Materia Medica
Ceanothus
New Jersey Tea
New Jersey Tea (CEANOTHUS) This remedy seems to possess a specific relation to the spleen. Ague cake of malaria. A left-sided remedy generally. Anaemic patients where liver and spleen are at fault. Chronic bronchitis with profuse secretion. Marked blood pressure, reducing powers. Active hemastatic, materially reducing the clotting of blood.
Abdomen
Enormous enlargement of the spleen. Splenitis; pain all up the left side. Deep-seated pain in left hypochondrium, hypertrophy of spleen. Leucaemia. Violent dyspnoea. Menses profuse, and yellow weakening leucorrhoea. Unable to lie on left side. Pain in liver and back.
Rectum
Diarrhoea; bearing down in abdomen and rectum.
Urinary
Constant urging to urinate. Green; frothy; contains bile, sugar.
Modalities
Worse, motion, lying on left side.
Relationships
Compare: Tinospora cordifolia (a Hindoo medicine for chronic cases of fever with enlarged spleen). Polymnia uvedalia-Bearsfoot--(acute splenitis with tenderness over left hypochondriac region; spleen enlarged, ague cake. Vascular atony, tissues sodden, flabby and non-elastic. Enlarged glands; influences all ductless glands). Ceanothus thrysiflorus-California Lilac--(Pharyngitis, tonsillitis, nasal catarrh, diphtheria. Tincture internally and as a gargle). Compare: Berberis; Myrica; Cedron; Agaricus (spleen).
Dose
First attenuation. Locally as hair tonic.