Canchalagua


Canchalagua signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Canchalagua is used…


      Erythraea chironiodes. *N. O. Gentianaceae. Tincture of whole plant when in flower.

Clinical

Influenza. Intermittents.

Characteristics

This is a popular Californian remedy. It is indicated in intermittents of most severe type of hot countries, general sore, bruised feeling, nausea and retching, the skin becomes wrinkled like a washer woman’s. It was proved by Dr. Richter, who experienced the following among other symptoms: Head feels congested. Scalp tight, feels as if drawn together by India rubber. Stitches, pain, buzzing and roaring in ears. Constipation, hard, knotty stools. Chills repeatedly down back worse in bed, at night. Sleeplessness. After the proving, a cold wind could be borne better than before.

Relations

*Compare: The Gentians, Chi., Ip.

SYMPTOMS.

Head

Head feels congested. Pressive pains in forehead. Scalp feels tight, as if drawn together with India rubber.

Eyes

Burning in eyes, first left then right.

Ears

Piercing or stitches in ears. Increased buzzing and roaring.

Mouth

Spitting of white mucus, with trembling and nervousness.

Stomach

Increased appetite. Eructations. Regurgitations. Water-brash.

Abdomen

Flatus. Slight pain better by pressure.

Stool and Anus

Several loose stools a day. Constipation. Hard, knotty, morning stool.

Chest

It alleviated a catarrh produced by influenza.

Generalities

That kind of pain in head and fingers which is concomitant with the attacks of intermittent fever.

Sleep

Sleeplessness (from first trituration).

Fever

Chills repeatedly, down the spine and all over, especially in bed at night. Heat in whole body, I could bear, after the proving, the cool trade wind, usually setting in, in San Francisco, in the afternoon, better than before.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica