# Hydrastis Canadensis

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from the root of  Hydrastis canadensis , a perennial herb in the Ranunculaceae. family, native to North America, prepared for homeopathic use through maceration, serial dilution,. and succussion to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for  mucosal, digestive, respiratory,. psychological,  and  systemic  disorders,  particularly  those  involving  chronic  catarrh,  digestive. weakness,  and  mental  depression.  It  is  noted  for  symptoms  such  as  thick,  tenacious  mucus,. constipation, gastric distress, and low mood, often aggravated by warmth, night, or fasting, and. ameliorated by cool air, rest, or gentle motion. Modern Context : Indicated for  mucosal conditions  (e.g., chronic sinusitis, gastritis),  digestive. conditions (e.g., dyspepsia, constipation),  respiratory conditions  (e.g., bronchitis, pharyngitis),. psychological  conditions (e.g.,  depression,  anxiety),  and  systemic  conditions (e.g.,  fatigue,. cachexia).  It  suits  patients  with  chronic  symptoms  characterized  by  thick  mucus,  digestive. sluggishness, respiratory irritation, or emotional despondency, typically exacerbated by warmth,. night, or fasting, and often seen in individuals with chronic mucosal inflammation, gastrointestinal. disorders, or stress-related depression. The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a sensitive,. debilitated constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like sticky nasal discharge or. bloating alongside psychological symptoms like hopelessness or irritability, commonly observed in. patients  with  chronic  rhinosinusitis,  irritable  bowel  syndrome,  or  major  depressive  disorder. triggered by chronic illness or environmental factors.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Warmth (weather, rooms, drinks), night, fasting, closed rooms, emotional. stress, heavy meals, talking, exertion, humidity, dust, sensory overload.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Absent-mindedness, forgetful.
- Dullness of memory.
- Forgetful.
- Weakness of memory.
- Can’t remember 
what he is reading or talking about.
- Disturbed by least noise.
- So nervous that to hear any one speak is 
unbearable.
- Averse to conversation.
- Apathetic.
- Indifference to everything.
- Moody.
- High -spirited.
- Extreme restlessness .
- Cheerful on rising in 
morning.
- Nervous and sensitive.
- Gloomy, taciturn and disagreeable.
- Hope lessness.
- Depression and gloom, sure of death and desires it.
- Discouragement incidental to long suffering and weakness.
- Irritability after dinner.
- Irritable, disposed to be 
spiteful.
- Malicious.
- Desire to strike.
- Moaning with occasional outcries from pain.
- Absent-mindedness, forgetful.
- Dullness of memory.
- Forgetful.
- Weakness of memory.
- Can’t remember 
what he is reading or talking about.
- Disturbed by least noise.
- So nervous that to hear any one speak is 
unbearable.
- Averse to conversation.
- Apathetic.
- Indifference to everything.
- Moody.
- High -spirited.
- Extreme restlessness .
- Cheerful on rising in 
morning.
- Nervous and sensitive.
- Gloomy, taciturn and disagreeable.
- Hope lessness.
- Depression and gloom, sure of death and desires it.
- Discouragement incidental to long suffering and weakness.
- Irritability after dinner.
- Irritable, disposed to be 
spiteful.
- Malicious.
- Desire to strike.
- Moaning with occasional outcries from pain.

