Genista

Genista tinctoria, Linn.

Natural order , Leguminosae. Common names , Dyer's Greenweld; (G.), Färbe-ginster; (Fr.), Genestrolle.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant.

Authorities. Dr. Eugene B. Cushing, Mass. Hom. Med. Soc., vol. iii, p. 570; 1 , a prover, aged 23, took repeated doses of tincture; 2 , Rust Mag., 1825 (A. H. Z., 9, 287).

Vertigo on rising or shaking the head (half an hour after third dose, first day), [1] .

Vertigo on rising, in the afternoon; relieved in half an hour in the open air (third day), [1] . Dizziness on walking fast or turning round (one hour after fifth dose, first day), [1] .

Dizziness approaching faintness, lasting a short time (one hour after fifth dose, first day), [1] . General Head.

Headache till dinner; none after eating, except on shaking the head; at 6 P.M. it came on suddenly, with vertigo on rising (second day), [1] .

Immediate headache, quite sharp in the forehead, which soon subsided into dull heavy pain; relieved by eating (after fourth dose, third day), [1] .

Steady headache, which came on while exposed to the sun, in the forenoon (first day), [1] . [10.] Dull heavy headache coming on after dinner, increasing after a dose of 5 drops (third day), [1] .

Headache worse on left side (two hours after fifth dose, first day), [1] .

Brain feels tender (sensitive), (one hour after fifth dose, first day), [1] .

On shaking the head, the brain feels tender (third day), [1] .

Sensation as though the brain was loose and very sensitive (half an hour after third dose, first day), [1] .

Temples. Frequent sharp pain in right temple, in the forenoon (first day), [1] .

Repeated sharp pain in right temple, from within outward, when walking, in the forenoon (first day), [1] . Sharp piercing pain in left temple (two hours after fifth dose, first day), [1] .

Eye. [20.]

Eyes sensitive to the touch, in the forenoon (first day), [1] .

Ear.

Once, a sensation in left ear, as though some sharp instrument was thrust into it, in the forenoon (first day), [1] .

Dryness of the throat, in the forenoon (first day), [1] . Throat dry and sensitive (third day), [1] .

During the night, waterbrash (second night), [1] . Awoke several times during the night with waterbrash (first night), [1] .

Slight nausea (after sixth dose, first day), [1] .

Rectum And Anus.

Desire for stool, with violent sneezing, as from snuff, at 9 A.M. (third day), [1] .

Urgent desire for stool, lasting only a short time, soon (after second dose, third day), [1] .

Stool soft and scanty, at 9.10 A.M. (third day), [1] . [30.] Stool tinged with blood; the faeces, though large, were expelled like a wad from a popgun (forty minutes after third dose), [1] .

Peculiar eruption, consisting of roundish, dark-red, confluent spots, scarcely elevated above the skin, which, itching very much, become scarlet red, then pale, and disappear within twenty-four hours; this eruption appears on the feet to the knees, and on the hands to the elbows, [2] .

( Rising ), Vertigo.

( Open air ), Vertigo. ( Walking in open air ), Headache.

( Going to bed ), The symptoms. ( Sitting in cool room ), Frontal headache.

( Eating ), Headache.