Calendula Officinalis

3farigold. Co^npositoe.

Native of Southern Europe; cultivated in our gardens; not to be con- founded with Tagetes.

^ Mind. B Consciousness returned after 24 hours, but great drowsi- ness remained. ^Burns.

(Delirious and wild. ^Burns.

Anxious, morose, solicitous, during chill.

Fretful, sleepy, dreamy.

Great irritability ; he is easily frightened ; hearing is acute. ^ Sensorium. Dull head, as aft,er a debauch.

Head heavy in morning, as after a long illness.

Feels as if he would faint, with movements in stomach and ab- domen. ^ Inner Head. Cephalalgia after mechanical injuries.

Headache in forehead, after eating, with sensation of heat in it.

Pressive headache, now in forehead, now in temple; only when lying down.

Dull, pressive sensation in occiput.

Concussion of brain.

Punctured or lacerated wounds of brain. * Outer Head. Heat of head towards evening.

B A deep hole in skin of forehead from a fall.

Bin lacerated wounds of scalp; to prevent suppuration.

8 Fractures of skull, particularly if compound.

Fungus of cranium ; symptoms of compression with no fracture.

1^00 Hernia cerebri, after fractured skull. ^ Sight and Eyes. After operations upon eye or lids where un- due inflammation or suppuration is to be avoided.

iBienorrhoea of the lachrymal sac.

B Traumatic conjunctivitis, keratitis and iritis.

B Sclerotica wounded with knife; choroidea and corpus vitreura protruded; eye retained form and sight for large objects; remedy used internally and externally.

\ Staphyloma cornese, externally applied.

White of eye inflamed, with pressive headache, now in fore- head, now in temples, when lying down, not when sitting and standing ; pupils dilated.

Dryness and biting in margin of lid, as from smoke.

Pupils dilated, lids very much swollen.

B Eyelids stretched to fullest extent of orbits. /9Burns.

B Lacerated and incised wounds of eyes.

BEyes black and blue from extravasated blood. ^Lacerated wounds.

Bin wounds of lids and brows which have been badly treated by plasters and suppuration has taken place. * Hearing and Ears. Hearing too acute ; starts with a fright. ^ SmeU and Nose, l Laceration of dorsum and tip of nose, from

a fall. ^ Upper Face, Swollen sensation in lips, spreading to sides of nose, increasing rapidly in intensity, and spreading to eyes and forehead, with burning and stinging.

Face puffy, much swollen under his eyes.

Heat in face, after dinner.

Lacerated wounds of face ; to prevent suppuration. ' Lower Face. B Right side of under lip lacerated from a kick of a newly shod horse ; healed without noticeable scar.

Eruption of small vesicles in 1. corner of lips and on r. side of mouth.

Submaxillary glands pain on touch, as if swollen and about to suppurate, and at times cause a tensive pain, which, especi- ally on swallowing, causes a pressure in throat.

Drawing-tensive pain in glands behind 1. ramus of lower jaw, on moving head. ^^ Teeth and Gums. > After extraction of teeth, or dental opera- tions resulting in laceration of gums. " Taste and Tongue. Before meal, bitter taste of phlegm in throat.

B Tongue dry, red and cracked. ^Burn. ^^ Throat. Pressure in throat when swallowing.

Wounds of oesophagus, to prevent oesophagitis.

Foreign bodies in oesophagus having produced laceration.

Scalds of throat, with loss of substance.

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^^ Eating and Drinking. Diminished appetite for dinner, though he relishes food when he eats. Drinks much : at night ; with heat. Aversion to drink, with crawls.

After eating : forehead aches, with a feeling of heat in it. Before dinner : bitter taste of phlegm in throat. After dinner : heat in face, hands and feet. From smoking : hiccough.

When he drinks, it gives him each time a shiver and shak- ing chill. Cold drinks cause a craAvl. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, K"ausea and Vomiting. Hiccough after smoking. Intimation of nausea, at times, in forenoon. Vomiting of food, and diarrhoea, with cardialgia. Vomiting, with pain in uterine region, after taking cold. ^'' Scrobiculum and Stomach. B Induration in stomach and uterus. Movements in stomach causes faint feeling. ^^Hypochondria Pressure on last rib, 1. side, with movements

in abdomen and crawls on back. ^* Abdomen. Anxiety and griping in belly, with a stool.

i Constant pain in abdomen and sensitiveness in r. iliac region.

