Erigeron

Canada Flea Bane. Compositx. Grows in Canada and the United States as a weed. The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant when in bloom in July and Angust. Used by the aborigines as an application to wounds. Proved by W. 11. Burt. See Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 211. A fragmentary proving of the Erigeron phlladelphicum, by A. Lijjjje, not published, is here inserted, the symptoms marked . CLrsTCATj ArxiTORiTiES. — Dys^vria in teething children (2 cases), Eing, N. A. J. H., vol. 5, p. 282 ; Uterine flow , Warren, Med. Inv., vol. 5, p. 35; Cough, Wright, Horn. Times, vol. 2, p. 10 ; Hemorrhages, Palmer, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 121.

Mind

Lowness of spirits, with a feeling of great languor.

Inner Head

Congestion of head, red face, nosebleed; febrile action.

Dull frontal headache on waking in morning.

Dull headache, with ringing in r. ear.

Headache, with pain in forehead and r. eye, and pain in large joints.

Sight and Eyes

Smarting of eyes all day.

Redness, swelling, inflammation, with profuse muco purulent discharges from eyes.

││ Ecchymoses upon eyeballs or around eye, from a blow.

Smell and Nose

Increased secretion of mucus in nostrils all forenoon.

││ Epistaxis of bright red blood.

Teeth and Gums

││ Profuse bleeding from gums.

Throat

Dryness of pharynx; roughness, with sensation as if something had lodged in upper part of oesophagus.

Sore throat all night, with frequent inclination to swallow.

││ Inflammation and ulceration of throat.

││ Tonsillitis.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea, with frequent eructations.

▌ Violent retching and burning in stomach, with vomiting of blood.

Scrobiculum and Stomach

Sharp cutting pains in region of stomach every few minutes.

Violentretching, with burning in stomach.

│▌ Hæmatemesis, from ulceration and rupture of bloodvessels.

Hypochondria p. 208

Dull pains in hypochondria.

Abdomen p. 208

Frequent dull pains in bowels.

Sudden, severe pains in hypogastrium, followed by mushystool.

││ Flatulent colic.

││ Tympanites. θ Typhoid fever. θ Dysentery.

Stool and Rectum p. 208

Stools, bloody or mucous ; small^ streaked with blood ; tormina ; burning in bowels and rectum; hard lumps of feces mixed with the discharges; mushy, undigested.

Sudden pain in hypogastrium followed by papescent stools.

││ Dysentery, with burning in any part of alimentary canal ; extreme tenesmus, with frequent small stools, streaked with blood or bloody, and great irritation of urinary organs; urination painful or suppressed.

│▌ Scybala,with dysentery.

Inflammation of mucous coats of colon and rectum.

Thin papescent stool, with burning in bowels and rectum.

Natural stool, followed by severe neuralgic pains in anus, with tenesmus.

▌ Hemorrhoids: bleeding; with hard lump}- stools ; burning in margin of anus; it feels as if torn.

▌ Bleeding of hemorrhoidal tumors, and hemorrhage of bowels.

Urinary Organs p. 208

Sharp stinging pains in region of 1. kidney; complete suppression of urine, and pain in renal region, followed by urging to urinate, with emission of only a few burning drops.

││ Vesical catarrh, with pain and irritation; also vesical irritation from calculi.

Inclination to urinate about every hour, Aith aching distress in bladder.

▌ Urination painful or suppressed.

Urging to urinate, with emission of only a few burningdrops at a time.

││ Dysuria of teething children ; frequent desire, cryingwhen urinating; urine profuse, of very strong odor; external parts (female) inflamed or irritated, with considerable mucous discharge.

Urine dark, afterwards pale, double in quantity.

Hemorrhages from bladder or urethra.

Hematuria, with metrorrhagia.

Male Sexual Organs p. 208

Sticky sweat on the male genitals.

Fain in right lumbar region, passing down to testicle.

││ Gonorrhoea and gleet.

Female Sexual Organs p. 208

││ Premature and profuse menses.

