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Gelsemium Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification

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  • Miasm: Emotional Miasm
  • Temperament: ☀️ Hot
  • Aggravation: 🌇 Morning

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🧬 Remedy Miasm: Emotional Miasm This remedy operates beyond physical miasms to balance emotional distress and inner harmony. Bach Flower Remedies are recognized for balancing psychological and emotional states.
🌸 Bach Flower Remedy:
This remedy is one of the 38 natural remedies discovered by Dr. Edward Bach. It works primarily on balancing emotional and mental states, fears, despair, and psychological imbalances, rather than physical symptoms.
▲ GENERAL
  • First introduced by Hale, Gelsemium belongs to the same order of plants as Nux -v and Cur., and ranks among the vegetable polycrests.
  • Like its botanical relatives.
  • Gels, is a great paralyzer.
  • Mental and bodily paresis.
  • Sluggish mind.
  • Relaxed muscular system, limbs feel so heavy he can hardly move them.
  • Functional paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of all descriptions, of various groups of muscles.
  • Various degrees of motor paralysis.
  • Ptosis in the eye muscles and diplopia.
  • Loss of the ability to swallow.
  • Diarrhea from depressing emotions or bad news.
  • Post-diphtheria paralysis.
  • Muscular weakness, lack of muscular coordination.
  • In muscles, especially in the limbs, it causes overpowering aching, tiredness, heaviness, weakness and sore ness.
  • General prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. and complete relaxation.
  • Dizziness, drowsiness and trembling.
  • Tremors or twitchings of single muscles, face, chin tongue etc.
  • Hysterical convul sions.
  • Chorea of pregnancy.
  • Parkinson’s disease.
  • Body feels light in nervous, hys terical subjects.
  • Mental prostration, anxiety.
  • Lassitude (Mur-ac.), but the patient does not express it.
  • Slow pulse, tired feeling.
  • Apathetic and dull.
  • Circulation becomes sluggish, causing arterial or venous congestion with sense of fullness and heaviness in different organs.
  • Coma and strokes.
  • Alternate pelvic organ symptoms with head symptoms.
  • Debility after seminal discharges, great prostration from irritability of seminal vesicles.
  • Ca tarrh of mucus membranes with watery discharges.
  • InfluenzaViral infection of the respiratory tract (flu)A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane.. with malaise.
  • Never well since influenza.
  • Measles.
  • Pellagra.
  • Wants to lie down quietly, half reclined, wants to be held.
  • Children have a fear of fall ing, they can grab the nurse or crib (Bor.).
  • General depression from heat of sun.
  • Cold and dampness brings on many complaints.
  • Effects of bad news, anger, grief when accompanied by trembling and fatigue.
  • Drug overdose.
  • Nervous disorders from tobacco
▲ MODALITIES ETC
  • Better from profuse urination.
  • Better alcoholic drinks, s timulants.
  • Better mental efforts.
  • Better open air.
  • Better sweating.
  • Better shaking.
  • Better bending forwards.
  • Better continued mo tion.
  • Better reclining.
  • Better with head held high.
  • Better in afternoon.
  • Worse emotions or excitement.
  • Worse surprise, anxiety.
  • Worse shocks, ordeals.
  • Worse bad news.
  • Worse from tobacco smoking.
  • Worse dentition.
  • Worse motion.
  • Worse from anticipation.
  • Worse thinking of his ailments.
  • Worse damp weather.
  • Worse humid weather, spring.
  • Worse fog.
  • Worse before a thunderstorm.
  • Worse heat of sun.
  • Worse summer.
  • Worse at 10 a.m.
  • Worse periodically
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidotes: Atrop, Chin., Coff., Dig., Nux -m. Coff., Dig., Alcoholic stimulants relieve all
complaints where Gels, is useful. In cases of poisoning, artificial respiration and faradization of respiratory
muscles. Foy found Nitro-glycerine a perfect antidote in one case. Jephson antidoted his case with Strychnine.
It antidotes: Mag-p. It antagonizes: Atrop., Op. Compare: (1) Bell - labor, Caul., Caust. - complaints of women,
Cocc., Con., Cur. - paralysis. (2) Ferr -p. - fever, Phos. - effect of thunderstorms. Ol -an., Verat. - headache.
Bor. - sense of falling. (3) Bry. - typhoid, dreads movemen t. Gels, because he is so weak, Bry. because
movement worse pains. (4) Hyper, worse from fog. Ign. - gastric disorders of cigar makers, Bapt., Ip., Aeon.,
Cimic., Mag-p. (5) Culx. - vertigo on blowing the nose with full ness of the ears. Compatible: Bap. (in typhoid
influenza). Ip. (in dumb ague).