^Enteritis from foreign body. Dull, coarse stitches in middle of r. side of abdomen, on mov- ing ; they disappear during rest. A boring-digging pain, deep in region of navel, when walking. Movements in abdomen cause faint feeling.

I Stretching and dragging in groin. ^Hypertrophy of uterus. I After Cfesarian section for lacerated womb. ^^ Stool and Rectum. 8 Frequent mucous stools with pain in ab- domen. ^Enteritis from foreign body. A stool in morning, preceded by griping and anxiety in ab- domen, and accompanied by a chill. Diarrhoea, with vomiting of food, after cardialgia.

I Constipation from occasional retroversion. ^Hypertrophy of

uterus. Perineal abscess ; to close the wound after operation, i Ruptures of perineum. ^' Urinary Organs. Urine suppressed; 1. ear ached fearfully ran matter, splitting headache, eyes pained him from headache. Frequent micturition ; urine colorless as water, is very hot and

burning. Has to urinate often in night. Tearings, at times, in urethra, during a chill. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. a Mechanical excoriation of mucous surface of prepuce after coitus.

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^^ Female Sexual Organs. I Profuse, offensive watery discharge from vagina, Avitli great exhaustion. Pain in uterine region, with vomiting, after taking cold. Cancer of womb with flooding and loss of substance.

■ Inflammation, with lacerated hymen, from coitus or otherwise. I Sense of weight and fullness in pelvis ; menorrhagia. ^Hy- pertrophy of uterus.

\ Complaints during menstruation.

I i Ulcerations of os uteri.

I Induration of uterus.

\ Uterine cancer. ^* Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation, i Ruptures of cer- vix and perineum during childbirth.

I Profuse, offensive, watery discharge from vagina, with great exhaustion, second and third day after instrumental delivery. ^Gangrene of uterus.

lExcoriated and cracked nipples. ^'Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. Voice stronger and deeper as soon as feverheat abates, in evening.

Injuries to the air passages of a suicidal or other nature in the form of cuts or lacerations.

Foreign bodies in air passages. ^® Respiration. Great efforts made to inflate the lower lobes of lungs, which were only successful when sitting up.

During inhalation : pressure in 1. side of chest.

Breathing easier after the heat abates. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Pressure and oppression in 1. side of chest, in evening, when lying in bed.

Drawing pressure in 1. side of chest, when standing, during in- spiration.

Pressive drawing pain in 1. side of chest and on breast-bone, with stitches in r. side of chest.

Feels squeamish in chest. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Pulse irregular and dimin- ishing rapidly.

■ Pulse 160, fell in twelve hours to 120, in twelve more

to 110. ^Burn. '" Outer Chest. Pressive drawing sensation on breast-bone. Ribs ache as if pressed together. Axillary glands sore to touch. ^^ Neck and Back.

Rheumatic drawing in r. side of neck, which is <C on bending neck to r. side, and on raising r. arm ; it extends to shoulder, in morning. Pressive pain beneath r. lower point of shoulder-blade, with a sensation as if every thing was suppurating and bruised, in afternoon. Pressive drawing pain between shoulder-blades. ^^ Upper Limbs. Axillse very hot ; glands sore to touch.

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Cold hands feel hot.

I Compound fracture of 1. upper arm; bone splinters protrud- ing ; healed the stump after amputation.

I Crushed index-finger of r. hand.

I First phalanx of 1. index-finger, both phalanges of ring finger completely torn away, likewise the flesh from tip of middle finger.

I Tip of index-finger cut away.

B Middle finger sawed through near first joint, leaving tip hang- ing by skin.

B Third finger cut to near centre. ^^ Lower Limbs. Tired weary feeling pervading lower limbs.

Pains in knees, while sitting; in outer side, as if bruised.

Burning tearing in upper part of calf, while sitting.