### Vertigo
- Feeling as if intoxicated.
- Vision - Lack of accommodative power of eyes.
- Asthenopia.
- Sparks and light spots on closing eyes.
- COMMENTS - Grimmer noted that Hydr.
- has been proven highly effective in liver cancer.
- Even in advanced 
cases it has been of great assistance in the relief of pain, permitting the patient to retain consciousness 
Hydrastis canadensis to the end without the need of narcotics or analgesics.
- Affinity for stomach, liver and colon cancer (Cadm.).
- Skin adheres to the tumor, mottled, bluish.
- Burning pains, 
knife-like pains at the site of tumors, especially rectal tumors.
- Colon cancer with severe constipation and lumpy 
mucus in the stools.
- Blood and yellow, stringy mucus in the stool with a knife -like cutting pain in the rectum 
every time they have a bowel movement.
- Cancer at the emaciation stage, the last stages of cancer.
- Loss of appetite with severe constipation.
- Tonic can 
revive appetite (AIL).
- Cachexia, emaciation associated with chronic disease with yellowish tinge to the skin 
and sunken features.
- Weakness and faintness spells with sudden attacks of loss of energy and weakness.
- Cold sweats.
- Excessive sweat, especially of the armpits or genitals.
- Offensive ulcers, chancroids, fissures.
- Ulcerations of the mucus membranes, espe cially the stomach.
- Malignant ulcers, with vomiting of ropy, sticky mucus.
- Useful in pre-cancerous stage, a period of undefined ill-
health without any discernible new growth.
- Never well since cancer, emaciated and weak.
- Used in both potency 
and tincture for cancer treatment, commonly used as a supportive remedy in addition to primary treatment.
- Yellow or white, tough and stringy  catarrh of  almost all mucous surfaces, nasal catarrh, pharyngeal, 
bronchial, gastric, duodenal intestinal, urethral (gonorrhea, gleet), vaginal.
- Sinusitis with yellow, thick, stringy, lumpy mucus.
- Chronic lung disease, coughing up thick, yellow globs.
- Asthmatic states.
- Chronic dry, harsh, rattling coughs.
- Chronic weakness and obstruction.
- Dull, heavy, sodden -looking facial expres sion, yellow-white in color.
- Large, flabby and slimy -looking tongue, 
bluish-white under the fur, which is yellow, slimy and sticky.
- Tongue is indented by the teeth.
- Little appetite.
- Weak digestion of bread and vegetables.
- Sour, putrid belchings.
- Full ness and weight at 
stomach.
- Characteristic empty, aching “gone” feeling, worse after a 
meal.
- Jaundice and liver enlargement.
- Gallbladder attacks.
- Bitter taste in the mouth.
- Bowel movements are either infrequent and constipated or frequent with loose, soft, light-colored stools.
- Torpor 
of the bowels, stools lumpy, covered with yellowish, tough mucus.
- Continual pain in the head and a bad taste 
in the mouth with constipation.
- Severe backache, wakes in the night, worse damp weather.
- Hard, indurated cancer of the breast or cervix (Con.), with yellow, stringy mucus.
- Scirrhus of uterus or breasts.
- Breast ab scesses, or abscessed glands.
- Sore mouth nursin g-women, sore nipples.
- Vaginitis with yellow, 
stringy discharge.
- Metrorrhagia, leucorrhea.
- Pruritus vulva.
- Retained placentas.
- Garth Wilkinson found it an excellent remedy for smallpox taken externally and topically.
- Eczema, drying into 
crusts and burning  like fire, has been cured with an application of one part Hydr.
- tincture to nine parts of 
glycerine.
- The burning was removed.
- Clarke once saw a woman, 60, who had been given Hydr., 5 drops of tincture in water three times a day.
- After 
a week she developed  a scarlet rash, raised and nodular, exceedingly irritable, especially at night.
- It was on 
every part of the body except the face and was worse on her buttocks and elbows.
- It remained a week.
- At the 
 
 
same time, the patient became very ill with sickness and general digestive disorder.
- Weiss gave a woman, 31, who had ad herent placenta in several confinements in succession, Hydr.
- 3x three 
drops daily from the fourth month during her last three pregnancies.
- Each terminated without adherent placenta.
- Four other cases of habitual adherent placenta were successfully 
treated in the same way.
- Clifton noted that the dyspepsia occurred frequently in tubercular families and in cases of actual tuberculosis, 
the loss of appetite and “goneness” being especially prominent.
- He found that the tincture and lower potencies 
worked best in dyspepsia, while the higher potencies were better in catarrh of nose and fauces.

