Hydrastis

The so-called root of Hydrastis from which the tincture is made is really a

perennial underground stem, thick, knotty, and yellow. The yellow colour is very intense, and it

has been used by Indians as a dye. The plant is the only specimen of its genus among the

Ranunculacez. It grows in shady woods, in rich soil, and damp meadows. The fruit is like a

raspberry, and the plant is sometimes called Ground Raspberry in consequence. The medicinal

properties of Hydrast. were known to the aborigines of America. The first mention of it in

medical literature is by Rafinesque (Medical Botany, 1828). Hale quotes him as saying that it is

"tonic, ophthalmic, detergent," and that "it is said to enter into compound remedies for cancer,

acting as a detergent tonic, and the Cherokees are supposed to use it in that disease." This is

important as showing that the traditional reputation of the plant agrees with the results of later

experience. For though by no means a specific in all cases of cancer, it is in cancer cases that

Hydrast. has won its chief fame; and I think it may fairly be said that more cases of cancer have

been cured with it than with any other single remedy. Thanks to the excellent provings that have

been made by homceopaths and the careful observations of able practitioners, we are in a position

to use the remedy with much greater precision than formerly. In very many cancer cases there is

what has been termed a "pre-cancerous stage," a period of undefined ill-health without any

discernible new growth. This stage is generally marked by symptoms of dyspepsia, and this

• ▸frequently takes the Hydrastis type, which has been well described by A.
• ▸C.
• ▸Clifton.
• ▸The facial

expression is dull, heavy, sodden-looking; yellowish-white in colour. The tongue is large, flabby

and slimy-looking; bluish-white under the fur (which is yellow, slimy, and sticky), and indented

by the teeth. Eructations generally sour, at times putrid. Appetite bad, the power of digesting

bread and vegetables especially weak and causing eructations. Weight at stomach, with fulness,

empty aching "gone" feeling (this is a grand characteristic of Hydrast., and it is constant, not

• ▸occurring at special times like that of Su/.
• ▸, &c.
• ▸).
• ▸< After a meal.
• ▸The action of the bowels is

either infrequent and constipated, or frequent with loose, soft, light-coloured stools. Clifton

found this type of dyspepsia occur frequently in phthisical families, and often cured it; and even

in cases of actual phthisis this type is not uncommon, the loss of appetite and "goneness" being

especially prominent. In dyspepsia Clifton found the tincture and lower attenuations answer best;

in catarrh of nose and fauces the higher were better. Catarrh of almost all mucous surfaces is

caused by Hydrastis—nasal catarrh, pharyngeal, bronchial, gastric, duodenal, intestinal, urethral

(gonorrheea, gleet), vaginal. The characteristic catarrh is yellow (the leading colour of the drug)

or white; tough and stringy. The action on the skin is no less marked. Garth Wilkinson found it

externally and internally an excellent remedy in small-pox. Eczema impetiginoides, drying into

crusts and burning like fire, has been cured with an application of one part Hydras. @ to nine of

glycerine. The burning was removed at once. (I once saw a woman, 60, who had been given

• ▸Hydrast.
• ▸© gtt.
• ▸v.
• ▸in water three times a day, after a week come out in a scarlet rash, raised and

nodular, exceedingly irritable, especially at night. It was on every part of the body except the

face, and was worst on buttocks and elbows. It remained out a week. The patient at the same

time became very ill with sickness and general digestive disorder.) The skin may be jaundiced.

There is excessive sweat, especially of armpits or genitals; offensive ulcers; chancroids; fissures.

The female genital organs are very much affected: Metrorrhagia, leucorrhcea, pruritus vulve,

scirrhus of uterus; of breasts; sore mouth of nursing-women; sore nipples. Weiss gave a woman,

31, who had had adherent placenta in several confinements in succession, Hydrast. 3x three

drops daily from the fourth month during her last three pregnancies, and each terminated without

adherent placenta. Four other cases of habitual adherent placenta were successfully treated in the

same way. There is much backache of severe character in connection with many of the Hydrast.

conditions. Sometimes it awakens patients in the night. Like many other "yellow" medicines, it

has a marked action on the liver, causing jaundice and liver enlargement. Cases of cancer of the

liver have been reported cured by it. Fulness, goneness, and constipation are the leading

