Botanical Name: Sanguinaria canadensis

Common Names and Synonyms: Sanguinaria, Indian Paint, Red Puccoon, Red Root, Tetteroot

Background: Herbalists mainly use blood root in the treatment of bronchitis due to the emetic and expectorant properties of this herb.  This toxic herb has a strong, bitter, acrid taste.  American Indians used the red juice not only for decorating the body and as an insect repellent, but also as a remedy for sore throat and swellings.  The orange-red underground stem produces, at intervals,  a white bud enveloped in a single folded leaf.  After flowering, the palmate leaf, lobed and pale green-gray, reaches maturity.  The name Sanguinaria comes from the Latin, sanguis which means blood.  The term refers to the red-colored sap which is found in the rhizomes.
 

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• Edgar Cayce recommended blood root (sanguinaria) as an eliminant and internal cleaner working especially with the liver and gall bladder.

• Blood root was mentioned in approximately 77 readings between 1922-1943 with peak utilization between 1922-1924.

• Blood root was typically recommended with other substances in a compound.  Although a wide diversity of  formulas were given, the most common substances mentioned in the same readings with blood root were as follows:

 

Leptandrin	66 readings
Mandrake	42 readings
Cascara	35 readings
Senna	23 readings
Dover's Powder	18 readings
Licorice	14 readings
Sarsaparilla	11 readings
Tolu	11 readings
Camphor	6 readings
Yellow Saffron	6 readings

 

5451-4
    Take, as an eliminator, this:  As we see, it will not be necessary to take more than two doses, and the doses - after the eliminations - should be followed by those of Fletcher's Castoria, at least a whole bottle, or a small bottle of nine hundred drops of same.  This as each dose of the eliminator,
see?

    Podophyllum...................1/4 grain,
    Leptandrin....................1/2 grain,
    Dovers' Powders...............1/2 grain,
    Sanguinaria...................1/2 grain,
    Cascara Sagrada (powdered)....1/4 grain.

    Take this in capsule, preferably in evening.  Let one day be between each dose.

4997-1
    To give the better incentives, to relieve the conditions in this body, and give them the normal flow of blood supply of the gall duct in its functioning of the secretions of the intestinal tract, and to give the balance between the eliminating and assimilating forces in the body, we would take this into the system:
    We would first take three doses of this; one every other day and only three:

    Podophyllin................1 grain,
    Leptandrin.................2 grains,
    Sanguinaria................1 grain.

    This would be for the dose.  Take three.

4887-1
    In this manner, then, would this be accomplished:  First it would become necessary to produce such reaction in the liver and in the duodenum that would bring the better exercising or functioning of the gall ducts and the effect same creates in the system.  This then we would have prepared.  This as each dose, in capsule, and prepare three:

    Podophyllum.........1/2 grain,
    Leptandrin............1 grain,
    Cascara Sagrada.....1/2 grain,
    Sanguinaria...........1 grain,
    Senna...............1/2 grain.

4438-3
(Q)  Should the Dr. Hinkle pills be taken for the constipation, or what would you advise?
(A)  Any of the cathartics that are reactive to the system will be well.   As we find, this prescription would be preferable, with the conditions that exist - this would be one dose, and several of the capsules may be prepared:

    Podophyllum.....................1/4 grain,
    Leptandrin......................1/2 grain,
    Sanguinaria.....................1/4 grain,
    Cascara Sagrada.................1/4 grain,
    Senna...........................1/4 grain.

    This should be thoroughly mixed, and may be given in capsule.  It will not be found necessary to use this more than every other day, or every third day.

4202-1
    Taking for the constitutional condition and to adjust the system, these properties:  To one gallon of rain water add:

    Sarsaparilla.................2 ounces,
    Wild Cherry Bark.............2 ounces,
    Sanguinaria Bark.............2 ounces,
    Yellow Dock Root.............2 ounces,
    mandrake Root...............40 grains,
    Buchu Leaves................15 grains,
    Elder Flower.................4 ounces.

    Reduce by simmering (not boiling) to one quart.  Strain while warm.  Add six ounces of grain alcohol, with two drams Balm of Gilead put in solution.

