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Gelsemium Sempervirens
Gelsemium sempervirens · GELS
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Origin Plant · Loganiaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of the bark of the root.
Sources 16 entries across 14 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
30X, Ø
Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation; first to third most often used

By regionHering
Mind ► Cataleptic immobility, with dilated pupils, closed eyes, but conscious. ► Delirium in sleep ; half waking, with incoherent talk. ► Desires to be left alone ; irritable, sensitive. ► Loquacity, brilliant eyes, shooting through temples and nasal sinuses ; fever. ► Depression of spirits ; anxiety following a somewhat cheerful, careless mood. ► Solicitude about the present. ► Fear of death. ► Mental exertions cause a sense of helplessness from brain weakness ; inability to attend to anything requiring thought. ► Complaints from bad or exciting news ; from some unusual ordeal.
Inner Head ► Severe pain in forehead and vertex, dim sight roaring in ears ; head feels enlarged and vertex, dim sight, roaring in ears ; head feels enlarged ; "wild feeling" alternating with uterine pains. ► Hyperaemia of the brain ; dull feeling in forehead and vertex, and a fulness in the region of the medulla before spasms. ► Fulness in the head, heat of the face, chilliness ; pulsation of the carotids ; thick speech ; brain feels as if bruised ; eyeballs feel raw when moving them ; double vision. ► Heaviness of the head slightly relieved by shaking the head ; better after profuse micturition. ► Cerebro-spinal meningitis ; stage of congestion ; severe chill, dilated pupils ; congestion of spine and brain.
Eyes ► Pupils dilated. ► Amaurosis of congestive origin ; after apoplexy. ► Sees double, when inclining the head towards the shoulder. ► Confused vision, eyes look heavy. ► Hazy, vitreous, very fine. ► Increased tension, balls sore. ► Serous iritis ; serous choroiditis ; dull pain to back of head, better from hot applications. ► Glaucoma from increased secretion rather than from obstructed excretion. ► Detached retina from myopia, severe neuralgia, etc. ► Astigmatism. ► Eyeballs oscillate laterally when looking steadily. ► Eyelids heavy. ► Eyes close when looking steadily. ► Eyes feels sore in evening, sensitive to light with lachrymation ; lids feel full and congested.
Stomach ► Cramp in the stomach, better riding and sitting erect. ► Feeling of emptiness and weakness in stomach and bowels. ► Rumbling and full pain in the epigastrium, relieved by passage of flatus. ► Oppression and fulness in the stomach, worse from pressure of clothing.
Female Sexual Organs ► Threatened abortion from sudden depressing emotions. ► Uterus, as if squeezed by a hand ; anteflexion. ► Ovarian irritation with the characteristic headache. ► Menses suppressed, with congestion to the head ; sharp darting, twitching pains in face and head ; convulsions (every evening). ► Dysmenorrhoea, preceded by sick headache, vomiting ; congestion to head ; deep red face ; bearing down in the abdomen. ► Leucorrhoea white, with aching across the lower part of back ; heavy fulness in uterine region ; amenorrhoea.
Lungs ► Congestive pneumonia with suffering under the scapulae, both sides ; caused by checked sweat. ► Short paroxysms of pain in superior part of right lung, on taking a deep breath ; pulse slow, full.
Neck And Back ► Pains from spine to head and shoulders. ► Contractive sensation in the right side of the nape. ► Pains in the neck, myalgic, mostly in the upper part of the sterno-cleido muscles, back of the parotid glands. ► Congestion of the spine ; prostration, languor ; muscles feel bruised and will not obey the will. ► Locomotor ataxia. θ Paraplegia. ► Dull aching in the lumbar and sacral region ; cannot walk, muscles will not obey.
Limbs In General ► Limbs cold, with oppressed breathing ; cold hands and feet. ► Deep-seated dull aching in the limbs and joints generally ; induced by cold, and attended with loss of motion. ► Neuralgic pains in the limbs, as a sequel to scarlatina.
Sleep ► Yawning, chilly. ► Sleeplessness ; a wide-awake feeling. ► Sleepless from violent itching of face, head and shoulders ; sleepless during dentition ; face red ; also from exhaustion. ► As soon as he falls asleep, delirious. ► Awakened by headache or colic. ► Drowsy, dim sight ; a kind of drunken stupor. ► Stupor in beginning of fevers ; especially with children. ► Languid, drowsy, but cannot compose the mind for sleep. ► Wakeful or lies in a half awake state, with incoherent talk.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chilliness, languid aching in back and limbs ; sense of fatigue, desires to avoid all muscular exertion ; every afternoon, 4 to 5 P.M. ► Chills begin in the hands ; chills running up the back ; hands and feet cold. ► Feet cold, with heat of the head and face ; headache. ► Slight occasional moisture ; sweat coming gradually and moderately, always relieving the pains. ► Sweats freely from slight exertion. ► Typhoid fever, when so-called nervous symptoms predominate. ► Low fevers when pulse is slow and by lifting or turning the patient, it becomes accelerated. ► Eruptive fevers : especially children, tendency to convulsions at the time of the eruption. ► Intense fever-heat, erethism, but less restlessness than Acon. ; less violence and suddenness of aggravation than Bellad. ; languid ; asthenic fever ; stupor.
Skin ► Papular eruption, like measles, especially on face. ► Skin hot, dry ; gastric and nervous fevers. ► Erythema, especially in face and neck.

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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