# Cholesterinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Cholesterinum crystallizes in leaflets with a mother -of-pearl luster an d a fatty feel. It is 
soluble in alcohol and ether. It occurs in the blood and brain, yolk of eggs, seeds and buds of plants, but most 
abundantly in the bile and gallstones. 
Dr. Wilhelm Ameke of Berlin first men tioned this remedy. Dr. Burnett, at Ameke's suggestion, used the lower 
potencies with more or less success for several years, a description of which Burnett gives in his Diseases of 
the Liver. 
Choi, was introduced by Swan. He ap peared to have taken his hint from Burnett's work and potentized the 
remedy, using a gallstone for his preparations. 
Swan affirmed, after much experience, that it is almost a specific for gallstone colic. It relieves the distress 
at once and this after failure with Nux-v., Chin., Card-m„ Podo, and other apparently well-selected remedies. 
Ameke recommended Choi, as a remedy in cancer of the liver. Choi, is the physi ological opponent of Lee., 
both seem to play some unknown part in the growth of tumors. Benign tumors, uterine fibroids. Gallstones. 
Chronic jaundice. Obstinate hepatic engorgements. Opacities of the vitreous. Insomnia.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from touch or jar. Worse lying on side. Worse bending or sudden motion.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Irritable.
- Delirium.
- Moody.
- Irritable.
- Delirium.
- Moody.

### Eyes
- Vitreous opacities of eyes.

### Face
- Discolored bluish.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Burning pain in side, on walking holds his hand on side.

### Urinary & Genital
- Tumors, benign, fibroids.

### Extremities
- Leg cramps.
- Liver - Hepatic engorgements.
- Gallstones and gallstone colic.
- Jaundice.
- Liver cancer.
- Liver diseases.

### Neck & Back
- Itching of coccyx.

### Skin
- Red, coppery spots after the desquamation.
- COMMENTS - Potentized cholesterol gallstones.
- Gallstones and gallstone colic.
- Liver cancer, palliates dying 
liver cancer patients.
- Yingling reported some cures of gallstone colic and other diseases of the liver in the Medical Advance, August, 
1908 and noted that “In gallstone colic, the patient suffers so severely that it is almost impossible to obtain 
symptoms.
- In such a case, when one cannot give a well -selected remedy, give Cholesterinum and thus far it 
has never failed.
- “It can be used instead of Morphine in cases where the symptoms cannot be obtained for the proper selection 
of a remedy.
- It is very improbable that a person suffering from gallstone colic will wait very long for the physician to study 
the case.” 
Ameke claimed to have derived great advantages from its use in cases diagnosed as cancer of the liver, or in 
such obstinate engorgements that malignancy was suspected.
- Clarke cured a case in the last stage of liver disease.
- He had been given up by his medical attendant, who 
ordered him to make his will without delay.
- B urnett c laimed to have twice cured cancer of the liver with it and “in hepatic engorge ments that by reason 
of their intractable and slow yielding to well-selected remedies make one think of cancer.” 
In such conditions, where the diagnosis is in doubt, especially if the patient has been subjected to repeated 
attacks of biliary colic, Choi., he claimed is very satisfactory and at times its action even striking.
- It has been 
used with success in the removal of opacities of the vitreous.
- Burnett used the 3x or the 3c trituration and substantial doses.
- He commended it in “obstinate hepatic 
engorgements, which by reason of their obstinacy make one think interrogatively of cancer.”  
Also in “cases in which there appears to be a semi -malignant affection involving the left lobe of the liver and 
what lies between it and the pylorus and the pancreas.” In such cases Burnett gave alternately Choi.
- 3x and 
Iodoform 3x.