Sulphur: Always start treatment of jaundice with this remedy. It should also be thought of for completing the cure. Dilution used is 200.
Chelidonium: This should follow Sulphur after one day. It is specific for jaundice and is normally given in 6th dilution. Yellowness of the conjunctiva; shallow complexion; bitter taste, deep red colour of tongue; tenderness of on pressure; brown-red urine and light clay coloured stools.
Myrica Cerifera: It is an important remedy for 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.
Hydrastis: Catarrhal jaundice with sharp stitching pains and excessive secretions of tenacious mucus. Nausea and vomiting. Atrophy of the liver. Tongue swollen showing marks of teeth with white or yellow coating.
Chionanthus: Catarrhal jaundice with rumbling: jaundice returning every summer, soreness and griping. Tongue and eyes yellow: Urine contains traces of bile and sugar. Jaundice with suppression of menses. Constipation with clay coloured
stool.
Mercurius Sol: A leading remedy for jaundice; accelerated pulse, yellowish tinge of the conjunctiva; slightly coated tongue: constipated, pale and dry stools; faeces of consistence of pap; of deep yellow colour. Profuse sweat with relief. Increased secretions, especially saliva; flabby tongue; metallic taste. Sensitiveness over the region of liver which is swollen and hard with stinging and stitching pains.
Podophyllum: Fullness, soreness with sharp and cutting pains in liver region. Vomiting of thick bile and blood, eructations tasting like rotten eggs. Constipation alternating with diarrhoea.
Digitalis: Jaundice due to weak heart muscles with enlarged and indurated liver, slow intermittent pulse; high coloured scanty urine. A remedy for jaundice accompanied with heart trouble.
Nux Vom: With tendency to piles and constipation. Foul musty or bitter taste. Aversion to food. Throbbing pain in the region of liver. Fainting fits.
Ptella T: Jaundice with hyperaemia of liver. Gripping in stomach with mouth dry.
Chamomilla: Jaundice caused by a fit of anger or by any other excitement. Congestion of liver, loss of appetite, nausea, foul and slimy taste in mouth, pinching and twisting pains in the abdomen.
