Mirza Tahir Ahmad James Tyler Kent
The medicine Hydrastis is prepared from the roots of orange tree. It is very important in the treatment of liver diseases. It is also related to the skin and inner linings (mucous membranes). Amongst its superficial symptoms, skin ulcers are very conspicuous. When these ulcers change into cancer, and do not respond to any other treatment, Hydrastis must not be forgotten. By the grace of God, Hydrastis is known to control these dangerous kinds of ulcers growing out of hand.
Hydrastis is very effective against the deep-seated cancerous masses and chronic ulcers of the eye. Honey is the best form of local treatment for these chronic ulcers. The local application of pure honey two to three times a day will initially increase the exudation of the fluid, following which the ulcers start to heal. Recent research has shown that cancerous wounds that do not respond to any other medicines are cured with local application of honey.
Being deeply related to the liver diseases, Hydrastis affects the appetite. A very peculiar symptom is that there is a feeling of strong craving and weakness while hungry, even though there is intense dislike for food. However, there is no associated nausea. These symptoms are also found in some other diseases, though in slightly different form.
The cold in a patient of Hydrastis is associated with constant presence of sticky yellow thick exudates in the nose, which then dries up. On picking the nose, the children develop sores, from which blood may ooze. Hydrastis is the best remedy for these kinds of sores in the nose. The symptoms of Hydrastis are relieved with rest. When the ailment aggravates, the face shows signs of jaundice. It becomes yellowish. The eyelids swell and sores develop on them (Blephritis). Thick offensive smelling material forms in the ears causing deafness.
While the patient with symptoms of nasal catarrh stays inside the room, the nose stops running but the discomfort increases when in the open again. Due to the extreme dislike for food a Hydrastis patient has to live on milk, which he zealously drinks and can also digest easily. The patient suffers from stiffness and cramping of the muscles.
Hydrastis is also useful in the treatment of chronic piles. There is a lot of wind in the stomach. The urine is scanty but offensive. The leucorrhoeal discharge in women also smells foul. There is itching in the trachea (windpipe) causing cough. In Hydrastis, like Phosphorus, even a gentle laugh provokes severe coughing.
In a patient of Hydrastis, apart from the aching of the body and the legs, there is increasing weakness, which improves on slow movement. In this regard, it resembles Rhus Tox. Although, in Hydrastis rest gives general relief to the patient however, gentle walking relieves his aches. The feet of such a patient swell. The swelling or oedema due to liver disorder usually affects the face and the abdomen before involving the feet.
Hydrastis is in general a very effective remedy for the old, frail and those who get tired easily. The patient remains depressed. He believes he is going to die soon. In fact, he desires to be dead. He is both lazy and cowardly. The pain over the forehead is a prominent symptom, which is often due to constipation. There is pain over the head and in the muscles of the neck. A streak of eczema forms along the hairline over the forehead.
The patient remains constipated. There is pain over the lower part of the abdomen, which becomes worse after defaecation. The stomach aches. Digestion becomes poor. The taste in the mouth is bitter and the tongue becomes whitish. In women, there is a tendency towards the formation of lumps in the breasts, and if these lumps persist for a long time, they can transform into cancer. After the periods finish the discharge increases, leading to the formation of ulcers over the cervix associated with severe itching.
Hydrastis is also useful in smallpox. It ameliorates its symptoms, shortens its duration and minimizes the potential bad aftereffects.
Antidote: Sulphur
Potency: 30 to 200.
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad
HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS
Hydrastis is a slow, deep acting remedy, required in many trophic disturbances. where there is emaciation, catarrhal conditions and ulceration, even malignant ulceration. Defective assimilation.
When it is noticed that the stomach is the center of most of the symptom complex. The desires and aversions often give the key to a very complex totality of symptoms. In this remedy the sinking empty hunger with loathing of food is striking, strange, rare, and therefore Peculiar. It is characteristic because it is a general of the remedy, and is predicated of the patient. Great weakness prevails at all times.
Catarrhal symptoms with thick, viscid, ropy, yellow mucus, sometimes white, from any mucous membrane, with or without ulceration. Deep eating spreading ulcers upon the skin or mucous membrane, with thick, viscid, yellow pus. Induration in glands, in base of ulcers. False granulations that bleed much and easily, on the slightest touch.
This remedy has been very useful in the treatment of malignant ulcers. In such ulcers it is often a great comfort to the patient, even when it does not cure, as it removes the offensiveness, modifies the pain and restrains the destructiveness.
The burning so commonly found in such ulcers is a strong symptom of Hydrastis. When the weakness and emaciation have progressed together for months and years in chronic stomach disease, fainting comes on, and this is also found in Hydrastis. In chronic cases, when the tissues have suffered and not the mind.
The astonishing absence of mental symptoms except the general discouragement incidental to long suffering and weakness is striking. If it were carefully proved, most likely the mental loves and hates would come out. The symptoms are better during rest. Small wounds bleed and suppurate.
