Erigeron Canadense

Fleabane

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(ERIGERON - LEPTILON CANADENSE)

Hæmorrhages are caused and cured by this remedy. Persistent hæmorrhage from the bladder. Hæmorrhage from the uterus, with painful micturition. Profuse bright-red blood . Pain in left ovary and hip. Chronic gonorrhœa, with burning micturition; continual dribbling. Dysentery , with soreness and burning in bladder. Tympanites .

Female

Metrorrhagia, with violent irritation of rectum and bladder, and prolapsus uteri. Bright-red flow. Menorrhagia; profuse leucorrhœa; bloody lochia returns after least motion , comes in gushes; between periods, leucorrhœa with urinary irritation ; pregnant women with "weak uterus;" a bloody discharge on slight exertion. Bleeding hæmorrhoids; nosebleed instead of menses ( Bry ).

Modalities

Worse , left side.

Relationship

Terebinthina similar.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency. Oil of Erigeron 1x internally for tympanites . An enema of one dram of the oil with the yolk of an egg and pint of milk will reduce the most enormous tympanites.

Erigeron Canadense across the other classic books

Erigeron Canadense appears in 7 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Erigeron Canadense, Linn. (includes E. pusillum, Nutt.). Natural order , Compositæ. Common names , Horseweed, Butterweed. Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant. Authorities. Great despondency (part of S. 48), 2. Awakened with a dull headache, with aching distress in all the large joints (fifth day), 3. Awakened…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Genito-urinary tract. Joints. Rainy weather. Hæmorrhage; bright, gushing; vomits and purges pure blood. Congestion. Smarting-burning. Hard aching. .................... Burning in stomach and abdomen (Ars.). Tympanites. Anus seems torn. Vesico-rectal tenesmus (Canth. Merc-c.). Aching in bladder. Retained urine…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Canadense. Canada Flea-bane. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture from the fresh plant when in bloom. Black eye / Bruises / Cough / Dysuria / Gleet / Gonorrhœa / Hæmatocele / Hæmorrhages / Hæmorrhoids / Placenta prævia / Proctalgia / Spermatorrhœa / Wounds Erigeron is chiefly known as a remedy for hæmorrhages and congestions in…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Canada Flea Bane. Compositæ. Grows in Canada and the United States as a weed. The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant when in bloom in July and August. Used by the aborigines as an application to wounds. Proved by W. H. Burt. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 211 . A fragmentary proving of the Erigeron…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common names: horseweed; butter-weed; canada fleabane. Hæmorrhages from all orifices of the body (Crot-II., Ipec., Mill., Phos.) (A.). HAEMORRHAGE: BRIGHT AND GUSHING (Bell., Ipec., Phos., Sab.) (B.). VESICO-RECTAL TENESMUS (Canth., Merc-C., Nux-V., Sulph.) (B.). Hæmorrhage increased by every motion (D.). Epistaxis…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Are three remedies having a reputation for their power to control hæmorrhages. Erigeron has cured epistaxis, with congestion to the head, red face (Melilotus) and febrile action. Hæmatemesis, with violent retching and burning in the stomach. Bleeding from hæmorrhoids, with burning. Hæmoptysis and blood spitting…”

Erigeron Canadense in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Erigeron Canadense in 127 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in FEMALE GENITALIA (26), EXTREMITIES (16), BACK (7), URINE (7), MIND (6).

FEMALE GENITALIA - ABORTION - exertion,from
FEMALE GENITALIA - LOCHIA - bloody - after growing light,it again becomes
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - copious - motion - from
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - copious - exertion agg.
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - exertion,after
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - motion agg.
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - passive
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - bright red
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - labor,during and after
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - bright-red
FEMALE GENITALIA - ABORTION
GENERALITIES - HAEMORRHAGE
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - copious
SLEEP - WAKING - numbness,with
STOMACH - VOMITING - blood - motion
STOMACH - VOMITING - blood - thin
URINE - BLOODY - chronic
BLADDER - HAEMORRHAGE of
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - blood, - fluid
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - continuous

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