Chelidonium Majus chel.

Right side: Portal system. Abdomen. Lungs (lower). Mucous membranes. Bowels ( R ). Occiput. Kidneys. Knees.

Motion. Cough. Touch. Change of weather. North Easters. 4 A.M. and 4 P.M. (Ign.).

Hot food. Eating; dinner. Milk. Pressure. Hot bath. Bending backward.

YELLOWNESS. Bilious disturbances; vomiting, jaundice, catarrhs, etc. Pains shoot backward or in all directions. Stitches. Heavy, stiff, sore, paralysed, dislocative or broken feeling. Numbness. Horror of motion.

Lazy. Averse to mental exertion or conversation. Despondency. Vertigo; felt in vertex. Headaches extend backward. Heavy occiput. Supra-orbital pain. Mucus in eyes. Outward, blowing, crawling, etc., in ears. Dark red or sallow, sunken face. Red nose. Flapping alæ. Bitter taste. Yellow tongue; with indented edges (Hyds.). Choking, as from too large a morsel. Left sided goitre. Craves milk, piquant or hot foods (Lyc.). Nausea. Sensitive epigastrium. Sensation as of a plug in stomach. Gnawing, scraping gastric pains, > eating. LIVER PAINS GOING BACKWARD, OR FIXED AT ANGLE OF R. SCAPULA; to r. shoulder and occiput (Kali-c. Nux-v. Sep.). Rawness in liver. Gall-stones. As of a string about abdomen or neck. Stools pasty, pale, bright yellow, clayey or hard balls. Dyspnœa, < urinating (Dul.). Cough, as from dust; with much rattling, but little expectoration, or it flies from mouth. Hepato-pectoral symptoms. Like a nail deep in r. chest. Bilious pneumonia (Merc.). Fluctuating temperature. Pain from neck to r. temple. Itching, > eating. Lethargic, DROWSY and chilly. Icy cold nape and occiput. Cold fingertips. One foot cold. Burning heat, spreads from hands over body. Sweaty, with aversion to uncover and without relief; after midnight.

Complementary: Lyc. Merc-dul. Related: Bry. Kali-bi. Merc. Op.

Persons of light complexion, blondes; thin, spare, irritable; subject to hepatic, gastric and abdominal complaints (Pod.); every age, sex and temperament. Constant pain under the lower and inner angle of right scapula (Kali c., Mer. - under the left, Chenop. g., Sang.). Ailments: brought on or renewed by change of weather (Mer.); all lessen after dinner. Tongue coated thickly yellow, with red edges, showing imprint of teeth (Pod. - large, flabby, with imprint of teeth, Mer.). Desire for very hot drinks, unless almost boiling stomach will not retain them (Ars., Casc.). Periodic orbital neuralgia (right side), with excessive lachrymation; tears fairly gush out (Rhus). Constipation: stool, hard, round balls like sheep's dung (Op., Plumb.); alternate constipation and diarrhoea. Diarrhoea: at night; slimy, ligh-gray; bright-yellowish; brown or white, watery, pasty; involuntary. Face, forehead, nose, cheeks, remarkably yellow. Yellow-gray color of the skin; wilted skin; of the palms of hands (Sep.). Hepatic diseases; jaundice, pain in right shoulder. Pneumonia of right lung, liver complications (Mer.). Spasmodic cough; small lumps of mucus fly from mouth when coughing (Bad., Kali c.). Affects right side most; right eye, right lung, right hypochondrium and abdomen, right hip and leg; right foot cold as ice, left natural (Lyc.). Old, putrid, spreading ulcers, with a history of liver disease, or of a tubercular diathesis. Gall-stones, with pain under the right shoulder-blade (terrible attacks of gall-stone colic, Card. m.).

Chel. antidotes the abuse of Bry., especially in hepatic complaints. Compare: Acon., Bry., Lyc., Mer., Nux, Sang., Sep., Sulph. Ars., Lyc., Sulph. follow well, and will often be required to complete the cure.

The strongest characteristic calling for this drug is a very severe pain in the inner lower angle of the right shoulder-blade, running into the chest. This indication furnishes a key-note for the cure of an almost endless variety of complaints; also a very specific action on the liver, and portal system.

Full of sad thoughts; desponding.

Orbital neuralgia of the right eye, with profuse lachrymation; pupils of the eye are contracted.

Sensation as of wind rushing out of.

Pneumonia on the right side, where there is a great deal of mucus. Hoarse at five o'clock in the afternoon. Loose cough after whooping cough. Sensation of choking in throat as if a large morsel had been swallowed too hastily; of pressure on the œsophagus hindering deglutition, but not respiration.

Sensation of pinching in the inner parts; of darting in the inner parts; as if the back would break on rising up, after stooping down. Biliary calculi. Jaundice. Pulse is generally hard. Old, putrid, spreading ulcers. Cutting in the bowels immediately after a meal.

Worse very early in the morning.

Acon., Lycop., Nux vom., Sepia, Spigel. Sulphur.

Chamom., Coffea.

Constant pain under inferior angle of right scapula. may extend to the chest or stomach. Yellow colour of the face, especially of the forehead, nose, cheeks and white of eyes.

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.

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.

Flapping of alæ nasi (Lyc).

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.

Yellow; worse nose and cheeks. Wilted skin.

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.

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).

Profuse, foaming, yellow urine, like beer (Chenop) dark, turbid.

Constipation; stools hard, round balls, like sheep's dung, bright yellow, pasty; clay-colored, stools float in water; alternation of diarrhœa and constipation. Burning and itching of anus (Ratanh; Sulph).

Menses too late and too profuse.

Very quick and short inspirations; pain on deep inspiration. Dyspnœa. 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.

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.

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.

Dry heat of skin; itches, yellow. Painful red pimples and pustules. Old, spreading, offensive ulcers. Wilted skin. Sallow, cold, clammy.

Worse, right side, motion, touch, change of weather, very early in morning. Better, after dinner, from pressure.

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.

Tincture and lower attenuations.

Fixed pain (dull or sharp) under the lower inner angle of the right shoulder blade.

Yellow eyes, face, skin, hands, stool clay colored or yellow as gold; urine yellow. Tongue thickly coated yellow, with red edges.

Right-sided remedy; supra-orbital; hypochondriac; lungs; hip; foot cold as ice, etc.

The center of action of this remarkable remedy is in the liver, and its most characteristic symptom is a fixed pain (dull or sharp) under the lower inner angle of the right shoulder blade. This very characteristic symptom may be found in connection with general jaundice, cough, diarrhœa, pneumonia, menses, loss of milk, exhaustion, etc., in fact, no matter what the name of the disease this symptom present should always bring to mind Chelidonium and close scouting will generally reveal hepatic troubles or complications as would be naturally expected with such a remedy. Chelidonium is like Lycopodium, by preference, a right-sided remedy, right supra-orbital neuralgia, right hypochondrium and scorbiculum cordis tense and painful to pressure; right-sided pneumonia and shoulder painful; shooting pain in right hip extending into abdomen; drawing pain in hips, thighs, legs, or feet, more right-sided; right foot cold as ice, left natural. Further study will show that Chelidonium not only is a right-sided remedy, but in many other points stands close to Lycopodium, and in my experience one is often found indicated after the other. Although this characteristic infra-scapular pain is as reliable as any in the Materia Medica, there may be cases in which it does not appear at all, which can only be cured by Chelidonium, especially liver and lung trouble. If we should find pressive pain in the region of the liver, whether it be enlarged and sensitive to pressure or not, bitter taste in the mouth, tongue coated thickly yellow, with red margins showing imprint of the teeth, yellowness of whites of eyes, face, hands and skin; stools gray, clay colored, or yellow as gold, urine also yellow as gold, lemon colored or dark brown, leaving a yellow color on vessel when emptied out, loss of appetite, disgust and nausea, or vomiting of bilious matter, and especially if patient could retain nothing but hot drinks on the stomach, we would have a clear case for Chelidonium even though the infra-scapular pain were absent. All these symptoms might be found in either a chronic or acute case. If in a chronic case, some anti-psoric like Lycopodium might have to be called in, according to indications, of course, to help complete a cure, but Chelidonium would be the chief reliance.

