Liver

Liver remedies

. Bryonia - 

1. The liver is swollen, congested and inflamed.

2. The pains in the hypochondriac region are worse from any motion, and better from lying on the right side, which lessens the motion of the parts when breathing .

3. It is one of the chief remedies for jaundice brought on by a fit of anger.

4.  There is a bitter in the mouth and the stools are hard and dry.

5. Bryonia is pre-eminently a gastro-hepatic remedy, and has pain in right shoulder, giddiness, skin and eyes slightly yellow.

Mercurius

1. This remedy has much sensitiveness and dull pain in the region of the liver; the patient cannot lie on the right side.

2. The liver is enlarged.

3. The skin and conjunctiva are jaundiced.

4. Stool - The stools are either clay-colored from absence of bile, or yellowish-green bilious stools passed with a great deal of tenesmus.

5. There is a yellowish white coated tongue which takes the imprint of the teeth and there is a foetid breath, loss of appetite and depression of spirits.

6. Mercurius is the remedy for jaundice arising from abuse of quinine when fever is present

Podophyllum

1. It induces a large flow of bile, and great torpidity, followed by jaundice.

2. It is indicated in torpid or chronically congested liver, when diarrhea is present.

3. The liver is swollen and sensitive, the face and eyes are yellow and there is a bad taste in the mouth.

4. The tongue is coated white or yellow and the bile may form gall stones.

5. There is a loose watery diarrhea, or if constipation be present the stools are clay-colored.

Chelidonium.

1. There is soreness and stitching pains in the region of the liver,

2. Pain under the angle of the right shoulder blade, which may extend to the chest, stomach, or hypochondrium

3. There is swelling of the liver, chilliness, fever, jaundice, yellow coated tongue, bitter taste and a craving for acids and sour things, such as pickles and vinegar.

4. The stools are profuse, bright yellow and diarrhea; they may be clayey in color. It affects 5. The left lobe of the liver much less than does Carduus marianus.

Myrica cerifera.

1. Jaundice due to imperfect formation of bile in the liver, and not to any obstruction,

2. There is dull headache, worse in the morning, the eyes have a dingy, dirty, yellowish hue,

3. The tongue is coated yellow.

4. The headache is worse in the morning.

5. The patient is weak and complains of muscular soreness and aching in the limbs

6. There is slow pulse and dark urine.

Nux vomica.

1. In liver affections occurring in those who have indulged to excess in alcoholic liquors, highly seasoned food, quinine, or in those who have abused themselves with purgatives,

2. Nux is the first remedy to be thought of.

3. The liver is swollen hard and sensitive to the touch and pressure of clothing is uncomfortable.

4. The first remedy in cirrhosis of the liver.

5.Colic may be present.

6. Jaundice induced by anger also calls for Nux, also jaundice from abuse of quinine.

Lycopodium.

1.  the liver is sensitive to the touch, and there is a feeling of tension in it, a feeling as if a cord were tied about the waist.

2. Cirrhosis. The pains are dull and aching instead of sharp and lancinating,

3. Fulness in the stomach after eating a small quantity.

4. Pain in back and right side from congestion will often yield to the remedy.

Carduus marianus.

1.This remedy is indicated in jaundice with dull headache, bitter taste,

2. White tongue with red edges,

3. Nausea and vomiting of a greenish fluid.

4. There is an uncomfortable fullness in the region of the liver,

5. The stools are bilious and the urine golden yellow;

6. There is sensitiveness in the epigastrium and right hypochondrium.

7. The presence of “liver spots seems to be a special indication for the remedy.

8. Biliousness following la grippe has been cured with Carduus.

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