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Chelidonium Majus
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Chelidonium Majus Reference Specimen
Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Tubercular Miasm
The Tubercular miasm is a combination of Psora and Syphilis. It manifests as a susceptibility to respiratory illnesses, rapid weight loss, and a constant desire for mental and physical change.
🧠General & Mental Health
▲GENERAL
Source: Derived from the whole flowering plant of Chelidonium majus (greater celandine), a perennial herb in the Papaveraceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through maceration, serial dilution, and succussion to enhance therapeutic action and eliminate toxicity.
Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for hepatic, biliary, and respiratory disorders, particularly those involving liver dysfunction, jaundice, and right-sided complaints.
It is noted for symptoms such as right-sided liver pain, right scapular pain, and biliousness, often aggravated by rich foods, motion, or heat, and ameliorated by warm drinks, eating, or rest.
Modern Context: Indicated for hepatobiliary disorders (e.g., hepatitis, cholecystitis),.
It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by liver dysfunction, right-sided pain, jaundice, or bilious temperament, typically exacerbated by fatty foods, heat, or emotional stress, and often seen in individuals with a history of liver disease, digestive disorders, or chronic respiratory issues.
The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a chilly, sluggish constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like right-.
sided abdominal or scapular pain alongside emotional traits like despondency or irritability,.
commonly observed in middle-aged adults with hepatic complaints, individuals with alcohol-related liver issues, or those with stress-induced digestive problems.
COMMENTS-Chelidonium is a major liver remedy and is also a venous medicine.
According to Rademacher,
Chel acts on the center of the liver.
Neonatal jaundice rem edy (Phos., Cham., Chin.).
Yellow tongue, yellow
skin, yellow eyes.
Hepatitis (Phos.).
Yellowness of the skin, ulceration.
Prominent paralytic symptoms.
Chills or creeps accompany the headache or the jaundice.
Constipation with
clay-colored stools or diarrhea with bright yellow stools.
Nausea during pregnancy with desire for food, better
by drinking milk.
Desire for hot food and drinks, only water almost boiling will stay on stomach.
“Aversion to
cheese” in many gastric conditions.
Eating ameliorates.
Desire to lie down after a meal.
Great debility and drowsiness after eating and on waking.
Aversion to move,
feels tired on least exertion.
Sleepiness and yawning (Op.).
Better hot baths.
Worse 4:00 pm or 4:00 am (Lyc.).
The dirty yellow complexion produced by Chel along with other signs of cachexia, strongly suggests cancer.
The action of Sang., its relative, in breast can cer is well known.
Additionally, Op., in addition to its narcotic
influence, is believed by Snow to have a retarding effect on cancerous growth.
Pneumonia with bilious symptoms.
Fanlike movement of alae nasi in chest disorders (Lyc.).
Numerous cases
of pneumonia of right lung have been cured when associated with hepatic derangement, distressing pain under
right scapula.
Hepatization of upper half of right lung.
Bry is very similar to Chel in pneumonia but the pains go continually to the back in Chel and esp to the right
scapula.
Rattling in lungs, worse changing position after waking.
Frequently useful in bronchitis of children,
with dusky red face, oppressed breathing.
Strong action in the respiratory sphere.
Characteristic cough is caused by a sensati on of “dust” in the air
passages.
St.
Clair Smith related a case of a young woman, who had for several weeks a dry, racking, fatiguing cough
night and day, worse at night, no expectoration and no pain.
She looked completely worn out.
The cough was
excited by a sensation as if throat and larynx were full of dust.
Chel.
3c, a powder every two hours, was given.
She only took three when the “dust” left the throat, and with it
the cough, and never returned.
Carleton Smith cured a “Dry cough through day with pain and stitches right side, severe hoarseness 5 p.m.,
voice scarcely audible.”
C.
M.
Foss recorded a typical Chel case simulating cancer.
A man, 45, had catarrh of the nose and, at the
same time of the stomach.
He had been told he had stomach cancer.
Tender ness over stomach with sinking,
gone feeling, at times reaching a state of painful anguish.
Sickness at stomach.
All symptoms better by eating.
Chel.
6x cured at once.
Teste, who proved Chel., placed it at the head of a group which includes Caps, and Viol-o.
He mentioned the
analogy between the juice of Chel and the : juice of Garcinia morella, and Gamb.
Both are bright yellow and
change to orange and brown on drying.
Some authorities have recommended Chel juice as a substitute for
Gamb as a hydragogue c athartic.
