SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS


Therapeutic use of homeopathic remedy Sanguinaria Canadensis described by E.B. Nash in his book Leaders in Homeopathic Therapeutics, published in 1898….


Pain beginning in occiput;spreads over the head and settles over the right eye, with nausea and vomiting. Sensitive to noise and light.

Loose cough with badly smelling sputa;the breath and sputa smell badly to the patent himself.

Pain in right arm and shoulder;worse at night in bed;cannot raise the arm. Also pain in places where the bones are the least covered.

Heat and tension behind sternum. Cough day and night with great emaciation.

Burning and pressing in breast, followed by heat through abdomen and diarrhoea. Acts intensely on right lung and chest.

Sick headache. Pain commences in the back of the head, rises and spreads over the head, and settles down over the right eye (left, sPIGELIA), with nausea and vomiting; patient wants to be in a dark room and perfectly quiet. I have made some fine cures in long standing cases of habitual sick headaches of this kind with this remedy. It will probably cure, or greatly relieve, the ordinary American sick headache as often as any other remedy. I use the 200th. LOOSE COUGH, WITH BADLY SMELLING SPUTA; THE BREATH and SPUTA SMELLING BADLY TO THE PATIENT HIMSELF. There is sometimes a pain behind the sternum (KALI-IOD).This kind of cough usually comes on after a severe bronchitis or pneumonia, and it looks as through the patient were fast running into consumption. There may also be flushes of fever with circumscribed redness of the cheeks, like hectic fever. Many a case of this kind has been helped by this remedy. Dr. T. L. Brown used the first trituration of the alkaloid with fine effect. The 200th has made just as good cures. In typhoid pneumonia with great dyspnoea and circumscribed redness of cheeks, SANGUN., has, in my hands, done good service. The right lung seems to come markedly under its influence, either in acute or chronic troubles. “RHEUMATIC PAIN IN RIGHT ARM and SHOULDER, wORSE AT NIGHT IN BED,CANNOT RAISE THE ARM.” This condition has often been relieved by this remedy in my hands and has won ma much credit. I have seen the C.M. do the same things. Flashes of heat, with hot palms and soles, at the climacteric find a remedy in SANG., Sometimes indicated after SULPH., and LACH., have failed, especially if the circumscribed redness of the cheeks appears.

E.B.Nash
Dr. E.B. Nash 1838- 1917, was considered one of our finest homeopaths and teachers. He was Prof. of Materia Medica at the N.Y. Homoeopathic Medical College and President of International Hahnemannian Assoc. His book Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics is a classic. This article is from: :The Medical Advance - A monthly magazine of homoeopathic medicine - edited and published by H.C. Allen, M. D.