• ▸indications.
• ▸The constipation of Hydrasz.
• ▸is a leading feature of the pathogenesis.
• ▸There is torpor

of the bowels; stools lumpy, covered with yellowish tough mucus; with the constipation

continual pain in head, bad taste in mouth. Hydrast. has been a good deal used in bronchial

catarrhs with the characteristic tenacious secretion. In one case an over-dose brought on a

• ▸characteristic attack of asthma (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxiv.
• ▸293).
• ▸The dose was gtt xx of the liquid extract, and

Miodowski, who reported the case, thought there was pulmonary cedema secondary to cardiac

weakness induced by the drug. It is worthy of note that most remedies which powerfully act on

the skin will also cause an asthmatic state. The symptoms generally are < at night. Skin

symptoms are < from warmth; from washing, &c. The catarrhal symptoms are < from harsh, dry

winds; out of doors. Rest >; motion <. There is < by touch; clothing feels uncomfortable about

groins. Pressure > many symptoms.

Depressed; sure of death, and desires it.

Forgetful; cannot remember what he is reading or talking about.—Irritable; disposed to

be spiteful——Gloomy, taciturn, disagreeable-—Moaning with occasional outcries from

pain.—Depression; sure of death and desires it.

Faintness, goneness.—Weakness, physical prostration.—Frequent sudden

attacks of fainty spells, with profuse cold sweat all over—Mucous membranes: secretions

increased, tenacious, ropy; erosions.—Muscles greatly weakened; atony.—Small wounds bleed

• ▸much.
• ▸—Marasmus.
• ▸—Scrofulous and cancerous cachexia.
• ▸—Cancers hard, adherent, skin mottled,

puckered; cutting like knives in mammee.—Pressure of hand relieves the head —Clothing feels

uncomfortable about the groins.

• ▸Dull, pressing frontal pain, especially connected with constipation.
• ▸Myalgic pain in scalp and muscles of neck (Cimicif).
• ▸Eczema on forehead along line of hair.
• ▸Sinusitis, after coryza.

Feeling as if intoxicated; headache; weakness.—Dull, heavy frontal headache over

eyes; catarrhal.—Sharp cutting in temples and over eyes; < over I|.; > from pressing with the

hand.—Dull frontal, headache, with dull pain in hypogastrium and small of back.—Severe frontal

headache; as if brain being pressed against frontal bones.—Vertex headache every other day,

• ▸commencing at 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, with nausea, retching and anguish.
• ▸—Dull heavy pain in occiput

• ▸(1.
• ▸).
• ▸—Aching in cerebellum, first r.
• ▸, later 1.
• ▸side—Myalgic headache in integuments of scalp and

muscles of neck.—Eczema on margin of hair in front; < coming from the cold into a warm room;

oozes after washing.—(Seborrheea sicca).

Profuse secretion of tears; smarting and burning of eyes and lids.—Lids agglutinated;

blepharitis marginalis—Opacity of the cornea.—Ophthalmia; catarrhal; scrofulous, with or

without ulceration; thick mucous discharge.—Dark greenish-yellow conjunctiva.

• ▸Roaring.
• ▸Muco-purulent discharge.
• ▸Deafness.
• ▸Estachian catarrh, with high-pitched voice.

Roaring in the ears; like machinery.—Pain in r. ear; it disappeared and was followed

• ▸immediately by fulness in forehead and pain over |.
• ▸eye.
• ▸—Sharp pain back of r.
• ▸ear passing to

shoulder.—Otorrhcea, thick mucous discharge (fetid).—Partial stoppage of Eustachian

tube. —Throat deafness.

• ▸Thick, tenacious secretion from posterior nares to throat.
• ▸Watery, excoriating discharge.
• ▸Ozaena, with ulceration of septum.
• ▸Tends to blow nose all the time.

Tickling, like a hair in r. nostril—Constant discharge of thick white mucus; frontal

headache.—Secretion runs more from posterior nares, thick and tenacious.—Coryza watery,

excorilating; burning, smarting and rawness in nose (more r. nostril), discharge scanty in room,

profuse out of doors; rawness in throat and chest.—Sneezing, with fulness over eyes, dull frontal

• ▸headache, pain in r.
• ▸breast and down arms.
• ▸—Air feels cold in nose.
• ▸—Nosebleed, |.
• ▸nostril, with

burning rawness; followed by itching.—Soreness of cartilaginous septum, bleeding when

touched; inner edge of r. ala sore and thickened.—Ozeena, with bloody, purulent discharge.

