Dear All,
A colleague and myself are thinking of conducting (or at least promoting) a
proving of Caltha palustris.
This remedy has an affinity to cancer of the uterus and cervix and could
become a very needy remedy.
Does anyone have any interesting information or knowledge about this plant
remedy, if so I would certainly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
Joy Lucas
caltha palustris
Re: caltha palustris
Joy Lucas wrote:
Dear Joy,
Perhaps there is nothing new here under the sun, but hope this is useful--everything could find in Referenceworks and Complete Repertory. Maybe Synthesis has a bit more.
========
TF Allen
Nat hist
Caltha palustris, Linn.
Natural order: Ranunculaceae.
Common names: Marsh Marigold, Cowslip (American).
Preparation: Tincture of the whole plant when in flower.
General
Trembling in whole body.
Very great restlessness; the children roll on the ground in their agony.
Mind
Anxiety and restlessness.
Head
Vertigo (second day).
Vertigo and roaring in ears (after half an hour).
Headache; dull drawing, from occiput over to forehead, with vertigo (after half an hour).
Eyes
Eyes dim.
Lachrymation.
Pupils contracted.
Face
Face pale, yellowish.
Prodigious swelling of the face.
Face swollen, especially around eyes.
Swelling of face, white, soft, and puffy; extended some over whole body (second day).
The swelling of the face does not subside until the eight day.
Mouth
The tongue is covered with a very thick, dirty-white coating.
Peculiar disagreeable impression on back of tongue (third day).
Stomach
Very great thirst (second day).
Nausea (after half an hour).
Vomiting, very painful (after half an hour).
Griping pains in epigastric and umbilical regions (after half an hour).
Abdomen
Abdomen distended.
Stool
Diarrhoea (after half an hour).
Copious alvine evacuations, with emissions of a good deal of flatulence (second day).
Urinary
Painful burning in urethra.
Burning pain when urinating.
Dysuria (after half an hour).
Urine scanty and very red.
Extremity
Heaviness and numbness of the limbs (seventh day).
Pain of stiffness and tension in the joints.
Lower limbs
Tottering gait.
Skin
Red spots on feet and legs.
The inner surface of the thighs in covered with dry pustules (papulae?), which cause itching and a painful tension, when walking.
This pain extends into the whole thigh.
The pustules remain three weeks, then desquamate and disappear.
Large bullae of pemphigus, in different parts of the body, especially on the limbs, back, and face, surrounded by a red ring, and itching a great deal.
These bullae very in size; but the largest are not bigger than an almond, and filled with a serous liquid.
On the third day, these bullae are transformed into crusts, and on the seventh day of the disease, and fourth of the eruption, they begin to fall off (third day).
Heart/pulse
Small, quick, and contracted pulse (second day).
Pulse small, hard, rapid, sometimes intermitting.
==========
Millspaugh
Natural Order: - RANUNCULACEAE.
GENUS. - CALTHA, (KAHA0O., kalathos, a chalice, the golden calyx resembling that utensil.) LINN.
SEX SYST. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.
CALTHA.
MARSH MARIGOLD.
SYN. - CALTHA PALUSTRIS, (Care should be taken not to confound this plant with Calla palustris, Linn., on account of the similarity in the names; it bears no resemblance whatever to Calla; the habitats are the same.) LINN.; CALTHA ARTICA, R. BR.
COMMON NAMES: - MARSH MARIGOLD.; (I have known American physicians who claimed that they made their tincture of Calendula from flowers gathered in their own neighborhoods (Caltha; this error arose from the common name of calendula being marigold. Calendula officinalis, Linn., belongs to the Compositae, and does not grow wild in this country. The corn - marigold belongs to the genus Chrysanthemum (Compositae); the fig - marigold to Mesembryanthemum (Mesembryanthemum and the French and African marigolds to Tagetes (Compositae), and the bur - marigold to Bidens (Compositae).
COWSLIPS, (Cowslips are properly species of the primrose family (Primulaceae). COW'S LIPS, MEADOW - BOUTS, WATERBOUTS, COLT'S FOOT, (Colt's foot is only applicable to Tussilage Farfara, Linn. (Compositae).) MARE - BLEBS OR BLOBS, (Mare, marsh; blebs, bladder, more properly blisters.) AMERICAN COWSLIPS, (The true American cowslip is Dodecatheon Meadids Linn. Primulaceae) PALSY - WORT, WATER DRAGON; (GER.) SUMPF RINGELBLUME.
A TINCTURE OF THE WHOLE FLOWERING PLANT CALTHA PALUSTRIS, LINN.
Description. This glabrous, perennial herb, grows to a height of from 6 to 12 inches. Root a bundle of coarse and closely fasciculated fibers. Stem erect, somewhat quadrilateral, furrowed, hollow, thick, and juicy, branched above. Leaves alternate, large, orbicular, cordate, or reniform, finely crenate or entire; petioles of the radical leaves long, those of the cauline about equal in length to the width of the leaf; stipules quite large, withering after the expansion of the leaf, which they cover in the bud. Inflorescence corymbose; flowers large and regular. Sepals 5, 6,
petaloid, broadly ovate, imbricate in aestivation. Petals wanting. Stamens numerous; filaments about the length of the anthers; anthers large, innate, and extrorse, Pistils 5 - 10; styles nearly or quite absent; stigmas forming blunt, recurved, mucronations to the ovaries. Fruit a spreading whorl; follicles latterly compressed; seeds numerous, oblong, purplish, furnished with a prominent raphe, and arranged in a double series. Read description of the Order under Pulsatilla Nuttalliana, I.
History and Habitat. The marsh - marigold is indigenous to the northern portions of Europe, Asia, and America; growing on low, wet meadow, bogs, and the banks of spring - fed rivulets; flowering in the United States from April to May.
The plant is extensively gathered in early spring, and cooked for "greens, " making one of our most excellent pot - herbs; the pickled flower - buds are mentioned as a fine substitute for capers. The fresh plant is very acrid, so much so that cattle will not eat of it. Rafinesque asserts that cattle browsing upon it die in consequence of an inflammation of the stomach.
The medical history of this herb is very sparse, and of no consequence; it has been used in cough syrups, which would, without doubt, have been fully as efficacious without it.
PART USED AND PERSPIRATION. The fresh herb, gathered when flowering, is chopped and pounded to a pulp, enclosed in a piece of new linen and pressed. The expressed juice is then, by brisk succussion, mingled with an equal part by weight of alcohol. This mixture is allowed to stand eight days in a dark, cool place.
The tincture, separated from the above mass by filtration, has a clear, orange brown color by transmitted light, a sweet then somewhat acrid taste, and a neutral reaction.
CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS. The acridity so noticeable in the fresh herb entirely disappears on the application of heat; this property is considered by Lloyd to resemble, or be identical with, acrid oil of ranunculus, (See under Ranunculus sceleratus, 3.) though his attempt to extract this oil and anemonin, from a distillate of the fresh plant, was unsuccessful.
Tannin is present in appreciable quantity, the tincture responding quickly to the tests with acetate of lead and chloride of iron.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION. We have a scanty proving of this drug detailed in the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica; insufficient, however, to afford an insight to its real action.
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 7.
1. End of branch, from Binghamton, N. Y., May 11th, 1884.
2. Section of flower.
3. Stamen (enlarged).
4. Achenium (enlarged).
5. Section of ovary (enlarged).
6. Section of stem.
=============
Murphy
PHARMACY - Calth. Caltha palustris. Caltha. Cowslip. Marsh Marigold. N. O. Ranunculacee. Tincture of fresh shoots and flowers. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies. Planets: Mars, Moon.
HISTORY - This is an unproved remedy, but it has irritant properties like the other Ranunculacee.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Hansen gives as indications: "Pemphigus, bullae are surrounded by a ring, much itching. On the third day they are transformed into crusts." Cooper has used it with excellent effect in a case of uterine cancer, giving single doses of the tincture at long intervals.
CLINICAL - Cancer. Pemphigus.
SOURCES - Boericke. Clarke. Hansen.
=================
H pharmacopeia US
Botanical Name: Caltha palustris Linn.
Family: Ranunculaceae
Common names
English: Marsh marigold; French: Populage; German: Kuhblume.
