Skin.-The skin is yellow or yellowish-grey, it itches, and there are red and painful pimples and pustules on different parts.
THERAPEUTICS.
Chelidonium has been used chiefly for liver complaints, for congestion and soreness of the liver with jaundice, for gastro- duodenal catarrh with bilious vomiting and diarrhoea, for simple catarrhal jaundice, for acute and chronic hepatitis, and for cholecystitis and gall-stone colic, when indicated by the pains running backwards from the right hypochondrium to the right shoulder blade.
Headache.-It is useful in periodical sick headaches brought on by getting over-heated, with relief from vomiting of bile and from lying quietly in a dark room, and with aggravation from motion. It is also efficacious in prosopalgia and in supra- orbital neuralgia on the right side.
Respiratory.-Chelidonium is one of the principal remedies for right-sided pneumonia, especially of the base of the right lung, and when associated with hepatic derangement and the characteristic bruised aching at the inferior angle of the right scapula. It has been found useful in the catarrhal bronchitis of children and in whooping-cough, and for the frequent short, dry cough often present when the stomach and liver are disordered.
It has been employed in intermittent fevers recurring in the afternoon or evening. Chelidonium is pre-eminently a medicine that affects the right side and the hepatic region of the body, and unless the liver is in some way affected it is not likely to be the appropriate medicine.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Dull, continuous pain, at inferior angle of right scapula (kali c., merc.-under the left, chenop., sang.).
(2) Right foot icy cold, left foot natural.
(3) Desire for and relief from warm drinks.
(4) Jaundiced skin.
(5) Symptoms predominantly right-sided.
(6) Weariness, drowsiness.
(7) Hepatic affections.
(8) Inflammation of lower lobe of right lung.
(9) Right supra-orbital and infra-orbital neuralgias.
(10) Blondes. Spra subjects disposed to liver complaints.
AGGRAVATION:
From touch, change of weather, warmth, open air, motion, 4a.m. and 4p.m. Right side.
AMELIORATION:
From eating (stomach pains); rest, lying on face (pains in kidneys an bladder); warm food and drink (liver, stomach and chest symptoms); eructations (stomach); local heat (rheumatic pains).
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,