CISTUS CANADENSIS

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Extremely sensitive to cold
  • Sensation of coldness in various parts
  • Scrofulous ophthalmia
  • Poisoned wounds
  • Bites
  • Phagedenic ulcers
  • Malignant disease of the glands of the neck
  • Affinity for naso-pharynx
  • Colds that center in posterior nose
  • Sniffling
  • Itching, burning, and crusts on right zygoma
  • Lupus
  • Caries
  • Open, bleeding cancer
  • Tip of nose painful
  • Scorbutic swollen gums
  • Mouth feels cold
  • Putrid, impure breath
  • Pyorrhea
  • Hurts to protrude the tongue
  • Watery discharge from ears
  • Fetid pus from ears
  • Tetter on and around ears, extending to external meatus
  • Spongy feeling in throat
  • Very dry and cold air passing over throat causes pain
  • Breath, tongue, and throat feel cold
  • Uvula and tonsils swollen
  • Small, dry spot in throat
  • Must sip water frequently
  • Hawking of mucus
  • Swelling and suppuration of glands of throat
  • Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck
  • Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air
  • Heat and itching in throat
  • Cool feeling in stomach before and after eating
  • Cool feeling in whole abdomen
  • Desire for cheese
  • Diarrhea from coffee and fruit
  • Thin, yellow, urgent diarrhea
  • Diarrhea worse in morning
  • Coldness in chest
  • Neck studded with tumors
  • Induration of mammae
  • Hemorrhage from lungs
  • Sprained pain in wrist
  • Tips of fingers sensitive to cold
  • Tetter on hands
  • Cold feet
  • Syphilitic ulcers on lower limbs, with hard swelling around
  • White swelling
  • Cannot sleep from coldness in throat
  • Induration and inflammation of mammae
  • Sensitive to cold air
  • Bad smelling leucorrhea
  • Asthmatic after lying down
  • Trachea feels narrow
  • Asthma preceded by formication
  • Itching all over
  • Small, painful pimples
  • Glands inflamed and indurated
  • Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers
  • Skin of hands hard, thick, dry, fissured
  • Deep cracks in skin of hands
  • Itching of swollen hands and arms
  • General itching which prevents sleep
  • Hemicrania

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Bone affections
  • Cancer
  • Diarrha
  • Erysipelas
  • Follicular pharyngitis
  • Glandular swellings
  • Hip-joint disease
  • Hospital gangrene
  • Lupus
  • Panaritium
  • Parotitis
  • Scorbutus
  • Scrofula
  • Sore-throat
  • Ulcers
  • Zona
  • Sensitive to cold air
  • Cold feelings in larynx
  • Cold feelings in abdomen
  • Inhaling slightest cold air causes sore-throat
  • Inhaled air feels cool
  • Cold breath
  • Stitches
  • Soft or spongy feeling
  • Trembling with fever
  • Sensation as if ants were running through the whole body
  • Great sensitiveness to touch
  • Throat symptoms > by swallowing
  • < By motion
  • < Evening
  • < Night
  • < Morning
  • < By drinking coffee diarrhea
  • > By expectoration
  • Bad effects from vexation
  • All mental excitement <
  • Headache in sinciput after being kept waiting for dinner
  • > eating
  • < towards evening and lasts all night
  • Headache in right side with piercing pain in eye
  • Forehead cold
  • Sensation of coolness inside forehead
  • Pressive pain at root of nose with headache
  • Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck
  • Stitches in eyes
  • Scrofulous inflammation of eyes
  • Feeling as if something were passing around in the eye with stitches
  • Weight above eyes
  • Discharge of water and bad-smelling pus from ears
  • Inner swelling of ears with discharge
  • Tetters on and around the ear extending into meatus
  • Swelling of parotid glands
  • Cold feeling in nose
  • Burning in nose
  • Chronic catarrh
  • Frequent and violent sneezing evening and morning
  • Inflammation, swelling and burning left side of nose
  • Tip of nose painful
  • Eczema of nose
  • Feeling as if facial muscles would be drawn to one side
  • Flushes of heat in face
  • Heat and burning in bones of face
  • Half-way up cheek swelling beginning at ear
  • Vesicular erysipelas of face
  • Lupus on face
  • Sharp shooting, intolerable itching and thick crusts with burning on right zygoma
  • Caries of lower jaw with suppurating glands on neck
  • Open, bleeding cancer on lower lip
