Gelsemium Sempervirens

General

GELSEMIUM. [Gelsem.] Yellow Jessamine. Wm. E. Payne. Loganiaceae.

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.

Sensorium

► Vertigo, confusion of the head, spreading from occiput over whole head ; pupils dilated, dim sight ; general depression from heat of sun or summer. ► Vertigo, dim vision, fever ; seems as if intoxicated when trying to move ; worse from smoking. ► Giddy, with loss of sight, chilliness, accelerated pulse ; dulness of sight or double sight. ► When attempting to move, the muscles refuse to obey the will ; giddy, confused. ► Child dizzy, when carried seizes hold of the nurse, fearing that it will fall.

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.

Outer Head

► Dull, dragging pain in occiput, mastoid and upper cervical regions, extending to shoulders ; better quietly resting the head on a high pillow, with eyes half closed ; eyes, heavy, sleepy, red. ► Pressure on the vertex so great as to extend into shoulders ; head feels very heavy. ► Cramp-like drawing and tearing ; worse from study and exertion, after fever and ague. ► Neuralgic headache beginning in upper cervical spine ; vertebra prominence sensitive ; pains extended over head, causing a bursting pain in forehead and eyeballs ; worse at 10 A.M., when lying ; with nausea, vomit, cold sweat, cold feet. ► Sensation of a band around head above ears ; scalp sore.

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.

Ears

► Sudden transient loss of hearing, rushing and roaring in the ears. ► Catarrhal deafness, with pain from throat into middle ear.

Nose

► Violent morning paroxysms of sneezing ; tingling in nose. ► Watery, excoriating discharge ; a feeling from throat up into left nostril, like a stream of scalding water ; right nostril stopped up ; nasal voice. ► Coryza in spring and summer weather. ► Edges of nostrils red, sore. ► Fulness at root of nose ; pains extending to neck and clavicles.

Face

► Expression heavy, dull, drowsy. ► Face : red ; yellow, jaundiced ; pale, sickly look. ► Muscles of face, especially around the mouth, seem contracted, making speech difficult. ► Orbital neuralgia in distinct paroxysms, with contractions and twitchings of the muscles on the affected side.

Lower Face

► Lips dry ; coated with dark mucus.

Teeth

► Toothache from a cold, or purely nervous ; pains from teeth to temple. ► Dentition ; child frantic, awakens with sudden screams ; face deep red ; fontanelle pulsates too strongly ; pain about ear.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : foul, with blood-colored saliva ; bitter. ► Clammy, feverish, during the sweat. ► Tongue : yellowish-white, breath fetid ; coated thick, brown ; nearly clean ; margin red, centre white. ► Tongue and glottis partially paralyzed ; speech thick, as if drunk put tongue out, it trembles so ; red, raw, painful, inflamed in the middle.

Throat

► Fauces dry, burning, irritated, sore. ► Throat feels as if filled up ; tonsils inflamed, swollen, mostly in or beginning in the right. ► Swallowing causes shooting in the ear. ► Dysphagia : paralysis of the organs of deglutition. ► Diphtheria, local tingling of parts during the fever ; incipient paralysis impaired vision. ► Painful sensation of a lump in oesophagus. ► Burning in the oesophagus to the stomach.

Desires And Aversions

► Little appetite and thirst, but can take food or drink.

Eating And Drinking

► Wine aggravates, especially the headache and eye symptoms. ► Thirst absent or slight.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations sour. ► Nausea, giddiness, headache.

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.

Hypochondria

► Passive congestion of the liver, with vertigo, dim sight and fulness of the head.

Abdomen

► Sudden spasmodic pain in the upper part of the abdomen, leaving a sensation of contraction and causing him to cry out. ► Acute enteritis (catarrhal) during damp weather ; warm or cold. ► Gnawing pain in the transverse colon. ► Wandering, pinching wind colic, less when sitting erect ; more beginning to move, less during continual motion. ► Periodical colic, with yellow diarrhoea ; evening. ► Griping in the lower abdomen, relieved by passing copious bilious stools. ► Tenderness in the right iliac region during typhus. ► Rumbling in the abdomen, with discharge of wind up and down. ► Sensation of soreness of the abdominal walls.

Stool, Etc

► Stools : yellow, fecal ; bilious ; cream-colored clay-colored ; color of green tea. ► Diarrhoea : in nervous persons, subject to nervous chills ; after sudden emotions, as grief, fright, bad news, the anticipation of an unusual ordeal.

Urine

► Copious flow, relieving headache. ► Incontinence from paralysis of the sphincter ; nervous children. ► Alternate dysuria and enuresis ; spasms of bladder. ► Albuminuria : 24, 36.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual organs irritable, weak ; involuntary emissions without erections ; spermatorrhoea. ► Emission of semen during stool. ► Genitals cold, relaxed dragging pains in the testicles. ► Suppressed gonorrhoea ; followed by rheumatism or orchitis. ► Profuse warm sweat on the scrotum.