▲ MIND
  • Mental dullness, dizzy, drowsy and droopy.
  • Dazed mind.
  • Answers slowly.
  • Weak, tired, delicate, timid.
  • Desire to be quiet, to be left alone.
  • Apathy, regarding their illness.
  • Mental exertion cause a sense of helplessness and weakness.
  • Mental exhaustion.
  • Dullness, languor, list less.
  • Incapacity to think or fix the attention.
  • Vacant feeling on attempting to concentrate.
  • Stupefaction during vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement..
  • Vanishing of thoughts on mental exertion.
  • Great depression with confusion of mind and exhaustion.
  • Depression of spirits.
  • Desire for be alone.
  • Apathy and indolence.
  • Indifference to business affairs.
  • Inability to attend to anything requiring thought.
  • Wants to be quiet.
  • Irritability, doesn't wish to be spoken to Nervous, irritable, easily angered.
  • Excitable, easy to anger, especially in children and adolescents.
  • Bad effectsfrom fright, fear, badnews.
  • Fear of falling, especially in children (Bor.).
  • Fear of doctors anddentists.
  • Stage fright.
  • Emotional excitement, fear, etc., lead to bodily ailments.
  • Effects of grief, cannot cry, broods over her loss.
  • Ailments from anticipation.
  • Nervous dread of appearing in public.
  • Fear of upcoming ordeals.
  • Dread of ordeals, pain.
  • Lack of courage.
  • Anticipation of any unusual ordeal, preparing for church, theatre, or to meet an engagement, brings on diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
  • Fear of going to doctor or dentist.
  • Anxiety about present and future.
  • Anxiety about health.
  • Anxiety during thunderstorm.
  • Apprehensive feeling at approach of thunderstorm.
  • Overpowering fear, with fatigue, exhaustion and drowsiness.
  • Fear from traumatic shock.
  • Fear of losing self -control.
  • Fear that unless on the move the heart will cease beating.
  • Fear of falling.
  • Child starts and grasps the nurse, and screams as if afraid of falling (Bor.
  • ).
  • Fear of death.
  • Fear of pain.
  • Fear of injury.
  • Confusion, acts as if crazy.
  • Delirious on falling to sleep.
  • Delirium with incoherent talk.
  • Sensation of intoxication during diarrhea.
  • Acute mania after melancholy.
  • Absolute lack of fear.
  • High places aggravates.
  • Impulse to jump from a height, from window.
  • Cataleptic immobility with dilated pupils, closed eyes but conscious.
  • Mental dullness, dizzy, drowsy and droopy.
  • Dazed mind.
  • Answers slowly.
  • Weak, tired, delicate, timid.
  • Desire to be quiet, to be left alone.
  • Apathy, regarding their illness.
  • Mental exertion cause a sense of helplessness and weakness.
  • Mental exhaustion.
  • Dullness, languor, list less.
  • Incapacity to think or fix the attention.
  • Vacant feeling on attempting to concentrate.
  • Stupefaction during vertigo.
  • Vanishing of thoughts on mental exertion.
  • Great depression with confusion of mind and exhaustion.
  • Depression of spirits.
  • Desire for be alone.
  • Apathy and indolence.
  • Indifference to business affairs.
  • Inability to attend to anything requiring thought.
  • Wants to be quiet.
  • Irritability, doesn't wish to be spoken to Nervous, irritable, easily angered.
  • Excitable, easy to anger, especially in children and adolescents.
  • Bad effectsfrom fright, fear, badnews.
  • Fear of falling, especially in children (Bor.).
  • Fear of doctors anddentists.
  • Stage fright.
  • Emotional excitement, fear, etc., lead to bodily ailments.
  • Effects of grief, cannot cry, broods over her loss.
  • Ailments from anticipation.
  • Nervous dread of appearing in public.
  • Fear of upcoming ordeals.
  • Dread of ordeals, pain.
  • Lack of courage.
  • Anticipation of any unusual ordeal, preparing for church, theatre, or to meet an engagement, brings on diarrhea.
  • Fear of going to doctor or dentist.
  • Anxiety about present and future.
  • Anxiety about health.
  • Anxiety during thunderstorm.
  • Apprehensive feeling at approach of thunderstorm.
  • Overpowering fear, with fatigue, exhaustion and drowsiness.
  • Fear from traumatic shock.
  • Fear of losing self -control.
  • Fear that unless on the move the heart will cease beating.
