On taking a little exercise the frontal headache increases, and
sympathizes with the stomach, like sick headache (third
morning), [19]. [70.] ►
*Pressive headache in the forehead, [10]. ► Severe
pain and sore feeling through all the front of the head and temples,
with strong pulsation in the temporal arteries (third day), [19]. ►
Neuralgic pains of a constrictive kind, from the right side of the
forehead to the zygomatic arch, all day (fourth day), [20]. ►
Burrowing pain in the upper part of the forehead, [15]. ► A
lightning like pain in the right side of the forehead and temple, at 5
P.M., lasting five minutes; repeated at 7 P.M.; at 11 P.M. a sudden
transient pain like an electric shock through the forehead, [10]. ►
Pain in the forehead (after five days), Niedhard. ►
Transient pain like a pressure in the right side of the forehead, only
while standing still, better while walking, [15]. ► Slight
frontal headache, soon (ninth day), [22].
► Pressive drawing in the forehead, [10]. ►
Slowly sticking pain in the forehead (after fifteen minutes), [13]. [80.]
► A bandlike constriction across the
forehead, just above the eyebrows, in the afternoon (second day), [19]. ►
Temples. ► Severe aching
pain through the temples and in frontal region (first night), [19]. ►
Sides of the head (temples) feel pressed together, with darting pains
over the upper portion of the eyeballs (after thirty-minutes), [19]. ►
Pressing pain in both temples, with occasional darting pain through
head, in the afternoon (second day), [19].
► Pain very severe in the left
temple, at times like a nail driven in the brain, with violent throbbing
in the temporal arteries (third morning), [19].
► Pressing pain in the temples, in
the morning (fourth day), [19]. ► Periodic sticking in the left temple, [10]. ►
Vertex. ► The top of my
head feels as though it were cleaved from the base (sixteenth and
seventeenth days), [22]. ► Pressure on the top of the head, in the
region of the anterior fontanelle, disappearing on walking, [15]. ►
Pain in the vertex, [10]. [90.] ►
Pain like a fulness in the sinciput, in the afternoon, [13]. ► Occiput.
► Moderate pain in the back of the
head and neck, gradually extending downwards to the region of the
kidney, where the pain is very severe, dull and heavy, in the afternoon
(second day), [19]. ► External Head. ►
Enlarged veins on the head, [10]. ► One-sided looseness of the scalp and
drawing in it, on raising the eyes, [10].
► The scalp on the right side seems
loose, [10]. ►
Soreness of the scalp on touch, [10].
► Moving the scalp still painful
(fourth day), [19].
EYE.
►
Redness of the eyes, in the morning (eighteenth day), [20]. ►
Staring and protuberance of the eyes, [7a].
► The eyes are sunken, dull, and
burning, with slight injection of the bloodvessels (seventeenth day), [20]. [100.]
► Dimness of the eyes, in the
afternoon, with a feeling as if there were hairs in them, [10]. ► At
first dryness and violent burning in the eyes, with difficulty in
opening the lids, then copious lachrymation with burning, as from hot
tears, in the evening (fourth day), [20].
► *Burning dryness in the eyes
(third day), [20]. ► Burning dryness in the eyes wakes her
from sleep (fourth day), [20]. ► Eyes feel very weak and lids smart on
closing them tightly, and tears start if opened to the ordinary light of
day; eyeballs tender to the touch (third morning), [19]. ►
Sensation as of acid fumes in the eyes, [15].
► Pressive pain in the left eye, [12]. ►
Pain in the right eye, [10]. ► A pain suddenly shoots into the inner
corner of the right eye and thence to the forehead, [10]. ► *Pain over
the eyes (twelfth day), [22b].
[110.] ►
Dull pain directly over the eyes (after seventy-five minutes), [1d]. ►
Lids. ► Stitches in the
upper lid, [12]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► Profuse lachrymation of the right eye,
which is especially painful to touch, soon followed by fluent coryza,
with flow of clear water from the right nostril; afterwards, in the
evening, two diarrhœa-like stools, followed by cessation of all
symptoms (after five hours), [10].
► Profuse lachrymation of the right
eye, that is painful to touch, followed by coryza, [10]. ►
Lachrymation, with burning in the eyes, [10].
► Ball. ►
Both eyeballs very sore, with frequent sharp piercing pain darting
through them, with dimness of sight (after three hours, second day), [19]. ►
Right eyeball very painful, especially on attempting to roll it outward
or upward, in the afternoon (second day), [19].
