The Celandine

Medicinal use of Celandine

The Celandine is unique to flower when the swallows migrate, is a plant native to Europe, grows in northern Africa, western Asia, and America the river banks and hedgerows.

It is known as greater celandine, ciriguena or golondrinera, and it was used in Western herbalism and China, as a powerful muscle relaxant, antispasmodic and to improve the visual problems of cataracts.

In homeopathy uses part of its flower and root for the pulp and then prepare various homeopathic remedies.

It is used to treat aggressive states, especially those who tend to be more practical than intellectual, to treat liver problems, kidney, gall bladder, bowel and lungs.

* Hepatitis, decreases the symptoms of enlarged liver, yellow skin and protruding abdomen that usually occurs in this disease.

* Gallstones in these cases is shown to reduce acute pain produced by themselves, when they become trapped in the bile ducts and cause pain as well as inflammation.
Headaches, homeopathy is indicated to treat the feeling of heaviness, numbness, facial, and neuralgia.

* Muscle aches, it is also often applied to relieve some discomfort in the muscles of the shoulders when they are inflamed and cause various sensations to patients suffering from it.