Cistus Canadensis

In the observations with this plant the expressed juice of the fruit has been

used containing citric acid. Lemon-juice and citric acid are traditional remedies for and

preventives of sea-scurvy. That their action is homceopathic has been proved by the occurrence

of scurvy from the excessive use of the acid when taken for other purposes. Used as a local

application (in one part of citric acid to eight of water) it has relieved the pains of cancer. It has a

powerful effect on the circulation and on the blood itself, producing faintness, weak pulse,

hemorrhages, and dropsies. Inflammation and painful enlargement of the spleen; dyspneea. Daily

headache. Stiffness in the joints, particularly in the fingers; bruised feeling, particularly in the

feet. Herpetic eruptions.

Bad effects from vexation.—All mental excitement <; (stitches in throat; cough).

Headache in sinciput after being kept waiting for dinner; > eating; < towards evening

and lasts all night; in r. side, with piercing pain in eye.—Forehead cold, and sensation of coolness

inside forehead, in a very warm room.—Pressive pain at root of nose with headache.—Head

drawn to one side by swellings in neck.

Stitches in eyes; scrofulous inflammation; feeling as if something were passing around

in the eye, with stitches—Weight above eyes.

Watery discharge; also fetid pus. Tetter on and around ears, extending to external meatus.

Discharge of water and bad-smelling pus.—Inner swelling of ears with

discharge.—Tetters on and around the ear, extending into meatus.—Swelling of parotid glands.

Cold feeling, or burning in nose.—Chronic catarrh; frequent and violent sneezing

• ▸evening and morning.
• ▸—Inflammation, swelling and burning 1.
• ▸side of nose.
• ▸—Tip of nose

painful.—Eczema.

Itching, burning, and crusts on right zygoma. Lupus, caries; open, bleeding cancer. Tip of nose painful.

Feeling as if facial muscles would be drawn to one side.—Flushes of heat in face.—Heat

and burning in bones of face.—Half-way up cheek, swelling beginning at ear —Vesicular

erysipelas.—Lupus.—Sharp shooting, intolerable itching, and thick crusts; with burning on r.

zygoma.—Caries of lower jaw; with suppurating glands on neck.—Open, bleeding cancer on

lower lip.

• ▸Scorbutic swollen gums.
• ▸Mouth feels cold; putrid, impure breath.
• ▸Pyorrhea (Merc cor; Caust; Staph; Kreos).
• ▸Hurts to protrude the tongue.

Scorbutic, swollen gums, separating from teeth; easily bleeding, putrid,

• ▸disgusting.
• ▸—Dry tongue and palate——Tongue sore, surface as if raw.
• ▸—Impure breath.
• ▸—Sensation

of coldness of tongue, larynx and trachea.—Saliva cool; breath feels cool.

Coolness in throat.—Soft or spongy feeling in throat—As if sand in

throat —Continuous feeling of dryness and heat < after sleeping, eating and drinking —Small dry

spot in gullet; < after sleeping, must get up and drink; > after eating; throat looks glassy; on back

of throat stripes of tough or leathery mucus.—Must swallow saliva to relieve unbearable dryness,

• ▸esp.
• ▸during night.
• ▸—Periodical itching in throat —Dry, without feeling dry.
• ▸—Burning high up

behind uvula.—Stitches cause cough; when mentally agitated—Cough causes tearing pain in

throat —Sore throat < from inhaling least cold air—Hawking of mucus, tough, gum-like, thick,

tasteless; mostly mornings.—Expectoration of (bitter) mucus, relieving throat.—Scrofulous

swelling and suppuration of glands of throat.

• ▸Spongy feeling; very dry and cold air passing over parts causes pain.
• ▸Breath, tongue, and throat feel cold.
• ▸Uvula and tonsils swollen.
• ▸A small, dry spot in throat; must sip water frequently.
• ▸Hawking of mucus.
• ▸Swelling and suppuration of glands of throat.
• ▸Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck.
• ▸Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air.
• ▸Heat and itching in throat.

Cool feeling in stomach before and after eating. Cool feeling in whole abdomen. Desire for cheese.

Desire for acid food and fruits, but pain and diarrhoea follow eating them.—Desire

for cheese.—Eating and drinking > dry throat and pain in sinciput—After eating: pain in stomach;

cold feeling in stomach.—After drinking coffee, diarrhoea.—Empty and cool

eructations.—Frequent nausea; with diarrhoea.

• ▸12, 13.
• ▸Abdomen, Rectum, and Stool.
• ▸—Stitches in |.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Cool feeling in whole

abdomen.—Pain in groin coming from back.—Thin, greyish-yellow, hot stools, squirting out;

irresistible urging, < from midnight until noon.—Diarrheea: from coffee; fruits; with goitre;

chronic; in wet weather; in scrawny scrofulous children.—Chronic dysentery.

Diarrhoea from coffee and fruit, thin, yellow, urgent; worse in morning.

Induration and inflammation of mammae. Sensitive to cold air. Bad smelling leucorrhoea.

