Origin Plant · Loganiaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of the bark of the root.
Sources 16 entries across 14 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose
30X, Ø
Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation; first to third most often used.
Reason for useBoericke
Centers its action upon the nervous system, causing various degrees of motor paralysis. General prostration. Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy. Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation and prostration. Lack of muscular co-ordination. General depression from heat of sun. Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and dampness brings on many complaints. Children fear falling, grab nurse or crib. Sluggish circulation. Nervous affections of cigarmakers. Influenza. Measles. Pellagra.
▲ Worse damp weather, fog, before a thunderstorm, emotion, or excitement, bad news, tobacco-smoking, when thinking of his ailments; at 10 am
▼ Better bending forward, by profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants
By regionBoericke
Mind Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor, listless. "Discernings are lethargied. " Apathy regarding his illness. Absolute lack of fear. …
Head Vertigo, spreading from occiput. Heaviness of head; band-feeling around and occipital headache. …
Eyes Ptosis; eyelids heavy; patient can hardly open them. Double vision. Disturbed muscular apparatus. …
Stomach As a rule, the Gelsemium patient has no thirst. Hiccough; worse in the evening. …
Female Rigid os (Bell). Vaginismus. False labor-pains; pains pass up back. Dysmenorrhoea, with scanty flow; menses retarded. Pain extends to back and hips. …
Respiratory Slowness of breathing, with great prostration. Oppression about chest. Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza. Spasm of the glottis. …
Back Dull, heavy pain. Complete relaxation of the whole muscular system. Languor; muscles feel bruised. Every little exertion causes fatigue. …
Extremities Loss of power of muscular control. Cramp in muscles of forearm. Professional neuroses. Writer's cramp. Excessive trembling and weakness of all limbs. …
Sleep Cannot get fully to sleep. Delirious on falling asleep. Insomnia from exhaustion; from uncontrollable thinking; tobacco. Yawning. …
Fever Wants to be held, because he shakes so. Pulse slow, full, soft, compressible. Chilliness up and down back. Heat and sweat stages, long and exhausting. …
Skin Hot, dry, itching, measle-like eruption. Erysipelas. Measles, catarrhal symptoms; aids in bringing out eruption. Retrocedent, with livid spots. …
Books*
Antidoted by Cinchona Officinalis 3, Coffea Cruda 3, Digitalis Purpurea 3 +11
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Belladonna, Baptisia Tinctoria, Caulophyllum Thalictroides +18
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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