These liver troubles range from simple congestion and inflammation of the organ, to the more severe and deep-seated affections like fatty liver, gall stones, etc. Chelidonium is one of the leading remedies in pneumonia, which is complicated with liver symptoms. Sometimes in coughs which are persistent with much pain through right side of chest and into shoulder, Chelidonium helps us out and saves the patient from what might easily terminate in consumption.

Low-spirited and desponding, with inclination to weep.

Sensation of coldness in the occiput, ascending from the nape of the neck ; worse when moving, better at rest. Stitches in the vertex, particularly when walking fast. Tingling in and on the head. Scald-head.

Contraction of the pupils. Painful pressure on the upper eye-lid. Inflammation and nightly agglutination, with dimness in the morning. Fistula lachrymalis.

Sensation in both ears, as if wind were rushing out. Whizzing before the ears, like wind. Loss of hearing during cough.

Dry coryza, with partial (one-sided) stoppage.

Redness of the face, without heat. Tension and drawing in the (left) malar bone. Itching in the face, and on the forehead. Herpes in the face, especially the chin.

Sensation as if the larynx were pressed on the œsophagus, impeding deglutition. Sensation of choking in the throat, as if too large a morsel had been swallowed.

Longing for milk, which agrees well with him. Bitter taste in the mouth.

Hiccough. Frequent rising of air. Eructation, tasting like juniper berries. Nausea, with sensation of heat in the stomach. Gnawing sensation in the stomach, relieved by eating. Burning in the stomach. Feeling of coldness in the stomach. Cutting pain in the stomach when yawning ; soon after eating. Colic ; the navel is drawn in ; nausea.

Constipation, stool hard in hard lumps. Mucous diarrhœa, at night.

Pressure in the bladder, with scanty emission. Urine pale. Burning, darting and cutting in the urethra.

Women. Menstruation too late ; too profuse, and of too long duration. Vanishing of milk.

Oppression of the chest and respiration. Stitches in the left chest during an inspiration.

Pain (pinching) under the right scapula (hindering the motion of the arm). When bending forwards or backwards, tearing pressing pain in the back, as if the vertebra were being broken asunder.

Upper. Paralytic pressure in the upper-arm. Stiffness of the wrist. The anterior joints of the fingers (of the right hand) became yellow, cold and dead ; the nails were blue. Fine tearing in the tips of the fingers of the (right) hand. Lower. Paralytic weakness of the (left) thigh and knee, when stepping. Stiffness of the ankles. The toes are without sensation, and feel dead.

The limbs feel paralyzed. Stiffness in the joints (wrist, ankle).

Goes to sleep late. Sleeplessness, with sleepiness. Perspiration during the morning sleep.

Pulse small and rapid ; full, hard, but not very much accelerated, towards evening. Chill, internally, when walking in the open air ; better in the room. Chilliness and coldness of the whole body, mostly on the hands and feet. Internal heat in the evening, after lying down, without thirst. Perspiration during sleep, after midnight ; in the morning hours ; ceasing soon after awaking.

Old, putrid, spreading ulcers.

Great debility and lassitude after eating ; after awaking in the morning. Desire to lie down after a meal. Aversion to move ; he feels tired from the least exertion. Aggravation in the morning.

Chelidonium majus. Greater Celandine. N. O. Papaveraceæ. Tincture of entire fresh plant, at time of flowering.

Antrum of Highmore, inflammation of . Cancer. Chest, affections of . Chorea. Constipation. Cough. Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Gall-stones. Gonorrhœa. Hæmoptysis. Hæmorrhoids. 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.

Chelidonium is a poppy and therefore allied to Opium and Sanguinaria , with both of which it has many features in common. But its closest analogue is Lycopodium , with which it holds a complementary relation. I have often cured with Chel . when Lyc . was apparently indicated and failed to act well. The juice of Chel . 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-homœopathy, in material or semi-material doses, it has achieved notable results in cases of liver disease. But 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: Chel . 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. Chel . 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 cæcum and right ovary; and on the base of the right lung. In pneumonia with bilious symptoms it is one of the chief remedies. Chel ., like Lyc ., has fan-like movement of alæ nasi in chest affections. There may be either constipation (clay-coloured stools), or diarrhœa 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. Chills or creeps accompany the headache or the jaundice. The dirty yellow complexion produced by Chel ., 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 Chel . case, simulating cancer, is recorded by C. 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. Chel . 6x cured at once. "Aversion to cheese" is an indication for Chel . in many gastric conditions. Teste, who proved Chel ., places it at the head of a group which includes Caps . and Viola. od . He mentions the analogy between the juice of Chel . and the juice of Garcinia morella , Gamboge. Both are bright yellow and pass to orange and brown on drying. Some old-school authorities have recommended the juice of Chel . 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 p.m.: 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 p.m.: 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 Chel . acts on the centre of the liver. Chel . has a strong action on the respiratory sphere. A characteristic cough is caused by a sensation of "dust" in the air passages. St. Clair Smith relates a case. A young lady had had for several weeks a dry, racking, fatiguing cough night and day, < night, no expectoration and no pain. She looked completely worn out. The cough was excited by a sensation as if throat and larynx were full of dust. Chel . 3, a powder every two hours, was given. She only took three when the "dust" left the throat and with it the cough, and never returned. Carleton Smith cured this: "Dry cough through day with pain and stitches right side; severe hoarseness 5 p.m., voice scarcely audible." In rheumatic affections Chel . has a large field. Œdema, heat, tenderness and stiffness are the leading indications. Here is a case: A baby girl had had rheumatism of both ankles for a week, when it settled in the right one, which became greatly swollen, very tender, painful and hot. Constipated for two months previous, whitish stools. Chel . improved in twelve hours, and entirely cured in a week. In another case of acute rheumatism of feet and ankles, supervening on a slow, remittent fever, Chel . cured after the failure of Rhus and Bry . The patient was a girl of six. Both ankles were affected, feet much swollen and extended. The slightest movement or touch extorted screams. The only relief was constant bathing with hot water. W. A. Burr cured a case of right sciatic rheumatism, of ten years' history, in a very corpulent woman, æt. 55. In her case there were aggravations coming on in the afternoon and evening of each day, and lasting into the middle of the night. During the paroxysms the outer ankle and lower leg became cyanotic, swelling around ankle, constriction above, great sensitiveness to touch and motion. Very nervous during the spells. Great external sensitiveness; aversion to touch, and < from it. Pressure > some symptoms and < others. Eating > stomach symptoms: all complaints lessen after dinner. Change of weather < ; warmth < ; cold water > . Open air < headache; pain in right eye; and causes chill; and drowsiness. Motion < most symptoms. Coughing and blowing nose > headache. Rest > . Lying on face > pain in kidneys and bladder. Lying on left side > pain in stomach. Many symptoms are < 4 a.m.; also 4 p.m. and afternoon.