Description: A perennial herb. Stem hollow, 20 to 60 cm long, branched above, basal leaves long petioled, the upper one progressively shorter petioled and uppermost nearly or quite sessile. Flowers bright yellow, on short or elongagted peduncles. Sepals elliptic to obovate. Anthers liner - oblong or lace - oblong, about 2 mm long Folliclert in a branch of 12, 10 to 15 mm long, abruptly or gradually narrowed into divergent style.
Part used: Whole plant.
Identification: Take 10 g, extract with 100 ml of 50 per cent alcohol, evaporate the extract on water - bath and extract the residue with chloroform. Carry out TLC on silica gel 'G' using chloroform; methanol (9: 1 v/v) as mobile phase. Under U.V. light four spots appear at Rf. 0.11 (green), 0.36 (blue), 0.50 (yellow) and 0.88 (blue) with fluorescence.
Distribution: India in Himalayas at high altitudes; North America, Canada and temperate Asia.
History and authority: Introduces by Roth 1925, Allen: Encyclop. of Pure Mat. Med. Vol. II, 421.
*Preparation*
(a) Mother Tincture Q,
Drug strength 1/10
Caltha Palustris, moist magma containing solid 100 g, plant moisture 400 ml. 500 g
Strong Alcohol 635 ml
To make one thousand millilitres of the Mother Tincture.
(b) Potencies: 2x to contain one part of Mother Tincture, three parts of Purified Water, six parts of Strong Alcohol; 3x higher with Dispensing Alcohol.
==========
Wichman
Caltha palustris
Plantae; Spermatophyta, Angiospermae - Flowering Plants; Dicotyledonae; Polycarpicae (Magnoliidae); Ranunculales; Ranunculaceae - Buttercup Family
==========
Bradford
CALTHA PALUSTRIS.
C. arctica. Cowslip. Marsh marigold. Tinct. whole plant.
Allen: Cyclopoedia, V. 2.
Frank's Magazin.
Roth: Mat. Med., V. 1.
- - - -: Jl. Soc. Gall., V. 2; V. 3.
Rust's Magazin., V. 20, pt. 1, p. 452.
==========
Puhlman
Caltha palustris (3 x). Given in pemphigus.
==========
Reckeweg
The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh flowering plant, Caltha palustris, which grows in ditches and water-meadows in Europe, Asia and North America. N.O.
Ranunculaceae. Caltha Palustris has done good work in gastric symptoms with abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, especially when headache and singing in the ears are present, with possible urinary tenesmus also. We may also see favorable action in cellulitis, and in pemphigus vulgaris with bullae surrounded by a ring with much itching. Caltha Palustris (in tincture or low potencies) may also be tried in great swelling of the face, especially around the eyes, and in itching eruptions on the thighs with pustules. Good action is said to have been observed in uterine cancer.
==============
Number of * =grading
Complete Repertory
MIND; ANXIETY (K4, SRI-54, G3)*
MIND; RESTLESSNESS, nervousness; general (K72, SRI-835, G57)*
EYES; LACHRYMATION (K245, G206)*
STOMACH; THIRST (K527, G449)*
ABDOMEN; DISTENSION; general (K544, G464)*
FEMALE; CANCER*
FEMALE; CANCER; uterus (K715, G610)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS (K986, G825)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching (K986, G825)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching; lower limbs (K997, G833)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching; lower limbs; thighs (K999, G835)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; pustules (K987, G825)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; pemphigus (K1315, G1084)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; vesicular (K1322, G1090)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; vesicular; itching (K1322, G1090)*
GENERALITIES; CANCEROUS affections (K1346, SRII-54, G1111)*
GENERALITIES; GAIT reeling, staggering, tottering and wavering (SRII-286)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; contracted (K1393, SRII-528, G1149)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; hard (K1395, SRII-538, G1150)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; intermittent (K1395, SRII-541, G1151)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; small (K1396, SRII-549, G1151)*
GENERALITIES; TENSION, tightness*
GENERALITIES; TENSION, tightness; joints (SRII-632)*
GENERALITIES; TREMBLING; general*
GENERALITIES; TREMBLING; general; external (K1407, SRII-642, G1160)*
Dear Joy,
Perhaps there is nothing new here under the sun, but hope this is useful--everything could find in Referenceworks and Complete Repertory. Maybe Synthesis has a bit more.
========
TF Allen
Nat hist
Caltha palustris, Linn.
Natural order: Ranunculaceae.
Common names: Marsh Marigold, Cowslip (American).
Preparation: Tincture of the whole plant when in flower.
General
Trembling in whole body.
Very great restlessness; the children roll on the ground in their agony.
Mind
Anxiety and restlessness.
Head
Vertigo (second day).
Vertigo and roaring in ears (after half an hour).
Headache; dull drawing, from occiput over to forehead, with vertigo (after half an hour).
Eyes
Eyes dim.
Lachrymation.
Pupils contracted.
Face
Face pale, yellowish.
Prodigious swelling of the face.
Face swollen, especially around eyes.
Swelling of face, white, soft, and puffy; extended some over whole body (second day).
The swelling of the face does not subside until the eight day.
Mouth
The tongue is covered with a very thick, dirty-white coating.
Peculiar disagreeable impression on back of tongue (third day).
Stomach
Very great thirst (second day).
Nausea (after half an hour).
Vomiting, very painful (after half an hour).
Griping pains in epigastric and umbilical regions (after half an hour).
Abdomen
Abdomen distended.
Stool
Diarrhoea (after half an hour).
Copious alvine evacuations, with emissions of a good deal of flatulence (second day).
Urinary
Painful burning in urethra.
Burning pain when urinating.
Dysuria (after half an hour).
Urine scanty and very red.
Extremity
Heaviness and numbness of the limbs (seventh day).
Pain of stiffness and tension in the joints.
Lower limbs
Tottering gait.
Skin
Red spots on feet and legs.
The inner surface of the thighs in covered with dry pustules (papulae?), which cause itching and a painful tension, when walking.
This pain extends into the whole thigh.
The pustules remain three weeks, then desquamate and disappear.
Large bullae of pemphigus, in different parts of the body, especially on the limbs, back, and face, surrounded by a red ring, and itching a great deal.
These bullae very in size; but the largest are not bigger than an almond, and filled with a serous liquid.
On the third day, these bullae are transformed into crusts, and on the seventh day of the disease, and fourth of the eruption, they begin to fall off (third day).
Heart/pulse
Small, quick, and contracted pulse (second day).
Pulse small, hard, rapid, sometimes intermitting.
==========
Millspaugh
Natural Order: - RANUNCULACEAE.
GENUS. - CALTHA, (KAHA0O., kalathos, a chalice, the golden calyx resembling that utensil.) LINN.
SEX SYST. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.
CALTHA.
MARSH MARIGOLD.
SYN. - CALTHA PALUSTRIS, (Care should be taken not to confound this plant with Calla palustris, Linn., on account of the similarity in the names; it bears no resemblance whatever to Calla; the habitats are the same.) LINN.; CALTHA ARTICA, R. BR.
COMMON NAMES: - MARSH MARIGOLD.; (I have known American physicians who claimed that they made their tincture of Calendula from flowers gathered in their own neighborhoods (Caltha; this error arose from the common name of calendula being marigold. Calendula officinalis, Linn., belongs to the Compositae, and does not grow wild in this country. The corn - marigold belongs to the genus Chrysanthemum (Compositae); the fig - marigold to Mesembryanthemum (Mesembryanthemum and the French and African marigolds to Tagetes (Compositae), and the bur - marigold to Bidens (Compositae).
COWSLIPS, (Cowslips are properly species of the primrose family (Primulaceae). COW'S LIPS, MEADOW - BOUTS, WATERBOUTS, COLT'S FOOT, (Colt's foot is only applicable to Tussilage Farfara, Linn. (Compositae).) MARE - BLEBS OR BLOBS, (Mare, marsh; blebs, bladder, more properly blisters.) AMERICAN COWSLIPS, (The true American cowslip is Dodecatheon Meadids Linn. Primulaceae) PALSY - WORT, WATER DRAGON; (GER.) SUMPF RINGELBLUME.
