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Calendula Officinalis

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Calendula Officinalis Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification

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  • Category: 🌿 Herbal Remedy
  • Miasm: Emotional Miasm
  • Temperament: ❄️ Chilly
  • Aggravation: 🌇 Morning

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🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Calendula Officinalis. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
🌸 Bach Flower Remedy:
This remedy is one of the 38 natural remedies discovered by Dr. Edward Bach. It works primarily on balancing emotional and mental states, fears, despair, and psychological imbalances, rather than physical symptoms.
▲ GENERAL
  • Source: Derived from the fresh flowering tops of Calendula officinalis (common marigold), a plant in the Asteraceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through potentization involving maceration,.
  • serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity., and succussionVigorous shaking of homeopathic dilutionThe process of vigorously shaking a liquid homeopathic solution against a firm surface during dilution to potentize it..
  • Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for wound healing, tissue repair, and inflammatory conditions , particularly those involving cuts, burns, or lacerations.
  • It is noted for symptoms such as raw, open wounds, excessive bleeding, and irritability, often aggravated by damp weather, touch, or evening, and ameliorated by warmth, rest, or gentle motion.
  • Modern Context : Indicated for dermatological conditions (e.g., wounds, burns, ulcers), post-.
  • surgical recovery (e.g., incision healing, scar prevention), infectious complications (e.g., wound infections, cellulitis), musculoskeletal injuries (e.g., sprains, contusions), and psychological conditions (e.g., irritability, mild anxiety).
  • It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by poor wound healing , inflammation, tissue trauma , or emotional sensitivity ,.
  • typically exacerbated by damp, cold conditions, trauma, or stress, and often seen in individuals with a history of surgical procedures, chronic wounds, or minor injuries.
  • The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a sensitive, reactive constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like raw, painful wounds or slow-healing tissues alongside emotional traits like irritability or nervousness, commonly observed in post-operative patients, individuals with chronic skin ulcers, or those recovering from minor trauma.
  • Calendula officinalis (Marigold) 444
▲ HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
  • Worse from: Damp weather, cold (air, water), touch, motion, evening, night, trauma,.
  • stress, pressure, infection, poor hygiene, overexertion
▲ HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:

Antidote: Chel., Rheum. Antidoted by: Am. Compare: (1) Staph., Am., Ars., Bry., Calc -s.,
Carb-an., Carb-v., Ham., Hep., Hyper., Led., Nit-ac„ Phos., Rhus-t., Ruta, Sal-ac., Sul-ac., Symph. (2) in deaf-
ness: Ferr -pic., Kali -i., Calc., Mag -ac, Graph. Compatible: Am., Ars., Bry., Nit -ac., Phos., Rhus -t.
Complementary: Hep. Calendula contains much nitrogen and phosphoric acid. Followed well by: Am., Hep.
Incompatible: Camph. Follows well: Ars. i.

▲ MIND
  • Great irritability.
  • Easily frightened.
  • Fretful, sleepy, dreamy.
  • Extremely nervous.
  • Starts with fright.
  • Dread of something bad happening.
  • Bulimia.
  • Anxious, morose and solicitous during the chill.
  • Bulimia.
▲ HEAD
  • Pains after mechanical injuries.
  • Concussion of brain.
  • Lacerated scalp wounds.
  • Hemorrhages in scalp wounds.
  • Compound fractures of skull.
  • Dull, pres- sive sensation in occiput.
  • Dull headache, as after a debauch.
  • Fungus of cranium.
  • Tearing pains.
  • Sensation of a weight on brain.
  • Submaxillary glands swollen, pa inful to touch.
  • Pain in right side of neck.
  • Pain and heat in forehead after eating.
▲ EYES
  • Eyewash for irritations, abrasions, infections, conjunctivitis.
  • Eye inflammation after trauma.
  • Scratched cornea.
  • Injuries to the eyes which tend to suppuration.
  • Eye pains after surgery.
  • Blenorrhea of lachrymal sac, yellow vision.
