Materia Medica
Calendula Officinalis
Marigold
A most remarkable healing agent, applied locally. Useful for open wounds, parts that will not heal, ulcers, etc. Tootache. Deafness. Catarrhal conditions. Neu- roma. Constitutional tendency to erysipelas. Pain is excessive and out of all proportion to injury. Great disposition to take cold, especially in damp weather. Paralysis after apoplexy. . Cancer. as an intercurrent remedy. Has remarkable power to produce local exuda- tion and helps to make acrid discharge healthy and free. Cold hands; nervous states. Easily frightened.
Head
Extremely nervous; tearing headache; weight on brain. Submaxillary glands swollen, painful to touch. Pain in right side of neck.
Eyes
Injuries to eyes which tend to suppuration; after operations; blenolrhcea of lachirymal sac.
Ears
Deafness; worse in damp surroundings and with eczematous conditions. Hears best on a rain, and distant sounds. 181
Nose
Coryza in one nostril; with much green dis- charge.
Stomach
Hunger immediately after nursing. Bulimy. Heartburn with horripilations. Nausea in
Female
Warts at the os externum. Menses sup- pressed, with cough. Chronic endocervicitis. Uterine hypertrophy, sensation of weight and fullness in pelvis; stretching and dragging in groin; pain on sudden move- ments. Os lower than natural. Menorrhagia.
Respiratory
Cough, with green expectoration, hoarseness; with distention of inguinal ring.
Chest
Vomiting. Sinking sensation. Epigastric dis- tention.
Skin
Yellow; goose-flesh. Promotes favorable cicatrization, with least amount of suppuration. Slough, proud flesh, and raised edges.
Fever
Coldness, great sensitiveness to open air; shuddering in back, skin feels warm to touch. Heat in evening.
Modalities
W'orse, in damp, heavy, cloudy weather.
Relationships
Compare: Hamamel.; Hyperic.; Symp.; Arn. Compare in deafness: Ferr. pic.; Kal. iod.; Calc.; Mag. c.; Graph. Antidote: Chelidon.; Rheum. Complementary : Hepar.
Dose
Locally. Aqueous Calendula [Marigoldin.] for all wounds, the greatest healing agent, Also as an injection in leucorrhcea; internally, tincture, to third potency.