Chelidonium Majus

Constant pain under the lower and inner angle of right scapula ( Kali c. , Mer. – under the left, [Chenop. g.], Sang. ).

Ailments: brought on or renewed by change of weather ( Mer. ); all lessen after dinner.

Tongue coated thickly yellow, with red edges, showing imprint of teeth ( Pod. – large, flabby, with imprint of teeth, Mer. ).

Desire for very hot drinks, unless almost boiling stomach will not retain them ( Ars. , Casc. ).

Periodic orbital neuralgia (right side), with excessive lachrymation; tears fairly gush out ( Rhus ).

Constipation: stool, hard, round balls like sheep’s dung ( Op. , Plumb. ); alternate constipation and diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea: at night; slimy, light-gray; bright-yellowish; brown or white, watery, pasty; involuntary.

Face, forehead, nose, cheeks, remarkably yellow.

Yellow-gray color of the skin; wilted skin; of the palms of hands ( Sep. ).

Hepatic diseases; jaundice, pain in right shoulder.

Pneumonia of right lung, liver complications ( Mer. ).

Spasmodic cough; small lumps of mucus fly from mouth when coughing ([Bad.], Kali c. ).

Affects right side most; right eye, right lung, right hypochondrium and abdomen, right hip and leg; right foot cold as ice, left natural ( Lyc. ).

Old, putrid, spreading ulcers, with a history of liver disease, or of a tubercular diathesis.

Gall-stones, with pain under the right shoulder-blade (terrible attacks of gall-stone colic, [Card. m.]).

Relations. – Chel. antidotes the abuse of Bry. , especially in hepatic complaints.

Compare: Acon. , Bry. , Lyc. , Mer. , Nux , Sang. , Sep. , Sulph.

Ars. , Lyc. , Sulph. follow well, and will often be required to complete the cure.