by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
Complementary: Nat-m.
Related: Chin. Polym.
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Ceanothus Americanus appears in 6 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.
“New Jersey Tea (CEANOTHUS) This remedy seems to possess a specific relation to the spleen. Ague cake of malaria. A left-sided remedy generally. Anæmic patients where liver and spleen are at fault. Chronic bronchitis with profuse secretion. Marked blood pressure, reducing powers. Active hemastatic, materially reducing…”
“New Jersey Tea, or Red-root. N. O. Rhamnaceæ. Tincture of fresh leaves. Diarrhœa / Heart, disordered / Intermittent fever / Jaundice / Leucorrhœa / Leucocythœmia / Menses, suppressed / Side, pain in / Spleen, affections of Burnett, following Hale, is our chief authority for Ceanothus. It has been recently proved by I…”
“New Jersey Tea, or Red-root. Rhamnaceæ. Extends from Canada to the Gulf, and west to Arkansas and Iowa. The bark of this root is considered astringent by the Old School and is recommended in aphthous sore mouth and throat, accompanying scarlet fever. See Investigator, April, 1879. --J. L. Andrews. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.”
“Common name: new jersey tea. Leucorrhœa (Arg-N., Calc., Kali-S., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Phos., Sep.) (B.). Periodical neuralgia (Ars., Bell., Cedro., Kali-B., Nat-M., Spig., Stann., Sulph.) (B.). ENORMOUS ENLARGEMENT OF THE SPLEEN (Br.). DEEP-SEATED CUTTlNG PAINS AND FULLNESS IN THE REGION OF THE SPLEEN (N.). Acute…”
“Deep-seated or cutting pains and fullness in region of spleen.”
Kent's Repertory lists Ceanothus Americanus in 10 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in ABDOMEN (7), MOUTH (1), NOSE (1), RECTUM (1).
