Collinsonia Canadensis

► Dull frontal headache, with frequent flying pains in the legs tearing in the knees.

► Tongue yellow along the base and centre ; rough, bitter taste.

► Dull distress in the right hypochondrium ; cutting pains in the hypogastrium ; with faintness.

► Constipation, stool light-colored, lumpy, with hard straining. ► Diarrhoea, mucous, bloody ; thin yellow matter, or watery, with violent tenesmus and sharp cutting in the bowels. ► Hemorrhoids, blind or bleeding ; sense of weight in rectum, itching, feeling as of sticks of sand ; caused by congestive inertia of lower bowel. Also for obstinate cases.

► Varicocele ; rectal symptoms decide.

► Chronic inflammation ; retroflexion or retroversion ; prolapsus ; when there is pelvic passive congestion, hemorrhoids, etc., ovarian neuralgia, lancinating pains, worse right side. ► Pruritus vulvae ; prolapsus uteri or during pregnancy.

► Spits dark, tough, coagulated blood, covered with viscid mucus ; previously the blood was discharged per anum.

► Irritable heart, it beats rapidly and irregularly, worse least motion or excitement ; periodical spells of faintness ; when reflex from pelvic and rectal symptoms (clinical).

► Acts upon the lower portion of the bowels, causing congestive inertia. ► Reflexly, or by similar drug effect, veins elsewhere are affected ; hence its use (like Arnica) as a vulnerary, and also its employment in varicocele.

► Compare : Aloe soc. (rectal dysentery ; latter has more paresis of rectum) : Aesculus (piles) ; Nux vom.