  • Fear of falling.
  • Child starts and grasps the nurse, and screams as if afraid of falling (Bor.
  • ).
  • Fear of death.
  • Fear of pain.
  • Fear of injury.
  • Confusion, acts as if crazy.
  • Delirious on falling to sleep.
  • Delirium with incoherent talk.
  • Sensation of intoxication during diarrhea.
  • Acute mania after melancholy.
  • Absolute lack of fear.
  • High places aggravates.
  • Impulse to jump from a height, from window.
  • Cataleptic immobility with dilated pupils, closed eyes but conscious
▲ VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Vertigo on rising, lightheaded, worse by sudden movement of the head and walking.
  • Dizziness and blurred vision.
  • Vertigo spreads from occiput, as if drunk with visual symptoms.
  • Staggering as if intoxicated when trying to move, worse from smoking.
  • Vertigo with loss of sight, chillines s, accelerated pulse, dullness of vision, double vision.
  • Vertigo Gelsemium sempervirens of child on being carried.
  • Vision -Dim vision.
  • Dim vision during preg nancy.
  • Blurring and discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses.
  • Slow accommodation of vision.
  • Vision blurred, smoky (Cycl., Phos.).
  • Blurred vision with pain above eyes.
  • Obscured vision on stooping.
  • Blind spells.
  • Blindness with dilated pupils.
  • Double vision, when looking sideways.
  • Diplopia during head ache.
  • Diplopia during pregnancy.
  • Diplopia with multiple sclerosis.
  • Affections of vision before migraineSevere recurring headache, often on one sideA recurrent throbbing headache that typically affects one side of the head and is often accompanied by nausea and disturbed vision..
  • Pupils dilated and insensible to light.
  • Hysterical amblyopia.
  • Amaurosis after stroke.
  • Amaurosis from masturbation.
  • Astigmatism.
  • Vision dim, can neither read nor write, words run toget her.
  • Sees swimming black specks.
  • Misty or glimmering appearance.
  • Distant objects seem indistinct, when riding or walking.
  • COMMENTS - Overall fatigue with a sense of fright.
  • Ailments due to bad news and fright (Op.), fright causes weakness.
  • Acute shock, sha king and trembling.
  • Trembling with fear.
  • Incontinence with fear.
  • Fear of failure, acute fear or panic (Aeon.).
  • Anticipatory anxiety.
  • Convalescence.
  • Chronic fatigue ever since a viral infection (Ph -ac.), especially if the limbs feel heavy, exhaustion.
  • Ailm ents from flu shots.
  • For the elderly who become weak, frail, and lose confidence after infections.
  • Viral infections, particularly influenza, mono, meningitis, and hepatitis, with tired ness and weakness.
  • Sore throats, worse swallowing.
  • CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. and hay fever with early morning sneezing and streaming colds.
  • Catarrh generally occurs in warm, moist, relaxing weather.
  • Major influenza remedy.
  • Influenza epidemics and for prevention.
  • Dizzy drowsy, droopy and dumb.
  • Slow onset of flu symp toms.
  • Influenza infections w ith tiredness and weakness.
  • Apathy and indifférance during the flu.
  • Wants to be alone and quiet when sick.
  • Sore throats and colds.
  • Fever without thirst.
  • Muscle aches and weakness.
  • Influenza with dull headaches.
  • Never well since influenza, chronic fatigue.
  • Worse since flu vaccinations.
  • Paralysis.
  • Excessive weakness and trembling.
  • Weakness and paralysis of the limbs, the limbs feel heavy, with trembling.
  • Key note tremors.
  • Multiple sclerosis.
  • Neuralgic problems.
  • Epileptic attacks beginning with a throbbing headache.
  • Headaches with a heavy feeling, diz ziness.
  • Sensation of a band around their head.
  • Throbbing headaches, particularly in the occiput and forehead.
  • Nondescript headache with dullness.
  • Headache begins in the occiput and spreads over the whole head, settling down over the eyes.
  • Migraine headaches with double vision, weakness, and nausea.
  • Violent headache may occur if needing to urinate at night and not doing so Headache with stiff neck, worse morning, better urinating, with irregular action of the eye muscles.
  • Double vision, dimness of vision.
  • Ptosis of the eyelids.
  • Vertigo.
  • Dizziness from weakness, es pecially during viral infections, flus, and colds.
  • Drowsy.
  • Sense of dullness, apathy.
  • Low stamina.
  • Aversion to the least effort.
  • Neurotic symptoms in cig ar-makers, with impotence, palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
  • Drug overdose resulting in a stupor or coma.
