Plant
Chelidonium Majus
Celandine
Repertory abbreviation: Chel.
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 inarked. Ailments brought on or renewed by change of weather. Serous effusions. Hydrocele. Bilious complications during gestation.
Head
Icy coldness of occiput from the nape of neck; feels heavy as lrad. Heavy, lethargic; drowsiness very marked, with general numbness; vertigo, asso- ciated with heptic disturbance. Inclination to fall for- ward. Right-sided headache'down behind cars and shoulder-blade. Neuralgia over right eye, right cheek- bone and right ear, with excessive lachrymation, pre- ceded by pain in liver.
Eyes
Dirty yellow color of whites. Sore sensation on looking up. Tears fairly gush out. Orbital neu- ralgia of right eye, with profuse lachrymation; pupils contracted, relieved by pressure.
Nose
Flabbing of lac nasi. [Lyc.]
Face
I'cllorw; worse nose and cheeks. Wilted skin.
Stomach
Tongue yellow, with imprint of teeth; large and flabby. [Merc.; Hyd.] Taste bitter, pasty. Bad odor from mouth. Prefers hior food and drink. Nausea, vomiting; better, very hot zeater. Pain through stomach to back and right shoulder-blade. Gastralgia. Eativg relieves s temporarily, especially when accom- paried with hepatic symptoms.
Abdomen
Jaundice due to hepatic and gall-bladder obstruction. Gall-colic. Distention. Fermentation and sluggish bowe!s. Constriction across, as by a string. Liver enlarged. Gallstones. [Berberis.] Urine. -- Profuse, foaming, yellow urine, like beer. [Chcnor.] Urine dark, yellow, turbid.
Stool
Constipation; stools hard, round balls, like sheep's dung, bright yellnw, pasty: clay-colored, stools foat in water; alternation of diarrhaa and constiration. Burning and itching of anus. [Ratanh.; Sulph.; Teucr.] 221
Female
Menses too late and too profuse.
Respiratory
Very quick and short inspirations : pain on deep inspiration. Dyspncea. Whooping-cough; spasmodic cough; loose, ratiling; expectoration diffi- cult. Pain in right side of chest and shoulder, with em- barrassed respiration. Small lumps of mucus fy from mouth when coughing. Hoarse in afternoon. Con- striction of chhest.
Back
Pain in nape. Stiff neck, head drawn to left. Fixed pain under inner and lower angle of right scapula. Pain at lowel angle of left scapula.
Extremities
Pain in arms, shoulders, hands, tips of fingers. Icy coldness of tips of fingers; wrists sore, tearing in metacarpal bones. Whole flesh sore to touch. Rheumatic pain in hips and thighs; intolerable pains in heels, as if pinched by too narrow a shoe; worse, right. Feels paralyzed. Paresis of the lower limbs with rigid- ity of muscles.
Skin
Dry heat of skin; itches, yellow. Painful red pimples and pustules. Oid, spreading, offensive ulcers. Wilted skin. Sallow, cold, clammy.
Modalities
Worse, right side, motion, touch, change of weather, very early in morning. Better, after dim- mer, from pressure.
Relationships
Boldo — Boldea fragrans — (Bladder atony ; cholecystitis and biliary calculus. Disturbed liver following malaria). Sulph often completes its work. Complementary: Lycop.; Bryon. Antidote: Chamom. Compare: Nux; Sulph.; Bry.; Lyc.: Opium; Pod- phy.; Sanguin.; Ars.
Dose
Tincture and lower attenuations.