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Hydrastis Canadensis

30C / QHydrastis
Golden Seal · Yellow Root · "The Thick Ropy Mucus Remedy"
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🎯 Acts primarily on mucous membranes to produce thick, yellow, ropy secretions and treats states of deep exhaustion and debility.
📖 Boericke writes:
(HYDRASTIS)
Acts especially on mucous membranes, relaxing them and producing athick, yellowish, ropy secretion. The catarrh may be anywhere,-throat, stomach, uterus, urethra,-it is always characterized by this peculiar mucous discharge. Hydrastis is especially active in old, easily-tired people, cachectic individuals, with great debility. Cerebral effects prominent, feels his wits sharpened, head cleared, facile expression. Weak muscular power, poor digestion and obstinateconstipation. Lumbago. Emaciation and prostration. Its action on the liver is marked. Cancer and cancerous state, before ulceration, when pain is principal symptom. Goitre of puberty and pregnancy. Small-pox internally and locally. The power of Hydrastis over smallpox seen in modifying the disease, abolishing its distressing symptoms, shortening its course, lessening its danger and greatly mitigating its consequences (J. J. Garth Wilkinson).
👤 Constitution
•Old, easily-tired, cachectic individuals with weak muscular power and a tendency toward chronic catarrh.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS Golden Seal (HYDRASTIS) Acts especially on mucous membranes, relaxing them and producing a thick, yellowish, ropy secretion.
introduction
Thick, tenacious secretion from posterior nares to throat.
nose
Tongue white, swollen, large, flabby, slimy; shows imprint of teeth (Merc); as if scalded; stomatitis.
mouth
Bitter taste.
stomach
Dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness, particularly across lumbar region, must use arms in raising himself from seat.
back
Gleety discharge.
urine
Bronchitis in old, exhausted persons, with thick, yellow, tenacious expectoration.
respiratory
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for states of deep mental depression and hopelessness.
Depressed; sure of death, and desires it.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
📝Locally colorless.
Primary Dosage
30C
Centesimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Sulphur →
🔄 Compare With
Kali Bichromicum →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Stannum Metallicum →Arsenicum Iodatum →Conium Maculatum →Phytolacca Decandra →Galium Aparine →Asterias Rubens →Hydrastinum Muriaticum →
📚 Sources & References

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