  • Paralysis of the tongue, trembling of the tongue, particularly in typhoid cases.
  • The tongue is thinly coated.
  • Dry lips.
  • Face is flushed (less that Bapt.).
  • Itching of the skin, measles -like eruptions.
  • Measles and eruptive disorders with drowsy state, suffused face, and convulsions.
  • Thirstlessness with low fevers.
  • Cold extremities.
  • Chills up and down the spine.
  • Trembling and shaking, can be from extreme exhaustion.
  • Euphoria followed by weakness.
  • Generally a slow onset, with aches and pains, especially after exerting themselves.
  • Nervous diarrhea due to stress, worry and anxiety.
  • Stools generally yellow, whether diarrhea or constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass..
  • Nervous heartburn and colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
  • Hysterical dysphagia or aphonia after emotions.
  • DysmenorrheaPainful menstruation with abdominal crampsPainful menstruation, typically involving abdominal cramps., epileptiform convulsions during menstrual period, rigid os in labor, chill, beginning in hands or feet and running up back.
  • AggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. before, during, and after menses.
  • Aversion to noise and light, desire to be left alone.
  • Desires fresh air (Bry., Lyc., Ars.).Wants to lie down and rest.
  • Wants to be held, that he may not shake.
  • Must be covered in all stages of the paroxysm.
  • Worse thinking about their symptoms.
  • Complaints from sudden changes of weather, particularly from hot or dry to damp air.
  • Worse sunlight, heat of the sun, summer, damp weather, cold, damp atmosphere, fog.
  • Great distress and apprehensive feeling at approach of a thunderstorm.
  • Symptoms may be better urinating.
  • Better from stimulants, es pecially alcoholic.
  • Cold drinks are vomited immediately, but warm or spirituous drinks can be swallowed.
  • Pain at the back of the head is better from hot applications.
  • Motion aggravates most symptoms, but alleviates muscular heart pains.
  • Rising from a seat causes pain in the heart.
  • Heaviness of the head is better from shaking the head.
  • Lifting the arms causes trembling of the hands.
  • Playing the piano causes a tired sensation in the arms.
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  • H.
  • Nankivell drank two ounces of tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. of Gels, instead of a gla ss of sherry.
  • He walked a few feet with assistance and in another minute his legs were paralyzed.
  • He dragged himself to the bedside with his arms, but they were unable to help him to bed into which he had to be lifted.
  • As long as he lay quiet there was no trouble, but on the least exertion there were excessive tremors.
  • Vomiting occurred during the next twenty -four hours.
  • Temperature rose to 101.5° F.
  • Heart's action very violent and intermittent.
  • All the muscles of the eyes were affected, but, of voluntary muscles, those of the right side suffered most.
  • Prolonged conversation involved paralysis of upper lip.
  • There was somnolence, absence of mental excitement and good appetite.
  • The effects passed away in the order of occurrence from below upwards, but after t he arms had recovered, vision was not perfect for twenty-four hours.
  • A patient of Clarke once took a drachm of the tincture for a headache.
  • On going out, he could not tell which side of the street he was on He was near St.
  • Paul's Cathedral and saw two cathedrals instead of one.
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  • G.
  • Blackley pointed out the suitability of Gels, to writer's cramp and professional paralyzes.
  • Clarke relieved with it cases of Dupuytren's contraction.
  • Erskine White cured an infant born in convulsions three weeks after its mother had been terribly frightened by seeing her little brother nearly burnt to death.
  • The only guiding symptom was “the child's chin quiveredincessantly.” In thirty seconds after the dose the quivering ceased, in three minutes the convulsions were at an end.
  • White had to ride twelve miles over mountains to reach the patient after receiv ing the summons, so the convulsions must have lasted a considerable time
▲ HEAD
  • Dull headache with influenza.
  • Headache coming on suddenly, with dim ness of sight or diplopia.
  • Sensation as if a band around head with occipital headache.
  • Dull, heavy ache with heaviness of eyelids.
  • Bruised sensation.
  • Sick headache.
  • Headache worse mental exertion, heat of sun, lying with head low.
  • Nervous headaches from emotional excitement.
  • Headache better pressure and lying with head high.
  • Wants to have head raised on pillow.
  • Pain in temple, extending into ear and nose, chin.
  • Headache with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders.
  • Headache preceded by blindness.
  • Headache better profuse urination.
  • Headache with faint ness.
  • Hemicrania preceded by great sen sitiveness to noise.
  • Occipital headaches.
  • Delirious on falling asleep.
