Calendula

Calendula officinalis, Linn.

Nat. order , Compositæ.

Common name , Marigold; German, Todtenblume.

Preparation , Tincture of the leaves and flowers.

Authorities.

1 , Franz, Archive für Hom. Heilk., 17, 3, 169; 2 , Dr. Price, Am. Hom. Observer, 6, 327, effects of a tablespoonful of the tincture.

MIND

• Disposition, during the chill, anxious, morose, and solicitous, 1.
• Great irritability; he is easily frightened; hearing is very acute (after he had smelled of camphor), 1.
• Fretful, sleepy, dreamy, 1.

HEAD

• Confusion of the head, as after a night's debauch; in the morning, heaviness of the head, as after a long illness (third day), 1.
• Dull sensation, especially in the upper part of the occiput, 1.
• Headache in the forehead, after eating, with sensation of heat in it, 1.
• Dull, pressive sensation in the occiput, 1.

EYE

• Lids very much swollen (after one hour), 2.
• Dryness and biting in the margin of the lids, as from smoke, 1. [10.]
• The white of the eye is inflamed, with pressive headache, now in the forehead, now in the temples, when lying down, not when sitting and standing, 1.
• Pupils dilated (after one hour), 2.

EAR

• Sticking pain in the ears during the fever-heat; the adjacent parts are very red, 1.

FACE

• Sensation of swelling extending from the lips to the eyes and forehead, accompanied by a burning-stinging sensation (after one hour), 2.
• Sensation as if the lips were swollen; from the lips it spread to the sides of the nose; increased rapidly in intensity (immediately), 2.
• Drawing-tensive pain in the glands behind the left ramus of the lower jaw, on moving the head, 1.

MOUTH

• Speech scarcely recognizable (after one hour), 2.

THROAT

• Bitter taste of mucus in the throat, before eating; food, however, tastes natural, 1.
• Pain in front beneath the chin, on motion and pressure; and at the union of the clavicle with the sternum (eighteenth day), 2.
• Rheumatic drawing pain in the right side of the throat, which is increased on bending the neck to the right side, and on raising the right arm; it extends to the shoulder, in the morning (second day), 1. [20.]
• The submaxillary glands are swollen and painful to the touch, as if suppurating; the axillary glands are also painful to touch (for four days), 1.
• The submaxillary glands pain on touch, as if swollen, and at times cause a tensive pain, which, especially on swallowing, becomes a pressure in the throat (afternoon, second day), 1.

STOMACH

• Diminished appetite for dinner, though he relishes the food when he eats, 1.
• Hiccough, after smoking, 1.
• Attacks of nausea, at times, in the forenoon, 1.

ABDOMEN

• A boring-digging pain, deep in the region of the navel, when walking, 1.
• Dull, coarse stitches in the middle of the right side of the abdomen, on moving; they disappear during rest, 1.

STOOL

• A stool in the morning, preceded by griping and anxiety in the abdomen, and accompanied by a chill, 1.

URINARY ORGANS

• Tearings, at times in the urethra, during a chill, 1.
• Frequent micturition; urine white as water, is very hot and burning, 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS. [30.]

• Very deep inspiration, with heat in the chest and face, 1.
• Great efforts were made to inflate the lower lobes of the lungs, which were only successful when sitting up (after one hour), 2.

CHEST

• Pressive-drawing pain in the left side of the chest, and on the breast-bone, with stitches in the right side of the chest (second day), 1.
• Pressure and oppression in the left side of the chest, in the evening, when lying in bed, 1.
• Drawing pressure in the left side of the chest, when standing, during inspiration, 1.

HEART AND PULSE

• Pulse irregular and diminishing rapidly (after one hour), 2.

NECK AND BACK

• Pressive-drawing pain between the shoulder-blades, 1.
• Pressive pain beneath the right lower tip of the shoulder-blade, with a sensation as if everything were suppurating and bruised (afternoon, second day), 1.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Drawing-pressive tension in the wrists and ankles, during rest, 1.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Tired, weary feeling in the lower extremities (after one hour), 2. [40.]
• Pains in the knees, while sitting, in the outer side, as if bruised, 1.
• Burning-tearing pain in the upper part of the calf, while sitting, 1.
• Drawing-pinching pain on the inner border of the sole, while sitting, 1.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Very restless at night, he gets rest in no position; he continually wakes; is obliged to urinate frequently, and drinks very much, 1.
• A wound becomes raw and inflamed anew, 1.
• A wound is painful, in the morning, as if bruised, with smarting and throbbing in it, as if it would suppurate, 1.
• The rheumatic, drawing pains appear only during motion, and are very slight, 1.