Its ancient external uses ranged from an application in eye disorders to
chronic ulcers and warts.
In Teste's proving he emphasized a dull and heavy, deep-seated pain in whole right side of chest and right
shoulder, at 1:30 p.m., without cough, but with embarrassed respirations.
This pain, which is at times accompanied by dull beatings in the chest, does not allow him to draw a long
breath, it is not perceptibly aggravated by the motions of the arm.
The pain is particularly felt in the axilla and
under the shoulder blade.
A sort of numbness of the muscles in the region of the liver and in the right side of the neck, face and head.
Apprehension of threatening pneumonia.
Great anxiety.
Con stant desire to stir and change one's position.
“Extremely profuse emission of a whitish and foaming urine.” “2 p.m.: drowsiness which is so marked, even in
the open air, that she is near falling asleep while walking, lasts half an hour.”
A large field in rheumatic disorders.
Edema, heat, tenderness and stiffness are the leading indications.
A baby
girl had rheumatism of both ankles for a week, when it settled in the right one, which became greatly swollen,
very tender, painful and hot.
Constipated for two months previously, whitish stools.
Chel improved in twelve
hours and cured entirely in a week.
In another case of acute rheumatism of feet and ankles, supervening on a slow, remittent fever, Chel cured
after the failure of Rhus-t and Bry.
The patient was a girl of six.
Both ankles were affected, feet much swollen
and extended.
The slightest move ment or touch extorted screams.
The only relief was constant bathing with
hot water.
W.
A Burr cured a case of right sciatic rheumatism of ten years' history in a very corpulent woman, age 55.
In
her case, there were agg ravations coming on in the after noon and evening of each day and lasting into the
middle of the night.
During the paroxysms, the outer ankle’ and lower leg became cyanotic, swelling
around ankle, constriction above, great sensitiveness to touch and motion.
Very nervous during the spells.
Great external sensitiveness, aversion to touch and worse from it
▲MODALITIES ETC
Worse from: Rich foods, fatty foods, alcohol, heat (air, rooms), motion, lying on the right side, damp weather, emotional stress, contradiction, night, fasting, jarring, cold air, pressure
▲RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:
🛡️ Antidotes & Antidoted By
Aeon., Cham., acids, wine and coffee, Camph. It is antidote to: Bry
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison
1In pain below angle of scapula, Jug-c., Chenop➔Lower than angle and nearer spine), Ran-b. (edge of left,
through to chest, Lob-c. - inside edge right scapula, Ang. - Cutting from just beneath right scapula to breast,
near nipple.
🔍 General Keynotes:Stannum Metallicum 647 STANNUM METALLICUM Stannum is a metal used for plati ng of utensils. In homoeopathic form, it is...
▲MIND
Despondent.
Restless, hence agile.
Anxiety as if she had committed a crim e.
Sudden anxiety, with
strong palpitations.
Fear of going crazy.
Fear he has ruined his health.
Fear of her condition being observed.
Delusions that he has an incurable disease.
Restlessness, constantly moves from place to place.
Bilious temperament.
Forceful, very obstinate.
Cross, and irritable.
Domineering
and sceptical, not impressed by authority.
Irritable, upset easily.
Desires to beat children.
Vexed about every
trifle and violent attacks of passionate outbursts of temper.
Loses control, when she gets out of bed, couldn't
explain why.
Feels like crying with ill humor or without any reason.
Thinks she must die.
Sudden excitement with confusion
of intellect at night.
Talked incoherently during fit of anxiety.
Inclination to weep.
Weeping when carrie d.
Confusion at night on waking.
Stupid feeling on looking intently.
Aversion to mental exertion or conversation.
Great absence of mind, forgets what she wants to do or has done.
Imagines she can't think and will lose her
reason.
Forgetful of shaving or dressing.
Unconsciousness, better rubbing soles of feet.
▲SLEEP
Lethargic.
Drowsy and chilly.
Sleepiness without being able to sleep.
Falls asleep while speaking.
Vnrefresh-ing sleep.
Frequent yawning, drowsy and sleepy during day.
Can’t sleep because of numbness
and coldness of limbs.
Sleeplessness during headache.
Wakes up repeatedly, feels wretchedly.
Dreams of
bodies, corpses and funerals.
Confused dreams.
Vivid dre ams about business matters, causes unrefreshing
sleep.
Unremembered dreams
👁️Head & Sensory Organs
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
Vertigo with liver disturbance.