### Head
- Frontal headache arising from ca tarrh.
- Headache from gastric difficulties.
- Sinusitis after coryza  
(Kali-bi.).
- Neuralgia of the scalp and neck.
- Dull, pressing frontal pain, especially connected with constipa - 
Hydrastis canadensis tion.
- Eczema on forehead along the line of hair, worse after washing.
- Eczema of scalp 
with thick crusts.
- Frontal headache arising from ca tarrh.
- Headache from gastric difficulties.
- Sinusitis after coryza  
(Kali-bi.).
- Neuralgia of the scalp and neck.
- Dull, pressing frontal pain, especially connected with constipa - 
Hydrastis canadensis tion.
- Eczema on forehead along the line of hair, worse after washing.
- Eczema of scalp 
with thick crusts.

### Eyes
- Chronic inflammation of eyes.
- Dark greenish -yellow conjunctiva.
- Yellow eyes.
- Opacity of the cornea.
- Ophthalmia with thick mucus discharge.
- Scrofulous ophthalmia, with or without ulceration.
- Profuse secretion 
of tears, smarting and burning of eyes and lids.
- Lids agglutinated.
- Lids greatly swollen and excoriated.
- Large 
painful stye on left lid.
- Blepha ritis.
- Conjunctivitis without discharge.
- Conjunctivitis with sensation of dryness 
and scratching.

### Ears
- Ears red, thickened and covered with scales.
- Pain in right ear.
- Otorrhea, thick mucus discharge (fetid).
- Fissures behind ears, where ears connect with head.
- Membrana tympani purplish and bulging.
- Perforation of 
eardrum.
- Eustachian catarrh with high-pitched voice.
- Roaring in the ears like machinery.
- Tinnitus from 
catarrh of inner ear.
- Deafness from eusta chian catarrh.
- Deafness after scarlet fever.
- Throat deafness.
- Thick, 
offensive, irritating, catarrhal and purulent discharges from external auditory meatus.

### Face
- Thin, yellow, sunken face.
- Expression weary, dull, skin pale, or yellow -white.
- Erysipelatous eruption 
following flushes of heat.
- Tenacious mucus hangs in shreds from mouth.
- Epithelioma of face, nose and lips.
- Aphthae on lips with swelling of tongue.
- Comedones.

### Mouth
- Aphthae.
- Stomatitis during course of eruptive fevers.
- Stomatitis of nursing mothers or weakly 
children.
- Bitter taste.
- Peppery, flat taste in mouth.
- Excessive secretion of thick, tenacious mucus.
- Bleeding, 
painful cancerous growth or tumor on hard palate.
- Aphthae on the lips.
- Cancer of lips.
- Epithelial cancer of lip.
- Bleeding painful cancerous growths on hard palate.
- Nose - Burning pain in nose.
- Thick, tenacious yellow-green mucus.
- Coryza watery, excoriating, burning, 
smarting and rawness.
- Sneezing, with fullness over eyes.
- Sinusitis after coryza  (Kali-bi.).
- Post -nasal 
dripping.
- Constant discharge of thick white mucus, sinus headache.
- Thick, white or yellow, tenacious nasal 
discharge.
- Secretions so profuse as to be removed in long tenacious shreds or pieces.
- Ozaena, with bloody, 
purulent discharge.
- Ozaena, with ulceration of septum.
- Blows nose all the time.
- Tickling, like a hair in right 
nostril.
- Air feels cold in nose.
- Nosebleed with burning rawness, followed by itching.
- Nosebleed before menses.
- Perspiration - Profuse, offensive sweat on genitals.
- Profuse cold sweat all over.
- Sweats during frequent 
sudden attacks of fainty spells.
- Tendency to profuse perspiration and unhealthy skin (Hep.).

