Cistus Canadensis

► All mental excitement increases the suffering. ► Bad effects of vexation.

► Headache in the sinciput after being kept waiting for dinner ; better after eating. ► Headache generally grows worse toward evening and lasts all night.

► Pressing pain at root of nose, with headache. ► Pressure in the glabella. ► Head drawn to one side by swellings in the neck.

► Scrofulous inflammation of long standing ; feeling as if something were passing around in eye, with stitches. ► Spasmodic piercing pain in the middle of the upper rim or the right orbit, with some headache on that side.

► Watery, bad-smelling pus discharged from the ears ; inner swelling of the ears. ► Tetters on and around the ears, extending into the external meatus. ► Swelling beginning at ear and extending half way up cheek. ► Swelling of parotids.

► Cold feeling in the nose. ► Frequent and violent sneezing, mostly evening and morning ; chronic nasal catarrh. ► Left side inflamed and swollen. ► Tip of nose painful. ► Eczema of the nose.

► Flushes of heat in the face. ► Vesicular erysipelas. ► Heat and burning in bones. ► Sharp shooting, intolerable itching and thick crusts, with burning on the right zygoma.

► Caries of the lower jaw ; with suppurating glands in the neck. ► Open, bleeding cancer on lower lip. ► Lupus exedens on mouth and nose.

► Twitching, stitching toothache in an upper left decayed molar. ► Scorbutic swollen gums, separating from the teeth ; easily bleeding, putrid, disgusting.

► Dryness of tongue and roof of mouth. ► Tongue sore, surface as if raw.

► Inhaled air feels cool to tongue.

► Fauces inflamed and dry, without a dry feeling ; tough, gum like, thick, tasteless mucus is brought up by hawking, mostly morning. ► Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air, not from warm air. ► Must swallow saliva to relieve the unbearable dryness, especially during the night. ► Dryness in the throat, worse after sleeping. ► A small dry spot in the gullet ; worse after sleeping ; must get up and drink ; better after eating ; throat looks glassy ; on the back of throat strips of tough mucus. ► Stitches in throat cause cough ; when mentally agitated.

► Desire for acid food ; for acid fruits ; but pain and diarrhoea follow after eating them.

► Eating and drinking relieve dry throat ; pain in sinciput less. ► After eating : pain in stomach ; cold feeling in stomach ; after fruit or coffee, diarrhoea.

► Cold eructations. ► Frequent nausea.

► Cold feeling in stomach before and after eating.

► Cold feeling in whole abdomen. ► Flatulence and bruised pain in hypochondria ; evening and night.

► Thin, greyish-yellow, hot stools ; squirting out ; irresistible urging ; worse afterpart of night until noon. ► Diarrhoea from coffee, acid fruits ; diarrhoea, with goitre. ► Discharge of much flatus. ► Chronic diarrhoea.

► Itching on the scrotum.

► Catamenia does not appear, after erysipelas.

► Induration and inflammation of the mammae. ► Let mamma inflamed, suppurating with a feeling of fulness in the chest ; sensibility to cold air ; scrofulous.

► Inhaled air feels cool, in larynx and trachea. ► Chronic itching in larynx and trachea. ► Pain in the trachea. ► Goitre, size of hen's egg ; frequent diarrhoea.

► Asthmatic, in the evening after lying down and at night, loud wheezing, sensation as if the trachea had not space enough.

► From stitches in the throat ; with painful tearing in the throat ; the neck studded with tumors.

► Feeling of rawness from chest to throat. ► Fulness in the chest.

► Hurts when touched. ► Pressure on chest. ► Small painful pimples, which bleed easily and heal slowly, across the shoulders and on the breast.

► Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of the glands of the throat. ► Drawing pains at nape, and each side of spine, headache in the temples. ► Scrofulous ulcers on the back. ► Burning, bruised pain in the os coccygis, prevents sitting ; worse from touch.

► Violent pain in left shoulder and chest ; feels as if eructation would relieve it. ► Tips of fingers sensitive to cold air. ► Tetter on the hands ; blisters, oozing after scratching, with hot swelling. ► Panaritium. ► Hard, thickened places on hands of workmen ; with deep, oblique cracks.

► Pains in knee and right thigh, walking or sitting. ► Tearing in the knees ; evening. ► Hard swelling around mercurio-syphilitic ulcers on legs. ► Piercing pain in the right great toe ; evening. ► Cold feet. ► Swelling of left leg, ulcer thereon ; skin copper-colored.

► Bruised pain, as from fatigue.

► Involuntary drawing and trembling feeling in muscular parts of hands and lower extremities, with pain in the wrists, fingers and knee-joints. ► Trembling with the fever.

► Restless at night ; pain from flatulence. ► Sleeplessness from dryness of throat. ► Anxious dreams. ► On awaking, pain under hypochondria.

► Cold air : 13, 32, 46.

► Chilliness. ► Chill succeeded by heat, with trembling, accompanied by a quick swelling and great redness of the glands below the ear and in the throat. ► Cold feeling : in the abdomen ; in the larynx and trachea. ► Cold feet. ► Heat with thirst, drinks frequently. ► In a warm room, skin grows moist ; forehead cool externally, with an internal feeling of coolness. ► Night-sweats. ► Sweats very easily.

► Right : 5, 8. Left : 7, 10, 24, 32.

► Glands swollen, inflamed, indurated or ulcerated. ► Scrofula. ► Old ulcers. ► Caries of the lower jaw. ► Pains in all joints ; drawing, tearing ; worse in evening.

► Touch : 30, 31. Scratching : 32.

► Itching all over the body, without eruption. ► Herpetic eruption on various parts. ► Scrofula ; extremely sensitive to cold air. ► Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers surrounded by hard swelling ; on the lower limbs.

► Bellad., Carb. veg., Phosphor., act favourably between repeated doses of Cistus. ► Sepia cured painfully swollen nose, resulting from Cistus. ► Drinking coffee after Cistus may cause diarrhoea.