Gallicum Acidum

{The astringent prindpU of Jfut. Gall.)

Desckiption. — It is said tJiat Gallic acid differs from Tannic acid ocly in ttie latter containing more water, Gallic acid forma white, satiny, needle-like c.iystals, odorless, of a sweetish, add, styptic taste. It dissolves in one hundred parts temperate water; Bmch more readily in iot water and alcohol. Exposed to the atmosphere it atiaorljs oxygen, decomposes, and becomes darlt colored,

Oppicinal PaKPABA'riorT. — Triturations,

AuALOOTJES. — Geranium, Rhaiany, Kino. Tannin, Plumbum, etc.

[The symptoms mai'lted " K," are from provinga by Dr. D. S. Kimball, inO&smJej-,Vol. IX.]

Eyes,

* Photophobia, and burning itching of the eyelids.

Tliroat.

* Ronghness, and great secretion of phlegm in the throat. (TT.) " Mueiis in the posterior harp fauces, and throat, especially on

washing, in morning, {JT.) At night, dryness in the mouth and throat, and bad taste.

Cheat. In the morning, a^'hing in the right side of the chest and shoulders, and muscles of the neck.

* After stool, a smarting, aching, faint, sick, hungry and

gnawing sensation in the bowels, extending to the stom- ach, with naiisea, with an astringent sensation there.(_Zi'.) ' Irritable condition of hjEinorrlioids, after stool. (-S".) " Swelling, smarting and soreness in the hiemorrhoidal tumors.

(K.). Uneasy distension of the bladder, with greatly increased flow

of pale, tasteless, limpid urine. {K.) " Hffimorrbage from the kidneys. {Hale.) Frequent itching of the skin in various places. {K^ (0ee Therapaaia.)

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320" GELSEMINCM SEMFERTIEENS,

OELSEMINUM SEMPBRVIRENS*

{Tell<m Jeasawiiiie.)

Botanical Desckiptiob Tils plant is likewise known by llie name of Meld Jeseianine aud Woodbiite; it Is the Bignonia Semxmvirena of Lin- nseus, and tiie G/elsemiTium mttdftm of Michaux and Purch. It ia named the Oelsemium nitidans by some anthors. It bas a twisting, smootb, gla- broiia stem, with opposite, perennial, lanceolate, entire leavet, wbicU are dark above, pale beneaih, and whicli stand on short petioles ; tbe JUfHieri we yellow, havi ag an agreeable but rather narcotic odor, and stand on axillary peduncles ; the ealgj: ia very small, with five sepals ; the corolla is funnel-form, with a spreading border, and five lobes, nearly equal ; stameTtt, five; pistiU, two; capeulea, two-celled, compressed, flat, two-partible; seedt flat, and attached lo the margins of tbo valves.

The berries are black.

This is one of tbe most beaulifui climbing plants of our Soutliem States, aacendlng lofty trees, and forming festoons from one tree to another, and in its flowering season, in the early spring, scenting tiie atmospliere with Its delicious odor. On account of its gorgeous yellow flowers, and therich perfume which they lm.part, as well as the deep shade it affords, it is exten. aively cultivated in the gardens of the South, as an ornamental vine. It grows In the North as an exotic.

It begius to blossom about the first of March, and its blossoming season lasts until the end of May. The root is several feet in length, with scattered fibres, and varies from twoto threa lines in diameter, to nearly two inclies. The internal part of the root ia woody, and of a light yellowisli color, the external part or bark, in which the medicinal virtues are said principally to reside, is of a liglit snuff color, aad from half a line to three lines in thickness.

A vine, the root of whicli is sometimes gathered for the Geisemmum, resembles it very mncli in appearance, though It is of a lighter color, and the outer bark is covered with white specks or marks somewhat similar to those on young cherry or peach limbs, and the lower part of old vines becomes rough and have small tendrils that fasten upon tbe bark of trees, and which are never seen on the Geiseminum. Thebarkof tlievineisalso more brittle, and the leaves are always on long footstalks which are oppo. site, at the end of which are two opposite leaves, almost exactly resembling the Aristolochia Serpentaria. The root is almost white, very tough, straight, and about tlie same length of the medicinal root, and has a slightly bitter, disagreeable, nauseous taste, I never saw any of the flowers, though they are said to resemble the others in shape, bnt arc «nowy vthife, with a slight unpleasant odor. The plant is called the White Poison Vine and White Jessamine.

