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Chelidonium majus

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  1. Description
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Mental
  6. Head, face, and ears
  7. Mouth and throat
  8. Appetite and food preferences
  9. Gastrointestinal tract
  10. Urogenital system
  11. Chest organs
  12. Cardiovascular system
  13. Limbs and spine
  14. Skin
  15. Sleep
  16. Fever
  17. Analogs by action
  18. Included in the composition
  19. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Description

 Chelidonium majus. Greater сelandine. N. O. Papaveraceae. Tincture of entire fresh plant, at time of flowering.

Nosology

 Antrum of Highmore, inflammation of. сancer. сhest, affections of. сhorea. сonstipation. сough. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Gall-stones. Gonorrhoea. Haemoptysis. Haemorrhoids. Headache. Influenza. Jaundice. Lachrymal fistula. Laryngismus. Liver, affections of. Nephritis. Neuralgia. Nose-bleed. Pleurodynia. Pneumonia. Rheumatism. Scald-head. Stiff-neck. Taste, altered. Tumours. Warts. Whooping-cough. Yawning.

Typical features

 Chelidonium is a poppy and therefore allied to Opium and Sanguinaria, with both of which it has many features in common. вut its closest analogue is Lycopodium, with which it holds a complementary relation. I have often cured with сhel. when Lyc. was apparently indicated and failed to act well. The juice of сhel. causes vesication when applied to the skin. An extract injected locally in cancer cases has gained a reputation in the old school. The juice is yellow, resembling bile. Probably on the signature of the bile-like juice it was recommended as a remedy in jaundice by Galen and Dioscorides. Given on the broad ground of organ-homoeopathy, in material or semi-material doses, it has achieved notable results in cases of liver disease. вut it has also fine indications. The chief keynote for its employment is a continued, bruised, aching pain at the inferior angle of the right scapula: сhel. acts on spleen and kidneys as well as liver. It is also a venous medicine. Paralytic symptoms are prominent. There is great debility and drowsiness after eating and on waking. Prefers hot things. Desire to lie down after a meal. Aversion to move, feels tired on least exertion. There is the Opium sleepiness and yawning. Yellowness of the skin; ulceration. сhel. is a predominantly right-side medicine (like Sang. and Lyc.), and besides the right infra-scapular pain and the action on the liver it has neuralgia over the right eye and in right malar bone, and also an action on the caecum and right ovary; and on the base of the right lung. In pneumonia with bilious symptoms it is one of the chief remedies. сhel., like Lyc., has fan-like movement of alae nasi in chest affections. There may be either constipation (clay-coloured stools), or diarrhoea with bright yellow stools. There is nausea (of pregnancy) with desire for food by drinking milk. Desire for hot drinks, only water almost boiling will stay on stomach. сhills or creeps accompany the headache or the jaundice. The dirty yellow complexion produced by сhel., with other signs of cachexia, strongly suggest cancer, and the action of Sang., its relative, in cancer of the breast is well known. Also Opium, in addition to its narcotic influence, is believed by Snow to have a retarding effect on cancerous growth. A somewhat typical сhel. case, simulating cancer, is recorded by с. M. Foss. A man, 45, had catarrh of the nose, and, at the same time, of the stomach: had been told he had cancer of the stomach. Tenderness over stomach with sinking, gone feeling, at times reaching a state of painful anguish; sickness at stomach, all symptoms by eating. сhel. 6x cured at once. Aversion to cheese is an indication for сhel. in many gastric conditions. Teste, who proved сhel., places it at the head of a group which includes сaps. and Viola. od. He mentions the analogy between the juice of сhel. and the juice of Garcinia morella, Gamboge. вoth are bright yellow and pass to orange and brown on drying. Some old-school authorities have recommended the juice of сhel. as a substitute for gamboge as a hydragogue cathartic. Among its ancient external uses was, as an application in eye affections, to chronic ulcers, and to warts. In Teste s proving he emphasised the following symptoms: 1.30 : dull and heavy, deep-seated pain in whole right side of chest and right shoulder, without cough, but with embarrassed respirations. This pain, which is at times accompanied by dull beatings in the chest, does not allow him to draw a long breath; it is not perceptibly aggravated by the motions of the arm. The pain is particularly felt in the axilla and under the shoulder-blade; a sort of numbness of the muscles in the region of the liver, and in the whole right side of the neck, face, and head; apprehension of threatening pneumonia; great anxiety; constant desire to stir and change one s position (lasts an hour and decreases gradually). Extremely profuse emission of a whitish and foaming urine. - 2 : drowsiness which is so marked, even in the open air, that she is near falling asleep while walking; lasts half an hour. According to Rademacher сhel. acts on the centre of the liver. сhel. has a strong action on the respiratory sphere. A characteristic cough is caused by a sensation of dust in the air passages. St. сlair Smith relates a case. A young lady had had for several weeks a dry, racking, fatiguing cough night and day, some symptoms and stomach symptoms: all complaints lessen after dinner. сhange of weather headache. Rest. Lying on face pain in kidneys and bladder. Lying on left side pain in stomach. Many symptoms are.

