Gaultheria


Gaultheria signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Gaultheria is used…


      Gaultheria procumbensis. Wintergreen. *N.O. Ericaceae. Tincture of fresh leaves, Oil obtained from leaves. An evergreen trailing vine found in cool, damp woods. The oil contains methyl salicylate, and is one of the sources of Salicin.

Clinical

Gastritis. Neuralgia. Pleurodynia. Rheumatism. Sciatica.

Characteristics

Several cases of poisoning with the oil have been recorded in which symptoms of acute gastritis appeared: prolonged vomiting, set up afresh by the least thing taken, as a cup of water, severe pain in epigastrium, slow, laborious breathing, insensibility and hot skin. Inhalation of Ammonia around the patients from stupor. ***B.F.Lang (*H.R., ix. 214, 240) has related his experience with material does in _ ciliary neuralgia, facial neuralgia, gastric, ovarian, uterine, and menstrual neuralgias, sciatica, and inflammatory rheumatism.

Relations

*Compare: Bryonia, Rhus, Salol., Nat-salicyl., Kalmia, Ledum.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Very stupid soon.

Ears

Marked dulness of heating.

Throat

Tongue dry, smooth, and slightly swollen, speech rather indistinct from the swelling.

Stomach

Inordinate, uncontrollable appetite for food, notwithstanding irritability of stomach, everything taken, even cold water, is immediately rejected. Very severe pain in epigastrium and inferior part of the hypochondria, greatly worse by pressure of finger.

Respiratory Organs

Pleurodynia with pain in anterior mediastinum.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica