Chelidonium Majus

Chelidonium is a poppy and therefore allied to Opium and Sanguinaria, with

both of which it has many features in common. But its closest analogue is Lycopodium, with

• ▸which it holds a complementary relation.
• ▸I have often cured with Chel.
• ▸when Lyc.
• ▸was apparently

• ▸indicated and failed to act well.
• ▸The juice of Che/.
• ▸causes vesication when applied to the skin.
• ▸An

extract injected locally in cancer cases has gained a reputation in the old school. The juice is

yellow, resembling bile. Probably on the "signature" of the bile-like juice it was recommended as

a remedy in jaundice by Galen and Dioscorides. Given on the broad ground of organ-

homeeopathy, in material or semi-material doses, it has achieved notable results in cases of liver

disease. But it has also fine indications. The chief "keynote" for its employment is a continued,

bruised, aching pain at the inferior angle of the right scapula: Che/. acts on spleen and kidneys as

• ▸well as liver.
• ▸It is also a venous medicine.
• ▸Paralytic symptoms are prominent.
• ▸There is great

debility and drowsiness after eating and on waking. Prefers hot things. Desire to lie down after a

meal. Aversion to move, feels tired on least exertion. There is the Opium sleepiness and

• ▸yawning.
• ▸Yellowness of the skin; ulceration.
• ▸Che/.
• ▸is a predominantly right-side medicine (like

Sang. and Lyc.), and besides the right infra-scapular pain and the action on the liver it has

neuralgia over the right eye and in right malar bone, and also an action on the ceecum and right

ovary; and on the base of the right lung. In pneumonia with bilious symptoms it is one of the

• ▸chief remedies.
• ▸Chel.
• ▸, like Lyc.
• ▸, has fan-like movement of alze nasi in chest affections.
• ▸There

may be either constipation (clay-coloured stools), or diarrhoea with bright yellow stools. There is

nausea (of pregnancy) with desire for food > by drinking milk. Desire for hot drinks, only water

almost boiling will stay on stomach. Chills or creeps accompany the headache or the jaundice.

The dirty yellow complexion produced by Chel., with other signs of cachexia, strongly suggest

cancer, and the action of Sang., its relative, in cancer of the breast is well known. Also Opium, in

addition to its narcotic influence, is believed by Snow to have a retarding effect on cancerous

• ▸growth.
• ▸A somewhat typical Chel.
• ▸case, simulating cancer, is recorded by C.
• ▸M.
• ▸Foss.
• ▸A man,

45, had catarrh of the nose, and, at the same time, of the stomach: had been told he had cancer of

the stomach. Tenderness over stomach with sinking, gone feeling, at times reaching a state of

painful anguish; sickness at stomach, all symptoms > by eating. Chel. 6x cured at once.

"Aversion to cheese" is an indication for Che/. in many gastric conditions. Teste, who proved

• ▸Chel.
• ▸, places it at the head of a group which includes Caps.
• ▸and Viola.
• ▸od.
• ▸He mentions the

analogy between the juice of Chel. and the juice of Garcinia morella, Gamboge. Both are bright

yellow and pass to orange and brown on drying. Some old-school authorities have recommended

the juice of Chel. as a substitute for gamboge as a hydragogue cathartic. Among its ancient

external uses was, as an application in eye affections, to chronic ulcers, and to warts. In Teste's

• ▸proving he emphasised the following symptoms: "1.
• ▸30 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸: dull and heavy, deep-seated pain in

whole right side of chest and right shoulder, without cough, but with embarrassed respirations.

