Sanguinaria canadensis

Common name: blood root.

Is pre-eminently a rightsided remedy (Bell., Lyc.) (D.).

Acts intensely on the right lung and chest (N.).

Roundish or oval, whitish and raised patches on the mucous membrane of the nose, mouth, prepuce and anus (Bt.).

Burning in the palms and soles (Ars., Lach., Phos., Sep., Sulph.) (D.).

Jaundice, with nausea and vomiting (Ars., Bry., Card-M., Chel., Dig., Kali-M., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Nat-S., Phos., Sep.) (Bt.).

Circumscribed redness of the cheeks (Chin., Ferr., Lachn., Phos., Stann., Sulph., Tub.) (D.).

Headache during the climacteric (Graph., Lach., Sep., Sulph.) (A.).

Determination of blood to the head and chest (Bell., Cact, Ferr-P.) (D.).

PERIODICAL SICK HEADACHE; BEGINS IN THE MORNING, INCREASES DURING THE DAY, AND LASTS UNTIL EVENING (Nat-M., Spig.) (A.).

Head feels as if it would burst (Bell., Bry., Calc., Chin., Con., Glon., Lach., Lyss., Merc., Nat-M., Phos., Sep.) (A.).

Sensation as if the eyes would be pressed out during headache (A.).

Distension of temporal veins (Bell., Glon., Verat-V.) (D.).

Headache relieved by sleep (Bell., Chel., Ferr., Gels., Glon., Graph., Hyos., Lac-C., Pall., Phos., Pic-Ac., Puls., Sep.) (A.).

HEADACHE BEGINS IN THE OCCIPUT, SPREADS UPWARDS AND SETTLES OVER THE RIGHT ORBIT (Sil.; over the left orbit- Spig.)

Headache every seventh day (Ars., Gels., Iris, Lac-D., Lyc., Nux-M., Phos., Psor., Sil., Sulph., Tub.) (A.).

PAINS IN THE HEAD INCREASE AND DECREASE WITH THE SUN (Acon., Glon., Kalm., Nat-M., Phos., Spig., Stann, Stram.) (R.).

Headache ameliorated by voiding a large amount of urine (Acon., Ferr-P., Gels., Ign., Kalm., Meli., Sil., Tereb., Verat.) (R.).

The pains in the head are so severe that the patient can neither tolerate noise nor light and vomits everything, and buries the head in the pillow, or presses it on something hard (D.).

Facial neuralgia ameliorated by kneeling down and pressing the head firmly against the floor; pain extends in all directions from the upper jaw (A.).

Burning and rawness in the nose, with fluent coryza (All-C., Arum-T., Ars., Nat-M., Rhus-T.) (D.).

Humming and roaring in the ears (Bell., Carb-S., Carb-V., Caust., Chin., Chin-S., Graph., Lyc., Nux-V., Phos., Puls., Sep., Sil., Spig., Sulph., Tab., Verat.) (R.).

Nasal polypi (Calc., Phos., Sil.), which tend to bleed easily (D.).

Eruption on the face of young women, especially during scanty menses (Bells, Calc., Eug-J., Psor.) (A.).

Burning in the pharynx and œsophagus (Asaf., Canth., Kreos., Merc-C.) (A.).

Dyspnœa and desire to breathe deeply (Bry., Cact., Calc., Ign., Lach., Nat-S., Sel., Sulph.) (R.).

EXCESSIVE DYSPNOEA (Ant-T., Ars., Brom., Carb-V., Dig., Hydr-Ac., Lach., Lyc., Nat-P., Phos., Samb., Sulph., Verat.) (Bt.).

Tough, rusty-coloured sputa, in the second and third stages of pneumonia (Phos.) (Bt.).

BREATH AND SPUTA SMELL BAD, EVEN TO THE PATIENT (Ars., Caps., Chin., Lach., Puls.) (Bt.).

Hacking cough, evenings after lying down, from tickling in the throat (Ars., Hyos., Rumx.) (R.).

Cough with expectoration of thick, blood-streaked mucus (Ars., Bry., Ferr., Phos., Sabin., Sep., Sulph-Ac., Zinc.) (R.).

Cough day and night with great emaciation (N.).

Dry cough, ameliorated by sitting up in bed and discharging flatus upward and downward (R.).

Hæmoptysis (Bell., Cact., Ferr-P.) (R.).

Phthisis florida (Ferr-P., Phos.) (D.).

Asthma after the "rose cold," aggravated from odours (A.).

The cough returns every-time the patient takes cold (Hep., Tub.) (A.).

Burning in the chest (Phos., Sulph.) (D.).

Heat and tension behind sternum (N.).

Congestion of the lungs with bright red face and flushing of one or both cheeks (Ferr-P.) (D.).

Sharp, stitching pains through the right lung (Bry.) (D.).

RHEUMATIC PAIN IN THE RIGHT ARM AND SHOULDER (Fluor-Ac.; left arm and shoulder- Rhus-T.); CANNOT RAISE THE ARM (Bry., Calc., Ferr.); WORSE AT NIGHT (Bell., Calc., Caust., Kali-B., Merc., Phos., Sil.) (A.).

Great susceptibility to odours, which causes the patient to faint (Ign., Nux-V., Phos.) (D.).

Faintness from odours of flowers (Phos.; from odours of fish- Colch.; from odours of cooking food- Colch., Ipec.) (K.).

Flatulent distension of the stomach (Carb-V., Chin., Lyc., Nux-V., Puls.) (D.).

Flushes of heat and leucorrhœa, during the climacteric (Lach., Sep., Sulph.) (A.).

Painful enlargement of breasts (Bry., Puls.) (A.).

Sharp, stitching pains (Kali-B., Kali-C., Nit-Ac., Sil.), with soreness and stiffness of muscles (Rhus-T.) (D.).

Sudden stopping of catarrh of the respiratory tract followed by diarrhœa (Sel.) (Br.).

Afternoon fever with circumscribed red cheeks, 2 to 3 P.M. daily; burning of palms and soles: cough and expectoration (N.)

Ozæna, with profuse, offensive, yellowish discharge (Hydr., Kali-I., Sep., Sil.) (Br.).

Aversion to butter (Ars., Carb-V., Chin., Cycl., Mag-C., Merc., Phos., Ptel., Puls.) (Br.).

Craving for piquant things (Br.).

Unquenchable thirst (Ars., Eup-P., Phos., Sulph., Verat.) (Br.).

Deathly nausea, in paroxysms (Ant-T.), with much salivation (C.).

Vertigo: In the morning on rising from a sitting or stooping position, on quickly turning the head, or from looking upward (C.).

AGGRAVATION: During the climacteric; periodically; every week; from lying down; from motion; at night; with the sun; from odours; from light; from looking up; and from raising the arm.

AMELIORATION: From sleep; from voiding a large amount of urine; from vomiting; in the darkness; from sitting up; from eructation; in the cool air; and from passing flatus.

RELATIONSHIP: Sang. is the chronic of Bell. and may be used after Bell. when it fails in scarlatina.

Complementary: Ant-T. and Phos.