Gratiola Officinalis

Hedge Hyssop. Scrophulariacese.

A plant growing in moist places in Central and Southern Europe.

The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant before flowering.

Extensively proved by German pro vers ; also by Nicol and Spearman. See Allen's Encyclopedia., vol. 4, p. 491.

Clinical Authorities. — Throbbing in temples, Berridge, Raue's Kec, 1872, J). 24; Pain in occiput, Berridge, Horn. Clinics, vol. 4, p. Ill ; Hydrocephalus, Alt- dorfer, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 63; Cardialgia, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 134 ; Swelling of mesenteric glands, Hartung, Hom. Clinics, vol. 3, p. 35 ; Cholera, Wiirzler, Eiick. Ki. Erf., vol. 5, p. 475 ; Cholera infantum. Miller, Raue's Rec, 1873, p. 122.

^ Mind. Irresolute ; want of perseverance. Serious, taciturn, absorbed in reverie. iHypocliondriacal affections; melancholia. I I Great depression and disinclination to do anything. Peevish ; capricious ; constipation ; oppression of stomach

after a meal, etc. ^Hypochondriasis. Ill humor, tired of life, apprehensive of the future.

■ Delirium tremens, when the delirium assumes the char-

acter of anger rather than of anxiety, in subjects not yet greatly exhausted.

I Hypochondriasis and hysteria arising from abdominal

troubles. ; ]\Iental troubles from overweening pride. ^ Sensorium. Intoxicated feeling during and after a meal. Vertigo: with heat in head; on closing eyes; while read- ing ; on rising from a seat.

I I Vertigo during and after a meal.

Violent rush of blood, with throbbing in forehead; vertigo and blackness before eyes ; < by motion.

I Determination of blood to head, heat and somnolence.

Fulness and congestion of blood to head with peculiar biting, burning in face and other parts; languor; nau- sea; disgust for food and vertigo ; > in open air. "^ Inner Head. Sensation as if brain contracted and as if head grew smaller.

Sensation of heaviness in forehead, as if brain would fall forward, with stoppage of nose.

Pressure in forehead, with vertigo.

■ Throbbing in temples.

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Heat in head after rising from stooping. Heaviness in head with nausea.

■ Headaches with peculiar biting and burning in face and

other parts, languor in arms and legs, nausea, disgust

for food, vertigo; > in open air. Pain in occiput on early waking, > by rising or lying

prone. Pain in 1. occiput on sneezing.

■ After several days' headache, weakness, loss of appetite,

etc., convulsions, followed by sopor and occasional screaming; unconsciousness; lies upon back, with low respiration; occasional sighing; gnashing of teeth ; eyes shut; pupils enlarged; slow pulse; unconscious dis- charge of feces and urine. ^Hydrocephalus. iSick headache with mental depression ; nausea, disgust for food ; giddiness > in open air ; sensation of heavi- ness in head and constriction of forehead. ^ Outer Head. Tightness in forehead with wrinkles in skin. Itching of scalp.

Peculiar coldness in and about head. Frequent feeling of coldness on vertex, painful, and

changing to a feeling of warmth wdien moving head. Head very sensitive to cold. ^ Sight and Eyes. Objects, even green ones, appear white. Mist before eyes, when reading or writing. Short-sightedness, with burning heat in face. I Eyes shut; pupils enlarged. ^Hydrocephalus. Eyes feel dry as if sand were in them. Itching about the eyelashes. ^ Hearing and Ears. Itching of ears. '' Smell and Wose. Pressure at upper part of nose.

Smarting itching in 1. nostril. ® Upper Face. Redness of face.

I Sensation of tension and tingling in face; it feels swollen. Tingling burning in malar bones. Burning heat in face, while it feels cold to hand. Every morning, for weeks, swelling of upper lip, disap- pearing after a few hours. ^^ Teeth and Gums. Teeth ache from cold.

I Gnashing of teeth. f^Meningitis. " Taste and Tongue, i Tongue rough, coated with mucus. ^^ Inner Mouth. Fetid breath on waking.

Accumulation of clear water in mouth, causing frequent spitting. ^^ Throat. Pain in throat obliging one to swallow constantly ; swallowing is difficult, as if throat w^ere contracted ; < during empty deglutition. Stinging in throat (1. side).

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Phlegm in throat, with inability to throw it off. ^^ Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions, i Hunger after eating, with feeling of emptiness; without appetite.

Appetite for nothing but bread,

A"'iolent thirst.

Aversion to smoking. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Hiccough.

Gulping up of bitter substances; empty retching.

Nausea: > after eating, and by eructations; in afternoon.

I Two attacks of vomiting in quick succession, of yellow, bitter, sour water.

I Vomiting of mucous and bilious matter. ^"^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Feeling of anxiety in epigas- trium and stomach.

I Gnawing at pit of stomach after eating, as of hunger.

■ Pressure at pit of stomach, as from a stone rolling from

side to side, with cramp-like drawing which mounts into chest ; at same time frequent urging to vomit and eruc- tations ; < after food. Pain in pit of stomach, spreads to upper abdomen, back, and especially kidneys ; nausea and vomiting ; peculiar sensation in abdomen and stomach.

