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Tresorie – HYDRASTIS [Hydrastis]

HYDRASTIS [Hydrastis]
National Journal Of
Homoeopathy By Vishpala Parthasarathy
Volume: 1992 May / Jun Vol
1 No 3
Author: Tarkas P I
Subject: Materia Medica
Remedy: Hydr
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vue d ensemble

      Gross tissues

      Digestive tract-

      Mucous membranes;

      their glands;

      Outlets (sphincters)

      Genitals

      Nutrition

      Liver

      Muscles

      Skin

      Air: inhaling

      Air open

      Dry cold winds

      Warmth

      Morning

      Washing

      Touch; of clothes

      chemicals

      Pot, chlor

      Borax

      Purgatives

      Alcohol

      Cold (applications)

      Cool open air (headache)

      Pressure

      Dinner.

      Monograms

      Exudative, Hemorrhagic, Burning Torpid
Aged Cachectic Destructive Dyscratic

      Make up: The tired retired. Suffering
(or senile) physically, not mentally. Sedentary, Broken down (alcoholics
etc.) Phthisical (like Psora). Scrofula. Scorbusis (with or without
diabetes). Wasting; marasmus. Sweaty.

      Action slow and deep. Syco-syphilitic.
Lowered vitality Torpidity. Atony. Atonic dyspepsias. Obstipation.
Muscular atony: prolapsed rectum, uterus; relaxed uvula, scrotum,
herniation, hypertension. Faintness; esp in epigastrium (and pulsation)

      Hypertrophic catarrhs catarrhal
inflammations (destructive ulcerative) everywhere; ending often in
ulceration and even malignany. Discharges: VISCID, copious, thick, acrid,
yellow. Not suited for active acute inflammations of Bell or Ver-v type.
Pharyngeal, or gastroduodenal catarrhs. Mucous (or ulcerative) or
muco-membranous colitis. Pseudo-membranes (nose, throat)

      Destructive tendency: Erosions. Ulcers
internal; aphthous; fungoid (mycosis); fistulous (or shallow); leprous,
chancroid; bed-sores (decubitus); easily bleeding false granulations. <
washing. Fissures, everywhere, esp, around outlets (e.g. commissures,
arms)

      Weak, faint feeling (e.g. in
epigastrium), after acute diseases; more than a depletion warrants; with
pulsation.

      Seborrhoea; oily forehead. Hydrocele.
Oedema pedis.

      Growths: Nodular degeneration, of
glands liver, etc. Nodosities; in viscera. Benign hard mammary tumours
< during menses, pregnancy. Scirrhous tumours on glandular tissues
(Con). Corns. Fibroids. Cancers; oral; mammary; lupus; epitheliomas; also,
for pre-cancer syndromes. A homoeopathic anodyne for cancer pains; is a
non traumatic Con. Fungoid cauliflower excrescences.

      Pains, (raw) BURNING. Rheumatic pains
with stiffness.

      Dropsies: Hydrocele.