HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS

HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS

• Chilly
• Thirstless
• Sleep left agg
• Catarrhal
• Ulcerative tendency  : oral , rectum,vagina,skin etc ..
• cancerous cachexia ( cancer ki wajah se weight loss hona)
• Tick , yellow (coryza ) , tenacious,viscid (saliva) , Stringy (leucorrhoea) discharge with or without ulceration
• Suffocation when lying on left side
• Malignancy-cancerous growth, ulceration, fissures, with burning pains
• Gall stone colic with jaundice, yellow hue of body or jaundice with golden, yellow tongue 👅
• Tongue large, flabby, golden, yellow, takes the imprint of teeth
• Liver enlarged ( hepatitis or hepatomegaly or ca liver) , hard, obstinate, constipation, cancer hard adherent ( adhesion with other surroundings structure )
• Chronic constipation of children and the aged
• Must take enemas, no desire for days in pregnancy
• Precancerous states, cancerous growth, bleeding, painful

Keynotes

• Leucorhoea, ropy, thick, viscid, yellow hangs from the os long strings
• Cancer, skin mottled, puckered, adherent, pain like knifes, sharp cutting
• Goiter of pregnancy and puberty
• Rectum – ulceration, fissures, cracks with burning pain ( Ratanhia)
• Erosion and ulceration of cervix and vagina with tenacious discharge
• Left breast nipple retracted ( Ca breast)
• Uterine fibroid  :- Metrorrhagia with fibroid tumor, bleeding from slight touch ulcers with false granulation
• In cancerous state, hydrastis remove the pain and modifies the discharge depriving with its offensive & improves the health {Palliative Mx :- Q or 2-3x }
• Eczema that burns and dries into crust

Mind

• Feel run down, debilitated
• Indifferent to everything
• Memory weak for what he has read or what he is about to do { students }
• Forget words while speaking
• Averse to mental work
• Depression, sure of death and desires of death { due to pain in cancer, ab use lagta hai mai bachne wala nahi hu }
• Fear of impending disease
• Restless at night { dd ars : in mind + malignant ulcer + chilly}

Modality

• Agg :-  Lying on left side ; Abuse of alchol and drugs ; During pregnancy ; open air, ulcers agg by warm covering, pressure
• Amel :- Dry weather ; warm covering, pressure
• Appetite
•  Empty all gone sensation in stomach, yet fullness after eating
• • Can only take milk and water ( mostly advance cancer cases liquid or semisolid given}
• Desires – bread, milk and water
• Aversion- To food with hunger ; Meat ;  Bread and vegetables (disagree) ; Eructation sour or putrid ( due to  weak digestion) : ars alb.

Protocol:-

• Hyperthyroidism+ extreme weight loss + chilly+ Thirstless+ yellow tongue with imprint of teeth  : hydras
• glandular affection + chilly+ burning+ ulceration+ thirstless: Hydras
• Old age + cancer + severe weight loss + obstinate constipation+ stool sticky+ burning . : Hydrastis Q
• Endometriosis+ burning+ stringy leucorrhea+ chilly.
• DM + extreme weight loss + Chronic constipation+need enama +  thirstless+ chilly:hydrast
• Philosophy:-
• Kyu advance deep seated pathology aur only few pqrs : low potency & frequent repetition: Q :- mostly palliative or sometimes 3x -6x etc for palliative or curative effect..