  • Scorbutic, swollen gums separating from teeth, easily bleeding, putrid, disgusting
  • Dry tongue and palate
  • Tongue sore, surface as if raw
  • Impure breath
  • Sensation of coldness of tongue, larynx and trachea
  • Saliva cool
  • Breath feels cool
  • Coolness in throat
  • Soft or spongy feeling in throat
  • As if sand in throat
  • Continuous feeling of dryness and heat < after sleeping, eating and drinking
  • Small dry spot in gullet
  • < after sleeping, must get up and drink
  • > after eating
  • Throat looks glassy
  • On back of throat stripes of tough or leathery mucus
  • Must swallow saliva to relieve unbearable dryness especially during night
  • Periodical itching in throat
  • Dry throat without feeling dry
  • Burning high up behind uvula
  • Stitches cause cough when mentally agitated
  • Cough causes tearing pain in throat
  • Sore throat < from inhaling least cold air
  • Hawking of mucus, tough, gum-like, thick, tasteless, mostly mornings
  • Expectoration of bitter mucus relieving throat
  • Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of glands of throat
  • Desire for acid food and fruits but pain and diarrha follow eating them
  • Desire for cheese
  • Eating and drinking > dry throat and pain in sinciput
  • After eating pain in stomach
  • After eating cold feeling in stomach
  • After drinking coffee diarrhea
  • Empty and cool eructations
  • Frequent nausea with diarrha
  • Stitches in left hypochondrium
  • Cool feeling in whole abdomen
  • Pain in groin coming from back
  • Thin, greyish-yellow, hot stools squirting out
  • Irresistible urging < from midnight until noon
  • Diarrha from coffee
  • Diarrha from fruits
  • Diarrha with gotre
  • Chronic diarrhea
  • Diarrha in wet weather
  • Diarrha in scrawny scrofulous children
  • Chronic dysentery
  • Itching in scrotum
  • Induration of mamm sensitive to cold air
  • Female breast cancer
  • Larynx and trachea inhaled air feels cool
  • Larynx and trachea itching in
  • Larynx and trachea feeling as if windpipe had not space enough
  • Asthmatic in evening after lying down and at night
  • Cough < by mental agitation
  • Cough from stitches in throat
  • Cough with painful tearing in throat
  • Raw feeling in upper chest extending into throat
  • Expectoration of bitter mucus
  • After raising phlegm feels very much relieved
  • Glands of neck and throat swollen, suppuration
  • Itching on back
  • Eruption like zona
  • Burning, bruised pain in coccyx preventing sitting
  • < from contact
  • In evening pains in knees, in right hand, in left shoulder
  • Drawing pains in muscular parts of hands and of lower extremities with pains in joints, fingers and knees
  • Tearing and drawing pains in all the joints, knees and fingers
  • Sprained pain in wrists
  • Pain in fingers right hand while writing
  • Tearing in finger-joints
  • Tips of fingers very sensitive to cold
  • Tetter on hands
  • Pains in knee and right thigh when walking or sitting
  • Tearing in knees
  • Piercing pain in right great toe evening
  • Cold feet
  • Itching all over body without eruption
  • Vesicular erysipelas of face
  • Lupus on face
  • Tetter
  • Hard swelling round mercurial syphilitic ulcers on lower limbs
  • Very restless at night
  • Sleepless from dryness of throat
  • Night sweats
  • Chilliness followed by heat with trembling accompanied by a rapid swelling and great redness of glands below ear and in throat
  • Heat with thirst causing to drink frequently
  • Night sweats
  • Sweats easily

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Exhaustion from exertion
  • Dyspnoea
  • Sweating
  • Coldness
  • Large and hard glands of the neck
  • Parotids especially enlarged
  • Foetid otorrhoea
  • Inflamed and suppurating eyes
  • Fissures at the corners of the eyes
  • Cracked and bleeding lips
  • Salt rheum at the ends of the fingers
  • Glands inflame, become swollen and suppurate
  • Caries
  • Old ulcers
  • Scrofulous constitution
  • Chronic diarrhoea with enlarged glands
  • Flabby, sickly and pallid appearance
  • Losing breath going upstairs
  • Thick, yellowish, offensive mucus from mucous membranes
  • Old and troublesome catarrh
  • Chest fills up with mucus
  • Relieved after expectoration, but chest feels raw after emptying