Drawing, cramp-like pain on inner border of sole, while sitting.

B Varicose swellings and ulcers.

Foot crushed, erysipelas and gangrene.

Ulcers from ingrowing toe nail.

i Ulcers on r. leg and foot ragged, deep, with a frequently oc- curring dreadful pain, with profuse suppuration, the discharge of a horrid stench. ^Ulcer on leg.

B Frightful lacerated wounds by mangling muscles of thighs, patella displaced laterally.

a Outer part of r. thigh, skin and muscle torn off by machinery down to bone. ^Lacerated wounds.

BA compound fracture of leg with a wound 9 inches long, ex- posing tibia completely ; Arnica was first employed on ac- count of great bruising and extravasation of blood in leg; thereafter dressed with water; Calendula cured rapidly with- out much suppuration. ^* Limbs in GeneraL Hands and feet cold.

Drawing pressive tension in wrists and ankles during rest.

Wounds about joints ; after surgical operations ; to prevent caries or necrosis. ^^ Rest. Position. Motion. Restless at night, can rest in no position.

Lying down : pressive headache ; pressure and oppression 1. side of chest.

Feels best when walking about, or when lying perfectly still. ,

The rheumatic drawing pains appear only during motion, and are very slight.

B Moving causes pain, even after the wound is dressed ; rheu- matism <C from motion.

"Walking : boring digging pain deep in region of navel. 36 Jiferves. Tifed, weary feeling.

Great irritability, easily frightened.

Traumatic and idiopathic neuroma.

B Neuritis, resulting from lacerated wounds.

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■ General pallor and insensibility. ^Flesh wounds.

■ Exhausted from loss of blood and excessive pain. ^Lacerated

Avounds. ^^ Sleep. Sleepy, dreamy and fretful.

Eeels as if he would fall from a height, when dropping asleep; urine suppressed; she passes less than half her usual quan- tity of urine.

Very restless at night ; he gets rest in no position ; he con- tinually wakes ; is obliged to urinate frequently, and drinks very much, ^^ Time. Night ; drinks much ; very restless ; has to urinate often.

Morning : head heavy after long illness ; stool with chill, pre- ceded by griping and anxiety.

Forenoon : intimation of nausea ; chilliness of hands and feet ; great heat.

Afternoon: heat, creeping chills ; frequent thirst.

5, P.M. : heat, thirst, chill abates.

Evening : heat of head ; pressure and oppression 1. side of chest ; in bed, great heat, smarting, feet burn very much and are inclined to sweat ; towards, a feeling of heat in otherwise cold hands. ^Tever. I Chill, fever and headache from mechanical injuries.

Crawls on back.

Violent chill after traumatism.

Nearly all the symptoms appear with a chill.

Chilly whole morning, and very sensitive to air.

Chilliness in hands and feet, whole forenoon, without thirst, together with drawing, pressive, rheumatic pains through whole body ; ribs ache as if squeezed together and bruised, after sitting a while, in morning.

He feels shivery and has a kind of gooseflesh, while skin seems warm to touch.

Shivering in back, with pressure on last rib on 1. side, with movements in region of stomach and abdomen, as if he would faint.

Sensation of heat in face, of hands and feet, after eating, and an hour afterwards thirst.

Great heat, whole forenoon, with much sweat ; he feels qualm- ish in chest, and shoulders are very hot.

Heat in afternoon, with creeping chills and frequent thirst; drinking, however, causes each time shivering and a shak- ing chill.

The heat continues unabated after 5 p.m., but cold drinks cause shivering.

The heat abates after 5 p.m., without shivering, even in open air, head feels freer, breathing easier, and voice stronger and deeper.

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Towards evening, a feeling of heat in otherwise cold hands and whole body, with creeping chills, without thirst and almost aversion to drinking, while sitting.

Great heat in evening, in bed; he begins to sweat; especially feet burn very much, and are inclined to sweat. ^2 Locality and Direction. Left side: pressure on last rib; ear ached fearfully; chest, pressure; ribs, pressure.

