Chelidonium Majus



Itching in the anus and rectum (nine-tenth day). Obstinate, tormenting itching in the anus and rectum for more than two weeks. (* I had never suffered from this before. *) Perineum. Crawling in the perineum, also in the glans penis; it then goes to the toes and to the tip of the nose, and afterwards to the perineum. Almost uninterrupted itching in the perineum. Urging. Urging in the rectum (soon). Urging to stool (after 20 drops). Urging to stool, without diarrhoea. Urging to stool, immediately after rising. Urging to stool, with griping in the intestines and constriction in the rectum, every half hour the whole forenoon, without any evacuation, which follows perfectly normal in the evening (4th day).

Urging to stool, followed by three watery stools in quick succession, followed by relief of the colic in the evening (1st day). Constant, painful, ineffectual urging to stool (5th day),.

Stool.– Diarrhoea.

Increased evacuation of bowels. Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, without pain; the rumbling continues. Diarrhoea several times (4th day). Three diarrhoea-like stools every night. Diarrhoea four times a day. Diarrhoea five times in one afternoon.

Slimy diarrhoea. Several thin fluid stools daily, for several days (after second day). Several thin stools in quick succession, of the natural color, at 8 A.M. (3rd day). Several small slenderly-formed stools in the course of the day, preceded and not followed by slight griping (2nd day). Profuse watery whitish stools, with nausea during the night, and two more stools in the morning. Stool the second time after dinner quite unusual. A second dark yellow stool in the evening (2nd day). The second stool soft and of a light color (3rd day). Two stools in quick succession (after one hour). Two stools within two hours (after 24 drops). Two, insufficient, thin stools in the course of the day (fourth day). Two, light-colored, ribbon-shaped stools, without colic, and at unusual hours (3rd day). Two pasty stools (1st day). Two thin pasty stools. Stool softer than usual in the morning; in the afternoon soft stool, with urging, followed by moderate cutting in the anus (after 100 drops). Three thin stools (5th day). Three pasty stools, with mucus, during the day. Three pasty stools. Three thin pasty stools (1st day) Three thin, pasty stools in half an hour, preceded by griping in the intestine (second morning). Three thick, pasty stools during the forenoon (after 15 drops) Three, pasty, light-gray stools, at 10 P.M. Thin, pasty, bright-yellow stools (three times within an hour) (3rd day morning). Three watery stools within an hour after 25 drops. Four, thin, yellow, mucous stools, with some blood at the close, in four hours, from 7 to 11 P.M. (after 15 drops). Four pasty stools, with some pain in the intestine within half an hour, in the afternoon (third day). Thin stool four to six times in succession. A copious, liquid, bright yellow stool, with much mucus, without pain, on rising (second day, 100 drops). Stools darker colored (70 to 100 grains). Stool brown and watery. Stool light red, painful. Stool whitish red. Stool lighter colored than usual (2nd day). Stool lighter colored than usual (6th day).

Stool at first rather hard, afterwards easier to pass and without pain. Stool soft, light-colored (10th day). Soft, greenish stool, together with cutting pain in the rectum (six hours after 150 drops), Pasty, dark-brown stool, at 8 A.M. (8th day). Pasty, bright-yellow stool,; (6th day) Pasty stool, followed by pinching pain in the abdomen, which extended to the back and up to the chest, and disappeared after the passage of offensive flatus. Stool thinner than usual (2nd day). Thin stools (three minutes after 15 drops). Stool thin, pasty, bright-yellow, as in young children (5th day). Thin, watery, dark-yellow stool (2nd day). About noon, semi-liquid stool (2nd day). Watery stool.

Stool mixed with some blood (after two hours). Some blood follows the stool (5th day). Constipation. Diminished evacuation of bowels (in one prover). An insignificant stool, with much itching in the anus (7th day). Hard, very much-delayed stool (2nd day). Hard stool, with great pain (third day). A hard stool, with pressure, in the evening of the third day, the first time since taking the drug. Stool hard, nodular, difficult to pass, with smarting pain in the anus. Stool whitish- red instead of the usual grayish-brown, harder than usual.

