# Calendula Officinalis

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
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 dilution, and succussion. 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.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Damp  weather,  cold  (air,  water),  touch,  motion,  evening,  night,  trauma,. stress, pressure, infection, poor hygiene, overexertion.

## Symptoms by System

### 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.
- 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.

### 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.
- 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.
- 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 - Coryza 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.
- 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.
- Hemorrhage, 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 
erysipelas.
- 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 hemorrhoids, 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 leucorrhea.
- Ludlam rec ommended it in chronic endocervicitis and 
scrofulous 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 carbuncle it acts with great promptitude, subduing pain and fever.
- In obstetric practice it is invaluable.
- Calen, as been used in Germany in tincture on cancer areas.
- It helped to stop the spread of cancer and helped 
to reabsorb it.
- Almost all the symptoms appear during the chilly 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 potency, as well as externally.
- He had excellent results from its use as 
a hot compress (an ounce to the pint) in pneumonia 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 gout 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.
- Stitches in right side of ch est.
- 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.

### Stomach & 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.
- Induration 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.
- Enteritis from foreign body.
- Dull, coarse stitches in middle of 
right side of abdomen, on moving.
- Boring, digging, deep in region of navel, when walking.
- Hunger immediately after nursing.
- Hiccough when smoking.
- 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.

### Urinary & Genital
- Excoriation of prepuce after sex.
- Menses suppressed with cough.
- Menorrhagia.
- Chron ic cervicitis.
- Warts on cervix.
- Os lower than 
natural.
- Profuse offensive watery discharge after forceps delivery.
- Vaginal tears after childbirth.
- Hypertrophy 
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
- 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.
- myalgia, 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 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.

### Neck & Back
- Bruised pain at angle of right scapula.
- Tearing with pressure between  the scapulae.
- Pains after back 
surgery.
- Pain under the right scapula.
- Rheumatic 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.