GINSENG


GINSENG symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy GINSENG…


INTRODUCTION

GINS. See “Bibliotheque de Geneve ” (Premiere Serie).

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Painful languor of the upper and lower extremities. coldness, trembling, and numbness of the hands, with deadness of the fingers. Drowsiness. Difficult waking, or waking with a start as in affright. Febrile motion, malaise with drowsiness, internal chilliness with external heat, tingling in the fingers, yawning and stretching, chilliness with shaking, thirst, dry mouth, drawing in the mouth, drawing in the region of the stomach, weakness of he thighs and legs as after a severe illness,. Great sensitiveness to cold and disposition to pains as if bruised.

HEAD.

Vertigo. Cloudiness. Difficulty of thinking. forgetfulness. Sensitiveness of the scalp. Darting from the right side of the forehead to the orbit, with heaviness of the eye-lid, unconquerable drowsiness, heat into the head, pressure into he temples.

EYES.

Falling of the upper lids, which are hey and painful. Diplopia on looking at objects sharply.

FACE.

Alternate redness and paleness. Burning erythematous redness,.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.

The tongue is red and burning, then white in the middle. Nausea and inclination of vomit, with eructations affording relief.

STOMACH.

Pressure and distention of the stomach, with feeling of distention in the abdomen. Painful drawing in the region of he stomach, as if from hunger, preceded by chilliness, with painful stitches in the region of the heart, violent wandering pains in the abdomen, distention of the stomach, with beating, anguish, inclination to vomit, and pains in the region of the heart. Counteractive pain in the stomach, with anguish, oppression of breathing, drawing in the stomach, and stitches in the slight side which arrest the breathing.

ABDOMEN.

Pain in the right lower side of the abdomen, extending into the groin. Pains in the hypogastrium, with violent pressure in the groin. Colic, extending in to the stomach, with pressure and pain when pressing on the parts. Pains in the abdomen as f compressed. distended, painful abdomen, with bruised feeling in the small of the back.

STOOL AND URINE.

Hard stool, with subsequent burning at the anus, tenesmus, and stitches of the rectum. Liquid stools in the evening, Preceded by colic. Frequent desire to urinate, with smarting burning and itching in the urethra. Yellow urine, with bricking dust sediment.

CHEST.

Oppression of the chest, with stitches in the pit of the stomach and in the region of the kidneys languor.

BACK.

Lancinations between the scapula. Heaviness in the nape of the neck and pain as if bruised along the back.

LEGS.

Heaviness of the lower limbs, with pain.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.