Cistus canadensis

- VERMEULEN Frans,
Cistus canadensis
Cist.
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges.
[Sir Walter Scott]
Signs
Cistus canadensis. Helianthemum canadense. Helianthemum corymbosum. Rockrose. Frostwort. N.O. Cistaceae.
CLASSIFICATION The medium-sized Cistaceae or Rockrose family of shrubs and subshrubs [occasionally herbs] occurs in dry, sunny habitats in Old World temperate regions, especially the Mediterranean, with some in North and South America. Most contain a volatile oil. A number of species and hybrids are popular as ornamentals.
HABITAT Cistus canadensis grows in dry, sandy soils from Canada to Florida. It flowers from June to September, but earlier [April] in the Southern States.
GENUS The genus Cistus comprises about 20 species of low, evergreen and semi-evergreen shrubs characteristic of scrub and dry woodland with simple, opposite leaves and regular, delicate, rose-like flowers that bear 3-5 sepals, 4-5 [crumpled] petals, and numerous stamens. Individual flowers often only last one day. Helianthemum is a different, though closely related genus of about 70 species of dwarf shrubs [typically] with yellow flowers. Helianthemum occurs abundantly in dry, base-rich grassland or on open rocky ground. Helianthemum nummularium occurs widely north to Britain and Scandinavia.
FEATURES "Sometimes called Frost-plant, because the roots throw off small icicles, with all the colours of the rainbow, which can be seen on frosty mornings - even when other plants show little dew-drops. It is a perennial herb, with simple, ascending, downy stem, about a foot high. Flowers large and bright yellow, in terminal corymbs; they open in the sunshine, and cast their petals the next day. It grows on sandy plains and rocky places, preferring limestone ground."1 A peculiar characteristic of Rockroses is that young stems do not break easily at the nodes.
Cistus canadensis
NAME The name Helianthemum derives from Gr. helios, sun, and anthemon, flower, since the flowers tend to open only in bright sunshine. Cistus is the old Greek name for the plant.
USES The oil and oleoresin - called ladanum - of various species of Rockrose, particularly of Cistus ladaniferus, has been used as a fixative and fragrance component in lotions, powders, soaps, detergents, colognes and perfumes, especially oriental perfumes and aftershaves [ladanum is the best plant substitute for ambergris from sperm whale]. It is also employed in most major food categories, particularly meat products, as well as alcoholic and soft drinks. 2 Ladanum is used in raspberry, fruit, and vanilla flavourings for beverages, ice cream, ices, candy, baked goods, gelatine desserts, and chewing gum. It is mildly toxic by ingestion, as well as irritant to the skin. In Brazil ladanum balsam is employed to treat leprosy.
PROVINGS •• [1] Bute - 1835-36; method: not stated.
•• [2] Gosewich - 1835-36; method: 'careful proving with globules of the X'; manner not stated.
Both provings under the supervision of Hering.
"The Rockrose, or Ice-plant, has long been esteemed as a popular remedy in scrofula. It was partially proven and incorporated into our Materia Medica by Dr. Hering, who had a high estimate of its properties. He suggests that as it grows by preference in a soil abounding in magnesia [talc], it ought to follow Magnesia. Is Magnesia one of its inorganic constituents? If so, some Magnesia symptoms might be cured by it. A study of the pathogenesis can not fail to impress you with its similarity to some of the anti-psorics, namely: Calcarea, Corydalis, Graphites, Hepar sulphuris, Phytolacca, and Stillingia. It has some resemblance to Belladonna, Paris quadrifolia, Kali bichromicum, and Lachesis, especially its throat symptoms. Like the above anti-psorics it has made some brilliant cures of swelling and suppuration of the cervical and lymphatic glands."3
[1] Hale, New Remedies. [2] Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils. [3] Hale, ibid.
Affinity
GLANDS [naso-pharynx; cervical; mammae - left]. Throat. Lungs. Skin.
Modalities
Worse: COLD [AIR; inspired air; taking cold; cold drafts; cold water]. Mental [exertion; excitement]. Touch. Winter.
