Calendula Officinalis

Calendula belongs to the same family as those other great Vulneraries Arnica

and Bellis perennis. The special kind of wounds indicating its use are /acerated wounds and

suppurating wounds. It is the homeeopathic antiseptic—it restores the vitality of an injured part,

making it impregnable against the forces of putrefaction. Unlike Arnica it has no irritating

property capable of producing erysipelas. It is therefore suitable to all cases of injury where the

skin is broken. Jahr, who was in Paris during the Coup d'Etat of 1849, treated a number of cases

of gun-shot wounds with comminuted bones, and saved several limbs by means of Calendula. It

prevented suppuration and pyzemia. In some cases of carbuncle it acts with great promptitude,

subduing pain and fever. In obstetric practice it is invaluable. The application of a sponge

saturated with a hot solution of Calendula after delivery gives the greatest comfort to the patient.

Hot Calendula lotions are generally preferable to cold, as they conserve the vitality of the injured

parts. Hot Calendula fomentations, intermittently applied, are far better than poultices as

applications to forming abscesses. If they do not abort the process they favour the maturation and

• ▸ultimate healing.
• ▸C.
• ▸R.
• ▸Crosby (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, xi, 370) gives it internally (in the 3x) as well as

externally. He has also had excellent results from its use as a hot compress (an ounce to the pint)

in pneumonia and other internal inflammations. It is an excellent heemostatic in tooth-extractions.

Calendula has not been largely proved, but very definite fever symptoms have been elicited, and

cases of jaundice have been treated with it successfully. Some of the symptoms are Irritability;

easily frightened; great tendency to start, nervousness hearing very acute. Drinking aggravates;

also damp weather. Cooper gives this modality: < in cloudy weather. (The flowers close when a

dark cloud passes over.) Drinking causes a shaking chill or creeping crawls; even during the

• ▸heat.
• ▸Very sensitive to cold air.
• ▸Nodosities in breast.
• ▸In Germany it is regarded as a "cancer

cure." Almost all the symptoms make their appearance during the chilly stage of the fever; he

feels most comfortable when walking about, or else when lying perfectly still. A correspondent

• ▸of the Hom.
• ▸World, "C.
• ▸W.
• ▸" (1891), mentions that a friend of his who chewed for a few minutes

a leaf of Calendula noticed that it entirely removed for some days a difficulty of passing water

• ▸such as is commonly met with in old men.
• ▸"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 Calendula has an action on the spinal

cord.

Rheumatic drawing pains, only during motion—The wound becomes raw and

inflamed, is painful in the morning as if beaten, with stinging as if it would suppurate; the parts

around the wound become red, with stinging in the wound during the febrile heat—Great

tendency to start, with great nervousness and extreme sensitiveness of hearing.—Drowsiness with

ill-humour and delirium; restless night, constant waking, frequent micturition and drinking, and

uneasiness in every position.—Almost all the symptoms make their appearance during the chilly

stage of the fever, he feels most comfortable when walking or else in a state of perfect rest.

• ▸Extremely nervous; easily frightened; tearing headache; weight on brain.
• ▸Submaxillary glands swollen, painful to touch.
• ▸Pain in right side of neck.
• ▸Lacerated scalp wounds.

Dulness of the head, as after a night's revel—Heaviness of the head in the morning, as

after a long illness.—Pressure and feeling of heaviness in the occiput.—Headache, and feeling of

heat in the forehead after a meal—Flushes of heat on the forehead, in the evening.—Inflammation

of the white of the eyes, with pressure at times in the forehead, at times in the temples, only

when lying down.

Injuries to eyes which tend to suppuration; after operations; blenorrhoea of lachrymal sac.

Deafness; worse in damp surroundings and with eczematous conditions. Hears best on a train, and distant sounds.

Hearing too acute; starts with a fright—(Deafness < from drinking; < from damp

weather.—Cooper.)

Coryza in one nostril; with much green discharge.

The submaxillary glands are painful to the touch, with sensation as if swollen; or

actual swelling, and sensation as if ulcerated in the interior—Drawing and tension in the

submaxillary glands, when moving the head.—Pressure in the cesophagus during deglutition,

from pain in the submaxillary glands.—Bitter-slimy taste in the throat, the food having a natural

taste.

• ▸Hunger immediately after nursing.
• ▸Bulimia.
• ▸Heartburn with horripilations.
• ▸Nausea in chest.
• ▸Vomiting.
• ▸Sinking sensation.
• ▸Epigastric distention.

