Marigold (Compositae)
- Traumatic affections: to secure union by first intention and prevent suppuration.
- In all cases of loss of soft parts when union cannot be effected by means of adhesive plaster.
- External wounds with or without loss of substance; torn and jagged looking wounds; post-surgical operation; to promote healthy granulation and prevent excessive suppuration and disfiguring scars.
- Traumatic and idiopathic neuroma (Cepa); neuritis from lacerated wounds (Hyper.); exhausted from loss of blood and excessive pain.
- Rupture of muscles or tendons; lacerations during labor; wounds penetrating articulations with loss of synovial fluids.
- Wounds: with sudden pain during febrile heat; constitutional tendency to erysipelas (Psor.); old, neglected, offensive; threatening gangrene (Sal. ac.).
- Ulcers: irritable, inflamed, sloughing, varicose; painful as if beaten (Arn.); excessive secretion of pus.
- Calendula is almost specific for clean, surgical cuts or lacerated wounds, to prevent excessive suppuration.
Relations
- Complementary: Hep., Sal. ac.
- Similar: to, Hyper. in injuries to parts rich in sentient nerves where pain is excessive and out of all proportion to injury.
- Similar:
- To, Arn. in traumatism without laceration of soft tissue.
- Symp., Calc. p., for non-union of bones.
- Rhus, Ruta, strains or injuries of single muscles.
- Sal. ac. prevents excessive suppuration; gangrene.
- Sulph. ac. in painful, gangrenous wounds; said to destroy septic germs.
- Acts well in potency as in tincture, applied locally and my be administered internally at the same time.