  • Meningitis, congestive stage, pain at the back of head and dilated pupils.
  • Fontanels pulsate strongly.
  • Swollen feeling in head.
  • Scalp sore to touch.
  • Threatened or actual stroke, with stupor, coma and paralysis.
  • Dull headache with influenza.
  • Headache coming on suddenly, with dim ness of sight or diplopia.
  • Sensation as if a band around head with occipital headache.
  • Dull, heavy ache with heaviness of eyelids.
  • Bruised sensation.
  • Sick headache.
  • Headache worse mental exertion, heat of sun, lying with head low.
  • Nervous headaches from emotional excitement.
  • Headache better pressure and lying with head high.
  • Wants to have head raised on pillow.
  • Pain in temple, extending into ear and nose, chin.
  • Headache with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders.
  • Headache preceded by blindness.
  • Headache better profuse urination.
  • Headache with faint ness.
  • Hemicrania preceded by great sen sitiveness to noise.
  • Occipital headaches.
  • Delirious on falling asleep.
  • Meningitis, congestive stage, pain at the back of head and dilated pupils.
  • Fontanels pulsate strongly.
  • Swollen feeling in head.
  • Scalp sore to touch.
  • Threatened or actual stroke, with stupor, coma and paralysis
▲ EYES
  • Dullness, sleepy look of eyes.
  • Eyes, red sore aching, suffused.
  • Eyes red and watery.
  • Heavy, drooping eyelids.
  • Ptosis, can hardly open eyes.
  • Ptosis due to congestion of brain, exhaustion.
  • Orbital neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. with contraction and twitching of muscles.
  • Bruised pain back of orbits.
  • Disturbedeye muscular apparatus.
  • Serous inflammations.
  • Eyeballs sore when moving them.
  • Eyeballs oscillate laterally when using them.
  • Deep inflammations with haziness of vitreous.
  • PhotophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments. worse sun or gaslight.
  • Asthenopia.
  • Glaucoma.
  • Blepharitis and conjunctival hyperemia.
  • Descemetitis.
  • Retinitis.
  • Detached retina from injury or myopia.
  • Serous choroiditis.
  • One pupil dilated, the other contracted.
  • Yellow color of eyes
▲ EARS
  • Catarrhal inflammation, at beginning of head cold and closure of eustachian tube.
  • Ear pain while swallowing.
  • Earache from cold.
  • Earache and sore throat.
  • Neuralgic otalgia.
  • Great sensitiveness to all sounds.
  • Impaired hearing from cold.
  • Sudden loss of hearing for a short time, rushing and roaring in ears.
  • Catarrhal deafness with pain from throat into middle ear.
  • Deafness and loss of speech from quinine
▲ FACE
  • Face looks fatigued, droopy.
  • Hot, heavy, flushed, besotted-looking (Bapt., Op.).
  • Dusky hue of face with vertigo and dim vision.
  • Neuralgia of face.
  • Facial muscles contracted, especially around the mouth.
  • Trigeminal neuralgia after exposure on a cold damp day.
  • Chin quiv ers.
  • Lower jaw dr opped, wags sideways.
  • Shooting pains in jaws.
  • Facial paralysis.
  • Erythema of face and neck.
  • Sore, acute, red pimples on face
▲ MOUTH
  • Dryness of mouth, must swallow frequently.
  • Putrid taste and breath.
  • Bitter taste.
  • Taste, clammy and feverish during the sweat.
  • Saliva yellow as from blood.
  • Muscles of mouth seem contracted.
  • Speech thick, as if drunk, he can hardly speak.
  • Sore mouth, with febrile and catarrhal states, intermittent or remittent type.
  • Roof of mouth feels, as if swollen.
  • Nose - Disposition to catch colds and in fluenza, with every change of weather.
  • Spring and s ummer colds.
  • Acute coryza with dull headache and fever.
  • Coryza with thin acrid watery discharge.
  • Stuffed nose.
  • Coryza with influenza.
  • Sneezing, fullness at root of nose.
  • Sneezing, early morning.
  • Swelling of turbinates.
  • Nose bleed with suppressed menses.
  • Sensation as if hot water flowing from the nostrils.
  • Hay fever.
  • Watery, excoriating discharge.
  • Nasal catarrh, with prostration, with sore throat.
  • Nasal voice.
  • Coryza in changeable weather.
  • Itching and tickling in soft palate and naso -pharynx.
  • Dryness of nose.
  • Perspiration - Sweats freely from slight exertion.
  • Cold sweat.
  • Sweat coming gradually and moderately, always relieves pains.