I am thus particular in giving a correct description of this plant, in order that there shall be no mistake about the matter. Homteopathic pharmaceutists above all others, should be scrupulously careful to prepaie

*Tbe correct ijotanical name of this plant is probably Gelsemium nitt- dans, but I have retained tbe name by which It was first known to the pro- fession. {Haie.)

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GEI.SEMISUM etIMPEltVIRENS. 321

OFFictNiL Phepakations.— Tincture of the fresh bark of the root; dilutions.

Analogtjbs, — AconiiB, Agarieua, Belladonna, Conium, Cim,ie(fuga, Syot'

cyamua, Ohloral, Iheeis, Laehnanthes, Opium, R/ivs, Stramonium, Salanwa.

Mental Sphere.

* Dullness of all the mental faculties {primary).

* Anxiety; incoherency of thought, aversion to study. Melancholy and desponding mood.

* Excessive irritability of body and mind {secondary). ° Nervous excitement of hysterical patients,

" Stnpid, comatose conditions attending typhoid fever. "Hysterical conditions in plethoric subjects.

Pain in the head, over the eyes, and across the forehead. Excruciating headache, accompanied by slight nausea; paio

slightly mitigated by shaking the head. Pain most frequently in the forehead and temples. ° Band-like pain surrounds the head, with shooting pains in

" Dull, dragging headache, mainly in the occiput, mastoid, and upper cervical region, extending to the shoulders; relieved when sitting by reclining head and shoulders on. a high pillow. ° Congestion of the brain in children during dentition. ° Nervous headaches, from emotional excitement, etc. ° Heraicrania, with dimness of sight and double vision. Giddiness, a const<Mit symptom.

" Headache, extending from the occiput to the os frontis. " In the morning on rising a dull pain in the head and a slight

tendency to throbbing in right side of head. ° A settled, dull, dragging headache, mainly in the oceipwty mastoid, and vpper cervical region, extending to the

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322 GBT£F,M1TTCM SEMPERVIKEK8.

shoulders, relieved when sitting by reclininff the head and shoulders on a high pillow.

° Headache, coming on suddenly, with dimness of sight or double vision, with dizziness followed by great heaviness of the head, senii-stnpor, dull, heavy expression of the face, great vascular reaction, full pulse, etc. Cramp-like pains of drawing or tearing cliaracter, aggravated by study or exertion, following fever and ague.

° A. relapse of the same patient, with the additional symptoms, viz.: lameness and stiffness of neck; on waking at night retraction of head iachwwrd-, relieved by bending head forward; frequent urging to urinate, with partial losa of power in the sphincter vesica; heat in palm of hands and itching all over the body, preventing sleep; after scratch- ing, a raw sore, surrounded with blisters, would appear. (These symptoms were also cured by Gelseminum 200.)

"Periodical hemicrania (over one eye). Eyea.

* Great heaviness of the lids; difficulty of opening or keeping

them open.

* Fullness and congestion of the lids.

* Diplopia when inclining the head toward the shoulder.

* Misty or glimmering appearance before the eyes.

* Distant objects seemed indistinct as I rode or walked.

* Dilatation of the pupils; amaurosis; diplopia; blindness;

dimness of sight.

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Sense of siglit tardy in following the movements of objects.

* Pain in both ejes, particularly the left, with dimness of sight. ■^ Inflammation, with great How of tears at intervals.

Total blindness, with violent dizziness. ° Asthenopia; amaurosis.

Disturbance of the power of aceommodatioQ, similar to Gala- "bar, Ohloral, and analagoua drugs.

* Kushing and roaring in the ears.

* Sudden and temporary loss of hearing. Digging in the right ear; also, stitches.

* Watery discharge from the nose, with sneezing in morning.

* Tingling in the nose; bloody, mneus discharge.

* Erythema of the face and neck.

* Sensation of stiffness in the muscles of the jaws.