Vertigo with inclination to fall forward.
Vertigo, felt in vertex, worse
closing eyes with bilious vomiting and pain in liver.
Vertigo, worse rising from bed or sitting.
Vertigo on closing
eyes, as if turning in a circle.
Vertigo with shivering over upper part of body.
Vision-Blackish-grey specks before eyes.
Misty appearance.
Amaurosis from rheu matic troubles, also after
suppression of ringworm.
Muscae volitantes.
Dazzling spots.
Blinding spot, lachrymation when looking at it.
Dim vision.
Diplopia.
Sparks, during headache.
Flickering, brilliant specks.
Candlelight seems very small.
Blackness, with sensation of fainting.
When reading or writing, letters run together and seem blurred
▲HEAD
Headache better after eating.
Headache extends backwards.
Occiput feels heavy as lead, icy
coldness of occiput from nape of neck.
Nausea and bilious vomiting with sick headaches.
Heavy, lethargic,
drowsiness, very marked with general numbness.
Right-sided headaches
down behind ears and shoulder blade.
Neuralgia over right eye, right cheekbone and right ear with excessive
lachrymation, preceded by pain in liver.
Pressing headache.
Pressure in brain, with burning over eyebrows.
Outward pressing, in forehead.
Cranium feels too small.
Congestion to cerebellum.
Falling out of hair.
Scalp
on crown painful.
Severe itching on occiput.
Heart-Angina pectoris.
Violent palpita
tion with tightness in chest.
Periodic palpitations.
Lancinating pain in heart.
Stitches in cardiac region, must
breathe short, followed by strong palpitations and anxiety.
Beating of heart so strong that
clothing is lifted from chest.
Pulse slow, small and quick.
Pulse full and hard
▲EYES
Aching in e yeballs, worse moving eyes.
Dirty yellow color of whites.
Burning and shooting pain in
eyes.
Burning in lids.
Soreness of eyes, worse looking up.
Tears
Chelidonium majus fairly gush out.
Orbits as if bruised on mov ing eyes.
Orbital neuralgia of right eye with
profuse lachrymation, pupils contracted, relieved by pressure.
Lachrymation, when looking intently, with pain
in eyes or from tickling in larynx.
Mucus in eyes.
Could not open eyes with prosopalgia.
Agglutination of lids in
morning.
Thick, yellow mucu s discharge from eyes.
Fistula lachrymalis.
Hordeolum.
Photophobia.
Lens
uniformly grey
▲EARS
Coldness or burning of ears.
One ear cold, the other warm.
Itching in right concha.
Hearing lost, during
cough.
Deaf ness with liver disorders.
Neuralgic pains in and around ears.
Long-continued stitch in right
external ear, passing off gradually.
Sticking in ears.
Sensation in both the ears, as if wind were rushing out or
something crawling out.
Loss of hearing during cough.
Ears feel stopped.
Loud distant roaring.
Sounds as from
a distant storm of wind.
Humming.
Ringing in left ear while walking
▲FACE
Dark red or sallow, sunken.
Face red and swollen.
Dry lips burning, dry, chapped, scabby.
Yellow
face, worse nose and cheeks.
Itching of whole face and fo rehead.
Wilted skin.
Right cheekbone feels as if
swollen with tearing pain.
Flushes of heat.
Nodular eruptions.
Violent tearing pains.
Acne.
Red pimples on
different parts of face.
Inflamed pimples on chin and cheeks.
Itching herpes, mostly on chin.
Facial erysipelas.
Lower jaw drops
🫁Respiratory & Throat
▲MOUTH
Burning pain in mouth.
Mucus in mouth and tough mucus saliva.
Salivation with nausea, giddiness.
Bitter, pasty taste.
Bad odor from mou th.
Taste acid, insipid, metallic.
Bitter water collects in mouth.
Mucus
flies from mouth when coughing.
Oozing of blood from mucus membranes of mouth.
Nose-Flapping of ala nasi (Lyc.).
Red.
Obstruction with liver complaints.
Tip of nose swollen and red.
Dryness.
Delusions of smell.
Soreness of nostrils and flow of water from nose, with eruption like measles.
Fluent coryza
with sneezing.
Thick blood in mucus in morning when blowing nose.
Itching of nose and tip of nose.
Perspiration-Sweaty with aversi on to uncover and without relief.
Sweat during sleep, after midnight, from
slight exertion.
Sweats from slight exertion.
