Fever
Characteristic – The conditions calling for Gambogia are apt to occur especially toward evening or night.
Frightful vomiting and purging with fainting (Elat., Verbascum).
Stool: profuse, watery, with colic and tenesmus, dark green mucus, offensive, corrosive, discharged with a single, somewhat prolonged effort, great relief after stool as if an irritating substance were removed from the bowels.
Aggravation: Evening and night, while sitting.
Amelioration: During motion in the open air.
Type: Quotidian, tertian, double tertian, intermittent often becomes remittent. Postponing oftener than anticipating.
Time: 7 p.m., Evening 6 to 8 p.m., lasting all night (Lycopodium, Pulsatilla, Rhus, Sarac., last all night).
Chill: With thirst. Violent shaking at 7 P.M., beginning in the back, with external coldness of whole body, continues till 4 A.M. (chill lasts 12 hours, Cantharis – 24 hours, Aranea ). Internal and external coldness, at 6 to 8 p.m., lasting from a quarter to two hours, or the whole night to 5 A.M. Sensation of chilliness and elongation of incisor teeth. Chill for two hours with chattering of the teeth, with violent thirst, the skin is warm to the touch. Sudden shaking chill at night, waking him from sleep, and as suddenly disappearing. Eructations, yawning.
Heat: Increased warmth, with anxiety and flushes of heat. Always slight, often wanting.
Sweat: Over whole body on waking at 4 A.M. Early morning sweat.
Analysis – The fevers of gambogia occur while diarrhea is prevalent. The paroxysm consists almost wholly of the cold stage, the others being light or wanting. Frightful vomiting and purging (Elat., Verbascum), evening paroxysm.
