Gossypium


Gossypium homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


   Common name: Cotton plant.

Introduction

Gossypium herbaceum, L. (include G. album, Ham, “short staple,” and G. nigrum, Ham, Sea island cotton).

Natural order: Malvaceae.

Preparation: Tincture of the root.

Mind

Uneasiness and anxiety, with sighing.

Head

Pain, first drawing, then stinging, extending from both temporal bones to middle of frontal bone. Stinging pain in head, going from forehead to vertex. Knocking pain in right parietal bone.

Eye

Drawing pain over the eyes, with stinging pain in the pupils.

Nose

Drawing pain over the eyes, with stinging pain in the pupils.

Mouth

Taste of bad (rotten) eggs (similar to the taste produced by large doses of Hepar. sulph, and is that of sulfuretted hydrogen); better after breakfast.

Throat

Tonsils much swollen, the right one most.

Stomach

Nausea, with accumulation of saliva in mouth. Nausea, with inclination to vomit, before breakfast; in the morning. Drawing pain from both hypochondriac regions to pit of stomach.

Rotating pain in pit of stomach.

Abdomen

Stitching pain in right hypochondrium, lasting for a few minutes. The pains in the hypochondriac regions come and go.

Soft tumor between the left thigh and vulva, at first the size of a pea, and increased to the size of a pigeon’s egg, secreting a watery fluid, with sticking pain as if caused by needle, worse at night.

Sexual organs

Stinging pain in both ovarian regions, and at the same time drawing towards the uterus, lasting about ten minutes at a time.

The pains in the ovarian regions come and go. Swelling of the outer in the of left labium, accompanied by intolerable itching.

Some swelling in the right labium, but less than in the left. Menses too watery, and nineteen days too late.

Superior Extremities.

Tearing pains in right arm and hand. Heavy feeling in both hands, better when hanging them down, and worse in the warmth of bed. Jumping pains from one finger to another.

Inferior Extremities.

Trembling in both legs when standing; better when sitting or lying. Temporary twitching in both legs, changing from one to the other. Weariness and crushed feeling in both legs, particularly when going upstairs, and better when lying down.

Tearing pain from the lower part of the right thigh down to the instep, then jumping over to the left leg. Twitching in both thighs, proceeding from the hip to the knee. Sensation as if the marrow in the bones of the legs was being squeezed out.

Drawing pain in the caps of both knees, and from the calves to the ankles. Continual drawing pain in legs, from above downwards. Drawing pain in right shin-bone, from the knee to the ankle. Severe contracting pain in left foot, worse from motion and better from rest.

General Symptoms.

General lassitude, with pains as if beaten. The pains are of stinging, drawing, tearing, and sometimes burning character, extending from one place to another, or jumping from one place to another, and from one limb to the opposite one. The pains generally take the direction from above downwards.

Skin

Eruptions, Round little spots around the left ankle, which itch intensely. Small, round, dark-red spots, with pale-red circles, around the knee caps and over the shin-bones. These spots itch very much, and scratching brings on intense burning.

The outer skin of both labia studded with innumerable pale, somewhat reddish granules. Pale-red papular eruptions on the backs of both hands, with intense itching; scratching is followed by a watery exudation. Subjective. The itching of the eruption on the skin turns to burning after scratching.

Itching of the skin over the whole body. Soreness between the thighs and vulva, with a secretion. Crawling sensation in all the fingers, as if from the moving of worms.

Fever

Chilliness of whole body externally, with heat internally.

Conditions.-

Aggravation. (Morning), Before breakfast, nausea.

(Night), Pain in tumor between thigh and vulva.

(Motion), Most pains.

(Warmth of bed), Heavy feeling in hands.

Amelioration

(After breakfast), Bad taste.

(Hanging the parts down), Heavy feeling in hands.

(Rest), Most pains.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.