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Chelidonium Majus

Chelidonium majus
CHEL · 18 entries across 18 books
PreparationTincture of entire fresh plant, at time of flowering. Clarke
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Tincture and lower attenuationsDose · Boericke

Reason for use

For rheumatic troubles about the chest and abdomen Chelidonium must be considered.

It is always associated with hepatic affections.

The pain under the right shoulder blade is seldom wanting.

The patient is extremely sensitive to touch of the affected part ; this is especially true in articular troubles of the right ankle.

Chelidonium antidotes Bryonia.

HEAD AND EYES . — (Chelidonium majus)

AMAUROSIS FROM RHEUMATIC TROUBLES.

EYES RED, BURNING, PROTUBERANT, WITH PROFUSE LACHRYMATION.

SENSATION OF SAND IN EYE.

CHEST AND ABDOMEN . — (Chelidonium majus)

PERIODIC ATTACKS OF TIGHTNESS AND PAIN IN CHEST ALONG THE STERNUM.

PAIN INTERNALLY BEHIND THE STERNUM, < ON INSPIRATION.

CONSTRICTIVE PRESSURE BELOW THE LEFT CLAVICLE EXTENDING TO NECK.

VIOLENT STITCHES IN RIGHT SIDE OF THORAX, LOWER PORTION ; < ON INSPIRATION, MOTION OR COUGH.

VIOLENT PAIN UNDER SEVENTH AND EIGHTH RIBS.

STITCHES IN WHOLE RIGHT SIDE OF CHEST.

DEEP-SEATED PAIN IN RIGHT SIDE OF CHEST.

SORENESS IN RIGHT SIDE OF CHEST.

OPPRESSION OF CHEST.

PRESSIVE PAIN IN REGION OF LIVER.

PAIN ACROSS UMBILICUS AS IF ABDOMEN WERE CONSTRICTED WITH A STRING.

Spasmodic drawing pains in both inguinal regions.

The full Roberts text, by section

Heart

(Chelidonium majus)

Lancinating pains in pectoral muscles.

Lancinating pain in region of heart.

Violent palpitation with tightness of chest.

PULSE FULL AND HARD.

NECK AND BACK . — (Chelidonium majus)

Drawing in nape and occiput.

Left half of neck stiff, head drawn across to left, neck feels as if broken.

NECK FEELS AS IF CONSTRICTED BY A HAND.

Stiffness of cervical muscles.

PAIN IN CERVICAL MUSCLES AND RIGHT CLAVICLE.

Pressive pain in muscles of left side of neck.

HEAVINESS AND TENSION IN MUSCLES OF NAPE AND IN OCCIPUT.

STIFFNESS OF NECK ; OF MUSCLES OF RIGHT SIDE OF NECK.

STITCHES BENEATH RIGHT SCAPULA.

CONSTANT PAIN UNDER INFERIOR ANGLE OF RIGHT SCAPULA EXTENDING INTO CHEST OR STOMACH.

FIXED, PRESSING, OPPRESSIVE PAIN BENEATH INFERIOR ANGLE OF RIGHT SCAPULA.

Severe pains under left scapula.

VIOLENT TEARING PAINS IN BACK AND LIMBS, < from least touch.

TEARING PAINS IN BACK FROM NAPE TO SACRUM.

SEVERE PAIN IN SPINE BETWEEN SHOULDERS.

SENSATION AS IF LOWER LUMBAR VERTEBRAE WOULD SEPARATE ON STOOPING.

ACHING SORENESS IN ALL THE VERTEBRA < BY MOTION AND ON PRESSURE OF SPINOUS PROCESSES.

DRAWING FROM SACRUM TO RIGHT SIDE OF SCROBICULUM.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Chelidonium majus)

VIOLENT PAINS IN RIGHT SHOULDER JOINT COMING FROM SCAPULA.

Tearing pain in shoulder and right arm.

PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER.

Drawing pain from right shoulder to wrist.

Sprained pain in left shoulder with coldness of arm.

PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER EXTENDING INTO DELTOID MUSCLE.

Paralytic pain in left shoulder and arm, often with not much freedom of use.

Cutting pain in arms.

Pain over elbow joint.

Swelling of elbows.

STIFFNESS OF WRISTS.

Stiffness of right wrist.

HANDS HOT.

TEARING IN METACARPAL BONES AND FINGER TIPS, < BY PRESSURE.

FINGER TIPS COLD.

VEINS OF HANDS BECOME SWOLLEN.

RHEUMATIC ATTACK OF ARMS WITH JAUNDICE.

PARALYTIC HEAVINESS OF ARMS.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Chelidonium majus)

Shooting pain in right hip extending to abdomen, LEGS AND FEET, < ON RIGHT SIDE.

Paralytic weakness of limbs.

BURNING AND STIFFNESS OF RIGHT KNEE WITH PAIN.

