HomeoRemedyHydrastis canadensis
Golden seal
Main symptoms
- Acts especially on mucous membranes, relaxing them and producing a thick, yellowish, ropy secretion.
- The mucus discharge may be anywhere, -throat, stomach, uterus, urethra, -it is always characterized by this peculiar mucous discharge.
- Hydrastis is especially active in old, easily-tired people, cachectic individuals, with great debility.
- Cerebral effects prominent, feels his wits sharpened, head cleared, facile expression.
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- Weak muscular power, poor digestion and obstinate constipation.
- Low back pain.
- Emaciation and extreme weakness.
- Its action on the liver is marked.
- Small-pox internally and locally.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Dull, pressing frontal pain, especially connected with constipation. Myalgic pain in scalp and muscles of neck. Eczema on forehead along line of hair. Sinusitis, after runny nose (cold).
Ears
Roaring. Muco-purulent discharge. Eustachian mucus discharge, with high-pitched voice.
Nose
Thick, tenacious secretion from posterior nares to throat. Watery, excoriating discharge. Ozaena, with ulceration of septum. Tends to blow nose all the time.
Mouth
Peppery taste. Tongue white, swollen, large, flabby, slimy; shows imprint of teeth; as if scalded; stomatitis. Ulceration of tongue, fissures toward the edges.
Throat
Follicular pharyngitis. Raw, smarting, excoriating sensation. Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus. Child is aroused suddenly from sleep by this tenacious post-nasal dropping.
Stomach
Sore feeling in stomach more or less constant. Weak digestion. Bitter taste. Pain as from a hard-cornered substance. Gone feeling. Pulsation in epigastrium. Cannot eat bread or vegetables. Atonic indigestion. Gastritis.
Abdomen
Gastro-duodenal mucus discharge. Liver torpid, tender. Jaundice. Gallstones. Dull dragging in right groin with cutting sensation into right testicle.
Back
Dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness, particularly across lumbar region, must use arms in raising himself from seat.
Rectum
Prolapsed; anus fissured. Constipation, with sinking feeling in stomach, and dull headache. During stool, smarting pain in rectum. After stool, long-lasting pain. Contraction and spasm.
Urine
Gleety discharge. Urine smells decomposed.
Female
Erosion and excoriation of cervix. White vaginal discharge, worse after menses; acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious. Heavy periods. Itching vulvae, with profuse white vaginal discharge. Sexual excitement.
Respiratory
Chest raw, sore, burning. Dry, harsh cough. Bronchial mucus discharge, later stages. Bronchitis in old, exhausted persons, with thick, yellow, tenacious phlegm coughed up. Frequent fainty spells, with cold sweat all over. Feels suffocating when lying on left side. Pain from chest to left shoulder.
Skin
Rash like variola. General tendency to profuse perspiration and unhealthy skin.
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