Cistus canadensis
cist-canRock 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.
Cistus canadensis — Materia Medica
Cistus canadensis — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Painfully sensitive to cold; to inspired air. Coldness of tongue, saliva, in throat, eructations, stomach, etc.; < sweating. Suppurations. Much thick, yellow or foul mucus, leaving painful rawness (Æsc. Ant-c.). Internal and external itching. Burning. Indurations. Callosities. Scrofula. .................... Fear. Headache from missing the noon meal, > eating. As of a lump in naso- pharynx. Colds affect the throat; it feels spongy, sandy, itches or has a dry spot, > sips of water. Expectorates quantities of tenacious, glairy mucus. Hard, swollen glands; < on neck; l. mamma. Crawling over body. Cracked tetters; canthi; lips; fingertips. Chilliness.
Cistus canadensis — general · James Tyler Kent
Mercurius) This remedy is an antipsoric, a deep-acting remedy. It runs very close to Calcarea, but is milder in its action. It has the same exhaustion from exertion, dyspnoea, sweating and coldness that we find in Calcarea. What will forcibly call your attention to a remedy will be the curing of a bad and typical case. I remember the first time my attention was decidedly called to Cistus. I had put it on my list to study from time to time and had come to the conclusion that it was only a side issue, until a young lady of nineteen years of age fell under my observation. Glands: The glands of the neck were large and hard, the parotids especially; she had foetid otorrhoea; her eyes were inflamed and suppurating; there were fissures at the corners of the eyes; her lips were cracked and bleeding, and she had salt rheum at the ends of the fingers. I could not make Calcarea fit the patient, but after much study this little remedy seemed to be just what I needed; and although she had had an immense amount of Homoeopathy, good and bad, this remedy cured. The glands inflame, become swollen and suppurate. It causes cries and cures old ulcers. It has a scrofulous constitution. It is useful in chronic diarrhea, with enlarged glands, even in those who are flabby, sickly and pallid and who cannot go upstairs without losing, their breath. Mucous membranes: All the mucous membranes throw out a thick, yellowish, offensive mucus and hence it is suitable in old and troublesome catarrh.
Cistus canadensis — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(uIce Plant“ ; “Frost Weed“) The first thing one notices about Cistus, “ Ice plant ”, is that it has not earned its common names for nothing. C l a r k e says “ it has a peculiar property of favouring the formation of ice about its roots in early winter Hering says, “ It is said that in the months of November and December these plants send out near the roots, broad, thin, curved ice-crystals, about an inch in length, which wilt in the day and are renewed in the morning.” Hering refers to various published papers about this plant, showing its uses—in sore throat :—in Colic after acid fruit :—in Chronic Dysentery :—in Mistitis :—in Cough with tumours on neck :—in Goitre and Erysipelas :—in White swelling of knee joint :—in Intermittent Fever :—in Scrofula, etc. A truly amazing remedy for catarrh of nasal and postnasal passages, throat and larynx. A recent acquaintance—or rather friend : but rapid and deep-acting—where symptoms agree. One’s first experience has been already told in Homoeopathy, but must be retord because it belongs here. A wee girl was brought to Out-patients in the summer—August 1931—because she was always catching cold—and these colds lasted such a long time : bad now, but worse in winter. She was worse in cold weather, had an aversion to fat, to meat, to salt. She had one great craving—/or cheese. This was so marked that one went to the Repertory for drugs that craved cheese, and found (Arg. n.) (Ast. r.) Cist. (Ign.) (Mosch.) (Puls.) Cist, being tfie one, evidently, that had the strong craving. So one turned up Cistus in Materia Medica, and discovered that it fitted the case all round* It has " Frequent and violent sneezing —chronic nasal catarrh. Worse for cold : for inhaling cold air, etc.,” and she got Cistus 6 t.d.s. for a few days.
Cistus canadensis — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
COLD: Inspired air. Taking. Drafts. Water. Mental: Exertion. Excitement. Touch.
Cistus canadensis — face · James Tyler Kent
This remedy has 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. It cures old, deep-seated, eating ulcers about the ankle and shin, with copious acrid discharge, formication and swollen glands, aggravation from bathing, extreme sensitiveness to the open air, only comfortable when very warm. The teeth have all sorts of disturbances; the gums settle away, the teeth become loose; scorbutic gums. The same cold feeling is described in the throat as in the nose-smarting and coldness. Mouth and throat full of mucus. The throat feels rough, as if full of sand. Dry spots in the throat. The throat looks glossy, shining as if vanished, in old atrophic catarrhs. Every cold settles in the throat. Hot air feels good everywhere. In old cases there is trouble with scrofulous glands, which are enlarged, and the patient wants the heat; goes to the register and turns the heat on, wants to feel the heat in the nose, throat and lungs. Patients going into tuberculosis have that desire for beat; chilly persons, They do not feel cold to touch, but they are cold subjectively, chilly. Hawking of gum-like mucus, especially in the morning, fauces inflamed and dry. Suppuration of the glands of the throat. These patients crave pungent things, and especially want something to warm them up, something to build them up, something stimulating herring, cheese; something strong. "Chronic induration and inflammation of the mammae. Left mamma inflamed, suppurating, with a feeling of fullness in the chest. Sensibility to cold air," with inflamed glands.
Cistus canadensis — ears · William Boericke
Watery discharge; also fetid pus. Tetter on and around ears, extending to external meatus.
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