  • Eruptions
  • Herpes
  • Tetter
  • Scaly eruptions
  • Salt rheum on the hands and ends of the fingers
  • Cracking and bleeding of the fingers in winter and from washing in cold water
  • Complaints worse from mental exertion
  • Excitability
  • Cough worse from mental exertion
  • Headache worse from mental exertion
  • Pains worse from mental exertion
  • Pains shoot from the head to the ear
  • Shooting, stitching, tearing pains in inflamed parts
  • Old discharges from the ear date back to eruptive diseases
  • Feels paralyzed after mental exertion
  • Mental excitement increases sufferings
  • Headache comes on from fasting
  • Headache relieved after eating
  • Frontal headache with coldness
  • Perspiration comes out in a warm room and is cold
  • The more he sweats the colder he gets
  • Pain in the forehead with cold sweat
  • The colder he gets the worse the pain becomes
  • Sick headaches
  • Great prostration with the headache
  • Sensation of internal coldness of the forehead especially in a warm room
  • Pressing pain at the root of the nose with headache
  • Parotid gland so much enlarged that it pushes the head to one side
  • Glands of the abdomen swell with chronic diarrhoea
  • Swelling may be tuberculous
  • Enlarged glands with or without eruptions
  • Sensation of crawling all over the body
  • Formication
  • Tingling and creeping like ants and no eruption
  • Scratches till the skin is raw trying to get relieved of the itching and prickling
  • Eruption upon the face
  • Eczema
  • Eruptions about the ear
  • Cold feeling in the nose
  • Burning in the nose
  • Acute coryza with thick yellow mucus
  • Irritation in nose when mucus is blown out
  • Rawness in nose when mucus is blown out
  • Coldness in nose when mucus is blown out
  • Burning in nose when mucus is blown out
  • Relief when the nose fills up again with mucus
  • Pain caused by inhaling air
  • Great burning from inhaled air
  • Old chronic case with thick discharge
  • Sharp shooting intolerable itching and thick crusts with burning on right zygoma
  • Cured lupus on the face
  • Caries of the lower jaw
  • Open bleeding cancer on the lower lip
  • Lupus exedens
  • Pain in all the joints of the face
  • Old deep-seated eating ulcers about the ankle and shin
  • Copious acrid discharge
  • Formication
  • Swollen glands
  • Aggravation from bathing
  • Extreme sensitiveness to the open air
  • Only comfortable when very warm
  • Teeth have all sorts of disturbances
  • Gums settle away
  • Teeth become loose
  • Scorbutic gums
  • Cold feeling is described in the throat
  • Smarting and coldness in throat
  • Mouth and throat full of mucus
  • Throat feels rough as if full of sand
  • Dry spots in the throat
  • Throat looks glossy shining as if varnished in old atrophic catarrhs
  • Every cold settles in the throat
  • Hot air feels good everywhere
  • Trouble with scrofulous glands which are enlarged
  • Wants the heat
  • Chilly persons
  • Cold subjectively
  • Hawking of gum-like mucus especially in the morning
  • Fauces inflamed and dry
  • Suppuration of the glands of the throat
  • Craves pungent things
  • Craves herring
  • Craves cheese
  • Chronic induration and inflammation of the mammae
  • Left mamma inflamed suppurating with a feeling of fullness in the chest
  • Sensibility to cold air with the inflamed glands
  • Enlargement of the glands
  • Glands of the neck are enlarged in lines like knotted rope
  • Itching of the skin and mucous membrane
  • Itching in the ear is not relieved by scratching
  • Part is raw from the constant rubbing and scratching
  • Eyes constantly itch
  • Continuous itching in the throat
  • Constant tickling in the chest causing cough
  • Itching at the anus and all other orifices
  • Itching parts are rubbed until raw and bleeding
  • Scrofula
  • Swelling and suppuration of the glands of the neck
  • Eruption on the back like shingles
  • Scrofulous ulcer on the back
  • Burning bruised pain in the coccyx worse from touch
  • Tetter on the hands
  • Blisters oozing after scratching
  • Diseases of the nails
  • Hard thickened places on the hands of workmen with deep cracks
  • Copious sweat with exhaustion
  • Night-sweats

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