This pain, which is at times accompanied by dull beatings in the chest, does not allow him to

draw a long breath; it is not perceptibly aggravated by the motions of the arm. The pain is

particularly felt in the axilla and under the shoulder-blade; a sort of numbness of the muscles in

the region of the liver, and in the whole right side of the neck, face, and head; apprehension of

threatening pneumonia; great anxiety; constant desire to stir and change one's position (lasts an

hour and decreases gradually)."-"Extremely profuse emission of a whitish and foaming urine."-

"2 p.m.: drowsiness which is so marked, even in the open air, that she is near falling asleep while

• ▸walking; lasts half an hour.
• ▸" According to Rademacher Chel.
• ▸acts on the centre of the liver.
• ▸Chel.

has a strong action on the respiratory sphere. A characteristic cough is caused by a sensation of

• ▸"dust" in the air passages.
• ▸St.
• ▸Clair Smith relates a case.
• ▸A young lady had had for several weeks

a dry, racking, fatiguing cough night and day, < night, no expectoration and no pain. She looked

completely worn out. The cough was excited by a sensation as if throat and larynx were full of

• ▸dust.
• ▸Chel.
• ▸3, a powder every two hours, was given.
• ▸She only took three when the "dust" left the

throat and with it the cough, and never returned. Carleton Smith cured this: "Dry cough through

• ▸day with pain and stitches right side; severe hoarseness 5 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, voice scarcely audible.
• ▸" In

rheumatic affections Che/. has a large field. Edema, heat, tenderness and stiffness are the

leading indications. Here is a case: A baby girl had had rheumatism of both ankles for a week,

when it settled in the right one, which became greatly swollen, very tender, painful and hot.

Constipated for two months previous, whitish stools. Che/. improved in twelve hours, and

entirely cured in a week. In another case of acute rheumatism of feet and ankles, supervening on

a slow, remittent fever, Che/. cured after the failure of Rhus and Bry. The patient was a girl of

six. Both ankles were affected, feet much swollen and extended. The slightest movement or

• ▸touch extorted screams.
• ▸The only relief was constant bathing with hot water.
• ▸W.
• ▸A.
• ▸Burr cured a

case of right sciatic rheumatism, of ten years' history, in a very corpulent woman, et. 55. In her

case there were aggravations coming on in the afternoon and evening of each day, and lasting

into the middle of the night. During the paroxysms the outer ankle and lower leg became

cyanotic, swelling around ankle, constriction above, great sensitiveness to touch and motion.

Very nervous during the spells. Great external sensitiveness; aversion to touch, and < from it.

Pressure > some symptoms and < others. Eating > stomach symptoms: all complaints lessen after

dinner. Change of weather <; warmth <; cold water >. Open air < headache; pain in right eye;

and causes chill; and drowsiness. Motion < most symptoms. Coughing and blowing nose >

• ▸headache.
• ▸Rest >.
• ▸Lying on face > pain in kidneys and bladder.
• ▸Lying on left side > pain in

• ▸stomach.
• ▸Many symptoms are < 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; also 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸and afternoon.

Remarkable tranquillity of mind for two or three days, followed after a while by ill-

humour.—Low-spirited, desponding, with inclination to weep.—Forgetful, absent-

minded.—Restlessness and uneasiness of conscience; felt she had committed the unpardonable

sin.

• ▸Icy coldness of occiput from the nape of neck; feels heavy as lead.
• ▸Heavy, lethargic; drowsiness very marked, with general numbness; vertigo, associated with hepatic disturbance.
• ▸Inclination to fall forward.
• ▸Right-sided headache down behind ears and shoulder-blade.
• ▸Neuralgia over right eye, right cheek-bone and right ear, with excessive lachrymation, preceded by pain in liver.

Confusion.—Whirling vertigo; with shivering; with nausea; with vomiting of bile; on

• ▸awaking; from 6 to 9 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Rush of blood to head and face, throat and upper chest.
• ▸—Heaviness

of head, extending to r. side of head, whence a rheumatic drawing extending into r. side of neck,

wrist, and chest.—Headache in afternoon, disappearing suddenly.—Headache > closing eyes; >

after eating (severe on rising, > after breakfast)—Headache, throbbing in temples; pressing from

within outwards esp. towards forehead, < open air; coughing; blowing nose; stooping; > while

eating.—Waving sensation in brain.—Waving in brain and heaviness in forehead and vertex,

extending to temples, and very unpleasant after drinking white beer.—Pressure in forehead

extending to orbits, which are painful as if sore on moving the eyes.—Pressing pain. r, side of

forehead.—Band sensation across forehead and temples, > closing eyes —Tearing in forehead