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Vanishing of senses.
Loses her head when she gets out of bed, could not explain why. θ Influenza.
Forgets what she wants to do or has done ; great absence of mind.
Sudden excitement with confusion of intellect at night. θ Intestinal catarrh.
Difficult thinking.
Imagines she cannot think and will lose her reason.
Thinks she must die.
Delirium. θ Influenza. θ Pneumonia.
Quiet delirium, mostly at night, followed by lethargy which continues through the day.
Talked incoherently during the fit of anxiety. θ Erysipelas.
Stupefaction. θ Valvular disease of heart.
Whimpering, with headache on left side.
Weeping and despondency.
Distaste for mental exertion and conversation. θ Dyspepsia. θ Indigestion.
Sadness and depression of spirits. θ Hepatic troubles.
Anxiety. θ Chorea. θ Influenza. θ Erysipelas.
Restlessness and uneasiness of conscience ; feels that she has committed the unpardonable sin, and that she will be eternally lost.
Anxiety : allowing no rest at any employment ; as if she had committed a crime ; fear of getting crazy, with restlessness and heat.
Anxiety, with a sense of constriction in larynx. θ Œdema of lungs.
(In sick :) Dreadful anxiety and uneasiness. θ Influenza.
Sudden anxiety, with strong palpitation.
Sudden excitement and confusion of intellect. θ Intestinal catarrh.
Irritability and ill humor.
Fretful mood, with inclination to weep.
Is vexed about every trifle and has violent attacks of passionate outbursts of temper.
Quarrelsomeness.

Giddiness in morning and headache on awaking. θ Indigestion.
Vertigo : with bilious vomiting and pain in liver ; with confusion of head ; with stumbling, as if to fall forward ; with mental disturbance ; on closing eyes, as if everything was turning in a circle ; on sitting up in
bed ; with shivering over upper part of body ; on attempting to rise in morning, keeping her in bed. θ Influenza. θ Valvular
disease. θ Dyspepsia. θ Hemorrhoids. θ Chorea.
Confusion in head. θ Valvular disease.
Loss of consciousness. θ Kidney disease.
Fainting. θ Valvular disease.

Shooting in forehead under skin.
Shooting in frontal bone over left eye ; later on left side of occiput.
Hammering, burning, stitching, or tearing pains. θ Supraorbital neuralgia.
Tensive pain in forehead, as from a band above eyes. θ Acute rheumatism.
Outward pressing pain in forehead.
Pressive pain in right side of forehead.
Violent pains in forehead above eyes. θ Influenza.
Pressure in forehead, extending to orbits, which pain as if sore on moving eyes.
Pain extending to forehead and all over head ; beginning at 2 or 3 P. M., at its height at 8 or 9 P. M., preventing all sleep or even lying down till nearly daybreak. θ Acute
inflammation of eyes.
Violent neuralgia over right eye, extending into eye and cheek. θ Prosopalgia.
Dull frontal headache.
Continuous sharp frontal headache. θ Hepatic typhus.
Sensation of heat in forehead.
Tearing pain in right temple, < by motion.
Neuralgic pains in temples, forehead, ears, teeth, eyes and eyebrows.
Tensive pains in temples.
Neuralgia of temple and eyebrow, particularly of right side.
Pressive pain in right temple, right parietal bone and finally over right eye.
Throbbing in temples.
Ticking like a watch in right temple.
Violent pain in left side of head and face.
Periodical shooting pain in left parietal bone.
Sensation of heat in left side of head, proceeding from ear.
Stitching pains in vertex, < when walking rapidly.
Periodical stitching, pressing pain in vertex.
Pressing on vertex.
Pinching stitching in right side of occiput.
Painful throbbing and drawing in occiput.
Tensive sensation in back of head on right side.
Pain in occiput and nape of neck. θ Hemorrhoids.
Great heaviness in occiput, with drawing in neck from above downward.
Occiput feels heavy, as if it could not be raised from pillow, at night.
Heaviness in occiput with pressing to left ear. θ Hepatitis.
Coldness in occiput, rising up from nape of neck, < when moving ; > during rest.
Drawing, pressing-like stitches, extending from left side of occiput to forehead.
Violent drawing from crown to nape ; she is forced to draw up her shoulders, close her eyes and tread lightly.
Violent pain in left side of head and face, as if cut off at septum and middle of forehead. θ Prosopalgia.
Pressive headache, with frequently recurring heat of face. θ Liver complaint.
Pressure and transient pains under bones of head, even in brain ; headache > after eating.
Pulsating headache.
Pain in head with sparks before eyes. θ Kidney disease.
Pressure in brain, with burning over eyebrows.
Cranium feels too small.
Headache in morning on waking. θ Dyspepsia.
Headache < in open air, when coughing, blowing nose and stooping.
Megrim with lethargy. θ Bright's disease.
Heaviness like a weight in different parts of head ; on vertex, extending to occipital protuberance, heavy pressure inwardly ; weight in forehead as if it was falling outward ; occiput seems as if fastened to pillow and broken off from rest of skull ; must raise head
with hand when sitting up. θ Liver complaint.
Congestion to cerebellum. θ Chorea.
Congestion of blood to head ; throbbing in temples with great anxiety ; repeated attacks of violent throbbing pains from nape to occiput.
Dull pain in head.
Pressure in occiput.
Heat of head. θ Erysipelas.
Heat and confusion of head, with great thirst. θ Laryngitis.
Twitching here and there in head.
Sick headache every fortnight, with pain in right hypochondrium, pain < in right forehead and temple ; nausea and bilious vomiting.
Vertex feels as if bruised on being touched.

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Chelidonium is a remedy more suitable for acute diseases, though it cures certain chronic conditions. It is not a very deep acting remedy. It is about like Bryonia in its general plane, length and depth of action.

It has been used principally in gastric and intestinal catarrhs, in acute and semi-chronic liver troubles, and in right-sided pneumonia.

The skin is likely to be sallow, and gradually increases to a marked jaundice in connection with these complaints. Semi-chronic gastritis, with jaundice.

"Gastro-duodenal catarrh.

Congestion and soreness in the liver, with jaundice.

Right-sided pneumonia, complicated with liver troubles, or jaundice."

This remedy seems to act throughout the system, but almost always along with it the liver is involved, and it is suitable for what the old people and the doctors called "biliousness." The patient is generally bilious, has nausea and vomiting. Distension of the veins. Yellowish grey color of the skin.

Very few mental symptoms have been brought out in its proving not enough to give us a good idea of the desires and aversions. We do not get a clear idea of the intellectual faculties. It needs further proving, yet in many regions it has had superabundance of proving.

"Sadness and anxiety."

Brooding over some sort of trouble generally runs through the mental state.