▌▌ 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.

││ Dysmenorrhoea, with menorrhagia.

││ Menorrhagia, with spasmodic pains.

▌ Steady painless flow occurring during pregnancy, at 6th month, caused by overexertion.

▌ Leucorrhoea profuse, with spasmodic pains, and irritation of bladder and rectum, usually scanty menses.

││ Chronic uterine leucorrhoea.

Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 209

││ Abortion, with profuse hemorrhage, diarrhoea and dysuria.

││ Post-partum hemorrhage.

▌ Bloody lochia return after least motion ; > by rest.

││ Profuse lochia.

Voice and Larynx p. 209

Trachea and Bronchia. 1 1 Chronic bronchial affections.

Cough p. 209

Cough, with expectoration of blood-streaked matter; hard pains in lungs; cannot lie on side,

a Bloody expectoration, incipient 2:)phthisis.

▌ Haemoptysis, dark coagula, passive hemorrhage.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 209

││ Incipient stages of phthisis, with bloody expectoration.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 209

Palpitation of heart.

Neck and Back p. 209

Dull aching distress in whole dorsal region.

Severe, drawing pains in lumbar region.

Upper Limbs p. 209

Rheumatic pains in 1. shoulder, hand and thumb.

Great aching distress in elbows and wrists during rainy weather.

Rheumatic pains in thumb all evening.

Lower Limbs p. 209

Rheumatic pain in rig^it hip.

Dull pains in knees.

Severe drawing pains in ankle joint, < walking.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 209

Rest: bloody lochia >.

Cannot lie on painful side.

Every movement: increases flow; bloody lochia return.

Walking: pain in ankle joint <.

Sleep p. 209

Very drowsy early in the evening ; soon after falling asleep wakes up feeling numb and unable to move, lies in this way, suffering painful agony for half an hour.

Time p. 209

Morning: dull headache on awakening.

Forenoon: secretion of mucus in nostrils.

Evening: rheumatic pains in thumbs; very drowsy early.

Night: sore throat.

Temperature and Weather p. 210

All symptoms < during rainy weather.

Rainy weather: great aching distress in elbows and wrists.

Attacks, Periodicity p. 210

Frequent: inclination to swallow; eructations; dull pains in bowels; small stools; desire to urinate.

Every few minutes: pains in region of stomach.

Half hour : lies awake suffering.

Every hour: inclination to urinate.

Locality and Direction p. 210

Right : pain in eye ; pain in lumbar region; rheumatic pain in hip.

Left: sharp stinging pains in kidney; rheumatic pain in shoulder.

Sensations p. 210

As if something had lodged in upper j^art of oeno]3hagus; anus feels as if torn.

Pain: in forehead; in r. eye; in large joints; in renal region; in r. lumbar region to testicles.

Severe pains: in hypogastrium.

Sharp cutting pains: in region of stomach.

Sharp stinging pains: in region of kidney.

Neuralgic pains: in anus.

Spasmodic pains: in female sexual organs.

Sudden pain: in h3qDogastrium.

Hard pains: in lungs.

Drawing pains: in lumbar region ; in ankle.

Aching distress: of bladder; in dorsal region; in elbows; in wrists.

Burning: in stomach; in bowels; in rectum; in alimentary canal; in anus.

Rheumatic pains: in 1. shoulder; in hand; in thumb; in r. hip.

Dull pain: in forehead; in hypochondria; in bowels; in knees.

Dryness: of pharynx.

Smarting: of eyes.

Irritation: of rectum; of bladder.

Tissues p. 210

Produces active congestion of various organs, with a tendency to hemorrhage therefrom.

Useful in hæmatocele in the first stages.

▌▌ Hemorrhages.

Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 210

From a blow: ecchymosis upon eyeball.

Skin p. 210

Slightly elevated, sharply defined vesicles on skin.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 210

Small, frail, delicate woman, from overexertion at Gth month of pregnancy; uterine flow.

Relations p. 210

Canthar., Copaiba, Cubeba, Sabina, Terebmtli.