• ▸above eyes, extending into the (I.
• ▸) eye, into the lids, and root of nose.
• ▸—Pressive pain in r.
• ▸temple,

r. parietal bone, and at last over r. eye —Beating in temples synchronous with pulse on lying

• ▸down in bed at night.
• ▸—Stitches in vertex, esp.
• ▸when walking fast.
• ▸—Occiput heavy as if it could

not be raised from pillow at night; with drawings in neck from above downward.—Sensation of

coldness in occiput ascending from nape; < moving; > at rest.—Soreness; sensitiveness; itching;

• ▸tingling; crawling on scalp.
• ▸—Hair falls out, esp.
• ▸on occiput.
• ▸—Scald-head.

• ▸Dirty yellow color of whites.
• ▸Sore sensation on looking up.
• ▸Tears fairly gush out.
• ▸Orbital neuralgia of right eye, with profuse lachrymation; pupils contracted, relieved by pressure.

Painful pressure on upper eyelid.—Tearing pain in and above eyes.—Neuralgic pain

• ▸above r.
• ▸—eye.
• ▸—Stitches between eyebrows.
• ▸—Pressive, burning headache between eyebrows

which presses lids together; > after eating, but returning after three-quarters of an hour.—Margins

• ▸of eyelids red.
• ▸—Clonic spasms of lids.
• ▸—Redness of conjunctiva.
• ▸—Whites dirty yellow.
• ▸—Aching

• ▸in eyeballs on moving them.
• ▸—Pupils contracted.
• ▸—Vision dim.
• ▸—Mistiness of sight of r.
• ▸eye,

morning on waking.—A blinding spot seems to be before the eyes, and if he looks at it the eye

waters.

• ▸Pain behind r.
• ▸ear.
• ▸—Tearing from r.
• ▸cheek-bone to ears and around ears extending to

upper part of occiput along lamboidal suture.—Sensation in both ears as if wind were rushing

out.—Loss of hearing during cough.—Roaring as of a distant wind-storm.

Flapping of alae nasi (Lyc).

Tip swollen and red.—Dry coryza with (one-sided) stoppage.—Fluent

coryza.—Discharge of black blood with mucus on waking in morning.—Obstruction with liver

complaints.—Hallucinations of smell (on stooping).

Yellow; worse nose and cheeks. Wilted skin.

Red without heat—Remarkably yellow, esp. forehead, nose, and cheeks.—The usual

• ▸red has a mixture of dark yellow.
• ▸—Tension and drawing in (1.
• ▸) malar bone.
• ▸—Sensation of

• ▸swelling in r.
• ▸cheek-bones.
• ▸—Burrowing-tearing in antrum.
• ▸—Itching in face and on

• ▸forehead.
• ▸—Herpes on face, esp.
• ▸chin.
• ▸—Lips swollen; dry, cracked, crusty, feeling.

Taste: mucous, pappy; bitter; food tasting natural.—Bitter taste when not

eating. —Tongue: nervous, pointed; thickly coated, yellow with red margin;

teeth—indented —Mouth dry.—Salivation: bitter; oozing of blood—Bad odour.—Mucus flies from

mouth when coughing.

• ▸Tearing pains r.
• ▸ear to r.
• ▸teeth, afternoons.
• ▸—Toothache with facial neuralgia; <

warmth; and in bed at night; > cold water; 1. lower molar, jerking, tearing in antrtum.—Gums

bleed.

Sensation as if larynx were pressed on cesophagus impeding deglutition —Sensation

of choking in throat, as if too large a morsel had been swallowed.—Fauces red; swelling of uvula

and tonsils; shooting in tonsils; burning and scraping in throat.

• ▸Tongue yellow, with imprint of teeth; large and flabby (Merc; Hyd).
• ▸Taste bitter, pasty.
• ▸Bad odor from mouth.
• ▸Prefers hot food and drink.
• ▸Nausea, vomiting; better, very hot water.
• ▸Pain through stomach to back and right shoulder-blade.
• ▸Gastralgia.
• ▸Eating relieves temporarily, especially when accompanied with hepatic symptoms.