"Anxiety, allowing no rest," keeping the patient uneasy day and night.

Sadness, as if she had committed a crime; as if some dreadful thing was going to happen. So sad that she thinks she must die

"Weeping despondency.

Distaste for mental exertion and conversation.

If you examine those medicines that act primarily upon the liver, that slow down the action of the liver, you will find the word melancholia."

With heart troubles, great excitement, With liver troubles, slowing down of the mental state, inability of the mind to work, sluggishness of the mind, inability to think, inability to meditate, slow pulse. Sluggishness of the whole economy.

The sensorium is very commonly disturbed, and the patient is dizzy.

"Things go round in a circle."

Dizziness comes, and it does not let up until nausea, and sometimes vomiting, follows.

"So much turning in the head that he vomits.

Confusion of mind.

Loss of consciousness and fainting."

These are also common features with liver troubles.

The mind symptoms are present more or less with the following liver symptoms; there are pains of a dull aching character, "soreness." Bruised pains. Tenderness of the liver to touch. Aching pains, that seem to involve the whole right lobe of the liver; creating a sensation of fullness. Pressure upwards, with difficulty of breathing. Pressure downwards, sympathetic with the stomach, with the nausea and vomiting.

And then more intense pain felt under the right scapula.

"Dull aching pains under the right scapula; sharp, shooting pains under the right scapula"; these complicate themselves again with pneumonia, with pleurisy.

It cures pneumonia and pleurisy; it cures various forms of congestion in the liver, when these pains go from before backward, and seem to be felt through the back.

"Stitching in the region of the liver, extending through to back.

Hard pains felt through the back."

Some patients will describe these pains as shooting pains; some as tearing pains, and others as sharp pains, going through the right hypochondrium or through the right lobe of the liver to the back.

"Pains from the region of the liver, shooting towards the back and shoulders.

Spasmodic pain in the region of the liver.

Pressing pain in the region of the liver."

In congestion or inflammation, fullness and enlargement, semi-chronic cases, or even acute, this medicine proves suitable for such conditions. The right hypochondrium is tense and painful to pressure.

This remedy has cured gall stone colic. Practitioners, who know how to direct a remedy, relieve gall stone colic in a few minutes. We have remedies that act on the circular fibres of these little tubes, causing them to relax and allow the stone to pass painlessly.

In a perfect state of health, of course, there are no stones in the bile that is held in the gall bladder, but this little cystic duct opens its mouth and a little gall stone engages in it, and it creates and irritation by scratching along the mucous membrane of that little tube.

When this pain is a shooting, stabbing, tearing, lancinating pain, extending through to the back, Chelidonium will cure it. The instant it relieves the patient says:

"Why, what a relief; the pain has gone."

The remedy has relieved that spasm, the little duct opens up and the stone passes out through the ductus communis choledochus. Every remedy that is indicated by the symptoms will cure gall stone colic.

A patient lying in bed, with great heat, extreme sensitiveness, cannot have the body touched, screaming with pains, red face and hot head, will gall stone colic, will be relieved in three minutes by Bell., but that is not at all like this remedy. Natrum sulph. and many other remedies have cured gall stone colic in a few minutes, when the symptoms agreed.

Now as to the pneumonia, it is generally of the right side, or right sided spreading to the left. The right-sidedness is marked, and but small portions of the left lung are involved. The pleura is generally involved, and so there are stitching, tearing pains.

One may not practice long before be will find a Chelidonium patient, sitting up in bed with high fever, bending forward upon his elbows, holding himself perfectly still, for this medicine has as much aggravation from motion as Bry. All of the pains are extremely aggravated from motion.

This patient is sitting with a pain that transfixes him; he cannot stir, he cannot move without - the pain shooting through him like a knife.

The next day you will see that his skin is growing yellow. If you see him in the beginning Chelidonium will relieve him and you will prevent that pneumonia. It is not uncommon in children, and it is extremely common in adults.

Do not get confused with Bryonia. Both are violently worse from motion. Bryonia wants to lie on the painful side, or wants to lie on the back if the pneumonia is mostly in the posterior part of the right lung. In Chelidonium he is worse from touch and motion.

Bell. has that extremely painful, tearing, rending, of the right lung with pleurisy, but in Bell., one cannot touch that right side, cannot press it, but must lie on the other side and he cannot move.

Cannot stand a jar of the bed, because of the extreme sensitiveness to motion: I mention all three in this particular way because they have some things in common, but the remedies are different.

Chelidonium has cough with chest symptoms of the right side, liver affections, and the mental affections that commonly belong to these, violent aggravation from motion. The pains are ameliorated by heat. Pain that extends to the stomach, ameliorated by heat.

ameliorated by eating. Craves hot milk; hot fluids. Eating warm food ameliorates the liver, the chest and stomach symptoms.

"Bilious vomiting. Retching; bilious eructations.

Nausea and retching during an attack of anxiety."

These are all commonly present during the complaints described. The pains, when they become severe, seem to strike the stomach and cause vomiting. Ameliorated by something hot.

"A feeling of anguish in the pit of the stomach.

Persistent pain in the stomach; aggravated by motion and ameliorated by eructations.

Constriction and sensitiveness in the pit of the stomach."

These are all aggravated by touch and ameliorated by eating.

"Constant aching pain in the stomach, ameliorated by food.

Constrictive, pinching pain in the stomach better from drawing up the limbs and lying on the left side, ameliorated by eating."

It has many eye symptoms. Stitching pains.

"Opacity of the cornea."

Inflammations.

Bruised pain in the eyes.

Right supraorbital neuralgia."

In many instances it prefers the right side.

In the face the jaundice is the most marked thing that is expressed and, then, we have the dirty gray complexion.

"Pale, dirty-yellow-face."

The headaches are brought on from heat, unlike the stomach and the liver, and the lungs, etc.

The head is aggravated from motion, aggravated from beat, aggravated from a warm room, aggravated from warm applications. There is where it differs from the internal or general state. There are numerous headaches.

Periodical bilious sick headaches, with vomiting of bile, brought on from exposure to beat, from being overheated, aggravated from motion, wants to lie perfectly quiet in a dark room, and better from vomiting bile.

Old-fashioned bilious sick headaches.

Bilious diarrhoea. Along with jaundice, clay-like, pale, faecal, puttylike stool. Bileless stool. Stool too light colored. Stool quite white in children. Diarrhea and constipation alternate. Stool brown, white, watery, green mucus, thin, pasty, bright yellow, or gray tinged with Yellow.

Hoarseness.

"While coughing, pain in the larynx, and pressure in the larynx."

The difficult breathing comes on with liver symptoms and pneumonia and chest troubles in general.

"Difficult respiration, with short fits of coughing.

Short, quick breathing.

Anxiety as if he must choke.

Difficult breathing; tightness over the chest as if breathing would be hindered."

It has also nightly attacks of humid asthma. This is brought on from every change of the weather.

All its complaints are brought on from changes in the weather. He cannot stand weather changes, either too cold or too warm. Rheumatic complaints in the shoulders, hips and limbs, from changes in the weather.

With complaints of the liver, lungs and chest, there are coughs. They are spasmodic. The chronic cough is violent, spasmodic, dry, coming in paroxysms.

"Spasmodic cough, without expectoration."

