Chelidonium Majus Homoeopathic Drug | Homoeopathic Drug Shots

Chelidonium majus is commonly known as greater celandine.  It is native to Europe and western Asia and introduced widely in North America.

COMMON NAME: CELANDINE

KINGDOM: PLANT KINGDOM

FAMILY: PAPAVERACEAE

PROVED BY: Dr. HAHNEMANN

CONSTITUTION

• Persons of light complexion, blondes; thin, spare, irritable; subject to hepatic, gastric and abdominal complains (Pod.); every age, sex and temperament.

CLINICAL INDICATIONS

• 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.
• Eating relieves temporarily, especially when accompanied with hepatic symptoms.

 ABDOMEN

• Jaundice due to hepatic and gall-bladder obstruction.
• Gall-colic.
• Fermentation and sluggish bowels.
• Constriction across, as by a string.
• Liver enlarged.
• [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 and constipation.
• Burning and itching of anus. [Ratanh.; Sulph.]

FEMALE

• Menses too late and too profuse.

RESPIRATORY

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

• (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).
• often completes its work.

• Antidote Chamom.
• Compare : Nux; Sulph.; Bry.; Lyc.; Opium; Podophyl.; Sanguin.; Ars.

DOSE

• Tincture and lower attenuations.