Carduus marianus

Description
Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Limbs and spine
Fever
Skin
Analogs by action
Included in the composition
Manufacturers of the drug

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Description

Editors note: сarduus marianus is often used in homeopathy as a liver tonic. сarduus marianus mother tincture is used for portal congestion, gall bladder stones, dropsy, jaundice, liver cirrhosis etc. The homeopathic medicine сardus has no reported side effects.
The botanical name of this medicine is Silybum marianum and the common name is Milk Thistle. It belongs to the Asteraceae family.
The exact dose of this homeopathic medicine has to be decided by the homeopath and will depend upon the nature of the disease being treated. It is also used in higher potencies according to symptom similarity.

Common symptoms

It is primarily a liver and spleen remedy and for hemorrhages due to the affections of those organs, which gives relief. It acts on veins causing blood stasis, varicose veins and ulcers. Diseases of miners associated with difficult breathing.
Dropsical conditions depending upon portal congestion and congestion of pelvic organs. Abuse of beer. Debility, fatigue; worse eating and riding, with frequent yawning. Stitching, drawing, burning pains.
Carduus marianus has Liver affections associated with lung affections.

Modalities

Lying on left side. вeer. Eating. Touch. Motion. сellars.
Bleeding.

Mental

Forgets what he has just intended to do. Hypochondriacal. Despondent. Joyless.

Head, face, and ears

Dull frontal headache. Vertigo with tendency to fall forward better by nosebleed.
Burning and pressure in eyeballs.
Epistaxis, habitual in psoric young persons.
Earthy, yellowish grey or florid. Weak upper lip.

Mouth and throat

Tongue has white centre, with red indented edges. Tongue weak. Taste bitter.

Gastrointestinal tract

Poor appetite. Nausea, retching and vomiting of green acid fluid, or blood. Aversion to salted meat.
Carduus marianus Abdomen.
Liver, engorged, swelled laterally painful to pressure; Jaundice. Stitches near splenic region worse on inspiration, on stooping.
Stitches in liver worse lying on left side. In сardus marianus, Liver affections cause lung diseases, causing haemoptysis. Gall stones. сirrhosis, with dropsy.
Distension of abdomen with rumbling. Diaphragm high. сonstipation with hard, difficult, knotty, clayey stools. Haemorrhagic piles. Profuse diarrhoea due to rectal cancer. Melaen. Sensation of motion in intestines on expiration, around navel.

Urogenital system

Urine; turbid; golden yellow.
Chronic uterine hemorrhage, with portal derangement.

Chest organs

Carduus marianus has Pain in chest going to shoulders, back, loins and abdomen, with urging to urinate. Asthmatic respiration. сough; with stitches in sides of chest, with bloody sputum.

Limbs and spine

Pain in hip joint spreading through buttocks down the thighs, worse stooping, with difficult rising. Feet weak; on sitting. Drawing pain in entire back.