Asthmatic after lying down (trachea feels narrow), preceded by formication.

Larynx and trachea: inhaled air feels cool; itching in; feeling as if

windpipe had not space enough.—Asthmatic in evening after lying down and at night.—Cough: <

by mental agitation; from stitches in throat; with painful tearing in throat—Raw feeling in upper

chest extending into throat.—Expectoration of bitter mucus.—After raising phlegm feels very

much relieved.

• ▸Coldness in chest.
• ▸The neck is studded with tumors.
• ▸Induration of mammae.
• ▸Haemorrhage from lungs.

Glands of neck and throat swollen; suppuration.—Itching on

back.—Eruption like zona.—Burning, bruised pain in coccyx preventing sitting, < from contact.

• ▸Sprained pain in wrists.
• ▸—Pain in fingers (r.
• ▸hand) while writing.
• ▸—Tearing in

finger-joints.—Tips of fingers very sensitive to cold.—Tetter on hands.

Pains in knee and r. thigh when walking or sitting. —Tearing in

• ▸knees.
• ▸—Piercing pain in r.
• ▸great toe (evening).
• ▸—Cold feet.

• ▸Sprained pain in wrist.
• ▸Tips of fingers sensitive to cold.
• ▸Tetter on hands.
• ▸Cold feet.
• ▸Syphilitic ulcers on lower limbs, with hard swelling around.
• ▸White swelling.

• ▸Itching all over.
• ▸Small, painful pimples; lupus.
• ▸Glands inflamed and indurated.
• ▸Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers.
• ▸Skin of hands hard, thick, dry, fissured; deep cracks.
• ▸Itching of swollen hands and arms; general itching which presents sleep.
• ▸Hemicrania.

Itching all over body without eruption.—Vesicular erysipelas of face.—Lupus on

face.—Tetter—Hard swelling round mercurial syphilitic ulcers on lower limbs.

Cannot sleep from coldness in throat.

Chilliness; followed by heat with trembling, accompanied by a rapid swelling and

great redness of glands below ear and in throat.—Heat with thirst, causing to drink

frequently.—Night sweats.—Sweats easily.

Citrus Limonum.

• ▸Lemon.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Rutacez.
• ▸Expressed juice.

• ▸Cancer.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Convulsive fits (Stramonium and other poisonings).
• ▸Diarrhoea.

• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Dyspnoea.
• ▸Hemorrhage.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Scurvy.
• ▸Splenitis.
• ▸Sunstroke.

Citrus is antidoted by: Acon., Asarum, Datura, Euphorbia, Hepar, Sepia. /t

• ▸antidotes: Acon.
• ▸, Euphorb.
• ▸, Stramon.
• ▸, snake-bites, and all animal poisons.
• ▸It increases the

curative effects of Bell. Compare: It should be compared with Acetic acid; and the "bruised pain

• ▸in the joints" recalls the action of its congener, Ruta; Bell.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸As an antidote against Stram.
• ▸it

has been employed with great success, the juice of the fruit being administered by the

teaspoonful. The symptoms removed were: Convulsive fits with violent movement of the hands

and of the feet, eyes convulsed, fixedness of look, salivation, pupils dilated, face red and puffed.

Loss of reason, and disposition to be frightened. Pulse small and quick. Convulsions renewed or

provoked by light.

Antidotes: Rhus; Sepia.

Compare: Conium; Carbo; Calc; Arg n.

First to thirtieth attenuation. Locally as a wash to arrest fetid discharges.

What will forcibly call your attention to a remedy will be the curing

of a bad and typical case. I remember the first time my attention

was decidedly called to Cistus. I had put it on my list to study from

time to time and had come to the conclusion that it was only a side

issue, until a young lady, nineteen years of age fell under my observation. The glands of the neck were large and hard, the parotids

especially ; she had foetid otorrhoea ; her eyes were inflamed and suppurating ; there were fissures at the corners of the eyes ; her lips were

cracked and bleeding, and she had salt rheum at the ends of the fingers.

I could not make Calcarea fit the patient, but after much study this

little remedy seemed to be just what I needed ; and although she had

had an immense amount of Homoeopathy, good and bad, this remedy

cured.

The glands inflame, become swollen and suppurate. It causes cries

and cures old ulcers. It has a scrofulous constitution. It is useful

in chronic diarrhoea, with enlarged glands, even in those who are

flabby, sickly and pallid and who cannot go upstairs without losing

their breath. All the mucous membranes throw out a thick, yellowish,

offensive mucus and hence it is suitable in old and troublesome catarrh.

The chest fills up with mucus and he feels relieved after expectoration, but after he empties the chest it feels raw. It has eruptions,

herpes, tetter, scaly eruptions, salt rheum on the hands and ends of

the fingers, with cracking and bleeding of the fingers in winter and

from washing in cold water.

All its complaints are worse from mental exertion. He is excitable.

His cough, headache and pains are worse from mental exertion.

