Chelidonium majus
van H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
For rheumatic troubles about the chest and abdomen Chelidonium must be considered.
It is always associated with hepatic affections.
The pain under the right shoulder blade is seldom wanting.
The patient is extremely sensitive to touch of the affected part; this is especially true in articular troubles of the right ankle.
Chelidonium antidotes Bryonia.
HEAD AND EYES
AMAUROSIS FROM RHEUMATIC TROUBLES.
EYES RED, BURNING, PROTUBERANT, WITH PROFUSE LACHRYMATION.
SENSATION OF SAND IN EYE.
CHEST AND ABDOMEN
PERIODIC ATTACKS OF TIGHTNESS AND PAIN IN CHEST ALONG THE STERNUM.
PAIN INTERNALLY BEHIND THE STERNUM, < ON INSPIRATION.
CONSTRICTIVE PRESSURE BELOW THE LEFT CLAVICLE EXTENDING TO NECK.
VIOLENT STITCHES IN RIGHT SIDE OF THORAX, LOWER PORTION; < ON INSPIRATION, MOTION OR COUGH.
VIOLENT PAIN UNDER SEVENTH AND EIGHTH RIBS.
STITCHES IN WHOLE RIGHT SIDE OF CHEST.
DEEP-SEATED PAIN IN RIGHT SIDE OF CHEST.
SORENESS IN RIGHT SIDE OF CHEST.
OPPRESSION OF CHEST.
PRESSIVE PAIN IN REGION OF LIVER.
PAIN ACROSS UMBILICUS AS IF ABDOMEN WERE CONSTRICTED WITH A STRING.
Spasmodic drawing pains in both inguinal regions.
HEART
Lancinating pains in pectoral muscles.
Lancinating pain in region of heart.
Violent palpitation with tightness of chest.
PULSE FULL AND HARD.
NECK AND BACK
Drawing in nape and occiput.
Left half of neck stiff, head drawn across to left, neck feels as if broken.
NECK FEELS AS IF CONSTRICTED BY A HAND.
Stiffness of cervical muscles.
PAIN IN CERVICAL MUSCLES AND RIGHT CLAVICLE.
Pressive pain in muscles of left side of neck.
HEAVINESS AND TENSION IN MUSCLES OF NAPE AND IN OCCIPUT.
STIFFNESS OF NECK; OF MUSCLES OF RIGHT SIDE OF NECK.
STITCHES BENEATH RIGHT SCAPULA.
CONSTANT PAIN UNDER INFERIOR ANGLE OF RIGHT SCAPULA EXTENDING INTO CHEST OR STOMACH.
FIXED, PRESSING, OPPRESSIVE PAIN BENEATH INFERIOR ANGLE OF RIGHT SCAPULA.
Severe pains under left scapula.
VIOLENT TEARING PAINS IN BACK AND LIMBS, < from least touch.
TEARING PAINS IN BACK FROM NAPE TO SACRUM.
SEVERE PAIN IN SPINE BETWEEN SHOULDERS.
SENSATION AS IF LOWER LUMBAR VERTEBRÆ WOULD SEPARATE ON STOOPING.
ACHING SORENESS IN ALL THE VERTEBRÆ < BY MOTION AND ON PRESSURE OF SPINOUS PROCESSES.
DRAWING FROM SACRUM TO RIGHT SIDE OF SCROBICULUM.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
VIOLENT PAINS IN RIGHT SHOULDER JOINT COMING FROM SCAPULA.
Tearing pain in shoulder and right arm.
PAIN IN RIGHT SHOULDER.
Drawing pain from right shoulder to wrist.
Sprained pain in left shoulder with coldness of arm.
PAIN IN LEFT SHOULDER EXTENDING INTO DELTOID MUSCLE.
Paralytic pain in left shoulder and arm, often with not much freedom of use.
Cutting pain in arms.
Pain over elbow joint.
Swelling of elbows.
STIFFNESS OF WRISTS.
Stiffness of right wrist.
HANDS HOT.
TEARING IN METACARPAL BONES AND FINGER TIPS, < BY PRESSURE.
FINGER TIPS COLD.
VEINS OF HANDS BECOME SWOLLEN.
RHEUMATIC ATTACK OF ARMS WITH JAUNDICE.
PARALYTIC HEAVINESS OF ARMS.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
Shooting pain in right hip extending to abdomen, LEGS AND FEET, < ON RIGHT SIDE.
Paralytic weakness of limbs.
BURNING AND STIFFNESS OF RIGHT KNEE WITH PAIN.
Violent pain in knee and popliteal space.
HARD PRESSIVE PAIN JUST BELOW THE PATELLA.
Trembling of knees.
SENSATION AS IF WEIGHTS WERE HUNG UPON RIGHT LEG.
LEGS ARE SWOLLEN AND HEAVY.
ROSE COLOURED ELASTIC SWELLING OF ANKLE JOINTS.
STIFFNESS OF ANKLES.
FOOT ŒDEMATOUS, MOSTLY ABOUT ANKLE, WHICH IS HARDEST ON INNER SIDE.
Pain in heel as if pinched by small shoe.
Cramps in soles of feet < by putting foot down.
JOINTS
ROSE-RED ELASTIC SWELLING WITH ŒDEMA.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
LIMBS FEEL HEAVY, STIFF AND LAME.
DRAWING AND PARALYTIC PAINS IN LIMBS.
ŒDEMA OF LIMBS FROM VENOUS CONGESTION.
CUTTING PAINS IN ARMS AND CALVES.
Restlessness of limbs.
CONCOMITANTS
ANXIOUS.
INDIFFERENT.
INTELLECT DULL AND IMPAIRED.
VERTIGO.
WHITES OF EYES YELLOW.
FACE YELLOW, ESPECIALLY FOREHEAD, NOSE AND CHEEKS.
BITTER TASTE WHEN EATING OR DRINKING.
TONGUE THICKLY COATED YELLOW.
URINE DARK YELLOW, MILKY, TURBID, PROFUSE.
FULL HEAVY FEELING IN ABDOMEN.
PAIN UNDER RIGHT SHOULDER BLADE ALMOST CONSTANT.
AGGRAVATIONS
MORNINGS.
AFTERNOON.
AFTER MIDNIGHT.
AFTER EATING.