Chelidonium majus

as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899

Celandine

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Keynotes

Chelidonium majus

Celandine. Papaveraceae.

Persons of light complexion, blondes; thin, spare, irritable; subject to hepatic, gastric and abdominal complaints (Pod.) ; every age, sex and temperament.

Constant pain under the lower and inner angle of right scapula (Kali c., Mer. — under the left, Chenop. g.. Sang.).

Ailments : brought on or renewed by change of weather (Mer.) ; all lessen after dinner.

Tongue coated thickly yellow, with red edges, showing imprint of teeth (Pod. — large, flabby, with imprint of teeth, Mer.).

Desire for very hot drinks, unless almost boiling stomach will not retain them (Ars., Case.).

Periodic orbital neuralgia (right side), with excessive lachrymation ; tears fairly gush out (Rhus).

Constipation : stool, hard, round balls like sheep’s dung (Op., Plumb.) ; alternate constipation and diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea: at night; slimy, light-gray; bright-yellowish; brown or white, watery, pasty; involuntary.

Face, forehead, nose, cheeks remarkably yellow.

Yellow-gray color of the skin; wilted skin; of the palms of hands (Sep.).

Hepatic diseases; jaundice, pain in right shoulder.

Pneumonia of r. lung, liver complications (Mer.).

Spasmodic cough; small lumps of mucus fly from mouth when coughing (Bad., Kali c.).

Affects right side most; r. eye, r. lung, r. hypochondrium and abdomen, r. hip and leg; right foot cold as ice, left natural (Lyc.).

Old, putrid, spreading ulcers, with a history of liver disease, or of a tubercular diathesis.

Gall-stones, with pain under the right shoulderblade (terrible attacks of gall-stone colic. Card. m.).

Relations. — Chel. antidotes the abuse of Bry., especially in hepatic complaints.

Compare: Acon., Bry., Lyc., Mer., Nux, Sang., Sep., Sulph.

Ars., Lyc. and Sulph. follow well, and will often be required to complete the cure.

What the other books say about Chelidonium majus

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Chelidonium majus in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Chelidonium majus in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Chelidonium majus in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Chelidonium majus in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Chelidonium majus — Keynotes, pp. 92–94. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/chelidonium-majus. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.