GAMBOGIA


Homeopathic remedy Gambogia drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Gamboge. HERING. Guttiferae.

Mind

      Irritable mood.

Sensorium

      Vertigo during rest or motion, morning when rising.

Heaviness in the whole head, with dulness, sleepiness and pain in the back.

Eyes

      Violent burning of the eyes and photophobia, evening or afternoon, better from walking in the open air, but returning in the morning.

Violent itching of the eyes in the evening.

Itching at the inner canthi.

Nightly agglutination of lids, burning in morning, photophobia through the day, and frequent stitching pain in eyes.

Ears

      Ringing in left ear all the time.

Nose

      Violent chronic sneezing.

Dryness of the right nostril,.

Teeth

      Tearing in all the right molars.

Sensation of coldness at the edge of the incisors.

Mouth

      Dryness of the the mouth.

Throat

      Violent stitches in the right side of the throat.

Pain as from soreness in the throat.

Rawness and burning in throat, causing constant hawking.

Desires Aversions

      Thirst after dinner, and especially evening.

Eating and Drinking

      After eating:, After dinner:.

Nausea and Vomiting

      Frequent violent empty eructations.

Nausea preceding from stomach, when walking in open air.

Nausea, inclination to vomit, accumulation of saliva in mouth.

Frightful vomiting and purging, with fainting.

Stomach

      Empty feeling in the stomach and abdomen.

Gnawing in the stomach.

Constant sore pain in the stomach.

Ulcerative pain in the stomach, passing off after eating.

Acute stitches in the stomach.

Abdomen

      Pinching in abdomen immediately after eating.

Frequent severe pinching in entire abdomen without urging; or, with diarrhoea and burning in anus, with relief of pain.

Rumbling and rolling in the bowels.

Inflation and tension of the abdomen, with pinching in the umbilical region.

Stool etc.

      Profuse discharge of flatus, especially evenings and nights.

Stools: watery, slimy, undigested, without smell; with pain in ileo-coecal region, which is sensitive to touch; during stool bearing down and colicky pain; prolapsus ani and cold sweat on the limbs; copious, watery, yellow, or like curdled milk, of offensive, sickening smell, expelled forcibly; dark green mucus, offensive and corrosive, discharged with a single somewhat prolonged effort; great relief after stool, as though an irritating substance were removed from the bowels; profuse, watery, with colic and tenesmus; diarrhoea, with burning pain and tenesmus; bloody, dysenteric.

Hard, insufficient stool, with strong urging, pressing and protrusion of the rectum.

Urine

      Stitches in the left kidney.

Infrequent urination.

Female Sexual Organs.

      Leucorrhoea.

Lungs

      Pressure in the middle of the chest Pain in the chest as if it were all raw.

Outer Chest

      Repeated extremely painful stitches in the sternum.

Weight on the chest, causing sleeplessness.

Neck Back

      Repeated gnawing in the os coccygis.

Upper Limbs

      Pain in the shoulders.

Stitching pains in the upper limbs, come on or are worse in evenings.

Position etc.

      Rest: Motion: Rising: Walking in open air:. The majority of symptoms come on while sitting, and pass off during motion in the open air.

Sleep

      sleepiness, great inclination to sleep.

Sleep broken by anxious dreams.

Anxious, vexatious dreams.

Time

      The conditions are especially apt to occur toward evening or at night.

Morning: Afternoon: Evening:, Night: Day: All the time:.

Chill, Fever.

     Sweat Violent chill, beginning in the back. Increased heat with anxiety.

Sides

      Right:,. Left:.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Touch: Scratching:.

Skin

      Violent itching in various parts of the body, burning after scratching, worse evening and nights.

After scratching, burning and ulcerative pain, with swelling and redness of the parts, worse evening and night.

Biting, like from ants, over the whole body, worse evening and night.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.