Generalities
It is predominantly a right sided remedy. It acts upon the liver; portal system; right side of abdomen and right lower lung. It is closely allied to Lycopodium; when Lycopodium seems indicated but fails to act Chel should be given. YELLOWNESS and bilious disturbances are its marked features. Constant pain at the inferior angle of the right scapula is its chief indication. Pains shoot backwards or in all directions. Stitching pains due to serous effusions. Heavy, stiff, sore, paralysed, dislocative or broken feeling. Numbness. There is great general lethargy and indisposition to make any effort. Horror of motion. Feels tired on little exertion. Bilious complications; during gestation, lung affections. Jaundice.
Better
Hot food. Eating. Dinner. Milk. Pressure. Hot bath. Bending backward. Lying on abdomen.
Worse
Motion. Cough. Touch. Change of weather. North east wind. 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. Looking up.
Mind
Aversion to mental exertion or conversation. Despondent. Anxiety as if she had committed a crime; fear of going crazy. Feels like crying with ill humour or without any reason. Restless; hence agile.
Head
Vertigo; felt in vertex; worse closing eyes, with bilious vomiting and pain in liver. Headache extends backwards. Occiput feel heavy as lead; icy coldness of occiput from nape of neck. Neuralgia over right eye, right cheek bone and right ear, with excessive lachrymation. Cranium feels too small.
Eyes
Dirty yellow colour of whites. Soreness of eyes worse looking up. Dazzling spot before the eyes. Lachrymation; when looking intently, with pain in eyes, or from tickling in larynx. Mucus in eyes. Could not open eyes, with prosopalgia.
Ears
Sensation in both the ears, as if wind were rushing out, or something crawling out. Loss of hearing during cough.
Nose
Red. Flapping of the alae nasi. Obstruction, with liver complaints. Tip of nose swollen and red. Dryness.
Face
Dark red or sallow, sunken. Yellow esp. forehead, nose and cheeks. Right cheek bone feels as if swollen, with tearing pain. Flushes of heat. Nodular eruptions on.
Mouth
Taste bitter. Tongue; yellow, with imprint of teeth; large, flabby. Offensive breath. Tongue narrow pointed. Salivation with nausea, giddiness. Bitter water collects in mouth.
Throat
Choking; worse breathing, as from hasty swallowing or as if too large a morsel had been swallowed. Left sided goitre.
Stomach
Craves milk, piquant or hot food and drinks. Nausea, better drinking milk. Vomiting better very hot water. Gastric pains, gnawing scraping better EATING. As of a plug in stomach. Aversion to meat; coffee, cheese. Loss of appetite.
Abdomen
Epigastric region tender. LIVER PAINS GOING BACKWARD; or fixed at angle of right scapula. Liver enlarged; tender. Gall-stones. Constriction across abdomen, as by a string. Stools; pasty, pale, bright yellow, clayey, or hard balls. Alternation of diarrhoea and constipation. Ascites, with yellow palms. Crawling and itching in rectum. As of an animal wriggling in epigastrium. Navel drawn in during colic.
Urinary organs
Profuse foaming, yellow urine like beer. Spasmodic pain in right kidney and liver. Urine stains the diaper dark yellow.
Male
Frequent erections, even during day. Pain in glans. Itching creeping on scrotum and glans.
Female
Menses too late and too profuse. Longing for unusual articles of food during pregnancy. Leucorrhoea; white, stains linen yellow. Burning in vagina, recurs at the same hour during day.
Respiratory organs
Short breath and tight chest, clothing seem too tight; better deep breathing. Dyspnoea worse urinating. Pain pressive in chest on deep inspiration. Cough; as from dust; with much rattling; but little expectoration, or it flies from mouth. Deep seated pain or nail, deep in right chest. Bilious pneumonia. Respiratory symptoms with liver symptoms. Pressure in larynx as if air could not pass through. Stitches in chest.
Heart
Violent palpitation, with tightness in chest. Periodic palpitation.
Neck and Back:
Fixed pain under inner and lower angle of the right scapula; which may extend into chest and stomach causing nausea or vomiting. Pain from neck to temple; (right). Pressing pain in vertebrae worse bending backwards and forwards. Occiput heavy with pain in right side of back. As of a string, around the neck. Cervico-brachial neuralgia.
Extremities
Very sore to touch. Cold finger tips. Pain in heels as if pinched by too narrow a shoe. Burning and stiffness in right knee worse moving. Limbs feel paralysed. Heavy lower limbs. Ankles stiff. Oedema around ankles and feet. Paresis of lower limbs, with rigidity of muscles. One foot cold, other hot.
Skin
Yellow. Itching better eating. Painful pimples and pustules. Skin wrinkled.
Sleep
Lethargic. DROWSY and chilly. Dreams of corpses and funerals. Sleepiness, without being able to sleep. Falls asleep while speaking.
Fever
Burning heat spreads from hands over the body. Sweaty, with aversion to uncover and without relief. Sweat; during sleep, after midnight, from slight exertion. Fluctuating temperature. High fever.
Related
Bry; Kali-b; Merc; Opium
Complementary
Lyc, Merc-d.
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.