A TINCTURE OF THE WHOLE FLOWERING PLANT CALTHA PALUSTRIS, LINN.
Description. This glabrous, perennial herb, grows to a height of from 6 to 12 inches. Root a bundle of coarse and closely fasciculated fibers. Stem erect, somewhat quadrilateral, furrowed, hollow, thick, and juicy, branched above. Leaves alternate, large, orbicular, cordate, or reniform, finely crenate or entire; petioles of the radical leaves long, those of the cauline about equal in length to the width of the leaf; stipules quite large, withering after the expansion of the leaf, which they cover in the bud. Inflorescence corymbose; flowers large and regular. Sepals 5, 6,
petaloid, broadly ovate, imbricate in aestivation. Petals wanting. Stamens numerous; filaments about the length of the anthers; anthers large, innate, and extrorse, Pistils 5 - 10; styles nearly or quite absent; stigmas forming blunt, recurved, mucronations to the ovaries. Fruit a spreading whorl; follicles latterly compressed; seeds numerous, oblong, purplish, furnished with a prominent raphe, and arranged in a double series. Read description of the Order under Pulsatilla Nuttalliana, I.
History and Habitat. The marsh - marigold is indigenous to the northern portions of Europe, Asia, and America; growing on low, wet meadow, bogs, and the banks of spring - fed rivulets; flowering in the United States from April to May.
The plant is extensively gathered in early spring, and cooked for "greens, " making one of our most excellent pot - herbs; the pickled flower - buds are mentioned as a fine substitute for capers. The fresh plant is very acrid, so much so that cattle will not eat of it. Rafinesque asserts that cattle browsing upon it die in consequence of an inflammation of the stomach.
The medical history of this herb is very sparse, and of no consequence; it has been used in cough syrups, which would, without doubt, have been fully as efficacious without it.
PART USED AND PERSPIRATION. The fresh herb, gathered when flowering, is chopped and pounded to a pulp, enclosed in a piece of new linen and pressed. The expressed juice is then, by brisk succussion, mingled with an equal part by weight of alcohol. This mixture is allowed to stand eight days in a dark, cool place.
The tincture, separated from the above mass by filtration, has a clear, orange brown color by transmitted light, a sweet then somewhat acrid taste, and a neutral reaction.
CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS. The acridity so noticeable in the fresh herb entirely disappears on the application of heat; this property is considered by Lloyd to resemble, or be identical with, acrid oil of ranunculus, (See under Ranunculus sceleratus, 3.) though his attempt to extract this oil and anemonin, from a distillate of the fresh plant, was unsuccessful.
Tannin is present in appreciable quantity, the tincture responding quickly to the tests with acetate of lead and chloride of iron.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION. We have a scanty proving of this drug detailed in the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica; insufficient, however, to afford an insight to its real action.
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 7.
1. End of branch, from Binghamton, N. Y., May 11th, 1884.
2. Section of flower.
3. Stamen (enlarged).
4. Achenium (enlarged).
5. Section of ovary (enlarged).
6. Section of stem.
=============
Murphy
PHARMACY - Calth. Caltha palustris. Caltha. Cowslip. Marsh Marigold. N. O. Ranunculacee. Tincture of fresh shoots and flowers. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies. Planets: Mars, Moon.
HISTORY - This is an unproved remedy, but it has irritant properties like the other Ranunculacee.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Hansen gives as indications: "Pemphigus, bullae are surrounded by a ring, much itching. On the third day they are transformed into crusts." Cooper has used it with excellent effect in a case of uterine cancer, giving single doses of the tincture at long intervals.
CLINICAL - Cancer. Pemphigus.
SOURCES - Boericke. Clarke. Hansen.
=================
H pharmacopeia US
Botanical Name: Caltha palustris Linn.
Family: Ranunculaceae
Common names
English: Marsh marigold; French: Populage; German: Kuhblume.
Description: A perennial herb. Stem hollow, 20 to 60 cm long, branched above, basal leaves long petioled, the upper one progressively shorter petioled and uppermost nearly or quite sessile. Flowers bright yellow, on short or elongagted peduncles. Sepals elliptic to obovate. Anthers liner - oblong or lace - oblong, about 2 mm long Folliclert in a branch of 12, 10 to 15 mm long, abruptly or gradually narrowed into divergent style.
Part used: Whole plant.
Identification: Take 10 g, extract with 100 ml of 50 per cent alcohol, evaporate the extract on water - bath and extract the residue with chloroform. Carry out TLC on silica gel 'G' using chloroform; methanol (9: 1 v/v) as mobile phase. Under U.V. light four spots appear at Rf. 0.11 (green), 0.36 (blue), 0.50 (yellow) and 0.88 (blue) with fluorescence.
Distribution: India in Himalayas at high altitudes; North America, Canada and temperate Asia.
History and authority: Introduces by Roth 1925, Allen: Encyclop. of Pure Mat. Med. Vol. II, 421.
*Preparation*
(a) Mother Tincture Q,
Drug strength 1/10
Caltha Palustris, moist magma containing solid 100 g, plant moisture 400 ml. 500 g
Strong Alcohol 635 ml
To make one thousand millilitres of the Mother Tincture.
(b) Potencies: 2x to contain one part of Mother Tincture, three parts of Purified Water, six parts of Strong Alcohol; 3x higher with Dispensing Alcohol.
==========
Wichman
Caltha palustris
Plantae; Spermatophyta, Angiospermae - Flowering Plants; Dicotyledonae; Polycarpicae (Magnoliidae); Ranunculales; Ranunculaceae - Buttercup Family
==========
Bradford
CALTHA PALUSTRIS.
C. arctica. Cowslip. Marsh marigold. Tinct. whole plant.
Allen: Cyclopoedia, V. 2.
Frank's Magazin.
Roth: Mat. Med., V. 1.
- - - -: Jl. Soc. Gall., V. 2; V. 3.
Rust's Magazin., V. 20, pt. 1, p. 452.
==========
Puhlman
Caltha palustris (3 x). Given in pemphigus.
==========
Reckeweg
The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh flowering plant, Caltha palustris, which grows in ditches and water-meadows in Europe, Asia and North America. N.O.
Ranunculaceae. Caltha Palustris has done good work in gastric symptoms with abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, especially when headache and singing in the ears are present, with possible urinary tenesmus also. We may also see favorable action in cellulitis, and in pemphigus vulgaris with bullae surrounded by a ring with much itching. Caltha Palustris (in tincture or low potencies) may also be tried in great swelling of the face, especially around the eyes, and in itching eruptions on the thighs with pustules. Good action is said to have been observed in uterine cancer.
==============
Number of * =grading
Complete Repertory
MIND; ANXIETY (K4, SRI-54, G3)*
MIND; RESTLESSNESS, nervousness; general (K72, SRI-835, G57)*
EYES; LACHRYMATION (K245, G206)*
STOMACH; THIRST (K527, G449)*
ABDOMEN; DISTENSION; general (K544, G464)*
FEMALE; CANCER*
FEMALE; CANCER; uterus (K715, G610)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS (K986, G825)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching (K986, G825)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching; lower limbs (K997, G833)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching; lower limbs; thighs (K999, G835)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; pustules (K987, G825)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; pemphigus (K1315, G1084)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; vesicular (K1322, G1090)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; vesicular; itching (K1322, G1090)*
GENERALITIES; CANCEROUS affections (K1346, SRII-54, G1111)*
GENERALITIES; GAIT reeling, staggering, tottering and wavering (SRII-286)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; contracted (K1393, SRII-528, G1149)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; hard (K1395, SRII-538, G1150)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; intermittent (K1395, SRII-541, G1151)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; small (K1396, SRII-549, G1151)*
GENERALITIES; TENSION, tightness*
GENERALITIES; TENSION, tightness; joints (SRII-632)*
GENERALITIES; TREMBLING; general*
GENERALITIES; TREMBLING; general; external (K1407, SRII-642, G1160)*
Re: caltha palustris
Joy Lucas wrote:
Dear Joy,
Found a bit more on Caltha---here is the sum of it.
Andy
========
TF Allen Encyclopedia
Nat hist
Caltha palustris, Linn.
Natural order: Ranunculaceae.
Common names: Marsh Marigold, Cowslip (American).
