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(Blood Root)
General
Is a right-sided remedy pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the
mucous membranes, especially of the respiratory tract. It has
marked vasomotor disturbances, as seen in the circumscribed redness
of the cheeks, flashes of heat, determination of blood to head
and chest, distention of temporal veins, burning in palms and
soles, and has been found very applicable to climacteric disorders.
BURNING sensations, like from hot water. Influenzal coughs. Phthisis.
SUDDEN STOPPING OF CATARRH OF RESPIRATORY TRACT FOLLOWED BY DIARRHOEA.
BURNING in various parts is characteristic.
Head.
Worse RIGHT side, sun headache. Periodical sick headache; pain
begins in occiput, spreads upwards, and SETTLES OVER EYES, ESPECIALLY
RIGHT. VEINS AND TEMPLES ARE DISTENDED. Pain better lying down
and sleep. Headaches return at climacteric; every seventh day.
[SULPH.; SABAD.] Pain in small spot over upper left parietal bone.
Burning in eyes. Pain in the back of head "like a flash of
lightning."
Face.
Flushed. Neuralgia; pain extends in all directions from upper
jaw. REDNESS AND BURNING OF CHEEKS. HECTIC FLUSH. Fullness and
tenderness behind angle of jaws.
Nose.
Hay-fever. Ozaena, with profuse, offensive yellowish discharges.
NASAL POLYPI. Coryza, followed by diarrhoea. Chronic rhinitis;
membrane DRY and congested.
Ears.
Burning in ears. Earache with headache. Humming and roaring. Aural
polypus.
Throat.
Swollen; worse, right side. Dry and constricted. Ulceration of
mouth and fauces, with dry, burning sensation. Tongue white; feels
scalded. Tonsillitis.
Stomach.
Aversion to butter. Craving for piquant things. Unquenchable thirst.
Burning, vomiting. Nausea, with salivation. Sinking, faint all-gone
feeling. (PHOS.; SEP.) Spitting up of bile; gastroduodenal catarrh.
Abdomen.
Diarrhoea as coryza improves. Pain over region of liver. Diarrhoea;
bilious, liquid, gushing stool. (NAT-SULPH.; LYCOP.) Cancer of
rectum.
Female.
Leucorrhoea fetid, corrosive. Menses offensive, profuse. Soreness
of breasts. Uterine polypi. Before menses, itching of axillae.
Climacteric disorders.
Respiratory.
Oedema of larynx. Trachea sore. Heat and tension behind the sternum.
Aphonia. COUGH OF GASTRIC ORIGIN; relieved by eructation. Cough,
with burning pain in chest; worse, right side. Sputum tough, RUST-COLORED,
offensive, almost impossible to raise. Spasmodic cough after influenza
and AFTER WHOOPING-COUGH. Cough returns with every fresh cold.
Tickling behind sternum, causes a constant hacking cough; worse
at night on lying down. Must sit up in bed. Burning soreness in
right chest, through to right shoulder. Severe soreness under
right nipple. Hemoptysis from suppressed menses. SEVERE DYSPNOEA
and constriction of chest. Offensive breath and purulent expectoration.
Burning in chest as of hot steam from chest to abdomen. Fibroid
phthisis. Pneumonia; better, lying on back. Asthma with stomach
disorders. [NUX.] Valvular disease with lung development, phosphates
in urine and loss of flesh. Sudden stoppage of catarrh of air
passages brings on diarrhoea.
Extremities.
Rheumatism of right shoulder, left hip-joint and nape of neck.
BURNING IN SOLES AND PALMS. Rheumatic pains in places least covered
by flesh; not in joints. Toes and soles of feet burn. Right-sided
neuritis; better touching the part.
Skin.
Antidotes: RHUS POISONING. Red, blotchy eruptions; worse in spring.
Burning and itching; worse by heat. Acne, with scanty menses.
Circumscribed red spots over malar bones.
Aggravation.
WORSE, sweets, right side, motion, touch.
Amelioration.
Better, acids, sleep, darkness.
Relationship.
Complementary: TART. EM.
Compare: JUSTICIA (bronchial catarrh, coryza, hoarseness; oversensitive).
DIGITALIS (Migraine). BELL.; IRIS; MELI.; LACH.; FERR.; OP.
Dose.
Tincture in headaches; sixth potency in rheumatism.
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