HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS
Golden Seal
(HYDRASTIS)
Acts particularly on mucous membranes, enjoyable them and producing a thick, yellowish, ropy secretion. The catarrh may additionally be anywhere,-throat, stomach, uterus, urethra,-it is constantly characterised by means of this strange mucous discharge. Hydrastis is specifically energetic in old, easily-tired people, cachectic individuals, with exquisite debility. Cerebral outcomes prominent, feels his wits sharpened, head cleared, facile expression. Weak muscular power, bad digestion and obstinate constipation. Lumbago. Emaciation and prostration. Its motion on the liver is marked. Cancer and cancerous state, earlier than ulceration, when ache is fundamental symptom. Goitre of puberty and pregnancy. Small-pox internally and locally. The strength of Hydrastis over smallpox viewed in enhancing the disease, abolishing its distressing symptoms, shortening its course, lessening its hazard and radically mitigating its penalties (J. J. Garth Wilkinson).
Mind.–Depressed; positive of death, and wishes it.
Head.–Dull, urgent frontal pain, specifically related with constipation. Myalgic ache in scalp and muscle groups of neck (Cimicif). Eczema on brow alongside line of hair. Sinusitis, after coryza.
Ears.–Roaring. Muco-purulent discharge. Deafness. Estachian catarrh, with high-pitched voice.
Nose.–Thick, tenacious secretion from posterior nares to throat. Watery, excoriating discharge. Ozaena, with ulceration of septum. Tends to blow nostril all the time.
Mouth.–Peppery taste. Tongue white, swollen, large, flabby, slimy; suggests imprint of enamel (Merc); as if scalded; stomatitis. Ulceration of tongue, fissures towards the edges.
Throat.–Follicular pharyngitis. Raw, smarting, excoriating sensation. Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus (Kali bich). Child is aroused abruptly from sleep by using this tenacious post-nasal dropping. Goitre of puberty and pregnancy.
Stomach.–Sore feeling in belly greater or much less constant. Weak digestion. Bitter taste. Pain as from a hard-cornered substance. Gone feeling. Pulsation in epigastrium. Cannot consume bread or vegetables. Atonic dyspepsia. Ulcers and cancer. Gastritis.
Abdomen.–Gastro-duodenal catarrh. Liver torpid, tender. Jaundice. Gallstones. Dull dragging in proper groin with reducing sensation into proper testicle.
Back.–Dull, heavy, dragging ache and stiffness, especially throughout lumbar region, ought to use palms in elevating himself from seat.
Rectum.–Prolapsed; anus fissured. Constipation, with sinking feeling in stomach, and stupid headache. During stool, smarting ache in rectum. After stool, long-lasting ache (Nit ac). Haemorrhoids; even a mild waft exhausts. Contraction and spasm.
Urine.–Gleety discharge. Urine smells decomposed.
Male.–Gonorrhoea, 2d stage; discharge thick and yellow.
Female.–Erosion and excoriation of cervix. Leucorrhoea, worse after menses (Bov; Calc c); acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious. Menorrhagia. Pruritus vulvae, with profuse leucorrhoea (Calc c; Kreos; Sep). Sexual excitement. Tumor of breast; nipple retracted.
Respiratory.–Chest raw, sore, burning. Dry, harsh cough. Bronchial catarrh, later stages. Bronchitis in old, exhausted persons, with thick, yellow, tenacious expectoration. Frequent fainty spells, with bloodless sweat all over. Feels suffocating when mendacity on left side. Pain from chest to left shoulder.
Skin.–Eruption like variola. Lupus; ulcers, cancerous formations. General tendency to profuse perspiration and unhealthy pores and skin (Hepar).
Relationship.–Antidote: Sulph.
Useful after too an awful lot Chlorate of Potash for sore throat.
Compare: Xanthorrhiza apifolia; Kali bich; Conium; Ars iod; Phytol; Galium (cancer-nodulated tumor of the tongue); Asterias; Stann; Puls. Also Manzanita (diarrhoea, gonorrhoea, gleet, leucorrhoea, catarrhal conditions). Hydrastinum muriaticum-Muriate of Hydrastia (Locally, in aphthous sore mouth, ulcers, ulcerated sore throat, ozaena, etc. Internally, 1/3 dec trit. Is a uterine haemostatic and vasoconstrictor; metrorrhagia, specifically from fibroid tumors; haemorrhages; in dilatation of the stomach, and continual digestive disorders). Hydrastin sulph 1x (haemorrhage of bowels in typhoid). Marrubium-Hoarhound–(a stimulant to mucous membranes, particularly laryngeal and bronchial; persistent bronchitis, dyspepsia, and hepatic disorders; colds and coughs).
Dose.–Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation. Locally colorless. Hydrastis, mom tincture, or fluid extract.