Diminished appetite at dinner, although he relishes his food.—Hiccough when

smoking.

Boring and digging deep in the umbilical region.—Sticking in the |. side of the

abdomen, during movement, going off during rest.—Stool in the morning, accompanied with

feverish chilliness, preceded by pinching and uneasiness in the abdomen.

Frequent micturition, with emission of pale, clear, hot, and even burning

urine.—Tearing in the urethra during the chilliness.

• ▸Warts at the os externum.
• ▸Menses suppressed, with cough.
• ▸Chronic endocervicitis.
• ▸Uterine hypertrophy, sensation of weight and fullness in pelvis; stretching and dragging in groin; pain on sudden movements.
• ▸Os lower than natural.
• ▸Menorrhagia.

Cough, with green expectoration, hoarseness; with distention of inguinal ring.

Drawing pressure in |. side of chest, when standing, also in sternum, with stitches in

r. side of chest, in evening when lying in bed.

Tearing with pressure between the scapulee.—Pain under the r. scapula as if

ulcerated and bruised, with pressure——Rheumatic drawing in the r. side of neck, < when bending

the neck over to one side and when raising the arm.

• ▸Yellow; goose-flesh.
• ▸Promotes favorable cicatrization, with least amount of suppuration.
• ▸Slough, proud flesh, and raised edges.
• ▸Superficial burns and scalds.
• ▸Erysipelas (use topically).

Coldness, great sensitiveness to open air; shuddering in back, skin feels warm to touch. Heat in evening.

Coldness and great sensitiveness to the open air, the whole morning. —Shuddering in

the back, with pressure in the region of the last true rib of 1. side, and movements in the stomach

and abdomen as if he would faint—Shuddering and goose-flesh, although the skin feels warm to

the touch.—Feverish chilliness in the hands and feet, the whole morning, with rheumatic drawing

and pressure in the whole body, and pain in the ribs as if pressed together and bruised, after

sitting.—Heat in the afternoon, with frequent thirst, chilliness and shiverings intermixed,

particularly after drinking.—Heat in the evening, with coldness of the head and hands,

intermingled with shivering, and accompanied with aversion to drinks —Feeling of heat in the

face, hands, and feet, after a meal, succeeded by thirst.—Great heat, in the evening when in bed,

accompanied with moisture on the feet, which are burning.—Great heat the whole morning, with

copious perspiration, feeling of qualmishness in the chest, and burning in the axille.

• ▸Abscess.
• ▸Balanitis.
• ▸Breast, suppurating; nodosities in.
• ▸Bubo.
• ▸Burns.
• ▸Carbuncle.

• ▸Chilblains.
• ▸Deafness.
• ▸Eyes, inflamed.
• ▸Fever.
• ▸Fistula.
• ▸Glandular swelling.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Labour.

• ▸Nails, pulp of, inflamed.
• ▸Nipples, sore.
• ▸Suppuration.
• ▸Tetanus.
• ▸Ulcers.
• ▸Uterus, inflammation of;

• ▸cancer of; offensive discharge from.
• ▸Varicosis.
• ▸Whitlow.
• ▸Wounds.

Calendula contains much nitrogen and phosphoric acid. Antidoted by: Arn.

• ▸Incompatible: Camph.
• ▸Complementary: Hep.
• ▸Compatible: Arn.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Phos.
• ▸, Rhus.

• ▸Follows well: Ars.
• ▸Is followed well by: Arn.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸Compare: Arn.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸sul.
• ▸, Carb.

• ▸an.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸, Ham.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Hyper.
• ▸, Led.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Rhus, Ruta, Salic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Symph.

Compare: Hamamel; Hyperic; Symph; Arn.

Compare in deafness: Ferr pic; Kal iod; Calc; Mag c; Graph.

Antidote: Chelidon; Rheum.

Complementary: Hepar.

• ▸Locally.
• ▸Aqueous Calendula (Marigoldin) for all wounds, the greatest healing agent.
• ▸Also as an injection in leucorrhoea; internally, tincture, to third potency.
• ▸For burns sores, fissures, and abrasions, etc, use Calendula Cerate.

The axillary glands are painful to the touch.—Pressure and drawing tension in the

hand and in the tarsal joints, during rest Tearing burning in the calf, when sitting —Spasmodic

drawing in the inner border of the foot, when sitting.