  • Sometimes profuse, with languor and prostration.
  • Sweats at night.
  • Night sweats of tuberculosis.
  • Most profuse sweat on genitals.
  • Sticky sweat
▲ THROAT
  • Throat feels rough, burning.
  • Pain from throat to ear.
  • Swallowing causes pain in ear (Hep., Nux-v.).
  • Difficult swal lowing.
  • Inability to swallow or speak.
  • Feeling of a painful lump in throat that cannot be swallowed.
  • Sore throat during menses.
  • Tonsils swollen and very red.
  • TonsillitisInflammation of the tonsilsInflammation of the tonsils, typically of sudden onset, causing sore throat and fever. from acute catarrh.
  • Tonsillitis, shooting pain into ears.
  • Post-diphtheria paralysis.
  • Paralytic dysphagia, especially worse from warm food.
  • Spasms of glot tis, long crowing inspiration, sudden and forcible expiration.
  • Dryness of throat with hoarseness.
  • Hoarseness after depressing emotions.
  • Hoarseness during menses.
  • Burning pain in larynx and chest, when coughing.
  • Larynx raw, as if ulcerated.
  • Aphonia.
  • Loss of voice from fright.
  • Loss of voice, with dryness and burning in throat.
  • Tongue - Thick, yellow coating on tongue.
  • Tongue numb and trembles while protruding.
  • Edges of tongue red, centre white.
  • Tongue inflamed in middle.
  • Tongue brown, nearly clear.
  • Tongue thick, coated, yellowish, paralysed
▲ CHEST
  • Oppression about chest.
  • Heaviness in middle of chest.
  • As if a lump behind the chest.
  • Burning in chest, when coughing.
  • Periodical pain in pectoral muscles.
  • Con strictive pain around lower part of chest.
  • Stitches in chest from above downward.
  • Constitutions - Suited to children and young people, to persons of a nervous, weak, hysterical temperament.
  • Suitable to irritable, sensitive, excitable people.
  • Cough - Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza.
  • Cough from tickling in eustachian tube.
  • Cough from tickling or roughness of fauces.
  • Croupy cough in measles.
  • Convulsive, spasmodic cough.
  • Spasmodic cough in hysterical women.
  • Irritative cough without expectoration.
  • Coughs a good deal during the night.
  • Feeble heart, slow heart's action with cold ha nds and feet.
  • As if blood had ceased to circulate.
  • A feeling as if it were necessary to keep in motion or else heart's action would cease.
  • Pain in heart on rising from seat.
  • Palpitations and oppression of heart, worse when thinking of it.
  • Hysterical palpit ations.
  • Sore pain in heart.
  • Sharp pains in region of heart.
  • Pulse soft, weak, full and flowing.
  • Slow pulse (Dig., Kalm., Apoc.), greatly accelerated on motion.
  • Weak, slow pulse of old age.
  • Pulse slow, full, soft, compressible.
  • Kidneys - Pain in region of kidneys, as if produced by pressure of a blunt instrument.
  • Kidney pain during fever.
  • Constant urination, hysterical.
  • Spasmodic affection of ureters from passage of calculi.
  • Urine profuse, clear, watery, with chilliness and trembling.
  • Urine much increased in quantity.
  • Urine stream intermittent.
  • Albuminuria.
  • Heavy, labored breathing.
  • T iresome, slow breathing.
  • Slow breathing with great prostration.
  • Acute bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing..
  • DyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions. and great chilliness.
  • Respiration quickened.
  • Spasmodic disorders of lungs and diaphragm.
  • Spasmodic asthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity..
  • Op pressed breathing with cold hands and feet.
  • Sudden sensation of suffocation.
  • Extreme restlessness from threatened suffocation, demands for fresh air.
  • Sudden and severe attacks of dyspnea, with crowing noise, profuse sweat and dark flushed face.
  • Scanty expectoration of mucus
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Sour eructations.
  • Feeling of emptiness or weaknes s in the stomach.
  • FlatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. of stomach.
  • Rumbling and dull pain.
  • Cramps in stomach, worse riding or sitting erect.
  • Hiccough, worse evening.
  • Tenderness of stomach with vomiting.
  • Teeth - Toothache from a cold.
  • Toothache with nervous excitement.
  • Toothache with a weak and trembling condition.
  • Toothache purely nervous.
  • Pains from teeth extend to temple.
  • Pains come in paroxysms.
  • Neuralgic pains and darts through jaws and face.
  • Toothache with congestion of head and face.
  • Dentition, child frantic, awakens with sudden screams.