" Facia! neuralgia, with or without contractions and twitehings

* Stiffness of the jaws; diiiiculty of opening the mouth. ° Pains of a shooting character in the jaws.

Dryness of the mouth; thickly coated tongue.

* Tongue red, raw, and painful.

* Partial paralysis of the glottis and tongue. Irritation and soreness of the fauces.

* Paralytic dysphagia.

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824 GELBEMIHDM SEMPEEVIKENe.

* Painful Beneation of something having lodged ia cesophagus. ° Spasmodic sensation and cramp-like pains in cesopliagna.

Yellowish-white coating of the tongue, with f(etid breath.

* Feeling of emptiness and weakness in the stomach and

bowels. Distension, with pain and nausea, Kumbling and dull pain in the epigastrium, relieved by expul.

sion of flatus. " Sensation of weight in the stomach, %yith dull pain.

Abdomen and Stool. Rambling and roaring in the abdomen, with emissions of

flatus above and below. Periodical pains in the abdomen, with yellow diarrhcea in the

of large, deeply bilious dischai'ges. " Slow stool, leaving a sensation of more remaining to be

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GELSEMINUM SEMPEIi^TEENS. 325

Deficient seeretioii of bile {seconda/ry).

"Passive congestion of the liver, with dimness of eight, yer- tigo, and fallness of the head,

■Urinary Organs. Urine much increased in quantity.

* Frequent urging, M'ith scanty emission, and tenesmus of the

bladder.

* Enuresis, from paralysis of the sphincter, in children at night. " Spasm of the bladder, with alternate djsuria and enuresis.

* Profuse urination, with relief of the headache. "Constant, involuntary discharge of urine every fifteen min- utes.

° Paralytic conditions of the sphincter muscles of the bladder. ° Acute catarrhal conditions of the bladder and uterus.

Generative Organs.

* Dysmenorrhcea of a neuralgia or spasmodic character.

* Cramps iu the abdomen and legs during pregnancy.

° Convulsions during pregnancy, with complete unconscious-

" Convulsions (apoplectiform) during labor.

■" Palse pains before parturition.

" Kigid OS uteri during confinement,

° Menorrhagia (?) (from lack of contractility).

" Inefficient labor-pains from uterine inertia.

Sensation of heaviness in the uterine region, with increased

leucorrhceal discharge.

and scanty discharge; (one of the best remedies.) {Hale.) " Suppressed gonorrhcea, with fever, rheumatism, orchitis, etc.;

(it will restore the discharge very soon, with abatement

of all the other symptoms). (/5.)

* Sweat of the scrotum, warm. {Iloyne.)

Larynx and Trachea. Paroxysms of hoarseness, with dryness of the throat.

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326 GELSEMITT^M SEMPEKVIEENS.

Cough from tickling and dry roughneaa uf the fauces.

" Soreness in the chest when coughing.

° Acute catarrhal bronchitis,

° Severe cough ; pain in the cheat; tenderness in the epigas- trium, with vomiting in the paroxysms,

" Spasmodic cronp, (laryngismus stridulus).

" Periodic aphonia; loss of voice only during the menses; (cured with the third dil.) {M&yhoffer, Diseases of Organs of It6&^vfation,Yol. 2.)

* Constrictive pain around the lower part of the chest. Paroxysmal pain in the upper part of right lung, when tating

* Stitching sensation in the region of the heart.

* If'eelmg as if the Iteart would stop heating if she did not

vtove about.

* Pulse frequent, soft, weak, almost imperceptible. Phittering pulse; pulse full, 120; pulse slow and full, or slow

and soft. Sensation as though the blood had ceased to circulate; pulse

reduced from 112 to 56 in twelve hours. Heart's action slow and feeble; the beats of the heart cannot

be felt. The action of the heart and arteries much depressed, with cold

hands and feet; chills and pains in the head. A sensible motion of the heart as though it had attempted its

beat, which it failed fully to accomplish, and the pulse

then ea<:h time intermitted, worse when lying down in

bed, especially when lying on the left side. ( Wells^ ° Excessive action of the heart from plethora, congestion, neu

ralgic or rheumatic irritation, or hysterical palpitation.