Expression weary, dull, skin pale, or yellow-white.—Erysipelatous eruption following

• ▸flushes of heat—Aphthe on the lips.
• ▸—(Epithelial cancer of lip.
• ▸).
• ▸—Tenacious mucus hangs in

shreds from mouth.

Peppery taste. Tongue white, swollen, large, flabby, slimy; shows imprint of teeth (Merc); as if scalded; stomatitis. Ulceration of tongue, fissures toward the edges.

Taste flat; peppery.—Tongue swollen, shows marks of teeth, coated white or with a

yellow stripe.—Tongue as if burned or scalded, later a vesicle forms on the tip.—Excessive

secretion of thick, tenacious mucus.—Stomatitis after mercury or chlorate of potash; nursing-

women or weakly children; peppery taste; tongue as if burned or raw, with dark red appearance

• ▸and raised papillze.
• ▸—(Cancer of tongue.
• ▸).
• ▸—(Tumour in hard palate, painful to touch, hard,

somewhat elastic, disposed to bleed and discharge offensive matter; climacteric.)

Uvula sore and relaxed.—Throat dry; raw; sore; in morning on waking, felt most on

coughing.—Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus from posterior nares and fauces, rawness of

• ▸fauces.
• ▸—Ulcers in the throat, esp.
• ▸after mercury.
• ▸—(Cancerous ulcers on |.
• ▸side of throat, inside.
• ▸)

• ▸10, 11.
• ▸Appetite and Stomach.
• ▸—Indigestion from atony of the stomach, esp.
• ▸in old

people.—Bread or vegetables cause acidity, weakness, indigestion.—Eructations of sour

• ▸fluid.
• ▸—Vomits all she eats, except milk and water mixed.
• ▸—(Cancer.
• ▸).
• ▸—Faintness at the stomach;

sinking, gone feeling, with continued violent palpitation of the heart, preceded by dull aching

• ▸pains.
• ▸—Marasmus.
• ▸—Acute, distressing cutting pains.
• ▸—Chronic gastric catarrh;

ulceration.—Carcinoma, with emaciation, goneness.

• ▸Follicular pharyngitis.
• ▸Raw, smarting, excoriating sensation.
• ▸Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus (Kali bich).
• ▸Child is aroused suddenly from sleep by this tenacious post-nasal dropping.
• ▸Goitre of puberty and pregnancy.

• ▸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 dyspepsia.
• ▸Ulcers and cancer.
• ▸Gastritis.

• ▸Gastro-duodenal catarrh.
• ▸Liver torpid, tender.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Gallstones.
• ▸Dull dragging in right groin with cutting sensation into right testicle.

Torpor of the liver, with pale, scanty stools —Liver atrophied.—) Jaundice, with

catarrh of stomach and duodenum.—Burning in region of navel, with "goneness," faintness in

epigastrium.—Loud rumbling, with dull aching in hypogastrium and small of back; <

moving.—Cutting, colicky pains, with heat and faintness; constipation; > after passing

flatus.—Cutting in hypogastrium, extending to testicles, faintness after stool—Sharp pain in the

cecal region.—Sharp pain in region of spleen, with dull pain and burning in stomach and

bowels.—Dull dragging in groins, cutting pain extending into testicles —Pains in the groins as if

he had strained himself; clothing uncomfortable —Griping pains with the stools.—Intestinal

catarrh, followed by ulceration.

• ▸Prolapsed; anus fissured.
• ▸Constipation, with sinking feeling in stomach, and dull headache.
• ▸During stool, smarting pain in rectum.
• ▸After stool, long-lasting pain (Nit ac).
• ▸Haemorrhoids; even a light flow exhausts.
• ▸Contraction and spasm.

Fetid flatus.—Stool (profuse) light coloured, soft, acrid; greenish.—Soft

stool, followed by faintness.—Stool lumpy, covered with (yellow) mucus;

constipation.—Torpidity, no desire for stool.—Obstinate constipation; with dull headache; sinking

• ▸sensation; with "dyspeptic cough.
• ▸".
• ▸—Constipation aggravated by cathartic medicines.
• ▸—During

stool: smarting burning pains in rectum.—After stool: burning and smarting in rectum; long-

lasting pain in rectum; hemorrhoids and fainting; exhaustion.—Proctitis Hemorrhoids; costive;

even a light hemorrhoidal flow exhausts. —Fistula ani.