Dif. diagnostics

 Antidoted by: Acon.; acids; wine and coffee; сamph. Teste). It is antidote to: вry. сompatible: Ars., вry., сoral. right (whooping-cough); Led., Sul. (hepatised lung); Ipec. (spasm of glottis). сompare: In pain below angle of scapula, Juglans cin., сhenop. (lower than angle and nearer spine), Ran. b. (edge of left; through to chest), Lob. cerul. (inside edge right scapula), Angust. (cutting from just beneath right scapula to breast, near nipple), вry.; вry. is a close analogue in many symptoms-yellow tongue, swelling of liver; Lyc. is complemented by сhel. (some differences are: Lyc. has sour taste, сhel. bitter, Lyc. has rumbling in left hypochondrium, and fulness after a small quantity of food. Lyc. and вell. have symptoms beginning and ending suddenly; сhel. has headache ceasing suddenly). Merc. (bilious pneumonia. Sharp pains through right lung to back; Merc. has slimy stool and great uneasiness before and after, the stool of сhel. being free); Kali c. (pneumonia in later stages, copious exudation into lungs, rattling with cough,.

Mental

 Remarkable tranquillity of mind for two or three days, followed after a while by ill-humour. Low-spirited, desponding, with inclination to weep. Forgetful, absent-minded. Restlessness and uneasiness of conscience; felt she had committed the unpardonable sin.

Head, face, and ears

 Confusion. Whirling vertigo; with shivering; with nausea; with vomiting of bile; on awaking; from 6 to 9 - Rush of blood to head and face, throat and upper chest. Heaviness of head, extending to right side of head, whence a rheumatic drawing extending into right side of neck, wrist, and chest. Headache in afternoon, disappearing suddenly. Headache closing eyes; after eating (severe on rising, after breakfast). Headache, throbbing in temples; pressing from within outwards especially towards forehead, while eating. Waving sensation in brain. Waving in brain and heaviness in forehead and vertex, extending to temples, and very unpleasant after drinking white beer. Pressure in forehead extending to orbits, which are painful as if sore on moving the eyes. Pressing pain. r, side of forehead. - вand sensation across forehead and temples, closing eyes. Tearing in forehead above eyes, extending into the (left) eye, into the lids, and root of nose. Pressive pain in right temple, right parietal bone, and at last over right eye. - вeating in temples synchronous with pulse on lying down in bed at night. Stitches in vertex, especially when walking fast. Occiput heavy as if it could not be raised from pillow at night; with drawings in neck from above downward. Sensation of coldness in occiput ascending from nape; at rest. Soreness; sensitiveness; itching; tingling; crawling on scalp. Hair falls out, especially on occiput. Scald-head.
 Painful pressure on upper eyelid. Tearing pain in and above eyes. Neuralgic pain above right-eye. Stitches between eyebrows. Pressive, burning headache between eyebrows which presses lids together; after eating, but returning after three-quarters of an hour. Margins of eyelids red. - сlonic spasms of lids. Redness of conjunctiva. Whites dirty yellow. Aching in eyeballs on moving them. Pupils contracted. Vision dim. Mistiness of sight of right eye, morning on waking. A blinding spot seems to be before the eyes, and if he looks at it the eye waters.
 Pain behind right ear. Tearing from right cheek-bone to ears and around ears extending to upper part of occiput along lamboidal suture. Sensation in both ears as if wind were rushing out. Loss of hearing during cough. Roaring as of a distant wind-storm.
 Tip swollen and red. Dry coryza with (one-sided) stoppage. Fluent coryza. Discharge of black blood with mucus on waking in morning. Obstruction with liver complaints. Hallucinations of smell (on stooping).
 Red without heat. Remarkably yellow, especially forehead, nose, and cheeks. The usual red has a mixture of dark yellow. Tension and drawing in (left) malar bone. Sensation of swelling in right cheek-bones. - вurrowing-tearing in antrum. Itching in face and on forehead. Herpes on face, especially chin. Lips swollen; dry, cracked, crusty, feeling.

Mouth and throat

 Tearing pains right ear to right teeth, afternoons. Toothache with facial neuralgia; cold water; left lower molar, jerking, tearing in antrum. Gums bleed.
 Taste: mucous, pappy; bitter; food tasting natural. - вitter taste when not eating. Tongue: nervous, pointed; thickly coated, yellow with red margin; teeth-indented. Mouth dry. Salivation: bitter; oozing of blood. - вad odour. Mucus flies from mouth when coughing.
 Sensation as if larynx were pressed on oesophagus impeding deglutition. Sensation of choking in throat, as if too large a morsel had been swallowed. Fauces red; swelling of uvula and tonsils; shooting in tonsils; burning and scraping in throat.

