Carduus Marianus

Despondency; forgetful, apathetic.

Forgets what he has just intended to do.—Disposition to become angry.—Melancholy

with liver affections.—Joyless; apathetic.

• ▸Contractive feeling above eyebrows.
• ▸Dull heavy, stupid, with foul tongue.
• ▸Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward.
• ▸Burning and pressure in eyes.
• ▸Nose-bleed.

Great giddiness, with tendency to fall forward, > by epistaxis —Fulness in head with

dull headache, esp. in forehead or temples, confusion, vertigo.—Pressure in forehead, over eye, in

• ▸occiput.
• ▸—Constriction around skull; over eyebrows.
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸parietal bone.

Burning and pressure in eyeballs and lids.—Pressure as if eyeballs were pressed against

side of orbits.

• ▸Tickling first in r.
• ▸then |.
• ▸nostril with watery discharge from same.
• ▸—Burning in nostrils

(r).—Epistaxis; habitual in psoric young persons.—Sudden profuse epistaxis, relieving vertigo.

Heat in face.—Earthy, yellowish-grey, dirty or florid complexion.

8, 9. Mouth and Throat.—Bitter taste—Tongue white; white centre; red tip and edges; white-

coated on side.—Collection of water in mouth.—Smooth sensation of mucous membrane of palate

as though covered with fat.—Repeated eructations of air with burning in cesophagus.

• ▸Taste bitter.
• ▸Aversion to salt meat.
• ▸Appetite small; tongue furred; nausea; retching; vomiting of green, acid fluid.
• ▸Stitches in left side of stomach, near spleen (Ceanoth).
• ▸Gallstone disease with enlarged liver.

Intense nausea, painful retching and vomiting of some greenish fluid.—Stitches in

scrobiculum.—Contents of stomach and intestines sour.—Pressure in stomach; with eructation of

air; at night on awakening; lasting all day; coming and disappearing during day.—Sensation of

emptiness with headache before dinner, goes off after dinner—Burning as of acidity with

• ▸transient pressure.
• ▸—Stitches in |.
• ▸of stomach (spleen?
• ▸) < on inspiration.

• ▸Pain in region of liver.
• ▸Left lobe very sensitive.
• ▸Fullness and soreness, with moist skin.
• ▸Constipation; stools hard, difficult, knotty; alternates with diarrhoea.
• ▸Stools bright yellow.
• ▸Swelling of gall bladder with painful tenderness.
• ▸Hyperaemia of liver, with jaundice.
• ▸Cirrhosis, with dropsy.

Fulness in hypochondria necessitating deep inspiration.—Liver region sensitive

• ▸to pressure.
• ▸—Pressure, tension, and stitches in liver on lying on I.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Stitches in spleen < on

inspiration and on stooping.—Swelling, sensitiveness, and induration of |. lobe of liver, causing

by compression respiratory embarrassment, and cough with thick expectoration.—Liver disease

affecting lungs and causing heemoptysis.—Drawing pain between umbilicus and pit of stomach,

coming and going, in peritoneum of abdominal wall, from r. to 1., followed by pain and sensation

of heat in spots as large as a hen's egg between umbilicus and inguinal region to |.—Sensation of

motion in intestines on expiration, and extending breadth of a hand around

umbilicus.—Distension; rumbling; cutting.

Haemorrhagic piles, prolapse or rectum, burning pain in anus and rectum, hard and knotting, clayey stools. Profuse diarrhoea due to rectal cancer. 10 drops doses (Wapler).

Meleena.—Stool very hard and knotty; insufficient —Paste-like, clayey

stool.—Burning pain in rectum and anus which interferes with sitting —Itching —Hzmorrhoids

with acidity of stomach and distension of bowels.

Urging to urinate, without necessity of passing water.—Pressure on

bladder, producing dribbling of urine after unavailing urging to stool—Burning at meatus; in

urethra.—Urine turbid, golden yellow, and acid.—Strangury; calculi.

Cloudy; golden-colored.

Catamenia too profuse or suppressed.—Chronic uterine

hemorrhage with portal derangement.

Irritation in posterior part of larynx causing cough. Expectoration:

pure blood; mucus mixed with blood.

Stitching pains in lower right ribs and front; worse, moving, walking, etc. Asthmatic respiration. Pain in chest, going to shoulders, back, loins and abdomen, with urging to urinate.

Drawing pain on margin of |. rib, with pain during breathing.—Cough with stitches in

sides of chest and bloody sputa.—Splenic or hepatic cough.—Pains in chest, going to front part, to

shoulders, back, loins, and abdomen combined with urging to urinate-—Drawing pains through I.

• ▸pectoral and |.
• ▸intercostal muscles below axillze.
• ▸—Stitches in chest; from |.
• ▸nipple to r.

downward.—Pains extend over entire front of chest, motion almost impossible.

Sensitiveness in dorsal and cervical vertebree.—Drawing pains in back;

drawing; tearing; burning in 1. shoulder-blade.

• ▸Violent rheumatic pains in r.
• ▸deltoid; in r.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Drawing pain in muscles

• ▸covering I.
• ▸radius, alternating with pain in muscles of r.
• ▸side.
• ▸-—Cramp-like pain in muscles of

arms; hands; fingers; calves, and feet.