Dull aching in region of kidneys.—Urine smells decomposed; increased

and of neutral reaction —Catarrh of bladder, with thick, ropy mucous sediment in

urine.—Dysuria; suppression; incontinence.

Gleety discharge. Urine smells decomposed.

• ▸Erosion and excoriation of cervix.
• ▸Leucorrhoea, worse after menses (Bov; Calc c); acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious.
• ▸Menorrhagia.
• ▸Pruritus vulvae, with profuse leucorrhoea (Calc c; Kreos; Sep).
• ▸Sexual excitement.
• ▸Tumor of breast; nipple retracted.

Aching pains in small of back at climaxis; uterine affections with

debility and digestive disorders.—Hot watery discharge from uterus.—Leucorrhcea: tenacious,

ropy, thick yellow.—Ulceration of the os, cervix, and vagina; leucorrhcea; debility; prolapsus

uteri.—Os uteri very tender.—Uterine hemorrhage; menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, with fibroid

tumours; at menopause.—Pruritus vulvz, with profuse leucorrhoea; sexual

excitement.—Lancinating pain in breast extending up to shoulder and down arm.—(Cancer of

breast, pains like knives thrust into part.)—Hard, irregular tumour of |. breast, nipple retracted,

glands in axilla enlarged and painful, cachectic appearance —Sore-mouth of nursing

women.—Abraided, cracked and sore nipples of nursing women.

Gonorrhoea, second stage; discharge thick and yellow.

Debility after spermatorrhoea.—Gonorrheea, second stage, thick

• ▸yellow discharge.
• ▸—Gleet, debility; copious, painless discharge.
• ▸—Dragging in r.
• ▸groin to testicle;

thence to |. testicle, thence to |. groin.

• ▸Chest raw, sore, burning.
• ▸Dry, harsh cough.
• ▸Bronchial catarrh, later stages.
• ▸Bronchitis in old, exhausted persons, with thick, yellow, tenacious expectoration.
• ▸Frequent fainty spells, with cold sweat all over.
• ▸Feels suffocating when lying on left side.
• ▸Pain from chest to left shoulder.

Scraping in larynx.—Dry, harsh (rattling) cough from tickling in

larynx.—Laryngeal and bronchial catarrh.—Bronchitis of old, exhausted people; thick, yellow,

tenacious, stringy sputa.—Phthisis; with goneness in stomach, emaciation, loss of appetite.

Rawness in throat and chest.—Rawness, soreness, and burning in chest.—Asthma and

• ▸cedema of lungs.
• ▸—(Cancer of r.
• ▸lung.
• ▸)

Palpitation with faintness.—Palpitation, pain shooting from chest to 1.

shoulder with numbness of arm; irregular and at times laboured action; < lying either side;

• ▸feeling of immediate suffocation on attempting to lie on |.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Heart agitated.
• ▸—Violent long-

continued palpitation in morning.—Pulse slow during the chill.

Dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness, particularly across lumbar region, must use arms in raising himself from seat.

Muscles of neck feel sore —Tired aching across small of back and in

limbs; knees ache; > by walking about.

Pain from head to shoulders, with aching in both, more Rheumatic pains

in elbow, forearms, r. shoulder, and first finger of |. hand.

Sharp shifting pain in |. limb, from middle of thigh down to middle of

• ▸leg.
• ▸—Pain from r.
• ▸hip to knee, while walking.
• ▸—Legs feel weak; knees weak; aching.
• ▸—Aching in

sole of |. foot; no relief from change of position.—Atonic ulcers on the legs.

Eruption like variola. Lupus; ulcers, cancerous formations. General tendency to profuse perspiration and unhealthy skin (Hepar).

Jaundice, dark greenish-yellow colour.—Skin dark purplish hue, with heat and

tingling, < from motion.—Hot, dry skin, with fever—Burning heat and itching in

skin.—Hyperidrosis: excessive sweat of axillze and genitals; offensive —Erysipelatoid rash on

face, neck, palms, joints of fingers and wrist, with maddening burning heat, later skin exfoliates;

pains < at night.—Nettlerash ("hives"), < from scratching, < at night.—Scarlet raised nodular

eruption, excessively irritable, < at night, over whole body except face, most on backs of elbows

and on buttocks, preceded by feeling of illness, vomiting and general digestive disorder; lasted a

• ▸week.
• ▸—Fissures round mucous outlets.
• ▸—Infantile intertrigo.
• ▸—Variola; all stages; itching tingling

of the eruption; face swollen; throat raw; pustules dark; faintness and great prostration.