  • Gums swollen and tender.
  • Child frantic at times, when gums are examined.
  • Temperature - Chills, without thirst, along spine.
  • Influenza with chills, muscular soreness, great prostration and headache.
  • Chill with aching and languor, mixed with heat or alternating with heat.
  • Chills Gelsemium sempervirens up and down back.
  • Wave-like chills, extending upward from sacrum to occiput.
  • Wants to be held, because he shakes so much.
  • Cold hands and feet.
  • Coldness so severe as to be painful.
  • Nervous chills.
  • Nervous, shuddering, chills, preceded by visual disturbances.
  • Nervous chills during labor.
  • Heat and sweat stages, long and exhausting.
  • Fever with drowsiness.
  • Bilious remittent, malarial, typhoid, cerebrospinal fevers.
  • Fever and thirstlessness.
  • Measles, influenza and colds.
  • Fever with a stupor, dizziness, faintness, and weak ness.
  • Fever with nervous restlessness.
  • Fever with intense burning.
  • Wants to lie still and rest with influenza.
  • Rumbling in abdomen with discharge of wind above and below.
  • Acute catarrhal enteritis during damp weather.
  • Gnawing pain in the transverse colon.
  • Sudden spasmodic pains in upper part of abdomen, compelling him to cry, leaving a sensation of contraction.
  • Soreness in abdominal walls.
  • Tenderness in right iliac region during typhus.
  • Periodic colic with diarrhea, yellow discharges.
  • Neuralgia of intestines periodic, malarial.
  • Intestinal obstructions.
  • Strangulated hernia.
  • Low appetite and thirst.
  • Thirstless- ness with trembling.
  • Thirst with sweat, but not with fever.
  • Difficult swallowing of warm food.
  • Vertigo worse smoking.
  • Sleeplessness from smoking.
  • Headache worse wine.
  • Eye symptoms worse wine
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Genitals cold, relaxed (Ph -ac.).
  • Continually profuse warm sweat on scrotum.
  • Dragging pain in testes.
  • Gonorrhea, in first stage, discharge scanty, tendency to corrode, much heat, smart ing at meatus.
  • Whitish discharge in gonorrhea.
  • Suppressed gonorrhea, with fever, rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues., orchit is Excitable sexual desire.
  • Spermatorrhea without erections.
  • Spermatorrhea during stool.
  • Too early ejaculation during sex.
  • Sexual power exhausted, slightest caress causes an emission.
  • Menses retarded, pain extends to back and hips.
  • Dysmenorrhea with scanty flow.
  • Dysmenorrhea preceded by sick headache, vomiting, bearing down in abdomen.
  • MenorrhagiaAbnormally heavy or prolonged menstrual bleedingMenstrual periods with abnormally heavy or prolonged bleeding., almost continuous flow, without any pain.
  • Suppressed menses with nosebleeds.
  • Epileptiform convulsions at menstrual period or from suppressed menses (Oean.).
  • Uterus heavy sore, feels as if squeezed (Cham., Nux -v., Ust.).
  • Cramps in abdomen and legs during pregnancy.
  • Threatened miscarriage from sudden depressing emotions.
  • False labor pains, painspass trpback.
  • Inefficient labor pains or none at all.
  • Labor pains go up, backward or down the thighs.
  • Nervous chills during first stage of labor.
  • Rigidity of os during labor (Bell.).
  • As if a wave from uterus to throat with choking feeling, impedes labor.
  • Severe after -pains.
  • Twitching of muscles of the whole body with drowsiness, before puerperal convulsions.
  • Deep yellow leu corrhea with aching across lower part of the back.
  • White leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., with fullness in uterine region.
  • White leucorrhea with aching across lower part of back.
  • Leucorrhea in gushes, day and night.
  • Leucorrhea with constipation.
  • Sex difficult from contraction of the vaginal muscles.
  • Vaginismus
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Fatigue of limbs after slight exer cise.
  • Deep-seated, aching, in bones and joints.
  • Myalgia from overexertion.
  • Loss of power of muscular control.
  • Excessive trembling and weakness of all the limbs.
  • Heavy sensation in lower limbs.
  • Knees weak worse descending tottering gait, cannot direct his legs.
  • Muscleaches, chills and fatigue with influenza.
  • Hard aching in humerus (right).
  • Feeling of partial luxation of patella when walking.
  • Numbness and weakness of limbs.
  • Wandering, rheumatic pains.
  • Cramps in muscles of the forearm.
  • Coldness of wrists and hands.
  • Hot, dry, numb hands, especially palms.