Pain in hip-joints through buttocks, causing difficulty in rising, < from

• ▸stooping.
• ▸—Rheumatism and spasm of extremities.
• ▸—Pain: in |.
• ▸tibia; dorsum of foot; muscles of

sole r. foot; lower part r. heel—Varicose ulcers.

Pain in hip-joint, spreading through buttocks and down thigh; worse from stooping. Difficult rising. Weakness felt in feet, especially after sitting.

Itching on lying down at night. Varicose ulcers (Clematis vitalba). Eruption on lower part of sternum.

Restless sleep with frequent awakening and many dreams.—Nightmare from lying on

back.—Fatigue with yawning. —Uncontrollable yawning.

Chilliness on awakening with strong urging to urinate —Chilliness at night <

uncovering.—Sweat on forehead and back after meals.

• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸Epistaxis.
• ▸Fever.
• ▸Gall-stones.
• ▸Heemoptysis.
• ▸Heemorrhages.

• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Intermittents.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Liver, affections of.
• ▸Metrorrhagia.
• ▸Neuralgia.

• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Pleurisy.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Spleen, affections of.
• ▸Typhlitis.
• ▸Varicose veins.

Characteristics—To Rademacher we are principally indebted for this remedy. It is with him

primarily an hepatic: all its manifestations originating in some disorder of the liver. According to

Burnett the greatest effect of Card. m. is felt on the spleen and liver, especially the splenic end of

• ▸the liver.
• ▸G.
• ▸F.
• ▸Laidlaw (H.
• ▸M.
• ▸, xxxiv.
• ▸686) gives a condensed translation of Rademacher's

remarks about Card. m.: He regards heematemesis as most frequently due to chronic disease of

the spleen; less frequently to disease of the liver. People who have long suffered from pains in

left hypochondrium are apt to vomit blood, after which they are relieved. Rademacher regards

the bleeding as often beneficial, and says it should not be checked too soon. In the treatment of

heematemesis he says it is best to use a remedy that acts on the epigastric region without irritating

the stomach and interfering with the healing of the lesion. Such a remedy he found in a decoction

of the seeds of Card. mar. He used to give Opium before, but this, he says, in some people

"produces an array of symptoms similar to those seen in severe hemorrhage, and might

aggravate the condition." He adds: "It is probable that many small hemorrhages of the stomach

escape notice because there is no vomiting, and that it is in this manner that obscure abdominal

complaints are sometimes suddenly relieved or cured."

The liver enlargement of Carduus m. is in the transverse direction (that of Che/. being more

vertical). Burnett relates the case of a girl of sixteen who had had severe attacks of vomiting for

three months, with pains in abdomen. The vomiting was relieved by remedies symptomatically

related, but the pains were not. An examination showed "liver and spleen both very much

• ▸enlarged so that they seem to fill the abdomen.
• ▸" Card.
• ▸m.
• ▸© gtt.
• ▸v.
• ▸night and morning soon cured

the patient. Dudgeon has given an account of Windelband's and Kunze's experience with the

• ▸remedy.
• ▸Windelband in treating a woman for chronic swelling of the liver with Card.
• ▸m.
• ▸,

incidentally cured at the same time some "colossal" varicose ulcers. This experience led him to

cure a large number of like cases with the same remedy. He also cured gastro-intestinal catarrh;

epistaxis; metrorrhagia; hemorrhoidal flux; dependent on portal congestion. Tenderness of the

liver; bilious fever; symptoms resembling peritonitis and stitch-in-the-side have been cured by it.

Kunze commends the remedy, in addition, in cases of spasm of the stomach, pains contractive,

vomiting occurring at the climax, cold rising from precordium to throat; feeling of spasmodic

constriction; pressive, shooting pain right side of abdomen spreading to back or shoulder. He has

cured with it pains in hepatic and splenic regions accompanied with hemoptysis, or

expectoration of viscid, lumpy mucus, and evening fever. Even phthisis pituitosa has been cured

• ▸by it.
• ▸Local muscular rheumatisms dependent on liver disease.
• ▸E.
• ▸A.
• ▸Cook (formerly of

Richmond) gave Card. m. | to a patient suffering from liver congestion, swollen veins of legs,

piles, and headache, with great benefit to all the symptoms. On the second day the patient

developed these new symptoms, which she had never had before and which alarmed her greatly:

"Great giddiness with inclination to fall forward; and a sudden and profuse epistaxis followed by

• ▸great relief.
• ▸" A striking cure by Card.
• ▸m.
• ▸in "Miner's Disease" is recorded by Proell.
• ▸: An old

miner in the gold mines of Bockstein suffered from the so-called "Bergsucht" (miner's disease).

"His chief symptoms were: earthy complexion, eyes dim, hardness of hearing, mucous coating

on tongue, loss of appetite even for his favourite food and tobacco; great dyspnoea and

palpitation on going up-hill; spleen and stomach distended; much wind eructated, constant

borborygmus, constipation alternating with diarrhoea, but the latter more frequent, evacuations

grey, urine scanty and pale, skin dry as if withered, great weakness, pulse slow and weak.