After it has existed a while there wilt be some expectoration.

"Repeated attacks of short cough: Short cough, with little grayish phelgm.

Rattling; fatiguing cough".

In the limbs there are rheumatic and neuralgic pains. Neuralgia of the limbs in general, most violent. Limbs feel heavy and stiff. Limbs flabby. Later the patients runs down somewhat, weak heart, weak circulation; dropsical conditions of the limbs. Great restlessness.

"Trembling and twitching of the limbs.

Weariness.

Indolence.

Indisposition to work."

The neuralgias are more common in the head and face than in the lower parts of the body, in the limbs and in the extremities.

It has sharp, febrile attacks, such as found in pneumonia with chill and in inflammation of the liver. It has cured intermittent fever, coming in the afternoon and evening.

Itching of the skin. jaundice. It has cured old putrid ulcers.

Adapted to thin, spare, irritable persons; light complexion, blondes; subject to hepatic, gastric and abdominal complaints (Pod.).

Constant pain under the lower and inner angle of right scapula (Kali c., Mer.—under left, Chenop. g., Sang.).

Ailments brought on or renewed on change of weather (Mer.); $>$ after dinner.

Periodic orbital neuralgia (right side) with excessive lachrymation, tears fairly gush out (Rhus).

Desire for very hot drinks, unless almost boiling stomach will not retain it (Ars., Casc., Ced., Eup. purp.).

Constipation; stool hard; round balls (Opium, Plumb., Sanic.).

Diarrhœa; at night; slimy, grayish, yellowish, watery.

Debility and lassitude after eating, wants to lie down.

Face, forehead, nose, cheeks, remarkably yellow.

Yellow-gray color of the skin; wilted skin; of the palms of hands (Sep.).

Spasmodic cough; small lumps of mucus fly from mouth when coughing (Bad., Kali c.).

Affects right side most; r. eye, r. lung, r. hypochondria and abdomen, r. hip and leg; right foot cold as ice, left natural (Lyc.).

Chel. antidotes the abuse of Bry., especially in hepatic complaints.

Ars., Lyc. and Sulph. follow well, and may often be re-quired to complete the cure.

Morning (Bry., Nux).

Evenings (rev. of Puls.).

Variable. Periodicity not marked. Remittent, con-tinued, bilious, malarial. Typhoid and hepatic complications.

Hour, not characteristic.

Afternoon and evening paroxysm.

Without thirst, over whole body, beginning in hands and feet (Gels.), when walking in open air; passes off in the room. Shaking chill in the evening in bed. Shaking chill, with shivering, chattering of the teeth, as if dashed with ice-cold water. (Am. m., Ant. t., Sabad.) Shaking chill, with nausea; worse on hands and feet; with distension of veins of hands and arms (en-largement of veins of arms and legs during heat, Chin. s.). Right leg and foot as far as knee, icy-cold (coldness of right limb as if standing in cold water, Sabad.). Coldness of nose; face; cheeks; occiput; pit of stomach; abdomen; hands and feet; in-testine, after drinking water; in open air; running down the back (Meny., Petr.).

Burning heat of hands, face, cheeks, eye-lids, head, ears, tip of nose, forehead. Flushes of glowing heat of different single parts of body; on scapula; in hip-joints. Burning cheeks, of a dark red circumscribed color (Sang.—of a mahogany color, Eup.). Heat of the cheeks, with red swollen face (Cact.).

During sleep; towards morning; better after waking. Sweats when pain disappears (pains relieved by profuse sweat, Arn., Nat., Eup.).

Coated thickly, white or yellow, with red margin; shows imprint of teeth (Mer., Pod.). Taste: bitter; insipid; bitter saliva collects in mouth. Desire for milk, which agrees now (which causes flatulence, Carbo v.). Pain in stomach > by eating (Anac., Petr.).

During chill, small and quick; after paroxysm, slow.

Never clear; liable to run into a remittent or con-tinuous fever. Stitching pains in region of liver, shooting toward the back. Left hypochondrium sensitive to pressure.

The shaking, shivering, chill, as if dashed with ice water; < in open air.

Chill; of right side and of single parts.

Heat; burning, of single parts; circumscribed dark red cheeks. Pain in liver or under right scapula.

Sweat; during sleep; when pain disappears.

Great absence of mind, forgets what she wants to do or has done.
Weeping.
Sadness.
Fears of becoming crazy.
Anxiety: allowing no rest at any employment; as if she had committed a crime.
Desponding mood.
Irritability.
Ill-humor.

Vertigo; with bilious vomiting and pain in the liver; with confusion of the head; with stumbling, as if to fall forwards.

Pressure in forehead, extending to orbits, which, on moving the eyes, pain as if sore.
Tensive pain in forehead, as from a band above the eyes.
Pressive pain in right side of head.
Violent pain in left side of head and face.
Heaviness in the occiput, with pressure in left ear.
Coldness in the occiput, rising from the nape; worse when moving; better during rest.

Pain in the temporal bone behind the ear.
Trembling of head and limbs.

Dazzling spot before the eyes, lachrymation when looking at it.
Misty appearance before the eyes.
Objects appear double.
Contractility of pupils diminished.
Opacity of the cornea.
Aching in the eyeballs; worse moving the eyes.
Tearing pain in left eye, extending to zygoma, teeth, forehead and temple; first relieved by pressure, but soon cannot endure the slightest touch; periodic, evening in bed.
Conjunctiva swollen, dark red, as far as the cornea.
Whites of the eyes dirty yellow.
Lids swollen, red, could open them but little.
Agglutination of lids in the morning.
Neuralgia of eyebrows and temples.
Pressing pain over left eye, which seems to press down upper lid.

Loud, distant roaring in the ears.
Sensation of wind rushing out of the ears.
Ears feel stopped.
Long-continued stitch in right external ear, passing off gradually.

Coryza: dry, nose stopped; fluent, with sneezing.

Expression: anxious, disturbed; sickly.
Face: greyish-yellow; sallow; sunken; yellow, especially of forehead, nose and cheeks.
Right cheek-bone feels as if swollen.
Violent tearing in maxillary antrum.
Flushes of heat in the face.

Dryness of the lips.

Tearing pains from right ear to right teeth, afternoons.

Taste: bitter; insipid; pappy.
Tongue: slimy, coated white or grey; coated thickly yellow, with red margin, showing imprints of the teeth.

Bitter water collects in the mouth.
Dryness of mouth.
Bad odor from the mouth.

Choking, as from hasty swallowing.
Larynx as if pressed upon, impeding swallowing.
Dryness in the throat; hawking up lumps of phlegm.
Tonsils ache.

Desire for milk, which agrees.
Fond of vinegar, or sour wine; dislike: to cheese; to meat.
Loss of appetite, with disgust and nausea.

All complaints lessen after dinner.

Hiccough.
Bilious eructations.
Short breath and anxiety, relieved by belching.
Nausea: with heat in stomach, causes great bodily heat.
Heart-burn.

Pressure, with distention of stomach.
Constriction, tension and sensitiveness in pit of stomach and right hypochondrium.
Feeling of anguish, in pit of stomach.
Gnawing, grinding pain; better while eating.

Pains from region of liver, shooting toward the back.
Stitches in region of liver; pressive pain in region of liver.
Left hypochondrium sensitive to pressure.