Violent pain in knee and popliteal space.

HARD PRESSIVE PAIN JUST BELOW THE PATELLA.

Trembling of knees.

SENSATION AS IF WEIGHTS WERE HUNG UPON RIGHT LEG.

LEGS ARE SWOLLEN AND HEAVY.

ROSE COLOURED ELASTIC SWELLING OF ANKLE JOINTS.

STIFFNESS OP ANKLES.

FOOT OEDEMATOUS, MOSTLY ABOUT ANKLE, WHICH IS HARDEST ON INNER SIDE.

Pain in heel as if pinched by small shoe.

Cramps in soles of feet < by putting foot down.

JOINTS . — (Chelidonium majus)

ROSE-RED ELASTIC SWELLING WITH (EDEMA.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL LIMBS FEEL HEAVY, STIFF AND LAME.

DRAWING AND PARALYTIC PAINS IN LIMBS.

OEDEMA OF LIMBS FROM VENOUS CONGESTION.

CUTTING PAINS IN ARMS AND CALVES.

Restlessness of limbs.

CONCOMITANTS . — (Chelidonium majus)

ANXIOUS.

INDIFFERENT.

INTELLECT DULL AND IMPAIRED.

Vertigo

WHITES OF EYES YELLOW.

FACE YELLOW, ESPECIALLY FOREHEAD, NOSE AND CHEEKS.

BITTER TASTE WHEN EATING OR DRINKING.

TONGUE THICKLY COATED YELLOW.

URINE DARK YELLOW, MILKY, TURBID, PROFUSE.

FULL HEAVY FEELING IN ABDOMEN.

PAIN UNDER RIGHT SHOULDER BLADE ALMOST CONSTANT.

AGGRAVATIONS .— (Chelidonium majus)

MORNINGS.

AFTERNOON.

AFTER MIDNIGHT.

AFTER EATING.

Complete text of the Chelidonium Majus entry in Roberts - The Rheumatic Remedies; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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3 Clarke

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7 Hering

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10 Lippe

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12 Hahnemann

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14 T. F. Allen

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15 Tyler

Chelidonium Majus · Margaret Lucy Tyler · 18,132 chars

16 Guernsey

CHELIDONIUM MAJUS · Henry Newell Guernsey · 1,244 chars

17 Cowperthwaite

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18 Dewey

Chelidonium Majus · Willis Alonzo Dewey · 2,304 chars

21 Hale

Chelidonium Majus · Edwin Moses Hale · 34,853 chars

22 Roberts · shown above

Chelidonium majus · Herbert Alfred Roberts · 4,445 chars

23 T. F. Allen

CHELIDONIUM · Timothy Field Allen · 7,918 chars

33 Gladstone Clarke

Chelidonium majus · A. Gladstone Clarke · 3,737 chars

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Research (10)

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  1. Milky Sap of Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus L.) and Anti-Viral PropertiesNawrot J, Wilk-Jędrusik M, Nawrot S et al. · International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020 · Case Reports · doi
  2. Antiplasmodial potential of homeopathic drugs Chelidonium and nosode against Plasmodium berghei infectionBagai U, Walter NS · Journal of complementary & integrative medicine · 2014 · doi
  3. Antimalarial potential of China 30 and Chelidonium 30 in combination therapy against lethal rodent malaria parasite: Plasmodium bergheiRajan A, Bagai U · Journal of complementary & integrative medicine · 2013 · doi
  4. Successful Treatment of Chronic Viral Hepatitis With High-dilution MedicineSarter B, Banerji P, Banerji P · Global advances in health and medicine · 2012 · Case Reports · doi
  5. Chelidonium majus 30C and 200C in induced hepato-toxicity in ratsBanerjee A, Pathak S, Biswas SJ et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2010 · doi
  6. Efficacy of the potentized homeopathic drug, Carcinosin 200, fed alone and in combination with another drug, Chelidonium 200, in amelioration of p-dimethylaminoazobenzene-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in miceBiswas SJ, Pathak S, Bhattacharjee N et al. · Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2005 · doi
  7. Evaluation of protective potentials of a potentized homeopathic drug, Chelidonium majus, during azo dye induced hepatocarcinogenesis in miceBiswas SJ, Khuda-Bukhsh AR · Indian journal of experimental biology · 2004
  8. Antioxidative, antiproliferative and biochemical effects in HepG2 cells of a homeopathic remedy and its constituent plant tinctures tested separately or in combinationGebhardt R · Arzneimittel-Forschung · 2003 · doi
  9. Effect of a homeopathic drug, Chelidonium, in amelioration of p-DAB induced hepatocarcinogenesis in miceBiswas SJ, Khuda-Bukhsh AR · BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2002 · doi
  10. [Celandine (Chelidonium majus)]EICK H · Hippokrates · 1951

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