Awakes in morning perspiring, after many unremembered dreams.
Watery, sour-smelling sweat.
Copious sweat, in evening
▲THROAT
Hoarseness in afternoon.
Choking during bilious eructations.
Choking, worse breathing, as from hasty
swallowing or as if too large a morsel had been swallowed.
Spasm of glottis on expiration, with cough.
Pressure
or heat in trachea.
Pressure in larynx as i f air could not pass through Se vere tickling in larynx.
Irritation to
cough in trachea.
Shooting and burning pain in throat and larynx.
Pricking pain in larynx, rendering loud
speaking impossible.
Left sided goiter.
Tonsils ache.
Shooting in tonsils.
Ven ereal ulcers in throat.
Tongue pale, moist, whitish.
Tongue dried up, brown, cracked.
Tongue yellow with imprint of
teeth, large and flabby (Merc., Hydr.).
Narrow, pointed tongue red on edges and tip.
Tongue red
and sore, with raised papillae
▲CHEST
Cough, dry or productive, with right-sided chest pain or oppression, resembling pneumonia or chronic bronchitis, worse with cold air, lying on the right side, or exertion.
Dyspnea or wheezing, with a sensation of tightness, resembling asthma or bronchiectasis, aggravated by heat, damp weather, or emotional stress.
Right-sided pleuritic pain, with stitching or burning sensations, resembling pleurisy,.
worse with deep breathing, motion, or cold.
Tendency to respiratory infections, with fatigue and bilious symptoms, worse in cold or damp conditions
🥗Digestive & Genitourinary
▲ABDOMEN
Eructations, tasting like juniper berries.
Constant eructation of wind.
Heartburn with eructations.
Anxiety and oppression at stomach.
Pain through stomach to back and right shoulder blade.
Pressure in pit
on stooping.
Gastric pains, gnawing scraping better eating.
Nausea, vomiting, better very hot water.
Nausea
and vomiting, with feeling of heat in stom-Chelidonium majus ach, spreading over whole body.
Nausea and bilious vomiting with sick headaches.
Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.
Sen sations of heat o r coldness in stomach.
As if a plug in stomach.
Qualmishness better belching.
Vomiting of tough, acid or greenish mucus.
Sensation of fullness.
Abdominal pains better wine.
Rumbling followed by diarrhea.
Fatty liver with
icterus.
Epigastric region tender.
Constriction across abdomen, as if by a string.
Distention.
Ascites with yellow
palms.
Burning pain in bowels.
Sensation as if an animal wriggling in epigastrium.
Navel drawn in during colic.
Severe pain around umbilical region.
Painful pressure over umbilicus.
Numbness in muscles of hepatic
region.
Pinching and cutting pains in bowels, with rumbling and gurgling.
Pain and rumbling in cecal region.
Pot-belly, with worms.
Swelling and ulceration of inguinal glands.
Loss of appetite, with disgust and nausea.
Loss of appetite, with great emaciation.
Nausea, better
drinking milk.
Itching better eating.
Aversion to meat, coffee.
Aversion to cheese, spinach.
Generally better
after eating.
Hypoglycemia.
Generally better from hot drinks.
Desire for very hot drinks.
Desire cheese,
strange things during pregnancy.
Prefers hot food and drink.
Fond of vinegar or sour wine.
Craves milk,
piquant or hot food and drinks.
Bitter taste when not eating or drinking.
Cold drinks disagree.
Thirstlessness
▲GENITALS ETC
Kidneys are sensitive to pressure, even of clothing.
Spasmodic pain in right kidney and liver.
Violent
paroxysms of pain in kidneys, with intense headache, vertigo and syncope.
Violent pain in direction of ureters,
preceding passing of turbid urine copious.
Profuse, foaming, yellow urine, dark turbid, like beer (Chen-a.).
Urine stains the diaper dark yellow.
Urine yellow as gold.
Urine smells acid or ammoniacal.
Urine has a
resinous odour.
Diabetes mellitus.
Urine red, cloudy, with chalky sediment.
Headache better after eating.
Headache extends backwards.
Occiput feels heavy as lead, icy
coldness of occiput from nape of neck.
Nausea and bilious vomiting with sick headaches.
Heavy, lethargic,
drowsiness, very marked with general numbness.
Right-sided headaches
down behind ears and shoulder blade.
Neuralgia over right eye, right cheekbone and right ear with excessive
lachrymation, preceded by pain in liver.
Pressing headache.
