Chelidonium majus
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A prominent liver remedy, covering many of the direct reflex symptoms of diseased conditions of that organ. The jaundiced skin, and especially the constant pain under inferior angle of right scapula, are certain indications. Paralytic drawing and lameness in single parts. The great general lethargy and indisposition to make any effort is also marked. Ailments brought on or renewed by change of weather. Serous effusions. Hydrocele. Bilious complication during gestation.
Chelidonium majus — Materia Medica
Chelidonium majus — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Chelidonium majus — mind · James Tyler Kent
Very few mental symptoms have been brought out in its proving not enough to give us a good idea of the desires and aversions. We do not get a clear idea of the intellectual faculties. It needs further proving, yet in many regions it has had superabundance of proving. "Sadness and anxiety." Brooding over some sort of trouble generally runs through the mental state. "Anxiety, allowing no rest," keeping the patient uneasy day and night. Sadness, as if she had committed a crime; as if some dreadful thing was going to happen. So sad that she thinks she must die "Weeping despondency. Distaste for mental exertion and conversation. If you examine those medicines that act primarily upon the liver, that slow down the action of the liver, you will find the word melancholia." With heart troubles, great excitement, With liver troubles, slowing down of the mental state, inability of the mind to work, sluggishness of the mind, inability to think, inability to meditate, slow pulse. Sluggishness of the whole economy. Dizziness: The sensorium is very commonly disturbed, and the patient is dizzy. "Things go round in a circle." Dizziness comes, and it does not let up until nausea, and sometimes vomiting, follows. "So much turning in the head that he vomits. Confusion of mind. Loss of consciousness and fainting." These are also common features with liver troubles. The mind symptoms are present more or less with the following liver symptoms; there are pains of a dull aching character, "soreness." Bruised pains. Tenderness of the liver to touch. Aching pains, that seem to involve the whole right lobe of the liver; creating a sensation of fullness. Pressure upwards, with difficulty of breathing.
Chelidonium majus — general · H.C. Allen
Persons of light complexion, blondes; thin, spare, irritable; subject to hepatic, gastric and abdominal complaints (Podo.); every age, sex and temperament. Affects right side most; right eye, right lung, right hypochondrium and abdomen, right hip and leg; right foot cold as ice, left natural (Lyc.). Ailments;brought on or renewed by change of weather (Merc.); all lessen after dinner. Desire for very hot drinks, unless almost boiling, stomach will not retain them (Ars., Casc.).
Chelidonium majus — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(From Hahnemann, Allen’s Cyclopedia and Hering’s Guiding Symptoms) Great laziness and drowsiness, without yawning. Ldhargy. Great discomfort ; feds not at all well, without knowing what is actuqlly the matter with him. Debility and lassitude. Distaste for mental exertion and conversation. Weary, indolent disposition. Vertigo : with bilious vomiting and pain in liver, with stumbling as if to fall forward ; on closing eyes, etc. Pain over left eye ; seemed to press down upper lid. Pressive pain right side forehead. Heaviness in the occiput. {Headaches, sick headaches, neuralgias.) Curious symptom : cranium feds too small ; a forcing in the cerebrum, as if it had not room in the skull, and would be forced through the ear, with noises. Right supraorbital neuralgia. A long-lasting stitch in right ear. Intolerable sensation in both ears, as if wind rushed out of them. In both ears, thundering of distant cannon. Whites of eyes dirty yellow. Stitches above left eye. Increased secretion of meibomian glands. Remarkably yellow colour of the face, especially forehead, nose and cheeks. The usual redness of the cheeks has a mixture of yellow of a dark colour. Greyish-yeUow sunken countenance. Tongue thickly coated yellow ; with red margin ; showing imprint of teeth. Mucus in mouth with tough mucous saliva. Bitter taste in the mouth. Great tension on and in the throat, above the larynx, as if it were constricted, whereby, however, only the gullet was narrowed. Sensation as if the larynx were pressed upon the oesophagus from without, whereby not the breathing but the swallowing was rendered difficult. A choking in throat, as if too large a morsel had been too hastily swallowed. Loss of appetite with disgust and nausea. Hiccup. All complaints lessen after dinner. Nausea in hepatitis, and in the vomiting of pregnancy. Bilious vomiting. Constriction, tension and sensitiveness in pit of stomach and right hypochondrium. A sharp painful…
Chelidonium majus — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(The Greater Celandine) “ A perennial plant with a sharp, bitter and burning taste, yielding, when pressed, a yellow, corrosive, milky juice. It grows in hedges and waste places, amid stones and rubbish.” One of our good old chemists (many of them prepared their own homoeopathic medicines), used to make pilgrimages to Box Hill in Surrey, where the Greater Celandine flourishes, in order to get the best tinctures of the plant in its chosen habitat. Tinctures are made from the root, or from the whole plant. Hering says : " This remedy, famous in antiquity, preserved its repute through the Middle Ages. It was administered in serious complaints, particularly in hepatic derangements, accord ing to the law of signatura, the yellow juice of the plant against the yellow bile and the jaundiced look. It was proved by Hahne mann and later more extensively. . . . Its place in the Materia Medica is well defined by numerous clinical reports, verifying the provings.” Culpepper, 1616-1654 (Complete Herbal) tells us ” It is called Chelidonium, from the Greek word Chelidon, which signifies a swallow, because they say that if you put out the eyes of young swallows when they are in the nest, the old ones will recover them again with this herb . . .” (And Chelidonium has had a reputation of eyes, and for cataract.) Culpepper says " i t is one of the best cures for the eyes ”—" in an ointment to anoint your sore eyes with ” . . . “ in my experience and the experience of those to whom I have taught it, the most desperate sore eyes have been cured by this medicine ” and he suggests that " it is far better than endangering the eyes by the art of the needle ”.
Chelidonium majus — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Motion. Cough. Touch. Change of weather. North Easters. 4 A.M. and 4 P.M. (Ign.).
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