- Grindeliaproduces paresis of the pneumo-gastric nerve, interfering with respiration and producing profuse secretion in bronchial tubes.
- Dull pains and fullness in left hypochondrium, chronic malaria🌿 MalariaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., gastric pains associated with spleen congestion.
- Induces paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body., beginning in the limbs.
- Its action is shown on the heart, first quick ening, then retarding it.
- Raises the blood pressure.
- Acts on the cardio-pulmonary distribution of the pneumo gastric in dry catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane. (Ant-t in muco-purulent).
- Smothering after falling asleep or on awakening.
- Asthmatic conditions, chronic bronchitis🩺 Chronic BronchitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Bronchorrhea with tough, tenacious, whitish mucus.
- Asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and emphy sema with dilated heart.
- Rattling breathing.
- Cannot breathe when lying down.
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration.
- Hyperchlorhydria when attended with asthmatic and other neurotic symptoms.
- Hyperemia of gastric mucus membrane with difficult respiration.
- Nausea and retching of gastric ulcerOpen painful sore on skin or mucous membraneAn open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucous membrane..
- Sugar in urine.
- Cutting sore pain in the region of spleen extending to hips.
- Spleen enlarged.
- An effective antidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy. to Rhus🌿 RhusMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.-poisoning, locally and internally, also for burns, blisters, vaginal catarrh and herpes zoster.
- COMMENTS-In the clinical experiences recorded, it is Grindelia robusta that is chiefly mentioned, though sometimes it is not specified.
- History of results for 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. and emphy sema with a dilated heart.
- Good in tonic for asthma, particularly in cases with a great deal of previous medication (Lob.🌿 Lob.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Chronic bronchial asthma and spasmodic bronchial cough, with profuse, tenacious expectoration which gives relief.
- The breath stops when the patient goes to sleep and awakes with a start, gasping for breath.
- Irregular heart action and hay fever when associated with difficult breathing.
- Sense of suffocation on falling asleep (Lach.🌿 Lach.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Symptoms are worse by movement , worse in the dark, worse on falling asleep.
- It removed aversion to darkness in one patient who wanted a light in the room all night.
- One writer obtained excellentresults from “Grindelia” in a number of cases of asthma and emphysema🩺 EmphysemaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. with dilated heart.
- H. W. Foster reported the cure of a case of asthma with G robusta that shows that Dr. Bundy's provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. of G squarrosa is good for both remedies.
- Dr. Foster's patient was awakened by asthmatic attacks, the room seeming too small.
- After getting quiet, just as he would commence to lose himself in sleep he would suddenly awaken again because he seemed to have forgotten to breathe.
- Grin.
- 30c relieved at once.
- Gatchell recommended an external ap plication of a lotion, one part Grindelia robusta in ten parts water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., for itching and painful erythematous eruptions.
- It is also useful for bites and stings of insects.
- Used locally and internally as an antidote for Rhus toxicodendron🌿 Rhus ToxicodendronMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. skin rashes.
- The only proving is by Dr. T. H. Bundy, who took a teaspoonful of a tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. of the dried plant of G squarrosa and in half an hour followed it by another.
- The result was that he produced some intensely severe pains in head and eyes (left, then right), and symptoms in liver, spleen, nervous system and lungs.
- Altogether, he passed “the most terrible night of his life.” The proving is remarkable for the number of peculiar symptoms induced.
- First there was “fullness in head as after a heavy dose of quinine.” Then, intense pain in the left eye and right knee joint exactly like acute rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
- The knee pain lasted only half an hour, and then the third teaspoonful was taken.
- The eye pain became agonizing, the pupil became widely dilated.
- It was two hours before the right eye became affected.
- At this time, unbearable pain in whole of live r and spleen came on It was so severe it was impossible to lie still.
- There was intense soreness of the region, like that of acute rheumatism.
- The eye pains were in the eyeballs running directly back into the brain, worse by movement.
- There was a kind of paralysis of the vagus nerve.
- On falling asleep, the respiratory movement would cease and would not be resumed until he woke up from the resulting suffocation
