CHELIDONIUM MAJUS
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.
Mental.–
Full of sad thoughts; desponding.
Eyes.–
Orbital neuralgia of the right eye, with profuse
lachrymation; pupils of the eye are contracted.
Ears.–
Sensation as of wind rushing out of.
Chest.–
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.
Generalities.–
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.–
Worse very early in the morning.
Remedies following:–
Acon., Lycop.,
Nux vom., Sepia, Spigel. Sulphur.
Antidotes:–
Chamom., Coffea.
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