  • Lacerated and incised wounds of eyes black and blue from extravasated blood.
  • Foreign objects in the eye.
  • Traumatic conjunctivitis, keratitis and iritis.
  • White of eye inflamed, with pressive headache, in forehead, temples.
  • Pupils dilated.
  • Dryness and biting in margin of lid, as from smoke.
  • Lid very much swollen.
  • Wounds of eyelids and brows badly treated with plasters and where suppuration takes place
▲ EARS
  • Rupturedeardrum.
  • Deafness, worse in damp surroundings, with eczematous conditions.
  • Hears best on a train and distant sounds.
  • Hearing acute
▲ FACE
  • Face puffy, much swollen under eyes.
  • Eruption of small vesicles in left corner of lips and on right side of mouth.
  • Lips as if swollen.
  • Burning and stinging.
  • Submaxillary glands swollen and about to suppurate, painful on touch.
  • Drawing, tensive pains, in gland behind left ramus of lower jaw, on moving head
▲ MOUTH
  • Bitter phlegm in mouth.
  • Bleeding gums.
  • Bleeding after tooth extraction.
  • Pains after gum surgery.
  • Nose - CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. in one nostril, with much green discharge
▲ THROAT
  • Scalds, burns of throat.
  • Injuries to air passages, in form of cuts or lacerations.
  • Foreign bodies in air passages.
  • Bitter phlegm in throat.
  • Painful swelling of submaxillary gland, worse on moving head.
  • Pressure in throat when swallowing.
  • Wounds of esophagus, to prevent esopha- gitis.
  • Foreign bodies in esophagus having produced laceration.
  • Voice stronger and deeper as soon as fever heat abates, in evening.
  • COMMENTS - Calendula, largely diluted with water, is highly esteemed by many physicians as a dressing for lacerated wounds, ulcers, and burns are dressed by applying muslin cloth saturated with dilut e calendula night and morning.
  • The cloth should be kept constantly saturated with the agent.
  • It is also used an injection in vaginal and uterine leucorrhoea.
  • Useful for surgeries, given before and after.
  • HemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse., cuts that keep bleed ing and won't heal.
  • Sharp stinging, cutting feelings, redness and rawness.
  • Very good for preventing septic wounds (Pyrog., once septic situations have set in).
  • Torn or wounded muscles.
  • Bedsores.
  • Hansen noted it for open wounds, very sore and painful, difficult granulation, t endency to inflammation and suppuration.
  • Useful for burns when applied topically (Canth., Urt-u.).
  • Good as local application in phlegmonous erysipelasAcute bacterial skin infectionAn acute, sometimes recurrent, bacterial skin infection characterized by large, raised red patches, especially on the face..
  • For severe nerve pain (Coff., Phos is numb and tingling).
  • Nerve injury (when Hyper, fails).
  • Excessive pain out of proportion to the injury (Coff.).
  • Pain under right scapula, or bruised feeling under the right scapula.
  • Can be used as an eyewash for bloodshot eyes from dust or irritation (Euphr.).
  • Injuries to the eyes from foreign objects and irritants.
  • Ten dency to catch colds.
  • Carious root toothache.
  • An excellent hemostatic in tooth extractions and for gum surgery.
  • Very acute hearing.
  • Hypersensitive hear ing (Coff.).
  • Deafness from inflammation.
  • Boericke noted it as being specific for ruptured or torn eardru ms (Thiosin is for eardrum adhesions and ossification of the bones, Kali - m., if deafness is caused by blocked Eustachian tubes).
  • Ulcers, heartburn, bleeding ulcers.
  • Bleeding hemorrhoidsPiles or swollen veins in the rectumSwollen, inflamed blood vessels around the anus or lower rectum, causing pain, itching, or bleeding., internally is best.
  • Diuretic (urine feels hot like Bell.).
  • Nodosities in breast.
  • Helpful for epi siotomies, the stinging, cutting pains.
  • Hemorrhage after childbirth.
