COMMON NAME:
BLOOD ROOT.
Symptoms
Is pre-eminently a rightsided remedy (Belladonna, Lycopodium) (D.).
Acts intensely on the right lung and chest (N.).
Roundish or oval, whitish and raised patches on the mucous membrane of the nose, mouth, prepuce and anus (Bt.).
Burning in the palms and soles (Arsenicum, Lachesis, Phosphorus, Sepia, Sulphur) (D.).
Jaundice, with nausea and vomiting (Arsenicum, Bryonia, Card-M., Chelidonium, Digitalis, Kali-M., Lachesis, Lycopodium, merc., Natrum muriaticum, Nat-S., Phosphorus, Sepia) (Bt.).
Circumscribed redness of the cheeks (China, Ferrum, Lachn., Phosphorus, Stann., Sulphur, Tuberculinum) (D.).
Headache during the climacteric (Graphites, Lachesis, Sepia, Sulphur) (A.).
Determination of blood to the head and chest (Belladonna, Cact., Ferr- P.) (D.).
PERIODICAL SICK HEADACHE: BEGINS IN THE MORNING INCREASES DURING THE DAY, AND LASTS UNTIL EVENING (Natrum muriaticum, Spigelia) (A.).
Head feels as if it would burst (Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, China, Conium, Gloninum, Lachesis, Lyss., Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Sepia) (A.).
Sensation as if the eyes would be pressed out during headache (A.).
Distention of temporal veins (Belladonna, Gloninum, Verat-V.) (D.).
Headache relieved by sleep (Belladonna, Chelidonium, Ferrum, Gelsemium, Gloninum, Graphites, Hyoscyamus, Lac-C., Pall., Phosphorus, Pic-Ac., Pulsatilla, Sepia) (A.).
HEADACHE BEGINS IN THE OCCIPUT, SPREADS UPWARDS AND SETTLES OVER THE RIGHT ORBIT (Silicea: over the left orbit-Spigelia).
Headache every seventh day (Arsenicum, Gelsemium, Iris., Lac-D., Lycopodium, Nux-M., Phosphorus, Psorinum, Silicea, Sulphur, Tuberculinum) (A.).
PAINS IN THE HEAD INCREASE AND DECREASE WITH THE SUN (Aconite, Gloninum, Kalm., Nat. M., Phosphorus, Spigelia, Stann., Stramonium) (R.).
Headache ameliorated by voiding a large amount of urine (Aconite, Ferr-P., Gelsemium, Ignatia, Kalm., Meli., Silicea, Terebintha, Veratrum) (R.).
The pains i n the head are so severe that the patient can neither tolerate noise nor light and vomits everything, and buries the head in the pillow, or presses it on something hard (D.).
Facial neuralgia ameliorated by kneeling down and pressing the head firmly against the floor; pain extends in all directions from the upper jaw (A.).
Burning and rawness in the nose, with fluent coryza (All-C., Arum-T., Arsenicum, Natrum muriaticum, Rhus toxicodendron) (D.).
Humming and roaring in the ears (Belladonna, Carbon sulph., Carbo vegetabilis, Causticum, China, Chin-S., Graphites, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Tabacum, Veratrum) (R.).
Nasal polypi (Calcarea, Phosphorus, Silicea), which tend to bleed easily (D.).
Eruption on the face of young women, especially during scanty menses (Bells, Calcarea, Eug-I., Psorinum) (A.).
Burning in the pharynx and oesophagus (Asafoetida, Cantharis, Kreosotum, Merc-C., (A.).
Dyspnoea and desire to breathe deeply (Bryonia, Cact., Calcarea, Ignatia, Lachesis, Nat-S., Selenium, Sulphur) (R.).
EXCESSIVE DYSPNOEA (Ant-T., ARs., Bromium, Carbo vegetabilis, Digitalis, Hydr-AC., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Natrum phos., Phosphorus, Sambucus, Sulphur, Veratrum) (Bt.).
