Materia Medica de A a Z

CALENDULA OFFICINALIS (Calen)

A most remarkable healing agent, applied locally. Useful for open wounds, parts that will not heal, ulcers, etc. Promotes healthy granulations and rapid healing by first intention. Haemostatic after tooth extraction. Deafness. Catarrhal conditions. Neuroma. 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 exudation and helps to make acrid discharge healthy and free. Cold hands.

Head

Extremely nervous; easily frightened; tearing headache; weight on brain. Submaxillary glands swollen, painful to touch. Pain in right side of neck. Lacerated SCALP wounds.

Eyes

Injuries to eyes which tend to suppuration; after operations; blenorrhoea of lachrymal sac.

Ears

Deafness; worse in DAMP surroundings and with eczematous conditions. Hears best on a train, and distant sounds.

Nose

Coryza in one nostril; with much green discharge.

Stomach

Hunger immediately after nursing. Bulimia. HEARTBURN WITH HORRIPILATIONS. Nausea in CHEST. Vomiting. Sinking sensation. Epigastric DISTENTION.

Respiratory

Cough, with green expectoration, hoarseness; with distention of inguinal ring.

Female

WARTS AT THE OS EXTERNUM. Menses suppressed, with cough. Chronic endocervicitis. Uterine hypertrophy, sensation of weight and fullness in pelvis; stretching and dragging in groin; pain on sudden movements. Os lower than natural. Menorrhagia.

Skin

YELLOW; goose-flesh. Promotes favorable cicatrization, with least amount of suppuration. Slough, proud flesh, and raised edges. Superficial burns and scalds. Erysipelas (use topically).

Fever

COLDNESS, GREAT SENSITIVENESS TO OPEN AIR; shuddering in back, skin feels warm to touch. Heat in evening.

Modalities

Worse: in damp, HEAVY, CLOUDY weather.

Relationship

Compare: Hamamel (Ham); Hyper; Symph; Arn. Compare in deafness: Ferr-pic; Kali-i; Calc; Mag-c; Graph.

Antidote: Chelidon (Chel); Rheum. Complementary: Hep.

Dose

Locally. Aqueous Calendula [Marigoldin.] for all wounds, the greatest healing agent. Also as an injection in leucorrhoea; internally, tincture, to third potency. For burns, sores, fissures, and abrasions, etc., use Calendula Cerate.