Canchalagua

Erythræa chironioides, Griesb. [This plant is figured in the U. S. Report on the Mexican Boundary, Botany, Tab. XLII. The same name is applied in South America to Erythræa Chilensis, but the plant above mentioned was doubtless gathered by our authority; as it is in common use in California as a domestic remedy, and popularly known as "Canchalagua".]

Nat. order , Gentianaceæ.

Common name (Californian), Canchalagua.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant when in flower.

Authority.

Dr. Richter, proving with the tincture, N. Am. J. of Hom., 3, 532.

HEAD

• Head feels congested.
• Pressive pains in forehead.
• Fulness, tightness of scalp; it feels as if drawn together by india-rubber.

EYE

• Burning in the eyes, first in the left, and then in the right.

EAR

• Slight pain in the ears.
• Piercing or stitches in the ears.
• Increased buzzing and roaring.

MOUTH

• Spitting of white mucus, with trembling and nervousness.

STOMACH

• Increase of appetite. [10.]
• Ructus.
• Regurgitations.
• Waterbrash.

ABDOMEN

• Flatus.
• Slight pain, relieved by pressure.

STOOL

• Several loose stools a day.
• Constipation.*
• Hard, knotty morning stool.

CHEST

• Alleviating a catarrh, produced by influenza.

GENERALITIES

• That kind of pain in head and fingers which is concomitant with the attacks of intermittent fever.

SLEEP AND DREAMS. [20.]

• Sleeplessness (from 1st trit.).

FEVER

• Chills repeatedly, down the spine, and all over, especially in bed, at night.
• Heat in whole body; I could bear, after the proving, the cool trade-wind, usually setting in, in San Francisco, in the afternoon, better than before.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Hard stool.
• ( Night ), In bed, chills.
• Amelioration.
• ( Pressure ), Pain in abdomen.