### Throat
- Throat dry, raw, sore, smarting.
- Throat as if excoriated, on swallowing.
- Scraping in larynx.
- Uvula sore 
and relaxed.
- Hawking of yellow, thick mucus from posterior sinuses (Kali-bi.).
- Follicular pharyngitis.
- Ulcers 
in the throat, especially after mercury.
- Post-nasal dripping, waking from sleep.
- Cancerous ulcers.
- Goiter of 
puberty and pregnancy.
- Roughness in throat in morning on waking.
- Smarting and tingling in throat.
- Sore throat 
from gastric derangement.
- Sore throat, with increased mucus, with burning and rawness.
- Tongue - Tongue raw, with dark red appear ance and raised papillae.
- Tongue yellow, dirty.
- Tongue white, 
swollen, large, flabby, slimy.
- Tongue coated with thick white fur.
- Tongue coated with a yellow stripe.
- Tongue 
shows imprint of teeth  (Merc.).
- Ulceration of tongue, fissures toward the edges.
- Tongue  as if burned or 
scalded, later a vesicle forms on the tip.
- Tongue cancer.
- Tongue and lips parched, red and dry.

### Chest
- Chronic  cough  or  expectoration,  with  thick,  sticky  mucus,  resembling  chronic.
- bronchitis, worse with warm air, talking, or night.
- Hoarseness or throat irritation, with a sensation of rawness or tickling, resembling.
- laryngitis, aggravated by warm rooms or exertion.
- Chest oppression or wheezing, with a tendency to aggravation in humid conditions,.
- resembling asthma, worse with warmth or rest.
- Tendency to respiratory hypersensitivity, with aggravation in catarrhal or allergic.
- states.
- Psychological:.
- Depression or low mood, with a tendency to feel hopeless or despondent, resembling.
- major depressive disorder, worse with chronic illness, warmth, or night.
- Anxiety or irritability, with a sensation of inner tension or impatience, resembling.
- generalized anxiety disorder, aggravated by fasting, fatigue, or emotional stress.
- Mental fatigue or difficulty concentrating, resembling adjustment disorder, worse.
- with warmth or exertion.
- Hydrastis canadensis (Goldenseal) 1017.
- Tendency  to  psychological  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  during  mucosal  or.
- digestive flare-ups.
- Systemic:.
- Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of debility or prostration, resembling chronic.
- fatigue syndrome, worse with warmth, exertion, or emotional stress.
- Cachexia or weight loss, with a sensation of wasting or emaciation, resembling.
- malignancy-related cachexia, aggravated by chronic illness or night.
- Chilliness or cold intolerance, with aggravation in warm, stuffy conditions and a.
- desire for cool air or rest.
- Tendency to systemic hypersensitivity, with aggravation in catarrhal or debilitated.
- states.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Belchings of sour fluid.
- Sore feeling in stomach more or less constant.
- Faintne ss at the stomach, 
sinking, gone feeling in stomach with loathing of food or as of a sharp lump in stomach.
- Atonic dys pepsia.
- Chronic gastritis.
- Weak digestion with debility.
- Acute, distressing cutting pains.
- Chronic gastric catarrh, 
ulceration.
- Painful e pigastric tumors with pulsations.
- Stomach ulcers with emaciation.
- Marasmus.
- Ulcers 
 
 
and cancer.
- Stomach cancer with emaciation.
- Regurgitation of food by mouthful, without nausea.
- Vomits all 
she eats, except milk and water mixed.
- Stools - Feces in form of h ard balls coated over with yellowish, tough mucus.
- Slimy, tenacious discharges 
with tenesmus.
- Stools hard and knotty, of a gray or brown color.
- Scanty stools alternating with discharge of 
membranous casts.
- Stool light colored, soft, acrid, greenish.
- Stool lumpy, covered with yellow mucus.
- Greenish 
stools.
- Temperature - Chills at night.
- Chill morn ing or evening.
- Chilliness, especially in back or thighs, with aching, 
pulse slow.
- Heat in flushes.
- Great heat of whole body.
- Constant dull burning pains all the e vening.
- Gastric, 
bilious or typhoid forms of fever, with gastric disturbances, jaundice and great debility following.
- Heat 
alternating with chill.
- Influenza in cold, weak, debilitated persons.
- Burning pain in umbilical region with goneness, faintness in epigastrium.
- Gastro-duodenal catarrh.
- Colon cancer.
- Flatulent colic with faintness.
- Loud rumbling with dull aching, worse moving.
- Abdominal walls 
painful on pressure, during flatulent colic.
- Cutting, colicky pains, better after passing flatus.
- Sharp pain in the 
cecal region.
- Sharp pain spleen region.
- Pains in the groin as if he had strained himself.
- Griping pains with the 
stools.
- Groins as if sprained.
- Severe pain in bowels from getting feet wet during  
menses.
- Gurgling in ileocaecal region, with bloated abdomen.
- Intestinal catarrh, followed by ulceration.
- Poor appetite with constipation.
- Irritability after dinner.
- Indigestion from atony of the stomach, 
especially in elderly people.
- Bread or vegetables cause acidity, weakness, indigestion.
- i/Vorse by excessive 
use of alcohol.

