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Gratiola Officinalis

Gratiola officinalis
GRAT · 9 entries across 9 books
Habitatgrows in moist places. PreparationTincture of fresh plant before flowering. Clarke
2X–3X
Second to third potency.Dose · Boericke

Reason for use

Acts especially on gastro-intestinal tract. Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhoea and gonorrhoea. Obstinate ulcers. Useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. Especially useful in females. Nux symptoms in females often met by Gratiola.

▲ Worse

drinking too much water

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Head

Sick headache. Rush of blood with vanishing of sight. Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller. Tightness in forehead, with wrinkles in skin. Eyes dry, burn. Myopia.

Stomach

Vertigo during and after meals; hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals. Dyspepsia, with much distention of the stomach. Cramps and colic after supper and during night, with swelling of abdomen and constipation. Dysphagia for liquids.

Stool

Diarrhoea; green, frothy water, followed by anal burning, forcibly evacuated without pain. Constipation, with gouty acidity. Haemorrhoids, with hypochondriasis. Rectum constricted.

Sleep

Insomnia.

Female

Nymphomania. Menses too profuse, premature, and too long. Leucorrhoea.

Relationship

Compare: Dig; Euph; Tab; Cham; Ammon pic; Nux vom.

Complete text of the Gratiola Officinalis entry in Boericke - Pocket Manual of Materia Medica; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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9 entries across 9 books · abbreviations: GRAT · Family: Scrophulariaceae

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1 Boericke · shown above

GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS · William Boericke · 1,173 chars

2 Kent

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3 Clarke

Gratiola · John Henry Clarke · 13,020 chars

4 Hering

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10 Lippe

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14 T. F. Allen

GRATIOLA · Timothy Field Allen · 17,481 chars

17 Cowperthwaite

GRATIOLA · Allen Corson Cowperthwaite · 2,145 chars

18 Dewey

Gratiola · Willis Alonzo Dewey · 541 chars

23 T. F. Allen

GRATIOLA · Timothy Field Allen · 659 chars

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  1. Quantitative determination of cucurbitacin E and cucurbitacin I in homoeopathic mother tincture of Gratiola officinalis L. by HPLCKaya GI, Melzig MF · Die Pharmazie · 2008

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