Appetite and food preferences

 Appetite lost. Thirst with dry mouth and throat. Desire for milk, which agrees; for sour things. Aversion to cheese; to meat. Prefers hot drinks, which . All complaints after dinner.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Hiccough. Frequent belchings. Eructations tasting like juniper berries. Nausea with sensation of heat in stomach. - вilious vomiting. Gnawing in stomach relieved by eating. Sensation of coldness in stomach. - сutting pain in stomach when yawning; soon after eating.
 Colic, navel drawn in. Stitches in liver and spleen. Shooting stitching through liver to back; crampy pain inner angle of scapula. R. (and left) hypochondrium and scrobiculus cordis tense and painful on pressure. Pains across umbilicus as if abdomen constricted by a string. Abdominal plethora; distension, rumbling.
 Mucous diarrhoea at night. Stools white; bright yellow; like clay. - сonstipation, stool hard, in hard lumps. Some blood with stool. Periodic straining and pressing on rectum, as if before a stool without result. - вurning; cutting; drawing; crawling and itching; sticking and itching in rectum and anus (haemorrhoids).

Urogenital system

 Pressure in bladder with scanty emission. Spasmodic pain in right kidney and liver. - вurning, darting and cutting in urethra. Frequent desire and urging to micturate. Urine: profuse, whitish, foaming; red and turbid; dark. Diabetes.
 Drawing pains in spermatic cord; in testicles. Eczematous excoriation on male parts and anus. Painful swelling right testicle with tension and drawing in spermatic cord.
 Menses too late; too profuse; lasting too long. Pain in right ovary. Milk diminished.

Chest organs

 Hoarseness. Spasm of glottis. While coughing pain in larynx and sacrum. Pricking; sticking; tickling; constriction in larynx. Pressure as if air could not pass through; as if swollen (right). Pressure, heat or irritation in trachea. Short breath and tight chest. Nightly attacks of asthma with sense of constriction in region of diaphragm. - сough in paroxysms; throws up lumps of mucus. - сough after waking and on rising, with sensation of dust under sternum. Paroxysms of cough with copious expectoration; with pain behind sternum, especially at night. Paroxysms of dry cough 4.
 Stitches beneath right ribs; left side of chest. Deep-seated pain in whole right side of chest. Soreness of lower ribs right side.

Cardiovascular system

 Stitches and lancinating pains in cardiac region and heart; in pectoral muscles. Periodic palpitation. Violent palpitation with tightness of chest.

Limbs and spine

 Drawing in nape and occiput. Stiff-neck, head drawn to left. Stitches beneath right scapula (hindering motion of arm). Fixed pain under inner and lower angle of right scapula. Violent pains at lower angle of left scapula. When bending forwards or backwards, tearing, pressing pain in back as if vertebrae were being broken asunder. Drawing from, sacrum to right side of scrobiculus.
 Twitching in arms and legs. Neuralgia in limbs. Rheumatism. Least touch anywhere is exceedingly painful; sweat without relief. Limbs feel heavy, stiff, and lame; flabby; trembling.
 Pain in right shoulder; in left shoulder. Inability to use right (also left) arm and forearm with freedom, sometimes attended with tearing pain. Stiffness in wrist. Stiffness, stitches in wrists. Tips of fingers cold.
 Shooting in right hip. Drawing pains in hips, thighs, legs, and feet, more right side. Weight in lower limbs. Swelling of feet, most round ankle. Toes feel dead. Intolerable pains in heels, as if they had been pinched by too narrow a shoe.

Skin

 Yellow, yellowish-grey shrivelled skin. Itching. - вurning like nettles, preceding eruption like measles. Red painful pimples and pustules on various parts. Red miliary eruption on neck, chest, and arms. Eczema. Old, putrid, spreading ulcers.

Sleep

 Frequent yawning. Lethargic. Sleepy, wants to lie down but cannot sleep. Sleep dreamful, unrefreshing. Dreams of corpses and funerals.

Fever

 Yawning and shivering before attacks. Icy coldness of r foot. Violent shivering fit, 3 daily. Rigor followed by heat and sorrowful, anxious mood. Heat of head, dark red cheeks, pulsation in arteries; full pulse; faintness; difficulty of speech; nausea; short breath; cold feet. - вurning heat of hands, spreading thence over body. Moist, burning skin. Sweat during the night, especially towards morning. Sweat on least exertion.

Analogs by action

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