### Urinary & Genital
- Gonorrhea, in second stage, dis charge thick and yellow.
- Gleet, debility, copious, painless dis charge.
- Debility after spermatorrhea.
- Hydrocele.
- Dragging in right groin to testicle, then to left testicle, then to left groin.
- Long lasting gonorrhea, with great moral and physical depression.
- Endometritis.
- Profuse menses, flowing ten days or more.
- Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia with fibroids.
- Congestive dysmenorrhea.
- Leucorrhea, worse after menses (Bov., Calc.).
- Thick, acrid, yellow, ropy 
leucorrhea.
- Pruritus vulvae with profuse leucorrhea (Calc., Kreos., Sep.).
- Hot, watery, discharge from uterus.
- Fibroid tumors at menopause.
- Uterine hemorrhage.
- Uterine complaints bet ter recumbent position.
- Removes 
the tendency to habitual adherent placenta.
- Erosion and excoriation of cervix.
- Inflammation of cervix, with heat 
and itching of vagina.
- Vagina sore during sex, bleeding afterwards.

### Extremities
- Rheumatic pains.
- Limbs tired, ache, feel weak, with coryza.
- Sharp, shifting pain, in right arm and leg, 
then left leg.
- Pain from right hip to knee while walking.
- Aching in sole of left foot, no relief from change of 
position.
- Irritable, indolent, atonic or scrofulous ulcers on the legs.
- Liver - Cutting pain from liver to right scapula, worse lying on back or right side.
- Jaundice, with catarrh of 
stomach and duodenum.
- Jaundice from structural disease of liver.
- Liver cancer.
- Atrophy of liver.
- Torpor of 
the liver, with pale, scanty stools.
- Gallstones.
- Catarrhal inflammation of mucous lining of gall bladder and biliary 
ducts.

### Neck & Back
- Dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness, particularly across lumbar region, must use arms in raising 
himself from seat.
- Neuralgia of neck.
- Muscles of neck feel sore.
- Tired aching across small of back and in 
limbs, knees ache, better by walking about.
- Chronic suppuration and swelling o f cervical glands with great 
weakness.
- Debility and weakness in back and lower limbs better walking about.
- Excoriation in folds of skin of 
neck.
- Breasts - Cracked and sore nipples of nursing women.
- Pain in breast (right) on sneezing.
- Pain in right breast 
and down arm.
- Breast cancer, pains like knives thrust into part.
- Nipple retracted.
- Hard, irregular tumor of left 
breast, glands in axilla enlarged and painful, cachectic appearance.

### Skin
- Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of debility or prostration, resembling chronic.
- fatigue syndrome, worse with warmth, exertion, or emotional stress.
- Cachexia or weight loss, with a sensation of wasting or emaciation, resembling.
- malignancy-related cachexia, aggravated by chronic illness or night.
- Chilliness or cold intolerance, with aggravation in warm, stuffy conditions and a.
- desire for cool air or rest.
- Tendency to systemic hypersensitivity, with aggravation in catarrhal or debilitated.
- states.

### Sleep
- Awakened by backache and dull pains in navel and hypogastric region.
- Restless sleep.
- Difficulty in 
awaking.
- Dreams wearisome.