Sanguinaria Canadensis Homeopathy Mother Tincture Q

About Sanguinaria Canadensis Mother Tincture Q

Also known as Sanguinaria , Blood Root

It is a right-sided remedy and is indicated in chronic headache and chronic infections of the respiratory tract and climacteric complaints in females.

Sanguinaria Canadensis Patient Profile

Head: Pain especially right sided from exposure to heat of sun with marked periodicity. Dull, sick headache where pain begins in the occiput, spreads upwardsand extend over the eyes, especially on the right side with distended veins at the temples. Headache better by lying down and sleep. climacteric headaches which returns every seventh day.

Face: Hot and flushed face with neuralgic pains extending in all directions from the upper jaw. Redness and burning of cheeks with tenderness behind the angle of jaws.

Nose: Symptoms of Hay-fever with frequent sneezing and runny nose. Chronic infection of nasal mucosa with profuse, offensive yellowish discharges. Chronic inflammation of nasal mucosa with coryza and nasal polypi. Coryza followed by diarrhea.

Throat: Congestion of throat with swelling of tonsils worse on right side. Dryness of throat with constricted feeling. Dry mouth and pharynx with ulcers and scalded tongue.

Respiratory: Swelling and oedema of the larynx with soreness of the trachea. Loss of voice or hoarseness. Cough with burning pain in the chest and of gastric origin which is better by eructation. Thick tough, rust-colored and offensive sputum which is difficult to expel. Cough from tickling sensation behind the sternum worse from cold. Soreness in right chest and under right nipple extending to right shoulder. Fetid breath and purulent expectoration with severe dyspnea.

Modalities: Worse from sweets, right side, motion and touch. Better from acids, sleep and darkness.

Dosage: Please note that the dosage of single homoeopathic medicines varies from drug to drug depending upon the condition, age, sensitivity and other things. In some cases they are given as regular doses as 3-5 drops 2-3 times a day whereas in other cases they are given only once in a week, month or even in a longer period. We strongly recommend that the medication should be taken as per the physician's advice.

Other symptoms are also found in:

Ears

Stomach

Abdomen

Female

Extremities

Skin

Sanguinaria Canadensis as per Boericke Materia Medica

Is a right-sided remedy pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the mucous membranes, especially of the respiratory tract. It has marked vaso-motor 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 diarrhœa. 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. Ozæna, with profuse, offensive yellowish discharges. Nasal polypi. Coryza, followed by diarrhœa. 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; gastro-duodenal catarrh.

Abdomen.--Diarrhœa as coryza improves. Pain over region of liver. Diarrhœa; bilious, liquid, gushing stool (Nat sulph; Lycop). Cancer of rectum.

Female.--Leucorrhœa fetid, corrosive. Menses offensive, profuse. Soreness of breasts. Uterine polypi. Before, menses, itching of axillæ. Climacteric disorders.

Respiratory.--Œdema 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. Hæmoptysis from suppressed menses. Severe dyspnœa 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 diarrhœa.

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 soles of feet burn. Right-side 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.

Modalities.--Worse, sweets, right side, motion, touch. Better, acids, sleep, darkness.

Relationship.--Complementary: Tart em.

Compare: Justicia (bronchial catarrh, coryza, hoarseness; oversensitive). Digitalis (Migraine). Bell; Iris; Melil; Lach; Ferr; Op.

Dose.--Tincture in headaches; sixth potency in rheumatism.