Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

CHELIDONIUM MAJUS [chel] [Kent’s]Chelidonium is a remedy more suitable for acute diseases, though it cures certain chronicconditions. It is not a very deep acting remedy. It is about like Bryonia in its general planes length anddepth of action. It has been used principally in gastric and intestinal catarrhs, in acute and semi-chronicliver troubles, and in right-sided pneumonia. The skin is likely to be sallow, and gradually increases toa marked jaundice in connection with these complaints. Semi-chronic gastritis, with jaundice. "Gastroduo-denalcatarrh. Congestion and soreness in the liver, with jaundice. Right-sided pneumonia,complicated with liver troubles, or jaundice". This remedy seems to act throughout the system, butalmost always along with it the liver is involved, and it is suitable for what the old people and thedoctors called "biliousness". The patient is generally bilious has nausea and vomiting. Distension of theveins. Yellowish grey color of the skin.Very few mental symptoms have been brought out in its proving, not enough to give us a goodidea of the desires and aversions.We do not get a clear idea of the intellectual faculties. It needs further proving, yet in manyregions it has had superabundance of proving. "Sadness and anxiety". Brooding over some sort oftrouble generally runs through the mental state."Anxiety, allowing no rest", keeping the patient uneasy day and night. Sadness, as if she hadcommitted a crime; as if some dreadful thing was going to happen. So sad that she thinks she must die.Weeping despondency. Distaste for mental exertion and conversation. If you examine those medicinesthat act primarily upon the liver, that slow down the action of the liver, you will find the word"melancholia". With heart troubles, great excitement. With liver troubles, slowing down of the mentalstate, inability of the mind to work, sluggishness of the mind, inability to think, inability to meditate,slow pulse, Sluggishness of the whole economy. The sensorium is very commonly disturbed, and thepatient is dizzy. "things go round in a circle". Dizziness comes, and it does not let up until nausea, andsome times vomiting, follows. "So much turning in the head that he vomits. Confusion of mind. Loss ofconsciousness and fainting". These are also common features with liver troubles.The mind symptoms are present more or less with the following liver symptoms: There arepains of a dull aching character, "soreness". Bruised pains. Tenderness of the liver to touch.Aching pains, that seem to involve the whole right lobe of the liver; creating a sensation offullness. Pressure upwards, with difficulty of breathing. Pressure downwards, sympathetic with thestomach, with the nausea and vomiting. And then more intense pain felt under the right scapula. "Dullaching pains under the right scapula sharp, shooting pains under the right scapula"; these complicatethemselves again with pneumonia, with pleurisy. It cures pneumonia and pleurisy; it cures variousforms of congestion in the liver, when these pains go from before backward, and seem to be feltthrough the back. "Stitching in the region: of the liver, extending through to back. Hard pains feltthrough the back". Some patients will describe these pains as shooting pains; some as tearing pains, andothers as sharp pains, going through the right hypochondrium or through the right lobe of the liver tothe back. "Pains from the region of the liver, shooting "towards the back and shoulders. Spasmodicpain in the region of the liver. Pressing pain in the region of the liver".In congestion or inflammation, fullness and enlargement, semi- chronic cases, or even acute,this medicine proves suitable for such conditions. The right hypochondrium is tense and painful topressure.This remedy has cured gall-stone colic. Practitioners, who know how to direct a remedy, relievegall-stone colic in a few minutes. We have remedies that act on the circular fibers of these little tubes,causing them to relax and allow the stone to pass painlessly. In a perfect state of health, of course, thereare no stones in the bile that is held in the gall-bladder, but this little cystic duct opens its mouth and alittle gall-stone engages in it, and it creates an irritation by scratching along the mucous membrane ofthat little tube. When this pain is a shooting, stabbing, tearing, lancinating pain, extending through tothe back, Chelidonium will cure it. The instant it relieves the patient says: "Why, what a relief; the painhas gone". The remedy has relieved that spasm, the little duct opens up and the stone passes outthrough the ductus communis choledochus. Every remedy that is indicated by the symptoms will curegall-stone colic.A patient lying in bed, with great heat, extreme sensitiveness, cannot have the body touched,screaming with pain, red face and hot head, with gall-stone colic, will be relieved in three minutes byBell., but that is not at all like this remedy.Natrum-sulf. and many other remedies have cured gall-stone colic in a few minutes, when thesymptoms agree.