Chelidonium majus

Chelidonium majus
(celandine)
* 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,
are certain indications.
* Paralytic drawing and lameness in single parts.
* The great general lethargy and indisposition to make any effort is also marked.
* Ailments brought on or renewed by change of weather.
* Serous effusions. Hydrocele. Bilious complication during gestation.
Head
- Icy coldness of occiput from the nape of neck; feels heavy as lead.
- Heavy, lethargic; drowsiness very marked, with general numbness; vertigo, associated with
hepatic disturbance.
- Inclination to fall forward.
- Right-sided headache down behind ears and shoulder-blade.
- Neuralgia over right eye, right cheek-bone and right ear, with excessive lachrymation,
preceded by pain in liver.
Nose
- Flapping of alae nasi. [Lyc.]
Eyes
- 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
- Yellow; worse nose and cheeks.
- Wilted skin.
Stomach
- Tongue yellow, with imprint of teeth; large and flabby. [Merc.; Hyd.]
- Taste bitter, pasty.
- Bad odor from mouth.
- Prefers hot 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.
Abdomen
- Jaundice due to hepatic and gall-bladder obstruction.
- Gall-colic.
- Distention.
- Fermentation and sluggish bowels.
- Constriction across, as by a string.
- Liver enlarged.
- Gallstones. [Berberis.]
Urine
- Profuse, foaming, yellow urine, like beer. [Chenop.]
- dark, turbid.
Stool
- Constipation; stools hard, round balls, like sheep's dung, bright yellow, pasty; clay-colored,
stools float in water; alternation of diarrhoea andconstipation.
- Burning and itching of anus. [Ratanh.; Sulph.]
Female
- Menses too late and too profuse.
Respiratory
- Very quick and short inspirations; pain on deep inspiration.
- Dyspnoea.
- Short, exhausting cough; sensation of dust not relieved by cough.
- Whooping-cough; 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 chest.
Back
- Pain in nape.
- Stiff neck, head drawn to left.
- Fixed pain under inner and lower angle of right scapula.
- Pain at lower angle of left scapula.
Extremities
- 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 lower limbs with rigidity of muscles.
Skin
- Dry heat of skin; itches, yellow.
- Painful red pimples and pustules.
- Old, spreading, offensive ulcers.
- Wilted skin.
- Sallow, cold, clammy.
Modalities
- Worse, right side, motion, touch, change of weather, very early in morning.
- Better, after dinner, from pressure.
Relationship
- Chelidonin.
- -(Spasm of smooth muscle everywhere, intestinal colic, uterine colic, bronchial spasm,
tachycardia, etc.) Boldo - Boldoa fragrans - (Bladder atony; cholecystitis and biliary calculus.
Bitter taste, no appetite; constipation, hypochondriasis languor, congestion of liver; burning
weight in liver and stomach. Painful hepatic diseases. Disturbed liver following malaria.)
Elemuy Gauteria - (Stones in kidneys and bladder; grain doses of powdered bark in water or 5
drops of tincture. Pellagra).
- Sulph. often completes its work.
- Complementary : Lycop.; Bryon.
- Antidote : Chamom.
- Compare : Nux; Sulph.; Bry.; Lyc.; Opium; Podophyl.; Sanguin.; Ars.
Dose
- Tincture and lower attenuations.