HomeoRemedySanguinaria canadensis
Blood root
Main symptoms
- Is a right-sided remedy pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the mucous membranes, especially of the respiratory tract.
- It has marked vaso-motor disturbances, as seen in the circumscribed redness of the cheeks, flashes of heat, determination of blood to head and chest, distention of temporal veins, burning in palms and soles, and has been found very applicable to climacteric disorders.
- Burning sensations, like from hot water.
- Influenzal coughs.
- Sudden stopping of mucus discharge of respiratory tract followed by diarrhoea. Burning in various parts is characteristic.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Worse right side, sun headache. Periodical sick headache; pain begins in occiput, spreads upwards, and settles over eyes, especially right. Veins and temples are distended. Pain better lying down and sleep. Headaches return at climacteric; every seventh day. Pain in small spot over upper left parietal bone. Burning in eyes. Pain in the back of head "like a flash of lightning".
Face
Flushed. Neuralgia; pain extends in all directions from upper jaw. Redness and burning of cheeks. Hectic flush. Fullness and tenderness behind angle of jaws.
Nose
Hay-fever. Ozaena, with profuse, offensive yellowish discharges. Nasal polypi. Runny nose (cold), followed by diarrhoea. Chronic rhinitis; membrane dry and congested.
Ears
Burning in ears. Earache with headache. Humming and roaring. Aural polypus.
Throat
Swollen; worse, right 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 excess saliva. Sinking, faint all-gone feeling. Spitting up of bile; gastro-duodenal mucus discharge.
Abdomen
Diarrhoea as runny nose (cold) improves. Pain over region of liver. Diarrhoea; bilious, liquid, gushing stool.
Female
White vaginal discharge fetid, corrosive. Menses offensive, profuse. Soreness of breasts. Uterine polypi. Before, menses, itching of axillae. Climacteric disorders.
Respiratory
Swelling of larynx. Trachea sore. Heat and tension behind the sternum. Aphonia. Cough of gastric origin; relieved by belching. Cough, with burning pain in chest; worse, right side. Sputum tough, rust-colored, offensive, almost impossible to raise. Spasmodic cough after influenza and after whooping-cough. Cough returns with every fresh cold. Tickling behind sternum, causes a constant hacking cough; worse at night on lying down. Must sit up in bed. Burning soreness in right chest, through to right shoulder. Severe soreness under right nipple. Coughing up blood from suppressed menses.
Extremities
Joint and muscle pain of right shoulder, left hip-joint and nape of neck. Burning in soles and palms. Rheumatic pains in places least covered by flesh; not in joints. Soles of feet burn. Right-side neuritis; better touching the part.
Skin
Red, blotchy rashes; worse in spring. Burning and itching; worse by heat. Acne, with scanty menses. Circumscribed red spots over malar bones.
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