Appetite lost.—Thirst with dry mouth and throat.—Desire for milk, which agrees;

for sour things—Aversion to cheese; to meat.—Prefers hot drinks, which >.—AIl complaints >

after dinner.

Hiccough.—Frequent belchings.—Eructations tasting like juniper berries —Nausea

with sensation of heat in stomach.—Bilious vomiting.—Gnawing in stomach relieved by

eating.—Sensation of coldness in stomach.—Cutting pain in stomach when yawning; soon after

eating.

• ▸Jaundice due to hepatic and gall-bladder obstruction.
• ▸Gall-colic.
• ▸Distention.
• ▸Fermentation and sluggish bowels.
• ▸Constriction across, as by a string.
• ▸Liver enlarged.
• ▸Gallstones (Berberis).

Colic, navel drawn in.—Stitches in liver and spleen.—Shooting stitching through

• ▸liver to back; crampy pain inner angle of scapula.
• ▸—R.
• ▸(and 1.
• ▸) hypochondrium and scrobiculus

cordis tense and painful on pressure.—Pains across umbilicus as if abdomen constricted by a

string.—Abdominal plethora; distension, rumbling.

Constipation; stools hard, round balls, like sheep's dung, bright yellow, pasty; clay-colored, stools float in water; alternation of diarrhoea and constipation. Burning and itching of anus (Ratanh; Sulph).

Mucous diarrhoea at night—Stools white; bright yellow; like

clay.—Constipation, stool hard, in hard lumps.—Some blood with stool —Periodic straining and

pressing on rectum, as if before a stool without result—Burning; cutting; drawing; crawling and

itching; sticking and itching in rectum and anus (hemorrhoids).

Pressure in bladder with scanty emission.—Spasmodic pain in r. kidney

and liver—Burning, darting and cutting in urethra.—Frequent desire and urging to

• ▸micturate.
• ▸—Urine: profuse, whitish, foaming; red and turbid; dark.
• ▸—(Diabetes.
• ▸)

Profuse, foaming, yellow urine, like beer (Chenop) dark, turbid.

Menses too late and too profuse.

Menses too late; too profuse; lasting too long.—Pain in r.

ovary.—Milk diminished.

Drawing pains in spermatic cord; in testicles.—Eczematous

excoriation on male parts and anus.—Painful swelling r. testicle with tension and drawing in

spermatic cord.

• ▸Very quick and short inspirations; pain on deep inspiration.
• ▸Dyspnoea.
• ▸Short, exhausting cough; sensation of dust not relieved by cough.
• ▸Whooping-cough; spasmodic cough; loose, rattling; expectoration difficult.
• ▸Pain in right side of chest and shoulder, with embarrassed respiration.
• ▸Small lumps of mucus fly from mouth when coughing.
• ▸Hoarse in afternoon.
• ▸Constriction of chest.

Hoarseness.—Spasm of glottis —While coughing pain in larynx and

sacrum.—Pricking; sticking; tickling; constriction in larynx.—Pressure as if air could not pass

• ▸through; as if swollen (r.
• ▸).
• ▸—Pressure, heat or irritation in trachea.
• ▸—Short breath and tight

chest.—Nightly attacks of asthma with sense of constriction in region of diaphragm.—Cough in

paroxysms; throws up lumps of mucus.—Cough after waking and on rising, with sensation of

dust under sternum.—Paroxysms of cough with copious expectoration; with pain behind sternum,

• ▸esp.
• ▸at night.
• ▸—Paroxysms of dry cough 4 p.
• ▸m.

• ▸Stitches beneath r.
• ▸ribs; |.
• ▸side of chest—Deep-seated pain in whole r.
• ▸side of

chest.—Soreness of lower ribs r. side.

Stitches and lancinating pains in cardiac region and heart; in pectoral

muscles.—Periodic palpitation —Violent palpitation with tightness of chest.

