Sanguinaria Canadensis

(SANGUINARIA)

Is a right-sided remedy pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the mucous membranes, especially of the respiratory tract. It has marked vaso-motor disturbances, as seen in the circumscribed redness of the cheeks, flashes of heat, determination of blood to head and chest, distention of temporal veins, burning in palms and soles, and has been found very applicable to climacteric disorders. Burning sensations, like from hot water. Influenzal coughs. Phthisis. Sudden stopping of catarrh of respiratory tract followed by diarrhœa. Burning in various parts is characteristic.

Head

Worse right side, sun headache. Periodical sick headache; pain begins in occiput, spreads upwards, and settles over eyes, especially right. Veins and temples are distended . Pain better lying down and sleep. Headaches return at climacteric; every seventh day ( Sulph; Sabad ). Pain in small spot over upper left parietal bone. Burning in eyes. Pain in the back of head "like a flash of lightning".

Face

Flushed. Neuralgia; pain extends in all directions from upper jaw. Redness and burning of cheeks. Hectic flush . Fullness and tenderness behind angle of jaws.

Nose

Hay-fever. Ozæna, with profuse, offensive yellowish discharges. Nasal polypi . Coryza, followed by diarrhœa. Chronic rhinitis; membrane dry and congested.

Ears

Burning in ears. Earache with headache. Humming and roaring. Aural polypus.

Throat

Swollen; worse, right side. Dry and constricted. Ulceration of mouth and fauces, with dry, burning sensation Tongue white; feels scalded. Tonsillitis.

Stomach

Aversion to butter. Craving for piquant things. Unquenchable thirst. Burning, vomiting. Nausea, with salivation. Sinking, faint all-gone feeling ( Phos; Sep ). Spitting up of bile; gastro-duodenal catarrh.

Abdomen

Diarrhœa as coryza improves. Pain over region of liver. Diarrhœa; bilious, liquid, gushing stool ( Nat sulph; Lycop ). Cancer of rectum.

Female

Leucorrhœa fetid, corrosive. Menses offensive, profuse. Soreness of breasts. Uterine polypi. Before, menses, itching of axillæ. Climacteric disorders.

Respiratory

Œdema of larynx. Trachea sore. Heat and tension behind the sternum. Aphonia. Cough of gastric origin ; relieved by eructation. Cough, with burning pain in chest; worse, right side. Sputum tough, rust-colored , offensive, almost impossible to raise. Spasmodic cough after influenza and after whooping-cough . Cough returns with every fresh cold. Tickling behind sternum, causes a constant hacking cough; worse at night on lying down. Must sit up in bed. Burning soreness in right chest, through to right shoulder. Severe soreness under right nipple. Hæmoptysis from suppressed menses. Severe dyspnœa and constriction of chest. Offensive breath and purulent expectoration. Burning in chest as of hot steam from chest to abdomen. Fibroid phthisis. Pneumonia; better, lying on back. Asthma with stomach disorders ( Nux ). Valvular disease with lung development, phosphates in urine and loss of flesh. Sudden stoppage of catarrh of air passages brings on diarrhœa.

Extremities

Rheumatism of right shoulder, left hip-joint and nape of neck. Burning in soles and palms . Rheumatic pains in places least covered by flesh; not in joints soles of feet burn. Right-side neuritis; better touching the part.

Skin

Antidotes: Rhus poisoning . Red, blotchy eruptions; worse in spring. Burning and itching; worse by heat. Acne, with scanty menses. Circumscribed red spots over malar bones.

Modalities

Worse , sweets, right side, motion, touch. Better , acids, sleep, darkness.

Relationship

Complementary: Tart em.

Compare: Justicia (bronchial catarrh, coryza, hoarseness; oversensitive). Digitalis (Migraine). Bell; Iris; Melil; Lach; Ferr; Op .

Dose

Tincture in headaches; sixth potency in rheumatism.