Chelidonium Majus
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 53
Questions
"What is Chelidonium?
It is the greater Celandine, growing in France and Germany. A tincture is prepared from the fresh plant. "What is the great characteristic symptom of this remedy?
A pain under the angle of the right scapula.
What is the principal field of action of Chelidonium?
In affections of the liver, where there is a great deal of pain and soreness in the region of that organ; jaundice; yellow tongue, taking the imprints of the teeth; bitter taste and craving for sour things.
What is the stool of Chelidonium ?
It is a bright yellow or clayey diarrhoea.
How does Mercurius differ ?
It has the hepatic soreness and tongue taking the imprints of the teeth, but it also has slimy stools, with a great deal of tenesmus — a never-get-done feeling. "What are the chest symptoms of Chelidonium?
Stitching through right ribs. DyspncEa with oppression and constriction of chest, worse on right side. Distressing pain under right scapula, cough loose and rattling, difficult, associated with hepatic derangement. Dry and short cough. In children, where there is a capillary bronchitis or pneumonia with hepatic or bilious symptoms present, it is often indicated. The face is dark red, something like Opium of the same family, there is oppression of the chest, fan-like motion of the alse nasi, and one hot and one cold foot. The cough is loose and rattling, and the expectoration is not easily raised.
What other drug has, as characteristics, a fan-like motion of the alae nasi, a hot foot and a cold one ?
Lycopodium.
In what particular is the gastralgia of Chelidonium similar to that of Anacardium, Petroleum and Graphites?
It is relieved by eating.