The headaches are only such as generally belong to stomach disorders, and prolonged nasal catarrh. They are not distinctive. It has cured eczema with thick crusts.
The eyes and face jaundiced. Ulceration of the cornea. Thick, yellow, viscid, mucous discharge. Chronic inflammation of lids. Inflammation, thickening, redness of margins of lids.
Otorrhoea with thick, viscid, purulent discharge. Copious mucous discharge. Catarrh of the Eustachian tubes with many noises in ears. Ears red, swollen, covered with scales; fissured behind where connected with head.
The nose is obstructed with stringy, yellow or white mucus. The air feels cold in the nose, and the membrane is raw and ulcerated. Ropy mucus is drawn from posterior nares into the throat. Rawness in both nares with constant urging to blow the nose. Coryza with discharge, scanty in room and profuse in open air. Bloody, purulent discharge from nose. Thick, white, or yellow mucous discharge. Large crusts constantly form in the nose.
The face is sickly, shrunken, pale, waxy, cachectic, jaundiced. It is of great service in epithelioma of face, nose or lip.
The tongue is yellow, large, flabby and spongy. Feels as if burnt. Ulceration of mouth, gums, tongue; spreading and burning. Aphthae in children and nursing mothers. Excessive secretions of ropy mucus; golden yellow. Excoriation of mouth. In old mercurial cases.
Catarrhal sore throat of long standing, granulated and ulcerated excoriated and burning. Thick, viscid, yellow mucus that can be drawn out in ropes.
No appetite; no thirst; loathing of food. Nearly all foods disorder the stomach. Spitting up the food by the mouthful (like Phos. and Ferr.). Vomits all food. Retains only water and milk. Eructations, sour, putrid, of food eaten.
Empty, faint feeling in stomach with loathing of food and obstinate constipation with no desire for stool, is a combination that must generally have Hydrastis. Pulsation in the stomach. Ulceration of the stomach with burning. For suspicious lump in region of pylorus. Weight in stomach after eating. The stomach seems to be only an ordinary sack; digestion is slow, and tedious. Fullness after eating, lasting a long time. The empty, sinking feeling is not ameliorated after eating. Sour vomiting. Chronic gastric catarrh. Slow digestion.
This must be a useful liver remedy, for the following reasons: The skin is jaundiced; the stool is light, even white, showing the absence of bile, and there is distress in the region of the liver. In chronic derangement of the liver. Liver enlarged, hard and nodular.
Cramping pains. Colic, Flatulence and distended abdomen. It has cured many of the usual conditions that generally attend bad digestion and torpid liver. Intestinal catarrh and ulceration. Sharp pain in region of spleen.
It has cured obstinate piles, ulceration and fissures of anus. Relaxation and prolapsus of anus. Chronic diarrhoea with yellow, thin faeces, even watery. Inflammation of anus. Stools, bileless, white, soft, acrid, greenish, much viscid mucus. Hard, nodular stools. Most obstinate constipation; no desire for stool for days.
Paresis of the rectum. It cures constipation, when the stomach symptoms agree. In old cases when enemas no longer act, when the faeces remain high up, or do not come down into rectum to excite desire, this remedy has been of great service. In constipation or diarrhoea with "goneness" in stomach, trembling in the abdomen and palpitation.
Urine scanty or suppressed. Chronic catarrh of bladder with much viscid mucus in urine, causing difficulty in flow of urine.
Catarrh of the urethra. Chronic gonorrhoea when the discharge remains yellow in spite of time. Copious, painless discharge. Relaxed scrotum and testes. Offensive sweat of genitals.
Thick, yellow, viscid leucorrhoea, sometimes white, sometimes offensive. Excoriation of vagina. Soreness in vagina during coition. Bleeding after coition. Uterine haemorrhage. Menses copious. Relaxed, dragging feeling in pelvis. Intense itching of vulva. Epithelioma of mamma.
Most obstinate catarrh of larynx, trachea and bronchial tubes, with co
bu Kpious, thick, ropy mucus and ulceration. Rawness in air passages. Catarrh of chest in old people.
The cough, is dry, hard; from tickling in larynx. Rawness in chest. Rattling cough. Thick, yellow, viscid, sometimes white, expectoration in old people, or when very chronic.
Palpitation from slowly progressing weakness. Weakness and stiffness in back in lumbar region, must walk about before he can straighten up the back. Must use the arms to rise from a seat.
Rheumatic pains in upper limbs. Weakness and rheumatic pains in lower limbs. Ulcers on legs and about ankles, with stinging, burning pains; high, hard edges; painful at night in warm bed; sensitive to touch. Oedema of feet.
Warmth and washing aggravate ulcers and eruptions. The skin, excoriates easily. Urticaria over body, aggravated at night. Fissures about mouth and anus.
Ulceration. Bed sores. Lupus evedens.
by James Tyler Kent