Chelidonium majus
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Celandine
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Keynotes
YELLOWNESS. Bilious disturbances; vomiting, jaundice, catarrhs, etc. Pains shoot backward or in all directions. Stitches. Heavy, stiff, sore, paralysed, dislocative or broken feeling. Numbness. Horror of motion. .................... Lazy. Averse to mental exertion or conversation. Despondency. Vertigo; felt in vertex. Headaches extend backward. Heavy occiput. Supra-orbital pain. Mucus in eyes. Outward, blowing, crawling, etc., in ears. Dark red or sallow, sunken face. Red nose. Flapping alæ. Bitter taste. Yellow tongue; with indented edges (Hyds.). Choking, as from too large a morsel. Left sided goitre. Craves milk, piquant or hot foods (Lyc.). Nausea. Sensitive epigastrium. Sensation as of a plug in stomach. Gnawing, scraping gastric pains, > eating. LIVER PAINS GOING BACKWARD, OR FIXED AT ANGLE OF R. SCAPULA; to r. shoulder and occiput (Kali-c. Nux-v. Sep.). Rawness in liver. Gall-stones. As of a string about abdomen or neck. Stools pasty, pale, bright yellow, clayey or hard balls. Dyspnœa, < urinating (Dul.). Cough, as from dust; with much rattling, but little expectoration, or it flies from mouth. Hepato-pectoral symptoms. Like a nail deep in r. chest. Bilious pneumonia (Merc.). Fluctuating temperature. Pain from neck to r. temple. Itching, > eating. Lethargic, DROWSY and chilly. Icy cold nape and occiput. Cold fingertips. One foot cold. Burning heat, spreads from hands over body. Sweaty, with aversion to uncover and without relief; after midnight.
Worse
Motion. Cough. Touch. Change of weather. North Easters. 4 A.M. and 4 P.M. (Ign.).
Better
Hot food. Eating; dinner. Milk. Pressure. Hot bath. Bending backward.
Region
Right side: Portal system. Abdomen. Lungs (lower). Mucous membranes. Bowels (R). Occiput. Kidneys. Knees.
Relationships
Complementary: Lyc. Merc-dul. Related: Bry. Kali-bi. Merc. Op. CHENOPODIUM ALBUM Deafness: variable; > high pitched voice.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Chelidonium majus — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/chelidonium-majus. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.