Chelidonium Fever Symptoms


Allen gives the therapeutic indications of the remedy Chelidonium in different kinds of fevers like: Continued, Bilious, Intermittent, Malarial, Remittent, Pernicious, Typhoid, Typhus, Septic fever, etc…


Fever

Characteristic – Adapted to thin, spare, irritable persons, light complexion, blondes, subject to hepatic, gastric and abdominal complaints (Podophyllum).

Constant pain under the lower and inner angle of right scapula (Kali carb., Mercurius – under left, Chenop-g., Sanguinaria).

Ailments brought on or renewed on change of weather (Mercurius), ameliorated after dinner.

Periodic orbital neuralgia (right side) with excessive lachrymation, tears fairly gush out (Rhus).

Desire for very hot drinks, unless almost boiling stomach will not retain them (Arsenicum, Casc., Ced., Eup., purp.).

Constipation, stool hard, round balls (Opium, Plumb., Sanicula).

Diarrhea: at night, slimy, grayish, yellowish, watery.

Debility and lassitude after eating, wants to lie down.

Face, forehead, nose, cheeks, remarkably yellow.

Yellow – gray color of the skin, wilted skin, of the palms of hands (Sepia).

Spasmodic cough, small lumps of mucus fly from mouth when coughing (Bad., Kali carb.).

Affects right side most, right eye, right lung, right hypochondria and abdomen, right hip and leg, right foot cold as ice, left natural (Lycopodium).

Relations: Chelidonium antidotes the abuse of Bryonia, especially in hepatic complaints.

Arsenicum, Lycopodium and Sulph. follow well, and may often be required to complete the cure.

Aggravation: Morning (Bryonia, Nux.)

Amelioration: Evenings (rev. of Pulsatilla ).

Type: Variable. Periodicity not marked. Remittent, continued, bilious, malarial. Typhoid and hepatic complications.

Time: Hour, not characteristic. Afternoon and evening paroxysm.

Chill: without thirst, over whole body, beginning in hands and feet (Gelsemium), when walking in open air, passes off in the room. Shaking chill in the evening in bed. Shaking chill, with shivering, chattering of the teeth, as if dashed with ice- cold water (Am.m., Ant.t., Sabad.). Shaking chill, with nausea, worse on hands and feet, with distention of veins of hands and arms (enlargement of veins of arms and legs during heat, Chin-s. ). Right leg and foot as far as knee, icy – cold (coldness of right limb as if standing in cold water, Sabad. ). Coldness of nose, face, cheeks, occiput, pit of stomach, abdomen, hands and feet, intestine, after drinking water, in open air, running down the back (Meny., Petroleum). Heat: Burning heat of hands, face, cheeks, eye – lids, head, ears, tip of nose, forehead. Flushes of glowing heat of different single parts of body, on scapula, in hip-joints. Burning cheeks, of a dark red circumscribed color ( Sanguinaria – of a mahogany color, Eup.). Heat of the cheeks, with red swollen face(Cact.).

Sweat: During sleep, towards morning, better after waking. Sweats when pains disappear(pains relieved by profuse sweat, Arn, Nat, Eup.).

Tongue: Coated thickly, white or yellow, with red margin, shows imprint of teeth (Mercurius, Podophyllum). Taste: bitter, insipid, bitter saliva collects in mouth. Desire for milk, which agrees now (which causes flatulence, Carbo vegetabilis ). Pain in stomach ameliorated by eating (Anacardium, Petroleum).

Pulse: During chill, small and quick, after paroxysm, slow.

Apyrexia: Never clear, liable to run into a remittent or continuous fever. Stitching pains in region of liver, shooting toward the back. Left hypochondrium sensitive to pressure.

Analysis: The shaking, shivering, chill, as if dashed with ice water, aggravated in open air.

Chill, of right side and of single parts.

Heat, burning, of single parts, circumscribed dark red cheeks. Pain in liver or under right scapula.

Sweat, during sleep, when pain disappears.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.