Cistus Canadensis

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

GLANDS: Naso - pharynx. Neck. Mammæ (l).
Throat.
Lungs.
Skin.

WORSE

COLD: Inspired air. Taking. Drafts. Water.
Mental: Exertion. Excitement.
Touch.
Painfully sensitive to cold; to inspired air. Coldness

of tongue, saliva, in throat, eructations, stomach, etc.; < sweating. Suppurations. Much thick, yellow or foul mucus, leaving painful rawness (Æsc. Ant-c.). Internal and external itching. Burning. Indurations. Callosities. Scrofula. .................... Fear. Headache from missing the noon meal, > eating. As of a lump in naso-pharynx. Colds affect the throat; it feels spongy, sandy, itches or has a dry spot, > sips of water. Expectorates quantities of tenacious, glairy mucus. Hard, swollen glands; < on neck; l. mamma. Crawling over body. Cracked tetters; canthi; lips; fingertips. Chilliness.

Related: Calc-c. Helod. Hep.

Cistus Canadensis across the other classic books

Cistus Canadensis appears in 8 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.
“Helianthemum Canadense, Michx. Natural order , Cistaceæ. Synonyms , Cistus Canadense, Linn.; Helianthemum corymbosum and rosmarinifolium, Pursh. Common names , Rockrose, frostweed. Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant. Authorities. Hering's Monograph, Philadelphia, 1866; 1 , Dr. Bute's observations; 2 , "careful…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Rock Rose A deep-acting anti-psoric remedy, with marked action in glandular affections, herpetic eruptions, chronic swellings, when patient is extremely sensitive to cold. Sensation of coldness in various parts . Scrofulous ophthalmia. Poisoned wounds, bites, phagedenic ulcers. Malignant disease of the glands of the…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“CRACKS, fissures, chaps, etc. DRINKING, Amel. GLISTENING HARDNESS NASO-PHARYNX, posterior nares SPOTS, pain, etc., in (Comp. Mottled.)”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Helianthemum canadense. Rock-rose. Ice-plant. Frost-weed. N. O. Cistaceæ. Tincture of whole plant. Bone affections / Cancer / Diarrhœa / Erysipelas / Follicular pharyngitis / Glandular swellings / Hip-joint disease / Hospital gangrene / Lupus / Panaritium / Parotitis / Scorbutus / Scrofula / Sore-throat / Ulcers / Zona”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Rockrose ; Iceplant ; Frostweed. Cistaceæ. "It is an old, popular medicine in this country for all kinds of scrofulous diseases. It grows on low, dry, mica slate hills and serpentine rocks. It is abundant at the foot of Pine Rock, New Haven, on the barren plains, and seems to be dependent on the presence of talc…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Cistus Canadensis (see too Salts of Mercurius) This remedy is an antipsoric, a deep-acting remedy. It runs very close to Calcarea , but is milder in its action. It has the same exhaustion from exertion, dyspnoea, sweating and coldness that we find in Calcarea . What will forcibly call your attention to a remedy will…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Bad effects from vexation. Mental excitement increases the suffering (stitches in the throat, producing cough). Pressure above the eyes, in the forehead. Headache, worse towards evening, lasting all night. Head drawn to one side by swelling on the neck. Feeling of weight above the eyes. Stitches in the left eye…”

Cistus Canadensis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Cistus Canadensis in 469 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (85), THROAT (42), NOSE (31), FACE (30), BACK (26).

EAR - DISCHARGES - fetid
FACE - INFLAMMATION - parotid gland
EAR - DISCHARGES - offensive
EXTERNAL THROAT - SWELLING - Cervical Glands
EAR - DISCHARGES
GENERALITIES - HEAT - vital,lack of
GENERALITIES - SWELLING in general - glands
GENERALITIES - COLD - air agg.
GENERALITIES - MORNING
THROAT - DRYNESS
CHEST - ERUPTIONS - pimples - bleed easily
COUGH - AGITATION,from
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Forearm - extending - to - little finger
LARYNX TRACHEA - ITCHING,larynx - night
LARYNX TRACHEA - PAIN, - stitching, - larynx - excitement,from
NOSE - COLDNESS - inside, - blowing,after
SKIN - FORMICATION - evening - lying
STOMACH - COLDNESS - eating - before
THROAT - DRYNESS - eating, - amel.
THROAT - DRYNESS - swallowing,on - saliva amel.

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