  • Bad ulcers of Calendula officinalis os uteri.
  • Offensive leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection..
  • Ludlam rec ommended it in chronic endocervicitis and scrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. ulcerations with much purulent leucorrhea.
  • Useful topically after childbirth.
  • Jahr, who was in Paris during the Coup d'Etat of 1849, treated a number of cases of gunshot wounds with comminuted bones and saved several limbs by means of Calen.
  • It prevented suppuration and pyemia.
  • In some cases of carbuncleCluster of boils under the skinA severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin, typically infected with staphylococcus bacteria. it acts with great promptitude, subduing pain and fever.
  • In obstetric practice it is invaluable.
  • Calen, as been used in Germany in tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. on cancer areas.
  • It helped to stop the spread of cancer and helped to reabsorb it.
  • Almost all the symptoms appear during the chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. stage of the fever, he feels most comfortable when walking about or else when lying perfectly still.
  • Cooper said that calen, is worse in cloudy weather.
  • Drinking causes a shaking chill or creeping crawls, even during heat.
  • Very sensitive to cold air.
  • Restless, can't get com fortable in bed.
  • Fear of some overwhelming calamity.
  • C.
  • R.
  • Crosby gave it internally in the 3x potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration., as well as externally.
  • He had excellent results from its use as a hot compress (an ounce to the pint) in pneumoniaLung infection with inflamed air sacsInflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs (alveoli), usually caused by infection. and other inflammations.
  • C.
  • W., himself a pharmacist, noticed the following effect on himself when making the fresh-plant tincture: “There was such a feeling as if some overwhelming calamity was hovering over me as to be almost unbearable.
  • “Three years ago, just after making the tincture, my old enemy the goutArthritis with severe joint pain and swellingA disease in which defective metabolism of uric acid causes arthritis, especially in the smaller joints of the feet. nipped me in the middle of the spine and in three days spoiled all my powers of walking and then the dreadful feeling became very much exaggerated.” His experience led him to conclude that Calen, has an action on the spinal cord
▲ CHEST
  • Pressure on last rib, left side.
  • Drawing pressure in left side of chest, also in sternum.
  • Stitches in right side of chest.
  • Nausea felt in chest.
  • Ribs ache as if pressed together.
  • Pressure and oppression in left side of chest, in evening, when lying in bed.
  • Axillary glands sore to touch.
  • Axillae very hot.
  • Constitutions - Constitutional tendency to erysipelas.
  • Cough with green expectoration, hoarseness, with distention of inguinal ring.
  • Great efforts made to inflate lower lobes of lungs, which were only successful when sitting up.
  • Breathing easier after fever abates.
  • Kidneys - Frequent urination, with emission of pale, clear, hot, and even burning urine.
  • Tearing in the urethra during the chilliness.
  • Has to urinate often at night.
  • Urine suppressed.
  • Urine colorless as wa ter.
  • Urine is very hot and burning.
  • Urine suppressed, passes less than half her usual quantity of urine
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Hunger immediately after nurs ing.
  • Heartburn.
  • Nausea in chest.
  • Vomit ing.
  • Sinking sensation.
  • Hiccough, when smoking.
  • Sinking feeling.
  • Movements in stomach cau ses faint feeling.
  • Vomiting with pain in uterine region, after taking cold.
  • IndurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring. in stomach and uterus.
  • Temperature - Shivering and shaking chill from drinking.
  • Violent chill after trauma.
  • Feels shivery and has a kind of goose flesh, while skin seems warm to touch.
  • Coldness, a great sensitiveness to open air.
  • Shuddering in back.
  • Heat in evening.
  • After dinner, heat in face, hands and feet.
  • Epigastric distention.
  • Stretching and dragging in groin.
  • Sticking in the left side of the abdomen.
  • Movements in abdomen causes faint feeling.
  • Griping and anxiety in abdomen during stool.
  • Constant soreness of abdomen and tendern ess in left iliac region.