Colic, with nausea and retraction of the navel.
Pain across the umbilicus, as if the abdomen were constricted by a string.
Abdomen distended, feels full and uncomfortable.
Rumbling, gurgling, pinching and cutting in the bowels.
Spasmodic drawing pains in both inguinal regions.

Crawling and itching in the rectum.
Frequent discharge of flatus.
Stools: thin, pasty, bright yellow; pasty, light grey; pale, slimy; mucous diarrhœa, at night; constipated, like sheep's dung.
Diarrhœa and constipation alternately.

Spasmodic pain in right kidney and liver; worse from 4 to 9 P.M.
Violent pains in direction of ureters, preceding passing of turbid urine.
Urging to urinate.
Urine: profuse, whitish, foaming; red and turbid; dark-yellow, clear; lemon-yellow, turbid; dark, brownish-red.

Frequent erections, even during day.
Pain in the glans.
Drawing pain: in the spermatic cords; in the testicle.
Redness, heat and swelling of scrotum, with small, flat vesicles, painful to touch, become moist, next day form dry scales.
Itching and creeping on scrotum and glans.

Menses too late; too profuse; pain under the right scapula.
Burning in the vagina, recurring each day at precisely the same hour.

Longing for unusual articles of food.
Milk diminished.

Feels swollen; feels as if pressed upon.
Hoarseness.

Short and quick breathing, with oppression, which is relieved by a few deep inspirations; with anxiety, as if he must choke.

Violent, somewhat spasmodic; dry, in paroxysms; racking, as in consumption, with much expectoration from the lungs, also with pain behind the sternum, especially at night; mornings, with copious mucous expectoration.

Stitches in left chest on inspiring.
Pains in the chest and back.
Oppression of the chest; the clothing seemed too tight.
Spasmodic pressure behind middle of sternum, awoke him at night; extended into the bronchi, with sensation of constriction in them.
Stitches in chest, worse right side.
Soreness in lower ribs, right side.
Deep-seated pain in whole right side of chest.

Very irregular palpitation of the heart.
Violent palpitation, with tightness of the chest.
Pulse: slow; small and quick; full and hard, though but slightly accelerated towards evening.

Stiffness: of the neck; of the muscles of right side of neck.
Pain in right cervical muscles, and in region of right clavicle.
Pain in right side of back, with heaviness of occiput; pressure toward the left ear.
Constant pain under the inferior angle of right scapula; may extend into chest or stomach, causing nausea or vomiting.
Pain in the vertebra, worse from motion and pressure, trembling, spasms of limbs; spasmodic myelitis.
Stitches beneath the right scapula.
Pain as though the lower lumbar vertebræ would separate, when bending forwards.

Pain in the right shoulder.
Stiffness in the wrist.
Tearing in tips of fingers.

Drawing pain in hips, thighs, legs and feet, more right side.
Pain in right knee, with burning and stiffness; worse when moving.
Stiffness of the ankles.

Limbs: feel heavy, stiff and lame; feel paralyzed; cold.
Rheumatism, the least touch anywhere is exceedingly painful; sweat without relief.
Rheumatism worse in the lower limbs, especially in the right tarso tibial articulation; worse from walking.

Rest: 3. Motion: 3, 31, 33. Moving eyes: 3, 5. Walking: 34, 40. Bending forwards: 31. Desire to lie down: 37. In bed: 5, 40. After lying down: 40.

Great debility and lassitude after eating.
Trembling and twitching of the limbs.
Weariness, indolence, indisposed to work.
Tonic spasms in flexors of fingers and toes.

Drowsiness during the day.
Sleepiness, desire to lie, without being able to sleep.
Restless sleep before midnight.
Sleepless, with headache.
Awakes terrified, by the usual sufferings.
Dreams: of corpses and funerals.

Morning: 5, 27, 40. Afternoon: 10, 15. 4-9 P.M.: 21. Evening: 5, 29, 40. Night: 20, 27, 28. Before midnight: 37. After midnight: 40. Day: 22, 23, 37.

Renewal of ailments on change of weather.
Open air: 40. Room: 40.

Internal chill: with severe shaking, evening in bed; when walking in open air; passes off in the room.
Chill and coldness of whole body; worse on hands and feet, with distention of the veins.
Right foot icy-cold.
Shivering: without external coldness; running down back.
Internal heat without thirst, evening after lying down.
Burning heat of hands, spreading thence over the body.
Heat: of the head and face; on scapulæ; in hip-joints.
Sweat during sleep, after midnight and toward morning; better after awaking.

Periodic: 5, 23.

Right: 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 17, 18, 21, 23, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 40. Left: 3, 5, 18, 28, 31. Front to back: 18. Back to front: 31. Above downwards: 21, 40.

Touch: 5, 22, 34. Pressure: 5, 18, 31. Clothing seems too tight: 28.

Yellow, yellowish-grey.
Red and painful pimples and pustules on various parts.
Itching of the skin.
Old putrid spreading ulcers.

Spare subjects disposed to abdominal plethora, cutaneous diseases, catarrhs or neuralgia.
Blondes.

Chelid. follows well after Ledum.
After Chelid., Arsen. will often be useful.
Acids, wine or coffee restrict its action.
Antidotes to Chelid.: Acon. removes the aggravation, with excited circulation.
Chelid. antidotes: Bryon.

A tincture is prepared from the fresh plant of Chelidonium Majus, Linn.

The most prominent action of Chelidonium is upon the liver. ▶ Symptoms of inflammation, of jaundice, of disturbed function of the bowels and kidneys and sympathetic affections of the right lung are numerous and well marked. ▶ See also the symptoms in joints, skin, etc.

Caulophyll., Podophyll., Mercur., Bry., Chin, Mag. c., Bap., Phos., Lyc., Puls.

Emaciation. ▶ Reeling as if she would fall forward, without vertigo. ▶ Trembling of whole body. ▶ Stretching. ▶ Twitching; now and then on various spots; in head, clavicle and limbs; of arms and legs, and in head on moving arm; on inner side of thigh, in feet and in back. ▶ Rising in anxiety and tearing clothing from neck and chest. ▶ Crying as soon as left leg is moved or left side is touched.

Stitches her and there; in afternoon; in pit of stomach, then in back, then in left cheek-bone, then right, extending to temple; beneath right scapula, then in perineum and testicles, and again in right shoulder. ▶ Tearing and sticking here and there, extending downward, agg. in right leg. ▶ Pain agg. afternoon, when it is spasmodic. ▶ Wandering pains in all parts; in upper limbs, in forehead, sides of nose and in upper jaw. ▶ Burning pain in spots on shoulders, trunk and arms. ▶ Bruised pain on moving about; B. as after a long march. ▶ Rheumatic or bruised pain in morning on waking, at nape and anterior part of neck, in shoulders and arms; R. pain now in right, now in left upper part of body; drawing R. pain now here, now there, and in right upper half of body, in shoulders, arms and wrists. ▶ Drawing pain from left upper jaw to left nostril, left eye, left meatus, left temple, left half of neck, left scapula and left ankle; in whole body, with fluent coryza. ▶ Drawing through whole body; towards noon; in head, teeth, jaws and shoulders.

