Gratiola Officinalis

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Gratiola Officinalis Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
🧠 General & Mental Health
GENERAL
  • Symptoms of a fully de veloped, rapid attack of Asiatic cholera are produced.
  • A large proportion of the effects of Gratiola are expended on the gastro-intestinal tract.
  • It is an inodorous plant of bitter taste and very poisonous, causing violent colic, bloody stools, enteritis, jaundice.
  • Affection of the solar plexus.
  • Constant sinking but cannot eat, bitter taste.
  • Cramps beginning at pit of stomach; pains radiating from stomach.
  • Urine is diminished, reddish, turbid.
  • Diarrhea, yellowish, gushing, watery, as though rushing from a hydrant.
  • Vomiting of yellowish fluid.
  • Summer diarrhea from excessive drinking of water whether cold or hot.
  • Soreness, burning or irritation of anus follows the stools.
  • Teste considered Grat, the Cham, of chronic diseases.
  • Teste saw four cases of nymphomania in females to whom herb doctors had given injections o f a decoction of freshly gathered Gratiola.
  • Burnett con sidered it specific in female masturbation and nymphomania.
  • Especially useful in females, Nux-v.-like symptoms in females.
  • Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhea and gonorrhea.
  • Obstinate ulcers.
  • Trembling in limbs, convulsions, cramps, excitement and disordered condition of the sexual powers.
  • Paralytic pains and feeling of coldness especially in the abdomen.
  • Cerebral disorders without fever.
  • Nervous prostration.
  • Neuralgia due to abuse of coffee.
  • COMMENTS-Two excellent cures with Grat, have been recorded by C.
  • W.
  • Sonnenschmidt.
  • The first case, Mrs.
  • C., 53, was attacked in June with diarrhea, yellow, watery, frothy stools gushing out with force.
  • Severe cutting pains in abdomen, rumbling of flatulence.
  • Oc casional nausea and vomiting.
  • Coloc and Ip failed to relieve.
  • Then on close inquiry it was elicited that “a cold feeling in the abdomen” had been a feature throughout.
  • Grat off.
  • 3c, cured promptly.
  • In the second case, a three-weeks' old infant was attacked with diarrhea and colic.
  • There were two or three stools in quick suc cession and then an interval of an hour or two.
  • Stools, gre en or yellow watery, frothy, expelled suddenly.
  • Nausea and vomiting.
  • Severe pain before stools, relieved after wards, for a short time.
  • Cham., Coloc., and Verat failed, then Grat, rapidly cured.
  • It also removed “redness around anus and on the side an abrasion of half an inch in extent, which caused some oozing of blood.” E.
  • E.
  • Case cured a woman, age 50, of hemorrhoids with Constipation, difficult stools.
  • External hemorrhoids from any exertion and after stool.
  • Biting, stinging tension in tumors.
  • During st ool, a sensation as if the rectal membrane was torn.
  • After stool, all the nerve of the pelvis seem in a high state of tension, the flesh on the perineum feels as if torn from the bone.
  • Sleepless before midnight, peevish, melancholy.
  • Grat.
  • 200c cured.
  • The left side is more affected than the right.
  • The head and eye symptoms are of the first importance.
  • Rush of blood to head with vanishing of sight is a keynote.
  • Heat ascending to face with redness and increased external warmth.
  • A number of pains are experience d in the coccyx.
  • Chilly, shud dering on entering a warm room.
  • Constant vaporous emanations from body.
  • Temperature-Tendency to chilliness in a warm room during sleep, after an evacuation, with the hair standing on end.
  • Heat ascending to the face with redness and increased external warmth.
  • Hunger after a meal with feeling of emptiness.
  • Craves nothing but bread.
  • Worse during and after eating, vertigo during and after a meal
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better from open air.
  • Better rest.
  • Worse from eating.
  • Worse drink ing too much water.
  • Worse hot or cold.
  • Worse abuse of coffee.
  • Worse dinner.
  • Worse warm room.
  • Worse summer.
  • Worse motion
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MIND
  • Anxiety, gnawing, empty feeling, rolling about in epigastric region.
  • Peevishness.
  • Confusion when lying down.
  • Ill humor, tired of life.
  • Mental troubles from overweening pride.
  • Answers, reflects long.
  • Taciturn.
  • Great depression and disinclination to do anything.
  • Weak will.
  • Lack of perseverance.
  • Ill-humor.
  • Irresolution.
  • Violent anger from contradiction.
  • Delirium tremens.
  • Hysterical.
  • Loquacity and gaiety.
  • Delusion being diminished, smaller.