4177-2
    To give the normal condition, then, for the body from this condition at present, follow much of those as were given in the first, see?  and for the specific condition, we would take these properties in the system, those as will be found in this combination:

    Podophyllum...................1/2 grain,
    Leptandrin......................1 grain,
    Sanguinaria.....................1 grain,
    Dover's Powders...............1/4 grain.

    This would be one dose, see?  These should be put in capsules, and one taken one evening, skip one day, the next taken the next, see, after skipping one day.  Two should be sufficient.  This is to give a full action on the intestinal tract, without producing the aggravating of the system to the extent as to produce an over excess of the secretion as would be thrown into the system from the lymphatics of the intestines.

4176-1
We would take into the system this:

    Podophyllin.......5 grains,
    Leptandrin.......10 grains,
    Sanguinaria.......2 grains,
    Capsicum..........1 grain.

    Mix well together - fill capsules, small size.  Dose one capsule before retiring.  This keep up for three days - then skip three days before taking again.  The action of these principles in the system is to relieve the congestion of the liver, to make the proper secretive forces function through the liver in the proper or intestinal digestion, and rid the lower end of the stomach of that which forms in the stomach with this kind of condition in the body.  This will carry in the circulation the destruction forces, or create in the blood more of the white blood cells or forces to destroy the bacilli in the body.

1898-1
    Make three capsules, EACH containing the following ingredients:

    Podophyllin.................1/4 grain,
    Leptandrin....................1 grain,
    Sanguinaria...................1 grain,
    Dovers' Powders...............1 grain.

    Take one of the capsules each day for three days.  This should be sufficient.  As we find, these should be given with PLENTY of water being taken at the time.  Take one capsule each evening for three days.
    Following the taking of these, even after these properties have acted upon the system, there should be a thorough cleansing of the alimentary canal with high enemas, so that the effects of these properties may be removed; for the Leptandrin and Sanguinaria, as well as the Podophyllin, will act upon the gastric flows through the liver.  While some of these are severe, their reaction should not be so if combined with the others in the proportions as indicated.

257-16
    Take a purgative that will arouse the liver to activity, that will draw blood away from the congestion, until the system is equalized, see?  While congestion is necessarily relieved by increased circulation, but the congestion HERE has left drosses.  Hence the nerves of face, teeth, neck, head, show as pressure created.  Hence increasing eliminations through the hepatic circulation.  Take at least two (2) doses of this - one as soon as may be taken, the other in the morning, see?  This in each dose; preferably in capsule:

    Podophyllum.................1/2 grain,
    Leptandrin....................1 grain,
    Sanguinaria...................1 grain,
    Cascara Sagrada.............1/2 grain,
    Senna.......................1/2 grain.  See?

243-2
    To prevent temperature, which there is some at present, in this body, Miss [243], we are speaking of, we would these compound for the system so as to give correct incentive to the functioning of the secreted and excreted forces, and a stimulant throughout the viscera and to the pancrean forces diminishing the acid and producing more of a lactic state within the body itself and take this into the system:

    Podophylin.................10 grains,
    Leptandrin..................5 grains,
    Sanguinaria.................5 grains,
    Dovers Powders..............3 grains.

    Mix well together and put in 3 grain capsules.  The dose will be one of these each evening.

191-1
    To meet the needs of the conditions, so that there IS the PERMANENT elimination of the disorders from the system: First we would use those of an ELIMINANT that will cause activity within the blood stream proper, and the causing of an activity in the hepatic circulation as to produce a normal return of the plasm in the division of the blood supply, producing an activity in the liver at the same time.  These we would find in this, and we would take three of these, one day apart; that is, take one - rest a day and then take the next - rest a day, taking the next - see?

    Podophyllin....................1/2 grain,
    Leptandrin.....................1/4 grain,
    Sanguinaria....................1/4 grain.

    This should be put in capsule, and this divided into the three doses, see?  To add with this, as the CARRIER, we would take those of the Cascara Sagrada 1/2 grain, making then the capsule of the whole amount into three divisions, after they are well compounded.