A tincture is prepared from the fresh root of Collinsonia Canadensis, L.
General Action
From our scanty information it seems to act upon the “haemorrhoidal sphere” similarly to Aloes, Sulphur, etc.
Generalities
Warmth spreading along internal mucous surfaces of lips, deepening into a feeling of largeness, with sensation of needles darting back and forth, the same numbness or needle-like darting to and fro in face, cheeks forehead, hairy parts under chin, from ear to ear, while inner surface of lips and whole buccal cavity were excited, the face seemed to grow broader, with exhilaration of mind, then r. forearm to finger-tips felt numb, a weary heaviness, then l.arm and fingers, ball of thumbs more numb than fingers, nausea, lips seemed growing larger and mouth seemed to stand open like a huge catfish’s lips dry, mouth tingling and burning, face flushing and pricking, whole head “growing,” forearms to finger-tips asleep, hands feel broad and heavy, desire to lie with head high to get more air, uneasiness, head seemed growing bigger while straining to get boots on staggering, faintness, symptoms (<) swallowing hot things, in the cool open air feet and limbs felt strangely light, loss of personal identity in lower limbs, then a glow from umbilicus to toes, sense of increasing largeness and numbness from hip to hip, while r. thigh was thus affected the l. was skipped, calves seemed elephantine and asleep. Weakness; in morning, with faintness; with sleepiness.
Head
Aching on waking; tensive, at point of emergence of l. supraorbital nerve. Forehead, aching while sitting, with tearing in knees, passing down inside of legs to feet; A., with frequent flying pains in legs; with frequent rheumatic pains in arms, hands and legs; over eyes and in r. temple.
Nose, Face and Tongue
Dryness of nostrils, with frequent sharp pains in r. temple and aching distress in stomach and bowels. Face yellow around eyes in morning. Neuralgia in superior maxillary bone in open air. Tongue coated yellow along centre and base in morning, with rough, bitter taste.
Stomach
Nausea; while sitting, with intermittent cutting in hypogastrium; with distress in stomach and bowels; with cutting in hypogastrium and emissions of flatus. Cutting while sitting.
Abdomen
Pain at umbilicus at 10 P.M. Distress at umbilicus, with eructations of air. Pain in hypogastrium in morning, with desire for stool. Cutting in hypogastrium twice on waking in the night, and with urging to stool at 4 A.M., first part of stool hard and lumpy, last part running out as thin as milk, with pain in hypogastrium, straining, nausea and faintness, pain continued fifteen minutes, then copious watery stool, after sleeping an hour woke with pain in hypogastrium and desire for stool, stool of bile, mucus and yellow matter, with tenesmus, then cutting in bowels, then intermittent cutting in hypogastrium, compelling him to sit down and causing faintness stool of yellow faecal matter; mucus and blood, with tenesmus, then cutting in hypogastrium, at 10 A.M. small stool, of mucus and blood, preceded and followed by cutting in hypogastrium, at 12 M. stool of bilious matter, mucus and blood, with same symptoms as last, then dull distress in hypochondrium, then at 2 P.M. cutting in hypogastrium, with stool of bilious matter, mucus streaked with blood, and tenesmus, then intermittent cutting in hypogastrium all afternoon and evening.
Clinical It has been prescribed in ascites, both from cardiac trouble and especially from hepatic disease.
Rectum
Clinical Haemorrhoid, sharp sticking in rectum, constipation etc. Haemorrhoids, bleeding almost incessantly, especially with sensation of sharp sticks in rectum; general aggravation late at night.
Stool
Light-colored, lumpy, with straining, then aching in anus and hypogastrium. Papescent at 7 P.M., preceded by pain in small intestines. Mushy at 8 A.M., then no stool for three days. Constipation for two days, with languor. Omitted. In form of balls.
Clinical Most obstinate constipation, with protruding haemorrhoids.
Urine
High-colored and scanty. Urinated several times.
Genital Organs
Clinical Dysmenorrhoea, with haemorrhoidal troubles; membranous dysmenorrhoea. Pruritus of vulva and prolapsus uteri, haemorrhoids, constipation, etc. In all these pelvic troubles Collinsonia reminds us of Aloes, though obstinate constipation is the rule with Collinsonia, looseness of the bowels with Aloes. Pruritus during pregnancy, swelling and dark redness of genitals, cannot even sit down.
Lung
Gurgling suddenly low down in l. while lying, then desire to cough, which was restrained as he had had haemoptysis from that side, the breathing and pulse varying while lying on l. side, the pulse under the finger would withdraw and then return with increased volume.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.