Stool very hard and dark brown. Stool very difficult, with pains in the rectum (4th day). Retarded evacuations. Stool delayed and scanty (2nd day). The stool, which was usually regular in the night, occurred the next morning color whiter than usual (second morning). Constipation. Constipation in spite of urging to stool, for two days. Constipation; the stool passed in small hard lumps like sheep- dung (for two days in succession). Omission of the usual stool (5th day). No stool (1st day).; (4th day),; (16th day).

Urinary Organs.

Bladder and Kidneys. Pain in the kidneys, so that she could not lie upon the back; she was also frequently obliged to change from lying upon the side, and experienced the most relief when lying upon the stomach (2nd day). Dull pain, at times pulsative, in the kidneys (after 3 quarters of an hour). Spasmodic pain in the right kidney and in the liver, the whole day; worse from 4 to 9 P.M.

with sweat on the forehead and hands (6th day). Stitch in left kidney, on taking a deep breath (after 5 minutes). Dull pain, with dragging, deep in the bladder (3 quarters of an hour after 20 drops). Dragging pain in the bladder, with spasmodic trembling pains in the inguinal region;after relief of these pain oppression of the chest (2nd day). Pressure on the bladder (5th day). Pressure upon the bladder and frequent urination (2nd day).

Pressure on the bladder. With frequency scanty micturition.

Sticking in the region of the bladder with frequent urging to urinate. Urethra. Discharge of a drop of fluid from the urethra (half an hour after 3 drops). (Gonorrhoea). (* This is the return of a suppressed gonorrhoea, occurring while Chelidonium was being given for the swollen testicle which had resulted. – HUGHES. *). Pain while urinating, afterward pains in the urethra and drawings in the left testicle. (* This symptom induced him to discontinue the proving, because formerly he had suffered from hydrocele in consequence of a blow on the left side, in which he had sensations similar to these, and so feared that the trouble would return; after stopping the proving the symptoms soon disappeared. *). Burning in the urethra.

Burning in the urethra near the glans (after 1 hour). Burning in the urethra, immediately before the passage of urine.

Burning in the urethra on urinating. Burning in the orifice of the urethra, lasting a quarter of an hour (half an hour after 3 drops). Cutting pain in the urethra, on urinating, and continuing after urinating (4th day). Unpleasant cutting in the urethra during and after urinating. Sticking and cutting in the urethra while urinating and on motion of the body. Sticking in the tip of the urethra (after 150 drops). Stitches in the meatus urinaries. Urging to urinate (after 1 hour). Urging to urinate continuing 2 hours (half an hour after 30 drops). Urging to urinate throughout the whole day, with scanty passage (after 2 hours). Urging to urinate twice in half an hour, with cramp like pain in the urethra (in half an hour). Urging to urinate and micturition each time, thrice during three quarters of an hour (after half an hour). Urging and pressing to urinate with groaning and holding the breath, five times during the day (2nd day). Frequent urging to urinate (after 20 minutes) (5th day); (3rd day). Frequent urging to urinate, with often passed off without a discharge (12th day). Frequent urging to urinate with burning on urinating (1st evening).

Frequent urging to urinate, always with urinating (after half an hour). Constant desire to urinate (after 1 hour), Continual urging to urinate, with cutting in the urethra; this urging continues for 2 or 3 hours, even after urinating (2nd hour after 20 drops). Sudden urging to urinate, twice in quick succession (after a quarter of an hour). Sudden, severe urging to urinate (after half an hour). Micturition. Frequent urination all day. Frequent call to micturate with increased secretion of a clear, pale urine. Urinating twice in rapid succession, with great urging (after half an hour). Urinating three times in a quarter of an hour. Passage of urine 5 times within an hour and a half. She was obliged to urinate 6 times in succession with scanty discharge every time (after 2 hours). He is obliged to urinate ten or twelve times during the day and 2 or 3 times during the night, and every time a great deal (after 24 hours). Urine increased (70 to 200 grains). Amount of urine apparently increased (2nd morning) Urine and faeces somewhat increased (5 to 15 drops). An usual amount of pale urine (after 1 hour). Very profuse discharge of yellow foaming urine, as after drinking beer (after 10 minutes). Remarkably profuse discharge of whitish, foaming urine (after a quarter of an hour and 3 hours and a quarter). Urine at one time increased, at another diminished. A more vigorous stream of urine than usual (4th day). Dribbling of urine. No urine from 10 A.M.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.