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GBLSEMSNOM SEMPEEVIREHS. i

* Severe pain in both extremities, deep-seated in the Severe aching pain in left elbow.

° Kheumatie pains in extremities.

Arms become powerless; loss of voluntary motion.

Coldness of tlie wrists and hands.

Lower ExtremitieB.

* Deep-seated, aching pains in bones and joints of extremities.

* Paroxysmal pain in the lower extremities.

Pains in left foot and ankle, with spasmodic contraction of

* Papulous eruption, resembling measles. Pimples on the forehead and neck.

" Measles (one of the best remedies, especially for the catarrhal

symptoms). " Erysipelas, not vesicular or phlegmonous, but a milder

variety, with erythema or papular eruption.

* Disposition to sleep, a sort of stupor. Drowsiness and long, sound sleep.

Unusually sound morning sleep, with difficult, weary waking- Languor and drowsiness when trying to study. ° Stupor attending the fevers of children. ° Sleeplessness dui-ing dentition, ° Sleeplessness from nervous irritation.

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SUM SEMl'EEYIRENS.

Pever.

* iTarted decrease in the frequency of the pulse.

* Chilliness, especially along tlie back, followed by heat.

* Pebrile chillinesB, cold extremities, heat of the head and face.

* As soon as the reaction takes place after the chill, the pulse

rises as much above the normal standard as it was

by fever. " F0oer -without thirst; wants to lie still and rest; tonsils

over the body, when he has no chill; tongue not much

coated. "Intermittent fever (tertian type); fever five hours, very hot,

■with delirium, jerking of the limbs, violent headache;

aching in one leg. "Intermittent fever (tertian type); no chill; fever at 10 a. m.;

great pain in the back and thighs. "Intermittent fever; chills from fifteen minutes to two hours

long, followed by heat, often witli sleep one to twelve

hours long, and perspiration for some time. ° Fever coming on every evening aftier supper, which gradually

increased, and went off before morning, the patient con- tinuing asleep. " Typhoid fever in a child of five years; nervous movements,

every night, like spasms; oscillation of the eyeballs.

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" In Bcarlet fever it determines the eruption to the surface, controls the pulse, calms the nervous erethism, and les- sens the cerebral congestion.

" In the forming and inflammatory stage of measles, with chil- liness, watery discharge from the nose, etc.

"Kubeola; it seems to prevent chronic catarrhal affections, and bronchitis,

° In all eruptive fevers the QelsemAwii/m may be thought of.

" Especially in tiie eruptive fevers of children when there is a strong tendency to convulsions at or about the time of the appearance of the eruption.

Uervoua System.

Acute, sudden, darting pains, evidently along single nerve branches, in almost any part of the body and limbs, some- times so sudden and acute as to make me start.

"Neuralgia; absence of organic lesion, with indistinct or double periodicity.

" Hysterical epilepsy, after suppressed menses, lasting an hour or two ; so severe was the spasm of the glottis that asphyxia seemed inevitable.

" Epilepsy of ten years' standing, preceded by dnll feeling in the head and vertex, and some pain and fullness in the region of medulla oblongata; (marked improvement from the use of Gehemin/um).

"Tetanus; spasmodic action entirely ceased after the third dose.

Seems strongly indicated in hydrophobia, as it relaxes all the muscles, calms the fury of nervous excitement, relaxes the glottis, and prevents spasms.

° Laryngismus stridulus.

" Coma and apoplexy, sub-arachnoid, arising from passive congestion, with nervous exhaustion.

"^ Hysteria in a lady of 40.

'" Cerebrospinal meningitia, ushered in by a severe chill, accompanied by evident congestion of the spine and brain, ete.

" Nervous chills, in which, with shivering and chattering of the teeth, there is no sensation of ehillineas.

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880 GERANIUM MACULA TOM.

Glandular System. ° It first arrests the secretion of glands, and afterwards increases it.

Muscular System.

* Intense prostration of the whole muscular system.

° Myalgia from over -exertion, lameness and stiffness for sev

eral days. ° Amite m/t/alcfia, accompanied with fever. Mucous System.

* Catarrhal condition of all the mucous membranes, acute,

with fever, or chronic when suppressed, and other dis- turbances appear.