Homeopathy Remedy Gnaphalium


Gnaphalium homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Gnaphalium…


      A tincture is made of the entire fresh plant of Gnaphalium polycephalum, Michx.

Generalities

      Weak all the morning; in morning, and unrefreshed, after being awakened in the night; at night, perhaps from over-mental and physical effort during the day, with uneasiness; from diarrhoea.

Mind and Head

      Irritability after the diarrhoea. Headache from 3 to 4 P.M., with muddy feeling about head, not (>) smoking at 8 P.M., then night -sweat, headache, (>) bathing with bay rum. Morning on waking, fulness about temples like threatening of nervous headache (which is periodic with him, usually after excessive smoking or mental effort or anxiety), (>) washing head with cold water. Pain in occiput. Vertigo, (<) rising from a recumbent position.

Eyes and Face

      Pain about r. eye in morning after rising. Intermittent shooting in eyeballs. Face bloated and expression heavy. Intermittent neuralgia upper jaw.

Mouth

      Tongue covered with long white fur; furred and mouth dry at 7 A.M. Dryness at 2: 30 A.M. and bad taste.” Furry” feeling in morning on waking, and bad taste, (>) washing with cold water.

Taste flat, sweetish, sickening; T. as after chewing slippery-elm bark.

Stomach and Abdomen

      Appetite diminished. Almost aversion to food after diarrhoea. Attacks of hiccough. Nausea all night, with pain in abdomen. Vomiting, with purging. Flatus in stomach, with windy eructations and nausea. Borborygmi, with frequent emission of flatus; B., with griping during the day, in the evening diarrhoeic stool, with uneasiness in bowels till sleep. Pain in abdomen in morning, also with flatulence; P. in various parts of abdomen, abdomen sensitive to pressure, (<) region of caecum. Weight in pelvis.

Stool

      Ineffectual attempt. Liquid, dark, offensive; L. and copious at night; three L., at night, with pain and nausea. Loose, pale. Diarrhoea, frequent; profuse D., with pain in abdomen all day; D. early in morning, again before noon, with pain and rumbling in abdomen, diminished urine, loss of appetite and taste. Early. Large, in afternoon after a good stool in morning. Constipation, preceded and followed by diarrhoea.

Urinary and Sexual Organs

      Bladder feels full and tense, even when just emptied. Urine copious, pale, inodorous very free from sediment. Urine scanty. Frequent pain in region of prostate gland. Occasional stinging in glans. Erections morning; waking at night, with desire. Desire increased.

Clinical Dysmenorrhoea scanty menstruations, chocolate brown, with distress in pelvic region. Acne of the face, nodes under the skin, face and mottled and menstruation scanty. Erythema around anus and genitals.

Chest and Back

      Pain in chest darting from side to side. Pain in kidneys. Numbness of lower part of back and lumbago.

Extremities

      Weakness of arms. Rheumatic pains in elbows; in knees and ankles. Pain along the sciatic nerve and its larger ramifications. Numbness occasionally takes the place of the sciatica, and then walking is very fatiguing (Phyto). Cramp in calves; in feet, (<) in bed. Gouty pains in great toes

Clinical Sciatica, intense pains extending to ramifications of the nerve, with feeling of numbness, the numbness sometimes alternating with the pains; these pains extend into the toes; Gnap has cured rheumatoid pain confined to the toe.

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.