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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 a thick, 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 obstinate constipation. 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

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

📝Locally colorless.

Primary Dosage

30C

Centesimal

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Sulphur →

🔄 Compare With

Kali Bichromicum →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Stannum Metallicum →Arsenicum Iodatum →Conium Maculatum →Phytolacca Decandra →Galium Aparine →Asterias Rubens →Hydrastinum Muriaticum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Hydrastis Canadensis is listed in 249 rubrics across 21 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 105 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System41 Abdomen41 Stomach27 Nose24 Generalities17 Throat12 Skin11 Head10 Fever10 Male Sexual System9 Respiratory System8 Mouth8 Ears7 Taste5 Tongue5 Nervous System3 Urinary System3 Mind3 Locomotor System2 Face2 Circulatory System1

See all 249 rubrics for Hydrastis Canadensis →