- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Celandine (Papaveraceae) Persons of light complexion, blondes; thin, spare, irritable; subject to hepatic, gastric and abdominal complaints (Pod.); every age, sex and temperament. Constant pain under the lower and inner angle of right scapula (Kali c., Mer. - under the left, Chenop. g., Sang.). Ailments: brought on or…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Chelidonium majus, Linn. Nat. Order , Papaveraceæ. Common names , Celandine; (Germ.), Schellkraut; (French), la ficaire commune. Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant when in flower. Authorities.”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Celandine A prominent liver remedy, covering many of the direct reflex symptoms of diseased conditions of that organ. The jaundiced skin, and especially the constant pain under inferior angle of right scapula , are certain indications. Paralytic drawing and lameness in single parts. The great general lethargy and…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BREAKING, broken, brittle, etc. BROWNISH, rusty, etc. CHEST, backward in CHEST, internal CHEST, right COLDNESS, Partial CONSTRICTION, tight band, gathered together, squeezing, etc. DIRECTION of sensations, Backward DIRECTION of sensations, Crosswise, across, side to side, etc. DRAWING DUST, feathers, etc., as of…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“majus. Greater Celandine. N. O. Papaveraceæ. Tincture of entire fresh plant, at time of flowering. Antrum of / Highmore, inflammation of / Cancer / Chest, affections of / Chorea / Constipation / Cough / Diarrhœa / Dyspepsia / Gall-stones / Gonorrhœa / Hæmoptysis / Hæmorrhoids / Headache / Influenza / Jaundice /…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Chelidonium: Liver, Lungs, Heart; Neuralgia, Toothache; Eyes, Kidneys, Fistula; Joints, Diaphragm; Skin, Chills and Fever. Compare with Chelidonium Majus, Antim. tart. Mercurius. Kali carb. Bryonia. Lycopodium. I will be brief in my remarks on Chelidonium, as we have not the time to exhaustively treat of the drug. It…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“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…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Celandine) (The expressed juice of the root of Chelidonium majus, mixed with equal parts of alcohol.) From vol iv. 2nd edition, 1825 The ancients imagined that the yellow colour of the juice of this plant was an indication (signature) of its utility in bilious diseases. The moderns from this extended its employment…”
- Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“{Great Celandine?) Description. — Root cylindrical, reddish-brown, with many fibres; stem upright, hairy, branched, one to three feet high. Leaves soft, pinnate, netted, bright green above, glaucous beneath, with large trifid terminal lobes; tip oval, sinnate, or crenate; petioles winged, hairy. Flowers of four…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Celandine. Papaveraceæ. "A perennial plant with a sharp, bitter and burning taste, yielding, when pressed, a yellow, corrosive, milky juice ; it grows in hedges and waste places, among stones and rubbish." Tincture from the fresh root, or of the whole plant. This remedy, famous in antiquity, preserved its repute…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“CHELIDONIUM. Chelidonium majus, Mill. Common Celandine. Nat. Ord., Papaveracea. 1. Provings.- 1 . HAHNEMANN, Mat. Med. Pura, vol. iv oforiginal, vol. i of translation. Contains 28 symptoms from self, 122 from 8 fellow-observers, and 6 from authors. 2. a. Twelve persons took extract, in doses of 2 gr.-ziv in d., and…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Chelidonium is a remedy more suitable for acute diseases, though it cures certain chronic conditions. It is not a very deep acting remedy. It is about like Bryonia in its general plane, length and depth of action. It has been used principally in gastric and intestinal catarrhs, in acute and semi-chronic liver…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Paralytic drawing and lameness in single parts. Disinclination to move, which he does very reluctantly. Sleepiness and desire to lie down, without being able to sleep. Chilliness predominating. In the morning when awakening and after eating, great debility and great lassitude. Icterus. Catamenia too late and too…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Low-spirited and desponding, with inclination to weep. Sensation of coldness in the occiput, ascending from the nape of the neck; worse when moving, better at rest. Stitches in the vertex, particularly when walking fast. Tingling in and on the head. Scald-head. Contraction of the pupils. Painful pressure on the upper…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: celandine. Often called for in affections of the liver, when there is a great deal of pain and soreness of that organ (N.). Cough loose and rattling, difficult, associated with hepatic derangement (D.). Disinclination to move, which he does very reluctantly (Bry., Gels., Op.). Dyspnœa with oppression and…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Fixed pain (dull or sharp) under the lower inner angle of the right shoulder blade. Yellow eyes, face, skin, hands, stool clay colored or yellow as gold; urine yellow. Tongue thickly coated yellow, with red edges. Right-sided remedy; supra-orbital; hypochondriac; lungs; hip; foot cold as ice, etc. The center of action…”