▶ General sick feeling. ▶ Affection as after a severe illness. ▶ General sensation as in influenza. ▶ Discomfort; without knowing what is the matter, necessity to lie down, inability to sleep and discontentment with everything. ▶ Excitement of whole body; from 10 to 11.30 P.M. ▶ Internal uneasiness; muscular U. in evening, alternating with pains in head and chest. ▶ Must be carried constantly.

▶ Horror of movement. ▶ Inclination to lie down (China). ▶ Weakness (China), in morning; in morning after uneasy sleep; in morning on waking, also with sleepiness; in afternoon; at 2 P.M., with indolence and yawning; at night, with pain in kidneys; after dinner; when walking; when walking in open air; when sitting, with sleepiness; with inability to sleep. ▶ Indolence, amel. open air, with prostration and sleepiness; I., with sleepiness without yawning; of whole body, with uneasiness. ▶ Faintness; in evening on undressing, with anxiety in chest, trembling and short cough; on rising from bed. ▶ Heaviness; after eating, with disinclination for work and sleepiness. ▶ Numbness, with drowsiness; N. in muscles of hepatic region and in right side of neck, face and head (and insensibility, as from apoplexy, with trembling). ▶ Symptoms generally return at noon after eating (except the chill, instead of which there was internal heat, with internal burning between chest and shoulders). ▶ Amelioration from eructations; from a light-colored, pasty stool.

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The most prominent action of Chelidonium is upon the liver. Symptoms of inflammation, of jaundice, of disturbed function of the bowels and kidneys, and sympathetic affections of the right lung are numerous and well marked. See also the symptoms in joints, skin, etc.

A general feeling of indolence, prostration and sleepiness, > in the open air.
General discomfort; without knowing really what is the matter, wants to lie down and sleep.
A feeling of numbness in the muscles of the hepatic region, and in the right side of neck, face and head.

Depression; despondent mood.
Apathy.
Mind is generally heavy, lethargic; one is disinclined to make any mental effort.

Confused, dull heaviness, sometimes with vertigo, but the vertigo is usually associated with disordered stomach.
Neuralgic pains in the forehead over the eye, chiefly in the right side, > walking in the open air; sometimes extending to the orbits, making the eyes painful on moving them.
Pain as from a band across forehead, > closing the eyes.
Drawing pains in the temples, especially of the right side.
Pressing-asunder headache.
A feeling of soreness in the occiput; heaviness in the occiput, with drawing pains, extending downward to the nape of the neck, as if it could not be raised from the pillow.

The whites of the eyes a dusky yellow.
Eyeballs painful on moving eyes.
Eyeballs feel sore on looking up.
A feeling of pressing downward on the upper lid.
Obscuration of vision; blinding spots before the eyes.

A feeling as if wind were blowing out of the ears.
Hearing seems to vanish when coughing.

Face red, without heat.
General color of the face is yellow, rather dark, especially about the forehead, nose and cheeks.
Tearing pains extend from the right cheek bone to and around ears, to upper part of occiput.
The right cheek bones seem swollen.
Itching of the whole face and forehead.
The neuralgic pains in the face are mostly upon the right side, usually associated with similar pains in the forehead and side of the head, frequently with lachrymation.

Drawing or tearing pains, mostly in the right teeth, sometimes in the left, > warmth; worse at night in bed.
Gums pale and bleed easily.
Tongue yellow with red margins, showing imprint of the teeth.
Tongue dry.
Salivation, collection of bitter water, obliging constant spitting.

Choking, as from trying to swallow too large a morsel.
A feeling of constriction, with difficult swallowing.

Thirst, especially for milk.
Appetite diminished or lost.
Eructations, tasting like juniper berries.
Nausea and vomiting, with a feeling of warmth in the stomach, spreading over the whole body.
Sticking pains in the pit of the stomach, extending through to the back.
A feeling of oppression and anxiety in the stomach.
(Gastric symptoms are generally > for a time by eating, sometimes by hot drinks or food.)

General distention and hardness.
Cutting pains in the intestines immediately after eating.
Cramp-like colic, with drawing inward of the navel, and nausea.
Sticking pains in the region of the liver, extending through to the back and lower angle of the scapula.
Pain in the region of the liver, extending downward into the intestines.
The hepatic pains sometimes > eating.
The region of the liver painful on pressure.
The left hypochondrium sometimes sensitive to pressure.
Spasmodic retraction in the umbilical region, with nausea.
Constriction transversely across below the navel, as by a string.
Cramplike pain above the pubis in the afternoon, with frequent urging to urinate.

Clinical:
Enlargement of the liver, pain under angle of right shoulder blade, or with jaundice, yellow tongue, bitter taste, etc.
In jaundice, sometimes with clear urine, tongue white, stools dark, urine offensive.
Distention of abdomen, enlarged liver.
In all the hepatic and intestinal affections the pains are worse on the right side, and generally are seated under the angle of right scapula.

Burning and cutting in the rectum, with constriction of anus, alternating with itching.
Constrictive feeling in the anus during stool.
Stool thin, bright yellow, copious, sometimes white.
Pasty; sometimes alternations of diarrhœa and constipation; generally associated with jaundice, pain in the region of the liver or in the right scapula, or with general soreness of the intestines.

Pains in the right kidney and liver, spasmodic.
Pains from the kidneys towards the bladder, followed by evacuation of turbid urine.
The urine dark yellow, turbid when passed, or dark brownish-red, like brown beer; causes reddish-brown stains or is lemon-yellow and turbid, or is whitish and frothy; generally copious.

Menstruation delayed, but lasting too long.
Acrid leucorrhœa.

A feeling as if the larynx were pressed backwards against the œsophagus, impeding swallowing.
Hoarseness.
Cough; after waking and on rising, with sensation of dust under sternum.
A racking cough, worse in the morning, with much expectoration from deep in the lungs, which is difficult to loosen.
Rattling in the chest, < changing position after waking.
Breath short and difficult, with oppression and anxiety in the chest.
Cough, with painful contraction of the abdomen.
Stitches here and there in the chest, especially beneath the right ribs; or in the lower part of the right side on inspiration, < motion and coughing; or on the anterior part of the chest, extending into the intestines below umbilicus.
Pain in the lower right ribs, < bending towards the left side.
Pain behind the sternum, < inspiration; deep-seated in the right chest and right shoulder, especially at axilla and beneath the scapula, at times with throbbing in the chest.
Pain in lower part of right wall, extending into the side, < inspiration.
Oppression of the chest as if the clothes were too tight.
Oppression on inspiration after dinner; spasmodic, in a spot behind sternum, waking at night, extending into bronchi, with constriction.

Clinical:
Cough loose and rattling, the expectoration raised with difficulty.
Frequently useful in the bronchitis of children, with dusky red face, oppressed breathing, etc.
Cough, with pain in right side of thorax, either with severe bronchitis or with pneumonia.
Numerous cases of pneumonia in right lung have been cured when associated with symptoms of hepatic derangement, distressing pain under right scapula.

Drawing tearing pains in the neck and back on bending backward and forward, as if the lumbar vertebræ were broken.
Stiffness between the shoulders.
Sticking pain beneath the right shoulder blade.
Pain beneath the right scapula, < inspiration and motion of the right arm, extending around right side of chest and causing oppression.
Spasmodic pain in right kidney and liver.

