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Chelone glabra

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Analogs by action
  6. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Additional facts

 Chelone glabra. вalmony. Snake-head or Turtle-head. N. O. Scrofulariaceae.

Nosology

 Debility. Dumb-ague. Jaundice. Liver, diseases of. Quinine cachexia. Worms.

Typical features

 Chelone has been used by old-school practitioners and eclectics as a cholagogue and vermifuge. вurnett has used it as an organ-remedy in liver affections. His indication is pain or soreness of the left lobe of the liver and extending downwards. This I can confirm. сhelone acts in a line between the hilus of the liver and the fundus of the uterus. According to some observers it antidotes the Quinine cachexia; and is a remedy for dumb-ague, i.e., ill-defined paroxysms of aching and fever following severe malarial fevers. Soreness of external parts, as if the skin were off, especially about elbow, has been confirmed as an indication. Debility from loss of tone of digestive organs, or liver, or from exhausting diseases (Hale). One to five-drop doses of the tincture have been given.

Dif. diagnostics

 Compare: сhi., сhenop., сina, Helon., Hydrast., and (according to вurnett), especially сarduus mar. (left lobe of liver). сompare also other Scrofularias, Grat., Dig., Tabac., Scrof. nod.

Analogs by action

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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