Pains shoot from the head to the ear. Shooting, stitching, tearing

pains in inflamed parts. Old discharges from the ear date back to

eruptive diseases. He feels as if paralyzed after mental exertion, and!

mental excitement increases his sufferings, like Calcarea and Borax.

If he is compelled to fast headache comes on, and like Lyc,, the headache will be relieved after eating. Frontal headache with coldness.

In a warm room the perspiration comes out, and it is cold, and the

more he sweats the colder he gets. Pain in the forehead with cold

sweat, and the colder he gets the worse the pain becomes. Sick headaches and great prostration with the headache. Sensation of internal

coldness of the forehead, especially in warm room. Pressing pain

at the root of the nose with headache. The parotid gland is so much

enlarged that it pushes the head to one side. The glands of the

abdomen swell with chronic diarrhoea, and the swelling may be tuberculous. Enlarged glands, with or without eruptions.

All over the body there is a sensation of crawling ; formication ;

tingling and creeping like ants, and no eruption. He scratches till the

skin is raw trying to get relieved of the itching and prickling. Eruption

upon the face ; eczema. Eruptions about the ear.

Cold feeling or burning in the nose. This is difficult to distinguish.

In acute coryza the nose fills up with thick, yellow mucus, and when

this is blown out it leaves the nasal cavity empty, and there is irritation ; one will say it is a rawness, another will say a coldness, and

another will describe it as a burning. There is relief when the nose

fills up again with mucus. In Ars. the mucus in the nose is so acrid

that it burns, but in Ant. c., Esenins, and in this remedy when the

nose is empty there is a burning or rawness. The sensation of rawness,

coldness or burning is caused by the inhalation of air. An epidemic

of coryza was prevalent, and this was the strongest symptom — the

pain caused by inhaling air. great burning from inhaled air. But it

is not in the acute coryza that we see the value of this remedy, it is in

the old, chronic case, with thick discharge, and a cold feeling or burning in the nose when inhaling air.

‘‘Sharp shooting, intolerable itching and thick crusts, with burning

on right zygoma."' This remedy has cured lupus on the face. Caries

of the lower jaw. Open, bleeding cancer on the lower lip. Lupus

cxedens. Pain in all the joints of th^ face. It cures old, deep-seated,

eating ulcers about the ankle and ihin, with copious acrid discharge,

formication and swollen glands, aggravation from bathing, extreme

sensitiveness to the open air^ only comfortable when very warm.

The teeth have all sorts of disturbances ; the gums settle away, the

teeth become loose ; scorbutic gums. The same cold feeling is described in the throat as in the nose — smarting and coldness. Mouth

and throat full of mucus. The throat feels rough, as if full of sand.

• ▸Dry spots in the throat.
• ▸The throat looks glossy, shining as if varnished, in old atrophic catarrhs.
• ▸Every cold .
• ▸settles in the throat.

Hot air feels good everywhere. In old cases there is trouble with

scrofulous glands, which are enlarged, and the patient wants the heat ;

goes to the register and turns the heat on, wants to feel the heat in

the nose, throat and lungs. Patients going into tuberculosis have that

desire for heat ; chilly persons. They do not feel cold to touch, but

they are cold subjectively, chilly. Hawking of gum-like mucus, especially in the morning, fauces inflamed and dry. Supuration of the

glands of the throat.

These patients crave pungent things, and especially want something

to warm them up, something to build them up, something stimulating :

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herring, cheese ; something “strong.”

“Chronic induration and inilammation of the mammae. Left

mamma inflamed, suppurating, with a feeling of fulness in the chest.

Sensibility to cold air,” with inflamed glands. We see its tendency to produce enlargement of the glands, and this would make us

think of it in growths with involvement of the glands all around. The

glands of the neck are enlarged in lines, like knotted rope, as in Hodgekin's disease. Only a limited number of remedies have this knotting.

Itching of the skin and mucous membrane. The itching in the ear

is not relieved by scratching, and the part is raw from the constant

rubbing and scratching. The eyes constantly itch. In the throat

there is continuous itching. In the chest there is a constant tickling,

causing cough. At the anus and all other orifices there is itching, and

the itching parts are rubbed until raw and bleeding.

Scrofula ; swelling and suppuration of the glands of the neck.

Eruption on the back like shingles. Scrofulous ulcer on the back.

Burning, bruised pain in the coccyx, worse from touch. That is like

Carbo an., in which the coccyx burns when pressed on, especially after

a slight injury in a nervous woman.

Tetter on the hands ; blisters oozing after scratching. Diseases of

the nails. Hard, thickened places on the hands of workmen, with

deep cracks.

The febrile symptoms have not been sufficiently brought out. In

chronic cases there is copious sweat with exhaustion. Night-sweats.

• ▸In evening, pains in knees, in r.
• ▸hand, in |.
• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Drawing pains in muscular

parts of hands and of lower extremities, with pains in joints, fingers, and knees.—Tearing and

drawing pains in all the joints, knees and fingers.