====== ERIGERON CANADENSE ====== {{anchor:s1}}Erigeron. {{anchor:s2}}(Erigeron Canadense.) {{anchor:s3}}Canada Flea Bane. {{anchor:s4}}Compositae. {{anchor:s5}}Grows in Canada and the United States as a weed. {{anchor:s6}}The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant when in bloom in July and August. {{anchor:s7}}Used by the aborigines as an application to wounds. {{anchor:s8}}Proved by W. H. Burt. {{anchor:s9}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, p. 211. {{anchor:s10}}A fragmentary proving of the Erigeron philadelphicum, by A. Lippe, not published, is here inserted, the symptoms marked %%'*'%%. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s12}}- Dysuria in teething children (2 cases), Ring, N. A. J. H., vol. 5, p. 282; Uterine flow, Warren, Med. Inv., vol. 5, p. 35; Cough, Wright, Hom. Times, vol. 2, p. 10; Hemorrhages, Palmer, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 121. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s14}}Lowness of spirits, with a feeling of great languor. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s16}}Congestion of head, red face, nosebleed; febrile action.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Dull frontal headache on waking in morning.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Dull headache, with ringing in right ear.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Headache, with pain in forehead and right eye, and pain in large joints. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s21}}Smarting of eyes all day.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Redness, swelling, inflammation, with profuse muco purulent discharges from eyes.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Echymoses upon eyeballs or around eye, from a blow. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s25}}Increased secretion of mucus in nostrils all forenoon.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Epistaxis of bright red blood. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s28}}Profuse bleeding from gums. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s30}}Dryness of pharynx; roughness, with sensation as if something had lodged in upper part of esophagus.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Sore throat all night, with frequent inclination to swallow.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Inflammation and ulceration of throat.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Tonsillitis. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s35}}Nausea, with frequent eructations.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Violent retching and burning in stomach, with vomiting of blood. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s38}}Sharp cutting pains in region of stomach every few minutes.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Violent retching, with burning in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Hematemesis, from ulceration and rupture of blood vessels. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s42}}Dull pains in hypochondria. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s44}}Frequent dull pains in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Sudden, severe pains in hypogastrium, followed by mushy stool.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Flatulent colic.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Tympanites. {{anchor:s48}}~ Typhoid fever. {{anchor:s49}}~ Dysentery. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s51}}Stools, bloody or mucous; small, streaked with blood; tormina; burning in bowels and rectum; hard lumps of feces mixed with the discharges; mushy, undigested.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Sudden pain in hypogastrium followed by papescent stools.\\ {{anchor:s53}}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.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Scybala, with dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Inflammation of mucous coats of colon and rectum.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Thin papescent stool, with burning in bowels and rectum.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Natural stool, followed by severe neuralgic pains in anus, with tenesmus.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Hemorrhoids: bleeding; with hard lumpy stools; burning in margin of anus; it feels as if torn.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Bleeding of hemorrhoidal tumors, and hemorrhage of bowels. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Sharp stinging pains in region of left kidney; complete suppression of urine, and pain in renal region, followed by urging to urinate, with emission of only a few burning drops.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Vesical catarrh, with pain and irritation; also vesical irritation from calculi.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Inclination to urinate about every hour, with aching distress in bladder.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Urination painful or suppressed.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Urging to urinate, with emission of only a few burning drops at a time.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Dysuria of teething children; frequent desire, crying when urinating; urine profuse, of very strong odor; external parts (female) inflamed or irritated, with considerable mucous discharge.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Urine dark, afterwards pale, double in quantity.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Hemorrhages from bladder or urethra.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Haematuria, with metrorrhagia. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s71}}Sticky sweat on the male genitals. *\\ {{anchor:s72}}Pain in right lumbar region, passing down to testicle.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Gonorrhea and gleet. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Premature and profuse menses.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Metrorrhagia: with violent irritation of rectum and bladder; after abortion, with diarrhea and dysuria; with prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Very profuse flow of bright red blood; every movement of patient increases the flow; pallor and weakness.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Dysmenorrhea, with menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Menorrhagia, with spasmodic pains.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Steady painless flow occurring during pregnancy, at 6th month, caused by overexertion.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Leucorrhea profuse, with spasmodic pains, and irritation of bladder and rectum, usually scanty menses.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Chronic uterine leucorrhea. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s86}}Abortion, with profuse hemorrhage, diarrhea and dysuria.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Post-partum hemorrhage.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Bloody lochia return after least motion; amel. by rest.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Profuse lochia. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s92}}Chronic bronchial affections. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s94}}Cough, with expectoration of blood-streaked matter; hard pains in lungs; cannot lie on side.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Bloody expectoration, incipient phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Haemoptysis, dark coagula, passive hemorrhage. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s98}}Incipient stages of phthisis; with bloody expectoration. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s100}}Palpitation of heart. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s102}}Dull aching distress in whole dorsal region.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Severe, drawing pains in lumbar region. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s105}}Rheumatic pains in left shoulder, hand and thumb. *\\ {{anchor:s106}}Great aching distress in elbows and wrists during rainy weather.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Rheumatic pains in thumb all evening. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s109}}Rheumatic pain in right hip. *\\ {{anchor:s110}}Dull pains in knees.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Severe drawing pains in ankle joint, agg. walking. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s115}}Rest: bloody lochia amel.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Cannot lie on painful side.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Every movement: increases flow; bloody lochia return.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Walking: pain in ankle joint agg. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s120}}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. [38] ====== {{anchor:s122}}Morning: dull headache on awakening.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Forenoon: secretion of mucus in nostrils.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Evening: rheumatic pains in thumbs; very drowsy early.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Night: sore throat. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s127}}All symptoms agg. during rainy weather.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Rainy weather: great aching distress in elbows and wrists. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s130}}Frequent: inclination to swallow; eructations; dull pains in bowels; small stools; desire to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Every few minutes: pains in region of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Half hour: lies awake suffering.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Every hour: inclination to urinate. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s135}}Right: pain in eye; pain in lumbar region; rheumatic pain in hip.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Left: sharp stinging pains in kidney; rheumatic pain in shoulder. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s138}}As if something had lodged in upper part of esophagus; anus feels as if torn.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Pain: in forehead; in right eye; in large joints; in renal region; in right lumbar region to testicles.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Severe pains: in hypogastrium.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Sharp cutting pains: in region of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Sharp stinging pains: in region of kidney.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Neuralgic pains: in anus.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Spasmodic pains: in female sexual organs.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Sudden pain: in hypogastrium.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Hard pains: in lungs.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Drawing pains: in lumbar region; in ankle.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Aching distress: of bladder; in dorsal region; in elbows; in wrists.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Burning: in stomach; in bowels; in rectum; in alimentary canal; in anus.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Rheumatic pains: in left shoulder; in hand; in thumb; in right hip.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Dull pain: in forehead; in hypochondria; in bowels; in knees.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Dryness: of pharynx.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Smarting: of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Irritation: of rectum; of bladder. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s156}}Produces active congestion of various organs, with a tendency to hemorrhage therefrom.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Useful in hematocele in the first stages.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Hemorrhages. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s162}}From a blow: ecchymosis upon eyeball. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s164}}Slightly elevated, sharply defined vesicles on skin. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s166}}Small, frail, delicate woman, from overexertion at 6th month of pregnancy; uterine flow. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s168}}Canthar., Copaiva, Cubeba, Sabina, Terebinth. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 05, 1887 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r451|Erigeron canadense]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r451|Erigeron canadense]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1887 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}