CISTUS CANADENSISLiquid

Cistus canadensis is a deep-acting anti-psoric homoeopathic remedy prepared from the whole plant of Helianthemum canadense, belonging to the Cistaceæ family. It exhibits a powerful influence on glandular affections, ulcers, and skin eruptions, especially when the patient is extremely sensitive to cold. It is known for its affinity to the naso-pharynx, lymphatic system, and mucous membranes, and is effective in conditions involving cold sensations, suppuration, and malignancy.

Common Name
English: Rock Rose, Frost-weed

SBL’s Cistus canadensis can be helpful in the following conditions:

Cold Sensitivity & General Chilliness

• Cistus canadensis aids in extreme sensitivity to cold, especially of throat, skin, and extremities.
• Helps in cold sensations in the mouth, abdomen, stomach, chest, and throat.
• Manages coldness that disturbs sleep or worsens symptoms on inhaling even slightly cold air.

Throat Pain & Swelling

• Supports dry, spongy, painful throat from cold air exposure.
• Helps in swollen uvula, tonsils, and glands of the throat with painful suppuration.
• Aids in sore throat that causes hawking of mucus and a constant need to sip water.
• Manages head drawn to one side due to enlarged cervical glands.

Glandular Affections

• Supports inflammation and induration of glands, particularly in the neck and throat.
• Helps in tumors and malignant diseases of cervical glands.
• Aids in scrofulous and mercurio-syphilitic glandular involvement.

Facial Complaints & Skin Eruptions

• Helps in itching, burning, and crusting on the right cheekbone (zygomatic region).
• Supports treatment of open, bleeding cancers and lupus of the face.
• Aids in painful tip of the nose and facial caries.

Ear Discharges & Skin Tetter

• Manages watery or foul-smelling pus discharge from the ears.
• Helps in tetter on and around the ears, spreading into the auditory canal.

Painful Tongue & Gum Affections

• Aids in scorbutic, swollen gums and foul-smelling, impure breath.
• Helps in painful tongue protrusion and pyorrhea.

Gastrointestinal Discomfort

• Supports cool sensations in the stomach and abdomen, especially before and after meals.
• Aids in diarrhea caused by coffee or fruit, with thin, yellow stools, worse in the morning.
• Manages craving for cheese.

Chest Affections & Asthma

• Helps in cold sensation in the chest and hemorrhage from the lungs.
• Manages asthma after lying down, with a sensation of narrowed trachea.
• Supports induration and inflammation of the mammæ.

Limb & Joint Pain

• Aids in sprained pain in the wrists and sensitive fingertips to cold.
• Helps in syphilitic ulcers of the legs with hard surrounding swelling.
• Supports cold feet, white swelling, and tetter on the hands.

Sleep Disturbances

• Helps in sleeplessness caused by coldness in the throat.

Leucorrhoea and Indurated Mammae

• Aids in painful, indurated mammæ and offensive-smelling leucorrhœa.
• Supports hypersensitivity to cold air in women.

Skin Eruptions & Itching

• Cistus canadensis manages widespread itching, worsened at night and by cold washing.
• Supports dry, cracked, thickened skin with deep fissures, especially on hands.
• Aids in painful pimples, lupus, and mercurial or syphilitic ulcers.
• Helps in itching of swollen arms and hands interfering with sleep.