Pressure in brain, with burning over eyebrows.
Outward pressing, in forehead.
Cranium feels too small.
Congestion to cerebellum.
Falling out of hair.
Scalp
on crown painful.
Severe itching on occiput.
Heart-Angina pectoris.
Violent palpita
tion with tightness in chest.
Periodic palpitations.
Lancinating pain in heart.
Stitches in cardiac region, must
breathe short, followed by strong palpitations and anxiety.
Beating of heart so strong that
clothing is lifted from chest.
Pulse slow, small and quick.
Pulse full and hard.
Bladder-Frequent urging.
Catarrh of blad der, with sexual excitation.
Discharge of pus from urethra.
Strangury, lasting all day, with scanty urination.
Dragging pain in bladder, with spasmodic trembling pains in
inguinal region.
Stabbing pain in region of bladder.
Cutting pain in urethra on urina ting and continuing after
urinating.
Burning pain in urethra on urinating.
Acne on genitals.
Eczema rubrum on scro tum.
Frequent erections, even dur ing day.
Pain in glans.
Itching, creeping on scrotum and glans.
Drawing pains in spermatic cords, testicles.
Hydrocele.
Redness,
heat and swelling of scrotum.
Painful swelling of right testicle.
Gonor rhea and secondary sy philis, with ulcer-ated buboes.
Menses, too late and too profuse.
Menses too long duration.
Irregular men ses, with profuse flow.
Acrid leucorrhea, white, stains linen yellow.
Burning in vagina, recurs at the same hour during
day.
Longing for unusual articles of food during pregnancy.
Breast milk diminished
🦴Musculoskeletal & Skin
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Right-sided neuralgia or rheumatic pain, with aching or shooting sensations,.
resembling fibromyalgia or osteoarthritis, worse with heat, damp weather, or rest.
Right scapular pain, often radiating from the liver or gallbladder, resembling referred pain from hepatobiliary disorders, aggravated by motion, pressure, or rich foods.
Joint stiffness or soreness, particularly in the right shoulder or arm, resembling rotator cuff syndrome, worse with cold or initial motion.
Tendency to muscle weakness or trembling, with fatigue, worse after exertion or heat exposure.
Chelidonium majus (Greater Celandine) 576.
Psychological:.
Depression or despondency, with a sense of hopelessness, resembling persistent depressive disorder or adjustment disorder, worse with physical discomfort, heat, or isolation.
Irritability or anger, often linked to liver or digestive issues, resembling adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance, aggravated by contradiction, rich foods, or stress.
Anxiety or restlessness, with preoccupation about health or duties, resembling generalized anxiety disorder, worse with bilious episodes or night.
Apathy or mental dullness, with difficulty concentrating, resembling mild cognitive impairment, worse with overeating or emotional stress.
Systemic:.
Chronic fatigue or sluggishness, with a sensation of heaviness, resembling chronic fatigue syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after overeating, heat, or exertion.
Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a desire for warmth,.
except during bilious or hepatic episodes when heat worsens.
Profuse, cold, or bilious sweating, particularly during nausea, pain, or anxiety episodes, worse at night or in warm conditions.
Tendency to low-grade fever or biliousness, with a sensation of internal heat, worse with rich foods or emotional stress
▲BACK AND NECK
Aching soreness in all vertebrae, worse motion and pressure on spinous processes.
Burnin g pain in
back.
Fixed pain under inner and lower angle of the right scapula, which may extend into chest and
stomach, causing nausea or vomiting.
Pain beneath right scapula, worse inspiration and motion of right
arm.
Pain from neck to temple (right).
Pressing pain in vertebrae, worse bending backwards and forwards.
Occiput heavy with pain in right side of back.
Pain in nape.
Stiffness in back between shoulders.
Stiff neck,
head drawn to left.
As if a string around the neck.
Cervico-brachial neuralgia.
Pain
at lower angle of left scapula.
Shivering running down back
▲SKIN
Chronic fatigue or sluggishness, with a sensation of heaviness, resembling chronic fatigue syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after overeating, heat, or exertion.
Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a desire for warmth,.
except during bilious or hepatic episodes when heat worsens.
Profuse, cold, or bilious sweating, particularly during nausea, pain, or anxiety episodes, worse at night or in warm conditions.
Tendency to low-grade fever or biliousness, with a sensation of internal heat, worse with rich foods or emotional stress
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🧬 MiasmTubercular Miasm
🌡️ Temperament❄️ Chilly
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