Chelidonium: When the right lobe of the liver is affected. The patient feels pain in the right lobe which is also tender to touch. The remedy is specific for jaundice and should be given in 6th potency. It has also got pain in the region of liver which extends to the right shoulder blade, and to chest and stomach. It is indicted in hepatic diseases. It causes the liver to secrete thinner and more profuse bile. It expels gall stones and prevents their formation. Pains sharp and lancinating. Vomiting actuated by hot drinks.
Carduus M: This is an excellent remedy for liver when the left lobe is inflammed or otherwise affected. It should be given in the mother tincture in five to ten drop doses. It relieves pains of cancer in liver; jaundice with dull headache, vomiting and nausea. Urine golden yellow. Liver spots is a special indication.
Myrica Cerifera: It is an important remedy, although very much less used. Useful in catarrhal jaundice. There is dull headache, worse in the morning, the eyes have a dingy, dirty, yellowish hue, the tongue is coated yellow. The patient is weak and complains of muscular soreness and aching in the limbs with slow pulse and dark urine. Pain in the right side below the ribs. No appetite. Desire for acids. Unrefreshing sleep.
Nux Vomica: Liver affections occurring after abuse of alcoholic liquors; highly seasoned food, quinine or purgatives. Cirrhosis of the liver. Colic may be present. Jaundice following rich food. Digestion easily upset. No thirst. Jaundice after a fit of anger. He is generally irritable and angry in the morning. Despondency and jaundice due to imperfect formation of bile in the liver.
Kali Iodide: Enlargement of liver in tertiary syphilis.
Raphanus: Stitching pain in liver. Retching and vomiting, loss of appetite. Distended, tympanitic, hard gripping about navel.
Vipera: Violent pain in enlarged liver, with jaundice and fever. Pain extending from liver to shoulder and down to hip. Bloody stools.
Theridion: Abscess of liver. Violent burning pains in hepatic region, vomiting.
Lachesis: Burning and acute pain in liver extending towards stomach. Inflammation and softening of liver. Hepatic abscess- Gall stones. Abdomen hard and distended, can bear no pressure.
Lycopodium: The liver is sensitive to touch and there is a feeling of tension in it. The pains are dull and aching instead of sharp and lancinating as under Chelidonium. Fullness in stomach after eating a small quantity.
Sulphur: This is an inter-current remedy and should be used in completing the cure. It increases the flow of bile. There is much pain and soreness of the liver.
Phosphorus: Fatty degeneration of the liver, with well-marked and jaundice. The stools are greyish white. It is useful in malignant diseases of the liver.
Ptelia T: Aching and heaviness in the region of liver, greatly aggravated by lying on the left side, which causes a dragging sensation.
Aurum Ars: Atrophy of the liver with or without distension of the abdomen. Hardening of the liver. Itching of the skin of abdomen.
Natrum Sulph: Enormously enlarged liver. Gouty constitution. Soreness in the region of liver. Bad taste in the mouth. Hands and feet cold. Pain in coccyx.
Merc. Sulph: Enlargement of liver with a lump on gall bladder; fever; pain in the liver, stools black; constipation; bitter taste; burning sensation in the body.
Taraxacum: Pain and soreness in the region of liver and bilious It has mapped tongue and bitter taste in the mouth. Chilliness after eating. Large indurated liver, pain in the spleen and liver region with coldness of finger tips.
Silicea: For infantile liver. Difficulty in passing stool and often the child cries. Sweating of the head. Give 200 and then 1000 dilution.
Chionanthus: Hypertrophy and obstruction of liver. Constipation. Clay coloured stools. Chronic jaundice.
Ars. Alb: Pain and enlargement of liver caused by suppression of fever due to quinine. Give only one dose a day after meals in 3X potency.
Arsenic Sulph:
Rubrum 200:
Gallstone colic with fever.
Merc. Iod: Enlargement of liver with a lump on the gall bladder. Urine like mustard oil. Great pain. (Give one dose a day).
Ferrum Iod: Enlargement of liver and spleen without fever.
Ferrum Ars: Enlargement of liver and spleen with fever.
Calcarea Ars: Infantile liver: (Use 200 or higher).
Opium: Sluggish liver with constipation.
China Off: Pain in hepatic region as from sub-cutaneous ulceration; worse from touch. Yellowness of skin and
conjunctiva: Colic from gall-stones. Swollen hard liver.
Podophyllum: It is indicated in torpid or chronically congested liver when diarrhoea is present. The liver is swollen and sensitive.
Bryonia: Liver swollen, congested and inflammed. Pain in the liver region worse on motion and is better by lying on painful side.
