Materia Medica de A a Z

CHELIDONIUM MAJUS (chel)

Region

Right side: Portal system. Abdomen. Lungs (lower). Mucous membranes. Bowels (R). Occiput. Kidneys. Knees.

Worse

Motion. Cough. Touch. Change of weather. North Easters. 4 A.M. and 4 P.M. (Ign).

Better

Hot food. Eating; dinner. Milk. Pressure. Hot bath. Bending backward.

General

YELLOWNESS. Bilious disturbances; vomiting, jaundice, catarrhs, etc. Pains shoot backward or in all directions. Stitches. Heavy, stiff, sore, paralysed, dislocative or broken feeling. Numbness. Horror of motion..................... Lazy. Averse to mental exertion or conversation. Despondency. Vertigo; felt in vertex. Headaches extend backward. Heavy occiput. Supra-orbital pain. Mucus in eyes. Outward, blowing, crawling, etc., in ears. Dark red or sallow, sunken face. Red nose. Flapping alæ. Bitter taste. Yellow tongue; with indented edges [Hyds. (Hydr)]. Choking, as from too large a morsel. Left sided goitre. Craves milk, piquant or hot foods (Lyc). Nausea. Sensitive epigastrium. Sensation as of a plug in stomach. Gnawing, scraping gastric pains, amel. eating. LIVER PAINS GOING BACKWARD, OR FIXED AT ANGLE OF R. SCAPULA; to r. shoulder and occiput (Kali-c, Nux-v, Sep). Rawness in liver. Gall-stones. As of a string about abdomen or neck. Stools pasty, pale, bright yellow, clayey or hard balls. Dyspnoa, agg. urinating [Dul. (Dulc)]. Cough, as from dust; with much rattling, but little expectoration, or it flies from mouth. Hepato-pectoral symptoms. Like a nail deep in r. chest. Bilious pneumonia (Merc). Fluctuating temperature. Pain from neck to r. temple. Itching, amel. eating. Lethargic, DROWSY and chilly. Icy cold nape and occiput. Cold fingertips. One foot cold. Burning heat, spreads from hands over body. Sweaty, with aversion to uncover and without relief; after midnight.

Complementary: Lyc, Merc-d.

Related: Bry, Kali-bi, Merc, Op.