Calendula Officinalis calen.

A tincture is made from the flowers, buds and leaves of fresh plants of the common Marigold.

Compare Arnica.

Rheumatic drawing pain during motion. ▶ Nervous exhaustion. ▶ Feeling best when walking or when lying quite still.

Useful for open wounds, with great soreness and pain, the parts will not heal, tend to inflame and suppurate. ▶ In phlegmonous erysipelas it seems to be a valuable topical application; it is also useful as a local application in bad ulcers of os uteri, offensive leucorrhœa.

Anxiety during chill, with taciturnity and solicitude. ▶ Fretfulness, with a sleepy, dreamy condition. ▶ Irritability, then despair and anguish. ▶ Dull sensation in head, especially in upper part of occiput. ▶ Confusion of head as after a night's debauch, in morning heaviness of H. as after a long illness. ▶ Pain in forehead after eating, with peat in it; P. in occiput. ▶ Disagreeable sensation in occiput, extending to back of neck. ▶ Itching of scalp.

Inflammation of white of eye, with headache while lying, now in forehead, now in temples. ▶ Dilatation of pupils. ▶ Swelling of lids. ▶ Dryness of margins of lids, with biting as from smoke.

Prickling pain in face, then in forehead, then in face again. ▶ Drawing tensive pain in glands before left ramus of lower jaw on moving head. ▶ Vesicles in left corner of lower lip. ▶ Swollen sensation in lips, spreading to sides of nose, then to eyes and forehead, with burning stinging, speech scarcely recognizable. ▶ Salivation.

Submaxillary glands swollen and painful to touch as if suppurating; painful on touch in afternoon as if swollen, at times causing tensive pain, which especially on swallowing, becomes a pressure in throat. ▶ Pain in front, beneath chin, on motion and pressure, and at union of clavicle with sternum. ▶ Scraping and accumulation of mucus. ▶ Bitter taste of mucus before eating.

Appetite diminished for dinner, though he relishes food when he eats. ▶ Hiccough after smoking. ▶ Threatenings of nausea in forenoon. ▶ Disordered digestion. ▶ Boring-digging deep in umbilical region when walking. ▶ Stitches in middle of right side of abdomen on motion.

Stool in morning preceded by griping and anxiety in abdomen and accompanied by chill. ▶ Soft stool covered with mucus. ▶ Tearings in urethra at times during a chill. ▶ Frequent micturition, urine as white as water and burning. ▶ Emission of semen.

Deep inspiration, with heat in chest and face. ▶ Great efforts to inflate lower lobes of lungs, only successful when sitting up. ▶ Pressure in left side of chest in evening in bed, with oppression. ▶ Drawing pressure in left side of chest when standing while taking drug; drawing P. in left side of C. and on sternum, with stitches in right side of chest. ▶ Pulse irregular and diminishing rapidly.

Rheumatic drawing pain in right side of neck extending to shoulder, agg. bending neck to right side and on raising right arm. ▶ Tearing between scapulæ. ▶ Aching beneath lower tip of right scapula in afternoon, with sensation as if everything were suppurating and bruised; A. in left lumbar region, then in both lumbar regions.

Axillary glands painful to touch. ▶ Drawing pressive tension in wrists and ankles during rest. ▶ Weariness of lower limbs. ▶ Bruised pain in outer side of knees while sitting. ▶ Burning tearing in upper part of calf while sitting. ▶ Drawing pinching on inner border of sole while sitting.

A wound becomes raw and inflames anew. ▶ Sticking in the wound during fever heat, with redness of surrounding parts. ▶ Bruised pain in a wound in morning, with smarting and throbbing as if it would suppurate. ▶ Itching. ▶ Restlessness at night, with continual waking, frequent micturition and much drinking.

Chilliness all the morning, with sensitiveness to air; C. at beginning of almost all symptoms. ▶ Shivering, with gooseflesh, while skin is warm to touch; S. in back, with pressure in left last true ribs and movements in epigastric region and abdomen as if he would faint. ▶ Cold hands and feet; all the forenoon, with drawing, rheumatic pains through whole body, and after sitting for some time, aching in ribs as if squeezed together and bruised. ▶ Heat all the forenoon, with sweat, weakness in chest and heat in axillæ; in afternoon, with creeping chills and thirst, but drinking always causes a shaking chill. ▶ Heat in evening in bed; with sweat, especially burning and sweat of feet. ▶ Heat, but cold drinks cause shivering. ▶ H. abates after 5 P.M. without shivering, even in open air, the head feels freer, breathing is easier, voice stronger and deeper; internal, towards evening while sitting, with external coldness, creeping chills and almost dread of drinking; flushes, in forehead in evening; H. in face after dinner, and in hands and feet, then thirst.