Gelsemium Sempervirens


Homeopathy medicine Gelsemium Sempervirens from William D. Gentry ‘s Rubrical and Regional Text Book of Homeopathic Materia Medica, comprising the characteristic symptoms of homeopathic remedies from drug provings, published in 1890….


1 Irritability at neck of bladder, causing constant urination (in hysterical women).

3 Urine:-

(a) Copious, clear and watery (Ign, Phos-ac.), relieving headache (Sang).

(b) At times clear and watery, at other times milky and turbid.

5 Enuresis and incontinence from paralysis of sphincter (Causticum) ( in nervous children).

7 Tenesmus of bladder (Canth, Merc-cor.).

9 Alternate dysuria and enuresis.

11 Spasm of bladder, with dysuria or enuresis or both in alternation.

13 Spasmodic retention of urine.

15 Albuminuria (of pregnancy).

17 Frequent urging, with scanty emission and tenesmus of bladder.

19 Feeling as if something remained behind after urinating.

21 Paralysis of bladder, which is distended up to naval, with constant dribbling, but no flow can be forced by making greatest effort.

23 Stream intermits.

25 Sphincter muscles paralyzed.

27 Loss of power of bladder (especially in old people or following diphtheria).

29 Fundus of bladder paralyzed and bladder enormously distended.

31 Dysuria (From stricture).

33 Nervous feeling about sphincter.

35 Paretic condition of sphincter muscle of bladder, causing enuresis (wetting of bed), and spasmodic retention of urine.

37 Involuntary micturition from exciting emotions.

William Daniel Gentry
William Daniel Gentry. (1836-1922) was the author of Concordance Repertory of the Materia Medica and The Rubical and Regional Textbook.