Preparation: Tincture of the whole plant when in flower.
General
Trembling in whole body.
Very great restlessness; the children roll on the ground in their agony.
Mind
Anxiety and restlessness.
Head
Vertigo (second day).
Vertigo and roaring in ears (after half an hour).
Headache; dull drawing, from occiput over to forehead, with vertigo (after half an hour).
Eyes
Eyes dim.
Lachrymation.
Pupils contracted.
Face
Face pale, yellowish.
Prodigious swelling of the face.
Face swollen, especially around eyes.
Swelling of face, white, soft, and puffy; extended some over whole body (second day).
The swelling of the face does not subside until the eight day.
Mouth
The tongue is covered with a very thick, dirty-white coating.
Peculiar disagreeable impression on back of tongue (third day).
Stomach
Very great thirst (second day).
Nausea (after half an hour).
Vomiting, very painful (after half an hour).
Griping pains in epigastric and umbilical regions (after half an hour).
Abdomen
Abdomen distended.
Stool
Diarrhoea (after half an hour).
Copious alvine evacuations, with emissions of a good deal of flatulence (second day).
Urinary
Painful burning in urethra.
Burning pain when urinating.
Dysuria (after half an hour).
Urine scanty and very red.
Extremity
Heaviness and numbness of the limbs (seventh day).
Pain of stiffness and tension in the joints.
Lower limbs
Tottering gait.
Skin
Red spots on feet and legs.
The inner surface of the thighs in covered with dry pustules (papulae?), which cause itching
and a painful tension, when walking.
This pain extends into the whole thigh.
The pustules remain three weeks, then desquamate and disappear.
Large bullae of pemphigus, in different parts of the body, especially on the limbs, back,
and face, surrounded by a red ring, and itching a great deal.
These bullae very in size; but the largest are not bigger than an almond, and filled with a
serous liquid.
On the third day, these bullae are transformed into crusts, and on the seventh day of the
disease, and fourth of the eruption, they begin to fall off (third day).
Heart/pulse
Small, quick, and contracted pulse (second day).
Pulse small, hard, rapid, sometimes intermitting.
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Millspaugh
Natural Order: - RANUNCULACEAE.
GENUS. - CALTHA, (KAHA0O., kalathos, a chalice, the golden calyx resembling that utensil.)
LINN.
SEX SYST. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.
CALTHA.
MARSH MARIGOLD.
SYN. - CALTHA PALUSTRIS, (Care should be taken not to confound this plant with Calla
palustris, Linn., on account of the similarity in the names; it bears no resemblance whatever to
Calla; the habitats are the same.) LINN.; CALTHA ARTICA, R. BR.
COMMON NAMES: - MARSH MARIGOLD.; (I have known American physicians who claimed that they
made their tincture of Calendula from flowers gathered in their own neighborhoods (Caltha; this
error arose from the common name of calendula being marigold. Calendula officinalis, Linn.,
belongs to the Compositae, and does not grow wild in this country. The corn - marigold belongs to
the genus Chrysanthemum (Compositae); the fig - marigold to Mesembryanthemum (Mesembryanthemum
and the French and African marigolds to Tagetes (Compositae), and the bur - marigold to Bidens
(Compositae).
COWSLIPS, (Cowslips are properly species of the primrose family (Primulaceae). COW'S LIPS, MEADOW
- BOUTS, WATERBOUTS, COLT'S FOOT, (Colt's foot is only applicable to Tussilage Farfara, Linn.
(Compositae).) MARE - BLEBS OR BLOBS, (Mare, marsh; blebs, bladder, more properly blisters.)
AMERICAN COWSLIPS, (The true American cowslip is Dodecatheon Meadids Linn. Primulaceae) PALSY -
WORT, WATER DRAGON; (GER.) SUMPF RINGELBLUME.
A TINCTURE OF THE WHOLE FLOWERING PLANT CALTHA PALUSTRIS, LINN.
Description. This glabrous, perennial herb, grows to a height of from 6 to 12 inches. Root a
bundle of coarse and closely fasciculated fibers. Stem erect, somewhat quadrilateral, furrowed,
hollow, thick, and juicy, branched above. Leaves alternate, large, orbicular, cordate, or
reniform, finely crenate or entire; petioles of the radical leaves long, those of the cauline
about equal in length to the width of the leaf; stipules quite large, withering after the
expansion of the leaf, which they cover in the bud. Inflorescence corymbose; flowers large and
regular. Sepals 5, 6,
petaloid, broadly ovate, imbricate in aestivation. Petals wanting. Stamens numerous; filaments
about the length of the anthers; anthers large, innate, and extrorse, Pistils 5 - 10; styles
nearly or quite absent; stigmas forming blunt, recurved, mucronations to the ovaries. Fruit a
spreading whorl; follicles latterly compressed; seeds numerous, oblong, purplish, furnished with
a prominent raphe, and arranged in a double series. Read description of the Order under
Pulsatilla Nuttalliana, I.
History and Habitat. The marsh - marigold is indigenous to the northern portions of Europe,
Asia, and America; growing on low, wet meadow, bogs, and the banks of spring - fed rivulets;
flowering in the United States from April to May.
The plant is extensively gathered in early spring, and cooked for "greens, " making one of
our most excellent pot - herbs; the pickled flower - buds are mentioned as a fine substitute for
capers. The fresh plant is very acrid, so much so that cattle will not eat of it. Rafinesque
asserts that cattle browsing upon it die in consequence of an inflammation of the stomach.
The medical history of this herb is very sparse, and of no consequence; it has been used in
cough syrups, which would, without doubt, have been fully as efficacious without it.
PART USED AND PERSPIRATION. The fresh herb, gathered when flowering, is chopped and pounded
to a pulp, enclosed in a piece of new linen and pressed. The expressed juice is then, by brisk
succussion, mingled with an equal part by weight of alcohol. This mixture is allowed to stand
eight days in a dark, cool place.
The tincture, separated from the above mass by filtration, has a clear, orange brown color
by transmitted light, a sweet then somewhat acrid taste, and a neutral reaction.
CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS. The acridity so noticeable in the fresh herb entirely disappears on
the application of heat; this property is considered by Lloyd to resemble, or be identical with,
acrid oil of ranunculus, (See under Ranunculus sceleratus, 3.) though his attempt to extract this
oil and anemonin, from a distillate of the fresh plant, was unsuccessful.
Tannin is present in appreciable quantity, the tincture responding quickly to the tests with
acetate of lead and chloride of iron.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION. We have a scanty proving of this drug detailed in the Encyclopedia of
Pure Materia Medica; insufficient, however, to afford an insight to its real action.
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 7.
1. End of branch, from Binghamton, N. Y., May 11th, 1884.
2. Section of flower.
3. Stamen (enlarged).
4. Achenium (enlarged).
5. Section of ovary (enlarged).
6. Section of stem.
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Murphy
PHARMACY - Calth. Caltha palustris. Caltha. Cowslip. Marsh Marigold. N. O. Ranunculacee. Tincture
of fresh shoots and flowers. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies. Planets: Mars, Moon.
HISTORY - This is an unproved remedy, but it has irritant properties like the other
Ranunculacee.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Hansen gives as indications: "Pemphigus, bullae are surrounded by a ring, much
itching. On the third day they are transformed into crusts." Cooper has used it with excellent
effect in a case of uterine cancer, giving single doses of the tincture at long intervals.
CLINICAL - Cancer. Pemphigus.
SOURCES - Boericke. Clarke. Hansen.
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H pharmacopeia US
Botanical Name: Caltha palustris Linn.
Family: Ranunculaceae
Common names
English: Marsh marigold; French: Populage; German: Kuhblume.
Description: A perennial herb. Stem hollow, 20 to 60 cm long, branched above, basal leaves
long petioled, the upper one progressively shorter petioled and uppermost nearly or quite
sessile. Flowers bright yellow, on short or elongagted peduncles. Sepals elliptic to obovate.
Anthers liner - oblong or lace - oblong, about 2 mm long Folliclert in a branch of 12, 10 to 15
mm long, abruptly or gradually narrowed into divergent style.
Part used: Whole plant.