  • EnteritisInflammation of the small intestineInflammation of the small intestine, usually caused by eating or drinking substances contaminated with bacteria. from foreign body.
  • Dull, coarse stitches in middle of right side of abdomen, on moving.
  • Boring, digging, deep in region of navel, when walking.
  • Bulimia.
  • Di minished appetite for dinner, though he relishes food when he eats.
  • Drinks much at night with fever.
  • Aversion to drinks.
  • Crawls on back from cold drinks
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Excoriation of prepuce after sex.
  • Menses suppressed with cough.
  • MenorrhagiaAbnormally heavy or prolonged menstrual bleedingMenstrual periods with abnormally heavy or prolonged bleeding..
  • Chron ic cervicitis.
  • Warts on cervix.
  • Os lower than natural.
  • Profuse offensive watery discharge after forceps delivery.
  • Vaginal tears after childbirth.
  • HypertrophyAbnormal enlargement of an organThe increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells. of uterus.
  • Lacerated vagina from childbirth, sex, surgery, wounds.
  • Sensation of weight and fullnes s in pelvis.
  • Stretching and dragging pain in pelvis.
  • Pain on sudden movements.
  • Uterine pain after taking cold.
  • Cancer of womb with bleeding.
  • Ruptures of cervix and perineum during childbirth.
  • Excoriated and cracked nipples
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Pain from sprains, strains, or contusions, with soreness or bruising, resembling soft tissue injuries or hematomas, worse with motion, cold, or overexertion.
  • Joint or muscle soreness, often after trauma or overuse, resembling tendinitis or myalgiaMuscle pain or sorenessPain or soreness in muscles, which can affect small areas or the entire body., aggravated by damp weather or initial motion.
  • Weakness or fatigue in injured tissues, with slow recovery, worse with cold or exertion.
  • Bone pain or sensitivity, particularly in areas of old fractures, resembling periostitis,.
  • worse with damp conditions or pressure.
  • Psychological:.
  • Irritability or impatience, often linked to pain or discomfort, resembling adjustment disorder, worse with trauma, stress, or evening.
  • Mild anxiety or nervousness, particularly about health or recovery, resembling acute stress reaction, aggravated by cold, damp conditions, or uncertainty.
  • Sensitivity to pain or touch, with a tendency to overreact, worse in stressful or cold environments.
  • Emotional exhaustion or mild depression, with a sense of being overwhelmed,.
  • resembling dysthymia, worse after injury or prolonged recovery.
  • Systemic:.
  • Chronic fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of sluggishness, resembling chronic fatigue syndrome or post-inflammatory exhaustion, worse after exertion, cold, or stress.
  • Cold intolerance, with aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. in damp, cold weather and a desire for warmth or dry conditions.
  • Profuse, cold, or clammy sweating, particularly during pain, infection, or anxiety episodes, worse at night or in damp conditions.
  • Tendency to recurrent inflammation or low-grade fevers, worse with cold, damp exposure, or weakened immunity
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • Bruised pain at angle of right scapula.
  • Tearing with pressure between the scapulae.
  • Pains after back surgery.
  • Pain under the right scapula.
  • RheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. drawing in the right side of neck.
  • Pressive drawing pain, between scapula.
  • Causations - Burns.
  • Cuts, punctures, stabs.
  • Wounds.
  • Surgery
▲ SKIN
  • Chronic fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of sluggishness, resembling chronic fatigue syndrome or post-inflammatory exhaustion, worse after exertion, cold, or stress.
  • Cold intolerance, with aggravation in damp, cold weather and a desire for warmth or dry conditions.
  • Profuse, cold, or clammy sweating, particularly during pain, infection, or anxiety episodes, worse at night or in damp conditions.
  • Tendency to recurrent inflammation or low-grade fevers, worse with cold, damp exposure, or weakened immunity
▲ SLEEP
  • Restless at night, can rest in no position.
  • Wakes continually.
  • Must urinate frequen tly and drinks very much.
  • Feels as if he would fall from a height, when falling asleep

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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