HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS

Hydrastis Canadensis

(Golden Seal)

Hydr.

Acts primarily on mucous membranes, relaxing them and causing thick, yellowish, ropy secretions. The catarrh can be in the throat, stomach, uterus, or urethra, always marked by a distinctive mucoid discharge. Hydr. is particularly effective in older, easily fatigued individuals with great debility. It sharpens the mind, clears the head, and aids in expression. Symptoms include weak muscles, poor digestion, obstinate constipation, lumbago, emaciation, and prostration. It significantly impacts the liver. Useful for cancer before ulceration, particularly when pain is the main symptom. Also indicated for goitre during puberty and pregnancy, and smallpox, reducing symptoms and severity (J. J. Garth Wilkinson).

Mind: Depressed; certain of death and desires it.

Head: Dull, pressing frontal pain, especially with constipation. Myalgic pain in the scalp and neck muscles. Eczema on the forehead along the hairline. Sinusitis following coryza.

Ears: Roaring, muco-purulent discharge, deafness, and Eustachian catarrh with a high-pitched voice.

Nose: Thick, tenacious secretion from the posterior nares to the throat. Watery, excoriating discharge. Ozena with septum ulceration. Constant nose blowing.

Mouth: Peppery taste, white, swollen, flabby tongue showing teeth imprints, as if scalded; stomatitis, tongue ulceration with fissures (glossitis).

Throat: Follicular pharyngitis, raw, smarting, excoriating sensation, hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus. Child awakes suddenly due to post-nasal dripping. Goitre during puberty and pregnancy.

Stomach: Constant sore feeling, weak digestion, bitter taste, pain as if from a hard substance, all-gone sensation, pulsation in the epigastrium. Cannot eat bread or vegetables. Atonic dyspepsia, ulcers, and cancer. Gastritis.

Abdomen: Gastro-duodenal catarrh, torpid liver, jaundice, gallstones. Dull dragging in the right groin with cutting sensation in the right testicle.

Rectum: Prolapsed, fissured anus, constipation with a sinking feeling in the stomach, dull headache. Smarting pain during stool, long-lasting pain after stool. Hemorrhoids; even a light flow exhausts. Contraction and spasm.

Urinary: Gleety discharge, decomposed-smelling urine.

Male: Second stage gonorrhea with thick yellow discharge.

Female: Cervical erosion and excoriation, leucorrhea worse after menses, acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious. Menorrhagia, pruritus vulvae with profuse leucorrhea, sexual excitement, breast tumor with retracted nipple.

Respiratory: Raw, sore, burning chest, dry, harsh cough, later-stage bronchial catarrh, bronchitis in old, exhausted people with thick, yellow expectoration. Frequent fainting spells with cold sweat. Suffocation feeling when lying on the left side, pain from the chest to the left shoulder.

Back: Dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness, particularly across the lumbar region, requiring use of arms to rise from a seat.

Skin: Eruptions like variola, lupus, ulcers, cancerous formations. General tendency to profuse perspiration and unhealthy skin.

Relationship: Antidote: Sulph. Useful after excess Chlorate of Potash for sore throat.
Compare: Xanthorrhiza apifolia, Kali-bi., Con., Ars-i., Phyt., Galium aparine (cancer-nodulated tongue tumor); Aster., Stann., Puls. Also Manzanita (diarrhea, gonorrhea, gleet, leucorrhea, catarrhal conditions). Hydrastininum muriaticum (aphthous sore mouth, ulcers, ozena; third decimal trituration internally; uterine hemostatic, vasoconstrictor, metrorrhagia, fibroids, stomach dilation, chronic digestive disorders). Hydrastinin sulphuricum 1x (bowel hemorrhage in typhoid). Marrubium album–Hoarhound (mucous membrane stimulant, laryngeal and bronchial; chronic bronchitis, dyspepsia, hepatic disorders; colds, and coughs).

Dose: Tincture to thirtieth attenuation. Locally use colorless Hydr., mother tincture, or fluid extract.