• ▸Pain in nape.
• ▸Stiff neck, head drawn to left.
• ▸Fixed pain under inner and lower angle of right scapula.
• ▸Pain at lower angle of left scapula.

Drawing in nape and occiput.—Stiff-neck, head drawn to left.—Stitches

beneath r. scapula (hindering motion of arm).—Fixed pain under inner and lower angle of r.

scapula.—Violent pains at lower angle of 1. scapulaa—When bending forwards or backwards,

tearing, pressing pain in back as if vertebree were being broken asunder.—Drawing from, sacrum

to r. side of scrobiculus.

• ▸Pain in r.
• ▸shoulder; in 1.
• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Inability to use r.
• ▸(also 1.
• ▸) arm and

forearm with freedom, sometimes attended with tearing pain.—Stiffness in wrist.—Stiffness,

stitches in wrists.—Tips of fingers cold.

Shooting in r. hip.—Drawing pains in hips, thighs, legs, and feet, more r.

• ▸side.
• ▸—Weight in lower limbs.
• ▸—Swelling of feet, most round ankle —Toes feel dead.
• ▸—Intolerable

pains in heels, as if they had been pinched by too narrow a shoe.

Pain in arms, shoulders, hands, tips of fingers.

• ▸Icy coldness of tips of fingers; wrists sore, tearing in metacarpal bones.
• ▸Whole flesh sore to touch.
• ▸Rheumatic pain in hips and thighs; intolerable pains in heels, as if pinched by too narrow a shoe; worse, right.
• ▸Feels paralyzed.
• ▸Paresis of the lower limbs with rigidity of muscles.

• ▸Dry heat of skin; itches, yellow.
• ▸Painful red pimples and pustules.
• ▸Old, spreading, offensive ulcers.
• ▸Wilted skin.
• ▸Sallow, cold, clammy.

Yellow, yellowish-grey shrivelled skin.—Itching.—Burning like nettles, preceding

eruption like measles.—Red painful pimples and pustules on various parts.—Red miliary eruption

on neck, chest, and arms.—Eczema.—Old, putrid, spreading ulcers.

• ▸Frequent yawning.
• ▸—Lethargic.
• ▸—Sleepy, wants to lie down but cannot sleep.
• ▸—Sleep

dreamful, unrefreshing.—Dreams of corpses and funerals.

Yawning and shivering before attacks.—Icy coldness of r foot.—Violent shivering fit,

• ▸3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸daily.
• ▸—Rigor followed by heat and sorrowful, anxious mood.
• ▸—Heat of head, dark red

cheeks, pulsation in arteries; full pulse; faintness; difficulty of speech; nausea; short breath; cold

• ▸feet.
• ▸—Burning heat of hands, spreading thence over body.
• ▸—Moist, burning skin.
• ▸—Sweat during

the night, esp. towards morning.—Sweat on least exertion.

• ▸Antrum of Highmore, inflammation of.
• ▸Cancer.
• ▸Chest, affections of.
• ▸Chorea.

• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Gall-stones.
• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Heemoptysis.

• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Lachrymal fistula.
• ▸Laryngismus.
• ▸Liver, affections

• ▸of.
• ▸Nephritis.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Nose-bleed.
• ▸Pleurodynia.
• ▸Pneumonia.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Scald-head.
• ▸Stiff-

• ▸neck, Taste, altered.
• ▸Tumours.
• ▸Warts.
• ▸Whooping-cough.
• ▸Yawning.

• ▸Antidoted by: Acon.
• ▸; acids; wine and coffee; Camph.
• ▸(Teste).
• ▸It is antidote to: Bry.

• ▸Compatible: Ars.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Coral.
• ▸r.
• ▸(whooping-cough); Led.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸(hepatised lung); Ipec.
• ▸(spasm of

• ▸glottis).
• ▸Compare: In pain below angle of scapula, Juglans cin.
• ▸, Chenop.
• ▸(lower than angle and

• ▸nearer spine), Ran.
• ▸b.
• ▸(edge of left; through to chest), Lob.
• ▸cerul.
• ▸(inside edge right scapula),

• ▸Angust.
• ▸(cutting from just beneath right scapula to breast, near nipple), Bry.
• ▸; Bry.
• ▸is a close

analogue in many symptoms—yellow tongue, swelling of liver; Lyc. is complemented by Chel.

