Sanguinarinum Nitricum

Burnett was the first to use Sanguisuga as a homeeopathic medicine.

Dangerous hemorrhages have not unfrequently followed the application of leeches, and it has

been ascertained that the leech does not merely bite, it poisons the bitten part in such a way as to

render the blood in it watery. Having a case of persistent bleeding from the rectum, the blood

being watery, and all the usual hemorrhagic remedies having failed to arrest it, Burnett thought

that Sanguisuga might prove the simillimum. He had a tincture made and attenuated, gave the

5th attenuation, and made a brilliant cure. I have had frequent opportunity of confirming the

value of Sngs. in cases of the kind.

Pupils dilated —Mydriasis very great; strongest sunlight fails to contract.—Cloud before

sight.—Eyes protruded, staring.

Obstruction of Eustachian tube —Difficulty in distinguishing sounds.—Roaring in r.

ear.

• ▸Feels obstructed. Profuse, watery mucus, with burning pain.
• ▸Enlarged turbinates at beginning of hypertrophic process.
• ▸Secretion scant, tendency to dryness.
• ▸Small crusts which bleed when removed.
• ▸Post-nasal secretions adherent to nasopharynx, dislodged with difficulty.
• ▸Dry and burning nostrils; watery mucus, with pressure over root of nose.
• ▸Nostrils plugged with thick, yellow, bloody mucus.
• ▸Sneezing.
• ▸Rawness and soreness in posterior nares.

• ▸Water trickles from r.
• ▸nostril (15 m.
• ▸after first dose).
• ▸—Watery mucus from both

nostrils, sneezing every few minutes, profuse lachrymation.—Sensation rising to nostrils as if he

had taken strong horse-radish.—Burning pains in both nostrils.—Accumulation of mucus

obstructing nose and bronchi.—Dry, sore, raw feeling in nostrils.—Free discharge from posterior

nares (esp. 1.), tinged with blood.

Ulceration on the side of the tongue.

Slight acrid, burning sensation on tongue.—Roughness and dryness in mouth and

throat —Heat in mouth as if pepper had been taken.—Awoke frequently with dry mouth and

throat from breathing with mouth open, nose being obstructed.—Increased flow of mucus and

saliva with sneezing and burning in forehead.

Roughness and dryness in mouth and throat with sense of constriction in

throat.—Soreness, roughness, and rawness onr. tonsil, painful, with difficulty in swallowing; red,

irritable spot seen on inspection.—In morning raised great quantities of thick, yellow, sweet-

tasting mucus; this continued all day.—Great accumulation of mucus in throat and bronchi.

Rough, dry, constricted, burning. Right tonsil sore, swallowing difficult.

Bitter taste extending back to root of tongue.—Everything tastes dry like

chips.—Coffee did not taste natural; wanted something succulent—not pungent—but soothing to

mouth and throat, which was hot, dry, parched, and raw.—Little appetite.

Borborygmus and pains in abdomen, as if diarrhoea would set in, with sharp,

cutting pains.

Passed urine every hour during the night (28 oz. by weight), depositing a

white sediment.—Urine had bright yellow sediment.

• ▸Short, hacking cough, with expectoration of thick, yellow, sweetish mucus.
• ▸Pressure behind center of sternum.
• ▸Dryness and burning in throat and bronchi.
• ▸Tickling cough.
• ▸Chronic nasal, laryngeal, and bronchial catarrh.
• ▸Voice altered, deep, hoarse.

Short, hacking cough arising from sensation of tightness in

chest.—The cough became harsh, leaving soreness and rawness in throat and chest, with

scraping, raw sensation in pharynx.—As soon as she began to move in morning coughed up large

quantities of thick, yellow, sweet-tasting mucus during the day.—Cough became deeper and

rattling, the pressure extended to both lungs, greatly increasing the sense of suffocation —Feeling

as if air passages lined with thick, stiff mucus or pus.—Raises thin, frothy mucus, which is very

tenacious.

Tightness in chest.—Heat and tension behind centre of sternum.—Tension, burning,

and accumulation of mucus behind centre of sternum.—Strong desire for fresh air.—Pressure in

chest extending to both lungs, increasing the sense of suffocation.

Pulse rate diminished; irregular.—Pulse preternaturally full, flowing, without

bounding, hardness, or sign of irritation.

Sleep poor; restless from feverish and irritable condition.

Sanguinarinum Tartaricum.

Tartrate or Sanguinarin. Ci9Hi7NOsC4HoOo. Trituration.

Cold surface, esp. of extremities.—Cold sweat.

Sanguisuga.

• ▸Hirudo or Sanguisuga officinalis.
• ▸The Leech.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Hirudinez.
• ▸Tincture of the living

animal.

• ▸Compare: Sang.
• ▸Burning in nostrils, Ar.
• ▸t.
• ▸Tenacious mucus, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸Hay-fever.
• ▸Pso.

Sweet expectoration, Stan.

Compare: Sanguin tartaricum (exophthalmos; mydriasis; dim vision); Arum triph; Psorin; Kal bich.

Third trituration.