  • Absorbed in reveries.
  • Nymphomania.
  • Apprehensive about the future.
  • F ear of eating when hungry.
  • Hypochondriasis and hysteria arising from abdominal troubles.
  • Abdomen-Shooting pains in the abdomen.
  • Inflation of the abdomen.
  • Rumbling with nausea, eructation and vertigo.
  • Flatulent and pressive colic with nausea and disagreeable risings.
  • Feeling of coldness in abdomen, lasting half an hour.
  • Taciturn.
  • Weak will.
  • Ill-humor.
SLEEP
  • Insomnia.
  • Irresistible drowsiness with yawning and involu ntary closure of eyes.
  • Great sleepiness and lassitude after meals.
  • Deep sleep, like stupor
GENERALITIES
  • As if brain contracted, as if head grew smaller, as if brain would fall forward.
  • As if sand in eyes, as if throat contracted.
  • As if a stone rolling from side to side in stomach
👁️ Head & Sensory Organs
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Vertigo during and after meals, hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals.
  • Vision-Myopia.
  • Shortsightedness with burning heat in face.
  • All objects seem white, even green trees.
  • Mist before eyes when reading or writing.
  • Sudden vanishing of sight while writing or looking at light objects, better closing eyes, but constantly returns
HEAD
  • Rush of blood with vanishing of sight.
  • Sick headache.
  • Tightness in fore head with wrinkles in skin.
  • Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller.
EYES
  • Eyes feel dry as if sand were in them.
  • Dry, burning eyes.
  • Itching about eyelashes
EARS
  • Itching of ears
FACE
  • Burning heat and redness of the face.
  • Sensation of tension in the face, it feels swollen.
  • Swelling of upper lip.
  • Tearing on one side of face.
  • Painful crack in left side of chin.
  • Tingling , burning in malar bones
🫁 Respiratory & Throat
MOUTH
  • Accumulation of much saliva in the mouth bitter or clammy.
  • Fetid breath in the morning after waking.
  • Tongue rough, covered with mucus.
  • Sensation of cold in the teeth.
  • Nocturnal tearing or piercing in the molars.
  • Nose-Frequent sneezing.
  • Stoppage of the nose.
  • Smarting , itching in left nostril.
  • Pressure at upper part of nose.
  • Perspiration-Constant vaporous exhalation from body
THROAT
  • Pressure in throat, as from thick mucus.
  • Accumulation of mucus in throat.
  • Phlegm in throat with inability to throw it off.
  • Pain in throat obliging one to swallow constantly.
  • Stinging in throat.
  • Tingling, roughness and scraping in throat
CHEST
  • Heat in the chest, then the head and hands with redness of the face.
  • Pressure on the chest.
  • Shootings in the chest on breathing.
  • Pimples on the chest, which burn after having been scratched.
  • Palpitations after stools, with oppression of the chest.
  • Pulse small, intermittent.
  • Breasts-Darting pain in breasts.
  • Shootings in right breast, worse on rising during menses.
  • Causations-Coffee causes neuralgia
🥗 Digestive & Genitourinary
ABDOMEN
  • Dyspepsia with much distention of the stomach.
  • Emptiness after eating.
  • Cramps and colic after supper and during night with swelling of abdomen and constipation.
  • Dysphagia for liquids.
  • As of a cold water or loose, heavy load in stomach
GENITALS ETC
  • Kidneys-Burning in the urethra during and after urination.
  • Diminished secretion of urine.
  • Scanty and reddish urine, which becomes turbid on standing with cloudy sediment.
  • Dry cough, excited by a sensation of roughness in the chest in the morni ng or at night.
  • Nocturnal cough with pain as from excoriation in trachea, oppression of the chest and shivering.
  • Painful rigidity of the penis after seminal emission, nightly.
  • Stitches in left spermatic cord, ascending though the abdomen up to the chest.
  • Drawing pain in glans.
  • Menses too profuse, premature and too long.
  • Persistent leucorrhea.
  • Ten dency to masturbation.
  • Nymphomania.
  • Irritable condition of sexual organs with congestions
🦴 Musculoskeletal & Skin
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Limb gives way with sciatic pain.
  • Rheumatic pains in the shoulders, arms, fingers, particularly in elbow and wrist joint.
  • Itching in the palm of the hand
BACK AND NECK
  • Pain in coccyx after stool.
  • Neck as if seized by hands
SKIN
  • Itching with burning after scratching.
  • Running and corrosive eruptions, which resemble scabies.
  • Small boils.
  • Miliary pimples with yellow tips

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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