SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
Blood Root
(SANGUINARIA)
Is a right-sided treatment pre-eminently, and impacts primarily the mucous membranes, specifically of the respiratory tract. It has marked vaso-motor disturbances, as viewed in the circumscribed redness of the cheeks, flashes of heat, dedication of blood to head and chest, distention of temporal veins, burning in hands and soles, and has been discovered very relevant to climacteric disorders. Burning sensations, like from warm water. Influenzal coughs. Phthisis. Sudden stopping of catarrh of respiratory tract observed with the aid of diarrhoea. Burning in a number of components is characteristic.
Head.–Worse proper side, solar headache. Periodical unwell headache; ache starts in occiput, spreads upwards, and settles over eyes, specifically right. Veins and temples are distended. Pain higher mendacity down and sleep. Headaches return at climacteric; each seventh day (Sulph; Sabad). Pain in small spot over top left parietal bone. Burning in eyes. Pain in the lower back of head “like a flash of lightning”.
Face.–Flushed. Neuralgia; ache extends in all instructions from top jaw. Redness and burning of cheeks. Hectic flush. Fullness and tenderness at the back of perspective of jaws.
Nose.–Hay-fever. Ozaena, with profuse, offensive yellowish discharges. Nasal polypi. Coryza, accompanied by way of diarrhoea. Chronic rhinitis; membrane dry and congested.
Ears.–Burning in ears. Earache with headache. Humming and roaring. Aural polypus.
Throat.–Swollen; worse, proper side. Dry and constricted. Ulceration of mouth and fauces, with dry, burning sensation Tongue white; feels scalded. Tonsillitis.
Stomach.–Aversion to butter. Craving for piquant things. Unquenchable thirst. Burning, vomiting. Nausea, with salivation. Sinking, faint all-gone feeling (Phos; Sep). Spitting up of bile; gastro-duodenal catarrh.
Abdomen.–Diarrhoea as coryza improves. Pain over area of liver. Diarrhoea; bilious, liquid, gushing stool (Nat sulph; Lycop). Cancer of rectum.
Female.–Leucorrhoea fetid, corrosive. Menses offensive, profuse. Soreness of breasts. Uterine polypi. Before, menses, itching of axillae. Climacteric disorders.
Respiratory.–Å’dema of larynx. Trachea sore. Heat and anxiety at the back of the sternum. Aphonia. Cough of gastric origin; relieved by way of eructation. Cough, with burning ache in chest; worse, proper side. Sputum tough, rust-colored, offensive, nearly not possible to raise. Spasmodic cough after influenza and after whooping-cough. Cough returns with each and every clean cold. Tickling at the back of sternum, motives a regular hacking cough; worse at night time on mendacity down. Must sit down up in bed. Burning discomfort in proper chest, thru to proper shoulder. Severe ache beneath proper nipple. Haemoptysis from suppressed menses. Severe dyspnoea and constriction of chest. Offensive breath and purulent expectoration. Burning in chest as of warm steam from chest to abdomen. Fibroid phthisis. Pneumonia; better, mendacity on back. Asthma with belly issues (Nux). Valvular ailment with lung development, phosphates in urine and loss of flesh. Sudden stoppage of catarrh of air passages brings on diarrhoea.
Extremities.–Rheumatism of proper shoulder, left hip-joint and nape of neck. Burning in soles and palms. Rheumatic pains in locations least blanketed by means of flesh; no longer in joints soles of toes burn. Right-side neuritis; higher touching the part.
Skin.–Antidotes: Rhus poisoning. Red, blotchy eruptions; worse in spring. Burning and itching; worse via heat. Acne, with scanty menses. Circumscribed purple spots over malar bones.
Modalities.–Worse, sweets, proper side, motion, touch. Better, acids, sleep, darkness.
Relationship.–Complementary: Tart em.
Compare: Justicia (bronchial catarrh, coryza, hoarseness; oversensitive). Digitalis (Migraine). Bell; Iris; Melil; Lach; Ferr; Op.
Dose.–Tincture in headaches; sixth efficiency in rheumatism.
