Chelone Glabra

Description
- Natural Order , Scrofulariaceae.
- Common Name , Balmony.
- Habitat , United States.
Physiological action
- This agent through its action upon the liver is a cathartic with tonic effects.
- It is also an anthelmintic.
Therapeutics
- This remedy is indicated in cases of debility from loss of tone of the digestive organs, liver, or from exhausting diseases.
- There is hepatic torpor with pain and soreness in the left lobe of the liver and jaundice.
- The pain extends downwards in a line from the hilus of the liver and the fundus of the uterus.
- The feeble digestion is dependent upon lack of tone in the stomach; with the jaundice there is loss of appetite, constipation and debility.
- It is of service in dumb ague and in the Quinine cachexia , when it starts the secretions and removes the malaria cachexia.
- It is indicated in dumb ague when there is an ill defined chill, aching, with fever and general distress.
- In the form of an infusion it is employed as an enemata for the relief of pin worms.
Compare
- China, Chenop. , Cina, Helonias, Carduus marianus.