Erigeron Canadense

Eviodyct., says Allen, "has a strong terebenthine taste, and abounds in a

resinous matter which sometimes exudes so copiously that, in drying, the specimens stick firmly

together and to the paper." "Yerba Santa" (holy plant) is a popular expectorant remedy in Mexico

and California. By homceopaths it has been chiefly used in phthisical conditions, especially

bronchial phthisis. Asthmatic breathing with accumulation of mucus; the asthma being relieved

when the mucus is got rid of. Wasting, night-sweats, intolerance of food. Phthisis the result of

• ▸frequent bronchial catarrhs.
• ▸Coryza and catarrh.
• ▸J.
• ▸Perry Seward gave it with great success in two

• ▸cases of cough remaining after influenza (Amer.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸, xxiv.
• ▸248).
• ▸G.
• ▸M.
• ▸Payne's proving

brought out marked preference for the right lung. Foul mouth in the morning on rising. Most

symptoms < in afternoon. Nausea < on running. Symptoms come at intervals; or on any sudden

changes of position.

Excessive languor in morning; all day with great depression; no ambition to

move in afternoon and evening.

• ▸Dizziness and sense of intoxication.
• ▸—Aching at base of cranium, 8 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Sensation of

pressure outwards on all sides of head, greatest at cerebellum upwards.—Intense, dull, heavy pain

in back of head and over eyes.—Burning in occiput; heavy pain as if occiput was being pressed

out.

Smarting of eyes, all afternoon and evening.—Slight agglutination of lids in morning.

Sharp pain inr. ear at intervals; or on suddenly changing position of head to r. or

1.—Shooting pains, after changing to just below external ear, removed to just above and back of it

at intervals of one or two minutes.

Sneezing.—Catarrh, yellowish-green.—Coryza permanent; with more or less dizziness.

Frequent distress in umbilicus with hard, aching distress in whole dorsal

region.—Frequent dull pain in umbilical region, with a feeling in anus as if it had been

torn.—Constant dull pain in r. umbilicus; twice the pains were severe and cutting (first day,

• ▸second day pain was in |.
• ▸umbilicus).
• ▸—Rheumatic pains in abdominal muscles.
• ▸—Sudden pain in

• ▸hypogastrium, followed by mushy stool (7 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸first day, 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸third day).
• ▸—Dull pain in 1.

hypogastrium and umbilicus.—Dull pain in hypogastrium followed by dark-coloured, hard,

lumpy stool.

Natural stool, followed by severe neuralgia in anus with tenesmus.—Stools

small, streaked with blood; tormina; burning in the bowels and rectum; hard lumps of feces

• ▸mixed with the discharges.
• ▸—Mushy stools.
• ▸—Heemorrhage from the bowels.
• ▸—Hzemorrhoids;

bleeding; with hard, lumpy stools; burning in the margin of anus; it feels as if torn.

Urination painful or suppressed.—Dysuria of teething children; frequent

desire; crying when urinating; urine profuse, of very strong odour; external parts (female)

inflamed or irritated, with considerable mucous discharge.

• ▸Metrorrhagia, with violent irritation of rectum and bladder, and prolapsus uteri.
• ▸Bright-red flow.
• ▸Menorrhagia; profuse leucorrhoea; bloody lochia returns after least motion, comes in gushes; between periods, leucorrhoea with urinary irritation; pregnant women with "weak uterus;" a bloody discharge on slight exertion.
• ▸Bleeding haemorrhoids; nosebleed instead of menses (Bry).

Metrorrhagia, with violent irritation of rectum and bladder; after

abortion, with diarrhoea and dysuria; with prolapsus uteri—Very profuse flow of bright-red

blood; every movement of patient increases the flow; pallor and weakness.—Leucorrhcea profuse,

with spasmodic pains, and irritation of the bladder and rectum.—Bloody lochia return after the

least motion; > during rest.

Sore, dragging, tender feeling of testicles (< 1.); could not bear any

pressure, and dreaded to move because of its tenderness; > by gentle support, felt in after part of

day.—Slight fluttering at intervals at bottom of testicles.

Wheezing voice, 5 p.m.—Asthmatic symptoms; with coryza and

• ▸mucous secretions.
• ▸—Dull pain in r.
• ▸lung, front.
• ▸—Sharp pain in r.
• ▸lung in front, near nipple,

occurring at short intervals or on sudden changes of position.

Dull aching distress in whole dorsal region.—Dull pains in lumbar and sacral

• ▸regions.
• ▸—Severe sticking, stabbing pain in region of |.
• ▸kidney; passing to r.
• ▸kidney.

Frequent disposition to yawn in afternoon and evening.

Eriodictyon Glutinosum.

• ▸Eriodictyon Californicum.
• ▸Yerba Santa.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Hydrophyllacez.
• ▸Tincture of whole plant.

Compare: Balsam of Peru, Pix liquida, Stannum; (afternoon aggravation) Lycop.;

• ▸Grindelia, Phos.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Rumex, Caust.
• ▸, Dros.

Terebinthina similar.

Tincture, to third potency. Oil of Erigeron 1x internally for tympanites. An enema of one dram of the oil with the yolk of an egg and pint of milk will reduce the most enormous tympanites.