🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Gnaphalium. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲GENERAL
Gnaph has been used mainly in disorders of the sciatic nerve, but it also has an action
on the abdominal organs, causing vomiting, colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. and diarrhea, thus comparing with Coloc in both spheres.
SciaticaNerve pain radiating from the lower back down the legsPain radiating along the sciatic nerve, which runs down one or both legs from the lower back. and lumbagoPain in the lower back regionA general term for acute or chronic pain in the lower back or lumbar region. with numbness alternating with the pain.
Intense sciatic pain (Mag-p., Rhus-t., Coloc.,
Hyper.), alternating with or followed by numbness.
Lumbago with numbness of part.
Rheuma tism.
Anterior
crural neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves..
Pain in joints as if they lacked oil.
Pain worse lying down, motion, stepping, by sitting in a chair, better by flexing
the limbs on abdomen (Colo.). Sticking pain and numb ness.
Sharp, shooting pains, or electric -like sensation
down the backs of the legs.
Offensive diarrhea with colic, worse in the morning.
PolyuriaAbnormally excessive urinationThe production of abnormally large volumes of dilute urine, causing frequent urination..
Weight and heaviness in the pelvis.
DysmenorrheaPainful menstruation with abdominal crampsPainful menstruation, typically involving abdominal cramps. with scanty menses, very painful during the first day
Very irritable for two or three days after the diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
Giddy, especially afterrising from recumbent position.
COMMENTS - Cramps i n cal ves and back of thighs, hamstrings.
Sciatica pain in worse on lying down, by
motion, by stepping, better when sitting in a chair, better drawing up the limb.
Diarrhea is watery and offensive, occurs in the morning and is repeated during the day.
Rumbling in the bowels,
colicky pains and the patient is cross and irritable.
Urine is scanty.
Appetite and taste are lo st.
Dr.
W. McGeorge recorded that Gnaph has a reputation for colds, fevers and night -sweats.
The last was
caused in one of the provers.
It cured one case of chills.
The periodicity appears in the intermittent neuralgia
of the upper jaws.
McGeorge noted a sense of “weight and fullness in the pelvis” for dysmenorrhea when the
menses are scanty and very painful during the first day.
Sexual excitement in male provers, pain and irritation in the prostate gland.
Head ache better by washing in
cold water.
Fur on tongue removed by thorough washing with cold water.
McGeorge cured a very aggravated case of sciatica in a man, resulting from a strain.
The left leg was cramped
and drawn up, worse in cold and damp weather.
Dr.
George Shelton recorded two cases.
The first, a clergyman, 27, had sharp cutting pains, starting from inner
side right thigh, just below Poupart's ligament, extending down course of anterior crural nerve to a
GnaphaKum polycephalum point about its lower third.
The pains were paroxysmal, came on when walking, occasionally when lying down.
He had one or two attacks
in the pulpit.
In several instances the pain had extended down the right cord into the testicle and caused him
to draw up the leg, flexing the thigh on the abdomen.
This condition was also present in Dr.
McGeorge's case.
A few doses of Gnaph. 1c cured him completely.
The second case occurred in a widow, 68, who had severe pains in the outer side of her right thigh for six
years, part of which she had been confined to bed.
The pains were paroxysmal, cutting, tearing, extending
down the course of the sciatic nerve.
Attacks were worse at night and more frequent, causing her to roll about the bed and cry out with the pain.
All
the resources of allopathy had been in vain.
Rhus-t., Coloc., Sulph., gave no help.
Bell, relieved slightly.
Gnaph.
1c wrought gradual improvement, and in eight weeks the cure was complete.
Clarke had acase, cured with Gnaph. 30c., of a very gouty man, with the alternation of numbness with pain
▲FACE
Intermittent pains of superior maxil lary of both sides.
Dull, heavy, bloated ap pearance.
NeuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pain
of an intermittent from in both upper maxillary bones
▲MOUTH
Mouth feels parched and tastes badly.
Flat, sweetish, sickening taste.
Tongue covered with long white
fur, better
by thorough washing with cold water
▲ABDOMEN
Vomiting and purging like cholera morbus in the night and all n ext day.
Flatus, windy belchings,
nausea and hiccough.
Colic, pain in various parts of the abdomen.
Cecum is sensitive.
Borbo - rygmus with emission of
much flatus
▲GENITALS ETC
Irritation of prostate gland.
Increased sexual passion.
Dysmenorrhea with scanty and painful menses.
Sensation of weight in pelvis.
Sensation of fullness
in pelvis.
Kidneys - Pains in kidneys with frequent slight pain in prostate gland.
Sensation of pain and fullness in bladder,
even when just emptied
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
RheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pain in ankle joints and legs.
Intense pain along the sciatic nerve, numbness alternates
with pain.
Feeling of weakness, as if incapable of raising the slightest weight.
Rheumatic pains in elbows and
shoulders.
Frequent pains in calves and feet.
Cramps in calves of legs and feet when in bed.
Gouty pains in
big toes.
Gouty concretions.
Anterior crural neuralgia (Staph.). Chronic muscular rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. of back and
neck.
Pain in joints as if they lacked oil.
Better drawing limbs up, flexing thigh on abdomen
▲BACK AND NECK
Chronic backache in lumbar re gion, better resting on back.
Lumbago with numbness in lower part of
back and weight in pelvis
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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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