Ghelone

Chelone glabra. Balmony. Snake-head or Turtle-head. N. O. Scrofulariaceae*

Clinical

Debility. Dumb-ague. Jaundice. Liver, diseases of. Quinine (arhnia •Worms.

Characteristics

Chelone has been used by old-school practitioners and eclectics as a cholagogue and vermifuge. Burnett has used it as an organ-remedy in liver affections. His indication is "pain or soreness of the left lobe of the liver and extending downwards." This I can confirm. Chelone acts in a line between the hilus of the liver and the fundus of the uterus. According to some observers it antidotes the Quinine cachexia; and is a remedy for " dumb-ague," ue. ill-defined paroxysms of aching and fever following severe malarial fevers. '' Soreness of external parts, as if the skin were off, especially about elbow," has been confirmed as an indication. " Debility from loss of tone of digestive organs, or liver, or from exhausting diseases" (Hale). One to five-drop doses of the tincture have been given.

Relations p. 468

Coma : Chi., Chenop., Cina, Helon., Hydrast., and (according to Burnett), especially Carduus mar. (left lobe of liver). Compare also other Scrofularias, Grat., Dig., Tabac, Scrof. nod.