CALENDULA OFFICINALIS

Marigold


  • A most remarkable healing agent, applied locally. 
  • Useful for open wounds, parts that will not heal, ulcers, etc. 
  • Promotes healthy granulations and rapid healing by first intention. 
  • Hemostatic after tooth extraction. 
  • Deafness. 
  • Catarrhal conditions. 
  • Neuroma. 
  • Constitutional tendency to erysipelas. 
  • Pain is excessive and out of all proportion to injury. 
  • Great disposition to take cold, especially in damp weather. 
  • Paralysis after apoplexy. 
  • Cancer, as an intercurrent remedy. 
  • Has remarkable power to produce local exudation and helps to make acrid discharge healthy and free. 
  • Cold hands.

Head

  • Extremely nervous; easily frightened; tearing headache; weight on brain. 
  • Submaxillary glands swollen, painful to touch. 
  • Pain in right side of neck. 
  • Lacerated scalp wounds.

Eyes

  • Injuries to eyes which tend to suppuration; after operations; blennorrhea of lachrymal sac.

Ears

  • Deafness; worse in damp surroundings and with eczematous conditions. 
  • Hears best on a train, and distant sounds.

Nose

  • Coryza in one nostril; with much green discharge.

Stomach

  • Hunger immediately after nursing. 
  • Bulimia. 
  • Heartburn with horripilation. 
  • Nausea in chest. 
  • Vomiting. 
  • Sinking sensation. 
  • Epigastric distention.

Respiratory

  • Cough, with green expectoration, hoarseness; with distention of inguinal ring.

Female

  • Warts at the os externum. 
  • Menses suppressed, with cough. 
  • Chronic endocervicitis. 
  • Uterine hypertrophy, sensation of weight and fullness in pelvis; stretching and dragging in groin; pain on sudden movements. 
  • Os lower than natural. 
  • Menorrhagia.

Skin

  • Yellow; goose-flesh. 
  • Promotes favorable cicatrization, with least amount of suppuration. 
  • Slough, proud flesh, and raised edges. 
  • Superficial burns and scalds. 
  • Erysipelas (use topically).

Fever

  • Coldness, great sensitiveness to open air; shuddering in back, skin feels warm to touch. 
  • Heat in evening.

Modalities

  • Worse, in damp, heavy, cloudy weather.

Relationship

  • Compare: Hamamel; Hyperic; Symph; Arn.
  • Compare in deafness: Ferr pic; Kal iod; Calc; Mag c; Graph.
  • Antidote: Chelidon; Rheum.
  • Complementary: Hepar.

Dose

  • Locally, Aqueous Calendula (Marigoldin) for all wounds, the greatest healing agent. 
  • Also as an injection in leucorrhea; internally, tincture, to third potency. 
  • For burns sores, fissures, and abrasions, etc, use Calendula Cerate.