Ceanothus Americanus

Burnett, following Hale, is our chief authority for Ceanothus. It has been

• ▸recently proved by I.
• ▸C.
• ▸Fahnestock (Hom.
• ▸News, March, 1900), but its place had already been

made clear by clinical use; and definite clinical symptoms have been observed. Ceanothus is a

spleen remedy par excellence; deep-seated pain in left hypochondrium; pain and fulness in left

side; cutting pain. Pain, inflammation, enlargement of spleen, either alone or with other

affections, indicate its use; chilliness, principally down back; shivering; rigors; must sit over fire;

<in cold weather. Low spirits with splenic affection. Headache, right side, with spleen pain.

Diarrhoea and dysentery (compare Cascara and other Rhamnez) have been frequently observed

in patients taking Cean. for spleen affections. Leucorrheea, profuse, thick, yellow, with pain in

left side; (I have frequently confirmed Burnett's experience in this last particular, as in most

• ▸others, with this remedy.
• ▸) P.
• ▸C.
• ▸Majumdar cured with Cean.
• ▸3x a case which had been diagnosed

as one of heart-disease (there was palpitation and dyspnoea on exertion). Majumdar found the

• ▸spleen enormously large.
• ▸R.
• ▸K.
• ▸Ghosh has cured with it many cases of suppression of menses

and leucorrhcea in patients from malarial districts. Menses too profuse and too early with pain in

left side. Cannot lie down for pain in left side. Fahnestock's two provers took repeated doses of

the @ tincture, and both had severe symptoms. One had had malaria five years before, treated

with Quinine allopathically. This prover suffered more acutely than the other, and in the end had

• ▸to be treated.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸30 soon put an end to his symptoms.
• ▸The other prover had practically

identical symptoms but less severe. The symptoms of the provers are marked (F.) in the Schema.

Low-spirited, fears he will become unfit for work.—Great nervous excitement, with

chilliness and loss of appetite; felt as if nerves were shaken; at dinner could scarcely hold knife

and fork.—Don't-care feeling all the time, and cannot work (F.)

Headache, r. side, with pain in region of spleen.—Head seems to move with every beat

• ▸of the heart (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Head feels as if the brain were too large (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Dull frontal headache, > lying

down (F.).

Eyes feel too large; lids swollen; dry sensation of cornea; with a dull pain in orbital

region (F.).

• ▸Aphthous affections of mouth and fauces.
• ▸—Mouth dry (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Tongue, white coat

• ▸down centre (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Food tasteless, unless highly seasoned (F.
• ▸).

• ▸Loss of appetite (F.
• ▸)—Craving for something sour (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Thirst for water, but it

• ▸made him sick (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Cannot eat pastry (very unusual)(F.
• ▸).

• ▸Enormous enlargement of the spleen.
• ▸Splenitis; pain all up the left side.
• ▸Deep-seated pain 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.

• ▸Deep-seated pain in |.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Pain and fulness in 1.
• ▸side, with inability

• ▸to lie on it.
• ▸—Severe pain in region of spleen, with low spirits.
• ▸—Pain in 1.
• ▸side, for a long time,

• ▸with leucorrhoea and chilliness.
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸side, headache r.
• ▸side; severe pain r.
• ▸side, with

inability (for years) to lie on it.—Swelling in |. side, with cutting pain, < in cold weather, with

constant chilliness, must sit over a fire——Chronic hypertrophy of spleen —Dull pain in region of

• ▸spleen (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Immediately after dinner, dull pain in region of liver (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Full feeling in region of

• ▸liver (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Pain in liver < lying on r.
• ▸side (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Sensitiveness in umbilical region with desire to

• ▸relax abdominal muscles (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Whole abdomen moves with beat of heart (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Bearing-down in

abdomen < after eating (F.).

Diarrhoea; bearing down in abdomen and rectum.

Diarrhoea.—Dysentery.—Stool light brown, with loud flatus

• ▸(F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Continual bearing-down in rectum with constricting sensation (F.
• ▸).

Sharp pain above pubes, in region of bladder, before urination

• ▸(F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Urine: alkaline; increased phosphates; high specific gravity; trace of sugar (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—After

urinating feeling as if all had not passed (F.).—Urine: quite green; contains bile; strong odour,

• ▸frothy (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Pain in back and irritation of urethra (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Constant urging to urinate (F.
• ▸)

Constant urging to urinate. Green; frothy; contains bile, sugar.

Leucorrheea, profuse, thick, yellow, with pain under 1.

ribs.—Menses ten days too early, and very profuse.—Metrorrhagia with spleen pain.

Congested feelings in lungs; chest sore internally, < deep inspiration (F.).—Soreness

behind sternum (F.).—Constricted feeling in chest.

Palpitation and dyspncea, with enlarged spleen.—Pulse full and very strong, heart's

• ▸pulsations visible through the clothes (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Heart beat so hard it shook him all over (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Chest

feels too small for heart (.F).

• ▸Carotids throbbing in neck (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Pain under r.
• ▸scapula (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Chilliness

• ▸down back.
• ▸—Weakness in small of back and legs (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Dull pain in lumbar region

• ▸(F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Constant dull pain in kidneys and up back (F.
• ▸).

Weakness of knees; must lie down (F.).—Dull pains in anterior part of thighs

(F)

• ▸24.
• ▸Generalities—Aversion to move; feels too weak (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Great weakness, walking or standing

• ▸(F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Lost several pounds in weight (F.
• ▸).

Shivering; loss of appetite, and nervous excitement.—Rigors at frequent

intervals.—Intermittents with splenic enlargements.—Cheeks and ears hot, with cold fingers

• ▸(F.
• ▸).
• ▸—At 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, six chills in succession, with constant chilliness up and down back; after chill

very hot; fever; pulse 120; throbbing carotids (F.).

• ▸Diarrhcea.
• ▸Heart, disordered.
• ▸Intermittent fever.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Leucorrheea.

• ▸Leucocytheemia.
• ▸Menses, suppressed.
• ▸Side, pain in.
• ▸Spleen, affections of.

Ceanothus is followed well by: Berberis, Conium, Myrica cerif., Quercus. Compare:

• ▸Ced.
• ▸, Agar.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Oxal.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(pain in left side).
• ▸Cascara (diarrhoea.
• ▸Syphilis).
• ▸Antidote:

N.—Lt. m.

• ▸Compare: Tinospora cordifolia (a Hindoo medicine for chronic cases 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).

First attenuation. Locally as hair tonic.