Materia Medica
Cistus Canadensis
Rock Rose
A deep-acting anti-psoric remedy, with marked action in glandular affections, herpetic eruptions, chronic swellings, when patient is extremely sensitive to cold. Sensation of coldness in various parts. Scrofulous oph- thalmia. Poisoned wounds, bites, phagedenic ulcers. Malignant disease of the glands of the neck. Cistus has affinity for naso-pharynx; aborts colds that center in posterior nose. Sniffling.
Ears
Watery discharge; also fetid pus. Tetter on and around ears, extending to external meatus.
Face
Itching, burning, and crusts on right zygoma. Lupus, caries; open, bleeding cancer. Tip of nose painful.
Mouth
Scorbutic swollen gums. Mouth feels cold; putrid, impure breath. Pyorrhaa. [Merc. cor.; Cuust.; Staph.; Krcos.] Hurts io protrude the tongue.
Throat
Spongy feeling; very dry and cold air pass- ing over paris causes pain. Breath, tongue, and throat fel coid. Uvula and tonsils swollen. A small, dry spot in throat; must sip water frequently. Hawking of mucus. Swelling and suppuration of glands of throat. Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck. Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air. Heat and itch- ing in throat.
Stomach
Cool feeling in stomach before and after eating. Cool feeling in whole abdomen. Desire for cheese.
Stool
Diarrhcea from coffee and fruit, thin. yellow, urgent; worse in inorning.
Female
Induration and inflammation of mamm2. Sensitive to cold air. Bad smelling leucorrhoea.
Respiratory
Asthmatic after lying down (trachea feels narrow). preceded by formication.
Chest
Coldness in chest. The neck is studded with tumors. Induration of mammx. Hemorrhage from lungs.
Extremities
Sprained pain in wrist. Tips of fingers sensitive to cold. Tetter on hands. Cold feet. Syphilitic ulcers on lower limbs, with hard swelling around. White swelling.
Skin
Itching all over. Small, painful piinples: lupus. Glands inflaincd and indurated. Mercurio-syph- ilitic ulcers. Skin of hands hard, thick, dry, fissured; deep cracks. Itching of swollen hands and arins; gen- eral itching which prevents sleep. Hemicrania.
Sleep
Cannot sleep from coldness in throat.
Modalities
Worse, slightest exposure to cold air. Better after eating.
Relationships
Antidotes: Rhus; Sepia. Compare: Conium; Carbo: Calc; Arg. n.
Dose
First to thirtieth attenuation. Locally as a wash to arrest fetid discharges.