Awakened by backache and dull pains in navel and hypogastric region —Dreams

wearisome, restless sleep.—Difficulty in awaking.

Chill morning or evening; chilliness, esp. in back or thighs, with aching; pulse

• ▸slow.
• ▸—Heat in flushes.
• ▸—Great heat of whole body.
• ▸—Constant dull burning pains all the

evening.—Gastric, bilious or typhoid forms of fever, with gastric disturbances, jaundice and great

debility following.

• ▸Alcoholism.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Cancer.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Chancroids.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Corns.
• ▸Dyspepsia.

• ▸Eczema impetiginoides.
• ▸Ears, affections of.
• ▸Faintness.
• ▸Fistula.
• ▸Gastric catarrh.
• ▸Gonorrheea.

• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Leucorrhea.
• ▸Lip, cancer of.
• ▸Liver, affections of.
• ▸Lumbago.
• ▸Lupus.

• ▸Menorrhagia.
• ▸Metrorrhagia.
• ▸Mouth, sore.
• ▸Nails, affections of.
• ▸Nipples, sore.
• ▸Noises in the head.

• ▸Nursing-women, sore mouth of.
• ▸Ozcna.
• ▸Placenta, adherent.
• ▸Post-nasal catarrh.
• ▸Rectum,

• ▸affections of.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Seborrhoea.
• ▸Stomach, affections of: Syphilis.
• ▸Taste, disordered.
• ▸Throat,

• ▸deafness.
• ▸Throat, sore.
• ▸Tongue, affections of.
• ▸Typhus.
• ▸Ulcers.
• ▸Uterus, affections of.

• ▸Antidoted by: Sul.
• ▸(head symptoms and sciatic pains).
• ▸/t antidotes: Merc.
• ▸and

• ▸Chlorate of potass.
• ▸Compare: Am.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Kali.
• ▸bi.
• ▸, and Puls.
• ▸(mucous membranes); Alo.
• ▸,

• ▸Collins.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸(lower bowel); Berb.
• ▸, Dig.
• ▸, Gels.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Pod.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸(gastro-duodenal catarrh,

• ▸involving bile ducts); Nux v.
• ▸(gastric catarrh of alcoholism); Merc.
• ▸cor.
• ▸, Euphras.
• ▸(nasal catarrh);

• ▸Hepar (syphilitic ozena, after abuse of mercury or iodide of potash); Ars.
• ▸, Bapt.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Condur.
• ▸,

• ▸Kreas.
• ▸, Phytol.
• ▸(cancer of breast); Chi.
• ▸(intermittent); Strychn.
• ▸(spinal cord); Chel.
• ▸(cancer of

• ▸breast; liver affections); Sang.
• ▸(burnt sensation on tongue); Kali bi.
• ▸(hair sensation); Ars.
• ▸, Aur.

• ▸mur.
• ▸, Hydrocot.
• ▸, Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Bapt.
• ▸, Thu).

Antidote: Sulph.

Useful after too much Chlorate of Potash for sore throat.

• ▸Compare: Xanthorrhiza apifolia; Kali bich; Conium; Ars iod; Phytol; Galium (cancer-nodulated tumor of the tongue); Asterias; Stann; Puls.
• ▸Also Manzanita (diarrhoea, gonorrhoea, gleet, leucorrhoea, catarrhal conditions).
• ▸Hydrastinum muriaticum-Muriate of Hydrastia (Locally, in aphthous sore mouth, ulcers, ulcerated sore throat, ozaena, etc.
• ▸Internally, third dec trit.
• ▸Is a uterine haemostatic and vasoconstrictor; metrorrhagia, especially from fibroid tumors; haemorrhages; in dilatation of the stomach, and chronic digestive disorders).
• ▸Hydrastin sulph 1x (haemorrhage of bowels in typhoid).
• ▸Marrubium-Hoarhound--(a stimulant to mucous membranes, especially laryngeal and bronchial; chronic bronchitis, dyspepsia, and hepatic disorders; colds and coughs).

Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation. Locally colorless. Hydrastis, mother tincture, or fluid extract.