SKIN

• Eruption of small vesicles, in the left corner of the lower lip, 1.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Chilly the whole morning, and very sensitive to the air (second day), 1.
• He feels shivery, and has a kind of goose-flesh, while the skin seems to touch, 1. [50.]
• Shivering in the back, with pressure in the last true ribs of the left side, with movements in the epigastric region and abdomen as if he would faint, 1.
• Hands and feet cold (after one hour), 2.
• Chilliness in the hands and feet, the whole forenoon, without thirst, together with drawing pressive, rheumatic pains through the whole body; the ribs ache as if squeezed together and bruised, sometimes after eating (in the morning second day), 1.
• Heat.
• Great heat, the whole forenoon, with much sweat; he feels qualmish in the chest, and the axillæ are very hot, 1.
• Heat in the afternoon, with creeping chills and great thirst; drinking, however, causes every time shivering and a shaking chill, 1.
• Great heat, in the evening, in bed, 1.
• Great heat, in the evening, in bed; he begins to sweat; especially the feet burn very much and sweat, 1.
• The heat abates after 5 P.M., without shivering, even in the open air, the head feels freer, the breathing easier, and the voice stronger and deeper, 1.
• The heat continues unabated after 5 P.M.; only that cold drinks cause shivering, 1.
• Flushes in the forehead, in the evening (after eight hours), 1. [60.]
• Sensation of heat in the face after eating, of the hands and feet, and an hour afterwards, thirst (second day), 1.
• Towards evening, a feeling of heat in the otherwise cold hands and whole body, with creeping chills, without thirst, and almost dread of drinking, while sitting (after nine and a half hours), 1.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Heaviness of head; wound painful; chilly.
• ( Forenoon ), Attacks of nausea; chilliness in hands, etc.; heat, etc.
• ( Afternoon ), Heat.
• ( Toward evening ), While sitting, feeling of heat, etc.
• ( Evening ), When lying in bed, pressure in left chest; in bed, heat; flushes in forehead.
• ( Night ), Restless, etc.
• ( Bending neck to right side ), Pain on side of throat.
• ( During chill ), Nearly all symptoms appear; anxious, etc.; tearings in urethra.
• ( After eating ), Headache in forehead, etc.
• ( When lying down ), White of eye inflamed, etc.
• ( On moving ), Stitches in abdomen; rheumatic pains.
• ( Moving head ), Pain in glands before jaw.
• ( During rest ), Tension in wrists, etc.
• ( While sitting ), Pains in knees; pain in calf; pain on border of sole.
• ( After smoking ), Hiccough.
• ( When standing ), During inspiration, pressure in left side of chest.
• ( When walking ), Pain in region of navel.
• Amelioration.

Feels best when walking about, or when lying perfectly still.

SUPPLEMENT: CALENDULA. Authority.

3 , J. H. Fitch, M.D., copied from MS.; a man, aged twenty-seven years, took 15 minims of a strong alcoholic tincture, at 10.30 A.M. and 4 P.M. (first day); same at 11.45 A.M. (second day); same at 2.15 A.M. (third day).

• Very irritable, touchy. Afterwards fit of despair and deep anguish (second day), 3.
• Nervous exhaustion (third day), 3.
• In a few minutes felt a disagreeable sensation in the occiput, 3.
• Immediately felt pain in the occiput (second day), 3.
• Itching of the scalp (after second dose), 3.
• An unusual amount of saliva in the mouth and fauces (after twenty-five minutes), 3.
• Scraping and mucus in the throat (second day), 3.
• Disorder of the function of the digestion, 3. [70.]
• Stool soft, covered with mucus, at 1 P.M. (third day), 3.
• Emission of semen (third day), 3.
• Slightly disagreeable sensation at the back of the neck, from the occiput (after second dose), 3.
• Pain in the left lumbar region; afterwards in lumbar region, both sides (second day), 3.
• Itching of skin (second day), 3.