■ Great distension of stomach after meals. Pressure in stomach after every meal. Cold feeling of stomach, as if full of water. Empty or cold feeling in stomach.

I Pain in stomach, with nausea and general discomfort.

I I Cramps in stomach.

iCardialgia; pain commences in pit of stomach, and

spreads to upper abdomen, back, and especially kidneys;

vomiting ; constipation ; urine scanty, reddish, turbid,

and painful to discharge.

■ Gastralgia.

^^ Hypochondria. Heating pain and burning in 1. hypochon-

drium. ^^ Abdomen. Distension of abdomen in afternoon and evening. Rumbling, with nausea, eructations and vertigo ; much

greatest disinclination to do anything. I Swelling of mesenteric glands after abuse of Iodine prep- arations.

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^" Stool and Rectum. 1 1 Frequent discharge of yellow, watery

feces.

I I Diarrhoea-like stools of thin, fluid, bright yellow feces^

followed by chilliness. llDiarrhcBa, consisting only of yellow-greenish water, fol- lowed by burning in anus.

I I Diarrhoea of green, frothy water, forcibly evacuated with- out pain.

I Yellow, watery evacuations upwards and downwards, with much flatus.

■ Frequent stools, consisting of thin, watery feces, with sore- ness in anus.

I Stools frequent, gushing out with force.

1 I Brown fetid mucous stools.

I Stools: watery; yellow; green; frothy.

Diarrhoea: < in open air; < after drinking too freely of water.

I I Cholera morbus from drinking excessive quantities of water of moderate coldness ; the quantity and not the coldness, being the cause.

IlFully developed, rapid, Asiatic cholera.

I Vomiting particularly severe, and often accompanied by pains in head; cramps beginning in solar plexus and spreading thence over whole body; the evacuations from above and below were always green, and gradually changed into a colorless fluid.

lUnconscious passage of feces. ^Hydrocephalus.

Stools hard, scanty, tenacious, expelled with difficulty.

Before stool: nausea; rumbling in abdomen; cutting around umbilicus; pressing and ineffectual desire; re- peated tenesmus and rumbling, as if diarrhoea would come on.

During stool: nausea; burning pain in rectum; straining.

After stool: burning pains in rectum; tenesmus; wrench- ing pain in coccyx; creeping chills; painful pressure in abdomen when walking, > by sitting down.

Pain not > by stool, but by escape of flatus.

Soreness in the rectum, burning during and after stool.

Stools with burning and protrusion of large, stinging-burn- ing tumors ; varices of rectum.

Tearing in rectum, or prickling in anus.

I Great rectal and anal irritation, with passage of fetid mucus.

Constriction of anus.

Itching of anus.

Discharge of ascarides. ^^ Urinary Organs. Burning in urethra during and after mic- turition.

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I Urine diminished.

mamma <. Rising from a seat: vertigo; pain in occiput >.

< vertigo and blackness before eyes. Walking: pressure in abdomen; bruised pain in thigh; lancinating tearing in tibia >.

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^•^ Nerves. Physical and mental depression.

Great languor and prostration.

Tetanic condition, without loss of consciousness, while lying down after a meal, followed by deep sleep with emission of semen ; bruised feeling of body, back and 1. arm on waking.

Nervous diseases, such as mania, nymphomania, etc., and neuralgic affections caused by prolonged abuse of coffee. ■^'' Sleep. Irresistible drowsiness with yawning, and involun- tary closing of eyes.

Great somnolence and lassitude after meals.

Deep sleep, like stupor. ■^ Time. Afternoon: nausea > after eating and eructations; distension of abdomen.

Evening : distension of abdomen. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Open air: > fulness and con- gestion of blood to head; languor in arms and legs, nausea, disgust for food, vertigo >; diarrhoea <.

Warm room : chilliness.

■ Coldness; shuddering when entering a room. ^Diar- rhoea.

Heat, ascending to face, with redness and increased exter- nal warmth. ^^ Attacks, Periodicity. Two attacks : of vomiting, in quick succession, of yellow, bitter, sour water.

After every meal : pressure in stomach.

Every morning: for several weeks swelling of upper lip disappearing after a few hours. ^Locality and Direction. Right: darting in mamma; op- pression in chest; itching in palms.

Left: smarting, itching of nostril; stinging in throat; heating pain and burning in 1. hypochondrium; stitches in spermatic cord; burning in side of chest; darting in scapula; bruised feeling in arm; itch-like pustules be- low buttock. ■^ Sensations. As if brain contracted ; as if head grew smaller ; as if brain would fall forward ; eyes feel as if sand were in them; as if throat were contracted; as from a stone rolling from side to side in stomach; as if stomach was full of water; gnawing as from worms in abdomen; rumbling and tenesmus as if diarrhoea would come on ; as if neck were seized with hand. Pain: in occiput; in throat; in pit of stomach, spreads to upper abdomen ; in back; in kidneys; in stomach; in head; in small of back.

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Lancinating tearing: in tibia.

Tearing: in rectum.

Cutting: around umbilicus.

Stitches: in L spermatic cord, extending through abdomen

in elbow and wrist-joint. Biting: in face.

anus; in urethra during and after micturition; in 1.

side of chest. Heat: in head.

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** Tissues. Constant vaporous exhalation from body. : Dropsy and ascites.