Caltha Palustris – Marsh Marigold

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts of the flowering plant, Caltha palustris L., which grows in ditches and water-meadows in Europe, Asia and North America. N.O. Ranunculaceae.

Caltha Palustris has done good work in gastric symptoms with abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea, especially when headache and singing in the ears are pres- ent, with possible urinary tenesmus also. We may also see favourable action in cel- lulitis, and in pemphigus vulgaris with bullae surrounded by a ring with much itch- ing. Caltha Palustris (in tincture or low potencies) may also be tried in great swelling of the face, especially around the eyes, and in itching eruptions on the thighs with pustules. Good action is said to have been observed in uterine cancer.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Caltha palustris, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for caltha palustris: rashes.