CEANOTHUS AMERICANUS
New Jersey Tea
(CEANOTHUS)
This treatment looks to possess a particular relation to the spleen. Ague cake of malaria. A left-sided treatment generally. Anaemic sufferers the place liver and spleen are at fault. Chronic bronchitis with profuse secretion. Marked blood pressure, lowering powers. Active hemastatic, materially lowering the clotting of blood.
Abdomen.–Enormous growth of the spleen. Splenitis; ache all up the left side. Deep-seated ache in left hypochondrium, hypertrophy of spleen. Leucaemia. Violent dyspnoea. Menses profuse, and yellow weakening leucorrhoea. Unable to lie on left side. Pain in liver and back.
Rectum.–Diarrhoea; bearing down in stomach and rectum.
Urine.–Constant urging to urinate. Green; frothy; consists of bile, sugar.
Relationship.–Compare: Tinospora cordifolia (a Hindoo remedy for continual instances of fever with enlarged spleen). Polymnia uvedalia-Bearsfoot–(acute splenitis with tenderness over left hypochondriac region; spleen enlarged, ague cake. Vascular atony, tissues sodden, flabby and non-elastic. Enlarged glands; influences all ductless glands). Ceanothus thrysiflorus-California Lilac–(Pharyngitis, tonsillitis, nasal catarrh, diphtheria. Tincture internally and as a gargle).
Compare: Berberis; Myrica; Cedron; Agaricus (spleen).
Modalities.–Worse, motion, mendacity on left side.
Dose.–First attenuation. Locally as hair tonic.
