Chelidonium Majus
Celandine
Abdomen
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Jaundice due to hepatic and gall-bladder obstruction. Gall-colic. Distention. Fermentation and sluggish bowels. Constriction across, as by a string. Liver enlarged. Gallstones. [Berheris.] Urine. — Profuse, foaming, yellow urine, like beer. [Chenop.] Urine dark, yellow, 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 amis. [Ratanh.; Sulph.; Teucr.]
Back
William Boericke 1922
feels heavy as lead. Heavy, lethargic; drowsiness very marked, with general numbness ; vertigo, associated with heptic disturbance. Inclination to fall forward. Right-sided headache * down behind cars and shoulder-blade. Neuralgia over right eye, right cheekbone and right ear, with excessive lachrymation, preceded by pain in
William Boericke 1922
Pain in nape. Stiff neck, head drawn to left. Fixed pain under inner and lower angle of right scapula. Pain at lowei angle of left scapula.
Compare
William Boericke 1922
Nux; Sulph.; Bry.; Lye.; Opium; PodophyL; Sanguin.; Ars,
Dose
William Boericke 1922
Tincture and lower attenuations. 222 CHENOPODIUM ANTHEL — CHENOP. GLAUCI APHIS
Extremities
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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 k)wer limbs with rigidity of muscles.
Eyes
William Boericke 1922
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
William Boericke 1922
Yclloiv; worse nose and cheeks. Wilted
Female
William Boericke 1922
Menses too late and too profuse.
Guiding symptoms
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or renewed by change of weather. Serous effusions. Hydrocele. Bilious complications during gestation.
Head
William Boericke 1922
Icy coldness of occiput from the nape of
Modalities
William Boericke 1922
Worse, right side, motion, touch, change of weather, very early in morning. Better^ after dinner, from pressure.
Mouth
William Boericke 1922
Prefers hoi 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.
Nose
William Boericke 1922
Flabbing of ahe nasi. [Lye.]
Relationships
William Boericke 1922
Boldo — Boldea fragrans — (Bladder atony ; cholecystitis and biliary calculus. Disturbed liver following malaria). Sulph often completes its work. Complementary: Lycop.; Bryon, Antidote: Chamom.
Respiratory
William Boericke 1922
Very quick and short inspiration^ ; pain on deep inspiration. Dyspnoea. Whoop ing-coiigti'; 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
Skin
William Boericke 1922
Dry heat of
William Boericke 1922
itches, yellow. Painful red pimples and pustules. Old, spreading, offensive ulcers. Wilted
William Boericke 1922
Sallow, cold, clammy.
Stomach
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Tongue yellow, with imprint of
Teeth
William Boericke 1922
large and flabby. [Merc.; Hyd.] Taste bitter, pasty. Bad odor from
Text
William Boericke 1922
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, arc certain indications. Paralytic drawing and lameness in single parts. The great general lethargy and indisposition tb make any effort is also marked. Ailments brought on 220
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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