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.

Pregnancy

► During pregnancy : double vision, headache, drowsiness, vertigo, pulsating carotids, small, slow pulse ; cannot walk or muscles will not obey ; cramps in the abdomen and legs ; convulsions with unconsciousness. ► Labor-pains gone, os widely dilated, complete atony, drowsy. θ Albuminuria. ► Albuminuria, thirstless, erratic pains. ► Labor delayed by rigid os ; or when pains go from before backward, the uterus seems to go upward. ► Pains leave womb and fly all over ; os rigid. ► Sensation like a wave, from uterus to throat, ending with a choking feeling ; this seems to impede labor ; impending spasms. ► Convulsions during labor : 36. ► Nervous chills, "chatters" ; first stage of labor.

Larynx

► Hoarseness in paroxysms, with dry, rough throat ; rawness of the chest, catarrh. ► Paralysis of glottis. ► Hawking bloody water.

Breathing

► Slow breathing and slow pulse ; heavy, labored ; congestion to the chest. ► Long crowing inspiration ; sudden and forcible expiration ; spasm of the glottis.

Cough

► Cough from tickling or roughness of the fauces ; hoarse ; rawness and soreness of the chest ; coryza ; bronchial catarrh. ► Croupy cough ; measles.

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.

Heart And Pulse

► Excessive action of the heart. ► A peculiar action of the heart, as though it attempted its beat which it failed fully to accomplish, the pulse intermitting each time ; worse lying, especially on the left side. ► Fears that unless constantly on the move, her heart will cease beating. ► Nervous chill, yet skin is warm ; wants to be held that she may not shake so. θ Heart disease. ► Hearts action : feeble, slow ; depressed ; hands and feet cold. ► Pulse : frequent, soft, weak, almost imperceptible ; slow and full.

Outer Chest

► Periodical pains in the pectoral muscles.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Deep-seated muscular pains in both arms. ► Palms hot, dry. ► Coldness of wrists and hands. ► Arms, weak, numb.

Lower Limbs

► Deep-seated muscular pains in the legs, relieved by motion. ► Shooting pains in paroxysms. ► Drawing, contracting, crampy pains in the legs, from thighs into toes ; worse on motion or walking. ► Heaviness, weight ; loss of voluntary motion ; muscles will not obey the will ; calves feel bruised ; pain at night. ► Feeling when walking, as in a partial luxation of patella. ► Coldness of the extremities, especially of the feet, as if in cold water, with anguish and pain in the legs.

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.

Position, Etc

► Wants to lie still. ► Resting on high pillow, head better. ► Sitting erect : 17, 19. Walking : 33 : in open air : 39. Cannot walk : 24, 31. Moving : 2, 3. Motion : 33. Worse beginning to move, better from continued motion : 10. Fears to remain quiet : 29. Shaking head : 3. Exertion : 40. Lying : 4, 29 ; with head high : 4.

Nerves

► Excessive irritability of mind and body ; vascular excitement. ► Convulsions from reflex irritation ; spasms of one leg. ► Puerperal spasms, preceded by great lassitude, dull feeling in the forehead and vertex fulness in the region of the medulla ; head feels "big" ; heavy with half stupid look ; face deep red, speech thick ; pulse slow, full ; from protracted labor ; rigid as uteri ; albuminuria. ► Tetanic spasms ; jaws locked. ► Jactitation of the muscles. ► Paralysis of motion ; muscles will not obey the will, feel bruised. ► Tingling, prickling, crawling. ► Neuralgia. ► Acute, sudden, darting pains ; shooting, tearing along the tracks of the nerves ; especially if aggravated by changes in the weather.

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.

Time

► Morning : 7. Forenoon : neuralgic headache (10 A.M.). Afternoon : 40. Evening : 5, 19, 23.

Temperature And Weather

► Worse in damp weather, before a thunder-storm ; southeast wind : 19. Heat of sun or summer : 2. Open air : 39. Changes of weather : 36.

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.

Attacks

► Fevers remit or intermit. ► Periodical attacks. ► Every day at the same hour.

Sides

► Right : 7, 13, 19, 28, 31. Left : 7. Right to Left : 13. Below upwards : 7, 10, 40. Before backwards : 24.

Tissues

► Congestions, arterial or venous, with sluggish circulation. ► Hemorrhages, blood in drops, crimson. ► Affects more the nerves of motion ; causes muscular prostration through the nerves. ► Catarrhs of mucous membranes ; watery mucus, never purulent discharges.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Pressure : 17. Riding : 17.

Skin

► Papular eruption, like measles, especially on face. ► Skin hot, dry ; gastric and nervous fevers. ► Erythema, especially in face and neck.

Stages And States

► Young persons ; children. ► Women. ► Nervous persons ; excitable.

Relationship

► Antidotes : Cinchon. ; Coffea, salt.