GELSEMIUM


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


      Yellow Jessamine. W.M.E.PAYNE. Loganiaceae.

Mind

      Cataleptic immobility, with dilated pupils closed eyes, but conscious.

Delirium in sleep; half waking, with incoherent talk.

Desires to be left alone; irritable, sensitive.

Loquacity, brilliant eyes, shooting through temples and nasal sinuses; fever.

Depression of spirits; anxiety following a somewhat cheerful, careless mood.

Solicitude about the present.

Fear of death.

Mental exertions cause a sense of helplessness from brain weakness; inability to attend to anything requiring thought.

Complaints from bad or exciting news; from some unusual ordeal.

Sensorium

      Vertigo, confusion of the head, spreading from occiput over whole head; pupils dilated, dim sight; general depression from heat of sun or summer.

Vertigo, dim vision, fever; seems as if intoxicated when trying to move; worse from smoking.

Giddy, with loss of sight, chilliness, accelerated pulse; dulness of sight or double sight.

when attempting to move, the muscles refuse to obey the will; giddy, confused.

Child dizzy, when carried seizes hold of the nurse, fearing that it will fall.

Inner Head

      Severe pain in forehead and vertex, dim sight roaring in ears; head feels enlarged and vertex, dim sight, roaring in ears; head feels enlarged; ‘ wild feeling.’ alternating with uterine pains.

Hyperaemia of the brain; dull feeling in forehead and vertex, and a fulness in the region of the medulla before spasms.

Fulness in the head, heat of the face, chilliness; pulsation of the carotids; thick speech; brain feels as if bruised; eyeballs feel raw when moving them; double vision.

Heaviness of the head slightly relieved by shaking the head; better after profuse micturition.

Cerebro-spinal meningitis; stage of congestion; severe chill, dilated pupils; congestion of spine and brain.

Outer Head

      Dull, dragging pain in occiput, mastoid and upper cervical regions, extending to shoulders; better quietly resting the head on a high pillow, with eyes half closed; eyes, heavy, sleepy, red.

Pressure on the vertex so great as to extend into shoulders; head feels very heavy.

Cramp-like drawing and tearing; worse from study and exertion, after fever and ague.

Neuralgic headache beginning in upper cervical spine; vertebra prominence sensitive; pains extended over head, causing a bursting pain in forehead and eyeballs; worse at 10 A.M., when lying; with nausea, vomit, cold sweat, cold feet.

Sensation of a band around head above ears; scalp sore.

Eyes

      Pupils dilated.

Amaurosis of congestive origin; after apoplexy.

Sees double, when inclining the head towards the shoulder.

Confused vision, eyes look heavy.

Hazy, vitreous, very fine. Increased tension, balls sore.

Serous iritis; serous choroiditis; dull pain to back of head, better from hot applications.

Glaucoma from increased secretion rather than from obstructed excretion.

Detached retina from myopia, severe neuralgia, etc.

Astigmatism Eyeballs oscillate laterally when looking steadily.

Eyelids heavy. Eyes close when looking steadily.

Eyes feels sore in evening, sensitive to light with lachrymation; lids feel full and congested.

Ears

      Sudden transient loss of hearing, rushing and roaring in the ears.

Catarrhal deafness, with pain from throat into middle ear.

Nose

      Violent morning paroxysms of sneezing; tingling in nose.

Watery, excoriating discharge; a feeling from throat up into left nostril, like a stream of scalding water; right nostril stopped up; nasal voice.

Coryza in spring and summer weather.

Edges of nostrils red, sore.

Fulness at root of nose; pains extending to neck and clavicles.

Face

      Expression heavy, dull, drowsy.

Face: red: yellow, jaundiced; pale, sickly look.

Muscles of face, especially around the mouth, seem-contracted, making speech difficult.

Orbital neuralgia in distinct paroxysms, with contractions and twitchings of the muscles on the affected side.

Lower Face

      Lips dry; coated with dark mucus.

Teeth

      Toothache from a cold, or purely nervous; pains from teeth to temple.

Dentition; Child frantic, awakens with sudden screams; face deep red; fontanelle pulsates too strongly; pain about ear.

Tongue etc.

      Taste: foul, with blood-colored saliva; bitter.

Clammy, feverish, during the sweat.

Tongue; yellowish-white, breath fetid;l coated thick, brown; nearly clean; margin red, centre white.

Tongue and glottis partially paralyzed; speech thick, as if drunk put tongue out, it trembles so; red, raw, painful, inflamed in the middle.

Throat

      Fauces dry, burning, irritated, sore.

