INTRODUCTION
(Stone-root.).
COMPARE WITH
Aconite, AEsculus, Caulophyllum, Aloes, Hydrastis, Sulphur.
INFORMATION
We prepare both a tincture and trituration of the root, and likewise obtain and use a resinoid Collinsonia.
This drug was first brought prominently to the notice of the homoeopathic profession by Drs. Dunham and Flower, of New York. It has been successfully used for haemorrhoids, constipation and dysmenorrhoea. A number of interesting cases are reported by Dr. Flower and others in the NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY, where constipation and dysmenorrhoea, or constipation and haemorrhoids, or constipation and a variety of consensual symptoms, such as headache, cough, dyspepsia., yielded to the use of Collinsonia in a reasonably short period of time, and permanently.
Dr. Flower used a decoction of the root, taking a handful of the chopped root in a quart of water, boiled down to a pint. Of this preparation the patient took a wineglassful three times a day. Triturations of the Collinsonin, and the tincture and its attenuations, have been used with equal success by homoeopathic practitioners.
Dr. Flower’s first acquaintance with the drug was procured in the following manner, (see NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY, vol. VI., page 50): “Some two years since,” writes the Doctor, “I remarked to a friend and patient that I was honored with a number of cases of obstinate haemorrhoids, and that I really wished that I possessed some means of curing them, without danger of entailing some more serious disorder. My friend replied that he could tell me of a remedy, and remarked that two or three years ago he was an absolute martyr, in fact crippled with haemorrhoids.” The remedy was Collinsonia, and the patient was cured by the above-mentioned decoction, in two weeks.
In another case varicocele disappeared altogether with the obstinate constipation for which the remedy was taken.
Dr. Snelling reports a case, where a distressing pruritus vulvae, dysmenorrhoea and symptoms of prolapsus uteri, in the case of an unmarried lady, aged 35 years, were “quietly and completely removed,” in about a fortnight, by the use of Collinsonia, triturated in the proportion of one to four, of which the patient took three doses a day of three grains each.
Dr. Burt has furnished a proving of this drug, the reading of of which, at the third annual meeting of the Western Institute of Homoeopathy, elicited a discussion, in the course of which Prof. Hale called attention to the use of this drug in diseases of the heart. Dr. P.H. Hale, of Hudson, Mich., related a case of valvular disease consequent upon a severe attacks of inflammatory rheumatism, where Collinsonia seemed to afford marked relief. Other physicians have reported equally favorably on the good effects of this drug in diseases of the heart.
