====== CEANOTHUS AMERICANUS ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Ceanothus Americanus.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}New Jersey Tea, or Red-root. {{anchor:s3}}Rhamnaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}Extends from Canada to the Gulf, and west to Arkansas and Iowa.

{{anchor:s5}}The bark of this root is considered astringent by the Old School and is recommended in aphthous sore mouth and throat, accompanying scarlet fever. {{anchor:s6}}See Investigator, April, 1879. --J. L. Andrews.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s8}}- L. Munyon, Am. Observ., 7, 100; clinical cases and a fragmentary proving by J. C. Burnett, in Mon. Hom. Rev., vol. 23, p. 155.

{{anchor:s9}}W. Geisse reported a case of chronic urinary trouble in an old man cured by the tea.

====== MIND. [1] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s11}}Low-spirited, fears he will become unfit for work.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s12}}~</span> <span grade3>Chronic splenitis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s13}}(In sick:) Great nervous excitement, with chilliness and loss of appetite; felt as if nerves were shaken; at dinner could scarcely hold knife and fork.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s15}}Headache in right side, with pain in region of spleen.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s17}}(OBS:) Aphthous affections of mouth and fauces.

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s19}}Deep-seated pain in left hypochondrium.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s20}}Pain and fullness in left side, with inability to lie on it.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s21}}Severe pain in region of spleen, with low spirits.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s22}}Pain in left side, for a long time with leucorrhea and chilliness.</span>\\ {{anchor:s23}}Pain in left side, headache right side; severe pain in left side, with inability (for years) to lie on that side.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}Swelling in left side, under ribs, with cutting pain, agg. in cold weather, with constant chilliness, must sit over fire.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s25}}~</span> <span grade3>Chronic splenitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s26}}Enlarged spleen, extending to within an inch of crest of ilium, with severe pain in side.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Chronic hypertrophy of spleen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s28}}~</span> <span grade3>After intermittent.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s30}}Diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s31}}(OBS:) Dysentery.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

{{anchor:s33}}(OBS:) Syphilitic complaints.

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s35}}Leucorrhea, profuse, thick and yellow, with pain under left ribs.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s36}}~</span> <span grade3>Chronic splenitis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s37}}(In sick:) Menses appeared ten days too early, and very profusely.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}Menses appears every two weeks.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Metrorrhagia, with pain in region of spleen.</span>

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s41}}(In sick:) Chilliness down back.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s45}}Cannot lie down, on account of pain in left side.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Must sit over fire.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s48}}~</span> <span grade3>Splenitis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s49}}Cold weather: agg. swelling and pain in left side under ribs.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s51}}(In sick:) Chilliness, principally down back; shivering; loss of appetite, and nervous excitement.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s52}}Rigors at frequent intervals, with pain in left side.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s53}}~</span> <span grade3>Chronic splenitis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s54}}Intermittent, with chronic enlargement of spleen.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s56}}Every two weeks, menses.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s58}}Right: headache.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Left: pain in region of spleen; deep-seated pain in hypochondrium; pain and fullness in hypochondrium, with inability to lie down, with leucorrhea and chilliness; swelling in side under ribs; pain in side, with rigors.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s61}}As if nerves were shaken.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Cutting: in left side under ribs.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Pain: in left side.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Fullness: in left side.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s66}}Girl, aet. 14; splenitic pain.</span>\\ {{anchor:s67}}A young lady, aet. about 26; chronic splenitis.\\ {{anchor:s68}}A woman, aet. about 30, or 32, mother of several children, ill-fed and overworked; chronic hypertrophy of spleen.\\ {{anchor:s69}}A middle-aged, childless lady, of fresh complexion; chronic hypertrophy of spleen.\\ {{anchor:s70}}A lady, aet. about 55; chronic splenitis, chills and leucorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s71}}A young man; chronic splenitis.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s73}}Berber.</span> helped the pain in spleen when <span grade2>Ceanoth.</span> failed.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Conium helped in second attack of metrorrhagia when Ceanoth. failed.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s75}}Myr. cerif.</span> finished the cure of icterus, after <span grade2>Ceanoth.</span> relieved the severe pain in left side.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 03, 1881 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r637|Ceanothus Americanus]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r637|Ceanothus Americanus]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1881 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}