Chelidonium majus

The strongest characteristic calling for this drug is a very severe pain in the inner lower angle of the right shoulder-blade, running into the chest. This indication furnishes a key-note for the cure of an almost endless variety of complaints; also a very specific action on the liver, and portal system.

Mental.--Full of sad thoughts; desponding.

Eyes.--Orbital neuralgia of the right eye, with profuse lachrymation; pupils of the eye are contracted.

Ears.--Sensation as of wind rushing out of.

Chest.--Pneumonia on the right side, where there is a great deal of mucus. Hoarse at five o'clock in the afternoon. Loose cough after whooping cough. Sensation of choking in throat as if a large morsel had been swallowed too hastily; of pressure on the œsophagus hindering deglutition, but not respiration.

Generalities.--Sensation of pinching in the inner parts; of darting in the inner parts; as if the back would break on rising up, after stooping down. Biliary calculi. Jaundice. Pulse is generally hard. Old, putrid, spreading ulcers. Cutting in the bowels immediately after a meal.

Worse.--Worse very early in the morning.

Remedies following:--Acon., Lycop., Nux vom., Sepia, Spigel. Sulphur.

Antidotes:--Chamom., Coffea.