Echinacea angustifolia

Echinacea angustifolia
(purple cone-flower)
* We are indebted to the Eclectic school for this remarkable medicine as a "corrector of
blood dyscrasia".
* Acute auto-infection.
* Symptoms of blood poisoning, septic conditions generally.
* Diarrhoea in typhoid.
* Gonorrhoea.
* Boils.
* Erysipelas and foul ulcers.
* Gangrene.
* Goitre with exophthalmic symptoms; full doses, also injecting 5-10 drops into thyroid
gland.
* Tendency to malignancy in acute and subacute disorders.
* Last stages of cancer to ease pain.
* Venom infection.
* Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
* Puerperal infections.
* Tired feeling.
* Piles.
* Pustules.
* Acts on vermiform appendix thus has been used for appendicitis, but remember it promotes
suppuration and a neglected appendicitis with pus formation would probably rupture sooner
under its use.
* Lymphatic inflammation; crushing injuries.
* Snake bites and bites and stings generally.
* Foul discharges with emaciation and great debility.
Head
- Confused, depressed.
- Aches with a peculiar periodical flushing of theface, even to the neck; dizziness and
profound prostration.
Nose
- Foul-smelling discharge, membranous formations protruding.
- Post-nasal catarrh with ulceration and fetor.
- Nose feels stuffed up.
- Right nostril raw, bleeding.
Mouth
- Canker; gums recede and bleed easily; corners ofmouth and lips crack; tongue dry and
swollen; sores; dirty brownish.
- Tongue, lips, and fauces tingle, with sense of fear about heart. [Acon.]
- White coating of tongue, with red edges.
- Promotes the flow of saliva.
Throat
- Tonsils purple or black, gray exudation extending to posterior nares and air-passages.
- Ulcerated sore throat.
Stomach
- Sour belching and heartburn.
- Nausea; better lying down.
Chest
- Pain as of a lump in chest and under sternum.
- Pain in pectoral muscles. [Aristolochia.]
Urine
- Albuminous, scanty, frequent, and involuntary.
Female
- Puerperal septicaemia; discharges suppressed; abdomen sensitive and tympanitic; offensive,
excoriating leucorrhoea.
Extremities
- Aching in limbs and general lassitude.
Skin
- Recurring boils.
- Carbuncles.
- Irritations from insect bites and poisonous plants.
- Lymphatics enlarged.
- Old tibial ulcers.
- Gangrene.
Fever
- Chilliness, with nausea.
- Cold flashes all over back.
- Malarial fever.
Relationship
- Compare : Cenchris contortrix; Bothrops; Ars.; Laches.; Baptis.; Rhus; Cistus; Hepar;
Calendula.
Dose
- Tincture, one to ten drops, every two hours, andlarger doses.
- Locally, as a cleansing and antiseptic wash.