Main symptoms
M Mental excitement <. • "All mental excitement greatly increases the sufferings." • "Bad effects from vexation." • "Every mental excitement is followed by stitches in the throat, producing a cough." • "Mental agitation increases the cough." [Hale] c Flower essence [of Helianthemum nummularium] • "Rock rose is a remedy of emergency, where there is terror, panic or extreme fright, which spreads from the person affected to those around them. It may be the terror of a child after a nightmare, or of someone involved in or witnessing an accident. It is one of the components of Dr Bach's Rescue Remedy, and can be used for acute fear or terror in any situation when feeling unable to cope. Rock rose frees one from the almost paralysed state of panic, and can help to turn fear for oneself into courage, even to the point of forgetting oneself in times of emergency for the sake of others. It is the remedy of heroes, where people can grow beyond their natural capabilities."1 G Remarkable resemblance to Calc., though mostly on the physical level only. G Similar to Calc., Hep. [suppuration, susceptibility to cold] and Heloderma [the coldest remedy of the materia medica]. G Mononucleosis [glandular fever]. • "The exact picture of infectious mononucleosis. Nasopharynx and cervical regions involved. Glandular induration is always present. Low resistance to colds. Frequent colds and chronic catarrh. Sensitive to draughts and inspired air. Warm air is desired. The patient is always cold. The coldness is even manifested in the stomach. There is an unusual craving for cheese. Easily exhausted. Otorrhoea."2 G Extreme SENSITIVENESS and susceptibility to COLD. • "Inhaling the slightest cold air causes a sore throat, which he has not when inhaling in the warm room." [Hering] G Sensation of COLDNESS in various parts. [mouth, throat, nose, breath, tongue, naso-pharynx, stomach, abdomen, saliva, eructations, forehead, chest, perspiration] • "Immediately after taking a dose the tongue grew cool, then the breath through the mouth and nose gave a decidedly cool feeling in the larynx and in the windpipe; much saliva in the mouth, which is also cool; more mental calmness than usual." • "Cold feeling in stomach before and after eating." [Allen] G Sleeplessness from coldness. G Desire for CHEESE, acid fruit, herring, pungent things [TONICS]. G ENLARGED and indurated GLANDS, like knotted cords. P Fetid otorrhoea and enlargement of parotid and cervical glands, with cracks, fissures and bleeding [eczema around ears]. P Burning in nose when the nasal discharge is removed. P THICK YELLOW OFFENSIVE MUCUS, leaving a painful rawness. P Pyorrhoea alveolaris. P Colds affect the THROAT and POSTERIOR NARES. • "Continuous feeling of dryness and heat in the throat." • "The patient is constantly obliged to swallow saliva to relieve an unbearable dryness, esp. during the night." • "Must get up in the night on account of dryness in the throat." [Hale] Dryness throat < after sleeping. Dryness throat > drinking water and after eating.
P Diarrhoea after coffee, fruit.
P Cracking and bleeding of fingers in winter; from washing in cold water.
[1] McIntyre, Flower Power. [2] Some of the infrequently used remedies; BHJ, July 1970.
Rubrics
Mind
Ailments from emotional excitement [2]. Anger, feels as if paralyzed [2; Calc-p.]. Cheerful, while eating [1]. Restlessness, at night [2].
Head
Coldness, forehead, externally [1]; forehead, in warm room [1]. Pain, from becoming cold [1], from delayed dinner [1], > after eating [1]. Perspiration, forehead, during headache [1].
Nose
Coldness, inside, when inhaling [2], after blowing nose [2/1]. Pain, burning, after blowing out thick mucus [1].
Face
Tension, one-sided, as if muscles were drawn to one side [1/1].
Throat
Dryness, > eating [2]. Pain, > after swallowing [1]; sore, from cold air [2]; stitching, after mental excitement [2/1]. Spongy sensation [2/1].
Rectum
Diarrhoea, after eating [1], with goitre [1/1], in wet weather [1].
Cough
From mental exertion [1].
Respiration
Difficult, > cold air [1], wants doors and windows open [1].
Back
Pain, coccyx, during menses [2], when sitting [1], when touched [1]; as if broken, coccyx [1/1]; burning, coccyx, when sitting [1].
Limbs
Coldness, fingertips [1]. Cracked skin, hands, from wetting [2], in winter [2]. Eruptions, fingertips [2].
Sleep
Sleeplessness, from coldness [1].
Chill
Chilliness, during headache [1]. Internal, at night, in a warm room [1]. Perspiration, the more he sweats the colder he becomes [1; Cinnb.].
Perspiration
Cold [2]. During slight exertion [2]. Profuse [2].
Food
Desire: [2]: Cheese; fruit, acid; marinade; pungent; refreshing. [1]: Fruit; herring; milk.
Worse: [2]: Fruit. [1]: Coffee; fruit, acid; vegetables [= diarrhoea].

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