CANCHALAGUA

Erythraea venusta-Centaury


  • Used extensively as a fever remedy and bitter tonic (Gentiana), antimalarial and antiseptic. 
  • Of use in severe type of intermittent fever in hot countries; also, in influenza. 
  • Sore, as if bruised all over. 
  • Sensation of drops falling from and upon different spots.

Head

  • Congested. 
  • Scalp feels tight; head feels as if bound; burning in eyes; buzzing in ears.

Fever

  • Chill all over; worse in bed at night. 
  • Sensitive to cold trade-winds on Pacific Coast. 
  • General sore and bruised feeling; nausea and retching.

Skin

  • Wrinkled like a washer-woman's. 
  • Scalp feels tight, as if drawn together by India-rubber.

Dose

  • Tincture, in drop doses. 
  • Must be made from the fresh plant. 
  • Its medicinal properties are lost in the dry.