► Eyeballs very painful to move in
any direction (fourth day), [19]. ► Eyeballs very tender to touch (fourth
day), [19]. ► Pupil. ►
*Dilatation of the pupils, [7a].
[120.] ►
Pupils dilated more than usual (after forty-five minutes), [16]. ►
Great dilatation of the pupils, the strongest light of the sun was
utterly incapable of producing the least contraction or giving the least
uneasiness, [7b]. ► Vision. ►
Sight dim, and requires considerable effort and rubbing of the eyes to
see anything distinctly, a feeling something like snow-blindness, in the
afternoon (second day), [19]. ► Vision somewhat affected (after
forty-five minutes), [6]. ► Diminished vision, [7]. ► Dimness
of vision, [9]. ► Indistinct vision, [18]. ► Very
violent twittering before the eyes, [11].
► Sensation of a dark cloud
immediately over the eyes, [7b]. ► Vapor before the eyes (sixth day), [20]. [130.]
► Appearance of a cloud before the
sight, [7a].
EAR.
►
Pains in the ears, with headache, [10].
► Pain deep in the left ear, only for
a short time, during the pain in the forehead, [13]. ► Slowly
sticking pain in the left ear (after ten minutes), [13]. ► Every
stroke of a hammer heard near a blacksmith’s shop is painful in the
right ear, [10]. ► Throbbing under the ears at irregular
intervals, often only two single beats, [10].
► Cracking in the right ear, noticed
while stroking the right cheek with the finger tips (third day), [15]. ►
Beating whizzing in the left ear, [10].
► Singing in the ears, with vertigo, [10]. ►
Humming in the ears, with determination of blood, [10].
NOSE.
[140.]
► Profuse fluent coryza in the right
nostril, [10]. ► Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, [10]. ►
Watery acrid coryza, making the nose sore, [10]. ►
Alternations of fluent and dry coryza, [10].
► Painful coryza, during the fever
(fourth day), [19]. ► Dry coryza, as from a sudden cold
(thirteenth day), [22b]. ► Much sneezing, [10]. ►
Sneezing very frequently, with tingling in the nares (after three hours,
second day), [19]. ► When snuffed up the nostrils it proved
stenutatory, and left a sensation of heat for some time, [8]. ► Snuffed
into the nose it excites sneezing, and an increased secretion from the
Schneiderian membrane, [7]. [150.] ►
Dull heavy pain at the root of the nose, with a dizzy sensation,
somewhat like the effect of alcoholic stimulus, with same feeling of
lassitude (after six hours), [19].
► Dull heavy pain about the root of
the nose, with considerable coryza; with stinging sensation in the nose,
causing considerable rubbing (second day), [19]. ► Dull
pain at the root of the nose, with tingling sensation like coryza, in
the afternoon (second day), [19]. ► Severe pain about the root of the nose
(third day), [19]. ► Sensation of heat in the nose, [10]. ►
Odor of roasted onions in the nose, [10].
► Aversion to the smell of syrup, [10]. ►
Loss of smell and taste, [10].
FACE.
►
Peculiar haggard expression of the countenance, [7a]. ► Face
flushed (after twenty-five minutes), [1c].
[160.] ►
Redness of the face, [10]. ► Countenance pale (after forty-five
minutes), [6]. ► Face very pale (after forty minutes), [1]. ►
Paleness of the face, with disposition to vomit, [10]. ► A worn
appearance (seventeenth day), [20].
► Puffiness of the face, with bright
redness and feeling of stiffness, [10].
► Pale swollen countenance around the
eyes and temples, more on the left side (sixth day), [20]. ►
Feeling of fulness in the face, [10].
► Violent burning heat and redness of
the face, [10]. ► Severe pain in cheek-bones (third day), [19]. [170.]
► Towards evening, swelling of the
lips (fourth day), [20]. ► The under lip burns, is swollen, hard,
and becomes covered with blisters, which dry up next morning and form
crusts, which drop off after four days (fifth day), [20]. ► Sensation
of dryness of the lips (in three provers), [10]. ►
Stiffness of the jaws, [10]. ► Jerking in both superior maxillary bones,
extending towards the eye, [10].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Looseness of the
teeth, [10]. ►
Toothache when picking the teeth, [10].
