Collinsonia canadensis
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Collinsonia Canadensis
Stone Root. Lahiatcu.
Pelvic and portal congestion resulting in dysmenorrhoea and haemorrhoids.
Congestion of pelvic viscera, with haemorrhoids, especially in latter months of pregnancy.
Dropsy from cardiac disease.
Palpitation; in patients subject to piles and indigestion; heart’s action persistently rapid but weak.
After heart is relieved old piles reappear, or suppressed menses return.
Chronic, painful, bleeding piles; sensation as if sticks, sand or gravel had lodged in rectum (^sc. ).
Haemorrhoidal dysentery with tenesmus.
Alternate constipation and diarrhoea ; congestive inertia of lower bowel; stools sluggish and hard with pain and great flatidence. Constipation.
Pruritus in pregnancy with haemorrhoids, unable to lie down.
Relations.. — In heart disease complicated with hexmorrhoids consult Colliiisonia when Cac., Dig. and other remedies fail.
Has cured colic after Col. and Nux had failed. Compare: ^sc., Aloe, Cham., Nux, Sulph. Aggravation., — The slightest mental emotion or excitement aggravates the symptoms (Arg. n.).
What the other books say about Collinsonia canadensis
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- Collinsonia canadensis in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Collinsonia canadensis in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Collinsonia canadensis — Keynotes, pp. 103–104. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/collinsonia-canadensis. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.