Gelsemium



Staggering as if intoxicated when trying to move, worse from smoking. Light headed and dizzy, worse by sudden movement of the head, and walking, Giddiness as if intoxicated, as if he should fall down. Dizziness and blurred vision. Giddiness with loss of sight, chilliness, accelerated pulse, dulness of vision, double vision. Sensation of falling in children, child starts, grasps nurse or crib and screams out from fear of falling. Intense pain over right eye, as if forehead would come right over eyes and close them. Sick headache, principally right temple, beginning in the morning and increasing during day, worse from motion and light, better after lying down, better by sleep or vomiting. Neuralgic headache, beginning in upper cervical spine, vertebra prominence sensitive, numbness of occipital region, pains extend over head, causing a bursting pain in forehead and eyeballs, worse at 10 a.m., when lying, with nausea, vomiting, cold sweat, cold feet. Cerebrospinal meningitis, stage of congestion, severe chill, dilated pupils, congestion of spine and brain. Fullness in the head, with heat in the face and chilliness. Great heaviness of the head, relieved by profuse micturition. Pressure on vertex, so great as to extend into shoulders, head feels very heavy. Pain as from a tape around the head. Dull pain in the back very heavy. Pain as from a tape around the head. Dull pain in the back part of the head after breakfast, worse when moving and stooping. Back part of head seems to have a spot four inches square that it turning to ice. Sensation as if the brain were bruised. With the headache giddiness, faintness, pain in the neck, pulsation of the carotid arteries, pain in the limbs, great drowsiness, sneezing, double vision, loss of sight. Sensation of contraction of the skin in the middle of the forehead. Itching on the head (face, neck, shoulders), preventing sleep.

Eyes

Eyes feel bruised. Yellow colour of the eyes. Drooping of the eyelids, they are heavy, can hardly open them or keep them open. Fullness and congestion of the eyelids. Double vision controllable by the strength of the will, or when looking sideways, not when looking straight forward. Eyeballs oscillate laterally when using them. Double vision, cannot tell which side of the street he is on. Diplopia and dim vision during pregnancy. Amaurosis from masturbation. Smoky appearance before the eyes, with pain above them. Detached retina. Dimness of sight, and vertigo. Cannot see anything (complete blindness). Sudden blindness. Pupils dilated. Aversion to light, more to candle- light. Thirst for light. Confusion of sight, blindness, astigmatism.

Ears

Sudden loss of hearing for a short time, rushing and roaring in ears. Catarrhal deafness, with pain from throat into middle ear. (Deafness and loss of speech from quinine.) Earache from cold.

Nose

Sneezing followed by tingling and fullness in the nose. Early morning sneezing, streaming of water from nose. Sneezing with fluent coryza, profuse watery discharge excoriates the nostrils. Sensation of fullness at root of nose extending to neck and clavicles.

Face

Heavy, dull expression of the countenance. Heavy, besotted expression, flushed and hot to the touch. Heat of the face with fullness in head and cold feet. Lips dry, hot, and coated. Paralysis of upper lips after prolonged conversation. Yellow colour of the face. Paleness and nausea. Erythema of the face and neck. The muscles of the face seem to be contracted, especially around the mouth, making it difficult to speak. Orbital neuralgia in distinct paroxysms, with contractions and twitching of the muscles on the affected side. Stiffness of the jaws, the jaws are locked. Lower jaw dropped. Chin quivers incessantly. Lower jaw began wagging sideways, had no control over it.

Mouth

Saliva coloured yellow as from blood. The tongue is coated yellowish-white with fetid breath. Putrid taste and fetid breath. Sticky, feverish feeling in the mouth. Lips dry, coated with dark mucus. Thick coating of the tongue (during the chill). Tongue red, raw, painful, dry, inflamed in the middle. Numbness of the tongue, feels so thick he can hardly speak, partial paralysis.

Throat

Dryness and burning in throat. Dry roughness in throat when coughing. Dryness of throat with hoarseness. Sensation of heat and constriction in throat. Burning in the mouth extending to throat and stomach. Spasmodic sensations and cramp-like pains in gullet. Sensation as if a foreign body were lodged in the throat. Difficult deglutition (paralytic dysphagia). Swallowing causes shooting into the ear. Diphtheria, local tingling of the parts during the fever, incipient paralysis.

