# Gelsemium

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
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 paralysis 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 prostration 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. 
Influenza 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 (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
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.

## Symptoms by System

### 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 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.
- 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
- 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 migraine.
- 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.
- Coryza 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, palpitations.
- 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 constipation.
- Nervous heartburn and colic.
- Hysterical dysphagia or aphonia after emotions.
- Dysmenorrhea, epileptiform convulsions during menstrual period, rigid os in labor, chill, beginning in hands or 
feet and running up back.
- Aggravation 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.
- J.
- H.
- Nankivell drank two ounces of tincture 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.
- J.
- 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 neuralgia 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.
- Photophobia 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.
- Tonsillitis 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 
bronchitis.
- Dyspnea and great chilliness.
- Respiration quickened.
- Spasmodic disorders of lungs 
and diaphragm.
- Spasmodic asthma.
- 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.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Sour eructations.
- Feeling of emptiness or weaknes s in the stomach.
- Flatulence 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.

### Urinary & Genital
- 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, rheumatism, 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.
- Menorrhagia, 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 leucorrhea, 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
- 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 scarlatina.
- 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.
- Jaundice with prostration and clay -colored stools.

### Neck & Back
- 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.
- Erysipelas.
- 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.).
- Insomnia 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.