Materia Medica
Carduus Marianus
St. Mary's Thistle
The action of this drug is centered in the liver, and portal system, causing soreness, pain, jaundice. Has specific relation to the vascular system. Abuse of alcoholic leverages, especially beer. Varicose veins and ulcers. Diseases of miners, associated with asthma. Dropsical conditions depending on liver disease, and when due to pelvic congestion and hepatic disease. In- fuenza when liver is affected. Debility.
Mind
Despondency ; forgetful, apathetic.
Head
Contractive feeling above eyebrows. Dull heavy, stupid, with foul tongue. Vertigo, with ten- dency to fall forward. Burning and pressure in eyes.
Stomach
Taste bitter Aversion to salt meat. Ap- petitt small; tongue furred; nausea; vomiting of green, acid fluid. Stitches in left side of stoimach, near spleen. [Ceanoth.]
Abdomen
Pain in region of liver. Left lobe very sensitive. Fullness and soreness, with moist skin. Con- stipation; stools hard, difficult, knotty; alternates with diarrhcea. Stools bright yellow. Swelling of gall blad- der with painful tenderness. Hyperemia of liver, with jaundice. Cirrhosis, with dropsy. Urine. -- Cloudy ; golden-colored.
Chest
Stitching pains in lower right ribs and front ; worse, moving. walking, etc. Asthmatic rcspination. Pain in chest. going to shoulders, back, loins, and ab- domen, with urging to urinate.
Extremities
Pain in hip-joint, spreading through buttocks; wrosc from stooping. Difficult rising.
Skin
Itching on lying down at night. Vuricosc ulcers. [Clematis vitalba.] Eruption on lower part of sternum.
Relationships
Compare: Car. bencdictus (strong action on eyes, and sensation of contraction in many parts; stomach symptoms similar) ; Chelidon.: Chionan- hics; Merc.: Podophyl.; Bry.: Aloe.
Dose
Tincture and lower potencies.