Cistus canadensis

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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General

Rock Rose A deep-acting anti-psoric remedy, with marked action in glandular affections, herpetic eruptions, chronic swellings, when patient is 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. Cistus has affinity for naso-pharynx; aborts colds that center in posterior nose. Sniffling.

Modalities

Worse, slightest exposure to cold air; mental exertion, excitement. Better after eating.

Face

Itching, burning, and crusts on right zygoma. Lupus, caries; open, bleeding cancer. Tip of nose painful.

Ears

Watery discharge; also fetid pus. Tetter on and around ears, extending to external meatus.

Mouth

Scorbutic swollen gums. Mouth feels cold; putrid, impure breath. Pyorrhea (Merc cor; Caust; Staph; Kreos). Hurts to protrude the tongue.

Throat

Spongy feeling; very dry and cold air passing over parts causes pain. Breath, tongue, and throat feel cold. Uvula and tonsils swollen. A 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.

Stomach

Cool feeling in stomach before and after eating. Cool feeling in whole abdomen. Desire for cheese.

Stool

Diarrhœa from coffee and fruit, thin, yellow, urgent; worse in morning.

Female

Induration and inflammation of mammæ. Sensitive to cold air. Bad smelling leucorrhœa.

Respiratory

Asthmatic after lying down (trachea feels narrow), preceded by formication.

Chest

Coldness in chest. The neck is studded with tumors. Induration of mammæ. Hæmorrhage from lungs.

Extremities

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.

Skin

Itching all over. Small, painful pimples; lupus. Glands inflamed and indurated. Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers. Skin of hands hard, thick, dry, fissured; deep cracks. Itching of swollen hands and arms; general itching which presents sleep. Hemicrania.

Sleep

Cannot sleep from coldness in throat.

Relationships

Antidotes: Rhus; Sepia. Compare: Conium; Carbo; Calc; Arg n.

Dose

First to thirtieth attenuation. Locally as a wash to arrest fetid discharges.

What the other books say about Cistus canadensis

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Cistus canadensis in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Cistus canadensis in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Cistus canadensis — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/cistus-canadensis. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.