Tough, rusty-coloured sputa, in the second and third stages of pneumonia (Phosphorus) (Bt.).
BREATH AND SPUTA SMELL AND EVEN TO THE PATIENT (Arsenicum, Caps., China, Lachesis, Pulsatilla) (Bt.).
Hacking cough, evenings after lying down, from tickling in the throat (Arsenicum, Hyoscyamus, Rumx.) (R.).
Cough with expectoration of thick, blood-streaked mucus (Arsenicum, Bryonia, Ferrum, Phosphorus, Sabin., Sepia, Sulph-Ac., Zincum met.) (R.).
Cough day and night with great emaciation (N.).
Dry cough, ameliorated by sitting up in bed and discharging flatus upward and downward (R.).
Haemoptysis (Belladonna, Cact., Ferr-P., (R.).
Phthisis Florida (Ferr-P., Phosphorus) (D.).
Asthma after the “rose cold,” aggravated from odours (A.).
The cough returns every-time the patient takes cold (Hepar, Tuberculinum) (A.).
Burning in the chest (Phosphorus, Sulphur) (D.).
Heat and tension behind sternum (N.).
Congestion, of the lungs with bright red face land flushing of one or both cheeks (Ferr-P. (D.).
Sharp, stitching pains through the right lung (Bryonia) (D.).
RHEUMATIC PAIN IN THE RIGHT ARM AND SHOULDER (Fluor-Ac.; left arm and shoulder-Rhus toxicodendron): CANNOT RAISE THE ARM (Bryonia, Calcarea, Ferrum); WORSE AT NIGHT (Belladonna, Calcarea, Causticum, Kali bichromicum, Mercurius, Phosphorus, Silicea (A.).
Great susceptibility to odours, which causes the patient of faint (Ignatia, Nux vomica, Phosphorus) (D.).
Faintness from odours of flowers (Phosphorus; from odours of fish- Colchicum; from odours of cooking food-Colchicum, Ipecac.) (K.).
Flatulent distention of the stomach (Carbo vegetabilis, China, Lycopodium, Nux- V., Pulsatilla) (D.).
Flushes of heat and leucorrhoea, during the climacteric (Lachesis, Sepia, Sulphur) (A.).
Painful enlargement of breasts (Bryonia, Pulsatilla) (A.).
Sharp, itching pains (Kali bichromicum, Kali carb., Acid nitricum, Silicea), with soreness and stiffness of muscles (Rhus toxicodendron) (D.).
Sudden stopping of catarrh of the respiratory tract followed by diarrhoea (Selenium) (Br.).
Afternoon fever with circumscribed red cheeks, 2 to 3 P.M. daily; burning of palms and soles; cough and expectoration (N.).
Ozaena, with profuse, offensive, yellowish discharge (Hydrastis, Kali-I., Sepia, Silicea) (Br.).
Aversion to butter (Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, China, Cyclamen, Magnesia carb., Mercurius, Phosphorus, Ptelea trifoliata, Pulsatilla) (Br.).
Craving for piquant things (Br.).
Unquenchable thirst (Arsenicum, Eup-P., Phosphorus, Sulphur, Veratrum) (Br.).
Deathly nausea, in paroxysms (Ant-T.), with much salivation (C.).
Vertigo: In the morning on rising from a sitting or stopping position, on quickly turning the head, or from looking upward (C.).
AGGRAVATION:
During the climacteric; periodically; every week; from lying down; from motion; at night; with the sun; from odours; from light; from looking up; and from raising the arm.
AMELIORATION:
From sleep; from voiding a large amount of urine; from vomiting; in the darkness; from sitting up; from eructations; in the cool air; and from passing flatus.
RELATIONSHIP:
Sanguinaria is the chronic of Belladonna and may be used after Belladonna when it fails in scarlatina.
Complementary : Ant-T. and Phosphorus
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)