• ▸(some differences are: Lyc.
• ▸has sour taste, Chel.
• ▸bitter, Lyc.
• ▸has rumbling in left hypochondrium,

• ▸and fulness after a small quantity of food.
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸and Bell.
• ▸have symptoms beginning and ending

• ▸suddenly; Chel.
• ▸has headache ceasing suddenly).
• ▸Merc.
• ▸(bilious pneumonia.
• ▸Sharp pains through

right lung to back; Merc. has slimy stool and great uneasiness before and after, the stool of Chel.

being free); Kali c. (pneumonia in later stages, copious exudation into lungs, rattling with cough,

• ▸< 2-3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸); Colch.
• ▸(nausea with desire for food); Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸(leucorrhoea staining yellow); Act.
• ▸r.

• ▸(waving sensation in brain); Aco.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Caps.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Gamb.
• ▸, Graph.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Nit.

• ▸ac.
• ▸, Nux, Pho.
• ▸, Pod.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Rhus, Sep.
• ▸, Spi.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Viol.
• ▸o.

• ▸Chelidonin.
• ▸--(Spasm of smooth muscle everywhere, intestinal colic, uterine colic, bronchial spasm, tachycardia, etc).
• ▸Boldo-Boldoa fragrans--(Bladder atony; cholecystitis and biliary calculus.
• ▸Bitter taste, no appetite; constipation, hypochondriasis languor, congestion of liver; burning weight in liver and stomach.
• ▸Painful hepatic diseases.
• ▸Disturbed liver following malaria).
• ▸Elemuy Gauteria--(Stones in kidneys and bladder; grain doses of powdered bark in water or 5 drops of tincture.
• ▸Pellagra).

Sulph often completes its work.

Complementary: Lycop; Bryon.

Antidote: Chamom.

Compare: Nux; Sulph; Bry; Lyc; Opium; Podophyl; Sanguin; Ars.

Tincture and lower attenuations.

Now as to the pneumonia, it is generally of the right side, or rigJitsided spreading to the left. The right-sidedness is marked, and bur

small portions of the left lung are involved. The pleura is generally

involved, and so there are stitching, tearing pains. One may nor practice long before he will find a Chelidonium patient, sitting up in bed

with high fever, bending forward upon his elbows, holding himself perfectly still, for this medicine has asjniich, aggravatjon from motioiws

All of the pains are extrTindy aggravated from motion. This

patient is sitting wit h a pain that tran sfixes_hinxi..JbxLX^J^^

CHEUX)N1UM

cann ot mo ve without the pain shooting through him like a knife. The

"hcxt day you will sec that his skin is" growing Y^how. If you see him

in the beginning Chelidonium will relieve him aifd you will prevent

that pneumonia. It is not uncommon in children, and it is extremely

common in adults.

Do not get confused with Bryonia, Both are violently worse from

motion. Bryonia wants to lie on the painful side, or wants to lie on the

back if the pneumonia is mostly in the posterior part of the right lung.

C helidonium he is worse from touch and motion.

Bell has that extremely painful, tearing, rending of the right lung

with pleurisy, but in Belly one cannot touch that right side, cannot

press It, but must lie on the other side and he cannot move. Cannot

stand a jar of the bed, because of the extreme sensitiveness to motion.

I mention all three in this particular way because they have some

things in common, but the remedies arc different.

Chelidonium has cough with chest symptoms of the right side, liver

affections, and the mental affections that commonly belong to these,

violent aggravation from motion. The pains are ameliorated by heat.

• ▸Pain that extends to the stomach, ameliorated by heat.
• ▸Mental symptoms ameliorated by eating.
• ▸Craves hot milk ; hot fluids.
• ▸Eating

warm food ameliorates the liver, the chest and stomach symptoms.

