Gratiola



Abdomen

Shooting pains in the abdomen. Beatings in left hypochondrium (heating pain, burning). Pressive pain in abdomen, with pinchings (in umbilical region), which force the patient bend double ( better by the emission of flatulence). Inflation of the abdomen. Flatulent and pressive colic, with nausea and disagreeable risings. Rumbling, with nausea, eructation, and vertigo. Feeling of coldness in abdomen, lasting half an hour.

Stool

Urgent and fruitless want to evacuate. Constipation. Feces, hard, scanty, and tenacious, expelled with great effort. Nocturnal slimy diarrhoea, with tenesmus. Diarrhoea: stools, watery yellow-green, succeeded by burning at the anus, green frothy, coming out with great force. Stools with burning and protrusion of large stinging burning tumors. Passage of feces without being conscious of it. Discharge of ascarides. Pain, as from excoriation in the rectum. Burning pain in the rectum, during and after the evacuation. Shootings, itching, smarting, and throbbing in the anus. Blind hemorrhoids.

Urinary Organs

Diminished secretion of urine. Scanty and reddish urine, which becomes turbid on standing, with cloudy sediment. Burning in the urethra during and after micturition.

Male Sexual Organs

Stitches in left spermatic cord, ascending though the abdomen up to the chest. Painful rigidity of the penis after pollutions. Drawing pain in glans.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia premature, too profuse, and of too long duration. Masturbation. Nymphomania. Irritable condition of sexual organs, with congestions. Shootings in right breast, worse on rising, during menses.

Respiratory Organs

Dry cough, excited by a sensation of roughness in the chest, especially in the morning or at night. Nocturnal cough, with pain as from excoriation in the trachea, oppression of the chest and shivering. Choking even ascending.

Chest

Heat in the chest, then the head and hands, with redness of the face. Pressure on the chest. Shootings in the chest on breathing. Pimples on the chest, which burn after having been scratched.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart. Violent palpitation, particularly immediately after a stool, and with oppression of the chest.

Back and neck

Sensation as if the neck were seized with the hands. Darting from the left scapula to the shoulder and mamma. Sticking pain in lower dorsal vertebrae, in right kidney. Bruised pain in loins. Painful cramps in coccyx. Pressive or wrenching pain in coccyx after stool.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic pains in the shoulders, arms, fingers, particularly in elbow and wrist-joint. Itching in the palm of the (right) hand.

Lower Limbs

Bruised pain in the thigh, after a short walk. Lancinating tearing in tibia when sitting, disappearing when walking. Smarting itching to tibia. Shootings in legs and feet.

Generalities

Tearing in the limbs. Tetanus, with full consciousness while lying down after a meal, followed by a deep sleep with emission of semen, bruised feeling of the body, back and left arm on waking. The majority of symptoms appear at night, or when sitting, and after rising from a seat, or in the open air, contact better them. Great languor and prostration. Great loquacity and gaiety.

Skin

Itching, with burning after scratching. Running and corrosive eruptions, which resemble scabies.

Sleep

Irresistible drowsiness with yawning. Great drowsiness, with frequent yawning and inclination to lie down, especially in the afternoon. Deep sleep, like stupor.

Fever

Pulse small, intermittent. Great tendency to chilliness. Chilliness in a warm room, during sleep, after an evacuation, with the hair standing on end. Heat ascending to the face, with redness and increased external warmth. Constant vaporous exhalation from the body.

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