Especially remarkable was the disposition of this man. Formerly cheerful, he is now joyless and

• ▸apathetic; the most important events he took no notice of, I gave him tinct.
• ▸Card.
• ▸mar.
• ▸, a few

drops four times a day. I was unable to effect any alteration in his food, drink, or regimen. A

month after this he returned looking much better. On asking him how he was, he replied: "You

have made a new man of me." Almost all the former symptoms had disappeared and given place

to the opposite. His complexion was fresh, his eyes sparkled, he was cheerful, wished to live and

work, had good appetite, motions brown, more urine passed, pulse normal. He said he now for

the first time knew what it was to be well, and he remained so for many years." (Zeit., Berl.

• ▸Ver.
• ▸—Amer.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸, December 15, 1895) Proell also recommends it in affections of liver, spleen,

and kidneys caused by abuse of alcoholic beverages and especially beer. He relates two cases:

one in a cook who had symptoms of cirrhosis of the liver and general dropsy which made her

features unrecognisable; and one in a worker in a brewery who developed dropsy. Both were

cured by the tincture. The brewery man, thinking the remedy was intended to be purgative, and

thinking the 4 drops prescribed would not be sufficient, took the whole amount, 2 1/2 drachms,

• ▸at one dose, without markedly bad effects, and was quickly cured.
• ▸Proell adds that Card.
• ▸m.
• ▸is

indicated where there is a relaxed state of the mucous membrane of the stomach as evidenced by

flatulence and diarrhoea, especially when the stools are clay-coloured. Much fatigue is

experienced, < after eating; when riding; on awaking; frequently accompanied by yawning.

Chilliness is prominent, on awaking; at night; < uncovering. Coldness of knees. Head very

sensitive to cold. Sweating of forehead and back after meals. Stitches, drawing pressure are

prominent among the sensations, also radiating pains; constriction, band-sensation and cramps.

Motion < most complaints.

Compare: Card benedictus (strong action on eyes, and sensation of contraction in many parts; stomach symptoms similar); Chelidon; Chionanthes; Merc; Podophyl; Bry; Aloe.

Tincture and lower potencies.

Icy coldness. Chilliness during menses. Chill after eating ; in even*

ing ; then sweat ; during sleep. Fever in the evening and during

the night. Nighti.y fever ; with chilliness ; burning heat at night.

• ▸Fever without chill.
• ▸Dry heat at night.
• ▸Extreme heat.
• ▸Flashes of

• ▸heat.
• ▸Fever without perspiration.
• ▸Septic fevers.
• ▸Fever with shivering, Perspiration in daytime ; morning ; evening ; night ; during

anxiety. Cold ; on coughing ; while eating ; after eating ; on slight

exertion or motion. Profuse sweat during the night. Sweat during

and after sleep ; offensive ; sour at night. Complaints come on if

exposed while sweating.

Anaesthesia of the skin. Biting after scratching. Burning of the

skin after scratching. Coldness of skin. Chapping and cracks in

• ▸winter.
• ▸Discoloration.
• ▸Blueness, liver spots ; red spots : yellow.
• ▸Dryness with burning.
• ▸Eruptions.
• ▸Biting ; blisters ; boils ; burning ; discharges, corrosive, glutinous, yellow fluid ; dry ; eczema.
• ▸Herpetic

eruptions ; scabby ; scaly ; tearing pain ; zoster. Eruptions ; itching ;

like measles ; phagedenic ; pimples ; pustules ; rash after scratching.

Scabby eruptions, moist, worse after scratching. Scabies. Smarting

eruptions. Eruptions worse after scratching. Suppurative emptions ;

tubercles ; urticaria, nodular worse after scratching. Vesicles filled

with yellow fluid. Erysipelas with much swelling and covered with

• ▸vesicles.
• ▸Excoriation ; after scratching.
• ▸Excrescences.
• ▸Formication

all over body. Indurations in skin. Itching-jerking all over body.

Itching at night; in a warm bed. Itching-pricking here and there

all over. Sticking in the skin ; after scratching. Ulcerative pains in

skin. Ulcers ; black ; bleeding ; burning ; cancerous ; deep , discharging ; bloody ; copious ; ichorous ; offensive, yellow pus ; fistulous , indolent ; indurated ; painful ; phagedenic ; fungous ; sensitive , spongy

stinging ; suppurating. Unhealthy skin : small wounds fester.

This is one of the most important liver remedies, if a homoeopathic

author can be excused for the expression. There are many pains,

pressing, dragging, drawing, burning ; worse from motion. The patient is very sensitive to cold, and is subject to attacks of bilious vomiting at regular or irregular intervals. The author has cured many

violent sick headaches ending in vomiting bile, and cases in the habit

of taking calomal, with this remedy (Sang.), Dropsical effusions with

liver diseases. It is useful in haemorrhages and jaundice, when symptoms agree.

Sadness, irritability and weeping. Congestive headaches ; pressing

• ▸pains coming periodically.
• ▸Fulness and heaviness in the head.
• ▸Sensitiveness of the scalp to cold air.
• ▸Pressing outward of the eyeballs.