Identification: Take 10 g, extract with 100 ml of 50 per cent alcohol, evaporate the extract
on water - bath and extract the residue with chloroform. Carry out TLC on silica gel 'G' using
chloroform; methanol (9: 1 v/v) as mobile phase. Under U.V. light four spots appear at Rf. 0.11
(green), 0.36 (blue), 0.50 (yellow) and 0.88 (blue) with fluorescence.
Distribution: India in Himalayas at high altitudes; North America, Canada and temperate
Asia.
History and authority: Introduces by Roth 1925, Allen: Encyclop. of Pure Mat. Med. Vol. II,
421.
*Preparation*
(a) Mother Tincture Q,
Drug strength 1/10
Caltha Palustris, moist magma containing solid 100 g, plant moisture 400 ml. 500 g
Strong Alcohol 635 ml
To make one thousand millilitres of the Mother Tincture.
(b) Potencies: 2x to contain one part of Mother Tincture, three parts of Purified Water, six
parts of Strong Alcohol; 3x higher with Dispensing Alcohol.
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Wichman
Caltha palustris
Plantae; Spermatophyta, Angiospermae - Flowering Plants; Dicotyledonae; Polycarpicae
(Magnoliidae); Ranunculales; Ranunculaceae - Buttercup Family
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Bradford
CALTHA PALUSTRIS.
C. arctica. Cowslip. Marsh marigold. Tinct. whole plant.
Allen: Cyclopoedia, V. 2.
Frank's Magazin.
Roth: Mat. Med., V. 1.
- - - -: Jl. Soc. Gall., V. 2; V. 3.
Rust's Magazin., V. 20, pt. 1, p. 452.
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Puhlman
Caltha palustris (3 x). Given in pemphigus.
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Reckeweg
The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh flowering plant, Caltha palustris, which grows in
ditches and water-meadows in Europe, Asia and North America. N.O.
Ranunculaceae. Caltha Palustris has done good work in gastric symptoms with abdominal pain,
vomiting and diarrhea, especially when headache and singing in the ears are present, with
possible urinary tenesmus also. We may also see favorable action in cellulitis, and in pemphigus
vulgaris with bullae surrounded by a ring with much itching. Caltha Palustris (in tincture or low
potencies) may also be tried in great swelling of the face, especially around the eyes, and in
itching eruptions on the thighs with pustules. Good action is said to have been observed in
uterine cancer.
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Vermuelen-concordant
Nat hist
Cowslip
char
Pain in abdomen, vomiting, headache, singing in ears, dysuria and diarrhoea. Anasarca. Uterine cancer.
Skin
Pemphigus; bullae surrounded by a ring [[6] which forms crusts]. Much itching. Face much swollen, esp. around eyes. Itching eruption on thighs. Pustules.
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Boericke
Nat hist
Cowslip
General
Pain in abdomen, vomiting, headache, singing in ears, dysuria and diarrhoea. Anasarca.
Skin
Pemphigus. Bullae are surrounded by a ring. Much itching. Face much swollen, especially around the eyes. Itching eruption on thighs. Pustules. UTERINE CANCER.
Dose
Tincture
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Other remedies in which Caltha is mentioned in comparison
Arn., Aur-m-n., Calen., Canth.
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Number of asterisks =grading
Complete Repertory (Caltha)
MIND; ANXIETY (K4, SRI-54, G3)*
MIND; RESTLESSNESS, nervousness; general (K72, SRI-835, G57)*
EYES; LACHRYMATION (K245, G206)*
STOMACH; THIRST (K527, G449)*
ABDOMEN; DISTENSION; general (K544, G464)*
FEMALE; CANCER*
FEMALE; CANCER; uterus (K715, G610)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS (K986, G825)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching (K986, G825)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching; lower limbs (K997, G833)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching; lower limbs; thighs (K999, G835)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; pustules (K987, G825)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; pemphigus (K1315, G1084)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; vesicular (K1322, G1090)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; vesicular; itching (K1322, G1090)*
GENERALITIES; CANCEROUS affections (K1346, SRII-54, G1111)*
GENERALITIES; GAIT reeling, staggering, tottering and wavering (SRII-286)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; contracted (K1393, SRII-528, G1149)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; hard (K1395, SRII-538, G1150)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; intermittent (K1395, SRII-541, G1151)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; small (K1396, SRII-549, G1151)*
GENERALITIES; TENSION, tightness*
GENERALITIES; TENSION, tightness; joints (SRII-632)*
GENERALITIES; TREMBLING; general*
GENERALITIES; TREMBLING; general; external (K1407, SRII-642, G1160)*
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Family analysis-Desai
FAMILY RANUNCULACEAE
Remedies belonging to this family are divided into the subgroups Clematideae (Clematis Erecta), Anemonean(Adonis, Hepatica, Hydrastis, Pulsatilla), Ranunculeae(R. acris, R. bulbosus, R.ficaria, R. flammula, R. glacialis, R. repens, R. sceleratus), Helleboreae(Aconitums, Acteas, Aquilegia,
Caltha,
Helleborus, Staphisagria), Paeoneae(Paeonia) .
Understanding of the family Ranunculaceae
Most of these are herbs (rarely shrubs & very rarely tress - paeonia). They are distinguished by their herbaceous (soft stemmed) texture, the flowers mostly bisexual with reduced or modified petals & numerous stamen. Corolla often ten petaloid with more showy sepals.
Mostly they cause moderate to severe inflammation (because of their highly corrosive qualities) of the mucous & serous membranes producing from increased or profuse discharges to serere inflammation, tumefaction & ulceration with burning & smarting. (Most peculiarly seen in all buttercups-. Clematis, Caltha Hepatica, Hydrastis)
The remidies like Aconite & Pulsatilla are suited to plethoric (full / over supply) types of people whereas in Hydrastis & Helleborous there is a very low state of vitality. These remedies produce from influenza & rheumatism to gonorrhoea, syphpilis & cancer leading to cachetic, gangrenous & degenerative states. Therefore these are more useful as deep constitutional remedies.
Basically these all remedies have AN IRRITABLE, EXCITABLE, NERVOUS YET FEEBLE & DELICATE TEMPRAMENT. All the symptoms produced by this family remedies get easily explained by this one sentence -(Mental as well as physical)
Physically we have
1.Intense, painful sensitivity with ACUTE SPECIAL SENSES leading to SEVERE PAINS, worse LIGHT, NOISE, AIR, TOUCH, faintness, spasms. A/F - SHOCK - Mental; surgical; FRIGHT ; fear of fright remaining; faintness soreness after pains OR senses are completely blunted(hell).
2. EXTREME worse COLD AIR worse GETTING CHILLED, draft, exposure to coldness (except Clematis)
3. Catarrhal symptoms (eyes, nose, lungs) with gonorrhoea syphilis & rheumatism show how the mucosa & serosa are IRRITATED.
4. Inconstancy, wandering pains, fitful moods, worse CHANGE OF WEATHER. Severe ailments from SUPPRESSION of emotion & discharges. Ill & easy effects of FATIGUE & over exertion. Worse Change of life, puberty etc. very well depict the weak, nervous, feeble nature of these remedies.
In addition to these the family also shows marked action on muscles producing soreness(Acon, Staph, Cimic etc.) tension, convulsion, twitching, aching, bruised sensations to marked debitity and complete paralysis as in Hellebborous where muscles do not obey the will with automotive motions & worse when mind is diverted.
Mentally we have: 1. Extreme touchiness, IRRITABLE, easily get vexed (A/F VEXATION) or feel slighted. Leading to either tearful, weeping or quarrelsome, scolding, biting, striking throwing type of reactions.
2. EXTREME FEARFULLNESS & TIMIDITY, fear dark, ghosts, frightened easily with its consequences. They mainly show FEAR OF INSANITY (loosing control) & FEAR OF DEATH.
"AGONISING FEAR from trifles...." in Aconite is the best example substantiating this aspect.
3. But simultaneously the most peculiar and characteristic feature of these remedies is SADNESS, HYSTERIA AND MELANCHOLY.
"Sad, hopless, sits & stares says or does nothing, hysteria with self accusation, SADNESS, DEPRESSION, GLOOM "As if black cloud settled around her" or Dark & hopless everything looks. Sad without cause, Indifference, disinclined to meet even aggreable company & aversion to company with desire for solitude (Except Pulsattilla ). Globus hystericus (Aqu)."
