CHELIDONIUM


Clarke gives the toxic effects of homeopathy drug Chelidonium and its therapeutic uses in non-toxic doses in his book The ABC Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, published in 1901….


      Great Celandine.

CHARACTERISTICS.

      Functional derangement of liver, causing loathing of food, white-coated tongue, eructations and flatulence. Sallow complexion, yellow stool and urine.

TOXIC EFFECTS.

      Burning with increased redness of the face. Loathing of food. Eructations, sense of repletion, pappy taste, white coated tongue. Dark, hard stools. Burning in the urethra with frequent urging to urinate. Drawing and stitching pains in the muscles of the chest, back and leg.

DOSE.

      From the third decimal dilution to three drop doses of the tincture.

THERAPEUTIC USES.

      Functional derangement of the liver causing loathing of food, white-coated tongue, eructations, flatulence, etc.

Slight yellowness of the conjunctiva, sallow complexion, yellow stool and urine.

Diarrhoea. Stools slimy, greyish-yellow. watery or papescent, coated tongue, no appetite. Lumbago or sciatica due to functional derangement of the liver.

Neuralgic pains in the region of the stomach. Nausea, thick, yellow coating on the tongue. Bowels constipated, urine deep yellow.

Catarrhal pneumonia with functional disturbance of the liver.

Diabetes with functional derangement of the liver.

George Hardy Clark
Clark, George H. (George Hardy) 1860-1941 was the author of: Homeopathic Treatment of Asthenopia; Lee and Clark's Cough and expectoration : a repertorial index of their symptoms; The A B C Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; A system for the care and training of children; The Black Plague and Its Control.