Right : iliac, constant pain ; side of abdomen, dull coarse stitches ; of neck, rheumatic drawing ; shoulder-blade, pres- sive pain beneath ; leg and foot, ragged and deep ulcers. *^ Sensations, As if everything about r. shoulder-blade were sup- purating and bruised ; as if tired and weary ; lower limbs as if bruised ; as if she would fall from a height.

Drawing : cramp-like pain on inner border of sole.

Pressing : headache.

Swollen : sensation in lips.

Crawls : on back.

Heat : and headache in forehead ; in face.

Dryness : and biting in margin of lid. ** Tissues. Stimulates proliferation of white globules, augments quantity of fibrin and its transformation into connective tissue.

Secures healing by first intention.

Suggiilations; bloody and serous infiltrations of cellular tissue in open wounds and ulcers.

Inflammations resulting from cutting or tearing the parts.

Promotes granulations and prevents disfiguring scars.

Promotes favorable cicatrization with the least possible amount of suppuration.

Sloughing and suppuration from mechanical injuries ; prevents or arrests gangrene.

Loss of skin, cell and muscle substance.

Valuable in healing or reproducing bone. Scrofula.

Cutaneous cancers. Toucli. Passive Motion. Injuries. Most violent pains after bandages are put on.

Sore to touch : glands.

After surgical operations, to promote healthy granulations, and to prevent or arrest gangrene.

After removing tumors, to prevent suppuration.

B Profuse, bad-colored, stinking suppuration, hectic fever, both bone and muscle wounded by a ball ; caries.

External wounds and lacerations, with (or without) loss of sub- stance ; articular wounds and clean, surgical cuts.

1 1 In all cases with loss of soft parts, when no union can be effected by means of adhesive plaster.

Lacerated, torn and jagged looking flesh wounds.

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I Skin or flesh has come off in pieces.

Penetrating wounds in articulations with abundant flow of synovia.

Rupture of muscles or tendons.

Dislocations with injury to soft parts.

Chills, fever and headaches from mechanical injuries. ^^ Skin. : Jaundice.

': Soft warts.

Stinging pain in wound during fever heat; surroundings look very red.

A wound is painful, in morning, as if bruised and smarting, with picking in it and threatening to suppurate.

Wound raw and inflamed ; painful, as if beaten ; parts around wound become red, with stinging in wound during febrile heat ; constitutional tendency to erysipelas.

In charring of skin, after separation of slough.

I Old neglected wounds, maggoty and offensive.

Ulcers : weak, indolent, irritable inflamed, sloughing, varicose, or hemorrhagic ; excessive secretion of pus ; painful, as if beaten; surrounding parts are red; stinging during fever; •< at night.

Abscesses : when induration occurs after surgical operations, followed by suppuration ; wound becomes raw and inflamed, is painful in morning as if beaten, with stinging, followed by throbbing, as if it would suppurate.

Hinders or prevents gangrene. ''^Stages of Life, Constitution. iGrirl, set. 22, dreadfully mangled lower limbs by wheels of a car. ^Flesh wounds.

I Girl, get. 22, robust, remarkably healthy, suffering from burn by camphene, maltreated by allopathy for six weeks, until pronounced past recovery.

I A man, get. 42, for five years an ulcer on leg of a mercurio- syphilitic origin. ^^ Relations. Contains a great deal of nitrogen and more phos- phoric acid.

Arniea (pain in lacerated hand). .Compatible: Ar7iic., Arsen., Bryon., Nitr. ac, Phosphor^ Rhus tox., administered internally as indicated ; before Arnic, Hepar ; after Arsen.

Incompatible : Camijhor.

Mepar (pyemia).

I Arnic. ^ Arsen., Bryon., Calc. sulph.. Camphor, Carh. an., Qarh. veg., iHyper., in painful wounds, Ledum, JSfitr. ac, Pliosplwr., Rhus tox., Ruta, II Salic, ac, in pu- trid, gangrenous wounds, Sulph. ac, Sympliyt.

General remarks : Calendula, like Salic ac, is useful in pre- venting excessive suppuration, and in preventing putridity, both keeping from wounds and sores septic germs. Tlie

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