Materia Medica de A a Z

CHELIDONIUM MAJUS (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 marked. 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 LEAD. Heavy, lethargic; drowsiness very marked, with general numbness; vertigo, associated with hepatic disturbance. Inclination to fall forward. Right- sided headache down behind ears and shoulder-blade. NEURALGIA OVER RIGHT EYE, right cheek- bone and right ear, with excessive lachrymation, preceded by pain in liver.

Nose

Flapping of alae nasi [Lyc].

Eyes

Dirty yellow color of whites. Sore sensation on looking up. Tears fairly gush out. Orbital neuralgia of right eye, with profuse lachrymation; pupils contracted, relieved by pressure.

Face

YELLOW; worse nose and cheeks. Wilted skin.

Stomach

Tongue yellow, with imprint of teeth; large and flabby [Merc; Hyd (Hydr)]. Taste bitter, pasty. Bad odor from mouth. PREFERS HOT FOOD AND DRINK. Nausea, vomiting; Better, VERY HOT WATER. Pain through stomach to back and right shoulder-blade. Gastralgia. EATING RELIEVES TEMPORARILY, especially when accompanied with hepatic symptoms.

Abdomen

Jaundice due to hepatic and gall-bladder obstruction. Gall-colic. Distention. Fermentation and sluggish bowels. Constriction across, as by a string. Liver enlarged. Gallstones [Berberis (Berb)].

Urine

Profuse, foaming, yellow urine, like beer [Chenop (Chen-a)]. Dark, turbid.

Stool

Constipation; stools hard, round balls, like sheep's dung, bright yellow, pasty; clay-colored, stools float in water; ALTERNATION OF DIARRHOEA AND CONSTIPATION. Burning and itching of anus [Rat; Sulph].

Female

Menses too late and too profuse.

Respiratory

Very quick and short inspirations; pain on deep inspiration. Dyspnoea. Short, exhausting cough; sensation of dust not relieved by cough. Whooping-cough; spasmodic cough; loose, rattling; expectoration difficult. Pain in RIGHT side of chest and shoulder, with embarrassed respiration. Small lumps of mucus fly from mouth when coughing. Hoarse in afternoon. Constriction of chest.

Back

Pain in nape. Stiff neck, head drawn to left. FIXED PAIN UNDER INNER AND LOWER ANGLE OF RIGHT SCAPULA. Pain at lower 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 rigidity of muscles.

Skin

Dry heat of skin; itches, YELLOW. Painful red pimples and pustules. Old, spreading, offensive ulcers. Wilted skin. Sallow, cold, clammy.

Modalities

Worse: right side, motion, touch, change of weather, very early in morning.

Better after dinner, from pressure.

Relationship

Chelidonin (Chelin) — (Spasm of smooth muscle everywhere, intestinal colic, uterine colic, bronchial spasm, tachycardia, etc.) Boldo - Boldoa fragrans — (Bladder atony; cholecystitis and biliary calculus. Bitter taste, no appetite; constipation, hypochondriasis languor, congestion of liver, burning weight in liver and stomach. Painful hepatic diseases. Disturbed liver following malaria.) Elemuy Gauteria (Elem) — (Stone in kidneys and bladder; grain doses of powdered bark in water or 5 drops of tincture. Pellagra). Sulph often completes its work.

Complementary: Lyc; Bry.

Antidote: Cham.

Compare: Nux-v; Sulph; Bry; Lyc; Op; Podophyl (Podo); Sanguin (Sang); Ars.

Dose

Tincture and lower attenuation.