Stomach

Thirst (during the perspiration). Increased appetite, easily satisfied with small quantities of food. Sour eructations. Nausea (with giddiness and headache). Sensation of emptiness in the stomach. Feeling of emptiness and weakness in the stomach and bowels. Oppression and fullness in stomach, worse from pressure of clothing. Burning in the stomach extending to the mouth.

Abdomen

Gnawing pain in the transverse colon. Sudden spasmodic pains in upper part of abdomen, compelling him to cry, leaving a sensation of contraction. Sensation of soreness in abdominal walls. Tenderness in right iliac region during typhus. Rumbling in abdomen with discharge of wind above and below. Periodic colic with diarrhoea (yellow discharges setting in the evening.) Acute catarrhal enteritis during damp weather.

Stool

Frequent discharge of flatus. The soft stool is passed with difficulty as if the sphincter ani resisted the passage by contraction. Paralysis of the sphincter ani, with disposition to prolapsus ani. Stools loose, colour of tea, dark yellow. Stools yellow, fecal, bilious, cream-coloured, clay-coloured, green. Diarrhoea with intermittent fever. Diarrhoea after sudden emotions, grief, fright, bad news, anticipation of any unusual ordeal.

Urinary Organs

Frequent micturition (relieving the headache). Copious discharge of clear, limpid urine, relieving the headache. Incontinence from paralysis of the sphincter, in nervous children. Tenesmus of the bladder. Irritable neck of bladder (in hysterical women), calling for constant urination.

Male Sexual Organs

Genitals cold and relaxed. Involuntary emission of semen without at erection, also during stool. Excitable sexual desire (spermatorrhea). Sexual power exhausted, slightest caress causes an emission. Painful redness at the urethra. (Secondary gonorrhea.).

Female Sexual Organs

Sensation of heaviness in the uterus. Sensation as if uterus squeezed by a band. Suppressed menstruations with convulsions (every evening). Metrorrhagia, almost continuous flow without any pain, after ague suppressed by quinine. Severe, sharp, labour- like pains extending to back and hips. Dizziness and headache with amenorrhea Ailments from masturbation with depression and languor. Rigidity of the neck of the uterus. Spasmodic or neuralgic dysmenorrhea. Vaginismus. Leucorrhoea, white, in gushes, with backache. Spasmodic labour-pains. False labour- pains, rigid os. Premature labour (abortion) (after fright). During pregnancy, violent pains in the uterus, headache, drowsiness, double vision, obscuration of sight, giddiness, pulsation of the carotid arteries, small, slow pulse Cramps in the abdomen and legs during pregnancy, diplopia, drowsiness, loss of muscular power, convulsion. Inefficient labour-pains or none at all, os widely diplopia, complete atony.

Respiratory Organs

Voice weak. Paralysis of the glottis with difficult deglutition. Spasm of the glottis, in evening, threatening suffocation. Roughness of the throat, raw, as if ulcerated in the larynx. Bronchitis. Hoarseness with dryness of the throat. Burning in the larynx, descending into the trachea. Dry cough with soreness of the chest and fluent coryza. Breathing frequent.

Chest

Heaviness in middle of chest (afternoon). Sensation of constriction in the lower thorax. Extreme and alarming difficulty of breathing, extreme restlessness from threatened suffocation. Stitches in the chest in region of heart. Paralysis of the lungs.

Heart and Pulse

Irregular beating of the heart, palpitation. Feeling as if the heart would stop beating if she did not move about. Stitches in the region of the heart. Pain in the heart when rising from a seat. Pulse frequent, soft, weak, almost imperceptible.

Back and neck

Pulsation of the carotid arteries (during pregnancy). The muscles of the neck feel bruised. Sensation of constriction in right side of neck. Pains in the neck and under left shoulder- blade. Pains in neck like those of cerebrospinal congestion. Myalgic pains in the neck, mostly in upper part of the sternocleido muscles, back of the parotid glands. Pains from the spine to the head and shoulders. Congestion of spine, prostration, languor, muscles feel bruised, and do not obey the will. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral regions, cannot walk, muscles will not obey. Locomotor ataxia. Paraplegia.

Limbs

Trembling in all the limbs. Deep-seated, dull aching in the

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

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