• ▸“Bilious vomiting.
• ▸Retching : bilious eructations.
• ▸Nausea and retching during an attack of anxiety.
• ▸’’ These arc all commonly pixsent during the complaints described.
• ▸The pains, when they become severe,

• ▸seem to strike the stomach and cause vomiting.
• ▸Ameliorated by something hot.
• ▸“A feeling of anguish in the pit of the stomach.
• ▸Presistent

pain in the stomach ; aggravated by motion and ameliorated by eructations. Constriction and sensitiveness in the pit of the stomach.” These

are all aggravated by touch and ameliorated by eating. “Constant aching pain in the stomach, ameliorated by food. Constrictive, pinching

pain in the stomach better from drawing up the limbs and lyng on the

left side, ameliorated by eating.”

It has many eye symptoms. Stitching pains. “Opacity of the

• ▸cornea.
• ▸” Inflammations.
• ▸Bruised pain in the eyes.
• ▸Right supraorbital neuralgia.
• ▸” In many instances it prefers the right side.

In the face the jaundice is the most marked thing that is expressed ;

and, then, we have the dirty gray complexion. “Pale, dirty-yellow-face.”

The headaches are brought on from heat,, unlike the stomach and the

liver, and the lungs, etc. The head is aggravated from motion, aggravated from heat, aggravated from a warm room, aggravated from

warm applications. There is where it differs from the internal or

general state. There are numerous headaches. Periodical bilious sick

headaches, with vomiting of bile, brought on from exposure to heat,

from being overheated, aggravated from motion, wants to lie perfectly

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quiet in a dark room, and better from vomiting bile. Old-fashioned

bilious sick headaches.

• ▸Bilious diarrhoea.
• ▸^ Along with jaundice, clay-like, pale, hecal, puttylike stool.
• ▸Bileless stool.
• ▸Stool too light colored.
• ▸Siool quite white in

children. Diarrhoea and constipation alternate. Stool brown, white,

watery, green mucus, thin, pasty, bright yellows or gray tinged with

yellow.

Hoarseness. “While coughing, pain in the larynx, and pressure in

the larynx.’'

The difficult breathing comes on with liver symptoms and pneumonia and chest troubles in general. “Difficult respiration, with short

fits of coughing. Short, (jiiick breathing. Anxiety as if he must

choke. Difficult breathing ; tightness over the chest as if breathing

would be hindered.” It has also nightly attacks of humid asthma.

This is brought on from every change of the weather. All its complaints are brought on from changes in the weather. He cannot stand

weather changes, either too cold or too warm. Rheumatic complaints

in the shoulders, hips and limbs, from changes in the weather.

With complaints of the liver, lungs and chest, there arc coughs.

They are spasmodic. The chronic cough is violent, spasmodic, dry,

coming in paroxysms. “Spasmodic cough, without expectoration.'*

After it has existed a while there will he some expectoration. “Repeated attacks of short cough. Sh<yjt cough, with little grayish phelgm.

Rattling, fatiguing cough.”

In the limbs there are rheumatii^ and neuralgic pains. Neuralgia of

the limbs in general, most violent. Limbs feel heavy and stiff. Limbs

flabby. Later the patients runs down somewhat, weak heart, weak circulation ; dropsical conditions of the limbs. Great restlessness.

• ▸“Trembling and twitching of the limbs.
• ▸Weariness.
• ▸Indolence.
• ▸Indisposition to work.
• ▸”

The neuralgias arc more common in the head and face than in the

lower parts of the body, in the limbs and in the extremities.

It has sharp, febrile attacks, such as found in pneumonia with chill ;

and in inflammation of the liver. It has cured intermittent fever, coming in the afternoon and evening.

Itching of the skin. Jaundice. It has cured old putrid ulcers.

• ▸Twitching in arms and legs.
• ▸—Neuralgia in limbs.
• ▸—Rheumatism.
• ▸—Least touch

anywhere is exceedingly painful; sweat without relief——Limbs feel heavy, stiff, and lame; flabby;

trembling.