  • Wants hands in cool water.
  • Neuralgic pains in limbs, after scarlatinaScarlet fever bacterial infectionAnother term for scarlet fever, an acute contagious bacterial disease causing a red rash..
  • Professional neurosis.
  • Writer's cramp.
  • Liver - Hepatitis with chronic fatigue.
  • Passive congestion of liver with vertigo, dim sight and fullness of head.
  • Griping pain in gall bladder.
  • Deficient secretion of bile.
  • JaundiceYellowing of the skin and eyes from bile pigmentA medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin. with prostration and clay -colored stools
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • Backache with occipital pains.
  • Backache day before appearance of menses.
  • Complete relaxation of the whole muscular system.
  • Chilliness up and the down back.
  • Languor, muscles feel bruised.
  • Every exertion causes fatigue.
  • Dull aches, heavy pains, up and down in spine, better walking.
  • Pain in muscles of back, hips and lower limbs, mostly deep -seated.
  • Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region, passing upward.
  • Pains under scapula.
  • Pain in neck, especially upper sternocleido muscles.
  • Lameness and st iffness of neck.
  • Neck feels bruised, unable to hold the head.
  • Spinal congestion, with incipient aphasia.
  • Paralytic condition of lumbar and sacral muscles.
  • Bladder - Partial paralysis of bladder, intermittent flow (Clem.).
  • Bladder paralysis following diphtheria.
  • Bladder paralysis in elderly people.
  • Retention of urine.
  • Dysuria.
  • Frequent urging, with scanty emission and tenesmus of bladder.
  • Incontinence from excitement.
  • Incontinence from paralysis of sphincter.
  • Constant dribbling of urine, but not a drop flo ws on making the greatest effort.
  • Alternate dysuria and bedwetting.
  • Bedwetting in nervous children at night.
  • Bladder spasm in women, often combined with uterine spasms.
  • Bladder spasm in men, with colic.
  • Bladder distended up to navel.
  • Causations - Ill effects of fright, depressing emotions, anger, bad news, unpleasant surprise, traumatic shock.
  • Sun, heat, warm or cold damp weather.
  • Alcohol, drugs.
  • Masturbation
▲ SKIN
  • Papular eruption, like measles.
  • Itching of skin, without eruption, worse at night and from warmth.
  • Hot dry, moist, yellow, itching, measles-like eruption.
  • ErysipelasAcute bacterial skin infectionAn acute, sometimes recurrent, bacterial skin infection characterized by large, raised red patches, especially on the face..
  • Measles, catarrhal symptoms, aids in bringing out eruption.
  • Measles with cerebral symptoms.
  • Retrocedent measles, with livid spots.
  • Livid spots.
  • Scarlet fever with stupor a nd flushed face.
  • Erythema of face and neck.
  • Pimples on forehead and neck.
  • Pimples like small cutaneous indurations.
  • Rubeola
▲ SLEEP
  • Sleepless from nervous irritation (Coff.).
  • InsomniaPersistent inability to fall or stay asleepA sleep disorder marked by difficulty falling asleep, waking up too early, or unrefreshing sleep. from mental excitement, uncontrollable thinking or tobacco.
  • Insomnia f rom exhaustion.
  • Sleepless from itching.
  • Sleeplessness during denti tion.
  • Sleeplessness in delirium tremens.
  • Heavy, stupid sleep.
  • Cannot get fully to sleep.
  • Restless sleep, worse toward morning.
  • Starts on falling to sleep.
  • Drowsiness with influenza.
  • Delirious on falling asleep.
  • Incoherent talking during half awake state.
  • Sleepiness of students.
  • Languor and drowsiness when trying to study.
  • Sudden shrill cries on awaking in meningitis.
  • Awakens from sleep with headache or colic.
  • Yawning.
  • Night terrors from nose being stopped up and dry.
  • Unpleasant dreams after midnight.
  • Sexual dreams with nocturnal emissions.
  • Dreams followed next day by great languor and irritability.
  • Dreams with pain at base of brain
▲ GENERALITIES
  • Lightness of head or body.
  • As if the head were enlarged.
  • As if there were a tape around the head.
  • As if the skin were contracted in the middle of the forehead.
  • As if a lump were in throat which could not be swallowed.
  • As if a lump were in the esophagus.
  • Load in stomach.
  • As if stomach were quite gone.
  • As if the uterus were squeezed by a hand.
  • As if he would die, as if the blood c eased to circulate, as if the heart would stop unless he kept moving.
  • As if a knife were thrust through from occiput to forehead.
  • As if eyes were jumping out of head

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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