Ceanothus americanus

Ceanothus americanus
(new jersey tea)
* This remedy seems to possess a specific relationto the spleen.
* Ague cake of malaria.
* A left-sided remedy generally.
* Anaemic patients where liver and spleen are at fault.
* Chronic bronchitis with profuse secretion.
* Marked blood pressure, reducing powers.
* Active hemastatic, materially reducing the clotting of blood.
Abdomen
- Enormous enlargement of the spleen.
- Splenitis; pain all up the left side.
- Deep-seated pain in left hypochondrium, hypertrophy of spleen.
- Leucaemia .
- Violent dyspnoea.
- Menses profuse, and yellow weakening leucorrhoea.
- Unable to lie on left side.
- Pain in liver and back.
Rectum
- Diarrhoea; bearing down in abdomen and rectum.
Urine
- Constant urging to urinate.
- Green; frothy; contains bile, sugar.
Relationship
- Compare : Tinospora cordifolia (a Hindoo medicine for chronic cases of fever with enlarged
spleen).
- Polymnia uvedalia - Bearsfoot - (acute splenitiswith tenderness over left hypochondriac
region; spleen enlarged, ague cake. Vascular atony,tissues sodden, flabby and non-elastic.
Enlarged glands; influences all ductless glands.) Ceanothus thrysiflorus - California Lilac -
(Pharyngitis, tonsillitis, nasal catarrh, diphtheria. Tincture internally and as a gargle).
- Compare : Berberis; Myrica; Cedron; Agaricus (spleen).
Modalities
- Worse, motion, lying on left side.
Dose
- First attenuation.
- Locally as hair tonic.