General rheumatic, drawing pains.

Clinical:
Rheumatic symptoms in upper limbs; pain in shoulders, arms, tips of fingers, the whole flesh is sore to touch; sweat without relief; all symptoms associated with hepatic derangements.
Rheumatic pains in hips, thighs, etc., aggravated on right side and right knee, and œdema of ankles, with stiffness, feeling as if right leg were paralyzed.
Rheumatic and neuralgic pain in lower extremities.
(Compare Caulophyllum).

Skin yellow.
Tip of the fingers yellow and cold, or with nails blue.
Veins swollen.
Itching as in jaundice.

Much yawning and sleepiness, even when walking in the open air.
Sleepy, without being able to fall asleep.

General lack of vital heat, coldness of the extremities.
Shaking chill, even when walking in the open air.
Heat in the evening after lying down, without thirst.
Sweat during the morning sleep.

Chel. / Chief

Chelidonium,-Like Bryonia
Writes his name in bile.
Yellow skin, and stool and urine,
Tongue and eye, his style.
Biliousness in all conditions,
Gall stones in his claim.
Also cough, and affections,
Stitches with the same.
Right side pain beneath the angle
Of the shoulder blade.
Pains that seize the cervic muscles.
Occiput invade.
Aggravation in the morning,
Also after noon,
Always better in the evening,
Ever welcome boon.

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The Chief,-Has pain under the right shoulder blade.

The Chief, Cardu, is meek.

This Chief,-Who is subject to Jaundice,- Is at the Woman's academy on the Ida-Po, with Homar Cardu, the quaker.

Pains under the Right Shoulder Blade: Chel., Cardu., Mer., Kal. c.

Jaundice: Chel., Ars., Mer., Chin., Dig., Iod., Pod., Homar., Cardu., Nux. v. (Black, Ars., Iod., Aur.)

Indicated in diseases of the liver and gall bladder and in disorders associated with or depending on hepatic disease. Acts best in persons of light complexion, thin, fretful, and subject to gastric, abdominal and hepatic derangements. Also used in coughs, bronchitis, pneumonia and rheumatism.

Tongue yellow, large, flabby; tongue shows imprint of teeth around the margin. Bitter taste; likes hot food and drink.

Vertigo, with inclination to fall forward.

Neuralgia (right-sided) of face, orbit; periodical with excessive lachrymation; pain cutting.

Sallow, yellow color of the skin, especially on nose and cheeks.

Constant pain under lower and inner angle of right scapula.

Pain from stomach to right shoulder blade better from eating.

Jaundice and pain in the right shoulder.

Gall-stones, with pain under right shoulder.

Diarrhoea, slimy, yellow, watery; grayish.

Constipation; stools in small, round, black balls; like sheep's dung.

Constipation and diarrhoea alternate.

Rapid, short breathing, with pain on deep inspiration; pain in right side of chest.

Cough, loose, rattling, long-lasting (whooping cough).

Skin wrinkled; old spreading offensive ulcerations; pimples.

Old ulcers in connection with liver complaint.

Worse on the right side; in early morning.

Better after dinner; from pressure.

Depression and sadness, even to weeping. Restlessness and solicitude concerning the present and future.

Coldness in occiput, rising from neck. Headache as if pressed asunder. Crawling in, and upon. Milk crust on. Right - sided pain with icteroid symptoms. Worse: Motion. Better: Rest.

Downward pressure on upper lids. Inflammatory redness and nightly purulent agglutination of. Contracted pupils. Albugo. Opacity of cornea. Lachrymal fistula.

Sensation of wind streaming from. Hearing vanishes when coughing.

Stuffed coryza with stoppage of one nostril.

Red, without heat. Tension and drawing in zygoma. Itching over entire face and forehead. Herpes, especially on chin.

Chocking in, as after swallowing too large morsel, worse breathing. Difficult swallowing, as from pressure of larynx on oesophagus.

Cutting in when yawning. Gnawing pain, disappearing after eating. Burning in.

Appetite: Much thirst for milk, which is especially beneficial. Bad effects of clabber.

Eructations: Tasting of juniper berries.

Nausea: Rising from stomach, with a sensation of warmth therein, and over entire body.

Persistent cutting in intestines, immediately after eating. Spasmodic bellyache, with qualmishness and retraction of navel.

Hard, knotty. Nightly mucus diarrhoea.

Pale. Burning, sticking and cutting in urethra.

Menses: Too late, but continuing too long, and increasing during three days.

Difficult, with short fits of coughing, preceded by pain in right, then left side of chest. Oppression of chest on expiration. Short and quick, from oppression which is relieved by a few deep inspiration.

Frequent, dry, violent, hollow or short, exhausting paroxysms of, excited by a tickling of larynx, so severe that it brings tears to the eyes, or by heat in trachea or a sensation of dust in trachea, throat and behind sternum, not better coughing, generally dry, sometimes its force expels lumps of mucus, sometime the exhausting morning cough is attended by much expectoration from deep in lungs.

Pressure on, also in trachea. Feeling as if air could not pass thro, ' from a swelling there, especially on right side Shooting and burning pains in region of, and in throat. Congestion to, with dull throbbing. Sense of constriction in trachea with deadly anguish and a vain wish for eructation. Heat in trachea. Spasms of glottis on expiration accompany the slight fits of coughing. Slight hoarseness.

Throbbing in lungs. Stitches and soreness in lungs, worse deep inspiration, cough, and sneezing. Violent stitches in cardiac region. Sudden anxiety, with strong palpitation. Stitches under left clavicle and in right mammary region. Milk disappears from mammae. Chest pains worse motion, and tight clothing.

Pains, (sticking), in or beneath right, scapula. Tearing, pressive pain in as though' lumbar vertebrae were broken, when bending backward and forward.

Neck: Stiffness of both sides. Feels as if a napkin were tied around it, at larynx.

Paralytic pressure in upper arm. Stiff wrist joints. The distal phalanges of fingers become yellow, cold, as if dead, with blue nails.

Paralysis of thighs and knees. Stiff ankle joints. Toes insensible, dead.

Paralysis of limbs. Cramplike pains here and there. Early in morning, on awaking and after eating, great weariness and laziness. Aversion to motion which becomes intolerable. Inclination to lie down after eating. A right sided remedy.

Old, putrid, spreading ulcers.

Late falling to. Sleepiness with inability to sleep.

Pulse: Small and quick. Fuller and harder, but barely accelerated a little toward evening. Chill: And chilliness exclusively internal, with violent shaking in evening in bed. internal while walking in open air, it disappears in room. And coldness of whole body, most on hands and feet with greatly distended blood vessels. On one (r.) leg. Shuddering: Without external coldness, running down back. Heat: Internal, without thirst, in evening after lying down. Sweat: During sleep, after midnight and in the morning hours, quickly ceasing on awaking.

Allied Remedies: Calc-c., Lyc., Puls., Sul., merc.

Complementary. - Lyc., Merc-d.

Paralytic drawing and lameness in single parts.

Disinclination to move, which he does very reluctantly.

Sleepiness and desire to lie down, without being able to sleep.

Chilliness predominating.

In the morning when awakening and after eating, great debility and great lassitude.

Icterus.

Catamenia too late and too profuse.