Carduus marianus

Carduus marianus
(st. mary's thistle)
* The action of this drug is centered in the liver, and portal system, causing soreness, pain,
jaundice.
* Has specific relation to the vascular system.
* Abuse of alcoholic beverages, especially beer.
* Varicose veins and ulcers.
* Diseases of miners, associated with asthma.
* Dropsical conditions depending on liver disease,and when due to pelvic congestion and
hepatic disease.
* Disturbs sugar metabolism.
* Influenza when liver is affected.
* Debility.
* Haemorrhages, especially connected with hepatic disease.
Mind
- Despondency; forgetful, apathetic.
Head
- Contractive feeling above eyebrows.
- Dull heavy, stupid, with foul tongue.
- Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward.
- Burning and pressure in eyes.
- Nose-bleed.
Stomach
- Taste bitter.
- Aversion to salt meat.
- Appetite small; tongue furred; nausea; retching;vomiting of green, acid fluid.
- Stitches in left side of stomach, near spleen. [Ceanoth.]
- Gallstone disease with enlarged liver.
Abdomen
- Pain in region of liver.
- Left lobe very sensitive.
- Fullness and soreness, with moist skin.
- Constipation; stools hard, difficult, knotty; alternates with diarrhoea.
- Stools bright yellow.
- Swelling of gall bladder with painful tenderness.
- Hyperaemia of liver, with jaundice.
- Cirrhosis, with dropsy.
Rectum
- Haemorrhagic piles, prolapse or rectum, burning pain in anus and rectum, hard and
knotting, clayey stools.
- Profuse diarrhoea due to rectal cancer.
- 10 drops doses (Wapler).
Urine
- Cloudy; golden-colored.
Chest
- Stitching pains in lower right ribs and front; worse, moving, walking, etc.
- Asthmatic respiration.
- Pain in chest, going to shoulders, back, loins and abdomen, with urging to urinate.
Skin
- Itching on lying down at night.
- Varicose ulcers. [Clematis vitalba.] Eruption onlower part of sternum.
Extremities
- Pain in hip-joint, spreading through buttocks and down thigh; worse from stooping.
- Difficult rising.
- Weakness felt in feet, especially after sitting.
Relationship
- Compare : Card. benedictus (strong action on eyes, and sensation of contraction in many
parts; stomach symptoms similar); Chelidon.; chionanthus; Merc.; Podophyl.; Bry.; Aloe.
Dose
- Tincture and lower potencies.