Ceanothus Americanus
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
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.
- L. Munyon, Am. Observ., 7, 100 ; clinical cases and a fragmentary proving by J. C. Burnett, in Mon. Hom. Rev., vol. 23, p. 155.
W. Geisse reported a case of chronic urinary trouble in an old man cured by the tea.
MIND [1]
Low-spirited, fears he will become unfit for work. θ Chronic splenitis.
(In sick :) Great nervous excitement, with chilliness and loss of appetite ; felt as if nerves were shaken ; at dinner could scarcely hold knife and fork.
INNER HEAD [3]
Headache in right side, with pain in region of spleen.
INNER MOUTH [12]
(OBS :) Aphthous affections of mouth and fauces.
HYPOCHONDRIA [18]
Deep-seated pain in left hypochondrium.
Pain and fulness in left side, with inability to lie on it.
Severe pain in region of spleen, with low spirits.
Pain in left side, for a long time with leucorrhœa and chilliness.
Pain in left side, headache right side ; severe pain in left side, with inability (for years) to lie on that side.
Swelling in left side, under ribs, with cutting pain, < in cold weather, with constant chilliness, must sit over fire. θ Chronic splenitis.
Enlarged spleen, extending to within an inch of crest of ilium, with severe pain in side.
Chronic hypertrophy of spleen. θ After intermittent.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Diarrhœa.
(OBS :) Dysentery.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
(OBS :) Syphilitic complaints.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Leucorrhœa, profuse, thick and yellow, with pain under left ribs. θ Chronic splenitis.
(In sick :) Menses appeared ten days too early, and very profusely.
Catamenia appears every two weeks.
Metrorrhagia, with pain in region of spleen.
NECK AND BACK [31]
(In sick :) Chilliness down back.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Cannot lie down, on account of pain in left side.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Must sit over fire. θ Splenitis.
Cold weather : < swelling and pain in left side under ribs.
FEVER [40]
(In sick :) Chilliness, principally down back ; shivering ; loss of appetite, and nervous excitement.
Rigors at frequent intervals, with pain in left side. θ Chronic splenitis.
Intermittent, with chronic enlargement of spleen.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Every two weeks, catamenia.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : headache.
Left : pain in region of spleen ; deep-seated pain in hypochondrium ; pain and fulness in hypochondrium, with inability to lie down, with leucorrhœa and chilliness ; swelling in side under ribs ; pain in side, with rigors.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if nerves were shaken.
Cutting : in left side under ribs.
Pain : in left side.
Fulness : in left side.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Girl, æt. 14 ; splenitic pain.
A young lady, æt. about 26 ; chronic splenitis.
A woman, æt. about 30, or 32, mother of several children, ill-fed and overworked ; chronic hypertrophy of spleen.
A middle-aged, childless lady, of fresh complexion ; chronic hypertrophy of spleen.
A lady, æt. about 55 ; chronic splenitis, chills and leucorrhœa.
A young man ; chronic splenitis.
RELATIONS [48]
Berber . helped the pain in spleen when Ceanoth . failed.
Conium helped in second attack of metrorrhagia when Ceanoth. failed.
Myr. cerif . finished the cure of icterus, after Ceanoth . relieved the severe pain in left side.