Throat feels as if filled up; tonsils inflamed,. swollen, mostly in or beginning in the right.

Swallowing causes shooting in the ear.

Dysphagia: paralysis of the organs of deglutition.

Diphtheria, local tingling of parts during the fever; incipient paralysis impaired vision.

Painful sensation of a lump in oesophagus.

Burning in the oesophagus to the stomach.

Desires Aversions

      Little appetite and thirst, but can take food or drink.

Eating and Drinking

      Wine aggravates, especially the headache and eye symptoms.

Thirst absent or slight.

Nausea and Vomiting

      Eructations sour.

Nausea, giddiness, headache.

Stomach

      Cramp in the stomach, better riding and sitting erect.

Feeling of emptiness and weakness in stomach and bowels.

Rumbling and full pain in the epigastrium, relieved by passage of flatus.

Oppression and fulness in the stomach, worse from pressure of clothing.

Hypochondria

      Passive congestion of the liver, with vertigo, dim sight and fulness of the head.

Abdomen

      Sudden spasmodic pain in the upper part of the abdomen, leaving a sensation of contraction and causing him to cry out.

Acute enteritis (catarrhal) during damp weather; warm or cold.

Gnawing pain in the transverse colon.

Wandering, pinching wind colic, less when sitting erect; more beginning to move, less during continual motion.

Periodical colic, with yellow diarrhoea; evening.

Griping in the lower abdomen, relieved by passing copious bilious stools.

Tenderness in the right iliac region during typhus.

Rumbling in the abdomen, with discharge of wind up and down.

Sensation of soreness of the abdominal walls.

Stool.

     etc.

Stools: yellow, fecal; bilious; cream-colored clay-colored; color of green tea.

Diarrhoea: in nervous persons, subject to nervous chills; after sudden emotions, as grief,. fright, bad news, the anticipation of an unusual ordeal.

Urine

      Copious flow, relieving headache.

Incontinence from paralysis of the sphincter; nervous children.

Alternate dysuria and enuresis: spasms of bladder.

Albuminuria :.

Male Sexual Organs

      Sexual organs irritable, weak; involuntary emissions without erections; spermatorrhoea.

Emission of semen during stool.

Genitals cold, relaxed dragging pains in the testicles.

Suppressed gonorrhoea; followed by rheumatism or orchitis.

Profuse warm sweat on the scrotum.

Female Sexual Organs

      Threatened abortion from sudden depressing emotions.

Uterus, as if squeezed by a hand; anteflexion.

Ovarian irritation with the characteristic headache.

Menses suppressed, with congestion to the head; sharp darting, twitching pains in face and head; convulsions (every evening).

Dysmenorrhoea, preceded by sick headache, vomiting; congestion to head; deep red face; bearing down in the abdomen.

Leucorrhoea white, with aching across the lower part of back; heavy fulness in uterine region; amenorrhoea.

Pregnancy

      During pregnancy: double vision, headache, drowsiness, vertigo, pulsating carotids, small, slow pulse; cannot walk or muscles will not obey; cramps in the abdomen and legs; convulsions with unconsciousness.

Labor-pains gone, os widely dilated, complete atony, drowsy. Albuminuria.

Albuminuria, thirstless, erratic pains.

Labor delayed by rigid os; or when pains go from before backward, the uterus seems to go upward. Pains leave womb and fly all over; os rigid.

Sensation like a wave, from uterus to throat, ending with a choking feeling; this seems to impede labor; impending spasms Convulsions during labor:.

Nervous chills, “: chatters”; first stage of labor.

Larynx

      Hoarseness in paroxysms, with dry, rough throat; rawness of the chest, catarrh.

Paralysis of glottis.

Hawking bloody water.

Breathing

      Slow breathing and slow pulse; heavy, labored; congestion to the chest.

Long crowing inspiration; sudden and forcible expiration; spasm of the glottis.

Cough

      Cough from tickling or roughness of the fauces; hoarse; rawness and soreness of the chest; coryza; bronchial catarrh.

Croupy cough; measles.

Lungs

      Congestive pneumonia with suffering under the scapulae, both sides; caused by checked sweat. Short paroxysms of pain in superior part of right lung, on taking a deep breath; pulse slow, full.

Heart Pulse

      Excessive action of the heart.

A Peculiar action of the heart, as though it attempted its beat which it failed fully to accomplish, the pulse intermitting each time; worse lying, especially on the left side.

Fears that unless constantly on the move, her heart will cease beating.

Nervous chill, yet skin is warm. wants to be held that she may not shake so. Heart disease.

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.