Chelidonium Majus chel.
Characteristic
Adapted to thin, spare, irritable persons; light complexion, blondes; subject to hepatic, gastric and abdominal complaints (Pod.).
Constant pain under the lower and inner angle of right scapula (Kali c., Mer.—under left, Chenop. g., Sang.).
Ailments brought on or renewed on change of weather (Mer.); $>$ after dinner.
Periodic orbital neuralgia (right side) with excessive lachrymation, tears fairly gush out (Rhus).
Desire for very hot drinks, unless almost boiling stomach will not retain it (Ars., Casc., Ced., Eup. purp.).
Constipation; stool hard; round balls (Opium, Plumb., Sanic.).
Diarrhœa; at night; slimy, grayish, yellowish, watery.
Debility and lassitude after eating, wants to lie down.
Face, forehead, nose, cheeks, remarkably yellow.
Yellow-gray color of the skin; wilted skin; of the palms of hands (Sep.).
Spasmodic cough; small lumps of mucus fly from mouth when coughing (Bad., Kali c.).
Affects right side most; r. eye, r. lung, r. hypochondria and abdomen, r. hip and leg; right foot cold as ice, left natural (Lyc.).
Relations
Chel. antidotes the abuse of Bry., especially in hepatic complaints.
Ars., Lyc. and Sulph. follow well, and may often be re-quired to complete the cure.
Aggravation
Morning (Bry., Nux).
Amelioration
Evenings (rev. of Puls.).
Type
Variable. Periodicity not marked. Remittent, con-tinued, bilious, malarial. Typhoid and hepatic complications.
Time
Hour, not characteristic.
Afternoon and evening paroxysm.
Chill
Without thirst, over whole body, beginning in hands and feet (Gels.), when walking in open air; passes off in the room. Shaking chill in the evening in bed. Shaking chill, with shivering, chattering of the teeth, as if dashed with ice-cold water. (Am. m., Ant. t., Sabad.) Shaking chill, with nausea; worse on hands and feet; with distension of veins of hands and arms (en-largement of veins of arms and legs during heat, Chin. s.). Right leg and foot as far as knee, icy-cold (coldness of right limb as if standing in cold water, Sabad.). Coldness of nose; face; cheeks; occiput; pit of stomach; abdomen; hands and feet; in-testine, after drinking water; in open air; running down the back (Meny., Petr.).
Heat
Burning heat of hands, face, cheeks, eye-lids, head, ears, tip of nose, forehead. Flushes of glowing heat of different single parts of body; on scapula; in hip-joints. Burning cheeks, of a dark red circumscribed color (Sang.—of a mahogany color, Eup.). Heat of the cheeks, with red swollen face (Cact.).
Sweat
During sleep; towards morning; better after waking. Sweats when pain disappears (pains relieved by profuse sweat, Arn., Nat., Eup.).
Tongue
Coated thickly, white or yellow, with red margin; shows imprint of teeth (Mer., Pod.). Taste: bitter; insipid; bitter saliva collects in mouth. Desire for milk, which agrees now (which causes flatulence, Carbo v.). Pain in stomach > by eating (Anac., Petr.).
Pulse
During chill, small and quick; after paroxysm, slow.
Apyrexia
Never clear; liable to run into a remittent or con-tinuous fever. Stitching pains in region of liver, shooting toward the back. Left hypochondrium sensitive to pressure.
Analysis
The shaking, shivering, chill, as if dashed with ice water; < in open air.
Chill; of right side and of single parts.
Heat; burning, of single parts; circumscribed dark red cheeks. Pain in liver or under right scapula.
Sweat; during sleep; when pain disappears.