They are the few examples characterizing the above said feelings.
Most conclusive key word to unlock the most fundamental aspect of the family comes from the word.
DEPRESSION - one of the dictionary meanings of this word is " AREA OFLOW PRESSURE" (eg. before storm or rainfall this depression in pressure causes all the clouds to rush there) = another meaning is - a mental state in which a person has feelings of gloom & inadequacy (Ref. Collins Gems English Dictrionary).
This is, incidentally, exactly discribed in some other context though in Pulsatilla as "... cloudiness as in apoplexy especially when ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE IS LOW as at the approach of storm..."(Clark)
Cirncifuga & Helleborous are well known for this gloomy dark feelings with another common feature being " weakness of will".
Kent says there is lack of will balance or great disturbance in the voluntary system which is the underlying feature of HYSTERIA (in Cimicifuga).
Staphysagria also as now understood has the need for control (Selfcontrol want of or loss of).which again depicts how will power/ self control plays important role in producing a balanced state despite the volatile temper.
Aconite also probably lacks this inner strength because then only there can be such FRENZY & AGONISINGLY INTENSE, DEADLY COMPLAINTS FROM SLIGHT FEAR/ TRIFLES.
Thus here depression, hysteria & gloomines or extreme touchiness & timidity are due to low inner stregth or lack of volition or the low 'pressure' i.e. WEAK WILL (This rubric in repertory contains all important remedies of this family).
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Family RANUNCULACEAE
MUCOUS MEMBRANE
SEROUS MEMBRANE
DISCHARGES -profuse
BURNING, SMARTING
PLETHORIC
INFLUENZA
RHEUMATISM
MUSCLES
GONORRHOEA
SYPHILLIS
CANCER
GANGRENE
CACHETIC, STATES
ATONIC, STATES
DEGENERATIVE, STATES
VITALITY, poor
• IRRITABLE, EXITABLE, NERVOUS & FEEBLE TEMPRAMENT
SENSES, acute
PAINS, severe
SENSITIVE, painfully sensitive
SPASMS
SORENESS, after pains
INFLAMMATION, catarrhal
PAINS, wandering
PAIN, muscular - soreness
Pain - bruised, aching
MUSCLES, refuse to obey the will
TWITCHING
MOTION, automatic
FAINTING, faintness
FAINTING, fainteness after pains
AGGRAVATION, light
AGGRAVATION, noise
AGGRAVATION, air-cold, draft
AGGRAVATION, touch
AGGRAVATION, change of weather
• AILMENTS FROM, shock, mental
AILMENTS FROM, shock, surgical
AILMENTS FROM, shock, fright
AILMENTS FROM, suppressed emotions
AILMENTS FROM, suppressed discharges
AILMENTS FROM, overexertion
AILMENTS FROM, vexation
• FEAR, remaining for long after fright
FEAR, overpowering
FEAR, dark
FEAR, ghost
FEAR, insanity
FEAR, self-control loss of
FEAR, death
SENSES, dull
SENSITIVE, sensitivity want of
INCONSTANCY
• MOODS, changeable
• MOODS, fitful
AGGRAVATION, change of life
AGGRAVATION, puberty
AGGRAVATION, diversion of mind
TOUCHY
VEXED, easily
SLIGHTED, feels
WEEPING, tearful mood
QUARRELSOME
SCOLDING
BITING
STRIKING
THROWS, things
TIMIDITY
• FRIGHTENED, easily from trifles
• SADNESS, melchonlia
• HYSTERIA
DESPAIR
SITS & STARES
SELF-ACCUSATION
• SADNESS, as if black cloud has settled over her
SADNESS, causeles
INDIFFERENCE, company
COMPANY, aversion-aggreable company of
COMPANY, aversion.
DESIRE SOLITUDE
GLOBUS HYSTERICUS
• DEPRESSION
• WILL, weak
• "INNER STRENGHT", poor
Dear Joy,
Found a bit more on Caltha---here is the sum of it.
Andy
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TF Allen Encyclopedia
Nat hist
Caltha palustris, Linn.
Natural order: Ranunculaceae.
Common names: Marsh Marigold, Cowslip (American).
Preparation: Tincture of the whole plant when in flower.
General
Trembling in whole body.
Very great restlessness; the children roll on the ground in their agony.
Mind
Anxiety and restlessness.
Head
Vertigo (second day).
Vertigo and roaring in ears (after half an hour).
Headache; dull drawing, from occiput over to forehead, with vertigo (after half an hour).
Eyes
Eyes dim.
Lachrymation.
Pupils contracted.
Face
Face pale, yellowish.
Prodigious swelling of the face.
Face swollen, especially around eyes.
Swelling of face, white, soft, and puffy; extended some over whole body (second day).
The swelling of the face does not subside until the eight day.
Mouth
The tongue is covered with a very thick, dirty-white coating.
Peculiar disagreeable impression on back of tongue (third day).
Stomach
Very great thirst (second day).
Nausea (after half an hour).
Vomiting, very painful (after half an hour).
Griping pains in epigastric and umbilical regions (after half an hour).
Abdomen
Abdomen distended.
Stool
Diarrhoea (after half an hour).
Copious alvine evacuations, with emissions of a good deal of flatulence (second day).
Urinary
Painful burning in urethra.
Burning pain when urinating.
Dysuria (after half an hour).
Urine scanty and very red.
Extremity
Heaviness and numbness of the limbs (seventh day).
Pain of stiffness and tension in the joints.
Lower limbs
Tottering gait.
Skin
Red spots on feet and legs.
The inner surface of the thighs in covered with dry pustules (papulae?), which cause itching
and a painful tension, when walking.
This pain extends into the whole thigh.
The pustules remain three weeks, then desquamate and disappear.
Large bullae of pemphigus, in different parts of the body, especially on the limbs, back,
and face, surrounded by a red ring, and itching a great deal.
These bullae very in size; but the largest are not bigger than an almond, and filled with a
serous liquid.
On the third day, these bullae are transformed into crusts, and on the seventh day of the
disease, and fourth of the eruption, they begin to fall off (third day).
Heart/pulse
Small, quick, and contracted pulse (second day).
Pulse small, hard, rapid, sometimes intermitting.
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Millspaugh
Natural Order: - RANUNCULACEAE.
GENUS. - CALTHA, (KAHA0O., kalathos, a chalice, the golden calyx resembling that utensil.)
LINN.
SEX SYST. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.
CALTHA.
MARSH MARIGOLD.
SYN. - CALTHA PALUSTRIS, (Care should be taken not to confound this plant with Calla
palustris, Linn., on account of the similarity in the names; it bears no resemblance whatever to
Calla; the habitats are the same.) LINN.; CALTHA ARTICA, R. BR.
COMMON NAMES: - MARSH MARIGOLD.; (I have known American physicians who claimed that they
made their tincture of Calendula from flowers gathered in their own neighborhoods (Caltha; this
error arose from the common name of calendula being marigold. Calendula officinalis, Linn.,
belongs to the Compositae, and does not grow wild in this country. The corn - marigold belongs to
the genus Chrysanthemum (Compositae); the fig - marigold to Mesembryanthemum (Mesembryanthemum
and the French and African marigolds to Tagetes (Compositae), and the bur - marigold to Bidens
(Compositae).
COWSLIPS, (Cowslips are properly species of the primrose family (Primulaceae). COW'S LIPS, MEADOW
- BOUTS, WATERBOUTS, COLT'S FOOT, (Colt's foot is only applicable to Tussilage Farfara, Linn.
(Compositae).) MARE - BLEBS OR BLOBS, (Mare, marsh; blebs, bladder, more properly blisters.)
AMERICAN COWSLIPS, (The true American cowslip is Dodecatheon Meadids Linn. Primulaceae) PALSY -
WORT, WATER DRAGON; (GER.) SUMPF RINGELBLUME.
A TINCTURE OF THE WHOLE FLOWERING PLANT CALTHA PALUSTRIS, LINN.
