Erigeron canadense
Conyza canadensis · Plant · Asteraceae
Erigeron canadense is particularly suited to women with a weak uterus prone to haemorrhage and to patients with combined urinary and haemorrhagic complaints. The slightest exertion causes a bloody discharge.
Key symptoms
- Profuse bright-red blood from uterus or bladder
- Persistent haemorrhage from the bladder
- Bloody lochia returns after the least motion, comes in gushes
- Metrorrhagia with violent irritation of rectum and bladder
- Chronic gonorrhoea with burning micturition and continual dribbling
- Pain in left ovary and hip
- Leucorrhoea with urinary irritation between periods
- Tympanites
- Dysentery with soreness and burning in bladder
Worse (aggravation)
- Least motion causes lochia to return
- Left side more affected
- Any exertion causes bloody discharge
Better (amelioration)
- Rest reduces haemorrhagic flow
Fleabane (ERIGERON - LEPTILON CANADENSE)
Hæmorrhages are caused and cured by this remedy. Persistent hæmorrhage from the bladder. Hæmorrhage from the uterus, with painful micturition. Profuse bright-red blood. Pain in left ovary and hip. Chronic gonorrhœa, with burning micturition; continual dribbling. Dysentery, with soreness and burning in bladder. Tympanites.
Female
Metrorrhagia, with violent irritation of rectum and bladder, and prolapsus uteri. Bright-red flow. Menorrhagia; profuse leucorrhœa; bloody lochia returns after least motion, comes in gushes; between periods, leucorrhœa with urinary irritation; pregnant women with "weak uterus;" a bloody discharge on slight exertion. Bleeding hæmorrhoids; nosebleed instead of menses (Bry).
Modalities
Worse, left side.
Relationship
Terebinthina similar.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency. Oil of Erigeron 1x internally for tympanites. An enema of one dram of the oil with the yolk of an egg and pint of milk will reduce the most enormous tympanites.
Phatak's chapter on Erigeron canadense is available in the app.
Read Phatak in the appClassical texts are in the public domain. Educational reference only — not medical advice.