Hydrastic is a slow, deep acting remedy, required in many trophic

disturbances, where there is emaciation, catarrhal conditions and

ulceration, even malignant ulceration. Defective assimilation. When

it is noticed that the stomach is the center of most of the symptom

complex. The desires and aversions often give the key to a very

complex totality of symptoms. In this remedy the sinking empty

hunger with loathing of food is striking, strange, rare, and therefore

peculiar. It is characteristic because it is a general of the remedy,

and is predicated of the patient. Great weakness prevails at all times.

Catarrhal symptoms with thick, vijicid, ropy, yellow mucus, sometimes

white, from any mucous membra&C, with or without ulceration. Deep

eating spreading ulcers upon the skin or mucous membrane, with

thick, viscid, yellow pus. Induration in glands, in base of ulcers.

False granulations that bleed much and easily, on the slightest touch.

This remedy has been very useful in the treatment of malignant ulcers.

In such ulcers it is often a great comfort to the patient, even when it

does not cure, as it removes the offensiveness, modifies the pain and

restrains the destructiveness. The burning so commonly found in

such ulcers is a strong symptom of Hydrastis. When the weakness

and emaciation have progressed together for months and years in

chronic stomach disease, fainting comes on, and this is also found in

Hydrastis. In chronic cases, when the tissues have suffered and

not the mind. The astonishing absence of mental symptoms except

the general discouragement incidental to long suffering and weakness

is striking. If it were carefully proved, most likely the mental loves

and hates would come out. The symptoms are better during rest

Small wounds bleed and suppurate.

The headaches are only such as generally belong to stomach disorders, and prolonged nasal catarrh. They are not distinctive. It

has cured eczema with thick crusts.

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The eyes and face jaundiced. Ulceration of the cornea. Thick,

yellow, viscid, mucous discharge. Chronic inflammation of lids. Infammation, thickening, redness of margins of lids.

Otorrhoea with thick, viscid, purulent discharge. Copious mucous

discharge. Catarrh of the Eustachian tubes with many noises in ears.

Ears red, swollen, covered with scales ; fissured behind where connected with head.

The nose is obstructed with stringy, yellow or white mucus. The

air feels cold in the nose, and the membrane is raw and ulcerated.

Ropy mucus is drawn from posterior nares into the throat. Rawness

in both nares with constant urging to blow the nose. Coryza with

discharge, scanty in room and profuse in open air. Bloody, purulent

discharge from nose. Thick, white, or yellow mucous discharge.

Large crusts constantly form in the nose.

The face is sickly, shrunken, pale, waxy, cachectic, jaundiced. It

is of great service in epithelioma of face, nose or lip.

The tongue is yellow, large, flabby and spongy. Feels as if burnt.

Ulceration of mouth, gums, tongue ; spreading and burning. Aphthae

in children and nursing mothers. Excessive secretions of ropy mucusj

golden yellow. Excoriation of mouth. In old mercurial cases.

Catarrhal sore throat of long standing, granulated and ulcerated ;

excoriated and burning. Thick, viscid, yellow mucus that can be

drawn out in ropes.

No appetite ; no thirst ; loathing of food. Nearly all foods disorder

the stomach. Spitting up the food by the mouthful (like Phos, and

• ▸Ferr,y Vomits all food.
• ▸Retains only water and milk.
• ▸Eructations, sour, putrid, of food eaten.
• ▸Empty, faint feeling in stomach

with loathing of food and obstinate constipation with no desire for

stool is a combination that must generally have Hydrastis. Pulsatioi^

• ▸in the stomach.
• ▸Ulceration of the stomach with burning.
• ▸For suspicious lump in region of pyloris.
• ▸Weight in stomach after eating.

The stomach seems to be only an ordinary sack ; digestion is slow, and

• ▸tedious.
• ▸Fulness after eating, lasting a long time.
• ▸The empty, sinking feeling is not ameliorated after eating.
• ▸Sour vomiting.
• ▸Chronic

gastric catarrh. Slow digestion.

This must be a useful liver remedy, for the following reasons; The

skin is jaundiced ; the stool is light, even white, showing the absence of

bile, and there is distress in the region of the liver. In chronic derangement of the liver. Liver enlarged, hard and nodular.

Cramping pains. Colic, flatulence and distended abdomen. It has

cured many of the usual conditions that generally attend bad digestion

and torpid liver. Intestinal catarrh and ulceration. Sharp pain in

region of spleen.

It has cured obstinate piles, ulceration and fissures of anus. Re«

Limbs tired, ache, with coryza.—Shifting pains in r. arm and leg, then I.

leg.—Irritable, indolent, or scrofulous ulcers on the legs.