Description. This glabrous, perennial herb, grows to a height of from 6 to 12 inches. Root a
bundle of coarse and closely fasciculated fibers. Stem erect, somewhat quadrilateral, furrowed,
hollow, thick, and juicy, branched above. Leaves alternate, large, orbicular, cordate, or
reniform, finely crenate or entire; petioles of the radical leaves long, those of the cauline
about equal in length to the width of the leaf; stipules quite large, withering after the
expansion of the leaf, which they cover in the bud. Inflorescence corymbose; flowers large and
regular. Sepals 5, 6,
petaloid, broadly ovate, imbricate in aestivation. Petals wanting. Stamens numerous; filaments
about the length of the anthers; anthers large, innate, and extrorse, Pistils 5 - 10; styles
nearly or quite absent; stigmas forming blunt, recurved, mucronations to the ovaries. Fruit a
spreading whorl; follicles latterly compressed; seeds numerous, oblong, purplish, furnished with
a prominent raphe, and arranged in a double series. Read description of the Order under
Pulsatilla Nuttalliana, I.
History and Habitat. The marsh - marigold is indigenous to the northern portions of Europe,
Asia, and America; growing on low, wet meadow, bogs, and the banks of spring - fed rivulets;
flowering in the United States from April to May.
The plant is extensively gathered in early spring, and cooked for "greens, " making one of
our most excellent pot - herbs; the pickled flower - buds are mentioned as a fine substitute for
capers. The fresh plant is very acrid, so much so that cattle will not eat of it. Rafinesque
asserts that cattle browsing upon it die in consequence of an inflammation of the stomach.
The medical history of this herb is very sparse, and of no consequence; it has been used in
cough syrups, which would, without doubt, have been fully as efficacious without it.
PART USED AND PERSPIRATION. The fresh herb, gathered when flowering, is chopped and pounded
to a pulp, enclosed in a piece of new linen and pressed. The expressed juice is then, by brisk
succussion, mingled with an equal part by weight of alcohol. This mixture is allowed to stand
eight days in a dark, cool place.
The tincture, separated from the above mass by filtration, has a clear, orange brown color
by transmitted light, a sweet then somewhat acrid taste, and a neutral reaction.
CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS. The acridity so noticeable in the fresh herb entirely disappears on
the application of heat; this property is considered by Lloyd to resemble, or be identical with,
acrid oil of ranunculus, (See under Ranunculus sceleratus, 3.) though his attempt to extract this
oil and anemonin, from a distillate of the fresh plant, was unsuccessful.
Tannin is present in appreciable quantity, the tincture responding quickly to the tests with
acetate of lead and chloride of iron.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION. We have a scanty proving of this drug detailed in the Encyclopedia of
Pure Materia Medica; insufficient, however, to afford an insight to its real action.
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 7.
1. End of branch, from Binghamton, N. Y., May 11th, 1884.
2. Section of flower.
3. Stamen (enlarged).
4. Achenium (enlarged).
5. Section of ovary (enlarged).
6. Section of stem.
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Murphy
PHARMACY - Calth. Caltha palustris. Caltha. Cowslip. Marsh Marigold. N. O. Ranunculacee. Tincture
of fresh shoots and flowers. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies. Planets: Mars, Moon.
HISTORY - This is an unproved remedy, but it has irritant properties like the other
Ranunculacee.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Hansen gives as indications: "Pemphigus, bullae are surrounded by a ring, much
itching. On the third day they are transformed into crusts." Cooper has used it with excellent
effect in a case of uterine cancer, giving single doses of the tincture at long intervals.
CLINICAL - Cancer. Pemphigus.
SOURCES - Boericke. Clarke. Hansen.
=================
H pharmacopeia US
Botanical Name: Caltha palustris Linn.
Family: Ranunculaceae
Common names
English: Marsh marigold; French: Populage; German: Kuhblume.
Description: A perennial herb. Stem hollow, 20 to 60 cm long, branched above, basal leaves
long petioled, the upper one progressively shorter petioled and uppermost nearly or quite
sessile. Flowers bright yellow, on short or elongagted peduncles. Sepals elliptic to obovate.
Anthers liner - oblong or lace - oblong, about 2 mm long Folliclert in a branch of 12, 10 to 15
mm long, abruptly or gradually narrowed into divergent style.
Part used: Whole plant.
Identification: Take 10 g, extract with 100 ml of 50 per cent alcohol, evaporate the extract
on water - bath and extract the residue with chloroform. Carry out TLC on silica gel 'G' using
chloroform; methanol (9: 1 v/v) as mobile phase. Under U.V. light four spots appear at Rf. 0.11
(green), 0.36 (blue), 0.50 (yellow) and 0.88 (blue) with fluorescence.
Distribution: India in Himalayas at high altitudes; North America, Canada and temperate
Asia.
History and authority: Introduces by Roth 1925, Allen: Encyclop. of Pure Mat. Med. Vol. II,
421.
*Preparation*
(a) Mother Tincture Q,
Drug strength 1/10
Caltha Palustris, moist magma containing solid 100 g, plant moisture 400 ml. 500 g
Strong Alcohol 635 ml
To make one thousand millilitres of the Mother Tincture.
(b) Potencies: 2x to contain one part of Mother Tincture, three parts of Purified Water, six
parts of Strong Alcohol; 3x higher with Dispensing Alcohol.
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Wichman
Caltha palustris
Plantae; Spermatophyta, Angiospermae - Flowering Plants; Dicotyledonae; Polycarpicae
(Magnoliidae); Ranunculales; Ranunculaceae - Buttercup Family
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Bradford
CALTHA PALUSTRIS.
C. arctica. Cowslip. Marsh marigold. Tinct. whole plant.
Allen: Cyclopoedia, V. 2.
Frank's Magazin.
Roth: Mat. Med., V. 1.
- - - -: Jl. Soc. Gall., V. 2; V. 3.
Rust's Magazin., V. 20, pt. 1, p. 452.
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Puhlman
Caltha palustris (3 x). Given in pemphigus.
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Reckeweg
The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh flowering plant, Caltha palustris, which grows in
ditches and water-meadows in Europe, Asia and North America. N.O.
Ranunculaceae. Caltha Palustris has done good work in gastric symptoms with abdominal pain,
vomiting and diarrhea, especially when headache and singing in the ears are present, with
possible urinary tenesmus also. We may also see favorable action in cellulitis, and in pemphigus
vulgaris with bullae surrounded by a ring with much itching. Caltha Palustris (in tincture or low
potencies) may also be tried in great swelling of the face, especially around the eyes, and in
itching eruptions on the thighs with pustules. Good action is said to have been observed in
uterine cancer.
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Vermuelen-concordant
Nat hist
Cowslip
char
Pain in abdomen, vomiting, headache, singing in ears, dysuria and diarrhoea. Anasarca. Uterine cancer.
Skin
Pemphigus; bullae surrounded by a ring [[6] which forms crusts]. Much itching. Face much swollen, esp. around eyes. Itching eruption on thighs. Pustules.
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Boericke
Nat hist
Cowslip
General
Pain in abdomen, vomiting, headache, singing in ears, dysuria and diarrhoea. Anasarca.
Skin
Pemphigus. Bullae are surrounded by a ring. Much itching. Face much swollen, especially around the eyes. Itching eruption on thighs. Pustules. UTERINE CANCER.
Dose
Tincture
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Other remedies in which Caltha is mentioned in comparison
Arn., Aur-m-n., Calen., Canth.