► Pain in the upper teeth, [10]. ►
Pain in a hollow tooth, especially when touched by food, [10]. ► Pain
in the right lower hollow molar after cold drinks, two mornings in
succession, [15]. [180.] ►
Awoke with toothache in a right upper hollow tooth, and headache in the
right side of the forehead, extending into the ear; the toothache was
aggravated by cold water (and also by hot drinks), but relieved by warm
water, [14]. ►
A slow short and long-thrilling sensation, ending in a gnawing, in an
upper molar (after twenty minutes), [13].
► Pain in one or several incisors and
in a hollow molar (after twenty minutes), [13].
► Gums. ►
Sores on the gums and roof of mouth (Fincke, 10m), [21]. ► Tongue.
► Yellowish white coating on the
tongue, with bad taste in the mouth (second day), [22a]. ► Light
yellow coating on the tongue, in the morning (fourth day), [22]. ►
Tongue coated yellowish white (eighth and ninth days), [22]. ► Tongue
coated white, with loss of appetite, [10].
► *Tongue feels burnt, [11]. ►
Crawling in the tip of the tongue, followed by an astringent sensation
that extended over the whole tongue, on waking (first day), [14]. [190.]
► Prickling on the tongue and hard
palate, as if he had been chewing Mezereum (after twenty-five minutes), [13]. ►
Dry and raw sensation of something acrid, beginning in the right side of
the tongue and extending over the whole tongue, soon after waking, in
the morning, [15]. ► Stitches in the left side of the tongue, [15]. ►
Prickling in the tip of the tongue (after fifteen minutes), [13]. ►
General Mouth. ► Mouth
clammy and feverish (second day), [19].
► Mouth clammy, with very
disagreeable taste, with abundant accumulations about the teeth, and
very fetid breath (third morning), [19].
► Burning in the mouth and fauces
(first day), [22b]. ► Burning in the mouth and stomach (after
two hours, first day), [22]. ► Burning in the mouth and fauces,
immediately (fourth day); lasting four hours and a half (fifth day), [22]. ►
Saliva. ► Flow of saliva
and looseness of the teeth; it seems as if they would fall out, [10]. [200.]
► Spitting, with nausea, [10]. ►
Taste. ► Fatty taste in
the mouth, [11]. ► The cake has a bitter taste, followed by
burning in the fauces, [10]. ► Slimy taste in the mouth, [10]. ► Taste
very much impaired (second day), [19].
► Awoke in morning with disagreeable
taste in mouth (fifth day), [22].
THROAT.
►
*Feeling of swelling in the throat on swallowing, [10]. ►
*Sensation as if the throat were completely closed by swelling, with
pain on swallowing, as if he would suffocate, with loss of
voice (after three hours), [10]. ► *Pain, with sensation of swelling, in the
throat, worse on the right side, and especially on swallowing,
[10]. ►
*Throat very dry, with tickling cough (after three hours,
second day), [19]. [210.] ►
*Dryness in the throat, with a teasing dry hacking cough, in the
afternoon (second day), [19].
► *Dryness of the throat, not
relieved by drinking, [10]. ► *Throat feels raw; some difficulty in
swallowing; mouth and throat feel almost denuded of mucous membrane;
in the morning, at 12.30 P.M., mucous membrane of mouth, fauces, etc.,
very sensitive, as if having held very hot water in the mouth, making it
quite difficult to masticate food (fourth day), [19]. ► A
spasmodic constriction directly beneath the lower jaw and across the
throat, very distressing in character, lasting for two or three hours,
in the afternoon (second day), [19].
► *Tickling in the throat, with hacking
cough and headache, in the evening, [11]. ►
Transient, very peculiar feeling in the throat, as though he had
swallowed something sharp (after twenty minutes), [13]. ► Heat
in the throat; inspiration of cold air is very agreeable; in the
evening, from 6 to 7 P.M., [15]. ► Burning in the fauces, after eating sweet
things, [10]. ► A small quantity dissolved in the saliva
and swallowed, produces considerable irritation in the fauces, which
continued for several hours, (Aqueous extract.), [1]. ► Burning
sensation in fauces, especially on soft palate, extending downward to
about centre of the sternal region, in the afternoon (second day), [19]. [220.]
► Warming sensation in the fauces,
and especially on soft palate, with slight relaxation (after fifteen
minutes), [19]. ► Burning in the pharynx, [10].® 2000
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