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Number of asterisks =grading
Complete Repertory (Caltha)
MIND; ANXIETY (K4, SRI-54, G3)*
MIND; RESTLESSNESS, nervousness; general (K72, SRI-835, G57)*
EYES; LACHRYMATION (K245, G206)*
STOMACH; THIRST (K527, G449)*
ABDOMEN; DISTENSION; general (K544, G464)*
FEMALE; CANCER*
FEMALE; CANCER; uterus (K715, G610)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS (K986, G825)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching (K986, G825)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching; lower limbs (K997, G833)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; itching; lower limbs; thighs (K999, G835)*
EXTREMITIES; ERUPTIONS; pustules (K987, G825)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; pemphigus (K1315, G1084)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; vesicular (K1322, G1090)*
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; vesicular; itching (K1322, G1090)*
GENERALITIES; CANCEROUS affections (K1346, SRII-54, G1111)*
GENERALITIES; GAIT reeling, staggering, tottering and wavering (SRII-286)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; contracted (K1393, SRII-528, G1149)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; hard (K1395, SRII-538, G1150)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; intermittent (K1395, SRII-541, G1151)*
GENERALITIES; PULSE; small (K1396, SRII-549, G1151)*
GENERALITIES; TENSION, tightness*
GENERALITIES; TENSION, tightness; joints (SRII-632)*
GENERALITIES; TREMBLING; general*
GENERALITIES; TREMBLING; general; external (K1407, SRII-642, G1160)*
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Family analysis-Desai
FAMILY RANUNCULACEAE
Remedies belonging to this family are divided into the subgroups Clematideae (Clematis Erecta), Anemonean(Adonis, Hepatica, Hydrastis, Pulsatilla), Ranunculeae(R. acris, R. bulbosus, R.ficaria, R. flammula, R. glacialis, R. repens, R. sceleratus), Helleboreae(Aconitums, Acteas, Aquilegia,
Caltha,
Helleborus, Staphisagria), Paeoneae(Paeonia) .
Understanding of the family Ranunculaceae
Most of these are herbs (rarely shrubs & very rarely tress - paeonia). They are distinguished by their herbaceous (soft stemmed) texture, the flowers mostly bisexual with reduced or modified petals & numerous stamen. Corolla often ten petaloid with more showy sepals.
Mostly they cause moderate to severe inflammation (because of their highly corrosive qualities) of the mucous & serous membranes producing from increased or profuse discharges to serere inflammation, tumefaction & ulceration with burning & smarting. (Most peculiarly seen in all buttercups-. Clematis, Caltha Hepatica, Hydrastis)
The remidies like Aconite & Pulsatilla are suited to plethoric (full / over supply) types of people whereas in Hydrastis & Helleborous there is a very low state of vitality. These remedies produce from influenza & rheumatism to gonorrhoea, syphpilis & cancer leading to cachetic, gangrenous & degenerative states. Therefore these are more useful as deep constitutional remedies.
Basically these all remedies have AN IRRITABLE, EXCITABLE, NERVOUS YET FEEBLE & DELICATE TEMPRAMENT. All the symptoms produced by this family remedies get easily explained by this one sentence -(Mental as well as physical)
Physically we have
1.Intense, painful sensitivity with ACUTE SPECIAL SENSES leading to SEVERE PAINS, worse LIGHT, NOISE, AIR, TOUCH, faintness, spasms. A/F - SHOCK - Mental; surgical; FRIGHT ; fear of fright remaining; faintness soreness after pains OR senses are completely blunted(hell).
2. EXTREME worse COLD AIR worse GETTING CHILLED, draft, exposure to coldness (except Clematis)
3. Catarrhal symptoms (eyes, nose, lungs) with gonorrhoea syphilis & rheumatism show how the mucosa & serosa are IRRITATED.
4. Inconstancy, wandering pains, fitful moods, worse CHANGE OF WEATHER. Severe ailments from SUPPRESSION of emotion & discharges. Ill & easy effects of FATIGUE & over exertion. Worse Change of life, puberty etc. very well depict the weak, nervous, feeble nature of these remedies.
In addition to these the family also shows marked action on muscles producing soreness(Acon, Staph, Cimic etc.) tension, convulsion, twitching, aching, bruised sensations to marked debitity and complete paralysis as in Hellebborous where muscles do not obey the will with automotive motions & worse when mind is diverted.
Mentally we have: 1. Extreme touchiness, IRRITABLE, easily get vexed (A/F VEXATION) or feel slighted. Leading to either tearful, weeping or quarrelsome, scolding, biting, striking throwing type of reactions.
2. EXTREME FEARFULLNESS & TIMIDITY, fear dark, ghosts, frightened easily with its consequences. They mainly show FEAR OF INSANITY (loosing control) & FEAR OF DEATH.
"AGONISING FEAR from trifles...." in Aconite is the best example substantiating this aspect.
3. But simultaneously the most peculiar and characteristic feature of these remedies is SADNESS, HYSTERIA AND MELANCHOLY.
"Sad, hopless, sits & stares says or does nothing, hysteria with self accusation, SADNESS, DEPRESSION, GLOOM "As if black cloud settled around her" or Dark & hopless everything looks. Sad without cause, Indifference, disinclined to meet even aggreable company & aversion to company with desire for solitude (Except Pulsattilla ). Globus hystericus (Aqu)."
They are the few examples characterizing the above said feelings.
Most conclusive key word to unlock the most fundamental aspect of the family comes from the word.
DEPRESSION - one of the dictionary meanings of this word is " AREA OFLOW PRESSURE" (eg. before storm or rainfall this depression in pressure causes all the clouds to rush there) = another meaning is - a mental state in which a person has feelings of gloom & inadequacy (Ref. Collins Gems English Dictrionary).
This is, incidentally, exactly discribed in some other context though in Pulsatilla as "... cloudiness as in apoplexy especially when ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE IS LOW as at the approach of storm..."(Clark)
Cirncifuga & Helleborous are well known for this gloomy dark feelings with another common feature being " weakness of will".
Kent says there is lack of will balance or great disturbance in the voluntary system which is the underlying feature of HYSTERIA (in Cimicifuga).
Staphysagria also as now understood has the need for control (Selfcontrol want of or loss of).which again depicts how will power/ self control plays important role in producing a balanced state despite the volatile temper.
Aconite also probably lacks this inner strength because then only there can be such FRENZY & AGONISINGLY INTENSE, DEADLY COMPLAINTS FROM SLIGHT FEAR/ TRIFLES.
Thus here depression, hysteria & gloomines or extreme touchiness & timidity are due to low inner stregth or lack of volition or the low 'pressure' i.e. WEAK WILL (This rubric in repertory contains all important remedies of this family).
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Family RANUNCULACEAE
MUCOUS MEMBRANE
SEROUS MEMBRANE
DISCHARGES -profuse
BURNING, SMARTING
PLETHORIC
INFLUENZA
RHEUMATISM
MUSCLES
GONORRHOEA
SYPHILLIS
CANCER
GANGRENE
CACHETIC, STATES
ATONIC, STATES
DEGENERATIVE, STATES
VITALITY, poor
• IRRITABLE, EXITABLE, NERVOUS & FEEBLE TEMPRAMENT
SENSES, acute
PAINS, severe
SENSITIVE, painfully sensitive
SPASMS
SORENESS, after pains
INFLAMMATION, catarrhal
PAINS, wandering
PAIN, muscular - soreness
Pain - bruised, aching
MUSCLES, refuse to obey the will
TWITCHING
MOTION, automatic
FAINTING, faintness
FAINTING, fainteness after pains
AGGRAVATION, light
AGGRAVATION, noise
AGGRAVATION, air-cold, draft
AGGRAVATION, touch
AGGRAVATION, change of weather
• AILMENTS FROM, shock, mental
AILMENTS FROM, shock, surgical
AILMENTS FROM, shock, fright
AILMENTS FROM, suppressed emotions
AILMENTS FROM, suppressed discharges
AILMENTS FROM, overexertion
AILMENTS FROM, vexation
• FEAR, remaining for long after fright
FEAR, overpowering
FEAR, dark
FEAR, ghost
FEAR, insanity
FEAR, self-control loss of
FEAR, death
SENSES, dull
SENSITIVE, sensitivity want of
INCONSTANCY
• MOODS, changeable
• MOODS, fitful
AGGRAVATION, change of life
AGGRAVATION, puberty
AGGRAVATION, diversion of mind
TOUCHY
VEXED, easily
SLIGHTED, feels
WEEPING, tearful mood
QUARRELSOME
SCOLDING
BITING
STRIKING
THROWS, things
TIMIDITY
• FRIGHTENED, easily from trifles
• SADNESS, melchonlia
• HYSTERIA
DESPAIR
SITS & STARES
SELF-ACCUSATION
• SADNESS, as if black cloud has settled over her
SADNESS, causeles
INDIFFERENCE, company
COMPANY, aversion-aggreable company of
COMPANY, aversion.
DESIRE SOLITUDE
GLOBUS HYSTERICUS
• DEPRESSION
• WILL, weak
• "INNER STRENGHT", poor